I know links are difficult, but if you just place your cursor over that underlined portion of the text and press the left button on the mouse, it will transport you to an entirely different site with relevant information that you can debate yourself over.

Also, assuming I was a lawyer, why would I try to prove that in any meaningful way? Do you not understand the concept of IANAL? Also, no such thing as a “law license” in the US. Also also, clarifying the first three sentences of a very basic wikipedia page is hardly “advice”.

All SCOTUS did was confirm that a precedent set before Nixon still stands. This was confirmed once again by the courts during B Clintons terms. But confirming it yet again, for the third time since being set, is suddenly an affront to justice? They basically repeated themselves a third time. Then they kicked it back for the court to determine whether or not the act was official or not. Click a fucking link. Read a fucking book.

Or stay basic. IDGAS. You right now are no different in any way than trumpers who claim that trump’s convictions were a show trial and that no one was injured by his acts. Bury your head in the sand and pretend to be incensed. Or, don’t be afraid to have a little integrity. You’ll get downvoted for posting something unpopular, and you’ll have to deal with the occasional twat that’s too lazy to check their facts. But I suppose that’s the point of integrity. Doing the right thing with no expectation of reward. But the hubris of rubes can be its own reward. So thanks for that. 🙏

I can appreciate your frustration and I share that sentiment, but the Supreme Court changed nothing with the “immunity” decision. No one that follows legal procedure was surprised by this, and anyone claiming to be is either ignorant or is intentionally conflating the significance. Presidential immunity has been a thing for a long time and SCOTUS has changed nothing.

Great explanation, but unfortunately the post in the image OC missed the absolute best part, the parody article.

Yeah, I’ve started to feel a bit of that on windows. At least with MS deprecating things that people used, or constantly changing your settings with every update. I guess a terminal script is no different than a magic black box in the same way that a program or driver is. Hmm. Good point.

On-screen keyboard

Nice try Linus 😂

And on windows, you can do all of this without touching the keyboard…

For me, a few things keep me from sticking with it. The community used to be a problem but it’s not as bad as it used to be. Seeking help online regarding anything related to network services are still rife with the “git gooder” useless fucks. Two months ago I was told, “you shouldn’t be doing this if you need a guide.” I was trying to deploy a Lemmy instance… Using the guide provided by Lemmy devs… That they recommended for beginners… FML with a curling iron…

Another big one for me is access to solutions. I have never encountered a problem with windows that I couldn’t find a solution or at least an explanation for. But I frequently find issues with linux that I am apparently the first to ever experience.

And lastly, it seems like not using a terminal at all to do completely normal things is even remotely possible. Powershell allows all kinds of things that would be otherwise burdensome or impossible, but none of those are required for use. On the flip side, it feels like everything I want to do in Linux tends to require me to copypasta a terminal command, open the terminal, and run. Why? Why is there no “control panel” style settings tools? Why is every setting scattered to the .conf fucking wind? My kingdom for a distro that I don’t have to nano my fucking way through.

Software compatibility??? That is a problem I would love to have when it comes to trying to switch OSs. That would mean that everything else is already working and only MS products are acting up. Also… who switches to Linux but still requires MS Office??? Why does this person exist? Lol

Anyway. Haven’t tried the switch in a few years and it seems like things have changed a lot in that time comparatively to the preceding years, so I may be a bit out of touch. But that’s why I quit last time. I would love to not need windows ever again. But my worst windows day is still better than my best Linux day.

Small down payment at best.

So frustrating. I got it working for about 10 minutes. Added users, authenticated them, made posts, uploaded banner, logged in and out many times. Then it just shut down. 502: bad gateway.

I tried to rebuild it fresh and found out that the ansible method has you request a new letsencrypt cert EVERY TIME IT RUNS. And after 5 certs, it bans your domain for 168 hrs…

So now I have to wait until next week to try again, and I’ll only have 5 chances at getting it right.

I keep looking at the mastodon documentation and it’s so nice. It’s complete and thorough. I just wish a Lemmy dev or literally anyone would write a better guide.

I’m just so fucking deflated right now. Thinking of buying a new domain just so I can keep testing.

try starttls (port 587)

😃 OMG it just worked! Thank you so much!!! You have no idea how excited I am to get my instance up and live! Here is my current lemmy.hjson after a successful ansible install:

  email: {
    smtp_server: "smtp.sendgrid.net:587"
    smtp_login: "apikey"
    smtp_password: "theActualApiKey"
    smtp_from_address: "noreply@my.domain"
    tls_type: "starttls"
  }

For others, I’m using digitalOcean for my VPS and sendgrid for the SMTP relay.

Thanks for getting back to me!

Okay, sendgrid gives me this:

Configure your application with the settings below.
 	Server 	smtp.sendgrid.net
 	Ports 	25, 587 	(for unencrypted/TLS connections)
		465  	(for SSL connections)
 	Username 	apikey
 	Password 	theApiKeyGeneratedBySendgrid

I edited my lemmy.hjson file to this:

  email: {
    smtp_server: "smtp.sendgrid.net:25" #also tried ports 587 and 465 with no difference
    smtp_login: "apikey"
    smtp_password: "theApiKeyGeneratedBySendgrid"
    smtp_from_address: "noreply@myDomain"
    tls_type: "tls" #also tried "none" with no difference
  }

The only change is that now when I select “forgot password” the button turns into a rotating arrow for a few seconds and then nothing. No emails in spam, nothing. Any ideas? I feel like I’m getting closer, and maybe I’m using the port wrong?

OMG 🤦 Thank you for explaining this. Now I get why he keeps saying that no banks were harmed. And now it makes sense why they believe he owes so much in taxes.

Okay, I’m tracking like a VCR

This, the don’t just rip off framing every time they need to replace it. There will be some way to access it. When I traveled for work, I had a tool bag for a few things, chiefly the thermostat.

Ah, thank you for that clarification. That makes sense now.

The dev for lemmy-easy-deploy has already said that they do not support SMTP now and will not going forward… So I didn’t spend any more time with that.

Oh shoot, that makes sense. Now I just have to figure out where ansible puts that…

I don’t know what that is so I’d assume not. I used the Lemmy ansible guide by the numbers, so if that is what the guide uses then yes, otherwise no.

Any chance you wouldn’t mind walking me through how to set up Lemmy to do that? Any guide or reference would be appreciated.

Any chance you wouldn’t mind walking me through how to set up Lemmy to do that? Any guide or reference would be appreciated.

I tried to get that using:

 sudo docker compose logs postfix

and it just responds:

 no configuration file provided: not found

Any ideas?