🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@QOTO

As for costs... the last year the total cost to run QOTO was **11,384.43$**. However I recently paid to reserve the instances instead of spot instances. So I expect the next year to be about 25% cheaper.

#mastoadmin #QOTO

@realcaseyrollins cool!

Attached a picture of the QOTO swarm's resources for those who are curious.

Some interesting facts about the #QOTO cluster for those who are curious:

* Runs as a docker swarm, so easily scales as needed and services can move between computers in the cluster.
* Runs on a 7 computer cluster.
* Utilizes only about 5% at most of its CPU potential
* CPU has burst capability, so can go well beyond 100% for momentary high loads.
*Utilizes 33% of the memory (this includes caching). Almost all of the memory is from Gitlab.
* Requires half a terrabyte of on-disk size, with an additional 2 TB for used currently as shared disks.
* Supports 12 different services right now: fediverse-bots, discourse, wikijs, funkwhale, gitlab, 5-node load balancer, nextcloud, peertube, piwig, qoto-mastodon groups server, and two different monitoring tools.
* These 12 services run as 60 different interconnected docker containers spread across the cluster.

@QOTO #mastoadmin

@lucifargundam One added detail.. two types of dehydration.

1) low water, normal/high salt... this is what people tend to think of. It induces extreme thirst, so rarely happens naturally unless your thirst response is damaged. Drinking water fixes it.

2) low water, low salt ... this kind is more common as it doesnt induce the thirst response. It can happen from kidneys dumping too much salt, or from over-drinking water. The thing about this sort of dehydration is drinking water and reducing salt makes it worse, you will pee it out and loose even more salt and cant retain water. You address this type by eating salt which will induce thirst and you will then drink water to match and you will actually retain the water now and become hydrated.

Note: The potassium salt I mentioned does not induce thirst or effect your water retention (as it exists inside cells and is minimally in plasma), however it is critical to keep your potassium and salt ratio sane, otherwise salt imbalance causes its own problems. But that is a tangent.

@realcaseyrollins Just hearing of this now... might want to run one!

@lucifargundam If you have trouble staying hydrated you likely need more salt not less. Salt causes you to over-hydrate, lack of salt causes you to under-hydrate.

HBP may be salt induced (due to salt sensitivity) or may not. The hydration suggests you may not have HBP due to salt at all. In fact, you can get HBP from too little salt too (dehydration).

The key to telling is to see if your blood pressure swings with salt intake.

@lucifargundam are you sure your salt santive? If you arent salt sensitive (as in your body doesnt flush it out effectively and thus significantly raises your BP) then salt doesnt cause health problems.

@lucifargundam Sirarcha is the only important ingredient. Though I do recommend you either make your own salt-free stock or buy some.

Also if your cutting back on sodium salt I highly recommend you buy Potassium salt. You can eat a nearly unlimited amount without water retention or health issues. In fact, it is treated as an essential vitamin so the more you eat the healthier it is. It tastes almost identical to salt, so works as a substitute

@lucifargundam never tried mung bean noodle. Looks a lot like mei fun/rice noodle..... but with the right broth/sauce this looks amazing, I love a good tofu.

@mur2501 Not much of a change from my usual girlfriends in that regard.

Poor little girl just needs some love and cuddles!

@mur2501 I will love and protect her till death do us part!

@ringo And no I dont think I read this one.

@ringo Thanks, I will check it out.

@jmw150 Yes most of my posts are geared towards teaching people entry-level concepts. It is not a reflection of the math I do as part of my career by any means. One thing im working on adding is my journal publications and other serious work for that very reason. Im just trying to think about how much and what to rewrite to add that in, as I dont find my blog the right place for it as that is oriented to the general public.

@lllillilll Thank you

@jmw150 College level and above.

@trinsec yes for some reason your rendering it with a font that doesnt include the unicode for those characters.

@mur2501 Ok, going to need to address that... I think its a font...