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Scaling Mastodon down

There is already a guide on scaling your Mastodon server up. This is a short guide on scaling your Mastodon server down.

I.e., maybe you want to run a small instance of <100 active users, and you want to keep your cloud costs reasonable. So you might be running everything on a single machine, with limited memory and CPU. (In my case, I was using a t3.medium instance with 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM.) How do you do this?

Note that I'm not a Ruby or Sidekiq expert, and most of this stuff I figured out through trial and error.

Download Audio from YouTube

-i - ignore errors

-c - continue

-t - use video title as file name

--extract-audio - extract audio track

Arch Linux Installation

LVM on LUKS Arch installation with systemd-boot

Sources:

Note: If you want a simpler encryption setup (with LUKS only), you can instead use the archinstall "guided" installer included with Arch since April 2021.

	#!/bin/bash
	# latest-firefox Version 1.6.3
	# Contributer: drgibbon (thanks!)

	# This script will find the latest Firefox binary package, download it
	# and repackage it into Slackware format.

	# I don't use Firefox for regular browsing but it is handy for
	# comparative tests against Vivaldi. :P