Jan De Luyck jdeluyck

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.

English language locale for Belgium on Ubuntu, Debian and others linux systems

sudo cp en_BE /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_BE
sudo localedef -i en_BE -c -f UTF-8 en_BE
echo "en_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8" | sudo tee -a /etc/locale.gen
sudo locale-gen

	#!/bin/sh
	## place in ~/.config/plasma-workspace/shutdown/ssh-agent-shutdown.sh
	## exec order: "kde shutdown"
	$SSH_AGENT_PID" ] \|\| eval "$(ssh-agent -k)"