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Pretty sure it needs to be https://$user:$pat@github.com/username/repo.git#branch.

It depends on what specific thing you want to add geoblocking to, but often something like the MaxMind GeoIP database, which then can feed into a firewall to pre-emptively geo-block at a connection level, or as part of e.g. nginx geolocating the IP a of the connecting IP then making the blocking decision at request time.

There’s a project that works with Traefik’s forward-auth middleware to do this, which is probably how I would go about it if I wanted it at an HTTP level.

Things don’t get backfilled, so until a new action happens on an old post/comment/etc they won’t show up on your instance. New things should make their way in eventually though.

Taking the link of a specific post/comment from the community instance and searching for it from your instance should populate it on your instance, just like you probably had to do to get this community to show up so you could subscribe/post at all.

There are backfill tools/scripts, but unless you really want old posts I wouldn’t use them. It unnecessarily increases the load on already struggling popular/overloaded instances like lemmy.world.

If you find a decent alternative let me know. I have been looking for a while and not found anything that supports the full feature set I want (including Twilio).

Under load it can get pretty hot, might be better with a less power hungry processor (I’ve got an i7). Battery is reasonable 4-5ish hours (55wh and they recently announced a drop-in replacement with better chemistry that is 61wh) with what I would consider to be “normal” usage in Windows 10 including WSL, browsing, running the software I am working on (usually node or golang), etc. It’s also better if I lower my screen brightness, but I usually keep it pretty high/max.

Yeah, my current one is 11th gen, just before they started doing that, so I don’t know how good or bad the “efficiency” cores are or if the power savings is worth it.

I am a big fan of my Framework laptop. It is super easily upgradable and repairable so should last a good while. They are a little sold out of all of their old models so they only have pre-orders right now. They have options for a 13th gen i5 and a Ryzen 5 that both start at $850. The intel ones ship sooner and are have cheaper DDR4 RAM (vs DDR5 for Ryzen). The $850 is “base”, an i5 configured with 16g of RAM, a 500gb SSD, and no OS (assuming you’ll use linux or already own windows) is just under $1100. You can go as low as just over $1k for 8g of ram and 250g SSD.

If you’re concerned with cost they do have refurbished 12th-gen i5s in stock now for $720, but you’ll need to buy RAM and an SSD (which if buying from them would bring your total to $820 for 8g of RAM and 250g of SSD).

I can’t comment on the tablet/pen stuff. I have never owned a laptop that does that. It might be worth it if you do drawing or whiteboarding and stuff, but those are the only people I know of that actually use that sort of stuff.

If you want L3 features you want a router, not a switch. </pedantry>