I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 that is by now almost 10 years old, it runs perfectly on Linux and is a fantastic choice even today. It's built like a tank and that Intel i5 powering it is immortal. DDR3 RAM is dirt cheap now and it takes up to 16Gb, you can swap its HDD to a SATA SSD (if not done already) and batteries for it are still cheap and plentiful.

If you're looking for something affordable for software dev, I can't think of a better choice for $200-$300

https://www.lenovo.com/lt/lt/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t430/

They really built this one right, they don't make them like this anymore.

Awesome project and the tool looks great - nice work!

There was an existing tool which was similar: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

Yours is definitely nicer.

That project is a great find, thanks! A real time saver, I should have these marked up shortly.

I'll do some more thinking on how we represent Cloudflare instances in general, I think for the time being I may just include a short note for them as people will wonder why they're marked anyway.

Edit: This is now done, all Cloudflare instances marked and an explanation added.

Hey, thanks for your feedback. I like your idea of labeling Cloudflared services, reporting is indeed a bit tricky for those especially if they use "Always online" to serve cached copies while the instance is down. I have some ideas on how to combat that, but labeling them also makes sense.

I can add tags against services - I have done this for ani.social as a proof of concept, I think it works but I welcome feedback. Sorting through the entire list is a bit daunting and will take me a while, but I'll get there.

Manually adjusting availability is a can of worms that I don't want to open, I'd rather we try to find other ways to level the playing field.

Yes it was changed some time ago: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/170

I think you're one "active user" short of being back on there:

I believe you need 5 to be listed.

I've updated the post to include clickable URLs. Lesson learnt that I shouldn't rely on clients to treat domain names as links.

Thanks for your feedback. I like your idea, I'll have a look into what I can do to make it happen.

Absolutely!

Uptime Kuma Github: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Note that I am not the creator of Uptime Kuma, https://github.com/louislam gets all the credit there.

It's just a play on words: Le(mmy) + Stat(us) or Le Stat(us)

I think it's short and easy to remember, the fact that it's also the name of a famous vampire is just a bonus.

Https HEAD requests - I find it yields accurate results for Lemmy and it's extremely light on bandwidth.

https://lestat.org