@dumpsterqueer ty I'll need it 😭

@nerd you have to compile as root? 🤔 🤔

@tobi Evidently! On my own system I'm explicitly told not to do that. In the original Mastodon installation https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install/ asset precompilation is done as the mastodon user, but when I followed Hometown upgrade instillation https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.6%2B3.5.2 trying to run the precompile as mastodon gave me a permission denied error, while compiling as root worked.

@tobi narrator's voice: It was, in fact, not supposed to be precompiled from root

@nerd I had a feeling :P

@tobi you were the voice of prophecy!! Guess who had to do a bunch of chown commands for files that had root ownership and had to be changed back to mastodon for anything to work 🙃

@nerd everyone should heed my words where tech is concerned (nobody should heed my words)