I have been preparing to move my Mastodon instance from self-hosted in the cloud to shelf-hosted at home. Since November 2022, I have accumulated 80+ GB of media and a 1.2GB database - this is while having Media cache retention period under Settings > Administration > Server Settings > Content retention set at …

It appears that the random intermittent freezes every few minutes where the desktop/ apps/ pointer is unresponsive for a second or more is not limited to Ubuntu/ Fedora or Thinkpad.

The reason is likely Intel i915 GPU.

I found a discussion on Reddit that documents a solution in parts spread …