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That’s a new one around here ahaha

Me vs my ISP

So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....

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It gets worse - because ISPs are choosing NATs over IPv6,

Yes, because they’re mostly pieces of shit, technically inept and unable to properly deploy IPv6 at a large scale.

Either way IPv6 doesn’t fix everything as you’ll still need a real IPv4 to access a large part of the internet or some translation (MAP-T/MAP-E). Even if your ISP provided dual stack with a real public IPv6 + CGNAT / MAP-T IPv4 it would still be annoying as you wouldn’t be able to do port forwarding on the IPv4 and won’t be able to access your self-hosted services from a LOT of networks that are IPv4 only.

There are two versions of MAP – translated (MAP-T) and encapsulated (MAP-E). In MAP-E IPv4 traffic is encapsulated into IPv6 using a v6 header before it is sent over the v6 network. At the network operator’s boundary router, the IPv6 header is then stripped, and the IPv4 traffic is forwarded to the v4 Internet. In MAP-T, the IPv4 packet header is mapped to the IPv6 header and back. The difference between the two options is evident in their names. MAP-E uses IPv6 to encapsulate and de-encapsulate IPv4 traffic, whereas MAP-T uses NAT64 to translate IPv4 to IPv6 and back.

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

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not really for casual browsing use cases when pretty much 99% of all the major players in the browsing industry maintain a Linux port.

Those users couldn’t care less about if Windows is supported or not. They wont send their 240 million computers to the landfill, they’ll just keep using them.

Either way, Windows 10 22H2 EOL is set to 14 Oct 2025 and Enterprise LTS to 12 Jan 2027. I’m sure Microsoft will cave around January 2026 whenever the first 0-day for Windows 10 22H2 Pro goes into the wild and extends support for the Pro version to 2027 as well for no extra cost. For them this makes way more business sense than having 240M machines infected giving a poor image of Windows.

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

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Or just stop lamenting for old packages and just enjoy stability while making something productive

I’m not the one lamenting old packages, I run on stable perfectly happy. No issues there.

Is this Seagate Exos drive too good to be true?

I found this its the cheapest 10TB Exos drive on Newegg and looking to buy 4 of them. I will be putting them in my NAS that I use for my media library and pc backups. The price I’m posting this is $130, I’m also looking similar Exos drives that are $250 is there a difference? Should I shell up for the more expensive drives?

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That should be a choice of the OS / controller card not of the drive itself. Also what datacenter wants to run drives that don’t report half of the SMART data just because they felt like it?

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Care you share your hdparm config then?

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Ahaha that’s about what they do.

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I’m questioning your auditory acuity :P

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Tried that and doesn’t seem to work. :(

Relevant documentation for others about -S / spindown_time:

Values from 1 to 240 specify multiples of 5 seconds, yielding timeouts from 5 seconds to 20 minutes. Values from 241 to 251 specify from 1 to 11 units of 30 minutes, yielding timeouts from 30 minutes to 5.5 hours. A value of 252 signifies a timeout of 21 minutes.

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Because I forgot I own it… no. But because I was too lazy go get the physical media and insert into my desktop player, oh yes. To be fair it downloaded probably faster than the time I would’ve spent looking for it.

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Who doesn’t have issues with Steam. In my case I have two older games who’s Steam versions plain suck, pirated versions however, just flawless.

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Well, read my reply here: lemmy.world/comment/6140312 and lemmy.world/comment/6140487 and lemmy.world/comment/6140806

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The issue here is that this will stall the development of LXD/Incus. Two separate projects running in different directions no future feature parity and potentially less features in Incus than in LXD.

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I just see a problem here:

I perfectly understand, approve and back this move, however I’ve a question about the current state of things and specifically Debian 12 users. Debian includes LXD LTS 5.0.2 on their repositories and that version will be still be around after 2024/05 and trying to use the image server. Debian won’t likely change stable to include Incus until 2025, what’s the suggested path here?

discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/…/9

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But it may never see much progress on the WebUI for instance while Canonical has paying customers pushing and asking for it. They may appear inactive and it seems there aren’t many people working on the project but who knows? Maybe they’re setting up their own image server, repacking images etc.

Again, I’m all in favor of this change and I’ve a couple of systems running on both and will obviously migrate everything to Incus but I can’t ignore the fact that enterprise money pushes Canonical todevelop things.

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    reMarkable is also a good device, very light and you can enable SSH/root access with a simple toggle on settings. There are also entire repositories of software for it toltec-dev.org github.com/Evidlo/remarkable_entware

    Here a few link that you might find useful:

    I believe it is the most open-source thing you can get right now that is a finished product working and whatnot with eink.

    Sorry if this is covered somewhere but I couldn't find it! I need recommendations on a good starter NAS

    Title says pretty much all there is. Im just getting started in this and don’t want to go too crazy. Im willing to go as high as $250 right now which, when i look around, i know isn’t gonna get me anything absolutely amazing but hey back off im an instacart driver lol

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    Those fancy cases are expensive AF. Cool but expensive.

    Another very cool one: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003125774264.html

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    replace my current aging gaming PC and was thinking id make this one actually just be the server. I have a closet that shockingly has a power outlet and everything that would be amazing for that.

    Oh yeah, you’re set, no need to look further. Use that hardware, better than having it laying around end up on a garbage pile. If that’s a gamming PC it should be way overkill for what you need but it will get the job done.

    Side note: obviously a HP Mini with an i5 8th gen mobile CPU will be more power efficient but does it really matter? The difference between a 45W or 100W CPU running at idle won’t be that much (they both will downscale to a lower speed like 800Mhz or 1Ghz). Even if the desktop wastes more it will most likely be something like 4 or 5$ more per year to run it so it isn’t worth it to spend more money on a new machine while you’ve that one around.

    Pro tip: remove the GPU from the machine AND if it has integrated graphics don’t run a GUI on it - this will greatly reduce the power consumption of the machine. In fact by not having a GPU installed and not having a GUI running you’ll save more power than by replacing that machine with one of those mini units I suggested.

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    DIY gives you more flexibility, but also more maintenance.

    More maintenance? Setup is harder for sure, but after that no more maintenance required if you don’t feel like it. To be frank the amount of maintenance is usually corelated with the amount of crap you install. a TrueNAS Scale will run just fine, maintenance free most likely for more than 5 years, however a clean Debian install with a simple Samba server (install via apt-get install) + FileBrowser (webUI file explorer) will last indefinitely without maintenance. Simple tools fail less.

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    Well just be sure to remove the GPU, don’t install a GUI and turn on every power saving option on the BIOS / disable hardware you don’t need etc. If you’ve a watt-meter it will make the task easy as you’ll be able to see how much power you can cut back with BIOS tweaks. Sometimes (but not always) even disabling CPU cores helps.

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    Something you might need: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005515616995.html

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    Are you planning on transcoding? If so you might want to add a decent GPU to deal with that as the CPU won’t be most likely able to handle it alone. Otherwise it should be fine.

    RARBG like 4K rips, any group making similar sized movies?

    Sorry if this was asnwered before, but couldn’t find it. I can’t seem to find any groups that usually release really small sized 4k rips like rarbg used to do. Movies went from ~5GB to ~20GB, and I really can’t tell that much difference in quality that justifies 4x the size....

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    And where can we find 2K movies of 20-50GB nowadays?

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    Still nothing on the “gnome massively reinvents the wheel every 2-3 years” thing? Not surprised, considering it was BS.

    Removing desktop icons, forcing the activities view as default at some point etc. do you need more examples?

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    What to do instead - be a normal human and create an account at the website.

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