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Oh I now remembered that mine developed a problem with one of the USB ports, not a cartridge but the host port. Framework sent me a new board. I replaced it easily and sent the bad one to them.

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Another happy Framework user here. I have 2 first gens in my immediate family and 2 second gens among my friends. All run Ubuntu LTS. No one is complaining. I’ve already replaced my bottom chassis because I destroyed it during a bad mishap. Ordering was easy, the part was inexpensive, the replacement was straightforward. A Dell XPS perhaps feels a bit better made, but then it doesn’t say Made in Taiwan on the bottom so there’s that. 😅

On the other hand System76 is building a new open source desktop environment in a sane programming language… 🤔 If COSMIC desktop turns out great and I end up using it, I’ll probably throw a couple of hundred their way in lieu of buy their laptop.

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Never clicked on one of those Discord links, never will.

Sanity check - is rsyncing to a remote computer that has zfs snapshotting an okay way to back things up?

I currently have two computers, one that has a big zfs raidz pool that I currently back everything up to. Right now, on my local computer I use rsnapshot to do snapshot backups via rsync to the remote zfs pool. I know I’m wasting a ton of space because I have snapshotting in the rsync backup, and then the zfs pool is...

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Cause it makes sense at a glance and it’s efficient. Not for backup purposes though.

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Wouldn’t send/receive also sync snapshots across ZFS instances?

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Using plain rsync sounds sane.

Sending local ZFS snapshots to the remote ZFS might be problematic. Consider accidentally deleting important data locally and nuking all of your local snapshots, then sending that to the remote ZFS. You lost all of your snapshots and there’s no way to recover the deleted data. Instead do what I do - keep the two ZFS systems separate and use a non-ZFS mechanism to transfer data - rsync, Syncthing, etc. That way even if you delete everything locally, nuke all local snapshots and send the deletions via rsync remotely, you could still recover your data by restoring the remote ZFS to a snapshot prior to the deletions. For reference I have two ZFS machines doing frequent snapshots and Syncthing replicating data between them on immediate basis.

!selfhosted, please do critique if you find some fundamental issues with this.

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What’s the WiFi adapter?

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Here’s how the trigger could look like:

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/90a4b3b8-8c65-4e7a-9368-945aebb94bfe.png

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<span style="color:#323232;">grub> set root=(...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">grub> linux /vmlinuz root=...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">grub> initrd /initrd.img
</span><span style="color:#323232;">grub> boot
</span>

What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

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Tried to convert Ubuntu to Debian by replacing the repos in sources.list and apt dist-upgrading. 💣 Teenagers…

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Memes are cool. Blatant misinformation in the form of a meme to manufacture outrage, not so much.

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This reluctance to tie the knot is worrying policymakers grappling with a decline in births and a rapidly aging population in a country that was once the world’s most populous, and where marriage rates are closely tied to birth rates as unmarried mothers are often denied child-raising benefits.

I heard the CCP wanted birth rates to climb. That’s not how you do it. The slowing economy doesn’t have to have this effect on young people. The Chinese government has a much stronger ability to manage these effects than democratic free market economies. I hope they would manage to use that.

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It doesn’t use GTK does it?

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How does Kayak get my personal information via a search link from Organic Maps?

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Spotify 🫥

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Let’s not. It’s not a good tool.

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Prometheus.

It’s open source, it’s easy to setup, its agents are available for nearly anything including OpenWrt, it can serve the simplest use case of “is it down” as well as much more complicated ones that stem from its ability to collect data over time.

Personally I’m monitoring:

  • Is it up?
  • Is the storage array healthy?
  • Are the services I care about running?

I used to run it ephemerallly - wiping data on restart. Recently started persisting its data so I can see data over the longer run.

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Some heavy schooling happening in this thread. Glad to see it. Learning is a good thing. 🙌

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Software deployment that tackles dependency hell in a secure fashion while providing repeatable, atomic updates and rollback.

AppImage doesn’t even provide a proper update system.

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Seems like a measurable improvement although not dramatic in most benchmarks.

I'm an idiot (arm)

EDIT: Putting this at the top because not everyone is seeing what I actually need. I can unpack the rar archive just fine. What I can’t do (on arm) is add to/update the files in the rar archive. I have unrar already installed. What I can’t install is the rar package to create/update rar archives....

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As a last resort you could install docker from apt, build an image from a distro has rar in its arm repos, then run containers ephemerallly, mounting your work dir into the container where rar runs. Try the suggested methods of getting a binary first. 😅


<span style="color:#323232;">docker run --rm -v /your/work/dir:/destination/in/container your_image rar ...
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Could be a defective library that’s used by many apps. Glibc, etc. That said, if something like this is that broken, others should be complaining about it too.

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Crashes on Arch, doesn’t crash on Debian:

Debian > Arch

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