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It’s no true Scotsmans all the way down.

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I’d like to thank Haier for their transparency. ♥️

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Thanks. I understand this perspective.

avidamoeba, (edited )
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Sorry, why are we switching away from Plex because of this? Genuinely asking.

E: Wow at the downvotes to an honest question. 🥲

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Got it. So being written in Rust is one of the requirements. Makes sense. Flutter is great for self-contained applications but we can definitely use another sane native toolkit besides Qt that has wider applicability.

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Installing Debian is not an alternative to the 10-12 year Ubuntu LTS support because Debian doesn’t offer that kind of support. Also as the sibling noted, Ubuntu Pro isn’t needed to get the same support you’re getting from Debian. Ubuntu Pro provides additional support that you don’t get from Debian throughout the support lifespan.

BTW, not offering 10-12 years of support is totally reasonable for a community distribution. I don’t expect volunteers to be backporting fixes for packages built 12 years ago.

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Ubuntu Pro is free for up to 5 machines per account.

avidamoeba, (edited )
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I thought they mean support beyond 5 years. You’re right of course.

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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Yup, moving away from rar would probably be best.

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Don’t need to. It’s useful while free for people who wouldn’t otherwise pay for it. If/when we get the rug pulled from under us, mothrrship Debian is right there.

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Even though this has been explained many times since the whole hullabaloo, I’ll assume you’re genuinely unaware and/or perhaps got rage-farmed by someone else’s meme. The current meme implies that Ubuntu/Canonical have actively disabled safety/security features in the form of withholding security updates, unless you pay for Ubuntu Pro subscription. The Ubuntu package support hasn’t changed with the introduction of Ubuntu Pro. The packages that were supported by Canonical prior to this are supported the same way today. The packages that were community supported prior to this are supported the same way today. Without Ununtu Pro. There is net new support by Canonical that covers community-supported packages too which is available with Ubuntu Pro subscription. Therefore Canonical hasn’t removed any existing, previously free security support. In addition, this newly added security support is available for free for up to 5 machines and it lasts for 10 years.

More info here: discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-pro-faq/34042

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It isn’t.

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

Accessing NAS when not on LAN

So I have a TrueNAS server set up at home, and it would be cool to have access to it at all times. I currently have Syncthing set up to access and back up my most essential files on my phone and laptop, but it would be nice to be able to access all the … legally obtained files I have stored there wherever I go. I looked into...

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Could you elaborate where can I get one of those for about three fiddy?

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Adding to this, Tailscale’s clients are open source and there’s a community-developed open source control server component called Headscale that can replace the Tailscale’s central server if and when needed. I tested it recently and it seemed to work fine.

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Thanks! Odd, it seems they aren’t available from other registrars for this price.

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Oh yes, this looks like a winner. Thanks!

It seems like it’s written in Python too, which means I can maintain it if need be.

Oh boy I wish I had set this up many years ago. I wouldn’t have to resort to scouring !antiquememesroadshow for the top quality memes of the past when I need them…

On a far side of the moon note, I wonder if ActivityPub could be used to federate multiple archiveboxes to create a more resilient Internet Archive alternative. 🤔 Then integrate that with Lemmy to autoarchive links from posts. Aaand lemmy.world ran out of disk space. 🤣

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It seems like all of their software is in the parent account of heritrix - github.com/orgs/internetarchive/repositories?type….

avidamoeba,
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Exactly. I’m already running a local wiki, but I don’t want stuff I link to in my wiki to result in 404 in a few years. Or worse, to some AI-ridden ad-infested dumpster fire.

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Kind of. Linkwarden seems to save as PDF. That’s better than nothing, however preserving a functional copy of the pages would be better. Archivebox seems to do this.

Upgrade vs Reinstall

I’m a generalist SysAdmin. I use Linux when necessary or convenient. I find that when I need to upgrade a specific solution it’s often easier to just spin up an entirely new instance and start from scratch. Is this normal or am I doing it wrong? For instance, this morning I’m looking at a Linux VM whose only task is to run...

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It depends on the type of machine you’re talking about. Pet machines, bare metal or VMs, such as workstations, desktops, laptops are generally upgraded because it takes a while to re-setup everything. Cattle machines such as servers are generally recreated. With that said, creation of such machines typically involves some sort of automation that does the work for you. Setup scripts are the very basic, however configuration as code systems such as Ansible, SaltStack are much preferable. So if I had a VM that runs acme.sh, I’d write an Ansible runbook that creates it from a vanilla OS installation. I stop here for my own infrastructure. When we do this in cloud environments where we need to spin up more than one such VM and quickly, we’d have the OS install and Ansible run in a Jenkins job which builds a VM image that’s pushed to the cloud. Then we spin up ready acme.sh VMs from that image which takes seconds.

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Recently received an AirGradient One. Added it to HA via ESPHome. The setup was pretty smooth. It shows the following sensors in HA:

  • CO2
  • Humidity
  • NOx Index
  • PM 0.3
  • PM 1.0
  • PM 10.0
  • PM 2.5
  • PM 2.5 AQI
  • Temperature
  • VOC Index
avidamoeba,
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Hahaha, good point. At least not that autocratic.

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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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