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Dirk

@Dirk@lemmy.ml

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Dirk,
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You should try Linux Mint. It’s a good distribution for new Linux users. It’s easy to understand, has a good community with plenty of solutions for all types of problems and it is not too specific.

Gaming with Steam on Linux works without any major issues except when it comes to games that intentionally made run on Windows only due to their DRM. I suggest using the Flatpak variant of Steam so you won’t clutter your system with too many weird dependencies.

Dirk,
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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e7ee2a95-5f9a-4b7e-9c11-4a6ace44bffc.png

Dirk,
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For the same reason a lot of programming languages can’t calculate 0.1+0.2 properly.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/800d9121-8b45-421a-b3a1-3a866750899f.png

There’s a website explaining it: 0.30000000000000004.com

Dirk, (edited )
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I remember years ago it already was like this in the forums. It actually made me stop using it and running a custom made web based reader for some time.

I wouldn’t use it anymore nowadays.

FreshRSS is the way to go. It even has plugins (and a plugin for YouTube channels as RSS feeds, very convenient).

Dirk,
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Long Becca is long.

Dirk,
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Cooperate forces me.

Dirk,
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Do people actually want this?

Absolutely not. But this is the new standard now.

Dirk,
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Yes. The Microsoft standard. Like the Windows key on all keyboards nowadays.

Dirk,
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Like with the Windows key, this won’t be an option.

Dirk,
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iit’s just a new keycap

Plus the configuration that is needed to remap the key back to the correct key code.

Dirk,
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I simply play music using mpv.

What's the best way to have a .bashrc that I can use throughout systems?

So, I just found out about a programme called SynthShell which kind of does the work for you and gives you a nice looking shell, the thing is that this also creates some config files and other stuff in my system, instead of just one .bashrc file to edit. What would be the best way to learn to have a nice looking bash where I can...

Dirk, (edited )
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I personally use yadm

I just use some code and Git.


<span style="color:#323232;">if [ ! -z "$PS1" ]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    repo="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/dotfiles/"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    br='origin/main'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    title="e[1me[31mn ░▒▓e[7m    %s    e[27m▓▒░e[0mnn%snn"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    status="$(git --git-dir="$repo" --work-tree="$HOME" status -s)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    diff=$(git --git-dir="$repo" --work-tree="$HOME" diff --stat --cached $br)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    [ -n "$status" ] && printf "$title" "Uncommited changes!" "$status"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    [ -n "$diff" ] && printf "$title" "Not yet pushed commits!" "$diff"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    unset title status diff br
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    alias dotfiles="/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$repo --work-tree=$HOME"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">fi
</span>

The code runs when it’s an interactive shell with a PS1 prompt and just checks if any of the tracked files have changed or if there are commits that are not pushed. By configuration I ignore all untracked files. If something has changed or wasn’t pushed it always prints an annoying message.

Whenever I want to do something I use dotfiles … instead of git …, everything else works the same.

Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...

Dirk,
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This. Thread should have officially ended here.

Dirk,
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… the single worst company …

Dirk,
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Woah, stop! No professionals!

Dirk,
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It’s actually a suggested configuration / best practice to NOT have container user IDs matching the host user IDs.

Ditch the idea of root and user in a docker container. For your containerized application use 10000:10001. You’ll have only one application and one “user” in the container anyways when doing it right.

To be even more on the secure side use a different random user ID and group ID for every container.

Dirk,
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You don’t need to create the user first. Here’s the simplest I can come up with:


<span style="color:#323232;">FROM alpine:latest
</span><span style="color:#323232;">COPY myscript.sh /app/myscript.sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">USER 10000:10001
</span><span style="color:#323232;">CMD ["sh", "/app/myscript.sh"]
</span>

This simply runs /app/myscript.sh with UID 10000 and GID 10001.

Dirk,
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Yep! The names are basically just a convenient way for referencing a user or group ID.

Under normal circumstances you should let the system decide what IDs to use, but in the confined environment of a docker container you can do pretty much what you want.

If you really, really, really want to create a user and group just set the IDs manually:


<span style="color:#323232;">FROM alpine:latest
</span><span style="color:#323232;">COPY myscript.sh /app/myscript.sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">RUN addgroup -g 10001 mycoolgroup && adduser -D -u 10000 -G mycoolgroup mycooluser
</span><span style="color:#323232;">USER mycooluser:mycoolgroup
</span><span style="color:#323232;">CMD ["sh", "/app/myscript.sh"]
</span>

Just make sure to stay at or above 10000 so you won’t accidentally re-use IDs that are already defined on the host.

Dirk,
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This is really dependent on […]

… basically anything. Yes. You will always find yourself in problems where the best practice isn’t the best solution for.

In your described use case an option would be having the application inside the container running with 10000:10001 but writing the data into another directory that is configured to use 1000:1001 (or whatever the user is you want to access the data with from your host) and just mount the volume there. This takes a bit more configuration effort than just running the application with 1000:1001 … but still :)

Dirk,
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I recently just cleanly got out of Facebook after a decade.

Deleted all my comments, all my media and all my posts, and left all groups and unfriended everyone, then changed my name and my URL and finally disabled/deleted my account.

I don’t miss anything.

Dirk,
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Ah, yes.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/135b1cce-187f-4320-866b-a445b0d8a8f3.png

Dirk,
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Looks fine 👍

Dirk,
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Old things bad, new things good. I write article that is satire about it.

I’m strong. I’m no boomer. Please love me.

cope cope cope

Dirk,
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This is basically an article promoting two Tweets (something like Toots, but on a monetized closed source for-profit platform run by a highly questionable billionaire).

Here:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7f877ece-edcd-4d09-b550-963e7103406f.png

Dirk,
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What can you automate with Beachpatrol? The sky is the limit:

  • Check your email.
  • Login to your bank account.

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Oh hell no!

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