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JoeKrogan

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Served in the Krogan uprisings. Now I run a podcast

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Personally I use Debian stable but I’d recommend starting with Ubuntu if you are new. I’m using linux fulltime since 2008 if that makes any difference.

The reason is you are guaranteed to find support for a program if there is a linux version.

Most of the instructions online have specific Ubuntu instructions.

The default install is quite user friendly.

You will have access to more packages than many other linux distros. You still have flatpak too if your desired package is not in the Ubuntu repository ( or snap store).

You can always pick a different one later once you have some experience under your belt.

Doing this you will be able to become familiar with APT the Debian package manager. Used in Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Raspbian and other Debian derivatives.

Getting the concepts here you can then just learn the differences if you switch distro such to an RPM (Different package format) based distro such as fedora.

In short use Ubuntu for now. Experiment and read up about it so you can build your knowledge. We are a community that like to share and learn. Also as a general rule backup your files before you install it and after you have set it up how you want. You can easily just copy the whole home directory for this 😉

The distro doesnt matter but it should not get in your way. They can all be made to look and act the same for the most part. The focus should be on knowledge. Linux is like digital Lego you can pick and choose the parts you like and layer them together.

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Konsole and yakuake as the drop down for quick tasks

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I have a microserver and various pis ( zero w, 2x 3b+ and a pi b)

With the exception of the zero w they are all still in action.

The pi b connects to the pi touchscreen and displays photos from a directory every 5 minutes.

The 2x3bs are running kodi to stream from my server.

The zero w was a camera recording and streaming 24/7 but I stopped it as I wanted to do other stuff with it.

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No

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They make hardware with defects looking at you RROD and YLOD , they expect you to rebuy everything again every time there is a new console ( Nintendo). They remove your content that you have paid for from your library (Amazon, Sony, music from games), they alter the deal after purchase by instering DRM and shitty launchers and turn off servers (Ubisoft and EA). They lock you out of accessing stuff on devices you own with DRM (eg Netflix 4k on linux ).

Then we have regional releases, changes to privacy policies which we didn’t agree to when we signed up.

Add to the fact we’re being fucked over at every turn. The price of everything is increasing, housing is a mess, they’re fucking up the environment while record profits have been pouring in year on year.

They can go suck a lemon 🍋

I will only support FOSS and those who help further that goal such as valve. Otherwise it the high seas everyday.

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I’m sure you are doing a great job. Ive no kids but likewise I have a shining example to guide me. Thanks , you too. Wishing you and your family health and happiness in the new year and the years to come ❤️

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Stress

JoeKrogan,
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Sound like my grandpa too. How fortunate we were to have them.

JoeKrogan,
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Thanks for the info

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Unless its NixOS or something like silver blue or QubesOS they’re all basically the same. If you want to mess about try some different ones in a VM or on a live CD or USB. That way you still have your daily driver working when you need it

I finally nuked windows

I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...

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Welcome to the party pal

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Another one to the boycott list

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I’d rather have the sites break to be honest

JoeKrogan,
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If you want super easy then buy a GLInet portable router. Signup for a supported vpn and plug in the credentials in the portable router.

Install qbittorrent on your computer and then connect to the portable routers WiFi access point .

your whole connection should be tunneled through the vpn and you can download what you want.

Make sure you check your ip before doing anything and set a kill switch option in the router config.

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Thank you for your service 🎖️

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Personally I just use a web directory for my roms Company/Console/Game and search with ctrl and F. I can download it from a browser or wget in the terminal.

For artwork I have the steam ROM manager on deck or the emulator on desktop usually does it eg ppsspp

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I have 12tb in my server with 14tb in external drives for backups

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It is the parents job to watch their damn kids. Or force isps to include simple blocklist toggles in their supplied routers so the parents can make a decision.

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I use raneto. Built using js. Flat file and uses markdown.

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My thoughts exactly… Hard pass

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Missed opportunity for his parents to call him Danny. Then he could say “I’m getting too old for this shit”.

JoeKrogan,
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I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for sharing

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Slashdot, hacker news feeds and some communities here. I dont really try to keep up with commercial tech since most of it is bundled with DRM or spyware with exceptions such as the steamdeck.

I’m only interested FOSS stuff myself. I subscribe to some security and privacy communities here in addition to some technology ones. If the news is big enough we’ll hear about it one way or another.

Discoverability happens organically out of need. Eg search “split pdfs linux” and I’ll get a cli tool for it.

Thats my take on it anyway.

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I would instead recommend running a tor relay or i2p node. That way you have encrypted traffic and are helping others and further legitimizing privacy by its everyday use

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I use wireguard and nginx but I set my WG DNS as the server ip. I have adguardhome running on the server and have added the external domains to map to their LAN address so they resolved locally when using the vpn or the LAN. A similar setup should work for you.

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