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JoeKrogan

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Served in the Krogan uprisings. Now I run a podcast

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JoeKrogan,
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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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Thank you for your service 🎖️

JoeKrogan,
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No

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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

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I’d rather have the sites break to be honest

JoeKrogan, (edited )
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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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My thoughts exactly… Hard pass

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Another one to the boycott list

JoeKrogan,
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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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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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Stress

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No if I have to keep fixing it , it is not worth my time.

I installed owncloud years ago and came to the same conclusion and just got rid of it. I use syncthing nowadays though its not the same thing.

Do you mount an embedded Linux file system to the workstation and use your host scripts or do you SSH/SCP and deal with the limited shell commands?

I’m playing with a couple of routers and comparing proprietary to open source on the same hardware. I miss my .bashrc functions and aliases… and compgen, tree, manpages, detailed help, etc; the little things that get annoying when they are missing....

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I normally SSH in and do what I need or scp a script or whatever over .

I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....

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Also they contribute loads to the Linux ecosystem so im happy to support them as I see it as a win/win . The sales are great too I spend like 50 ducats a year and get like 9 or 10 great games for that.

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I don’t agree with avoiding stable distros. In the case of Debian for example stable gets priority on security patches. Just subscribe to the security mailing list and have auto updates on.

Also download any disto or bleeding edge container and scan it and you’ll have vulnerabilities in some library. The ecosystem is always moving. The question is how exposed are you.

Use a firewall, secure your browser and whitelist sites you trust to run JS. Stick to repos. Scan downloaded files via virus total or open In a vm. Dont install what you dont need.

You are far more likely to get compromised in a site breach than to get hacked. The browser is the main attack vector that you need to secure.

Also dont run servers if you dont know what you are doing. Use a non networked VM to practice.

Dont blindly paste commands and be sure to read the source before you compile and run some random program.

Watch out for rogue containers and libraries .

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Humans would probably kill them or enslave them for profit. 😩

JoeKrogan,
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This was all covered in the on boarding process. We’ll let it slide this time but next time have your hat on or you’ll have to walk the plank 😄

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I made the swich a year or two ago. It is much better I find. I leave it running in a tmux session on my server . with btop on one pane and switch to another with a split view to do work. It allows me to take a quick glance at any time while not taking the focus from what I was working on.

JoeKrogan,
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Another reason to stick to your distro repositories. This should totally be disabled by default for modern browsers.

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Its a good idea to screenshot any you come across in case they change later there is evidence of tampering

JoeKrogan,
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😄 I'd rather not give them the traffic

JoeKrogan, (edited )
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Now videos should do the same but with rick astly..."you know the rules and so do I"

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He will probably get wind of this and cover it on his show 🤣

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I do the same thing in a python script, move the mouse every 5 mins. So slack is never away. Fuck micromanagement

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