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avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 3 days ago)

An intern nuked their workstation by sudo chmod -R 777 /. Turns out adding exec to everything isn’t good either.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

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

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

<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>

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 8 days ago)

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

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

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Thanks. I understand this perspective.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 8 days ago)

Is that bad though? I don’t mind renting a movie I really like even if my friend has it on their Plex. Especially if it’s from a small studio. Currently I do that via Google TV. Plex Inc being a small private company might use the money better than a publicly traded giant. I wouldn’t mind my friends and family spending a few bucks on it either.

Of course if Plex starts enshitifying existing private streaming features to push this, that’ll be another matter altogether. Which would not be unexpected.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

I’ll probably trial Jellyfin too in preparation to migrate the family should push come to shove.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 11 days ago)

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

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 10 days ago)

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.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 11 days ago)

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

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 7 days ago)

Second that. VM suspension is but the only way to achieve this on a standard OS.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 22 days ago)

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.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

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 ...
</span>

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

It doesn’t use GTK does it?

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

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

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Spotify 🫥

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Let’s not. It’s not a good tool.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

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.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

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

avidamoeba, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

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.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

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

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

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.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Crashes on Arch, doesn’t crash on Debian:

Debian > Arch