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ikidd, 5 months ago (edited 4 days ago)

+1 for Nobara. I never could stand the farting around it took to get Fedora to use codecs and non-free software, so I was a little off-put trying Nobara, but it’s been a pleasure to use. I still miss the AUR but not as much as the last time I left the Arch ecosystem. And it comes out of the box ready to game, with everything you are going to need to have the best experience you’ll find on Linux without having to beat your head against all weird things you have to do to configure properly.

And KDE is a first-class citizen instead of sitting on the backburner waiting for a chance. I liked that change in the last release even though it was working well enough despite being non-default.

ikidd, 5 months ago

You could just add the plasma-full package or the more minimal group and log out, it’ll be a choice in the display manager login screen. I’d go with the Wayland session. If you can’t run Wayland because of GPU issues, you’re probably better off with Gnome.

ikidd, 5 months ago

Give me a ping if you need a hand, I’ve done it for decades.

ikidd, 5 months ago

Oh, Robert, there’s some lovely filth over here…

ikidd, 5 months ago

Literally every note app uses markdown. I’m not sure why people point at that for Obsidian like it’s a unique feature.

ikidd, 5 months ago

Use Nextcloud AIO mastercontainer, set up joplin with Nextcloud sync (which is webdav). Use the builtin backup function in Nextcloud AIO container to backup nextcloud and the files it contains that are your joplin notes (and anything else you use nextcloud for).

I even use Nextcloud for its Gpoddersync app to keep my podcast subs/progress from Antennapod.

ikidd, 5 months ago (edited 6 days ago)

I don’t know where you’re getting that from. Here is my Joplin folder on my NC server, stuffed with md files from my notes. There are some database driven references in them if you do things like add pictures, and obviously the filename is a UID format, but it’s markdown all the way, baby.

ikidd, 5 months ago (edited 10 days ago)

Its almost like westerners came up with the germ theory of disease tranamission and adjusted their sanitation methods to prevent it.

ikidd, 5 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Yah, it’s been trash from the start. I tried it 2 years ago and the unpredictable weird shit it did was useless to try to troubleshoot. It was worse than trying to run Docker on Windows, if that can be believed.

Debian with the Docker convenience script is the way to run Docker.

ikidd, 5 months ago

That’s essentially what the script does, then installs all the deps and docker, sets up the service.

ikidd, 5 months ago

Take your time and don’t hang your hat on anything until you’ve run it for a while yourself before you subject your family to it, no matter how excited you are. You’ll just get people wary of trying your projects if it’s always failing, unless you have someone that knows how these things go and that you’re learning, and is willing to help you sort out bugs.

ikidd, 5 months ago

I saw something that might be using that Korvu board, the S3-BOX. Unfortunately, $50 and out of stock as far as I could find.

ikidd, 5 months ago

IDK. I’m to the point where I don’t touch anyone’s phone or computer, because if I glance at it from a speeding car, I’m suddenly responsible for everything that suddenly “now doesn’t work” in their entire house, probably including the dishwasher.

ikidd, 5 months ago

Has anyone gotten the Mediatracker scrobbler to work with Kodi? I tried and it doesn’t seem to update, at least with Seren, though I was under the impression scrobblers were addon independent.

ikidd, 5 months ago

Open office is a dead project, avoid at all costs. LibreOffice or OnlyOffice are active.

ikidd, 5 months ago

I love KDE, but Kubuntu is a buggy mess, at least it was a year ago when I last tried it.

Honestly, the best implementation I’ve seen is Manjaro’s, with Nobara close behind.

ikidd, 6 months ago

Debian doesn’t even come with sudo, git or curl by default. It’s kind of minimal on purpose.

ikidd, 6 months ago

Postgres is the standard db in the AIO container nextcloud has put out as their standard.

ikidd, 6 months ago

Works as intended usually.

ikidd, 6 months ago

100% agree with tofubi, Docker on Windows is a form of self-abuse, like cutting yourself. It’s a train wreck for anything other than a little bit of testing for development work. You will come away with a bad taste in your mouth about Docker, I avoided containers for years because I started with them on Windows docker.

I’ve run a lot of different scenarios with docker, what I’ve come down to as the cleanest and easiest to maintain is Debian 12 with the Docker convenience script. It’s fast, hassle free, and doesn’t have a bunch of layers of weirdness like using Ubuntu Server with a docker snap that makes troubleshooting a nightmare.

ikidd, 6 months ago

I’ve been a proponent here for a few months on using postgres/redis every time someone shits on NC for performance. While I agree the database change itself isn’t a huge improvement, it pays for itself long term in larger volume installs when you and your organization/group get using it heavily. The redis connected on socket like the AIO mastercontainer sets up is where the real juice comes from, but only on an install that gets used so it caches properly. The first time you fire it up, it’s pretty slow but as it gets used, things are much better.

ikidd, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I use NPM and all I think I had to add to it was

<span style="color:#323232;">client_body_buffer_size 512k;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">proxy_read_timeout 86400s;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">client_max_body_size 0;
</span>

in the Advanced config. I’d love to move to Traefik but I could not figure out how to make that work.

There were some other gotchas. If you run into something, ping me, I might remember if I encountered it and what I did.

ikidd, 6 months ago

I’ve been playing with SSHwifty for a centralized browser based terminal gateway. You set up the docker and can then use it as a central gateway for ssh servers in your networks.

The setup is a bit opaque but the maintainer looks really helpful in the Issues pages.

ikidd, 6 months ago

Just had to use it today to turn a key file into a single string with line breaks:

awk ‘NF {sub(/r/, “”); printf “%s\n”,$0;}’ id_rsa