lemmyvore

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lemmyvore,

But what if someone attacks a development tool!

lemmyvore,

Don’t buy used drives if you don’t know how to check them, can’t afford to waste the money and/or aren’t buying from somewhere with excellent return policy.

lemmyvore,

When in doubt always do a git init . and a git add, git commit every once in a while. You’ll never regret it.

lemmyvore,

For the above reasons it’s very nice to use dnsmasq, because DHCP + DNS integration is really sweet, and a full featured local DNS is gold.

OpenWRT comes with dnsmasq btw so if you have a dodgy router but it supports OpenWRT you may be able to breath new life into it.

What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS? (external-content.duckduckgo.com)

Hello there lemmings! Finally I have taken up the courage to buy a low power mini PC to be my first homeserver (Ryzen 5500U, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD, already have 6TB external HDD tho). I have basically no tangible experience with Debian or Fedora-based system, since my daily drivers are Arch-based (although I’m planning to switch...

lemmyvore,

Oh right, I filtered for “10.” and got an unstable image and thought they don’t have them. Yeah those are stable too.

lemmyvore,

It’s more like “latest” tracks unstable, because unstable evolves much faster and it puts out versions more often. Unfortunately there’s a practice going around that makes people just the :latest tag for everything and they don’t always stop to consider the implications (which may be different for each project).

lemmyvore, (edited )

Should the unthinkable happen, and someone “breaks out” of docker jail, they’ll only be running in the context of the user running the docker daemon on the physical host.

There is no daemon in rootless mode. Instead of a daemon running containers in client/server mode you have regular user processes running containers using fork/exec. Not running as root is part and parcel of this approach and it’s a good thing, but the main motivator was not “what if someone breaks out of the container” (which doesn’t necessarily mean they’d get all the privileges of the running user on the host and anyway it would require a kernel exploit, which is a pretty tall order). There are many benefits to making running containers as easy as running any kind of process on a Linux host. And it also enabled some cool new features like the ability to run only partial layers of a container, or nested containers.

lemmyvore,

You can also try starting a Linux game, if you have any, just to figure out if Proton is the issue.

How often do you back up?

I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales...

lemmyvore,

I have autocron jobs that sync various server directories to a daily backup (on the same server), then sync that backup once a week to the weekly backup, and once a month take a tarball snapshot of the weekly backup.

Every once in a while I plug in a HDD on USB and take a Borg backup of the monthly dir. Borg does compression and deduplication (and encryption if you want to). I should be doing this also once a week but sometimes I’m lazy and leave a few weeks between them.

Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I’m hoping to create a unique and “professional” looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for...

lemmyvore,

A general reduction in service quality, increasing domain prices (double check your renewals) and there are reports of domain name sniping (where they grab names that people are looking up).

lemmyvore,

As if a scammer can’t get a Gmail address. 😄 What does that even prove?

lemmyvore,

I’ve had providers being acquired from under me several times over the last couple decades. They usually get worse after that; new owners typically want to squeeze the customers not to improve quality. That’s why I won’t use (anymore) any email service that’s not easy to migrate away from.

To achieve a reasonable level of email independence you need IMAP access, you need to use your own domain, and you need to keep your DNS service separate from the email provider.

lemmyvore,

I still don’t understand why you think containers aren’t adequate.

Say you break into a container, how would you break out?

lemmyvore, (edited )

I think it should be fairly trivial to do with Python and a calendar library, you’d just have to go through the input entries, keep the ones with the properties you like and dump those to the output.

I’m not well versed in Python either but I had a specific calendar problem once — had to clear a calendar storage that went back years and the provider’s UI didn’t let you delete the base calendar — and after looking it up it was a few lines of Python.

That’s probably why you don’t find established tools because every person who runs into this stuff has a super specific need.

lemmyvore,

.deb distros are doomed from the start if you need to use third-party repos (which you do, for a desktop system) because they always end up undermining the stability of the packages from the core repos in the long run.

Try an Arch-based distro, they’re super stable because their compatibility model is more robust, and there are options depending on how much hand-holding you want — ranging from vanilla Arch to Endeavour to Manjaro.

lemmyvore,

Gentoo had their own meme: Gentoo is for ricers.

lemmyvore,

I think it was done on purpose.

Anyway… I figured out a workaround in my script. By focusing one of the windows on the current workspace before I open a new tab it seems to make it the preferred window. It’s not foolproof, sometimes it still selects one of the other windows, but it’s close enough.

Here’s the script in case anybody needs it, should work with any editor that has some sort of -tab and -window options if you grep for the correct window name:


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WORKSPACE=$(
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	wmctrl -d |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	grep '*' |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	awk '{print $1}'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WINID=$(
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	wmctrl -l |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	grep ' - Mousepad' |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	grep -E "s${WORKSPACE}s"|
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	tail -1|
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	awk '{print $1}'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if [ -z "$WINID" ]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	exec /usr/bin/mousepad -o window "$@"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	wmctrl -i -a "$WINID" &amp;&amp; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	sleep 0.5 &amp;&amp; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	exec /usr/bin/mousepad -o tab "$@"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">fi
</span>
lemmyvore,

You forgot the part where they don’t need Wayland and its reduced features, because everything works fine in Xorg.

Stop pushing people towards Wayland, let it happen naturally when it will be ready and better, and they’ll come. Trying to force adoption will just make people resent it.

Where Are All The Bicycles?? (startrek.website)

I have an issue in general with scifi totally ignoring the existence of bicycles, but star trek is particularly fun to think about since in so many situations beaming down in an away team with electric mountain bicycles would be incredibly useful in a basic utilitarian sense. Like shuttles, bicycles could be treated as...

lemmyvore,

I’m always reminded of Star Trek when I’m watching… Bond movies. The smorgasbord of over-the-top tech he’s using and the casual manner in which he keeps pulling them out at the right moment feels like should be right at home in the Federation.

lemmyvore,

They won’t be automatically created but you can create your own swap file on /, no need for a dedicated partition:

  • Use dd to create a file filled with zeros of appropriate size.
  • Format the file with mkswap.
  • Activate the swap file instantly with swapon.
  • Add it to /etc/fstab so it will be automatically used on reboot.

Appropriate size will vary but I suggest starting with something like 100 MB and check once in a while to see how much is actually used. If it fills up you can replace it with a larger swap file or you can simply create another one and use it alongside the first.

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

lemmyvore,

I come across Windows-only apps very seldom, when it happens I run them in a VM. It’s usually stuff like proprietary config app for a mouse or keyboard.

Best lesser-known distribution/DE for low-end machines?

I know Debian and others can breathe life into older machines. But i wonder if there are any distros with serious optimizations that I haven’t heard of. I’ve already tried MX Linux on an old Thinkpad SL400, and didn’t see any difference from plain Debian....

lemmyvore,

It has a script called setup-xorg-base that will install the basic graphical support, and you can add a specific DE on top. For example.

lemmyvore,

scrcpy

Is a VPN needed with DNS over HTTPS and Encrypted Client Hello?

I was wondering if a VPN would add any kind of security or privacy if one is connecting to a host with a client/browser that supports DNS over HTTPS and that host supports encrypted client hello. Is there a way for the ISP or anything in between to shape traffic or even know what is being accessed? The only thing that should be...

lemmyvore,

To add to what the others have said, a VPN requires one end to authenticate to the other. Regular HTTP and DNS connections don’t.

If you need to access a service remotely, doing it over VPN requires the user to authenticate (to use the VPN).

If you simply expose the service publicly, even if the connection to it is encrypted, it doesn’t prevent random strangers from accessing it or trying to break in.

New to plex.....sometimes it loses track of my TV show?

Finally got back into sailing the high seas and, first thing i did after getting plex set up was get parks and rec since ive missed it so bad after it left netflix. Its great so far but occasionally it loses track of what ive watched and picks up in the middle of like 9 episodes back?...

lemmyvore,

Does Plex offer NAT traversal now? It wasn’t a thing last year.

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