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lemmyvore,

Proton has been gradually closing down access to proprietary apps only. After they’re done you won’t be able to take your email anywhere else.

If you have your own domain you’ll be able to host it elsewhere but you would leave behind email, calendar, aliases etc. and restarting from scratch.

At that point “encrypted” starts smelling more like “hostage”. It’s generally a bad idea to be tied down to a specific email provider.

You could wake up tomorrow to find out Proton has been acquired and the new owners can charge anything yet want for continued service.

Self-hosted VPN that can be accessed via browser extension

Currently I set up Tailscale in my Synology NAS and I can access selfhosted services on my phone using the Android app. I want to use some services in my work PC too but I’m blocked from installing any software. So my question is, is there any solution that allows me to connect to selfhosted VPN via browser extension? (Just...

lemmyvore,

Or you can use the CF Tunnel equivalent from Tailscale, called Funnel.

tailscale.com/blog/reintroducing-serve-funnel

lemmyvore,

There is an alternate verification method using an API key to your DNS provider, if it’s a supported one. That method doesn’t need any IP to be assigned (doesn’t care if there are A/AAAA records or where they point because it can verify the domain directly).

deSEC.io is a good example of a good, reputable and free DNS provider that additionally allows you to manage API keys. The catch is that they require you to enable DNSSEC (their mission is similar to Let’s Encrypt, but for DNS).

lemmyvore,

Wow you got that backwards. They don’t do any of that for the sake of Nouveau or Vulkan or Wayland or whatever. They don’t care what people use their open scraps for.

They open up the minimum they can get away with because it’s ultimately meaningless — their proprietary stuff is still hidden away and it’s not like you can use the parts they open with anything else.

This, btw, applies to AMD and Intel too. The only choice you get with proprietary hardware that you have to use (like GPUs) is whose dick you want to suck. They’re not your friend and they won’t let community pressure then into decisions.

lemmyvore,

Not everybody has the knowledge to deal with Linux. A product line TrueNAS or Unraid has a friendly GUI that can be used by a non-technical user.

lemmyvore,

if you use the same repository with multiple machines, they have to rebuild their index every time they switch

I’m a beginner with Borg so sorry in advance if I say something incorrect l. I backup the same files to multiple distinct external HDDs and my solution was to use distinct repos for each one. They have different IDs so the caches are different too. The include/exclude list is redundant but I can live with that.

lemmyvore, (edited )

A few years ago I wanted to get away from Ubuntu on my desktop PC so I sat down and considered about a dozen of the most recommended Linux distros install images.

My requirements were:

  • Image should be live so I could test it without installing.
  • Should work out of the box with everything I could think to throw at it: wifi, Bluetooth devices including controllers, network shares, play music/video out of the box, printing, audio devices on USB etc.
  • Easy to install and maintain. No need for brain-dead install or zero maintenance, I’m a seasoned Linux user and anyway I don’t want to be absurd, but I also don’t want to spend my spare time debugging or maintaining the desktop system. I have a server for that.
  • Recent packages and frequent updates, but stable.
  • Usable for everyday use, work (mostly Citrix and other forms of remote desktop) and of course gaming.
  • Rolling release.

Guess which distro ticked absolutely every single box.

Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)

Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.

lemmyvore,

Also this is the kind of issues Wayland will be facing now that it’s starting to see widespread adoption, issues that arise from more and more complex situations created by interconnecting more apps with it in more ways.

How the devs handle this will be crucial and imo it can make or break the project in the long run. It’s one thing to successfully run a hobby project at a small scale, it’s another to shoulder the entire Linux desktop for the foreseeable future. That’s the bar that X had to meet; if Wayland intends to be the Linux desktop it has to step up. “Not our problem, deal with it outside Wayland” will not do.

What's an elegant way of automatically backing up the contents of a large drive to multiple smaller drives that add up to the capacity of the large drive?

So I have a nearly full 4 TB hard drive in my server that I want to make an offline backup of. However, the only spare hard drives I have are a few 500 GB and 1 TB ones, so the entire contents will not fit all at once, but I do have enough total space for it. I also only have one USB hard drive dock so I can only plug in one...

lemmyvore,

It wouldn’t be so complicated to restore as long as they keep full paths and don’t split up subdirectories. But yeah, sounds like they’d need a custom tool to examine their dirs and do a solve a series of knapsack problems.

lemmyvore,

It would also require all the secondary drives to be connected at all times, wouldn’t it?

lemmyvore,

Securing the desktop protocol against keyloggers on Linux is like wearing a helmet when you’re walking down the street… yeah in theory it’s a good thing and would improve your safety, but it’s also wildly impractical and the things it protects you from are extremely unlikely.

And even if keyloggers were a huge everyday threat, you still have to allow for legit explicit uses of the technology (automation, accessibility etc.) But nah, they just said “we’re not implementing it at all”. What sense does that make?

lemmyvore,

Wayland on its own may be ready but you can’t build a whole desktop with just Wayland. The rest of the stack needs time to catch up.^(*) And no, not everybody is willing to use KDE and restrict themselves to whatever combination of elements happens to work right now.

^(*) Because the bright people who did this decided they needed to throw the baby out with the bathwater on X. They couldn’t possibly find a way to ditch only the obsolete parts and fix the problems and maintain compatibility as much as possible. No, everything had to be rewritten from scratch.

So here we are 15 years later, with another 5 or so to go until the whole Linux desktop ecosystem will be thoroughly redone.

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

lemmyvore,

It’s a dumping ground for new packages. Nobody makes any guarantees about it. It’s supposed to be used only as a staging area by developers.

It may happen to work when you install it or it may crash constantly. You don’t know.

lemmyvore,

Debian Stable is on 6.1.

Switching to Debian on my gaming pc

Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my...

lemmyvore,

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE 6) might also be a good fit for you.

lemmyvore,

Um, you really need to read the entire phrase and not pick out only what you want from it. 😃

Swap can make a system slower to OOM kill, since it provides another, slower source of memory to thrash on in out of memory situations

It means that if you try to use it as a source of memory, when you run out of actual RAM it will make your system almost completely unresponsive due to disk thrash, instead of allowing the kernel to just kill the process that’s eating your RAM. So you’ll just end up hard-booting system.

lemmyvore,

If what you describe were true it would make AUR packages fail (on any Arch distro) if the user failed to upgrade their system each time, every time an update came out. The two week delay practiced by Manjaro is a completely arbitrary period of timen in the grand scheme of things. There are users who only upgrade once a month or even more seldom and nothing like this happens to them.

lemmyvore,

I’m saying that your problems are with AUR not Manjaro. It’s entirely possible you stumbled across some AUR packages that at a given time didn’t play nice with the official packages. The AUR is huge, it can happen.

But it could have also happened on Arch proper, two weeks earlier, no? The official packages were the same at that time.

I think you were put off Manjaro because it happened while you were on it and if you were to try again it could be different. But once we catch a bias against something it’s hard to revisit it.

I’m biased against Ubuntu and love Debian, for example, even though I realize that my issues with Ubuntu had to do with the way .deb repositories work and could happen with Debian, or that done of the things I disliked were just defaults that I could (and did) change.

Ultimately it’s as much a question of chemistry or vibing with a distro as with anything, and sometimes it helps to move to another distro even if they’re closely related under the hood.

lemmyvore,

You can but there isn’t a lot of choice, Octopi is pretty much the only other pacman GUI besides Pamac that’s sufficiently fleshed out. All the others are either just package searchers or CLI-only.

And Manjaro also has the Manjaro Settings Manager, which includes the kernel management module and the hardware drivers management module.

lemmyvore, (edited )

If you’re going to install from source at least change the compile config options so the prefix defaults to /opt/program-name.

You can further integrate with the system by adding the /opt/program/bin/ and sbin/ dirs to the PATH variable, and add lib/ to /etc/ld.so.conf but it should not be needed normally — only if other programs need to compile against this one.

You can also simplify integration by making common dirs for example /opt/.bin and /opt/.lib, adding only those to PATH and ld, and symlinking binaries and libraries from all /opt programs to them.

lemmyvore,

Also even common stuff like Chromecast-ing will randomly break on Jellyfin and nobody can explain why.

lemmyvore,

Well you also get a fast cheque in exchange for that, right? 😸

lemmyvore,

There aren’t many options… you can either modify the share or you cannot. 🙂 Pick one.

lemmyvore,

I think it’s actually dead once they no longer support RHEL 9 and older.

That would be 2032.

lemmyvore,

Try putting the browser on fullscreen, see if that keeps the screen alive while playing.

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