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luthis, to linux in Enabling Bluetooth on Arch Linux

Plex, CUPS (printing services), Minecraft servers, VPN, file sharing, DHCP/DNS/Wifi, bluetooth are some examples of basic level things systemd can help regular users manage.

Systemd goes far beyond that too.

luthis, to linux in Package up and transport a linux?

It’s really hard to [accidentally] permanently break Linux to the point of requiring a reinstall.

Here’s a really good tip: Keep a live distro (I use Mint) on a USB drive. If something real bad happens, you can boot into the live distro, and chroot into your OS and do the repairs you need. While also having a live distro with web access and a browser to help.

I broke my GRUB once (or twice) and fixed it again this way.

Keep a backup of your /boot folder, GRUB (or equivalent) configs, etc, also check documentation on Arch wiki for boot process. 99.9% of the time you should be able to fix things to at least get to a TTY after boot.

luthis, to linux in Package up and transport a linux?

Do you know if there is a way to generate a ansible playbook based on your current deployment state?

Or do you need to painstakingly manually code every unique facet of your system into the playbook?

luthis, to newcommunities in Feminine Boys - A text based SFW community for discussion on the Femboy experience

trying to insist that a femboy (or any other GNC person) must be trans

luthis, to newcommunities in Feminine Boys - A text based SFW community for discussion on the Femboy experience

GNC person

Gender non-conforming.

luthis, to newcommunities in Feminine Boys - A text based SFW community for discussion on the Femboy experience

“Specifically no calling people eggs, also known informally as egging.”

What the hell is egging??

luthis, to linux in Enabling Bluetooth on Arch Linux

Systemd is amazing. Every user should at least know the basics.

luthis, to linux in Enabling Bluetooth on Arch Linux

There is an archinstall script??

luthis, to linux in Why does the new version of Kubuntu take longer to start the wifi connection?

True, but for this purpose it’s totally fine.

There’s also a big disclaimer at the top of the file:

cat grub.cfg

DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE

It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates

from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub

Wording could probably be less DOOM SHALL BEFALL YE, as long as you aren’t messing around and just adding logging it’s not an issue.

More info on grub here: wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB

luthis, (edited ) to linux in Why does the new version of Kubuntu take longer to start the wifi connection?

systemd-analyze plot > boottimes.svg

Open the SVG and have a look at what’s happening during boot.

journalctl -b will give you some more info too. If you’re using grub to boot (probably in /boot/grub/grub.cfg), you can change the loglevel and add the udev option to get a bunch more info. Helped me with a random issue recently. Here’s mine for an example:


<span style="color:#323232;">### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
</span><span style="color:#323232;">menuentry 'Arch Linux' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-a96b3354-70dd-45ed-8c6c-95171e9f1e82' {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	load_video
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	set gfxpayload=keep
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	insmod gzio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	insmod part_gpt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	insmod ext2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root a96b3354-70dd-45ed-8c6c-95171e9f1e82
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	echo	'Loading Linux linux ...'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=a96b3354-70dd-45ed-8c6c-95171e9f1e82 rw  loglevel=3 udev.log-priority=debug 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	initrd	/boot/amd-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux.img
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>
luthis, to linux in What do you think about this?

I’ve been using Arch for years and can’t pull myself away because everything just works. Whats the difference between arch and whatever the derivatives are? I don’t even know what distros to arch are the Ubuntu / mint to debian

luthis, to linux in How to exclude SSH port from VPN so you can remote access while VPN is up

No it’s the second one; server (home pc) is running ProtonVPN and there is a default route that makes all (ie ssh replies) traffic go through the VPN.

I added some clarification, but basically this sets up a port-based default route to the home router instead of the VPN, so that SSH etc works.

luthis, to linux in How to exclude SSH port from VPN so you can remote access while VPN is up

Woooah awesome thanks!

There goes my whole day again on systemd…

luthis, (edited ) to linux in How to exclude SSH port from VPN so you can remote access while VPN is up

I was surprised to learn this was a thing, impressive, however;

‘the VPN app sends a request to the VPN server to open a random port’

‘the active port number will change when you disconnect and reconnect the VPN.’

This will not work OOTB with Plex for example, you would need to change the port in the app every time. It becomes difficult to serve anything statically, like a XMPP server or anything that doesn’t let you configure the port.

You also would need to be at home to check which port you’ve been assigned eg if the connection drops and you get assigned a new port, defeating the whole ‘remote access’ thing.

luthis, to linux in What happens when Linus dies/retires?

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