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Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer
  • @0x4E4F @Auli I think it's a bit more like, "We're banning specific named individuals from being maintainers because they work for companies on an international sanctions list."

  • From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start
  • @zutto @warlaan Searching about, this was Plex banning the use of Plex on Hetzner's IP block, right? Not a decision made by Hetzner?

  • How much uplink Internet speed needed for flawless remote Jellyfin watching (2-3 people at the same time, no 4K).
  • @Moneo @SigHunter Networking came to be when there were lots of different implementations of a 'byte'. The PDP-10 was prevalent at the time the internet was being developed for example, which supported variable byte lengths of up to 36-bits per byte.

    Network protocols had to support every device regardless of its byte size, so protocol specifications settled on bits as the lowest common unit size, while referring to 8-bit fields as 'octets' before 8-bit became the de facto standard byte length.

  • China orders telcos to rip out American chips by 2027
  • @refalo @yogthos China has a single CPU manufacturer with an x86 licence, Zhaoxin. Their offerings don't rival AMD or Intel upper end, but they've been around for ages and are widely used in China.

  • Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46
  • @FrankTheHealer @KarnaSubarna Setting displays to run at 144Hz has worked for ages. VRR is a different feature, where the display's refresh rate syncs to the framerate being pushed to it by your OS. Most environments have supported that for ages too, but some things haven't. Mutter moving to support it is a big step toward it being universally available.

  • Another successful OpenBSD setup
  • @madcaesar @otl It's a small server running OpenBSD, configured to operate as a router and/or firewall.

    Linux and the *BSDs can operate as very good routers and firewalls, usually being much more configurable and enabling you to do more complex than off-the-shelf consumer-level hardware routers. Using them on a small form factor computer with a cheap switch in front of them can give you a better performing and nicer to use alternative.

  • Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend?
  • @flashgnash Yep, just once to transfer the terminfo files and resolve this.

    The SSH kitten is pretty useful though. If you use it in combination with kitty's --single-instance mode, you can start new kitty windows in the same SSH session without logging in again using its shared connection feature. Hugely convenient for how I work at least.

  • Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend?
  • @flashgnash @Laser Connecting once with its ssh kitten resolves this by uploading appropriate terminfo files to the user's directory.

  • PSA: Bluetooth vulnerability and PS3 Controllers on Linux in 2024
  • @rutrum @jntesteves I have that controller. It's the best controller I've used β€” I greatly prefer it to my Series X controller.

    The back paddle buttons don't work for me with SteamInput in XInput mode though. Reading around, I think that's independent of Linux and a limitation of the firmware on them though.

  • tell me your experience using zfs/btrfs
  • @unhinge I run a simple 48TiB zpool, and I found it easier to set up than many suggest and trivial to work with. I don't do anything funky with it though, outside of some playing with snapshots and send/receive when I first built it.

    I think I recall reading about some nuance around using LUKS vs ZFS's own encryption back then. Might be worth having a read around comparing them for your use case.

  • What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?
  • @jordanlund @fl42v I *think* this one could be recoverable if they had a terminal still active by using the dynamic loader to call chmod β€” or by booting from a liveCD and chmodding from there.

    That'd likely get you to a 'working' state quickly, but it'd take forever to get back to a 'sane' state with correct permissions on everything.

  • What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?
  • @fl42v I have thousands from my early days, but my only recent-ish one was pretty funny.

    On an Arch install that hadn't been updated for a while, in a rush, had an app that needed OpenSSL 3. Instead of updating the whole system, I just updated the openssl package.

    *Everything* broke immediately. Turns out a lot of stuff depends on openssl. Who knew?

    To fix, booted to the arch installer, chrooted into my env, and reverted to the previous version of the package β€” then updated properly.

  • Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times
  • @squidspinachfootball @marcos Syncthing syncs. It does one way syncs, but if your workflow is complex and depends on one way syncs that's probably not what you want.

    Sync things between operational systems, then replicate to nonoperational systems, and backup to off site segregated systems.

  • Which is your preferred smartwatch/fitness tracker?
  • @cinaed666 @twotone I also have the Forerunner 55.

    Something to note is that Garmin watches are Linux-friendly and can be used without signing up to their cloud services. You can access the watch as a USB storage device and manually grab the .FIT files on it, which you can then import into tools of your choice (or convert to .GPX for wider compatibility).

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  • @anteaters @Anaralah_Belore223 I bet there are smart refrigerators out there that run Linux.

  • Spear alignment chart
  • @PugJesus I do not know with what weapons the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sea urchins, hedgehogs, and porcupines.

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