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Anything beyond setting up a network-wide dns blocker on docker, so… crowdsec, fail2ban, some proxy-related stuff, zero trust tunnelers and so on.

Why? Because its overkill to my current setup and I don’t see myself using em for real other than for learning purposes, and thats it.

And before someone asks “Do you protect your server at all?”. Other than making some “hacky” stuff with my internet so all ports appear as closed whilst they actually aren’t? Eh, not really. Still, my server is about to reach a year of running nonstop 24/7 and it has never been hacked a single time since then, so naaaw.

GustavoM ,
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Nice job on not adding nothing relevant other than “(Folks that doesn’t like the same stuff as I do) are (buzzwords).” – you are not better than em.

GustavoM ,
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Mostly because the “reddit mentality” has already established in this community, where the downvote exists solely as a self-validation/“dopamine fix” feature rather than flagging a post as bad and irrelevant.

GustavoM ,
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Eh, archinstall is a thing nowadays – there is nothing to “learn” on arch anymore.

GustavoM ,
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Just install it via pip and then symlink its binary file to /usr/bin.

t. Am running a live stream 24/7 on my orange pi zero 3 (via ffplay/yt-dlp) since forever.

“Why not simply add $HOME/.local/bin to $PATH?”

Because it breaks things. While symlinking it does not.

“Why?”

No idea, honestly.

Also, you can take a step further and make a tmpfs partition @ $HOME/.local and then add the following line to your .bash_profile file: TMPDIR=$HOME/.local pip install --break-system-packages -I --no-input yt-dlp &&.

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Apparently pipx dislikes tmpfs partitions, so nah.

GustavoM ,
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Eh, it’s a tradeoff that I get in exchange of a longer microsd lifespan. Which I’m completely fine with.

GustavoM ,
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It’s like kissing that ugly girl in a party nobody wants to partake with – it’s useless and completely unnecessary… but oh boy it sure is fun!

GustavoM ,
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Even a fish can act like a dog if you try harder enough.

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Eh…

Ventoy (on a comically small external hd – 8 GiB) and retrogaming/backup-related files on a 1 TB one.

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Dietpi for me. It is meant for sbc’s, but it can (also) be installed on x86 pcs. And its focus is on minimalism – as much as possible.

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Looks comfy.

GustavoM ,
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For a second I thought it was “Road rash but with cars” until I realized that isn’t possible at all – specially on the sega genesis.

GustavoM ,
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Use Dietpi as your main distro, do a minimal install, install sway and then your usual stuff.

t. Got a orange pi zero 3 w/ 1GiB of ram, did exactly as my suggestion implies and everything works as intended.

GustavoM ,
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This is why I don’t care about privacy anymore and use whatever browser works better in my pc/sbc (brave) followed by a network ad-blocker solution (nextdns).

GustavoM ,
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I’ve no idea, honestly. Does it gives me more free time to worry about more important stuff however that will (very likely) not be changed over time by money-hungry developers with false promises of unachievable anonymity and/or privacy in their applications? That I can guarantee a reasonable YES.

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tl;dr: “Growing up sucks because it makes everything look the same old.”

I mean… yeah. That is why you have to stop wishing for “the same old” over and over again and embrace the new. And yes, I (also) think DRM has no other purpose than to hinder performance.

t. am (also) a 80’s “kid”.

Why do you still hate Windows?

I realize this is a Linux community, but I was wondering why you still hate Windows. I mean, I love Linux, but I will not argue that it’s more convenient to the average person in most use cases to use Windows, I recently had to switch back to Windows and I realized how convenient it all was and how I was missing so many things...

GustavoM ,
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I’m typing this from my orange pi zero 3 w/ dietpi installed… aaaaaaand I don’t really “hate”, but more like “not care about it anymore”. Sure, its privacy concerns are truly a nightmare, but eh. It’s good to have options, that’s all. Even if one said “options” can be more harmful than good.

GustavoM ,
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Even a potato can run linux if you try hard(er) enough.

GustavoM ,
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It may feel tasty and great today… but it (definitely) won’t feel great as much in the future. Have some respect on yourself and drink something healthy instead – there are better ways to have fun than that.

That aside, Debian can be very user friendly just like any other distro – I say go for it.

GustavoM ,
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Nah, that’s a preconfigured distro.

GustavoM ,
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Not really a “anti malware” per se, but you can always set up a separate linux device (like a orange pi zero 3) and set it up as a network ad blocker with nextdns (which apparently it can be (also) a “anti malware” – which I haven’t tested if it is legit or not, but eh.).

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For me, arm has already “won” this debacle – convenience > performance all day errday.

GustavoM ,
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To use (and enjoy) Linux properly, you’ve got to “unlearn” several things including the bad habit of expect everything to “just werk”. If you are expecting to “double click your cares away” on Linux, then it’s (very) likely you’ll be disappointed.

With that aside, your best bet is to go for Linux Mint and not Arch Linux.

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tl;dr:


<span style="color:#323232;">dnf list installed > $anydir/meow
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On new computer, with fedora installed and the meow file;


<span style="color:#323232;">dnf install $(cat $anydir/meow)
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GustavoM ,
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No love for the aarch64 eh?

Aw, dangit.

GustavoM ,
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Ah, yes… the perfect example of “Everything I don’t like is Hitler” and “If you type 666 you’ll become Satan!”.

GustavoM ,
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You are in an environment where the downvote button exists as a self-validation/relief method rather than flagging off-topic/unrelated/low-effort/etc content as “bad”.

GustavoM ,
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If the game offers me a possibility of doing (something) for a (reward) – I will do it if it is fun and engaging, not because of the reward alone. Which (somewhat) makes “the game play me”, but hey… this can (also) be applied at every other situation in real life as well.

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One word:

Recall.

GustavoM ,
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The majority are simpletons which (also) love simple stuff. That’s why.

GustavoM ,
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A “ez” solution would be simply stay on Windows and leave Linux as a novelty. A somewhat complicated solution – double booting (apparently Windows can be a privacy nightmare even while dual-booting). A quite hard one would be installing Linux and running Windows on a VM with GPU passthrough. The “are you bleeping kidding me?” approach would be buying another PC just to run Linux while leaving your “main” PC for Windows.

“Is there a sane approach for this?” – yep, there is! Which is, buying a console and use it solely for gaming while leaving your main PC for daily browsing and everything else (i.e Linux).

GustavoM ,
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Orange pi zero 3 is arm-based and can be really viable for daily usage if you are into tinkering.

GustavoM ,
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In a serious tone:

Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.

GustavoM ,
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I use both nano and vim, so eh

GustavoM ,
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Is it possible to use Linux without the command line? Yes. Should you do it? Definitely not.

GustavoM ,
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I’m typing this on my rpi 4 w/ 2GiB (with three tabs open on my brave browser w/ also a youtube video playing on the background) and its good enough as is for daily tasks.

GustavoM ,
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A contrarian take, but nextdns. It may not block youtube ads, but eeeh it works really well for most cases.

GustavoM ,
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Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro?

No. Gaming distro is a “regular” distro preconfigured for gaming.

Is it possible to parse a rss reader through ffplay?

Title. Basically, a lower panel that shows the latest news, etc (fetched from a rss link or a sequence of rss links) while scrolling left (ala CNN). Why? I’m trying to make a “smart clock” of sorts that shows a live stream, a real time clock and -also- the latest news – all crumbled together in a single screen....

GustavoM OP ,
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Thank you for your explanation, but what I had in mind “in depth” was to “store” the latest news acquired from a rss link into a variable (say, $NEWS), and then display it all way down with -vf drawtext=text=“‘’$NEWS’:fontsize=etc:other:attributes” followed by a scroll effect (to the left)… which I’m pretty sure its possible, but I don’t know which package is appropriate for the former.

GustavoM OP , (edited )
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Yes! This is more like it. Thank you.

Now to figure out a package that acquires the latest news out of a rss link and prints it in the cli.

GustavoM ,
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ZorinOS > Ubuntu > Debian and then Arch. I even tried Alpine linux recently but got “filtered” by the lack of gpu packages. Looks like I need to get my “googling” improved a bit.

GustavoM ,
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“I don’t value my time. I value my braincells.”

– Me, every time someone says the “…value your time” argument.

GustavoM ,
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In a nutshell,

Zorin > Ubuntu > Debian > Arch, while (always) pestering google about trivial stuff, “How do I install something on Linux?” – “Oh look! A package manager! Which package manager is the best?” – “Distros have their specific packages? Cool!”, etc.

My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...

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Just tell him, “Give Linux another shot when you are bored.”.

t. Used to be a Windows tryhard w/ baby duck syndrome, told myself exactly this. Took me a while, but I became a penguin a couple years after.

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Eh, just you wait until Bill implements AI into it and/or a xz-like backdoor and then says its “for your own good”.

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