GustavoM

GustavoM , 9 months ago

A bit off-topic, but why do many self hosting-related stuff tries to “reinvent the wheel” so to speak with things that exists even on smart tvs nowadays? Even then, who is gonna edit videos (for example) on a smart tv? “Oopsie, time to get my mouse and keyboard and do some heavy video editing on my TV!”

@ontopic, eh. btop is enough for me as well. Maybe glances if I’m feeling “haxxor” enough. :^)

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Eh, I see your point.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Just “man up” and do a minimal install of (any distro you want), and (manually) install the things you want via the package manager.

…no really. All it takes is two commands (one to search for the package you want, and the another one to install it).

“b-buh its my first ti–”

DO IT

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Armbian.

why

It comes ready for daily usage “out of the box”.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Don’t know why folks are downvoting you, but you aren’t wrong.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Yey! I can’t wait to meet my perfect match from this completely random and totally suspicious bot from an completely unknown location!

GustavoM , 9 months ago

“Dad! How do I find a perfect girlfriend?”

“You just have to wait for a random bot from an unknown, doubtful place/location to do that for you my son.”

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Eh, I don’t do anything illicit on the internet neither work at NASA or any other high-security-related job… so I’m in the “Lol” side of this whole story.

Compile your commands, kids.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

You make it sound like all distros are paid, not free. With that said… all distros can deliver the same quality as you’d expect out of a “stable OS”. Still, theres Nobara, Linux Mint, ZorinOS and Garuda for your “noob-friendly” needs.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

HoloISO if you -REALLY- want to have a “steamdeck-like” experience. Unless if you mean “steam focused” as in “gaming focused”…? Then (pretty much) any distro you want – as long as its a minimal install. Tweak it to your needs, make steam run when you log in. And thats it.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

cp -r to an external drive. And cp -r back in case something goes wrong.

I know, it’s boring and no way “modern”. But hey, it works and it does not require internet access!

GustavoM , 9 months ago

I remember the first time I managed to run Doom outside of the usual “point-and-click mentality” on ZorinOS. It felt like I went back to the DOS era where I had to do the good ol’ SETUP.EXE to setup the soundcard, etc. But yeah – you’ve got to let go your “do it for me” mentality and start to get used to do the stuff yourself. But it gets easier when you get used to it.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP, LADS! ITS FINALLY HA-

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GustavoM , 9 months ago

It seems that Debian-rock64.img is an armhf image (i.e 32 bits) and Debian-arm64.img is (obviously) an 64 bit image… so go for the latter if your board has 8 GiB ram and up and the former if 4 GiB ram and under.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Buy a rpi 4 and use it to do a livestream of (pretty much anything you want).

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Like I said, anything you want. Just get creative.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

tl;dw: “If it does not deliver the exact same experience as Windows = don’t bother.”

Yeah…no.

t. Have 0 issues with the mentioned “issues” in the video. I use arch btw. :^)

GustavoM , 9 months ago

There might be a chance for false-positives. Or to just clog your dns responses with repetitive queries.

Then again, you don’t need more than a HaGeZi blocklist anyway.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Neither. Nextdns can block ads plus much more.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

All distros are exactly the same. Theres no such thing as a “distro for experienced users”. With that said, just do a minimal install of (pretty much anything you want).

GustavoM , 9 months ago

There is being careful, and there is “The sky is emitting a weird tone of blue. Am I going to die?” kind of “being careful”.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Chrono Trigger for the “trippy” story.

Pretty much any NES game for the “gamer” soundtrack (beep bops.)

GustavoM OP , 9 months ago

For a second I really thought there was “something else” behind the “nobody” user – considering its a “typically suggested” user to be used within docker containers (even in some “known” commands/Dockerfiles). So all I need to do then to create a user with the least amount of privileges is to not give it a home directory and a shell? Eh.

Thanks a lot nonetheless.

GustavoM OP , 9 months ago

That was masterfully explained. Once again, thanks a lot.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

It was a “hidden feature”, pretty much.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

It used to be a lot back then. Right now? Not really.

t. Got a Orange pi zero 3 w/ 1 GiB of ram and the performance is really great.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Not going to happen. Money is good, but we are too addicted to freedom already.

Even if it happened for whatever reason, that’d make most users fall back to “vanilla” versions of Linux.

GustavoM , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Eh… for home servers, when you want to take a quick glance at the files (maybe you are running a script that copies files around after some time…?). Then again, I don’t really find em useful when I have ls -al shoved inside my brain. It’s (kind of) “second nature” at this point.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Lookin’ great! Can’t wait to play w/ it.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d3916df4-b33d-4098-a1bf-d04b68d7c4fb.webm

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Nobara if you want to “install-and-forget”.

Any non-Ubuntu-based distro, minimal install if you don’t mind tweaking.

but why not Ubuntu

For some reason it likes to slip some unsolicited bloatware in – no idea why.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

“Honey! Our TV isn’t showing up channels!”

“Gee, fine. Hold on.”

<span style="color:#323232;">ssh [email protected]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cd /sys/devices/tv/channels
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cat channels_list
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[none]
</span>

Ah, *beep.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

“Aw ye!Drink me! I’m so reeeeeeady! :D”

GustavoM , 9 months ago

“Um…wow. Uwu. That was pretty ho— grrlrlrlrguh-g-g-guuuh…”

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Theres a free to play MMORPG called FFXIV with a free and unlimited trial that can get you sorted. But if you really, REALLY want to meet new folks (only)… then your best bet is to hit a nearby bar, grab a seat, drink and do some small talk with random folk.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

kibi master race

GustavoM , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Really good stuff.

-EDIT- I went ahead and “dockerized” it. :^)

GustavoM , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Pretty sure it won’t leak (I used gcc under musl to compile it with a few safeguard flags).Still, its a fun little experience to (at least try to) dockerize everything. :p

GustavoM , 9 months ago

I’ve got a very simple rule for this.

If it doesn’t affect my mood in any way and/or affects it negatively (before/while playing)? Then I stop playing and go for the next one.

And yes, this also goes for “muh childhood” games.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Why not? It’s comically easy to set up one.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

…or you could opt for other ways to improve your PC performance. For instance, using equal values for both scaling_max_freq and scaling_min_freq gives you a quite considerable performance boost at the expense of (almost) nothing.

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Eh…I see your point.

GustavoM , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Your SSD: *steps on a lego

Plasma: “I’m sorry, sir… your death is imminent.”

GustavoM , 9 months ago

…isn’t this quite obvious? You will become lazy if you have a lazy life and avoid anything that requires any amount of effort. You will become (negative aspect) if you have a (negative aspect) life and avoid anything (add positive aspect here).

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Should have called it “Doggo in a deep thought state”

GustavoM , 9 months ago

Really good =/= popular software, so…

github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software