TCB13

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Does anyone know how to execute a script when a certain sound plays?

Modern problems require overkill solutions :P

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to memes in There is zero need for millions of office drones to be on the road daily.

Only if the environmental narrative was cohesive and consistent lol.

If govts really cared about the environment they would push companies into remote working as much as possible instead of pushing for electric cars that are a hazard to the planet.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to technology in Apples4Ceasefire: Apple Employees Request Ceasefire Recognition

Okay, if you think so. lol

TCB13 , 3 months ago to technology in Apples4Ceasefire: Apple Employees Request Ceasefire Recognition

The situation in Palestine is horrible, but Apple isn’t going to be able to do anything about it.

+1, private companies that are not involved directly with a conflict have nothing to do with it. The thing the OP posted is complete bullshit. Besides this “issue” is a very polarized political bs stunt and both sides are essentially worse the other and no saints whatsoever.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04

If you really want everything to go on flatpak why not just use Debian + GNOME? No bullshit and you’ll be able to have flathub inside the GNOME software “store”.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in Moving away from Nextcloud AIO, where do I start setting up a Nextcloud instance WITHOUT Docker?

^this. Never run on SQLite.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in Moving away from Nextcloud AIO, where do I start setting up a Nextcloud instance WITHOUT Docker?

It can be run in any LAMP stack, after all NC is just a PHP app. The thing is that no matter the setup NC will always be a pile of bugs and misbehave like nothing else.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in We get it, it hit 4%

My main point is that the main thing that is going for Windows, is not any sort of Objectively Higher Quality design,

That’s my original point: Windows isn’t objectively better but is isn’t as bad as people paint most of the time.

but it’s current popularity. Similar points for Adobe software and MS Office. On the other hand, Autodesk software for Engineering CAD does have a Objective upper hand, which cannot be trumped by just people one day deciding to shift to FOSS.

What makes Windows win over the market effectively is 1) popularity driven by more users, 2) specialized software that you can’t find for Linux and 3) a development ecosystem that’s hard to replicate elsewhere.

But… there are a lot of industry specific use cases where Adobe and MS Office still have the upper hand. We can’t for, instance, get a replacement Office with an MS Project that does all the cool things between it, Excel and Dynamics NAV to provider a solution for project management across an entire business. After all we’re talking about a cross-application solution that is capable of going from checklists, reports, Gantt and Kanban to feeding information in an out the ERP taking data from accounting, RH, manufacturing, logistics to through sales. We can try (and I would like to see it that way) to replicate it with other tools but the level of pain and development time is way too big.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

Fair enough.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in N100 Mini PC w/ 3xNVMe?

A mini pc from a reputable brand second hand is certainty more constant than aliexpress.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad as USB Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for ZFS

Thanks for the feedback! It does seem to be very deep in there.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to selfhosted in VPS provider Vultr Claims Rights to Sell Your Data & Programs

This is the first time there’s an issue with Vultr and their explanation is perfectly reasonable. If this was happening with Oracle or Amazon I would be worried indeed but not with this smaller company that most likely just fucked up without any malicious intent.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad as USB Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for ZFS

Great analysis, can you share photos of the power supply PCB? That’s usually a weak point on those kinds of units and also the reason why disks fail often - cheap power supplies that don’t properly filter power spikes and you hard drives burn.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in VPS provider Vultr Claims Rights to Sell Your Data & Programs

Yes, writing ToS for a Cloud provider is hard. Someone mixed a few documents and this mess happened, get over it, Vultr doesn’t have the size nor the resources to go over your VPS storage looking for interesting data.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in We get it, it hit 4%

n my last workplace, there had been more loss of productivity from the Windows computers being stuck for hours in a reboot loop, than from any Linux problems and that was when there were 60% Linux machines.

From your description it seems you had a very inept IT department on that company so, things are expected to fail - most likely a poorly managed AD without any policies running out of the box Windows installations… Linux can’t even be compared because for what’s worth the typical Linux user knows how to deal with issues on his own and/or isn’t stupid enough to mess the system like the average office using Windows worker is.

Yes, Windows is bad, but one thing I know for sure, a decent admin is capable of using group policy is all it takes to have reliable Windows machines. Picking a specific brands and models may help as well as cheap and diverse machines are less predictable thus a big factor when it comes to failure.

I’m not the Microsoft fan you may think I am, in fact I try to avoid it as much as possible - even when that means using macOS :( - but I’ve seen about everything from the startup that does no IT management to the large bank that only buys HP/Dell and applies very strict policies on everything. What I can say for that is that once you’re dealing with hundreds of the same managed machine with the right policies it is really next to impossible to see Windows failing. And Microsoft actually documents things properly because their big companies demand them to do so. You can read that and disable every piece of garbage that comes along with Windows 10/11 and your system will not fail.

if run on Windows. But from my exp, everything is slow on Windows, so the ppl not complaining about their Windows being slow,

Windows isn’t slow, it is just that maybe the garbage that people add to it or their unbranded toaster from 15 years ago is the problem. Although you can argue that Linux is faster in some contexts don’t forget that people running Linux usually are more aware of what’s a good computer and also tend to pick better hardware than the average joe.

Linux as a desktop is slow as well, GNOME relies on web technologies to render a UI, the lag when launching applications is noticeable… for instance on my i7-8550U laptop GNOME is always slower than Windows because you can’t just make a DE that is a half baked browser to perform as fast as something native. Yes, I can opt for KDE or Xfce that are way faster but that’s beside the point because then on those “slow” Windows machines you can also install Windows 7 and they’ll be fast.

Even with KDE if I pick a i3 1st gen (2010) and load with the latest Debian or Fedora KDE it will be slow, as much as with a debloated Windows 11. Obviously that if I take Windows 7 or Debian 5 (both from 2009) they’ll both be very fast.

Another anecdote with advanced Networking options. Doing anything out of the mainstream for networking stuff is way easier on Linux for me (…) how much better it is to have high quality terminal applications with man pages, rather than the mess of Windows System Settings.

I see your point, but this isn’t correct. Windows since Powershell and Windows Terminal isn’t what you think it is. Let me give you a typical network task, changing a VLAN for testing on Windows:

<span style="color:#323232;">Get-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty "Ethernet 2" -DisplayName "VLAN ID"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty "Ethernet 2" -DisplayName "VLAN ID" -DisplayValue 55 # set the network card to VLAN 55
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Reset-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty "Ethernet 2" -DisplayName "VLAN ID" # Reset back to no VLAN tag
</span>

Want to set a static IP for some config? Sure:

<span style="color:#323232;">Get-NetIPInterface -InterfaceAlias "Ethernet 2" -AddressFamily "IPv4" | Set-NetIPInterface -Dhcp Disabled
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Get-NetIPInterface -InterfaceAlias "Ethernet 2" -AddressFamily "IPv4" | New-NetIPAddress -AddressFamily "IPv4" -IPAddress "192.168.97.100" -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 192.168.97.182
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Get-NetIPInterface -InterfaceAlias "Ethernet 2" -AddressFamily "IPv4" | Set-NetIPInterface -Dhcp Enable # back to DHCP
</span>

Want to automate the installation of a bunch of software? Sure, no need to ever click “next” again:

<span style="color:#323232;">winget install -e --id VideoLAN.VLC
</span><span style="color:#323232;">winget install -e --id eloston.ungoogled-chromium
</span><span style="color:#323232;">winget install -e --id Joplin.Joplin
</span><span style="color:#323232;">winget install -e --id KeePassXCTeam.KeePassXC
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span>

See, not that hard.

For example, setting up a new docker image; stuff requiring other dependencies; internet telling them to use apt and then me reminding them to use yum. All the stuff that comes with people predominantly having used Windows and having no idea about Linux.

Yes, because that people that came from Windows expect that the setup of a program to be something reasonable, not the mess of dependencies and different technologies that we’ve on Linux. Having a GUI setup that is essentially clicking next until you reach the end is way more user friendly than the docker hype. There’s GNOME Software and all but again not everyone packages for it (in the same way that not everyone packages to the Microsoft store) and since there isn’t a culture of GUI installer for Linux things become way more complex for the end user. Apple even goes further with their typical “drag application to the Applications folder” and done.

The larger number of options and alternatives on Linux while great actually work against the end user, because as you said, people get confused.