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TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

It’s usually “it’s good enough for us, so that’s where we’ll leave it”, and they end up with these weird solutions that only they use.

Exactly. And to make things even worse then you’ve people upstream (Debian) or sidestream (other distros) that eventually decide to implement whatever they did but properly and then they go there, pick it and replace their original implementation.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in What should I use my RPi4 for?

First, you should something decent, not DietPi. You’ve Armbian for a ready to go experience or official Debian.

Once you get into something Debian 12, you can run LXD/LXC as a containerization / virtualization solution and use the same Pi to run the official HA VM image and whatever else you would like.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

Ubuntu because they’ve the ability to great things and end up just delivering a buggy and mangled version of Debian with proprietary crap, spyware, snaps wtv. After all we’re talking about the distro that had ISOs on their download page with a broken installer multiple times.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

Debian is a great desktop distro if you get your software using Flatpak, as anyone should be doing in every distro.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Noob question about PiHole

Well, I’m not sure you read the other comments but there is confirmation that for clients there isn’t an order for DNS servers from RFC2182:

The distinction between primary and secondary servers is relevant only to the servers for the zone concerned, to the rest of the DNS there are simply multiple servers.

All are treated equally at first instance, even by the parent server that delegates the zone. Resolvers often measure the performance of the various servers, choose the “best”, for some definition of best, and prefer that one for most queries.

TCB13 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to selfhosted in Noob question about PiHole

A number of problems in DNS operations today are attributable to poor choices of secondary servers for DNS zones

That RFC is about DNS servers in the context of DNS zones in domain names. Not for a DNS client running DNS queries like an operating system. And the RFC is very clear about this:

The distinction between primary and secondary servers is relevant only to the servers for the zone concerned, to the rest of the DNS there are simply multiple servers.

For your Windows, Linux whatever machine “there are simply multiple DNS servers”.

Which defines/influences how resolvers behave with multiple DNS servers.

It doesn’t. As I said in another comment “most operating systems will just load balance or opportunistically pick between the two”, and there’s the relevant part from the RFC:

All are treated equally at first instance, even by the parent server that delegates the zone. Resolvers often measure the performance of the various servers, choose the “best”, for some definition of best, and prefer that one for most queries.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Noob question about PiHole

mary DNS Server: Clients will first attempt to use the primary DNS server specified in their network settings. This ser

What’s the point tho? If your PiHole fails you need to know otherwise you could be risking days / months of web surfing in the fallback DNS server without even noticing it.

As for a reply, there’s no RFC that specifies that a specific order is applied to DNS servers. So in short, you can’t have a fallback that is reliable and most operating systems will just load balance or opportunistically pick between the two.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Noob question about PiHole

There’s no RFC that specifies that a specific order is applied to DNS servers.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to programmerhumor in `zsh`, `ksh`, `bash`, and obviously `sh`

Why do people keep creating new shells when bash is mostly okay?

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

What happened in the past was lazy developers cutting corners and effetely copying code and thinking that by switching a few variable names and the order of some operators they would get around the problem.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

Good luck proving that.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

Guess not, we’re just wasting lemmy’s resources :P

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/68158a59-d3e5-45b5-8d29-d74c07b085f4.webp

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

Well I can’t spend all my time trying to fix ridiculous issues that would’ve been fixed by now if people had the balls to look at Windows XP source code…

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

Oh yes, I value and like Linux a LOT… just not for desktop as it doesn’t deliver as everyone says it does. To be fair I believe that only someone who values Linux as much as I do would be comfortable to criticize what’s wrong with it.