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TCB13 , 5 months ago

Accurate af.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

I can’t use Windows on it, because the Intel HD Graphics drivers are no longer maintained and all versions compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 have a regression that disables the internal display - there’s nothing you can do about it, they only run on external monitors.

I find this very hard to believe, Intel HD is the most common piece of shit iGPU out there, generations of cheap and expensive machines come with it.

Did you try Debian? Maybe the standard version will do it, or the mac ISO “for older machines”: cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/…/iso-cd/

TCB13 , 5 months ago

If this is the 64 bit system on a 32 bit EFI issue, then the “mac” image of Debian will work fine. It was specifically made for those machines.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Yes, and any of those are already providing their own engines or they’re still all Apple’s WebKit?

TCB13 , 5 months ago

To bloat things, to lower the bar to newcomers, to appease the business goals of large cloud companies and eventually to provide some isolation, security and create stateless environments: lemmy.world/comment/8341439

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Just look at landscape around here and other “selfhosting” boards and you’ll see what I’m saying.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Your choice, you’re the one believing that 100% of the people using Docker are as proficient and you and me and use it the right reasons. Guess what, they don’t.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Eventually people will ask the sabe about Go… Rust seems to be on the path of success thought.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Transmission :P

If you’re having issues with Transmission most likely the problem is in another thing… like an hard drive or some other piece of software.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Tell me something, what’s the state of those torrents?

TCB13 , 5 months ago

From what I got online that computer has either an Intel or MediaTek PCIe Wifi card, both of them should be supported out of the box by Windows. Also you aren’t required to install GPU drivers manually, just run Windows Update and it will pull the driver including the Nvidia panel for you.

I do not understand why we still have this image that Windows is noob friendly, it’s such a convoluted obfuscated process to do anything.

Because it is as long as you don’t fuck things up because you think you know better. Just use Windows update to pull GPU drivers… or download what Acer says is for your computer on their support page… cheap ass hardware that shouldn’t even be on the market doesn’t help either.

TCB13 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

it grabs the correct drivers for you (I think? I don’t use windows anymore).

Yes it does grab the right things without fail. Hardware identification is trivial at this point, all have their IDs.

windows would install one for you But not the correct one for your card, it would install a generic one, so you have some amount of 2d/3d support. You could get the correct resolution for your HD monitor, or watch videos without stuttering, bit it did not give you the full 3d support for your card. So gaming wouldn’t work well.

Yes, I remember those times, but we’re past that.

Nowadays it is usually better to let Windows grab drivers for you because it will grab the driver and no other extra crap. A lot of devices come with useless bundled software and Microsoft is very strict when it comes to installing software with the drivers - they only do it for GPUs, sound cards and a couple exceptions - guess that Microsoft now wants an monopoly on who can install crapware in your system as well :P

There are a few exceptions to this, special hardware that isn’t properly registered on the Windows Update catalog and Windows won’t pull drivers, for those cases people should head into the support page of their device and download drivers from there. Some brands may also make this easier, for instance HP has a tool that will detect your machine model and download and install the required drivers.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

The current censorship of media companies and stream services is a much bigger threat to the preservation of media than digital decaying could ever be.

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago

Close to no cell service in the location, let alone optic fiber or any other means. Stuck with an analog landline that does ADSL at around 3.5 Mbps.

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago

Motorola SM56

This is what the documentation says:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/820c975b-acb7-4c85-a040-49a1f35640f4.png

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago

I found this one but it seems to do the opposite of what I need.

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago

I’d still start by calling your provider and see what they think. They might jump at the chance to get rid of an old analog line.

Tried that route, they offered us a free cellphone line for a month and the thing was working around 2-3 hours a day around the middle of the day. They simply gave up and told me that they didn’t have other options on that location.

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago

Thanks for the tip, that model clearly says it supports it… then there’s www.grandstream.com/products/…/ht813 that should work but the wording on the website isn’t that clear.

Even if overkill I guess I’ll go with the HT318. Thanks.

TCB13 OP , 5 months ago

Well I don’t need 8 ports :P

TCB13 , 5 months ago

The lack of padding is disturbing.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Trust Me, I’m an Engineer!

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Yes Thunderbird is getting really nice nowadays.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

“After years of pushing their proprietary and closed solutions to privacy minded people Proton decided that it was in their best interest to further bury said users into their service as a form of vendor lock-in. To achieve this they made more non-standard desktop clients for their groupware features (contacts and calendars) and the bridge will be discontinued soon.”

Only if there wasn’t CardDAV, CalDAV, IMAP, SMTP and dozens of other highly standardized protocols to handle e-mailing and groupware.

TCB13 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Is the bridge actually being discontinued?

No, but what from their moves it is very clear it won’t live long.

they don’t support SMTP, but realistically they actually can’t unless they have the ability to read your emai

Technically they do use SMTP… and it’s possible for a provider and provide submission and generic SMTP do clients without having to read the email content.

There are lots of ways to do e2e encryption on e-mail (no server access to the contents) over SMTP (OpenPGP, S/MIME etc.). There are also header minimization options to prevent metadata leakage. And Proton decided NOT to use any of those proven solutions (in a standard and open way at least) and go for some obscure implementation instead because it fits their business better and makes development faster.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

I was going to suggest Nginx with phpAuthRequest but your solution seems more inline with what the OP is asking for.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

• just love the random downvote ahaha

TCB13 , 5 months ago

For what’s worth Wordpress can work as a wiki with a wiki theme like this one. Modern standards dictate that it’s light… doesn’t consume resources when not in use and it’s easy to install and manage.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Dude the guy is running on system with restricted resources and you’re suggesting the most bloated and prone to fail thing ever.

The OP would be way better with Debian + Cockpit (also provider a webUI and virtual machine manager) or Debian + LXD/LXC (containers + VMs, optional webUI). Both of those solutions are way lighter and won’t mess your base system.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

If you run your stuff in containers then Proxmox (I aways install it on top of Debian) is your hypervisor is your base system

I believe you’re missing my point. Cockpit also works as an hypervisor for most people, a very light and stable one, besides…

If you’re running containers on Proxmox then you’re running LXC containers… why not just use LXD/Incus (also another hypervisor) to manage those containers that is considerably lighter, comes by default in the Debian repository, was designed to manage LXC container (not hacked around like Proxmox was) and isn’t mostly made by a for profit entity that sometimes likes to hold important patches on their subscription-only repositories? Or constantly nag you to buy a subscription?

TCB13 , 5 months ago

LXD/Incus also does clustering, storage management, has a WebUI etc.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Also, it’s backed by a commercial business, so it’s likely to see continued support and dev. With the recent shitshow with VMware, I suspect it’ll be a choice for many businesses - which hopefully translates to a growth in user base (and financial support).

That’s kind of the problem with Proxmox, you never know when they’ll start requiring a license for everyone and what prices will look like. That’s one of the reasons why I’m telling people to look at LXD/Incus. It’s truly free/open and financed by the linux containers initiative that gets resources from multiple big vendors and providers.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

You know it isn’t true, ever since they started requiring a CLA.

LXD is literally less free than proxmox, looking at those terms, since Canonical isn’t required to open source any custom lxd versions they host.

LXD was forked into Incus (before the CLA took effect) and is now developed under the Linux Containers umbrella as Apache 2.0. From the link:

Incus is a true open source community project, free of any CLA and remains released under the Apache 2.0 license. It’s maintained by the same team of developers that first created LXD.

The only reason why I wrote LXD/Incus is because on Debian 12 you can get it from the repositories as LXD and the roadmap is to eventually replace it with Incus. Both the Debian maintainers and Incus team are working on this transition and have expressed their guarantee that whenever a Debian version comes out with the replacement it will upgrade automatically without incompatibilities or breaking changes - after all the current Debian version is before the CLA took place and is compatible with the Incus code.

At this point, for anyone running Debian 12, you can’t say “go get Incus” as it will just cause confusion and require an extra repository. You’ve to say “go get LXD from the repository” and they’ll eventually get updated to Incus without breaking their setup later.

Either way, still more free than Proxmox.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

I don’t think that their paid enterprise customers are doing the beta alpha testers like this. Is it really necessary to push nightlies to end users? It can’t be tested casually for a couple of days then pushed?

I’m sure their enterprise customers are having the same poor experience you’re having.

And FYI nothing is really tested in NC nor nothing is really 100% done, everything is always at 75% and then gets replaced by another half assed implementation.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

😂 I’m sure I’m not your boss cause you’re using a Canadian instance and I’m nowhere near Canada. Maybe it’s just that NC underdelivers equally poorly for almost everyone…

TCB13 , 5 months ago

My Debian Hypervisor do have a DE (GNOME) to be able to easily access virtual machines with virt-manager

Well I guess that depends on your level of proficiency with the cli. I personally don’t want a DE running ever, in fact my system doesn’t even have a GPU nor a CPU that can do graphics.

With that said, do you know about Cockpit? It provides you with a very light WebUI for any server and has a virtual machine manager as well.

I don’t mind helping my friends install their openvpn client and certificate and it’s nice to not have my services bombarded with failed connection attempts.

Yes I know the feeling ahahah. Now you should consider Wireguard, it’s way easier and lighter. Check out the links I provided, there’s a nice WebUI to provision clients there.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

I do know about and use Cockpit with said virtual machine manager

So… no need for a DE :) Wireguard is so damn good, even if you manual setup it’s just easier.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Well, it’s not just about RAM. A DE comes with dozens of packages and things that get updated, startup delays and whatnot.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Docker? Steep learning curve? You drunk mate?

When it comes to software the hype is currently setup a minimal Linux box (old computer, NAS, Raspberry Pi) and then install everything using Docker containers. I don’t like this Docker trend because it 1) leads you towards a dependence on property repositories and 2) robs you from the experience of learning Linux (more here) but I it does lower the bar to newcomers and let’s anyone setup something really fast.

In my opinion people should be very skeptical about everything that is “sold to the masses”, just go with a simple Debian system (command line only) SSH into it and install whatever is required / taking the time to actually learn Linux and whatnot.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Pro tip, use ZFS and take snapshots before you make any changes

Yes, but BTRFS does the same and is way easier for beginners :).

TCB13 , 5 months ago

writing my own docker compose files from scratch and learning the syntax, environment va

But you know that most people don’t even do that. They simply download a bunch of pre-made yaml files and use whatever GUI. You would still learn more without docker.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Yes, that’s a valid use case. But the enterprise is also moving to containers because the big tech companies are pushing them into it. What people forget is that containerization also makes splitting hardware and billing customers very easy for cloud providers, something that was a real pain before. Why do you think that google, Microsoft and Amazon never got into the infrastructure business before?

TCB13 , 5 months ago

What are you even claiming? Billing is the same ease VM or container.

Before containers, when hosting was mostly shared stuff (very hard to bill and very expensive when it comes to support) or VMs that people wouldn’t buy because they were expensive.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

You’re missing the point.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

we have to be honest, Mozilla is kind of stupid sometimes.

Yes.

Looks like you can download Firefox through the Mozilla’s official HTTP/FTP repository that doesn’t trigger this ID token generation. Also this article motivates people to download Firefox installer from Softonic’s page:

Yes, but still having to go around the main download page to get an untracked version is kind of annoying. Fuck Softonic, the rest of the information about the IDs still holds true.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

I know commercial VPNs are just switching who sees your data,

Oh yeah.

And yes, I distrust Google to no end.

Me too, the reason why I use ungoogled-chromium is mostly because of that and because when you take Chrome and remove all the tracking and spyware it runs way faster ahah. There are many people and projects that came together in the ungoogled-chromium community and the source code is scrutinized and cleaned up like nothing else.

TCB13 , 5 months ago

It’s a blog post from someone who never read a 990 before (standard nonprofit disclosure form) who thinks every other line of is proof of a scandal.

Only in the USA a “non profits” turns profit. 😂

TCB13 , 5 months ago

Yes!