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What a piece of crap of webmail that is.

  • NC Webmail UI is poorly designed: compose window is just a small box on the center of the screen, there’s no way to have the markup tools permanently show up;
  • NC Webmail UI is broken: if you select a bunch of text and turn it into a bullet list, the bullets won’t even show up on NC, other e-mail clients will see them tho;
  • Integration/SSO with IMAP is cumbersome: not well documented, default configuration doesn’t even handle a simple “login with the email email and password as the IMAP account” type of setup that is commonly expected;
  • WebUI is slow and fails often: if you open the browser console you’ll find lots of warnings and errors.

I do have a lot of complaints related to mail but if NC is any kind of useful replacement for MS365 / Google Workplace a decently working webmail is the bare minimum. RoundCube is WAY better than what NC is currently offering.

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mathjs doesn’t provide 1/10 of the units available in convert.exe. It is cool and I use it for other things but it simply doesn’t cut it for this.

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Yeah! Let’s build that :D Maybe it will render UIs better than native wine? :D

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You most likely don’t need Proxmox and its pseudo-open-source bullshit. My suggestion is to simply with with Debian 12 + LXD/LXC, it runs VMs and containers very well.

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As said, they’ve separate repositories, annoying messages asking you for a license all the time etc. At some point you’ll find out that their solution doesn’t offer anything particular of value that you can’t get with other less company dependent solutions like I described before. You may explore the LXD native GUI… or heck even Cockpit or Webmin might be decent options.

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Debian – The Universal Operating System

Because it’s universal, runs on everything rock solid and stable.

Why can't flatpaks just work

I usually try to stay out of the whole snap vs flatpak discussion. Although I am just really confused as to why flatpak just does not seem to care about usability. You’re trying to create a universal packaging format I would think the point of it is that a user can just install an app and after reviewing permissions it should...

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That theme situation is a bit odd, there should be better documentation about that.

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“Simple, clean, bloat-free” – proceeds do use Docker lol.

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Bloat free is a single compiled binary that runs anywhere!!

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But oh yes, cool project :)

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Why do you think Monit is weird?

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You can simply not bundle typical libraries that are available in most systems and let package managers deal with those.

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The docker image is pretty small btw ;).

Yes if you already have Docker. If don’t use Docker you’ll be installing a ton of stuff just for a single application.

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Flatpak is fast, lightweight actual open-source and provides security via isolation. Snap is the usual BS Canonical tries to get people to use, has a ton of bloat.

Personally I’ve had zero issues with Flatpak under Debian for desktop usage. It integrates nicely with the GNOME Software “store” and allows you to get the latest and best of everything you might need without polluting your system. Flatpak solves the usual complaints about Debian only having “old” software - allows you to run the latest and greatest while keeping a clean and rock solid Debian system underneath.

Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

I’m considering getting a laptop for Linux and want to know a few things before I do. Some important info before I start: I don’t plan on using the laptop for anything too intense, mainly writing, digital art, streaming, browsing, and maybe very mild video editing (cropping at least and shortening at most). I would also...

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I’ve been running Debian 11 and now 12 on an HP EliteBook 840 G5 (i7 8550U) and everything works out flawlessly out of the box. When I say everything I really mean everything, even special keyboard keys for brightness, volume working after install. Battery lasts way longer than under Windows and the computer runs much colder.

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Most but not all :) Thanks.

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From what I can understand Debian uses a generic shim that is signed with Microsoft’s keys and then it delegates the rest to the system. Apparently this is a fast way to get secure boot to work but “SHIM only checks signatures of the boot loader and kernel, but not the GRUB config file or initramfs, which opens your machine to attacks”. This is why I was looking for a more detailed guide from someone who actually understands this from start to end.

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The more pcr you add, the higher likelihood you need to re-enroll after updates

So that means if I run upgrades and forget to re-enroll I’ll get a broken system that I won’t be able to boot to and fix it?

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Yes, there are but they mostly assume the use of the SHIM. That was the reason why I posted this.

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Thank you for the clarification.

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At least, unlike GNOME, they got the font rendering, the spacing across icons and the desktop icons right. lol

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One more version without the obvious UPnP. At this point I think they’re not implementing UPnP in order to somehow profit from the lack of it in the future. Who on their right minds wants all traffic going over a server when in most cases you can simply use UPnP? This makes no sense.

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  • the inability to deploy to macOS with a custom server (they allow this for Windows with a renamed executable). rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/install/-confi…
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Oh yes, PCI is just so good. The only thing I have against those boards is that if you go for the mid or high-end configurations + case + power adapter and other extras it becomes just cheaper to buy an HP Mini second hand with a much more powerful i3 or i5 CPU from 3 generations ago. Those computer are way more powerful, some have dual M.2/NVME, also come with wifi and everything out of the box and a much more powerful and stable CPUs. The power consumption of those systems isn’t a concern, a 8th gen i3 under low load will not consume much more than those boards.

It seems the business around SBCs is simply to make a board and then make it useless without a ton of extras that will run you close to the a second hand mini pc for a LOT less performance.

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No. It will become a pain. For 100$ you can get an SBC or, better yet, a second hand HP Mini computer with 6-8th gen i3/i5 CPU that is most likely enough for your needs.

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Isn’t Debian an easy distro? I don’t get it. Debian defaults to GNOME, setup is easier than Windows, includes a software store etc. what else do people need?

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Why do you say that? It defaults to GNOME, that essentially had everything out of the box that those ones you speak about have. GNOME’s default theme is also finally something decent.

I’m not saying GNOME is perfect, far from it, but at least they’re no longer using brown+orange as their default colors. Now lets see if they can fix the font rendering once and for all.

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The point is that you want management, easy ways to create images, backups, move container between hosts, orchestration, network management and sometimes not only container but also virtual machines. LXD does it all very well and if you don’t want those resources you might as well use systemd-nspawn.

They’ve taken over Proxmox. Not sure if you’re following but they have now a WebUI and the entire solution is magnitudes better than the crap Proxmox has been offering.

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There you are, calling bullshit on my post while deleting your own where you clearly demonstrated close to no experience with LXD and its clustering capabilities. lol

The minimal interface that Ubuntu offers

Once again your ineptitude is palpable. Ubuntu doesn’t offer anything, the WebUI is a part of LXD.

And yes LXD’s WebUI released “yesterday” is objectively better than Proxmox and it does touch storage and clustering.

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for any more complex orchestration I think you’ve moving to k8s or something more serious

I guess it depends in your use case. If you’re taking about “regular” applications LXD/LXC might not be your best fit. LXD/LXC seem to very good for the more low level infraestruture related solutions. In contrast, whatever is typically deployed with k8s that is mostly immutable very reproducible and kind of runs at a very high level.

LXD is more about what might power that “higher level” layer, more about mutable containers, virtual machines and very complex stacks that you can’t deploy with docker most of the time. As excepted people with those needs greatly leverage cloud-init and Ansible in order to get the reproducibility and the automated deployment capabilities that the Docker “crowd” usually likes.

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Not a correction, it has its uses :) I would never deploy a web app and its API, database etc. using LXD, makes no sense, k8s is way better for that.

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I also do playbooks to deploy stuff some stuff with LXD, but my end users only like Docker so, I kind of setup the infrastructure that allows them to deploy Docker on top of LXD containers that are deployed using Ansible.

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Unfortunately some ISPs are total garbage and don’t support IPv6 in 2023. Eg. lemmy.world/comment/269250

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