avisf

avisf , 19 days ago to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 25th

I’m taking a break from Elden Ring and other soulslikes to play Anno 1404 in all aspects for the first time. Previously, I only played enough of it to build up armys and armadas to wipe out the other players.

Now I want to build large warships, have nobles, build the emperors dome and the sultan mosque, buy council seats, sabotage other cities and challenge or at least survive the really difficult AI players (two star and three star).

Yes, it’s not 1800. I don’t like 1800.

avisf , 20 days ago to technology in Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel

It’s a interesting trip through Windows history everytime I need to change an admin setting:

• You need to modify an admin setting (like…setting a MTU for example or changing an IP address (now possible in Settings, but wasn’t for a long time))
• You click through Settings -> Setting not available, but a Link to Control Panel -> click on the Control Panel Link (XP-Era) -> Advanced Settings on the Top-Window (Windows 2000) -> Finally, right click on the Network Adapter and select Properties and you are all the way back to Windows 95/98.
• Same with Powershell: A function or Cmdlet isn’t available? Let’s try this .Net thingy first, before we head to VBS
• Need to manage Sound Devices? Better do that in Control Panel, since most of the useful settings are still missing
• Need to remove a Outlook profile? Control Panel.

Windows is a prime example of inconsistent design, that’s why Device Manager still asks for drivers on a A:\ 3,5" floppy drive.

As an Administrator, I’m curious to see, what will become of Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and their Snap-Ins, which are still required to have by many still supported MS Products and third party tools. The last time I had to edit something in “Component Services” (Windows NT-Era Tool) was 2023.

avisf , 25 days ago to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit got their fake plates.

nevermind, they seem to be what we call “Reichsbürger” in germany.

Conspiracy theorists that declare their house a kingdom and fight against being taxed by a state that “doesn’t exist”.

avisf , 25 days ago to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit got their fake plates.

What’s a sovcit? Cit as in citizen?

avisf , 25 days ago to science_memes in Spaceships

I don’t believe you.

I have to try this out in Kerbal Space Program first

avisf , 27 days ago to linuxmemes in Apparently, Catholic dating is all about money

exactly

avisf , 27 days ago to linuxmemes in Apparently, Catholic dating is all about money

I read that being an Android user is a “red flag” nowadays. Did they specify which major versions are affected by that? And does the “red flag” taint LineageOS, /e/ and GrapheneOS as well?

Jesus… I hope I’ll never have to deal with them.

avisf , 27 days ago to games in What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end?

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Elden Ring and most other soulslikes.

Other games are unbearable to try 100%, for example: Cities Skylines where you have to wait for a generated special natural disaster that may or may not appear after X hours in your current savegame.

avisf , 28 days ago to linux in Oreon: A Fresh AlmaLinux-Based Distro Designed for Desktop Users

Oddly enough: SELinux and file ownership for bind mounts were pretty hellish for me, even with :z. Granted, that’s definitely on me (skill issue) for having misconfigured SELinux policies, but docker got out of my way.

Yes, SELinux can be painful to troubleshoot. I assume the bind mount path may not have been labeled containerfile_t

That last one is a major thorn in my side because the podman CLI used to have a simple command to generate the systemd file for you, but they’re getting rid of it.

That command was indeed helpful. They replaced it with quadlets. Systemd quadlets were not that hard to configure as I initially thought though. I migrated my 10 services with their dependent containers, volumes and networks within a few hours or so. The manpage is well written and shows examples https://docs.podman.io/en/v4.6.1/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

Of course there’s nothing wrong with using docker if it fits better

avisf , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to linux in Oreon: A Fresh AlmaLinux-Based Distro Designed for Desktop Users

The reason I use Fedora and not EL like Almalinux are the newer kernels and graphics drivers.

They are often crucial for playing relatively new games. When I used Debian before, I was blocked from playing several games that used a newer Version of DLSS or FSR before because my outdated drivers wouldn’t work for them.

So I don’t understand how Oreon was “designed with gaming in mind” by shipping old software and lts kernels + drivers.

Just because Steam, Lutris and Bottles are preinstalled (or available as Flatpaks)?

Edit: I see it comes with RPM Fusion repos out of the box. Good decision.

avisf , 28 days ago to linux_gaming in (SOLVED) Games flickering despite running fine on Windows

Oh, sorry…

Were you able to fix it?

avisf , 29 days ago to linux_gaming in (SOLVED) Games flickering despite running fine on Windows

If it’s that kind of flickering on KDE 6.X on Wayland that forced me to temporarily move back to Cinnamon on X to play Elden Ring again, it could be related to KDE enabling Explicit Sync by default and the NVidia drivers < 555 that don’t support it.

It was only flickering, the framerate was fine.

After I installed the 555 driver from the repository, the flickering in KDE on Wayland was gone.

There’s a manual for Ultramarine Linux on how to install the nvidia-driver

According to another comment, your notebook model likely has a integrated Nvidia GPU.

Hope this helps

avisf , 29 days ago to linux in To Linux admins: What certifications/degrees do you guys have?

No university degree, did an apprenticeship 14 years ago in germany. It was three days a week of learning sysadmin things within a company (Windows, Linux, network devices) and two days a week of school, where the theoretical stuff was taught.

After 3 years, I was a newbie sysadmin and capable of managing Windows and Linux environments. I did no further certifications back then.

Over time, especially since I wanted to move more towards Linux, automation, containers and cloud native things from 2022 on, I did some certifications (LFCS, RHCSA, RHCE) which helped me to land a job where I now work 100% with Linux and containers and kubernetes.

I did it to:

• learn the things I had experience on from the ground up and fix the all the “holes” I never had to work with before in the day to day job and get a verification of my skills.
• learn additional things that were not part of the apprenticeship but are useful as a sysadmin today (automation, containers, git, etc)

I’m still learning to build up knowledge of kubernetes and will eventually take exams on that topic as well.

However, there are certifications with questionable value to them (in my opinion), like multiple choice tests for single tools or the like.

I’m a fan of performance based lab exams, where you get 20 tasks from all the scopes of the product to solve and have to actually apply the knowledge you gained to pass the exam by solving real world problems.

By learning for those kinds of exams, you cover a product or technology - almost - 100%. Unlike learning by experience only, which can be very individual. You can for example totally manage 10 linux hosts with ansible for 10 years without ever having to use facts, roles, etc. Just by writing very big playbooks.

Does that qualify for 10 years of ansible experience?

In reality, companies have a certain size and use-cases, so you’ll do the absolute minimum to get something running/implemented securely (most of the time, I know there are exceptions). So imho certifications provide a birds eye view and force you to learn different areas of the product, which may be very useful, out of scope, etc.

But just passing a certification exam once doesn’t equal years of real experience either. It’s a mixed topic. For a point in time, you knew enough to pass the exam, so if your certification is still valid, it would be reasonable to assume you still know what you’re doing, that’s all.