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lemmyreader ,

Nice read.Thanks.

lemmyreader ,

Very pretty!

Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?

I’ve explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can’t help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...

lemmyreader ,

Maybe bonfirenetworks.org ?

lemmyreader ,

Dunno. Anecdotal, a few years ago pacman appeared to be much faster than apt-get for me. Currently I don’t see that very much difference but then again I haven’t paid much attention to it.

lemmyreader ,

Bold :-) openSUSE is based on zypper and rpm. Arch Linux uses its own package system.

p.s. Please replace that Change my mind guy with a Calvin and Hobbes one.

lemmyreader ,

OpenSUSE was actually released long before Arch even existed.

You’re basically right but just some historic facts added :

Judd Vinet started the Arch Linux project in March 2002. OpenSUSE : Its development was opened up to the community in 2005, which marked the creation of openSUSE. Before that it was called SUSE Linux, first released in 1994.

lemmyreader OP ,

Much depends on your use cases I figure. Here’s an example about my mixed feelings for Linux : I use Debian among others on the desktop. I noticed that when I log out from the GUI and return to the Display Manager a lot of processes keep running in the background all owned by my user. Maybe not a problem but I do not like it so much. I compared it with an OpenBSD installation I have. The same happens except for less processes and none of them is owned by my user.

lemmyreader OP ,

To add some more : Done FreeBSD and OpenBSD installations here this month. Having FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi was much easier than expected and boots from USB (yay!). Installing OpenBSD with disk encryption was also much easier than before because the installer has build in support. One day I’d like to have an OpenBSD server running with Honk on it for simple micro blogging, and maybe wireguard VPN.Perhaps with openbsd.amsterdam

lemmyreader OP ,

The iPod got me. Never had one. Never had a friend who did.

I didn’t get that far even. <insert /me facepalm>

I am technically not a Millennial. The term for my cohort is Xennial, I believe.

😄

lemmyreader OP , (edited )

Skibidi toilet? As a 39-yr old millennial, I’m aware that was a thing like a year ago, but I assumed it was a Zoomer meme or something. I can’t get past that captcha.

EDIT: Upon looking at it again, I see it just wants me to type in “what is skibidi toilet” into Google, not answer what it is. Ugh, I’m turning into my Silent Generation/Boomer parents.

Yeah, maybe the m CAPTCHA developers only wanted to share nostalgic memories of Google search results without ads. EDIT : let me fact check before I’ve written a lot of nonsense. Yes, seems fair. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

lemmyreader ,

Cloudron is kind of a freemium product. They offer a few apps (two ?) for free to use. For more apps you need to pay. Their back-end does have a view-source-but-no-edit “open source” license last time I checked. Bu if you want to keep things easy, go for it.

lemmyreader OP ,

@zeitverschreib

Thanks for the social.bund.de/about link.

How can i do whatever I want to do ?

I wanted to install jackett and sonarr, they are complicated to use as is, moreover I am using Ubuntu. I am following fuidleine for installing jackett with STUPID command line making it EXTRA difficult. But now I have to change directory ownerships and what nots. I am the ONLY user on this machine. I want to own everything by...

lemmyreader ,

I’d much prefer FreeDOS in that case! :)

lemmyreader ,

Yah if it was simple as that in Linux. When the page says do chown 775 xyz , the Linux throes error as can’t modify, then I go down rabbit hole…honestly it’s far from simple

To be able to use chown (Change Owner) you need to have the powers to do so. Your default user does not have such powers when the target is not yet owned by that user. Perhaps you did not use sudo, like sudo chown 775 xyz So I guess the documentation of that software installation howto is lacking specifics for Ubuntu (Ubuntu uses sudo, but e.g. Debian does not do so and defaults to su).

lemmyreader ,

I like that comparison a lot. Thanks for sharing.

lemmyreader ,

It’s still there (apparently archived at Ibiblio) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw -> groklaw.net

lemmyreader ,

Looking forward to see someone creating a TempleOS fork with a Linux Libre kernel in their spare time.

lemmyreader ,

😀

lemmyreader ,

Looks pretty much opinionated. I like the colors and the whole of the image. I can agree with Gentoo Linux being very interesting, but not sure about CentOS. In that case I’d rather use Rocky or Alma, though for servers Debian fits my bill.

lemmyreader ,

C*ntOS 🤯

lemmyreader ,

😁

lemmyreader ,

What is it ?

lemmyreader ,

FYI : The embedded OS in the elevator infrastructure was the [NOT DISCLOSED] OS.

lemmyreader ,

Thanks

lemmyreader OP ,

But since they offered to do the “installation and set-up process” with me, I relented. (The scare quotes are there because it was not an ordinary installation process: my friend basically exorcised the Manjaro out of my system.)

😃

I have a few distros I would like to try, off the top of my head: EndeavourOS, Fedora Silverblue, and NixOS.

I am not a NixOS user but I have tried it a few times and I find it really impressive for some features. Though I feel intimidated by having to learn about more features. But the thing I find impressive so far is how to switch DEs so incredibly easy after a basic NixOS install. For example in case you’re currently running XFCE4 :

  • Edit the one NixOS configuration file to define the DE you prefer on one line, say GNOME, and add some more packages you want.
  • Run the build switch command.
  • Reboot (or logout and restart the relevant Display Manager if needed)
  • Enter GNOME
  • Edit the one NixOS configuration file again, remove the GNOME line, and insert a line with KDE Plasma
  • Run the build switch command.
  • Reboot
  • Enter KDE Plasma.

It’s like magic! 🐧

I still intend to show this to a Linux friend one day just for fun and sharing. And with clonezilla or rescuezilla it should be pretty easy and fast to recover from backups, show it to the friend, and then put Arch Linux back from backups.

lemmyreader OP ,

Running Debian now (desktop, laptop, and SBCs), but my heart belongs to Slackware.

Slackware! The good old days with Pat :^) (Yeah, that smiley is © Patrick Volkerding)

lemmyreader OP ,

🙂 Well, you know I’d say you don’t have to sacrifice your daily driver Linux install. I use more than one computer and SBC cause I like to tinker with Linux and BSD. In the country that I live in a reasonable (as in : I only need to browse the Internet and check email and Fediverse, no gaming or 3D rendering or pro photo editing and so on) refurbished laptop with touchscreen can be had for just 75 Euros. I’m thinking about getting another one so that I can omit some clonezilla restore/backup time.

lemmyreader OP ,

Oh and it seems KDE went back with the cube for Plasma 6! Alas it’s still masked in Gentoo and who knows when it would be ready, but it’s a bit great I’m not the only one for that cube nostalgia.

Nice. Learning some more Gentoo Linux is on my wish list, but every time I find the first step too intimidating. Now that they have binaries since (half a year or so ?) I expected an installation to be easier. Maybe I should try it with QEMU or VirtualBox. Hmmm, actually, are there any VPS providers that provide Gentoo as image ?

lemmyreader OP ,

I like to tinker and learn how things work, and windows ME blue screened on my one time too many, so I picked up Linux in 1998.

Nice. So you’re an old timer :)

Redhat box from compusa, if anyone remembers that place.

compusa does ring a bell. Suddenly reminds me of InfoMagic though. Here’s a photo found with a search engine. https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e5e35c9d-ee5f-42a3-8a48-7109858e0ca6.jpeg

And that’s when my life changed; using the skills I taught myself i got well paying jobs as a sysadmin and then as software developer and now I’m an “infrastructure engineer” (I write terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and i do other sysadmin stuff ).

Awesome.

lemmyreader OP ,

I’ve read through the Linux command line by William shotts,

That didn’t ring a bell though on further inspection I’ve seen it before. Thanks.

linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php (Creative Commons licensed. PDF free download).

But to answer the question, I love shortcuts. I got into emacs and learned enough to use enough of the agenda features to have a lot of journal entries on it.

I guess this Emacs orgmode, right ? I read of lots of people being very happy with that.

lemmyreader OP ,

My personal tin foil hat theory is that they purposely made windows 11 trash so that people would support a subscription based Windows service with Windows 10.

I’m with you on that.

lemmyreader OP ,

I like Vanilla Gnome nowadays and when I want to see a new distro, I just check it out in a VM.

I liked GNOME 3, and first disliked GNOME 4 but with the gnome-tweaks tool (to get the two extra window buttons back) and the easy to enable Night Light feature, I got used to it and appreciate it more and more.

I think Chrunchbang (R.I.P.) was my favorite distro when I was all-in on distro hopping and customizing everything.

btw, there’s a new life : www.crunchbangplusplus.org

But at some point for a developer, your OS becomes more of a tool for opening an IDE and/or terminal and you value stability over customization or having the very latest software. In the Flatpak era, that’s even more true since you can run the newest versions regardless of the system.

Agreed.

Auto kill memory leaking processes before swap death loop

I’m using linux mint 21.3, and a process (brave aka chrome) sometimes memory leaking, so eats all the RAM, and then linux goes into swap death loop, when everything freezes (sometimes the mouse cursor is moving), and nothing can’t be done, i can just see the HDD led blinking, and do a reset. Is there a way to make the system...

lemmyreader ,

Would changing swappiness make a difference ? wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#Swappiness

  • For servers monit, a simple monitoring tool, can alert via email when CPU or RAM usage is too high. Is there something like that for desktops ?
lemmyreader OP ,

I’ve posted this because I believe Alpine Linux deserves more attention (And I’m a BSD fan, but that is irrelevant). It is light weight and very small and can be used on SBC boards. The documentation of Alpine Linux leaves a lot to be desired for beginning Linux users but is kind of okay for the more experienced Linux user.

lemmyreader OP ,

Yes. I think (seen in other news) it is a shame to repeatedly see governments, companies and others say things like “We have no choice than to move to the cloud, because their offer and services are irreplaceable” where the cloud is GAFAM. Meanwhile new data centers for Microsoft and Google are build in Europe, which maybe offers new jobs to some, but increases dependency on GAFAM. I found this article a sad story. A voice “successful” pilot but probably “never again” cause “money”. But I guess the lobbying is strong in that area too, besides the easy of use of “just using YouTube”. Last week I read an interview with a farmer mentioning that he and other farmers talked to high ranked EU politicians which encouraged them to keep protesting for a more sustainable agriculture but “they could not do anything for them”. The farmer concluded that the lobbying by companies is very strong :(

lemmyreader OP ,

Glad to see another person who is not keen on the passkeys. I have the feeling it is being hyped and perhaps without good reasons. Therefore I was glad to share this blog post when I saw it on Mastodon. btw, the blog post author turns out to be the software developer of similar software like Authentik and Keycloak. In other words, not just the average Linux user :)

I really think that we should have just iterated on passwords. Switch to a PAKE and keep improving password-manager UX and pushing most users to auto-generated passwords. So much was lost by switching to a system that most users don’t understand.

When I search with a search engine for PAKE I don’t find anything useful. Got a link ?

I like your reasoning about just using passwords. However, my experience is that a scary amount of users are using the same rather weak password for lots of different accounts. And a still scary amount of users does get tricked into phishing emails. What I like for myself is have a bunch of security keys and use them as much as possible for important logins.Some applications allow for five different security keys to be configured.And this could theoretically also be a way to use 2FA within teams. One team person does the login, adds a key, then let’s the second team member put in their key and so on.

I wrote a blog about this a while ago. kevincox.ca/2022/04/07/passwords/

Thanks. I see you shared it two years ago on Lobsters and got a fair amount of comments. 👍

lemmyreader OP ,

This PAKE post by Cloudflare is way over my head, but very good to see that new things are explored to make security really better.

lemmyreader OP ,

I’m not the blog author nor do I know the blog author. Got the link from here : infosec.exchange/

lemmyreader ,

👍 Thanks for sharing.

lemmyreader OP ,

Beautiful!

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