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meteokr , 9 months ago

Debian even has “slim” docker images that are pretty small.

meteokr , 9 months ago

The main thing for this is cost. I don’t really know what performance specs for a VPS I would need to reasonably have good network performance with ~10 devices, though I’m guessing I’ll have to have something =<10Gbsp. So maybe $25-$30/month depending on who I buy a VPS through?

Would EACH of your devices have their own dedicated gigabit connection to your server? Even so, are you the only user or is this for some family members also? If its just you, you can 9/10 just get a basic 5$ or less gigabit VPS. You’d much more often be limited by your outbound connection than your VPS networking, by a considerable margin. Most things you are connecting to won’t saturate even a gigabit connection, so you’d be well under your bandwidth requirements.

meteokr , 9 months ago

If your applications require different libc versions, then regardless if you used containers or not, you’d have each of them in memory. If they don’t require different versions, then you’re just blaming containers for something the user is responsible for managing. When alpine images are a dozen or so MBs, base image disk size is basically irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, as you probably have much more than that in dependencies/runtimes. Even Debian base images are pretty tiny these days. Depending on the application, you could have just a single binary with no OS files at all. So if you do care about disk and memory space, then you would take advantage of the tools containers give you to optimize for that. Its the users choice on how many resources they want to use, its not the fault of the tooling.

meteokr , 9 months ago

Exactly, Nvidia doesn’t have real competition. In gaming sure, but no one is actually competiting with CUDA.

meteokr , 9 months ago

I don’t own any nvidia hardware out of principal, but ROCm is no where even close to cuda as far as mindshare goes. At this point I rather just have a cuda->rocm shim I can use, in the same was as directx->vulkan does with proton. Trying to fight for mindshare sucks, so trying to get every dev to support it just feel like a massive uphill battle.

meteokr , 9 months ago

How hard is the initial setup for this board? Is it a simple flash an sdcard and power it, or does it require manual kernel crosscompiling of some specific unmaintained github fork? I know Debian is working on offcial riscv support but I haven’t looked at how far its come along in a bit.

meteokr , 9 months ago

Pre-installed to the emmc I assume? That’s nice for the out of the box experience, but knowing the nature of SBCs I’d like to be able to at least get a copy of the image so I can burn a new boot device when something goes a little sideways.

Since you’ve worked with them before, are these the correct images? wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/…/3_images.html I did a little bit of digging from the link in the description of the video, if so then I’d gladly get a couple of these to play with. Dual Ethernet, and even PoE is awesome at this price point.

meteokr , 9 months ago

You really don’t “need” to login twice a day. A single extra domain/boss drop isn’t going to completely make or break any content in the game. Even spiral abyss is only 2ish extra gacha pulls if you are really pushing it. Which again, won’t make or break any content in the game.

A huge amount of the event stuff is totally skippable, some minor lore here and there can be watched on YouTube, there are sometimes event weapons, but the majority of those aren’t even that much better than other permanently avaible ones, and certainly not over weapon banners.

I’ve been playing GI for almost a year, and it has been an absolute blast. I do the content I care about, skip stuff I dont. Its a fantastically fun game, that I can pop in go hunting for chests for an hour or two, maybe do some event minigames for pulls. If you have low self control and cannot bare to be 5% less effective in combat where you one shot everything with a single burst then it might not be a game you want to play, but for casual playing around and exploring the world fighting random monsters for happy treasure chest sounds, it has been an absolute delight.

meteokr , 9 months ago

systemd manages cgroups, a very well standardized kernel interface for process management, which I would say is something init should be able to do. The gap between that, and a container is mostly semantic.

meteokr , 9 months ago

Yeah the preference is yours, at the end of the day, I don’t think it matters what tools you use as long as it works.

Worth noting is that a process not managed by pid 1 isn’t really a thing you want generally. If you use systemd to start the docker daemon, which then starts your container, its still managed by pid 1 eventually. Perhaps you prefer the tooling and interface of docker more than machinectl, or maybe podman just isnt working for you, they’re all just tools to interact with kernel namespaces and cgroups. For doing a little dabbling in another distro, installing docker is pretty heavy vs what the article is talking about.

meteokr , 10 months ago

You can also pipe yt-dlp into vlc if that suits your fancy.

meteokr , 10 months ago

If the exclusive ownership of something, in order to sell it, is the primary choice driving factor of a project. Then you should just make it proprietary. Anything else would limit your margins, since someone else can just fork your project, change it and make it proprietary themselves. A dual license is sometimes used in this case as well.

meteokr , 10 months ago

While it also has a PC release, it was on PS2 as well if you are locked to Android emulation. Melty Blood is a total classic. I am garbage at it, but it is fantastic for couch gaming with friends.

meteokr , 10 months ago

Well Linux doesn’t have a registry, so an editor would also not exist, to be fair.

meteokr , 10 months ago

In a hand wavy way, yes. You are just editing the settings of one suite of software, not really an OS “registry”. Closest to that in Linux is editing /etc, but even then, not all software is configured there.

meteokr , 10 months ago

A hardware device is a physical key. Its no different than backing up your home key. Get two keys and copy them. Keep one on you, and the other in a safe somewhere in case you lose the first.

meteokr , 10 months ago

Not literally copy, as in have an extra set of keys. A spare key. A bank vault is total overkill. I just bought 2 fido2 keys and register both for the services that support them. Have one on your keychain and another in your desk. 2FA is often way over thought, any adversary needs both factors so something you know and something you own is plenty for most people.

meteokr , 10 months ago

What a shame.

meteokr , 10 months ago

To be fair to them, they aren’t hosts. Its glaringly obvious they are not in-front-of-camera people. It does feel like its done on purpose to appeal emotionally.

meteokr , 10 months ago

Possibly a hot take, but as I understand it, content creators of his size should be viewed that the viewer is the product, content creator is the seller, and the sponsor/advertiser is the buyer. It’s the content creators job to sell our eye balls and brain space. However, just as a fish resists being captured by a fisher, I resist being sold. Adblocking is my resistance as a product. So producers of said product need to work harder to get enough of their product to be profitable. Should their be a drought, or if my tools are not maintained properly, then is it stealing if my crops die? Did my wheat fields steal from me when they didn’t grow enough for me to be a profitable farmer? I am the product being sold, I don’t “owe” them anything for harvesting me. It’s up to THEM to make my eyes and data worth harvesting to be sold to advertisers.

meteokr , 10 months ago

The deal being made here is obvious and you’re signing up to give them data in exchange for watching a video. You’re also signing up to view their ads.

I don’t buy this rhetoric. By your view, then if I don’t watch an ad, then I don’t get the content. Yet on YouTube I get the content inspite of declining to view the ad. Some websites do not let me see the content, unless I see their ads. That’s fine, I just go to a different site or spend my time doing something else. This rhetoric is to help businesses make money, which is fine, but I have no interest in furthering their narrative. If websites block me from using ad block, then it is entirely within their right to deny me access to their content. *

If you are not paying for a good or service, you are the product. That is my claim. The ad is not the price paid, it is the medium someone is using to collect my market value. Were I to walk to a store, and tell them I wanted something in exchange for seeing their billboard on the highway I’d be laughed out the building.

*Yes there are ways around this, but I think that is outside the scope of this discussion on ads.

meteokr , 10 months ago

I don’t think you understand my position. I’ve no argument about piracy or not.

I’m more concerned about creators and other sites that use ads for revenue such as newspapers

If they don’t want me to view their content, then don’t allow me to. Netflix has no problem keeping me off their service, because I don’t pay the fee. Several other sites block me from viewing their site if I block their ads. That’s fine, I leave knowing they don’t want me consuming their content. 100% A okay by me. I pay for services I like, and creators I like.

So if you want to “pay” a site without money, don’t pirate their content.

My argument is that watching an ad, is not a form of payment. If it not a payment, it can’t be piracy. To take your movie analogy. Let’s say a park has a movie screen setup so that anyone can watch the movie, and before the movies starts, someone comes in front and tells everyone about the company sponsoring this public viewing. In the context of youtube, it is not a ticketed event. If I, in the audience, am typing on my phone with my headphones on so that I don’t see/hear their sponsor, did I pirate the movie? What if I purposely show up a few minutes late, knowing in advance they would have the sponsor at the start? Is that piracy? I would claim no, but as I understand you, you would say yes.

If YouTube blocks a video from playing because I blocked the ad, then I don’t watch the video. If it doesnt, then I can watch the video. My argument is specifically, that what is being sold is not the content. Content creators are creating audiences, with which to capture and sell to advertisers. Advertisers have spent uncountable amounts of money, and decades on propaganda to convince you of your current position, as I understand it, because it benefits them the most.

An advertiser is buying my time, that the content creator is selling. I am not paying a content creator by watching an ad. Full stop. I am paying an advertiser my time, then an advertiser pays the content creator. There is a complete fundamental difference between this relationship, and a simple pay a fee to watch a video, and that complexity is very profitable.

meteokr , 10 months ago

Perhaps not quite as quest driven, but if you like open world combat, check out the Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War games. Don’t take the story too seriously, but they are a fantastic good time.

Enemies that see how to approach them, and if you are too same-y they’ll adapt. Focus too much on stealth kills? Enemies have stealth pierceing guards. Tend to go direct melee combat? Big bruiser show up that force you to respect them and dodge. They are not perfect games, and they’re a bit older these days, but nothing beats the hunter turn hunted experience of that first play through. I’ve beaten it years ago, but once in a while I just let my castle fall and go on an orc hunting spree to mastermind a take over once again.

meteokr , 10 months ago

Of all the main stream distros, I never liked Arch. I’ve been a big fan of and have used Debian and Fedora for years for different uses, I love all the work openSuse does for their GUI configuration, and I respect Slackware and Gentoo for what they are, though I’ve never use them myself.

Arch always gave me the impression that its fiddly, fragile, and highly opinionated. I think the AUR is a bandaid; its explicitly not supported, yet everyone says its the best reason to use Arch. If I want packages built from source, it just seems that Gentoo does it native to the whole OS and package manager. Nix does too. If I wanted closed-source binaries, flatpak seems like the way the ecosystem is moving and is pretty seemless for my uses. Keeping them with static libraries independent of the OS makes sense to me for something like Spotify, especially since disk space concerns are irrelevant to me.

Opinions on and around Arch are everywhere, both good and bad. I just have never found a situation where I see any benefit to using Arch over Debian for its stability, Alpine for its size, Gentoo for its source building support, or Nix for its declarative approach. So I have grown to loathe its atmosphere.

meteokr , 10 months ago

I feel it is highly opinionated because they only officially support a fairly small amount of packages. They’re not particularly more up-to-date than say openSuse Tumbleweed. A Debian netinstall is equally a barebones system I can install exactly what I am looking for, and don’t need to fiddle with third party repo’s like the AUR. As far as I know, almost every distro will let you do a barebones headless install, then build up your system yourself. Arch is certainly less opinionated than Ubuntu, but that’s not a big accomplishment these days.

If I were to desire a highly specific environment where I wanted to exactly manage each program’s dependency chain myself, Gentoo seems like a much better tool for the job. For example, Arch officially requires systemD, Gentoo does not. As far as I know Gentoo makes no assumptions on how your system is setup, from preboot to Wayland session.

I could just be out of date, as I use NixOS as my workstation and server OS, using Debian for some older servers I haven’t migrated yet. I get the impression from Arch, the few times I have used it, is that its niche is appealing to a particular kind of user, rather than being a good solution to a particular kind of problem. That’s not bad, its huge reason why its popular. Other distros do the same thing as Arch, sometimes better sometimes worse, but Arch is selling an aesthetic, rather than a tool.

meteokr , 10 months ago

VPN’s are useful in keeping the ISP’s out of your business from snooping on all your websites that you visit, and all the traffic coming and going from your PC

A VPN isn’t a miracle cure-all. You are just transferring all your traffic from your local ISP to another. Usually the new one is by choice, so there is a lot more competition and thus more likely a better service provided.

VPN’s allow pirates to download torrented media, without advertisements, to be enjoyed offline, which streaming doesn’t always do.

Just for clearity, its not the VPN that’s enables this. /Some/ VPNs allow for this, and you have to do your due diligence or else you could just be handing all your data straight into a honeypot. VPN providers are rife with paid shills and bad actors.

Not picking on you specifically, but I’d hate to see a fresh recruit find some rando VPN from a youtube ad and think they’re in international waters when they’re really standing on dry land.

meteokr , 10 months ago

You can use GUI stuff in docker as well, though it can be a bit fiddly to setup.

meteokr , 10 months ago

Secureboot can use your own keys, which any distro can do regardless. Nix essentially (simplified) rebuilds your whole rootfs every time you do a config change so that every change is fully reproducable.

having a user owned directory folder mounted in root

Do you mean the /nix directory? Nixos doesn’t use the same FHS as most distros, so of course it would save its own data somewhere on root, since your actual rootfs is rebuilt declarativly when you request it. IMO it’s really elegant, and its hard to go back to files strewn all over the place and the headache of trying to have multiple versions of the same library installed.

meteokr , 10 months ago

No worries, UEFI is definitely a “milage may vary” kinda standard.

I’ve personally only used NixOS and not Nix on a different distro by itself so I’m less familiar with that setup. No system is perfect for all use cases, but that’s sorta the point in Unix-land. I personally have been gripped by NixOS and having to go back to Fedora for some of my old servers has been a pain. They use it like a buzzword all the time, but declarative administration is so awesome. It does have a heck of a learning curve though.

meteokr , 10 months ago

In my experience its mostly sane defaults and a mixed bag in terms of documentation. For anyone else reading this, search.nixos.org/options using this to search for all the built in options is usually a good enough starting point for installing something.

Nix does dependencies very differently, since every program and everything it needs are put into their own checksummed directory, then linked into your PATH as requested in your config. So far I’ve never needed to do anything other than nixos-rebuild --upgrade switch and only needed to reboot for kernel updates.

I mostly work in container spaces, so building things from source, or out-of-repo pkgs, while rare, are done in containers with podman. For example, running Automatic1111’s stable diffusion works perfectly for me in a container with an AMD GPU no less. Eventually I’d like to get into flakes, but their still marked experimental so I haven’t looked too much into it.

Overall the learning experience is figuring out the overall structure of the system, then taking advantage of all the super powerful tooling and consistency those tools offer.

meteokr , 10 months ago

OpenSuse, and its commercial sister have been default using btrfs for almost a decade. The “btrfs is beta” meme is a dead horse. Its a great file system for what it was designed to do.

meteokr , 10 months ago

Last I checked, a wild card cert for *.yourdomain.com is NOT valid for test.local.yourdomain.com, but IS valid for test.yourdomain.com. Wildcard certs are not recursive as far as I know.

meteokr , 10 months ago

Totally, you can easy do *.test.yourdomain.com and that’s works just fine for certbot. Ive never used cloudflare so I’d assume the same setup should work.

meteokr , 10 months ago

They are literally reverse engineering hardware. Every hardware revision will be sewhat different and require even more work. This is not at all a fast or easy process. That fact this works at all to me is incredible.

meteokr , 10 months ago

A QEMU VM running ARM would probably be a better experience for testing cross compiled code, than a reverse engineered distro on unsupported hardware.

meteokr , 11 months ago

While I don’t play the actual game, I am a massive fan of the Escape from Tarkov inventory system. Its extremely detailed; a totally unreasonably detailed system for how every item fits into or on every other item. I’ve watched a few dozen hours of the game just looking for how people manage bags within bags within bags, within bags. I love how simulator-y the inventory is. Normally I hate that, I like sortable menus and proper categories for lists of my items, but wow is EfT’s inventory something that has really captured my brain.

meteokr , 11 months ago

Breaking Copyright is a contract/license violation, not theft. Depending on where you live, breach of contract is handled very differently than theft in most jurisdictions.

meteokr , 11 months ago

Some game anti-cheat can detect VMs and will still block you. Dual booting is the highest compatibility path if that’s what you value the most. Your choice of distro here doesn’t matter too much, if you do go the VM route.

As far as distro choice for day to day needs, I’m a big fan of NixOS. Setup your whole system with a config file, track it with a VCS and you have an extremely consistent and flexible OS that let’s you build nearly any environment you want without messing with the rest of your system.

meteokr , 11 months ago

Does proton support wireguard? That has first-class support on Linux.

meteokr , 11 months ago

I personally recommend against using Debian Testing for anything other than testing the next Debian release. It gets slower security updates, and breakages get fixed slower than just using Sid directly. Since Sid has its own securirt team and since it moves faster, breakages are fixed sooner. Even in the official documentation Debian doesn’t not suggest using Testing for the same reasons.

meteokr , 11 months ago

If you don’t recommend Sid, then Testing is out of the question. Testing is Sid, but less secure. Testing also has package freezing during the last stages of the release cycle. If you want a stable, and managed Debian, then the latest stable is the answer. If you want an cutting edge, semi-rolling release Debian, then you want Sid. Being in the middle has no advantages to the end user, and only invites complications. If something is broken in Testing, you have to wait for it to be fixed in Sid first, then trickle down to Testing at an absolute minimum. Why add an extra delay for nothing?

EDIT: offcial documentation www.debian.org/doc/manuals/…/choosing.en.html#s3.…

meteokr , 11 months ago

While you are always free to make your own choices, this is very bad advice for someone looking to try another distro.

wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_Fr…Official documentation again does not recommend mixing multiple releases like this. You would be much better off just running Sid, or Stable then using the Firefox flatpak/snap/appimage for the latest release. Debian is a long term stable distro, so if you want newer packages you are advised by the developers of said distro to just use Sid.

meteokr , 11 months ago

It was caught in an unfortunate time of very early 3d gaming. The ps2/GC era improved graphically by such a massive degree, and really allowed for a lot more mechanical depth in games. N64 did have some absolute classics though, and yet emulation still isn’t in as good of a state as the following generation. I’ve become quite spoiled by how good Dolphin is, and it is the standard I compare all emulators to. So I don’t find myself as nostalgic for majoras mask or glover, as I am for wind waker, or pokemon colleseum.

meteokr , 11 months ago

There are a lot of reasons not to give them your money. They’re assholes to the maker community and they openly talk shit on a lot of their customer base.

Citation needed, Pi’s are just a single member of the broader SBC market. They are great for a lot of projects, especially for beginners who are their primary market, or those unfamiliar with Linux systems.

It’s just not a spectacular option for hosting. In order to get a Rpi competitive with even the shittiest laptop from 7 years ago, you’re going to end up spending more than you would spend on a decent laptop from 7 years ago.

Citation needed, currently for what I use my Pi’s for, they are massive overkill. A laptop has WAY more breakable, and less repairable parts. A pi is a SBC, nothing I don’t need. I don’t want a screen, I don’t want a keyboard, I don’t want an ancient battery that is probably bloated from being plugged in all the time, and I absolutely do not want a fan. Honestly the Pi zero is overkill for most of my stuff, I just do actually want a wired network port. Your measure of “competitive” is extremely flawed, because you assume the only thing a Pi is useful for is it’s raw number crunching power when that’s not at all what they are marketed towards. In all honesty, I’d love to see a laptop that was even 50% as good a a Pi, but for that weight and size you’re looking almost entirely at used phones, whose OS is significantly more locked down. Can’t exactly run Docker on Android, let alone dealing with running servers over wifi.

If it is a computer that turns on, it will likely function orders of magnitude better than an Rpi and won’t bind you to ARM architecture. My entire hosting setup was pulled out of a recycling pile for free. Install ubuntu/ubuntu server and enjoy yourself.

How could I mount a laptop to my garage door for presence detection of which car is coming and going? Would be kind of an eyesore wouldn’t you think, without even mentioning the weight problems. Laptops are massive compared to a Pi. For your point on ARM specifically, that’s a feature my friend. Alternative cpu architectures are pretty interesting, and I personally have been an avid RISC-V follower for years now, and am absolutely thrilled to bits waiting for a standardized RV solution like the Pi. How lucky of you to just be given everything for free, thanks for taking e-waste out of the landfills for a little while I guess. Most of us have to buy the products we use, maybe getting something from a friend once in a while.

If you intend on spending any amount of money on this hobby, I cannot express enough how much I recommend against any of that money going toward a Raspberry Pi.

What do you recommend instead?

meteokr , 11 months ago

Friends! Mixed architectures are always exciting, I cannot wait for something as standardized as the Pi for RISC-V.

meteokr , 11 months ago

Arduinos can’t really handle video encoding and presence detection on board. A laptop is extreme overkill, as I said in my post. Don’t want a battery, screen, keyboard, hinges, and fans are a deal breaker. Old laptops are bulky, heavy, have proprietary power bricks that are never cross compatible with each other. A laptop and a SBC are just totally different markets, and are used for totally different things.

meteokr , 1 year ago

Entirely fair, we are in the midst of significant drama between the reddit burndown, and the infancy of the lemmy platform as a whole. For someone wanting to talk to people, and get their feet wet in the fediverse, I think its reasonable to say that the server doesn’t matter. Once you have used the platform, and know what you want then exploring the options is highly encouraged. The exact circumstances of server federation will absolutely change, probably a lot, in the near future.

I treat it akin to someone saying “I want to learn how to play guitar.” I think reasoanble advice is get a cheap used guitar and start learning cords. Once you know if you plan on sticking with it more than a few weeks, go right ahead and start looking at better equipment. I don’t think expecting someone at this stage to start taking musical theory is the best advice. Maybe that is a weak argument, but I don’t think its entirely wrong.

meteokr , 11 months ago

But if a post is receiving discussion, then it IS active. Back in the olden days we would waylay people for not using the search to find previous posts rather than make a new one. If a thread is active and relevant, its age shouldnt just blast it out of existence.

The constant churn of “only new posts are relevant, anything older than a day is functionally archived” of the modern internet landscape is a bad thing in my opinion.