lemmyreader

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I tried, I really did

I’ve been an IT professional for 20 years now, but I’ve mainly dealt with Windows. I’ve worked with Linux servers through out the years, but never had Linux as a daily driver. And I decided it was time to change. I only had 2 requirements. One, I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM and I need to be able...

lemmyreader, (edited )

Sorry to hear it didn’t work out for you :(

To squeeze in a metaphor : Linux is just a hobby project that kind of got out of hand in a previously Microsoft dominated world.

In the BSD world (FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD etc.) things are actually much worse. I’ve read that on computer conferences BSD developers come with an Apple Macbook (Running MacOS) to show BSD software development, which is running on servers. And I like BSD, but on the desktop it is still lacking. One only has to look at the amount of packages which no longer have a maintainer. I am not complaining about it, as I realize that maintaining open source software can be a burden.

If you want to play some more with Linux on the desktop, you can use WSL on Microsoft Windows, or use VirtualBox. Wanting to make Linux your daily driver may require more patience, or throwing money at it to speed up code development.

lemmyreader,

Paris. OP wrote as comment :

This is on my walk to work. The best thing about pedestrian streets in Paris is they help you avoid the dog shit covered sidewalks.

lemmyreader,

Maybe you can find a second hand pi-top laptop, and tinker with your own SBC, and go on from there making your own ?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1c3bba47-1bf6-447f-be5a-5dc3a97b4c14.png

lemmyreader,

What do you mean with custom domain option ? Email providers like mailbox.org, Tuta, Proton, Zoho and hosting providers (e.g. Gandi) can let you use a custom domain email for email. Or do you mean your own webmail custom domain login page ?

lemmyreader,

+1 for these that I also use : fzf flameshot and redshift !

lemmyreader,
  • Trying Linux in VirtualBox for 3D gaming or video editing will give you poor performance. You may get better performance running Linux from a Linux live usb/cd image.
  • For video editors Shotcut is gaining popularity and features. It is also available for Windows so you can try it without a Linux installation : shotcut.org/download
  • Not sure if for video editing you should go for a specific Linux flavor, like ubuntustudio.org but “distro-hopping” is not a bad thing in my opinion. Try a few Linux distributions and see what you like and dislike, and then decide on your favorite. A tool like Ventoy can make it very easy to have ten or more Linux flavors on your usb pen drive to play with.
lemmyreader,

🦌 👍

lemmyreader,

Yes !

lemmyreader,

I ran some random test (its passmark memtest86 v9.3 pro) on my medicat usb. Right now its 92% finished with 1070 errors. This just can’t be good :(

Not familiar with medicat. Are you saying memtest86 gave you 1070 errors ? Then one of RAM modules is faulty. Or is this about the hard disk and bad blocks ?

gentoo doesnt have systemd (I want to use Mullvad as my vpn and their app reqires it).

If I recall correctly it is technically possible to run Mullvad and OpenVPN manually without systemd for example on a SBC (pi4 etc.) as your LAN router, and feed it to your devices, but yeah this is a bit cumbersome.

lemmyreader,

If you want to go low budget and play around there’s lots of SBCs that can run Linux. Check here for example : www.armbian.com There’s also ones that come as light weight keyboard, for example the pi400 Easy to carry around and put into a HDMI monitor. A drawback is that when using ARM there is sometimes software which only runs on amd64 family though that does not happen very often. Other option is to look at refurbished laptops. If you skip the chromebook ones (Which can be cumbersome to run plain Linux on unless you want to play with Linux and Android on top of ChromeOS) you can find them for 90 Euros or more.

lemmyreader,

Sure, but just like with flashing custom ROMs on phones, people may break their Chromebook and not get help with it and be stuck. For a Linux beginner a good first and smooth experience may be the best start.

lemmyreader,

I want to install virtual RMS

Sorry, that package has been removed from Debian repositories

Wait, it is Debian GNU/Linux isn’t it ?

Technically yes, but …

So, how can I install vrms ?

Try the AUR with Arch Linux

But which AUR helper to install ? auracle-git, pbget, repoctl, yaah, aurutils, bauerbill, PKGBUILDer, rua, aura, aurman, pacaur, pakku, paru, pikaur, trizen, or yay ?

… wait, back in a few minutes

lemmyreader,

Was fun reading it, and brilliant. Thanks! :)

lemmyreader,

mount -t fat32 /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi

Try : mount -t vfat /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi

lemmyreader,

Run fsck on it ? wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fsck

lemmyreader,

From the errors it seems like the partition is damaged, maybe beyond repair. Good that you are able to restore from backup.

lemmyreader,

Thanks for the laugh 😀

ajayiyer, to linux
@ajayiyer@mastodon.social avatar

I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

  1. Are there good tutorials out there?
  2. What's the annual cost just to host yourself?

@linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

lemmyreader,

Going for Yunohost on your Pi4 can make things easier, just follow the Yunohost documentation, and later you can ask help in the Yunohost forum if needed : yunohost.org/en/install/hardware:rpi34 Instead of Mastodon you can install sometimes more light weight and simple, like GoToSocial : apps.yunohost.org/catalog?category=social_media

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lemmyreader,

Nice news. DSL is back.

lemmyreader,

Yes, this! uBlock Origin rocks.

lemmyreader,

Few years ago I had a collection of maybe fifteen old disks, which I wanted to get rid of, by means of recycling. First I wanted to check the content and then format all so I put them in an external enclosure. It turned out that some disks were unusable. A closer inspection showed that these were all a certain brand and type (Forgot whether it was Seagate or Maxtor or WD). These disks would probably still do fine in a desktop or server computer (Which I no longer had at home) but not with the external enclosure. Perhaps your enclosure is the bottleneck here as well.

lemmyreader,

Welcome to the Penguin party ! 🐧 And thanks for sharing your story.

lemmyreader,

If you like NixOS for its packages, you can install a Systemd free OS, and then add Nix package manager. For example Nix-bin is packaged for Debian and the Systemd free Devuan : pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=pa… Here is a very old howto for Void Linux, but maybe still works : voidlinux.org/…/Using-the-Nix-package-manager.htm…

lemmyreader,

Firewall for incoming traffic :

  • If you a home user with your computer or laptop inside a LAN you would not really need a firewall, unless you start to use applications which expose its ports to 0.0.0.0 rather than 127.0.0.1 (I believe Redis server software did this a few years ago) and do not trust other users or devices (smart home devices, phones, tablets, modems, switches and so on) inside your LAN.
  • If you are running a server with just a few services, for example ssh, smtp, https, some hosting company people I knew argue that no firewall is needed. I am not sure, my knowledge is lacking.

Application firewalls, watching also outgoing traffic :

If you compare Linux with some other Operating System you will see that on Linux for years an application firewall was non existing. But there is a choice now : opensnitch This can be useful if you run desktop applications that you do not fully trust, or want more control.

lemmyreader,

Yes :( Unfortunately Chromebooks are really cheap here, and countless people are hooked already to Google products because of their Android phones already, so the choice is easy for them I figure.

lemmyreader,

Good for you. Recently I visited a family I’m friendly with, and noticed that the parents and the two young kids exclusively use a few Chromebooks. I think this boils down to do with the popularity of web based email (Google) and other services. And banks are pushing for customers to use phone apps.

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