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kumi

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  • Are memory cards a reliable medium for mid to long time media storage?

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  • I've had good luck with finding perfectly working internal R/W drives on the local scrap market for cheap. I guess still lots of PCs from that era being junked by offices.

    Sealed 25-50 GB BD RW media go for ~$1 per disc when they randomly show up in the surplus store.

  • LVM question

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  • LVM itself does not provide redundancy, that’s RAID.

    I think this is potentially a bit confusing.

    LVM does provide RAID functionality and can be used to set up and manage redundant volumes.

    See --type and --mirror under man 8 lvcreate.

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • It's more like busking on the street and then feeling offended about not getting any money despite people liking your music. Maybe you're even inadvertently part of some commercial ad shoot profiting of the city vibes. Or offering free trials of a service and then being upset when nobody converts.

    I don't think things you do become "charity" just because others benefit from it and you don't get compensated. The bar is higher than that.

    No reason to expect that everyone will be in a position to do that indefinitely, especially when it comes to massive projects that turn into full time jobs.

    For sure. No strings attached goes both ways.

  • You need to stop using Brave

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  • At least Brave is open source, in contrast to Orion.

  • How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?

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  • My next suspicion from what you've shared so far apart from what others suggested would be something out of the http server loop.

    Have you used some free public DNS server and inadvertently queried it with the name from a container or something? Developer tooling building some app with analytics not disabled? Any locally connected AI agents having access to it?

  • How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?

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  • You say you have a wildcard cert but just to make sure: I don't suppose you've used ACME for Letsencrypt or some other publicly trusted CA to issue a cert including the affected name? If so it will be public in Certificate Transparency Logs.

    If not I'd do it again and closely log and monitor every packet leaving the box.

  • Budgie 10.10 Released as the Desktop’s First Wayland-Based Version

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  • I adored Budgie precisely because it was still on X11 🥲

    Anyway, for a relatively simple and clean holistic GNOME-that's-not-GNOME, it's a very polished desktop. Worth checking out for your F&F.

  • I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great

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  • The need to think about and deal with snaps is the reason I don't recommend Ubuntu to noobs in general. It's confusing and unnecessary and adds to the frustration of being forced to make judgement calls about things you don't want to understand just to do your thing (we have enough of that as it is). And if you do decide against snaps, it's a bit of an uphill battle and it's easy to start feeling that the OS, like what they came from, is antagonistic. Canonical decided to isolate and take control of part of the Ubuntu ecosystem with snaps and that has made the distro a bit more niche compared to before.

    For better or worse Ubuntu is also known to be on the edge with new developments on the desktop. Switching to new shiny desktop environments between major versions, being very early on Wayland-first, etc. Having to learn new OS UI after an upgrade is not ideal if you are not an enthusiast.

    Other than that, Ubuntu can be a fine distro, both for server and desktop. If you either accept the particularities like snaps or know how to work around them, it can be a very good experience and it's well-maintained in general. But it's less of a no-brainer and more situational if it's appropriate or not.

    Like Alpine or Gentoo: Great distros but for different reasons not anything I would recommend a non-technical Linux virgin to replace their Windows or macOS with.

  • I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great

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  • Good first distros for beginners:

    • Linux Mint Debian Edition
    • EndeavourOS
    • Debian
    • Pop! OS
    • Fedora Workstation

    Not Good first distros but still getting picked up by people who don't know:

    • Manjaro
    • Ubuntu
    • Omarchy
    • Zorin
    • Garuda

    Everyone: If you've only used one of the latter, try another distro before you believe "Desktop Linux is not ready" or "Linux is not for me".

    Specifically on Steam: Which hardware you run on can affect on which distro it runs out of the box on and if you need to fiddle with drivers and firmware or not to get things running smoothly. There is also some difference between installation methods (some people swear by the flatpak version and others swear off it).

    Maybe also check the health of your SSD and that your firmware/BIOS are up to date.

  • Replace Windows, Excel needed

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  • In this case they are apparently fine with a personal computer being used

    Where? Looks ambiguous. From all we know this is a work computer provided by the employer. It's more likely to be an oversight or deprioritized/neglected.

    which makes RDP actually a slightly more secure solution

    I do not see how that folllows.

    If both the company and employee are indeed fine with the RDP, it should be no problem to get that confimed from IT in writing.

  • Replace Windows, Excel needed

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  • Separate your personal and work computer

    nods enthusiasticallyImportant for security of both the employee and the company. Don't mix business and pleasure. It's the only thing that makes sense!

    Put Windows and all work related software on a separate work laptop and use remote desktop from your Linux PC to do your job.

    What? No! Keep them separate! This is how people get pwned. Don't backdoor your employers machine from your personal PC or vice versa!

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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    Affordable Raspberry Pi solution for daily Google Slides presentations

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  • Choosing a distro based on repositories near me

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  • dnf --cacheonly

  • Setting up LaTeX on debian?

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  • I run the overleaf (formerly sharelatex) container stack locally and edit in a browser for the rare occasion. Had to patch up the containers a bit but it still seems like less trouble than setting up a proper latex cli env with all the plugins and stuff.

    https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf

  • Keeping persistent history in bash

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  • zsh envy is dead

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • If anyone else is seeing high resource use from seeding: There's quite some spam and griefing happening to at least Debian and Arch trackers and DHT.

    Blocking malicious peers can cut down that by a lot. PeerBanHelper is like a spam filter for torrent clients.

    https://github.com/PBH-BTN/PeerBanHelper/blob/dev/README.EN.md

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • On 1: Autoseeding ISOs over bittorrent is pretty easy, helps strengthening and decentralize community distribution, and makes sure you already have the latest stable locally when you need it.

    While a bit more resource intensive (several 100GB), running a full distribution package mirror is very nice if you can justify it. No more waiting for registry sync and package downloads on installs and upgrades. apt-mirror if you are curious.

    Otherwise, apt-cacher-ng will at least get you a seamless shared package cache on the local network. Not as resilient but still very helpful in outage scenarios if you have more than one machine with the same dist. Set one to autoupgrade with unattended-upgrades and the packages should be available for the rest, too.

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • Yes, Home Assistant has this.

    https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

    Works great. My biggest challenge was finding a decent microphone setup and ended up like many do with old Playstation 3 webcams. That was a while back and I would guess it's easier to find something more appropriate today.