Things like desktop automation, screen sharing, screen recording, remote desktop etc. are incredibly broken, with no hope in sight because the core design of Wayland simply didn't account for them(!?), apparently.
Add to that the decision to push everything downstream into compositors, which led to widespread feature fragmentation and duplicated effort.
Add to that antagonizing the largest graphics chipset manufacturer (by usage among Linux desktop users) for no good reason. Nvidia has never had an incentive to cater to the Linux desktop, so Linux desktop users sending them bad vibes is... neither here nor there. It certainly won't make them move faster.
Add to that the million little bugs that crop up when you try to use Wayland with any of the desktop apps whose developers aren't snorting the Koolaid and not dedicating oustanding effort to catching up to Wayland – which is most of them.
people dont like change
I cannot use Wayland.
I'm an average Linux desktop user, who has an Nvidia card, has no need for Wayland "security", doesn't have multiple monitors with different refresh rates, uses desktop automation, screen sharing, screen recording, remote desktop on a daily basis, and uses lots of apps which don't work perfectly with Wayland.
...how and why would I subject myself to it? I'd have to be a masochist.
Honestly I'll just send it back at this point. I have kernel panics that point to at least two of the cores being bad. Which would explain the sporadic nature of the errors. Also why memcheck ran fine because it only uses the first core by default. Too bad I haven't thought about it when running memtest because it lets you select cores explicitly.
Welp no change. I'm guessing the motherboard firmware already contained the latest microcode. Oh well, was worth a try, thank you.
It's a pain in the butt to swap CPUs one more time but that may pale in comparison to trying to convince the shop that a core is bad and having intermittent faults. 🤪
This sounds like my best shot, thank you.
I've installed the amd-ucode package. It already adds microcode to the HOOKS array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and runs mkinitcpio -P but I've moved microcode before autodetect so it bundles code for all CPUs not just for the current one (to have it ready when I swap) and re-ran mkinitcpio -P. Also had to re-run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
I've seen the message "Early uncompressed CPIO image generation successful" pass by, and lsinitcpio --early /boot/initramfs-6.12-x86_64.img|grep micro shows kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin, there's a /boot/amd-ucode.img, and an initrd parameter for it in grub.cfg. I've also confirmed that /usr/lib/firmware/amd-ucode/README lists an update for that new CPU (and for the current one, speaking of which).
Now from what I understand all I have to do is reboot and the early stage will apply the update?
Any idea what it looks like when it applies the microcode? Will it appear in dmesg after boot or is it something that happens too early in the boot process?
BIOS is up to date, CPU model explicitly listed as supported, memtest ran fine, not using XMP profiles.
All hardware is the same, I'm trying to upgrade from a Ryzen 3100 so everything should be compatible. Both old and new CPU have a 65W TDP.
I'm on Manjaro, everything is up to date, kernel is 6.12.17.
Memory runs at 2133 MHz, same as for the other CPU. I usually don't tweak BIOS much if at all from the default settings, just change the boot drive and stuff like "don't show full logo at startup".
I've add some voltage readings in the post and answered some other posts here.
Everything is up to date as far as I can tell, I did Windows too.
memtest ran fine for a couple of hours, CPU stress test hang up partway through though, while CPU temp was around 75C.
Yep, it's explicitly listed in the supported list and BIOS is up to date.
RAM is indeed at 2133 MHz and the cooling is great, got a tower cooler (Scythe Kotetsu mark II), idle temps are in the low 30's C, stress temp was 76C.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte B450 Aorus M. It's fully updated and support for this particular CPU is explicitly listed in a past revision of the mobo firmware.
Manual doesn't list any specific CPU settings but their website says stepping A0, and that's what the defaults were setting. Also I got "core speed: 400 MHz", "multiplier: x 4.0 (14-36)".
even some normal batch cpus might sometimes require a bit more (or less) juice or a system tweak
What does that involve? I wouldn't know where to begin changing voltages or other parameters. I suspect I shouldn't just faff about in the BIOS and hope for the best. :/
CPU errors?
I'm trying a new CPU in my PC (Ryzen 5500GT) and I'm seeing:
- Sporadic kernel panics during boot.
- Random .ko.zst module files (different one each boot) complaining that ZST decompression failed checksum.
- Random .so's failing to find a symbol and causing programs to crash/fail to start.
- Started a stress-ng sequential session at 5s per stressor and it hung up after a dozen stressors. Couldn't ctrl-c it and also
psdidn't work anymore. 😅
Funny thing is, other than that the system runs fine (when it boots, that is).
Switched back to my old CPU (that's the only change in the machine) and all of these things stopped.
That CPU that's doing that is defective, correct? Just double-checking I'm not missing anything else.
I've reset BIOS between CPU swaps and left it at defaults. Could default settings cause a CPU to act like this?
Edit: cooling is good, all temps (chipset, CPU etc.) are in the 30's C in idle, CPU went up to 75C when stressed. Have a tower cooler (Scythe Kotetsu)
The problem is that the main container can (and usually does) rely on other layers, and you may need to pull updates for those too. Updating one app can take 5-10 individual pulls.
And let's not forget Cortana.
Yes but it's unregulated and like most unregulated TLDs it has become a cesspool of malware and dark dealings. I don't think anybody would never if that were to happen to .io.
Normally that would have been the preferred solution, but since IANA has experienced all kinds of shenanigans on similar occasions they have decided to not allow ccTLD's to survive their former country anymore.
The dev has not made available any means to donate to him directly. He asks that people donate to the maintainers of the block lists instead.
Linux printing is very complex. Before Foomatic came along you got to experience it in all it's glory and setting up a working printing chain was a pain. The Foomatic Wikipedia page has a diagram that will make your head spin.
override the auto driving
I must be tired right now but I don't see how a remote operator could have driven better in this situation.
You can't get away from someone blocking your car in traffic without risk.of hitting them or other people or vehicles.
You probably meant they ought to drive away regardless of what they hit, if it helps the passenger escape a.dire.situation? But I have to wonder if a remote operator would agree to be put on the spot like that.
Great trick, I had no idea Flatpak can use an existing install as a repo!
If you end up with resizing /var as the only solution, please post your partition layout first and ask, don't rush into it. A screenshot from an app like Disk Manager or Gparted should do it, and we'll explain the steps and the risks.
When you're ready to resize, you MUST use a bootable stick, not resize from inside the running system. You have to make a stick using something like Ventoy, and drop the ISO for the live version of GParted on the stick, then boot with it and pick the Gparted live. You'll have to write down the instructions and be careful what you do, and also hope that there's no power outage during.
Is "copy link without tracking" working for you?
It doesn't seem to be doing anything for me, even on large websites like YouTube or Amazon, it basically just copies the link as-is.
Photo manager that deals with RAW and JPG together?
I took some photos at an event and I need to go through them and get rid of the bad ones (eyes closed, things in the shot, out of focus, blurred etc.) I'm not a pro photographer so no idea where to begin with photo apps. I've used RawTherapee and Gimp a bit.
What app will let me quickly browse the photos and handle (delete/tag) photo formats together (both the RAW and the JPG)?
How do you guys use Tailscale (or other VPN) with containers
I wanted to run my VPN/Tailscale setup past you, see if anybody has suggestions on how I could do things better.
- Setup: home LAN (
10.0.0.0/24), router+DNS on10.0.0.1, server running docker containers on10.0.0.2. - LAN DNS points
*.local.dom.tldto the server, public DNS points*.dom.tldto my dynamic public IP. - Containers run in bridge mode with host, expose ports on host IPs via "ports:" mapping.
- NPM with LE certs also in container, exposes
10.0.0.2:443, forwards to various other services.
Goals for Tailscale:
- Accessing HTTP services via NPM from my phone when away from home.
- Exposing select UDP and TCP non-HTTP services such as syncthing (:22000) or deluge RCP admin (:58846) to other tailnet devices or to phone on the go.
Goals in general:
- Some containers need to expose ports on the LAN.
- Some containers need to expose ports via Tailscale.
- Some containers need to broadcast on the LAN (DLNA stuff) – but I don't want them broadcasting to Tailscale.
- G
Migrating away from Gandi, 9 months later
I'm posting this in selfhosted because Gandi increasing prices actually helped me a lot with being more serious about selfhosting, made me look into things like DNS and reverse proxies and VPN and docker and also ended up saving me money by re-evaluating my service needs.
For background, Gandi.net is a large and old (25 years) domain registrar and hosting provider in the EU, who after two successive rounds of being acquired by investment funds have hiked up prices across the board for all their services.
In July 2023 when they announced the changes for November I was using their services for pretty much everything because I manage domains for friends and family. That means a wide selection of domains registered with them (both TLDs and European ccTLDs), LAMP hosting, and was taking advantage of their free email hosting for multiple domains.
For the record I don't hold the price hike against them, it was just unsustainable for us. Their email prices (~5€/mailbox/mo) are in line with
Webmail client with decent search and large mailbox support?
I'm thinking of putting all my email archive (55k messages, about 6 GB) on a private IMAP server but I'm wondering how to access it remotely when needed.
Obviously I'd need a webmail client but is there any that can deal with that amount of data and also be able to search through To, From, Subject and body efficiently?
I can also set up a standalone search engine of some sort (the messages are stored one per file in regular folders) but then how do I view the message once I locate it?
I can also expose the IMAP server itself and see if I can find a mobile app that fits the bill but I'd rather not do that. A webmail client would be much easier to reverse proxy and protect.
What bootable "live" images of useful tools?
I've repurposed a 32 GB M.2 SATA SSD as a bootable "USB stick" and I'm putting useful tools on it. So far I've got memtest, seatools, gparted live, system rescue, clonezilla, and a live install iso of the distro installed on my PC. What other great bootable tools am I sleeping on?
Recommend me a graphical text editor that can deal with multiple workspaces (or lets you specify instance)
I use multiple workspaces and I open text files all the time.
Once upon a time Mousepad used to behave sanely and would open them in a new tab if there was already an instance on the current workspace, or open a new window (on the current workspace) if there wasn't.
They broke that at some point. Now it's anybody's guess where the file will open. Maybe it opens in a tab in an existing window on this workspace. Maybe in a tab in a window on a random workspace. Maybe a new window on this workspace even though there's one open. I've given up trying to figure it out.
As a last resort I can use wmctrl to figure out how to open the files and can script a sane launcher myself – provided that the editor has --tab and --window options AND lets you specify the window instance. Mousepad has the former but not the latter.
So, do you know any editor that can do it by itself or has those options so I can do it myself? TIA
Subtitles for the despecialized Star Wars fan remakes?
Hi, I'm trying to find the subtitles for Harmy's "Despecialized" Star Wars remakes and I was wondering if anybody has any ideas. The original website for Project Threepio points at a blog that seems abandoned and an old private tracker (MySpleen) that never opens to public anymore. Even just the English subs would be great (the original pack contained extensive language coverage in DVD format so I was given to understand it was quite large). TIA for any hints.
Upgrading a self-hosted server (episode 3)
Upgrading a self-hosted server (3)
- Episode 1: Introduction and plans
- Episode 2: Hardware upgrades and installing Debian stable
- Episode 3: Installing Docker and basic containers (multimedia, files, printing)
A short intro to Docker
Docker is a lot less complicated than it was made out to be.
Docker is a way of taking a service (something like Plex) and making it work in a sort of "slice" cut out of the real machine's resources (CPU, RAM and disk space). These slices are called containers.
There are several benefits:
- If someone breaks into one of your services, they only reach one container not the real machine, and not any of the other containers.
- It's very easy to restore a container in case of machine reinstall, using "magical" recipe files called "docker compose yaml". If the main OS blows up you just need to reinstall stock Debian stable and Docker, then use the magical recipes.
- The con
Upgrading a self-hosted server (episode 2)
Upgrading a self-hosted server (2)
- Episode 1: Introduction and plans
- Episode 2: Hardware upgrades and installing Debian stable
- Episode 3: Installing Docker and basic containers (multimedia, files, printing)
Adding a secondary disk to the machine
I'd like to have the old system around while tinkering with the new one, just in case something goes south. Also the old system is full of config files and scripts that are still useful.
I was planning to use a spare SSD I had lying around but it was a bit more involved than I'd expected. The machine has two M.2 slots with the old system disk occupying one of them, and 6 SATA ports on the motherboard, being used by the 6 HDDs. The spare SSD would need a 7th SATA port.
I could go get another M.2 but filling the second M.2 takes away one SATA channel, so I would be back to being one port short. 🤦
The solution was a PCI SATA expansion card which I happened to
Easy way to remote share the desktop?
I need a very simple method for non-advanced users to share each other's screen explicitly when they need help. They're running XFCE on Manjaro and the machines involved are using Tailscale. Edit: SSH access is also available, with key authentication.
I need something super simple because they are remote from me and from each other and any graphical setup will have to be assisted sight-unseen over phone. So ideally just (1) install something (which I can do for them over SSH), (2) pick something from the Applications menu and maybe (3) press a big "START" button.
It's also ok-ish if the remote capability is present all the time and I can connect without their explicit permission, but you can see why it would be best if they did something to enable it...
I've been looking for a solution but all I find is stuff that's way too complicated OR starts a new desktop session instead of showing the current one.
Edited: to clarify I'm not the one who will be remoting-in and to mention SSH is
Why I'm leaving Gandi and where I'm going
I've been using Gandi for over 20 years, almost since it was founded. Since being acquired in 2019 by Montefiore Investment and this year by Total Webhosting Solutions their service have become more and more expensive and have finally priced me out.
For context, I administer a bunch of domains, mailboxes and HTML websites for my family and extended family, and I prefer services hosted in the EU because of GDPR and local availability.
This post is meant as a list of practical decisions in 2023 for the small time selfhoster. If anybody wants to comment on what Gandi (or rather TWS) is doing feel free to do so in the comments, I'm curious myself.
Prices I've mentioned use my country's VAT so will vary slightly for you.
Domain names
Domain names have always been a bit on the expensive side with Gandi but they used to include a lot of features for free with them (SSL, DNSSEC, mailboxes, a small static website, WHOIS privacy, local contact for TLDs that need it etc.) and what they a
Upgrading a self-hosted server (episode 1)
Upgrading a self-hosted server (1)
- Episode 1: Introduction and plans
- Episode 2: Hardware upgrades and installing Debian stable
- Episode 3: Installing Docker and basic containers (multimedia, files, printing)
Welcome
Hi, I'm starting a series of posts that will follow the upgrades I'll be doing to a self-hosted machine that serves as NAS and also runs all kinds of self-hosted software. I'm lazy so it will probably take time, don't expect me to post too often.
About me: I've been using Linux exclusively for personal use (both desktop and servers) for about 20 years now. I've used several distributions over the years, I've built my own stuff from source (including kernels) and I've done Linux From Scratch. I'm not a Linux expert or professional sysadmin but I know my way around it, and I can learn what I don't know. So don't be afraid to make any suggestions no matter how complicated.
The current sta
Google is moving reminders to Tasks, any other calendar app with a similar feature?
So I got a notification that Google is going to retire the reminders feature from Calendar and make it a Tasks feature instead.
The only reason I was using Google:s Calendar app was for their reminders (and because they've made it impossible for third party apps to use reminders).
The most important part of reminders for me was the way they worked, by putting up a notification that didn't go away until manually dismissed. Very useful for important stuff like taking a medicine.
Any suggestions for other apps that have similar notifications? It would be great if they were a calendar app, and even greater if they are synced to a calendar over a standard (like CalDAV etc.) so I can self-host it.