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I was not aware Google Meet even still exists. Haven't heard a peep about it in ages. Everyone uses MS Teams at work, and shitty whatsapp at home.

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I'm sure they meant "in the end" and not "it's about time".

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European banks require strong security. Even a web-based login requires 2FA using the bank's mobile app - so if that app won't run, well, no banking for you today!

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Man, I feel you. I hate Mattermost for its utter inability to run on anything else than port 8065 specifically.

Dell is so frustrating

Dell has got to be one of the most frustrating companies that put out a linux laptop. They put out a laptop certified for ubuntu but then never support newer releases. A big part of their hardware is always proprietary drivers like webcam, fingerprint reader etc.. Then you update to a new LTS release because lets be serious...

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How does one start gemini? I think I have the same beta version installed but don't see any mention of it.

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Thank you for the support link. It tells me I don't have a supported phone 😭

PlutoniumAcid ,
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It says right there in your screenshot that it's the CABLE that can become damaged.

Like 90% of all the apple cables I've ever seen. But I guess that's different.

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I see these posts everywhere, and they are friggin' annoying :-(

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Nope, haven't. It says I have 2 GB of swap on a 16 GB RAM system, and that seems reasonable.

Why would you recommend turning swap off?

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Thank you for these ideas, I will read up on systat+sar and give it a go.

Also smart to have the script always running, sleeping, rather than launching it at intervals.

I know all of this is a poor hack, and I must address the cause - but so far I have no clues what's causing it. I'm running a bunch of Docker containers so it is very likely one of them painting itself into a corner, but after a reboot there's nothing to see, so I am now starting with logging the top process. Your ideas might work better.

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You know you are right, and I've tried. I can manually monitor but it doesn't happen just then. I don't know yet what causes it, I can only assume it's one of the Docker containers because the machine is doing nothing else.

I am doing this to find out how often it happens, how quickly it happens, and what's at the top when it happens.

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That's a good idea, didn't know Docker had such capability. I will read up on that - could you give me some keywords to start on?

PlutoniumAcid OP ,
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Yes, but given the fact that there can we weeks between incidents, that is going go be a long time to be without my services.

Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems

After self hosting several services for a few users, with SSO, backups, hardware issues etc, I really appreciate how good the IT was in my old company. Everything was connected, smooth, slick and you could tell it was secure. I had very few issues and when I did, they were quickly solved. Doing this all at scale for thousands of...

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This insane torture is why there are post-it notes under the keyboards.

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I agree. I am posting about Linux when I use it, but have been back on windows for years now, and guess what - I'm not posting about Linux. This proves your point.

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Read Big brother by Cory Doctorow while you're at it. It is excellent!

PlutoniumAcid ,
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Brother ADS-1700W is amazing!

  • no PC or USB required: place it anywhere
  • WiFi
  • scans a page double-sided to PDF in two seconds!
  • sends file to network share, ready to be consumed by Paperless
  • fully automatic, no button presses needed!
  • tiny footprint
  • document feeder
  • use with separator pages to bulk-scan many documents in one go

😍

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You are right, it's not cheap. I delayed buying one for literally years but once I did, it was a game changer.

How to remotely reboot a Linux host if SSH fails to connect?

Edit2: Thanks all for your responses! I have checked the logs, https://lemmy.nz/comment/6192604, and based on that removed tracker-miner-fs as it's a search/index tool which I don't need. No idea why it took over all memory. I'll also get a WiFi Smartplug as a kill switch. Hopefully that solves it....

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This is how you lose data. Hope you have a good backup on a NAS?

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Yeah, ugh. Anything to be different but that is not helping.

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To be fair, my Galaxy Watch barely gets 30 hours.

100 hours? Hell yes!

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Try using words?

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Joke's on them. As a homelab noob, I just run whatever the Docker containers provide. I will not dive into a nerd cave to adjust to the latest and greatest (fad).

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I have to create a fucking account just to fucking read your article?! Kthxbye!

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"Not available in your country" - am not surprised.

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Parametric is such a leap, when coming from toy blocks like TinkerCad in which I can really easily do all that I want except those sexy fillets...

I really want to learn it but it feels so convoluted and difficult. I'm aware that FreeCAD is not the easiest, and some commercial packages are easier to grok but their licensing is really hostile to simple hobbyists so I am trying to to take the high road, for now anyway.

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Mind. Blown. I had honestly not thought of that possibility. And you say fillets work? Wow, have to try that. Thanks!

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Switch to Colemak and that XCV goodness is right where it needs to be.

Never had a nicer typing experience, thanks to DreymaR introducing me to DHm-angle-wide-mod. Colemak FTW!

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Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what?

Basically title. I waited on installing F droid for a long time because my phone threw many scary warnings when I tried a long time ago. But now I have it, and I got some fossify apps, but since there is no "Editor's Picks" on F- droid I dont really know where to go from here....

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Gentle reminder to everyone that support for ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

  1. Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
  2. Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
  3. Try a beginner friendly distro like . It only takes about two months to acclimate.

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

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And why didn't they just do this as the default?

PlutoniumAcid ,
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How does having a Live account prevent that?

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BUT DOES IT HAVE A HUGE BATTERY? Nothing matters if it can't run two days.

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Amplifying your logic a little, to make the point: A ten-minute battery life would also be no problem, as long as you are near a wall outlet.

But what if I'm camping? Traveling? Using the phone a lot on the go?

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Thank you for providing specific steps that I can take! I will look into this.

No I do not use cloudflare tunnels, just regular cloudflare to publish my services to the whole world - which is a concern of course.

Going with a connection from my device via wireguard sounds like just the right thing to do.

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PiVPN is elegant. Easy install, and I am impressed with the ascii QR code it generates.

But I could not make it work. I am guessing that my Android setup is faulty, orrrr maybe something with the Pi? This is incredibly difficult to troubleshoot.

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Obviously :) and make sure to forward to the correct LAN IP address, and make sure that machine has a static IP (or DHCP reservation).

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I used Zerotier before and I still use it now. It is also the solution I am now going to continue with.

I wanted to try Wireguard to get away from a centrally managed solution, but if I can't get it working after several hours, and Zerotier took five minutes - the winner is clear.

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PiVPN offers both services, Wireguard and OpenVPN.

What app do you use on Android? And on Windows?

PlutoniumAcid ,
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I still have the installation CD's for Red Hat from 2002. I can mail them to you?

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N++ FTW!

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The sheer amount of tech lingo in your post is exactly why most people won't switch. We just want to use the damn thing, not tinker with it all night.

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