bloodfart

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bloodfart ,

if you use obs for streaming i've had better stability out of it on linux than on mac or windows. probably says more about obs than those oses though.

new vegas is gold support listed on protondb, so it probably works fine

do a dual boot install so you can go back when you need to. that means before you install inux, chkdisk, defrag and turn off bitlocker.

make a backup.

bloodfart ,

you'll be fine.

do a dual boot install and play around with reaper. setup wine and see how it does with steven slate.

people are saying use ardour. i don't like it, but you might. my computer music needs are limited to midi and recording inputs, not performing actual synthesis and sampling "in the box".

bloodfart ,

it really reaps the llamas ass.

were you able to get the steven slate vsts running in some host?

bloodfart ,

Now we just need open source directx and direct draw so all the visualizations work and we’re in business.

bloodfart ,

They can’t keep doing this.

Fine, sigh

Agama balls

bloodfart ,

You have two problems.

Transferring between your laptop and desktop is slow. There’s a bunch of reasons that this could be. My first thought is that the desktops got a slow 100mbps nic or not enough memory. You could also be using something that’s resource intensive and slow like zfs/zpools or whatever. It’s also possible your laptops old g WiFi is the bottleneck or that with everything else running at the same time it doesn’t have the memory to hold 40tb worth of directory tree.

Plug the laptop into the Ethernet and see if that straightens up your problems.

You want to work with the contents of desktop while away from its physical location. Use a vpn or overlay network for this. I have a complex system so I use nebula. If you just want to get to one machine, you could get away with just regular old openvpn or wireguard.

E: I just reread your post and the usb is likely the problem. Even over 2.0 it’s godawful. See if you can migrate some of those disks onto the sata connectors inside your desktop.

bloodfart ,

You’re getting a lot of advice in this thread and it’s all pretty good, but not all of it seems to answer the problems you have in your order of priority or under your constraints. I’ll try to give an explanation of why I think my advice will do so then give it.

Getting off usb will speed up file access and increase the number of operations you can do from the laptop on your lan. Some stuff will still need to be copied over locally, normal people like us just can’t afford the kind of infrastructure that lets you do everything over the lan. For those things, rsync is perfectly good, and they’re most likely going to be enough of an edge case that it won’t be very often.

When you’re ready, and from your responses in this thread I’d say you are, a vpn doesn’t expose you to much security risk if any. There are caveats to that, but if you’re doing something like openvpn or wireguard it’s all encrypted and key based and basically ain’t nobody getting into it unless they were to get a key off an old computer you use and didn’t wipe before throwing out or something. That would solve your remote access bonus problem. No pressure and in your own time, of course.

You are me twenty years ago.

Cobbling together solutions from what’s available at the cost of the parts from the hardware store. Serial experiments lain but shot in the trailer park boys set. Hackers with the cast of my name is earl.

Don’t ever change.

So you want to kick the bad habit but don’t have enough physical space in your desktops case or enough sata ports! You have a bigger tower case but don’t know if it’ll really hold the drives you want.

The best bet is to transplant the motherboard and power supply from your sff desktop into the big case. If the big case has at least three 5 1/4 bays you can use a bracket to go from 3 big bays to 4 or 5 smaller 3.5” hdd bays. I’d recommend 4 instead of 5, more on that later.

If the big tower case has the little dangly 2x 3.5 bay cage hanging down from its cd cage, you can use four strips of sheet metal and a carpenters square (or the square corner of some copy paper) to make a column of hdd mounting space all the way to the floor of the chassis. Just remember to use vibration damping grommets.

Make sure when you’re filling your tower up with drives to put some fans blowing on em. Drives need to be kept cool for maximum life. Those 3 cd bay to 4 hdd bay adapter brackets are nice for that because they usually have a fan mount or one included.

Now you need sata (or maybe ide) ports to plug all these in. Someone else already said to use those cheap little sata expanders and those are great. I used an old cheap pc mounted in a salvaged case just like you might with four of em back in the day.

You’ll actually want to use the towers power supply if it has one and it works and matches the sff desktops connectors because it probably has more power capacity than the sff desktops supply. You may need some molex or sata splitters to get power to all your drives.

Consider mergerfs and snapraid once you have this wheezing Frankensteins monster operational.

Mergerfs displays all the drives as one big file system to the system and to users. So if drive one had /pics/dog.jpg and drive two had /pics/cat.jpg then the mergerfs of the two of them would have both pictures in the /pics directory when you open it.

Snapraid is like if raid5 (really zpools because you can have many parity devices) but it only runs once a day or whatever and is basically a snapshot.

Anyway sorry for the tangent. Post some pics of the tower case or its model number or whatever and I can give better advice about filling it with drives.

bloodfart ,

Hey I’m replying again directly to your post in the hopes that I can push against some of the advice you’re getting. My intent is to do an end run around arguing with the people making these suggestions because they’re very smart and made them for good reasons but their ideas aren’t necessarily good for you and I don’t want you to have to go through a troublesome recovery like I did and many people on the internet have.

Do not under any circumstances set up raid or zpools for your data drives once you get them inside a case and on the pcie bus somehow.

In these configurations accessing a file requires spinning up all the drives in the array or pool. Not only is that putting wear and tear on your drives, it increases the temperature of the case and draws much more power. Those conditions lead to drive failure. When your drive fails and you have a spare to use in its place, resilvering (the process of using extra data called parity to rebuild the contents of the failed drive on the spare one) will put those exact conditions on your remaining drives.

For people like us, who may not have a hot spare, or great cooling, or an offsite backup, an array like that will set us up for failure rather than resilience.

Please consider using mergerfs or something like it and a snapshot parity system like snapraid instead.

There are very good use cases for the raid and zpool systems that have been brought up, but you aren’t there. I got there at moderate expense and moved away from them.

bloodfart ,

We’re training too many “security” people.

Decision of Next Os

I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I've decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That's because of users, not OS.. right? I love to deal with problems but I don't want to...

bloodfart ,

I mean, try it. Sometimes you can’t tell if something is the os or the users till you do.

bloodfart ,

Because most oss maintainers are more afraid of their work disappearing due to service shutdowns than they are being profiled by data miners.

Everyone has seen some example of a tool or resource hosted on a persons private server end up taken down because they couldn’t afford it, the isp or university stopped offering hosting or because they simply couldn’t keep doing it due to death or old age.

That’s what people who create software are afraid of. The loss of that creation, not the loss of the privacy of people who contribute to it or download it.

bloodfart ,

All your concerns are true of remote x sessions and while I’m not familiar enough with Wayland to defend this claim, I’d bet they are true of remote Wayland sessions too.

The old way of doing a secure remote x session was by tunneling it through ssh. When I needed remote desktop reachable anywhere I used passwordless 2fa ssh as the tunnel.

How exactly were you planning on initiating this connection to the host machine from an untrusted client, using their binaries?

bloodfart ,

Someone else said to get a usb2.0 hub. This fixes the problem.

USB is a bad standard for a lot of reasons. The hid specification across versions is one of em.

bloodfart ,

i think you just nuked your home partition.

bloodfart ,

no

bloodfart ,

Real time midi sequencer for the trs-80 model 100

bloodfart ,

Rip keep ass xc emacs style defaults.

Keepassxc systemd integration when?

bloodfart ,

Ventoy is great! Except that it doesn’t fucking work!

Just write your iso to a normal little usb with sd or whatever the distro recommends.

My ventoy keyring has a few extra usbs on it for this exact problem. I just boot something that will work with ventoy and use dd to make one of the extras into whatever it needs to be.

bloodfart , (edited )

What does lsblk say?

E: uhh, let me be clear, use lsblk to figure out what the name of your encrypted volume is then append it to the unlock commands. You have to specify both the physical device (/dev/sda2?) and the encrypted volume name.

bloodfart ,

Hmm, I hat about lsblk -a?

bloodfart ,

Wait it was already unlocked and ready to go?

bloodfart ,

Ddeez nuts

bloodfart ,

No one verifying images for meta is a techbro. That’s indonesian work.

bloodfart ,

It’s not happened like that in the past.

If protesters are armed then the police tend to back off.

Of course, the government then has to choose wether or not to drop bombs on the protesters, but the odds are way, way against that.

bloodfart , (edited )

I also use lxqt as a desktop environment and when I click on removable drives it uses the pmount command to present them in user space.

here’s some information

E: someone already said pmount. Good looking out lemmyreader

bloodfart ,

you can always gain 100 lbs and grow a bunch of body hair. the lxqt door remains open to you.

bloodfart ,

If you wanna try rhel they let you install to a handful of machines for free.

bloodfart ,

Good! Android people ought to have the same tag tracking quality as iOS ppl.

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

bloodfart ,

Distro choice doesn’t matter. Alternately, just use Debian.

It’s hard to use a different computer and nothing will make that easier. If you’ve ever been plopped down in front of a Mac you probably already know this.

Pay attention during the install process and ask questions when you don’t understand something. Don’t be afraid to bail out if you’re worried about messing something up. Make a backup so you can’t lose anything when you do mess something up.

Dual booting is what you’ll do to start with, but windows updates tend to break the system that allows you to choose Linux or windows at boot time. The first time it happens you’ll have to figure out a way to fix it.

bloodfart ,

I get what you’re saying, but that’s bad advice for a new user. They’re already gonna be having to relearn how the computer works and how to fix stuff that breaks/make it do what they want.

It’s more important to have a broadly supported and used system with ample documentation in that situation than it is to have the most recent packages.

bloodfart ,

I agree that some stuff has gotta stay up to date, I guess I see that more as part of learning how the system works and how to break it/weld shit onto it problem instead of starting from a rolling release.

bloodfart ,

Now I’m not sure I’m the one who understands!

I was saying that it’s better for a new user to come to the understanding that their system has its own version of everything and learn how to work around that when they need to rather than start from a rolling release where everything is as new as possible.

bloodfart ,

I guess if you think flat packs and snaps and rolling releases are gonna replace the usual way Linux distributions have done things then that would be good advice for a new person.

No matter the merits of either position, I think the better advice for a new user is to learn how things are now rather than learning the rolling way.

It’s worth noting that neither way is directly analogous to how windows or macOS handle software updates because… they generally don’t! Aside from software out of either systems store, user downloaded software is now expected to run its own update when it’s launched.

Maybe that’s more like snaps because doesn’t snapd periodically run and check for stuff?

bloodfart ,

I didn’t even consider appimages. What a nightmare this all must be.

bloodfart ,

Imma star writin out mu accent jus ta piss u off.

bloodfart ,

Who care?

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    bloodfart ,

    your wireless adapter is not connected to your wireless network. you don't have nmtui, but you ought to have nmcli by default, here's ubuntu.com on how to use it to get connected, for free! with education connection

    bloodfart ,

    you need libclc 18 from sid.

    here's the files you need in its file list

    bloodfart , (edited )

    you ought to be able to specify the version to install of libclc after mesa-opencl-icd is installed, you could instead force the newer libclc 18 with dpkg. you can also create a vile mutant install by adding sid backports or repository to your perfectly fine stable install. here are some resources to help you destroy your system

    e: i was hoping that last sentence would be clearly four links because of underlining but that's not working, here it is in cursed haiku format:

    here are

    some resources

    to help you

    destroy your system

    bloodfart ,

    Hell yeah.

    Congratulations!

    bloodfart ,

    You used to connect without a password, right?

    bloodfart ,

    whats the router?

    bloodfart , (edited )

    hardware version?

    e: i looked and there's only v1 and v2 and they're both supported by openwrt. you can use the openwrt alternative router firmware to enable many more options and abilities. your router is dual firmware too, so it's possible to keep the old one installed in case you wanna jump back to it.

    you can (when you feel like it) make your router into a real-ass linux based gateway router that does all kinds of crazy shit like lets you use SMB2 and up to access files shared from it and other things

    install openwrt on v1

    install openwrt on v2

    setup samba filesharing on openwrt

    bloodfart ,

    Take your time and don’t rush, make sure you understand what you’re trying to do and how to do it. Double check that everything still works and verify that you know how to get to the “b” firmware incase you screw up the “a”. Verify that the “b” is configured appropriately.

    bloodfart ,

    that's not how it works.

    your vpn doesn't do anything to mitigate broswer fingerprinting. websites use browser fingerprinting to identify a unique browser no matter the ip its connecting from. when i connect through mullvad's french server, it identifies my browser just like when i connect through any other server.

    most of the time those sites even clock that i'm connecting through a vpn.

    a computer that is connected to some vpn and downloads a torrent while also visiting a website that fingerprints their browser will not have the two conflated unless the attacker can match traffic coming out of the vpn and traffic going into the computer.

    that information wouldn't be useful to an attacker unless they also had access to the website that fingerprinted the browser and were part of the torrent swarm so they could actually say yes, browser 12345 and user 34567 downloading The_Mummy_CrAcK_DeNuVo.mp4 are the same person and they were at this ip that corresponds to this router at this physical location and when we confiscate their computer we can verify their browser has the fingerprint, open and shut case, book em' dano.

    if you disconnect from your vpn intermittently it actually makes those checks easier because then the attacker can say "look, browser 12345 is coming from both the french mullvad node and from this little coffee shop in taipei! get em!"

    a single vpn proxy can't protect you from a hypothetical hostile whole ass internet.

    bloodfart ,

    Wsl2 lets windows do ext4

    How do you handle your passwords?

    I rely on Bitwarden (slooowly migrating from... a spreadsheet...) and am thinking of keeping a master backup to be SyncThing-synchronized across all my devices, but I'm not sure of how to secure the SyncThing-synchronized files' local access if any one of my Windows or Android units got stolen and somehow cracked into or...

    bloodfart ,

    What matters is that the backups are done at the appropriate intervals and verified to be readable.

    You can figure out what interval is appropriate. Some people have to make sure every picture is saved, some people are fine losing a month of stuff.

    Verifying the backup is valid equally important. You don’t wanna find out it was misconfigured and didn’t get your user directories when you try to restore. Just open one up and look to see every once in a while.

    At least fifteen years ago you could set up windows backups through the control panel > backup or something menu. Now on 10 it’s settings > updates and security > backups.

    You can click add drive from there and designate a usb or something as your backup drive.

    Then set an alarm to make sure you remember to do it at the designated interval.

    With android the easiest thing is to sync it to a computer that gets backed up.

    You can use cloud services instead of a hard drive too, but often simple and easy to understand is the best place to start.

    Do you know why it’s important to have backups before using full disc encryption?

    bloodfart ,

    The lockout I see most often isn’t from people forgetting a password or key, but from motherboard failure with a key stored in the motherboards tpm or cpu.

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