I'm a long time Windows user who has experience with WSL. Last year, I needed a laptop for university, and out of laziness, opted for a Macbook since, although they're expensive as hell, are reasonably reliable....
I have a laptop with an easily accessible m.2 slot, which I use with an m.2 to pcie x16 adapter to connect an external desktop grapics card to game and run ai.
apart from that, a diy nas running opensuse and a couple vms for dns, remote nas access, etc
These adapters only exist for pcie 3.0 and m.2 slots for ssds have 4 lanes at best, so you should expect performance to be between thunderbolt 4 and a full x16 slot in a desktop, but it's been working very reliably for me and is absolutely faster than the iGPU in my laptop.
You do typically need a desktop power supply connected to the adapter though, but since it only needs to power the card, it's fine to go with a lower power one.
I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...
Ubuntu will ask you if usage data can be collected and sent to canonical when you first log in after installation. You get to look at the exact data that would be sent before making a decision and if you say no, then they'll comply with that and never ask you again.
Mod organizer has a linux install script on github that I've used without issues before. I play skyrim on Ubuntu 23.10 with well over 100 mods and it's been largely just the same as on windows.
I have SSHFS on my server and would like to have it automatically mounted and store all of the documents, desktop, downloads, etc. on a couple computers. I am able to get it to all work except for mounting on startup. The server is Debian 12 and both clients are Tumbleweed. Nothing in fstab seems to work. When I add...
Write a systemd service, that's how my computers mount my nas.
you just need to have it run under your user instead of root or point it towards the right keys manually.
I just have them check for my wifi. If that's what they're connected to, then the nas is available. If not, then there's no point trying to mount it. However, one day every month my nas pulls updates and shuts down afterwards, so that I need to boot it again when I get home from work. But my laptop boots just as fast as it normally does, even though it fails to connect to the nas.
Every so often i start believing all the posts about how Linux really made a lot of progress, and the desktop experience is so much better now, and everything is supported, and i give it another try....
This could be great for people on old hardware, because it reduces installation times drastically. But old computers also benefit the most from custom, highly optimized compilation, so I don’t really see the point of this move.
I opened my laptop for unrelated reasons and was greeted by a slightly bloated battery. Idk if the picture makes it clear, but the individual segments of the battery have slightly raised above the solid structure pieces in between. Laptop is just over a year old....
Thank you for the reply, but I live in an apartment and I don’t think people would appreciate me placing potentially explosive things on the road outside. I’ll take it out of the laptop and bring it to a local recycling center tomorrow.
I know! I have to use windows at work (IT Admin) and using powershell always makes me wish the software we need ran on Linux. Just today I needed to extract a partition image with dism and it just did nothing for half an hour before the progress bar even came up. People say that Linux is buggy but gnome gives me way less headaches than windows 11.
“The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has introduced the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023–an absolutely awful bill that ignores years of abuse and unconstitutional surveillance in order to renew a mass surveillance law with no real changes, reforms, or new oversight....
Hey all, I have a RTX 3060 and a Ryzen 5600G and I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Since Steam has shader pre-processing on Linux I thought I'd ask on a Linux gaming community about this. I noticed that when Steam processes Vulkan shaders, it uses the CPU (my CPU heats up a lot and the process manager shows CPU being used while GPU is not...
There are some speculations about TPM uncontrollably sending data to manufacturer servers if a laptop has any Internet connection. Others say it’s not intended/capable of that, like this answer for example (which is 5 years old though)....
Why is Graphene listed as Google play incompatible? They have far and away the best implementation of google play services if the user chooses to install them.
Because my NAS isn’t used while I’m at work, I set up a systemd service that reliably suspends the OS to memory at the same time every day (excluding weekends), and uses rtcwake to then wake it up again just before I typically get home from work. I also have an alias set up on my laptop to send a magic packet to the NAS in...
Hi everybody, I recently installed OpenSuse Leap, but I have trouble working with firewalld. The goal is to accept incoming ssh and vnc connections from two IPs exclusively, but it just does’nt work. I removed all interfaces from zone public, set the internal zone up so that it has only the two IPs as sources and only the ssh...
Thank you so much, removing the subnet part actually fixed it!! I thought I’d have to be more specific than just the IP, but listing them bare is apparently how you do it.
I currently have a personal nas running ubuntu server, but I’m considering moving it to opensuse leap. I’ve dabbled a bit with leap inside of virtual machines, but maybe someone more experienced with it can give me a more complete opinion. Also, is btrfs worth getting into, or can I just use ext4 and loose out on nothing...
Thank you for the answer! Maybe I should look into btrfs a bit more, as I am honestly interested in learning new things (thus wanting to switch), but I’m also scared easily when the amount of things to learn increases beyond my level of comfort. The NAS is supposed to serve as the host for a couple virtual machines as well, like a pihole-VM for my home network and another VM that serves as the entry point from the internet so that I can access my nas on the go. All of that is already set up and running with the nas being on ubuntu, but I have new hardware ordered and want to try something new to go along it while keeping the functionality that’s currently covered.
I like to mess around with things, but not always and I do need to work on my patience if stuff doesn’t work and I dont understand why. That’s why I figured leap would be a good ubuntu-replacement, as it’s not as involved as something like arch would be, while also being different enough from ubuntu for me to gain more experience. Your btrfs-raid is still done through mdadm though, right? Btrfs does not come with integrated raid-like features like zfs does?
Privacy. Sync includes Google trackers, whereas other apps for lemmy do not. I get it though, gotta make money somehow. Still, I’d rather use something else and donate to the dev on occasion.
idk if the other commenter experienced the same bug as I did, but for me, deleting characters in the comment text box would also delete the last space. So, for example, if I typed “idk if the other commenzr”, and I started deleting the ‘r’ and then ‘z’, the text would turn into "“idk if the othercommen”. It would just keep going like that. Otherwise Jerboa is fantastic though, but it get’s annoying fast.
Moving to a Linux distro for dev
I'm a long time Windows user who has experience with WSL. Last year, I needed a laptop for university, and out of laziness, opted for a Macbook since, although they're expensive as hell, are reasonably reliable....
Finally made the move ( lemmy.world )
Just don't ask how long it took to get my dGPU working properly :D...
Best Graphic card for Linux Gaming ( lemmy.wtf )
Are they some graphic card benchmark for linux environment ?...
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HN Discussion...
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I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...
I installed Windows 10 in a virtual machine...man, this is straight up dystopian.
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/be22ba36-0ad7-4d26-91d0-46ee2a934846.png...
My Windows 10 install broke, but I'm hesitant to switch to Linux.
As the title say's, my Windows 10 install broke, but I'm still unsure whether or not to reinstall Windows 10 or install Linux....
How do I automount sshfs?
I have SSHFS on my server and would like to have it automatically mounted and store all of the documents, desktop, downloads, etc. on a couple computers. I am able to get it to all work except for mounting on startup. The server is Debian 12 and both clients are Tumbleweed. Nothing in fstab seems to work. When I add...
Is it me or is (desktop) Linux still a terrible experience?
Every so often i start believing all the posts about how Linux really made a lot of progress, and the desktop experience is so much better now, and everything is supported, and i give it another try....
Gentoo goes Binary! – Gentoo Linux ( www.gentoo.org )
bad battery? ( lemmy.world )
I opened my laptop for unrelated reasons and was greeted by a slightly bloated battery. Idk if the picture makes it clear, but the individual segments of the battery have slightly raised above the solid structure pieces in between. Laptop is just over a year old....
Trying to narrow down an extremely infuriating issue with Mesa on an AMD GPU
I have a few questions, please comment if you match all of most of these:...
"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming" ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
(The “Windows” slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur’s Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)
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EFF call to action against government spying ( act.eff.org )
“The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has introduced the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023–an absolutely awful bill that ignores years of abuse and unconstitutional surveillance in order to renew a mass surveillance law with no real changes, reforms, or new oversight....
mass-install tool - Install software to classroom PCs
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Steam using CPU to process vulkan shaders instead of GPU? ( kbin.social )
Hey all, I have a RTX 3060 and a Ryzen 5600G and I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Since Steam has shader pre-processing on Linux I thought I'd ask on a Linux gaming community about this. I noticed that when Steam processes Vulkan shaders, it uses the CPU (my CPU heats up a lot and the process manager shows CPU being used while GPU is not...
How bad is TPM on a laptop for privacy?
There are some speculations about TPM uncontrollably sending data to manufacturer servers if a laptop has any Internet connection. Others say it’s not intended/capable of that, like this answer for example (which is 5 years old though)....
Hacking your robot vacuum ( www.theverge.com )
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WakeOnLAN on OpenSUSE Leap
Because my NAS isn’t used while I’m at work, I set up a systemd service that reliably suspends the OS to memory at the same time every day (excluding weekends), and uses rtcwake to then wake it up again just before I typically get home from work. I also have an alias set up on my laptop to send a magic packet to the NAS in...
firewalld
Hi everybody, I recently installed OpenSuse Leap, but I have trouble working with firewalld. The goal is to accept incoming ssh and vnc connections from two IPs exclusively, but it just does’nt work. I removed all interfaces from zone public, set the internal zone up so that it has only the two IPs as sources and only the ssh...
wanted: opinions on opensuse leap
I currently have a personal nas running ubuntu server, but I’m considering moving it to opensuse leap. I’ve dabbled a bit with leap inside of virtual machines, but maybe someone more experienced with it can give me a more complete opinion. Also, is btrfs worth getting into, or can I just use ext4 and loose out on nothing...
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