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jjlinux ,

Wao, you really let'em have it. Love it.

There's also Session, Simplex, Riot, Delta Chat, etc.

There are plenty of options. Yes, Signal is one of the lesser evils, but certainly not the holly grail as some would make it look.

jjlinux ,

Absolutely. It's probably the most likely to be accepted by people that are in the mainstream apps life, for sure.

jjlinux ,

I also added that to my wife's phone, but "inadvertently" wink set the sensitivity to 5. I had quite a laugh that first day.

Private lock just works, and needs Google like I need hangovers.

jjlinux ,
jjlinux ,

It does only 1 thing and does it well. Has absolutely no connection (Wi-Fi, data, BT). How is that dangerous? I genuinely don't know, which is why I'm asking.

jjlinux ,

I'm going to guess this one doesn't allow to relock bootloader after flashing either?

jjlinux ,

Thanks. I'm stuck with a Nord n200 dre until the end of the month and have it running LineageOS. Unfortunately DivestOS does not have the Dre among the supported devices.

jjlinux ,

Problem solved. You can close this thread now. 🤣

jjlinux ,

This is the voice of reason. Good to see there are some reasonable people still out there.

jjlinux ,

In theory, Kinoite is just the KDE spin of Bazzite (or the other way around, lol).

jjlinux ,

"Defending your rights" and being as loud as possible for the sake of it are 2 completely different things.

The two closest homosexuals in my life are my favorite uncle and my best friend, that happens to be my attorney. My uncle is openly gay, my attorney is married to another woman. This has absolutely NO impact in our interactions. Why? Simple, that's their business, and everyone in their environment understands this.

Guess why I don't have more gay people in my environment. Because I don't like people, precisely because of this incessant need to be loud about irrelevant shit like sexuality. You lack so much of everything else that the only way you have to be seen is your sexual preference? That's the saddest shit ever. That level of emptiness has to be grueling.

If you have to be constantly "defending" your sexuality, you need to examine the environment you have chosen to participate in.

The problem here is not sexual preference, the problem is that sexual preference, for reasons I can't begin to understand, has become the defining factor for people, instead of principles, moral, honesty and just flat out being nice.

When was the last time you saw a "heterosexual" parade, specially with a bunch of people swinging it all out?

Whatever happened to "you do you, I do me"?

jjlinux ,

Pretty much.

jjlinux ,

Also, make sure to install MS Fonts. Otherwise there's a good chance sharing documents with Windows users will mess up formatting. I learned that the hard way.

jjlinux ,

Honest question out of sheer ignorance. Could this, in theory, open doors for an OEM to finally start working on a Linux mobile phone and for devs to spin distros for those phones?

That would make me very happy.

jjlinux ,

Hey, dreaming is still free. Who knows for how much longer though 🤣

jjlinux ,

If Crapple can do it, I see no reason why Qualcomm can't.

jjlinux ,

Yeah, that's the only one that comes to mind if this ever happens.

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  • jjlinux ,

    These guys are running a very cool email option.

    https://www.autistici.org/

    Now, I do believe that they will probably close unused accounts, so there's that. However, as far as I know, there is no other option out there as private as this one. If there are, please share with us as well.

    jjlinux ,

    I could not agree more. Self hosting is fairly easy for pretty much any need, once you get the hang of it. But self hosting email servers is inherently hard and requires too much maintenance. I tried, did, and then dropped. It's a real pain in the ass.

    jjlinux ,

    The domain in mine is paranoici.org, so it's actually pretty accurate 🤣

    jjlinux ,

    I'm as surprised to learn this as you seem to be.

    jjlinux ,

    At the end of the day, you should follow your personal priorities. Everyone that wants to contact me easily uses signal, and I choose to live life without much contact with those that do not use signal. Sure, they can call me over the phone, that's one way to reach me, assuming I don't have it in airplane mode (it spends around 70% of its on time there). But, I am one of those people that don't really care to know about anyone else's life. If they want me to know they'll figure out how to reach me.

    My wife and kids contact me exclusively over session, as do my business partners.

    Haven't been on FB for over 9 years now, and about 7 out of WhatsApp, and I have not missed them at all, not even the first day without. Never had Instagram.

    I killed my Twitter the day before the acquisition by Musk was completed, and enjoy my online time researching self hosting, interacting in Lemmy, and having a few laughs on Mastodon.

    I feel my mental health has improved exponentially because of these choices. But you're going to have to choose where it starts to be a heavy task for you, and I suggest you stop right at that point.

    jjlinux ,

    You mean other than forced Facebook and shit?

    jjlinux ,
    jjlinux ,

    It's a real pain in the ass, for sure.

    jjlinux ,

    I had no idea Gigaset manufactured cell phones. I have a set of their DECT home phones, and they are amazing. Have had them for over 6 years now.

    jjlinux ,

    This is very sound advise.

    jjlinux ,

    And if you can't do monthly, at least donate. These guys do good work for users.

    jjlinux ,

    My understanding is that Mozilla does contribute, but I couldn't say how much or anything.

    Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago... ( slrpnk.net )

    Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it... I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those "important" emails they have to send out. Sadly, years...

    jjlinux ,

    This is a shit show. But from what I've been able to see, when you remove yourself from the companies, as time goes by, there's not much of the data you leave behind that can be easily visible to others, other than whatever company has your data, or who they choose to sell it to.

    I haven't been in any social network for over 8 years now, except X, that I killed my account, coincidentally, the day before the acquisition was announced. Last night I did a Google search for my name in my country, and another one global, and the only place I found info about me, after digging down 30+ pages, was linked-in, which my wife manages for our business. Granted, they all probably hold all the data they got from me when I was stupider, but I'm sure they understand how useless data becomes over time if it's not updated.

    I guess my advantage is that I used Gmail accounts for absolutely everything back then, and since I killed all of them, I never get emails from anyone I'm not directly associated with.

    jjlinux ,

    I have a hard time believing they actually delete anything.

    jjlinux ,

    I'm on Linux from way back when Mandriva was badass. Because of work I spent many years on Windows, from 95 to Windows 7. Returned to Linux in the Form of PopOS and Linux Mint.

    Fast forward to today, been running Fedora or a spin for the last 2 years, with the eventual distro hop only to land back on Fedora.

    My wife and I both run Fedora Gnome on our work PCs, Bazzite on my gaming laptop, and my 10 years old daughter runs Nobara on her laptop.

    All in all, Fedora is always where I come back to. No regrets.

    jjlinux ,

    Could be I'm just lucky, but I upgraded Fedora desktop to 40 while still in beta, and never had any issues with codecs. As a matter of fact, I in every install I immediately install all codecs, as well as MS fonts, never had a single issue.

    jjlinux OP ,

    Thanks a lot, I'll update my progress, if my wife chooses to spare my life once I start 🤣

    jjlinux OP ,

    I do have the advantage of having a mirror of my server 2.5K miles away in my brother's house. That's probably why I'm thinking about being so candidly careless.

    I appreciate the great advise. But now I'm willing to take one for the team and come back with either am horror story or an epic win.

    BRB.

    jjlinux OP , (edited )

    Oh, ok. Mainly 3 things:

    1. Manage all my containers and VMs over ProxMox instead of inside UnRaid directly, effectively leaving UnRaid to be just manage storage only.
    2. This, from my understanding, will in turn allow me to play with container options other than docker (docker is awesome, I know, but it also has limitations), effectively opening new roads of knowledge to me. UnRaid doesn't even support Kubernetes or LXC.
    3. Easier VLAN management in the server side. I have to play with firewall permissions on my PFSense to allow some containers to talk to others. ProxMox, being VLAN aware, would allow me to eliminate those permissions from PFSense and just manage interconnectivity via ProxMox.

    While I'm aware that I can even compose dockers in UnRaid if there's no UnRaid docker template available, it's not the most user friendly way for managing those containers, in my opinion.

    Another reason is that I'm always trying to learn new things, and from my limited experience with ProxMox (I've only been playing with it for about a month or so on an old rig), ProxMox is incredibly easy and powerful when it comes to container and VM deployment. The management options seem to be infinite.

    Your point is very solid, which is why I'm contemplating segregating UnRaid and ProxMox into 2 separate rigs as opposed to virtualizing UnRaid.

    These are hard decisions. Keep just 1 rig and spend way more time and probably migraines configuring this, or just build a new rig for ProxMox and migrate all my containers and VMs to it, which is faster, but will come at a higher monetary price, including power consumption.

    jjlinux OP ,

    You do make a great point. I really am feeling more inclined to spinning up a new rig for ProxMox, and leave my UnRaid to do what it's good at in it's bare metal state as it is today.

    This self hosting rabbit hole runs scarily deep.

    jjlinux OP ,

    Absolutely. This is why I love Lemmy as a whole, and my wife hates it.

    The combined amount of wisdom I've found here interacting with so many smart individuals is a serious treasure of knowledge and a powerful drive to keep exploring and learning.

    jjlinux OP ,

    I actually never considered this. And if I'm understanding you correctly, this would render using UnRaid unnecessary.

    This is great info. I'm going to fit my current ProxMox test rig with a few disks I have (old small disks I have replaced over the years that still work) and test this option first. This might make this easier.

    If this works out, I can still keep the server I set up off-site to mirror my storage, right? Even if that is still UnRaid? I need more coffee.

    jjlinux OP ,

    That's why I built 2 of my boxes, and have them Rsync 2,500 miles away from each other. My brother was nice enough to let me set the backup box in his garage.
    I too was mistakenly under the impression that parity was enough to keep my data safe. Once I went over some horror stories in the forums, I duplicated my purchase, built an exact replica of my box, and then set it up at my brother's house.

    jjlinux OP ,

    Yeah. I told my wife what I wanted to do, and she actually would rather have me spend the money than risk spending too much time if and when I break something.
    I'm thinking a minispc Ryzen 9 or a Ryzen 7 venus, set it up with a 4TB NVMe. That should do the trick. It's a bit over 300 bucks, but will be a bit more future proof. 64GB DDR5, and fire it away.

    jjlinux OP ,

    I'm very inclined to use this method instead.

    I would like to ask for some suggestions on the initial process to migrate the data from UnRaid.

    Considering that:

    • My disk pool is made out of 2 10TB disks, for a total of 20TB
    • It also has a 10TB parity disk
    • The pool is using just -6TB of the storage

    The option I see is:

    • Get another 10TB disk
    • I can clear the parity drive and copy my data from the pool to that disk for migrating
    • Configure the pool disks to RaidZ and once I complete that, use the other 2 disks as parity pool

    Or, I bite the bullet, get brand new 10TB disks, 12 to make it Raidz2 and have a storage pool of 40TB (35 usable?). I'm thinking 4 groups of 3 disks each should do the trick. Then use the same method to migrate my data.

    With 64GB of ECC RAM, I should have a pretty swift storage IOPS that way.

    jjlinux OP ,

    Thanks so much.

    All this info brought me back to the drawing board.

    This led me to start searching for new components, as I'm pretty sure that I will want to build a new rig and just probably donate my current box.

    Thank you, I really appreciate it. My bank account, not so much 🤣🤣

    jjlinux OP ,

    I'll be studying that link you sent me deeply before I start my adventure here.

    I didn't know this rabbit hole was so deep. Love it!

    jjlinux OP ,

    So, if I'm running ProxMox off of 2 NVMe drives in RAID, I can just pass through SATA and USB for the UnRaid VM and just NFS my way to happiness, right?

    I'm still testing each of my UnRaid containers on ProxMox, and so far they all work fine. With a Ryzen 7 5700G and 64GB ECC RAM, I could give the UnRaid VM just 2 cores and 4GB of RAM, and should be smooth sailing from there, right?

    jjlinux OP ,

    Awesome. I am happier every day I'm in Lemmy and out of Reddit. You guys are flat out amazing. Thank you.

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