lemmyng

lemmyng , 12 days ago

rapid mitosis

As in you are seeing multiple boot entries? It's likely one entry per kernel version that you have installed. It doesn't happen often these days any more, but in some situations it's handy to be able to revert to a previous kernel if for example third party modules break.

lemmyng , 23 days ago

Not sure about erasing all of it, but it is (or was) certainly possible to delete enough of it to brick a motherboard https://www.phoronix.com/news/UEFI-rm-root-directory

lemmyng , 26 days ago

Just because it has a CVE number doesn't mean it's exploitable. Of the 800 CVEs, which ones are in the KEV catalogue? What are the attack vectors? What mitigations are available?

lemmyng , 26 days ago

The fact that you think it's not possible means that you're not familiar with CVSS scores, which every CVE includes and which are widely used in regulated fields.

And if you think that always updating to the latest version keeps you safe then you've forgotten about the recent xz backdoor.

lemmyng , 26 days ago

I don't know where you got the idea that I'm arguing that old versions don't get new vulnerabilities. I'm saying that just because a CVE exists it does not necessarily make a system immediately vulnerable, because many CVEs rely on theoretical scenarios or specific attack vectors that are not exploitable in a hardened system or that have limited impact.

lemmyng , 28 days ago

You did a recursive chown or chmod, didn't you.

lemmyng , 1 month ago

I've seen it successfully happen due to licensing costs and cloud migration (MSSQL->Spanner), as well as for scalability reasons (vanilla postgres->cockroach). The first one was a significant change in features, the latter did sacrifice some native plugins. In the first case the company was using vendor specific features, and rewrote the backend to fit the new vendor.

There's vendor agnosticism, and then there's platform agnosticism. Writing your code so that it's not tied to one specific implementation of postgres is fine, and lets you use a compatible drop-in. Writing your code so you can swap MSSQL for Oracle or Aurora or whatever at will does not make sense. In every case of attempted platform agnosticism I've seen they ended up abandoning the project within a year or two with nothing to show for it.

lemmyng , 2 months ago

Bazzite is a good HTPC or living room gaming distro. It is not an ideal all purpose desktop distro, just like a Steam Deck is not an ideal all purpose desktop system.

If you want a Bazzite-like experience that is better suited for the desktop then use Fedora Silverblue, which is what Bazzite/ublue builds upon.

lemmyng , 2 months ago

Bazzite, as a gaming-first distribution, makes some choices that are acceptable for such a platform, but that I believe are unacceptable in a secure development environment. This is why I wrote "not ideal" instead of "bad". If you don't care about security then it's perfectly cromulent. But I value security, so I would not recommend it.

lemmyng , 2 months ago

Note that Wasabi has no egress fees, but has a transfer limit - essentially the contract stipulates that your monthly egress will be less than the amount of storage you pay for.

lemmyng , 2 months ago

Your other options are Virtual Box by Oracle or head down the Xen path.

Or, since OP is on Linux, a native KVM option like virt-manager or boxes.

lemmyng , 2 months ago

My mistake. I read your post as you using VMWare Workstation on Fedora, not the other way around.

lemmyng , 2 months ago

Bugs? No, works as intended. But you might want to consider a clipboard manager instead, so that you can sync the clipboard to the selection buffer and vice versa.

lemmyng , 2 months ago

Gpaste can do it. The out of the box experience is a bit hit and miss, but it's plenty configurable and reliable once set up to your liking.

lemmyng , 3 months ago

Up until last year I would have said Ubuntu. It was qualitatively the best desktop choice when I started with it in the aughts, and is still one of the few distros that has a reasonable out of the box install option with LVM. But I recently tried a Silverblue variant and NixOS, and I like what I see. Once I'm comfortable enough I will switch, I'm tired of the ensnapification and the Pro nag screens.

lemmyng , 3 months ago

The biggest downside is that it's only for distributing applications with a graphical user interface. Command line utilities still need another method of distribution.

lemmyng , 3 months ago

impermanent

Isn't that called ephemeral these days?

lemmyng , 3 months ago

If it "holds" the screams as if it was an item, would you be able to pull a scream out of the bag at will? Does than then mean that you can use the bag to prepare verbal components of spells?

lemmyng , 4 months ago

Or ed25519-sk.

lemmyng , 4 months ago

The one thing snap does that flatpak doesn't is provide CLI applications. But then nix also does that, so snap can go pound salt.

lemmyng , 4 months ago

I used a Fractal Design case for a home server in the past. Pretty happy with them.

lemmyng , 9 months ago

Just to clarify, the previous comment asked about benefits of XFS over ext4. But I completely agree with your reasons for choosing ext4.

lemmyng , 11 months ago

Depends on how you intend to maintain it. I started out with a Synology NAS. When that started to give out the ghost I built own so that I could have better control over the software and hardware. It's now a NAS of Theseus - all the parts (even the OS) have been replaced over time, but it's still the same "unit".

The hardest part was deciding on a case. I started with a small form factor as a preference. Nowadays I just pick what gives me good airflow and ease in replacing parts.