lemmyreader

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lemmyreader ,

Neat.

lemmyreader ,

If you want to go low budget and play around there's lots of SBCs that can run Linux. Check here for example : https://www.armbian.com There's also ones that come as light weight keyboard, for example the pi400 Easy to carry around and put into a HDMI monitor. A drawback is that when using ARM there is sometimes software which only runs on amd64 family though that does not happen very often. Other option is to look at refurbished laptops. If you skip the chromebook ones (Which can be cumbersome to run plain Linux on unless you want to play with Linux and Android on top of ChromeOS) you can find them for 90 Euros or more.

lemmyreader ,

Sure, but just like with flashing custom ROMs on phones, people may break their Chromebook and not get help with it and be stuck. For a Linux beginner a good first and smooth experience may be the best start.

lemmyreader ,

I want to install virtual RMS

Sorry, that package has been removed from Debian repositories

Wait, it is Debian GNU/Linux isn't it ?

Technically yes, but ...

So, how can I install vrms ?

Try the AUR with Arch Linux

But which AUR helper to install ? auracle-git, pbget, repoctl, yaah, aurutils, bauerbill, PKGBUILDer, rua, aura, aurman,
pacaur, pakku, paru, pikaur, trizen, or yay ?

........... wait, back in a few minutes

lemmyreader ,

mount -t fat32 /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi

Try : mount -t vfat /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi

lemmyreader ,

Run fsck on it ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fsck

lemmyreader ,

From the errors it seems like the partition is damaged, maybe beyond repair. Good that you are able to restore from backup.

lemmyreader ,

Thanks for the laugh 😀

On the search for the ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ decent presentation making software ( lemmy.ml )

In the post-COVID world where so much is done remotely I'm utterly amazed with the absence of a decent app for making slides. I recently went through a long and honestly very disappointing journey for finding the one and only app that fits my needs. And... yeah... there is none. Here are the requirements I have, and I can...

lemmyreader ,

Tried Strut ? : https://github.com/MohannadNaj/Strut

lemmyreader ,

Have not looked at it (and Github won't properly for me right now) but the Github readme had a web link to a newer project of the same author.

ajayiyer , to Linux
@ajayiyer@mastodon.social avatar

I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

  1. Are there good tutorials out there?
  2. What's the annual cost just to host yourself?

@linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

lemmyreader ,

Going for Yunohost on your Pi4 can make things easier, just follow the Yunohost documentation, and later you can ask help in the Yunohost forum if needed : https://yunohost.org/en/install/hardware:rpi34 Instead of Mastodon you can install sometimes more light weight and simple, like GoToSocial : https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog?category=social_media

lemmyreader ,

Looks good, thanks for the hard work!

According to my uBlock Origin your site uses Google fonts which I have blocked. Can you make that more privacy friendly please ?

lemmyreader ,

Apple announced to support it : https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/what-apples-promise-support-rcs-means-text-messaging

lemmyreader ,

https://divestos.org/pages/messengers

Damn Small Linux 2024 ( www.damnsmalllinux.org )

The New DSL 2024 has been reborn as a compact Linux distribution tailored for low-spec x86 computers. It packs a lot of applications into a small package. All the applications are chosen for their functionality, small size, and low dependencies. DSL 2024 also has many text-based applications that make it handy to use in a term...

lemmyreader ,

Nice news. DSL is back.

lemmyreader ,

Nice.

lemmyreader ,

Yes, this! uBlock Origin rocks.

lemmyreader ,

Few years ago I had a collection of maybe fifteen old disks, which I wanted to get rid of, by means of recycling. First I wanted to check the content and then format all so I put them in an external enclosure. It turned out that some disks were unusable. A closer inspection showed that these were all a certain brand and type (Forgot whether it was Seagate or Maxtor or WD). These disks would probably still do fine in a desktop or server computer (Which I no longer had at home) but not with the external enclosure. Perhaps your enclosure is the bottleneck here as well.

lemmyreader ,

Debian

lemmyreader ,

Welcome to the Penguin party ! 🐧 And thanks for sharing your story.

lemmyreader ,

Thanks for the reminder :)

lemmyreader ,

If you like NixOS for its packages, you can install a Systemd free OS, and then add Nix package manager. For example Nix-bin is packaged for Debian and the Systemd free Devuan : https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=package&q=nix-bin&x=submit Here is a very old howto for Void Linux, but maybe still works : https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/01/Using-the-Nix-package-manager.html

lemmyreader ,

Both Snap and Flatpak provide an easy install for the really old, pre 1997, NCSA Mosaic browser. The Snap page gives a hint about how this was done :

Built from source code hosted at: https://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic Thanks to John Lenton for the snapcraft config.

This suggests that if you can build the ROS 1 from source, you have Flatpak and Snap as option, and maybe also AppImage.

Besides that there is also Linux KVM (QEMU) which may perform better than VirtualBox. Cannot find a good page for Ubuntu on it, but here's the KVM entry of the excellent Arch Linux wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KVM

lemmyreader ,

Firewall for incoming traffic :

  • If you a home user with your computer or laptop inside a LAN you would not really need a firewall, unless you start to use applications which expose its ports to 0.0.0.0 rather than 127.0.0.1 (I believe Redis server software did this a few years ago) and do not trust other users or devices (smart home devices, phones, tablets, modems, switches and so on) inside your LAN.

  • If you are running a server with just a few services, for example ssh, smtp, https, some hosting company people I knew argue that no firewall is needed. I am not sure, my knowledge is lacking.

Application firewalls, watching also outgoing traffic :

If you compare Linux with some other Operating System you will see that on Linux for years an application firewall was non existing. But there is a choice now : opensnitch This can be useful if you run desktop applications that you do not fully trust, or want more control.

lemmyreader ,

TL;DR

Don’t use snapchat

TIL that Snapchat is an app used in 2024 without E2EE, Wikipedia article on Snapchat :

Encryption

In January 2018, Snapchat introduced the use of end-to-end encryption in the application but only for snaps
(pictures and video), according to a Snapchat security engineer presenting at the January 2019 Real World Crypto
Conference.[138][139][140] As of the January 2019 conference Snapchat had plans to introduce end-to-end encryption for
text messages and group chats in the future.[141]

lemmyreader ,

Arch Linux, rolling Linux distribution, would give you the newest stable software, with probably new application features, but you can use distrobox, podman-toolbox, VirtualBox, KVM (QEMU) or a live Linux cd image to play with Arch Linux every now and then, without having to install it :)

lemmyreader ,

Yes, agreed with the other comment. Did you check uptime command ? In your system info it shows Uptime : 22 mins. In a terminal you can also type uptime or w

lemmyreader ,

OP wrote "OS or FOSS". What is the license for Matrix, btw ?

The recent problem of maintaining privacy on the Internet (includes Networking)

If any of you have been browsing r/privacy lately you would have come across the British student who had the Air-force literally swarm the flight he was on. This is because he made some joke about a bomb sitting in an airport....

lemmyreader ,

The Snapchat has a word-filter suggestion makes most sense. But then again Cloudflare is very popular on the Internet as the cheap and well-known MITM anti-DDOS tool.

I haven’t read much about i2p, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the government has their paws in there too.

You will have to trust something if you want to communicate, there's also GNUnet, ZeroNet, DeltaChat, and probably a lot more.

lemmyreader ,

If you like Arch-based, there's Manjaro and EndeavourOS.

lemmyreader ,

Yes. I know Manjaro got bad press several times, about their SSL cert and about firing their treasurer but as a Linux distribution Manjaro is pretty decent for the average user, in my opinion.

lemmyreader , (edited )

There's a PPA for neovim, currently at 0.7.x : https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/stable
Oh, sorry, I see NvChad wants 0.9.4 and Nerdfonts (Though not a hard requirement : https://docs.rockylinux.org/books/nvchad/nerd_fonts/).

https://launchpad.net/~neovim-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/unstable -> 0.10.x

lemmyreader ,

Ubuntu uses LTS with five year support, which is why they like to keep a lot of software versions back. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu I think. PPA is something you can add to Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Linux distributions to have newer or specific software repositories as extra on your system. Here's a guide on PPA : https://itsfoss.com/ppa-guide/

lemmyreader ,

According to that article mentioned in my earlier comment you won't need the nerdfonts.

What is a distro with updates of Arch but dependencies of Fedora?

I am currently using EndeavourOS, but am annoyed by the constant daily updates of 1GB and pacman not installing important dependencies automatically (ex: spell checker for document editor). I like the way Fedora works: you update whenever, important dependencies are downloaded automatically, and packages are recent-ish, but I...

lemmyreader ,

Manjaro, even though not loved by most, does this, Arch based but few updates per time unit.

lemmyreader ,

Agreed on using Firefox/LibreWolf and uBlock Origin, I love that combination. I think the thing is that Google Chrome is much faster than Firefox on Android phones (I don't mind, I hardly ever use mobile to browse), and long time habits can be hard to break for some people.

lemmyreader ,

Good one. I'd say it is too late already. USA big tech is almost everywhere, and countless people are addicted to USA big tech, especially on their phones, and do not ask critical questions anymore.

lemmyreader ,

From past forums reading I remember that a boot loader in Linux can have trouble booting properly when you use two different physical drives (Rather than one drive and different partitions), I think it needs to specifically get to know about both drives. Does this help ?

lemmyreader ,

Thanks for that.

lemmyreader ,

Go for LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. Both can be installed natively or with Flatpak or Snap (or maybe AppImage) is a safer bet.

lemmyreader ,

Thanks.

lemmyreader ,

Stalwart looks neat, thanks for mentioning it. 🐧

lemmyreader , (edited )

okay :) I find it interesting because :

  • Build in Rust
  • Supports several databases like rocksdb, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite
  • Seems to support connecting to your current logins setup e.g. LDAP or MySQL db
  • Got funding via NLnet
  • Supports JMAP
  • Does not seem to require Docker (which means for me some flexibility network config wise to run it on an existing server where non Docker based services are running).
  • Encryption at Rest enabled or disabled by user.

Especially the JMAP part I am curious about. I hope to toy with this every now and then, and then report back :)

lemmyreader ,

Ah, yes, you're right, cheers for that, but I am interested to compare JMAP speed and options with IMAP. And to test Stalwart I would not mind using the first and the last three in that Clients list.

lemmyreader ,

Yes :( Unfortunately Chromebooks are really cheap here, and countless people are hooked already to Google products because of their Android phones already, so the choice is easy for them I figure.

lemmyreader ,

Good for you. Recently I visited a family I'm friendly with, and noticed that the parents and the two young kids exclusively use a few Chromebooks. I think this boils down to do with the popularity of web based email (Google) and other services. And banks are pushing for customers to use phone apps.

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