lka1988
@lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 7 hours ago:
What would happen if you collectively put your foot down on zero “AI code” to management, with such critical applications?
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 9 hours ago:
Why are we running Docker inside LXC? That’s not a wise decision, and is specifically stated as a big “no-no” by both Docker and Proxmox devs.
VMs don’t use as much resources as you realize. I’ve got multiple VMs full of Docker stacks (along with other VMs running various game servers, and several LXCs for various “not set up for Docker” services) spread across three i7-7700T servers; none of them are even close to being taxed.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 9 hours ago:
Proxmox w/VMs for Docker, per your original plan (don’t use Portainer, use “Dockge” instead). You can also use small LXCs for services that aren’t set up for Docker, and Proxmox offers turnkey LXC images to make it that much easier.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 18 hours ago:
Currently running Fedora. Debian is good, but I appreciate being closer to the bleeding edge, and while Flatpaks help bridge the gap, they also make more up-to-date distros remain stable, and you wouldn’t use Flatpaks for system packages which also matter.
That’s absolutely valid. I’m the opposite, in that I’ll add something from
backportsorunstableif I wanna try something more “fresh”. I’ve got a few flatpaks on my Debian desktop systems; not a fan of their sheer size, but I guess having all the dependencies bundled together is kinda the point… I equate Debian to a new Toyota, where the tech might be “outdated” compared to other brands (shipping a 6-speed auto when everyone else is shipping 8/9-speed autos, for example), but they ship it that way because the tech has a proven track record and won’t break at inopportune moments, waiting to “update” when the next gen/version is more mature.Previously ran Manjaro - nice premise, but the team does not have the capacity to pull it off just stable and good enough. It does tend to break after a while. I still wish their team all the best and hope it will one day become my home again - but not before they sort their mess.
I hold similar view points. It looks good… Needs more team members though. Maybe I’ll throw it in a VM.
Arch on desktops is too much of a “debloated” experience for me - I don’t enjoy having to build my system from scratch, even though I know how. Also, the risk of updates borking the system is too high, and I’m not red-eyed enough to read all update notes. On experimental servers with just a few packages, though, it can be useful.
Yeah… I’ve got 5 kids, ain’t nobody got time in my house for fixing something that shouldn’t have broken 😂
Mint was actually quite buggy for me too, despite folks generally insisting on stability as one of its selling points. Also, they are strong on promoting Cinnamon, and I’m a KDE fanboy (and a bit of a Gnome enjoyer).
Ah, see, I used LMDE, not the Ubuntu-based one. I don’t like the way Canonical is going, but I really like Cinnamon, and having a rock-solid Debian base with some Mint goodies on top was more than enough to get me to switch on both my personal laptop (Thinkpad T14 G1 AMD) and my gaming PC (custom build, 5800X3D/7900XTX). I considered Bazzite for a hot minute, but I’m much more familiar with Debian than Fedora (again, used Debian for years on servers, and was the first distro I actually installed on my own hardware when I first discovered Linux), plus there’s a literal mountain range of documentation, forum posts, tips, and tricks for Debian. Not saying there isn’t for Fedora, but I just know how to find info for Debian better than other distros.
Fedora caused me problems only once, and that is when I used universal Linux package to install proprietary NVidia drivers (use the package from Fedora repos to avoid my mistakes!). Other than that, and through several major updates, it works like a charm. It also automatically saves system images while updating, and you can easily load any. Stability-wise, it was same as Debian to me.
Nice. I like Fedora, very clean, but the constant updates drove me nuts. I used Fedora on an older laptop for a while, but I found that I was running updates more often than just…using it.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 day ago:
Good to know about those.
My laptop has been running LMDE for the past year, so I was able to get the hang of it as a daily driver (been using Debian for years for servers).
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 day ago:
I ripped the bandaid off a month or so ago. Went with LMDE. Haven’t looked back. Steam runs all my games through Proton just as good as they ran on Windows, if not better.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 day ago:
You do realize that Bill Gates hasn’t been involved with MS for many years now, right?
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 2 days ago:
People bitch and moan every time MS Office apps are updated, too; I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard coworkers complain. TBF though, I refuse to use “New” Outlook on my work laptop - I tried it once and it was worse in every way.
- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
Last I checked mine was cleaner, and I won the swordfight
- Comment on Avocado 3 days ago:
I showed this to my wife, she agrees.
- Comment on Console display options 4 days ago:
I discovered it a couple weeks ago. Love it.
- Comment on Console display options 4 days ago:
Use
btop, it’s even better - Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 6 days ago:
Hell yeah. I don’t normally simp for companies, but I will happily support locally owned alternatives to big, faceless corporations, even if it costs a bit more. Usually.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 6 days ago:
I pay $89/mo total for symmetrical gigabit via UTOPIA, no monthly cap, and my static IP. I was paying Comcast a hair over $60/mo before this for 400/20 via cable w/1.2TB cap.
Absolutely worth it.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 6 days ago:
My ISP is a local deal, well-known for protecting privacy, and run by an absolute nerd (in the best way possible, also outspoken about privacy, FOSS, and other such things). Their customer service is second-to-none; I had an issue with my static IP a couple years back, and had an actual engineer on the line within a few hours. On a weekend.
It’s XMission.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 6 days ago:
spoon fed software
That’s a new one. I like it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps 1 week ago:
Linux has been doing this for decades via APT and other software managers. Not locked down, either.
- Comment on What's your recommendation for a small NAS? 1 week ago:
Right, but asking for 2-4 drive bays…
🤔
A PCI-E expansion board full of M.2 NVME drives might do the trick.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
Pro-tip: If you use uBlock Origin, no ads will play even on Youtube’s own free movies.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
As someone who is constantly on YouTube and has been since the pre-Google era,
Finally, someone else who remembers the singular year that Youtube existed independently
- Comment on What's your recommendation for a small NAS? 1 week ago:
I’d argue for something a bit bigger, physically. The Optiplex SFF systems don’t have a whole lot of interior space for hard drives, in fact the 7050 SFF can only handle a single 3.5", a single 2.5", and a single NVME.
I have an older HP Elitedesk 8300 SFF that can handle 3x 3.5" drives, 2x 2.5" drives, and boot from an M.2 NVMe on a PCIE adapter card (I modded the BIOS). But that’s limited to 3rd gen Intel 🫤
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 week ago:
The U660F in my wife’s 2015 Highlander doesn’t have a transmission dipstick. Luckily that transmission is solid and easy to service anyway, you just need a skinny funnel to fill it.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 week ago:
I can hear this picture
- Comment on Self Hosted Trello with experience? 1 week ago:
I use Planka pretty regularly to track some of my projects. They just pushed out a release candidate for v2 a few weeks ago, which brought some nice features.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
Uploaded your mind to the cloud
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 1 week ago:
Haha, I have the official Apple FM receiver attachment, and the Belkin wireless remote. Never tested them on Rockbox…
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 week ago:
Only one of my cars has just one of those things (blind spot monitor). That aside, all of my vehicles - cars and motorcycles - are paid off. I’m not going into debt just to have nannies yelling at me.
My vehicles are a means to an end. I would absolutely love more public transit, but there is just a single train station about 12 miles from my house, while my work is only 6 miles in the same direction. “You could bike” you might say, which is a fantastic idea. However, 90% of my commute is on a 55mph rural highway with minimal shoulders and zero bike lanes. It’s literally a perfect candidate for a bus route, yet there are none.
Now tell me how I’m the problem.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 1 week ago:
Hi, we still exist. I still build old shit to do things it’s not supposed to do. We’re not going away.
- Comment on Over Synology, and looking to build my first home lab. Could use some advice on parts... 1 week ago:
planning on running a number of docker containers and a couple of vms.
Just FYI, you can probably do ALL of that on a $200 Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF.
Source: my $200 Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF running 3 VMs, 3LXC containers, and 16 docker containers - not including the multiple containers within the Nextcloud AIO “mastercontainer”. All on top of being just one of three Proxmox nodes. Runs an i7-7700 w/ 48GB RAM, there is plenty of overhead to spare.
- Comment on In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app 1 week ago:
The thing they had going for them is it’s idiot proof to the point where it pissed off anyone who knew what they were doing.
I’m solidly in that group lol. I had a 5th gen iPod Video in high school, and you bet your ass it drove me absolutely insane that I couldn’t just drag and drop music onto it. The “manually manage device” setting was an absolute godsend, for sure, but I ended up installing RockBox anyway.
I still have that iPod somewhere…