Imagine if all the people who prefer systemd would write posts like this as often as the opposition. Just use what you like, there are plenty of distros to choose from.
Imagine if all the people who prefer systemd would write posts like this as often as the opposition. Just use what you like, there are plenty of distros to choose from.
They could explain things better, you are right. I actually think I remember having almost the exact same confusion a few years back when I started. I still have two keys stored in my pw manager, no idea what the other one is for…
The decryption has gotten much more reliable in the past year or two, I also try out new clients a lot and have had no issues in a long time. Perhaps you could give it a new go, with the info that you use the same key for all sessions.
I have a feeling you are overthinking the Matrix key system.
Basically it’s just another password, just one you probably can’t remember.
Most of the client apps support verifying a new session by scanning a QR code or by comparing emoji. The UX of these could be better (I can never find the emoji option on Element, but it’s there…). So if you have your phone signed in, just verify the sessions with that. And it’s not like most people sign in on new devices all the time.
I’d give Matrix a new look if I were you.
resolvectl flush-caches just in caseLook at resolvectl dns to check there’s no DHCP-acquired DNS servers set anymore
If you use a VPN, those often set their own DNS servers too, remember to check it as well.
This is true, with a couple gigs of RAM and SATA storage Nextcloud is not at all bad. Assuming an instance with not that much simultaneous users.
It feels like slow sometimes, then after an hour with M365 at work it doesn’t feel slow at all.
In Finland synchronization in gearboxes is starting to become a thing nowadays. Double clutching for 20 years now (38).
Just kidding, got my first automatic two years ago, so yes.
There’s a base image of ublue, which is Silverblue without a DE. I’d suppose you can mostly just layer e.g. Sway or i3 on top.
Traditional package model will still have it’s usage, of course, I agree. But if Silverblue works for a developer like me, I’d say a for more “regular” users immutable distros seem like a very viable option.
I recently put the nvidia variant of ublue-os on my work laptop, which has Optimus graphics. Couldn’t be happier.
It’s great to see these variants popping up! I really think ostree may be the future for desktop Linux, and not even very far away.
Rsyslog to collect logs to a single server, then lnav for viewing them on that server is a good combo. Oldschool but very effective for self-host scale.
Glad the tip was useful!
For a bit enhanced log file viewing, you could use something like lnav, I think it’s packaged for most distributions.
Cockpit can be useful for journald, but personally I think GUI stuff is a bit clunky for logs.
Grep, awk and sed are powerful tools, even with only basic knowledge of them. Vim in readonly mode is actually quite effective for single files too.
For aggregating multiple servers’ logs good ol’ rsyslog is good, but not simple to set up. There are tutorials online.
Oh the times when getting GTA from a friend required 30+ 3½" floppy disks IIRC. That plus making 5 or 6 round trips to friend’s house, because one of them almost always got corrupted during the zip process.
And since no one had the disk space or knowhow to store the zip packets on HDD for the inevitable re-copying, had to redo the whole pack from scratch each time.
Edit: disk->HDD
Did a bit of research and found out the feature is available on Fennec F-Droid too via about:config.
Here’s how to enable: https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/
I’d second this. Fedora is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not rolling or stable.
I think stable was referring to not crashing here.
I’d go the SSH + sudo way.
Sudo can be quite finely tuned to only allow specific commands. If you want to lock the SSH session further, look into rbash.
Most Debian based distros, actually.
Plain NGINX has served me well.
I’m going to go against the grain a small bit.
The only things I don’t self-host that I use on a daily basis are lemmy instance, password manager (bitwarden), backup storage and a Proton drive box for really sensitive documents.
Email is not that bad to self-host, you just need to pick a reliable provider and hope for clean IPs. Then take care of keeping it secure with standard best practices.
+1 for rootless Podman. Kubernetes YAMLs to define pods, which are started/controlled by systemd. SELinux for added security.
Also +1 for not using auto updates. Using the latest tag has bit me more times I can count, now I only use it for testing new stuff. All the important services have at least the major version as tag.
Rent a cheap VPS, ask your friends to gobble up the 1-2 units of local currency per month. Run a DNS over HTTPS server on the VPS (Adguard Home can do it, I’m not sure about PiHole), then just use browsers that can use a custom DoH resolver.
Don’t open port 53 to the public, that’s just asking for trouble. The bonus with this is the adblocking is in use on the go as well, and you can use the same server yourself.
Flashing the stock Pixel ROM back is just as simple as flashing GrapheneOS, the instructions in GOS website are very good for both.
The only two things I can think of that might be issues are banking apps and Google Pay, if you use that. I use Play services in the main profile and honestly there’s not much difference to the stock ROM in terms of user experience. Even Android Auto works nowadays.
For the banking apps, you can have a look at https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/. Just note that if your bank is not on the list, it doesn’t necessarily mean it wont work.