At least they are admitting it was wrong instead of doubling down

Upstart was the one that made me ditch it back in the day. I came back when they embraced the more sensible systemd

Check more logs - your webserver logs, auth logs, dmesg, journalctl entries, etc.

Kubuntu is a pretty solid choice. It has an up-to-date KDE, and it’s surprisingly snappy and resource efficient.

Bingo. This is the explanation.

Driver support will always potentially be an issue unless you buy laptops that are built for Linux, or are well vetted. This is because Microsoft has near total market control and Linux support is usually reverse engineered later if the drivers source is never shared.

Same thing for gaming – gaming support on Linux is mostly a bunch of ad hock hacks, because those games were never made to run on Linux in the first place.

So, if you want to commit to Linux, make it an informed choice. You will need to make some sacrifices. Or you could always just dip your toes and only use Linux for running a server or hosting a website.

Domestic cat

Detailed list view for everything except videos and images, and sometimes even for those

Ubuntu because they provide kernel live patching and they fix issues quickly and my system doesn’t go down if I procrastinate in doing system updates

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I tried it for a bit – it is similar to freebsd in terms of the package install process.

Completely different – nixos is about repeatability, while Gentoo is about build optimization, customization, and performance.

here we go:

dedup:

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
!x[$0]++

this removes duplicate lines, preserving line order

iter:

#!/usr/bin/bash
if [[ "${@}" =~ /$ ]]; then
    xargs -rd '\n' -I {} "${@}"{}
else
    xargs -rd '\n' -I {} "${@}" {}
fi

This executes a command for each line. It can also be used to compare two directories, ie:

du -sh * > sizes; ls | iter du -sh ../kittens/ > sizes2

fadeout:

#!/bin/bash
# I use this to fade out layered brown noise that I play at a volume of 130%
# This takes about 2 minutes to run, and the volume is at zero several seconds before it's done.
# ################
# DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is needed so that playerctl can find the dbus to use MPRIS so it can control mpv
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"
# ################
for i in {130..0}
do
    volume=$(echo "scale=3;$i/100" | bc)
    sleep 2.3
    playerctl --player=mpv volume $volume
done

lbn:

#!/bin/bash
#lbn_pid=$(cat ~/.local/state/lbn.pid)
if pgrep -fl layered_brown
then
	pkill -f layered_brown
else
	export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"
	mpv -ao pulse ~/layered_brown_noise.mp3 >>lbn.log 2>&1 &
	sleep 3
	playerctl -p mpv volume 1.3 >>lbn.log 2>&1 &
fi

This plays “layered brown noise” by crysknife. It’s a great sleep aid.

here are some aliases:

alias m='mpc random off; mpc clear'
alias mpcc='ncmpcpp'
alias thesaurus='dict -d moby-thesaurus'
alias wtf='dict -d vera'
alias tvplayer='mpv -fs --geometry=768x1366+1366+0'

Not exactly sure, but playing with setting up your own VPN will give you an idea of it.

Essentially, the VPN is run on a remote server. When you connect to the VPN, your traffic gets masqueraded out through the remote server, and replies get natted back to you. If you tried setting up a webserver on your computer and then accessing the webserver on the VPN server IP, it wouldn’t work, because the request coming in to the VPN server port would by default just reach the VPN server at that port.

This is where port forwarding comes in – if the VPN server allows you to port forward, you can set port X on the VPN server to go to port Y on your router (which would likely also have to port forward on your router to get to your computer).

If you were intending to seed, yes.

It’s certainly possible to download content after you’ve joined. Some might call that piracy, but I would call it fair use.

Port forwarding allows you to seed without revealing your IP address. If you seed on a VPN and you don’t have port forwarding, your IP is revealed to those you seed to.

Edit – I was wrong. You can technically seed securely behind a VPN connection, but since you can’t be connected to directly behind a vpn without port forwarding, you would only be able to seed to ppl who port forward, or who can be connected to directly. You would only be able to leech from everyone else.

If everyone torrented like this (behind a VPN without port forwarding), all torrents would grind to a halt; nobody would be able to seed.

Oh, nice!

Yeah; it’s pretty great. It lacks the excel functions, but if you know some python that is a total non-issue.

I appreciate your mentioning the downside. I am way too much of a tinkerer for a read-only root to be acceptable for me, but I’m glad you found something you like.