Someone could write a book…

The Joys of Distro-Hopping

I tried running Bazzite for a few months, but just kept running into one weird issue after another. Went to Endeavor and they all went away overnight.

I’m technical enough that I can configure Arch from scratch, but simply can’t be bothered. I just need my computer to work. Every day.

I felt like when I was working with Arch, and I’m sure it’s operator error, it was like maintaining a starship with a dozen systems that could individually go wrong and I was responsible for all of them. Endeavor was fully setup with no weirdness in less than 30 minutes.

Depending on who you’re with, you can try calling their support and explaining what you’re looking for. I always tell them “I need to disable routing and have my gateway act like a modem. It should give a public IP directly to my router.” This should explain in layman’s to any technician what you’re looking for and they’ll be able to tell you if it can be done. If you’re with a cable or DSL provider, also ask about options to provide your own equipment. This can save you money in the long run, too, if you’re renting the hardware through them at the moment.

I don’t remember how long ago it was, but there was an interview where he said exactly this. AI is not a bad tool. It’s just that lots of people use it as the apply-to-everything hammer.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting, but if your gateway from your ISP is also routing and handing out IPs, this is known as a double NAT and can cause all sorts of weird issues. If you’re going from your ISPs gateway to your own router, their device should be bridged so it acts like a static modem.

I’ve never heard of Zardos personally, but it sounds like you’re looking for movies that have deep significance and application to the real world. My number one recommendation is Waking Life. It is a movie that thoroughly explores what it means to be human all without imposing any specific viewpoint or agenda.

It’s a series of borderline interviews taken from all walks of life and then rotoscoped into a beautiful dream sequence.

I can find ways that it’s relevant to just about every day of my life. It’s packed full of serious challenging conversations about the self, spirituality, morality and mankind.

If this isn’t the type of thing you’re looking for, maybe elaborate a bit more on what you mean.

I made my own about 4 years ago and never looked back. Kind of nice having my own logo to identify with.

AI must be getting really good or this was posted really recently.

If this is AI, this is the newest example of “so good I can’t tell” territory. One of my usual checks is font consistency and this is super crisp throughout. Odd it doesn’t show up anywhere else on the Internet though.

Modern internet sucks to try and figure out what was and wasn’t made passionately by a human.

I would press the button on every billboard

Nice. Glad to hear you still can’t get viruses.

Unless you’re overlocking or just have really bad case design, either one will fair about the same. I went with an AIO purely for the aesthetic and haven’t had a single issue. Install was pretty easy too. I haven’t personally heard any horror stories of the AIO loops failing catastrophically but that’s anecdotal at best.

This made me feel a bit dizzy reading that.

The line

I got me 100 GB of RAM

from Weird Al’s All About The Pentiums will need to be updated to 100 GB of cache.

I ended up making the choice to just avoid the games that don’t work under Linux. They seem to all be almost exclusively AAA twitch shooters that require far too much from me as a player anyway.

The only way I can vote on the topic is with my wallet.

ProxMox is what’s known as a HyperVisor or Virtual Machine. The general concept is that each element in ProxMox is an entire operating system, with each service configured in those operating systems. This requires maintaining and configuring an operating system for each service you want to run, or if you install multiple services in a singe host node, you’re back to the config conficts that we’re trying to avoid in the first place.

Docker’s approach is different. With Docker, You can use any host, including a daily desktop OS with many sort of half-VMs that only have access to specific parts of the system as defined in the Docker configuration. For instance, if you just need a service that handles chat, it doesn’t need to access much outside its own data and a port to access the internet. So instead of needing to manage the OS and the service, you’re left with just the service.

Another major boon is that it’s very easy to simply turn them off and back on and have them revert to their working state. If you really manage to screw up a configuration, no more digging through the OS to try and figure out what you can and can’t delete. You just nuke the system and try again. Outside writing the changes, it takes just a few seconds to reboot the service.

And one last bonus is that again, it’s very portable when using Docker Compose. Docker Compose takes this a step further and lets you configure the entire service through a single config file. You can put together multi-service database applications with a copy-paste and a few changes to the config. Absolutely massive time saver for people like me who are terrible at managing database applications, but really enjoy the benefits of them.

I used to do the VM approach, but having one script to one service works way better for me personally.

I’ve dabbled in it for a couple years, but this was my first year embracing docker. I now run way more services than I ever have before and don’t shy away from testing new ones out.

I went from someone who avoided new installs at all costs due to the litany of things that could go off the rails to someone who can find a new piece of software and have it running the same afternoon.

It also allows me to do a bunch of testing with a piece of software at home, then just copy and modify the config at work without having to waste precious time setting things up.

I know not everyone is a fan, but my god it’s useful.

What doesn’t make any sense is that I’m running Bazzite which should be super optimized. I made a whole long post about it here: https://lemmy.world/post/40074859

I’ve been running into a slew of performance issues on Linux with my 4070 across a range of games that all ran fine under Windows. I’ve been tempted to trade for the AMD equivalent just so I don’t have to deal with more nVidia driver nonsense. My roommate has an AMD card that I’ll be doing a trial run on later this week. Depending on how that goes, I might finally make the switch to Red Team.

What’s worked for me is taking things I enjoy as a consumer (computers, music, movies, etc) and trying to learn how to make those things for myself or at least learn more about how they’re made. It gives you amazing amounts of insight into what it takes to get those results and why you might specifically like them.

For computers, learning programming at the low level like a Commodore 64 or similar will help wrap your mind around how modern computers do things.

For music, learning even the basics of making your own will help you pick up on things in your favorite songs that you never noticed before.

For movies, diving into behind-the-scenes material and watching some plot theory channels like Every Frame A Painting or Lessons from the Screenplay will help you catch more intricate and subtle plot elements like foreshadowing that you might not have caught onto.