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IanTwenty

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  • LUKS decrypt at boot over SSH?

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  • Yes it's not too much bother to set this up, it can be put into ansible and once working I've not had to touch it again. Here's another dracut tool using dropbear that works well and has decent instructions on setup: dracut-crypt-ssh

    The crypt-ssh dracut module allows remote unlocking of systems with full disk encryption via ssh

  • LUKS decrypt at boot over SSH?

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  • Yes, exactly

  • How to manage configuration files

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  • Stow/chezmoi/your choice for dotfiles, config mgmt for system config. You don't need to rebuild whole server to start with ansible tho, you can take over one file at a time and grow as you learn.

    As you've found I don't know of a tool that will cover both usecases as config mgmt for dotfiles is too much and dotfile mgrs for system config is probably out of their scope.

  • Having trouble upgrading Fedora from 41 to 42, plus WiFi problems.

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  • Briar - secure p2p group communications

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  • Messages are only sent when both online though, thet's the bigger difference (unless using Briar Mailbox). Also it can send over wifi and bluetooth without internet connection i.e. no other devices involved.

  • Which of the 3 standard compression algorithms on Unix (gz, xz, or bz2) is best for long term data archival at their highest compression?

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  • Upgrade from compression tools to backup tools. Look into using restic (a tool with dedup, compression and checksumming) on a filesystem which also checksums and compresses (btrfs/zfs) - that's probably most reasonable protection and space saving available. Between restic's checks and the filesystem you will know when a bit flips and that's when you replace the hardware (restoring from one of your other backups).

  • Change behaviour of 'application not responding' notification? (SOLVED)

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  • Change behaviour of 'application not responding' notification? (SOLVED)

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  • Try this:

    gsettings set org.gnome.mutter check-alive-timeout 10000

    Value is in ms so 10000=10s. You can also set it to 0 to disable.

  • need a simple sketching software for linux desktop (with real world dimensions)

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  • To be clear you can absolutely type in exact measurements in the 'tool controls bar' for all the shape tools and even individual nodes. Scale and units are easy to switch between and there's a measurement tool also.

  • Fear of Novelty - What Are Your Coping Strategies?

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  • If you're temporarily away from home do you need to workout? Which is to say you could let yourself off doing this, perhaps. Maybe being away from home is enough change to deal with. You can pick your battles, energy is not infinite. You could spend the time reading about training instead in your room, or some other interest.

    I guess exercise enthusiasts would recommend keeping to your routine where possible, so maybe this is weighing on your mind and creating an internal conflict? I should go. You don't have to live by that if you don't want to though. It's harder for you, make your own rules.

    That being said I agree with the comment elsewhere that you could also try small bites of it. You could just visit the gym and stay for a minute or two, then leave. Next day try again. If it doesn't get easier then maybe it's not the gym for you, too bright. too loud, or something else maybe. That's ok. If it doesn't feel right trust that feeling.

    Is there anyone who would go with you? A trusted friend who knows how difffcult this could be would be a great choice. Someone who understands if you need to leave suddenly, no questions.

    Some gyms might have a changing area you could retreat to. Having a refuge can be useful. Maybe headphones/earbuds and a familiar song/voice would help too.

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • Sorry re-reading my comments it's not super clear what I meant: nowhere else in the table do they take account for the 'hidden' on-going maintenance of looking after a server/self-hosting. So this is the only row where they address 'cost' and I just thought it's a bit optimistic to say replacing all of Spotify just costs a one time server setup and storage. I think you're saying this row was only meant to indicate financial cost and I agree it's basically accurate from that meaning. However this is only the 'initial' cost. For example a self-hosted server and storage will eventually have to be replaced whereas Spotify will just keep replacing their own servers and that's already baked into the price of your subscription (caveat: that Spotify price will rise over time).

    It's not a big point really, maybe I'm nitpicking.

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • I see what you're saying but nowhere else in that table is cost mentioned. Below the table they say maintanance is minimal. If you're already looking after storage, containers and server(s) I guess that could be true.

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • Author says "one-time server setup + storage" but there are a few moving parts and always updates to handle so I'm sceptical this could be truly called 'one time' (or any selfhosting). Time will tell I guess. I enjoyed the article though and gave me food for thought.

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  • 10Gb is not a big file relatively speaking - both ext4 and btrfs (for example) can handle 16TiB and larger. If this was your only reason for choosing exFAT then you can definately migrate.

  • Zigbee Temp + Humidity Sensors

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  • What's a reliable filesystem for long term data archival that also supports transparent file compression?

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  • Are you using RAID at all? If so ZFS is probably the way to go. If not I think it matters less whether you use either btrfs or ZFS.

    Regarding btrfs and power loss:

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/340947/does-btrfs-guarantee-data-consistency-on-power-outages

    ...btrfs is designed to only experience data loss not corruption, assuming well behaving hardware in power outage scenario. In practice ZFS has more maturity overall (definately) so may be better (my speculation).

    Beyond direct comparisons if you already have on and offline backups then you are protected from power corruption and only have to worry about data loss anyway?

  • Securing a 'public' service for family

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  • Was this comment meant for a different conversation? We're talking about VPNs here.

  • Securing a 'public' service for family

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  • I've got probably 30+ households of people and multiply that by number of devices....this is also something that will only be live for 12 months maybe. I think if I was doing something long-lived it might be worth the effort to get everyone onto VPN but for this....just can't justify the time. Thanks anyway.

  • Securing a 'public' service for family

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  • Hey thanks for this. Yep I've got too many users and most are not technical so it's just a huge headache to get them all onto VPN not matter how simple. That said I'd consider tailscale/funnel for other projects and it's always good to hear what others are using.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Securing a 'public' service for family

  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
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    IGN Donkey Kong Bonanza Review

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Photo management - storing friends' photos

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Photo management at the cmdline - recommendations?