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Kongar

@ Kongar @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • I am looking to buy a Synology NAS to replace my Raspberry Pi 4B. What data does Synology collect off the NAS?

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  • I’ve been a synology user and fan for over 15 years now. Both personally and at work. They used to be powerful-for-the-price, efficient devices with good software. Photos, drive, media server, file storage, and docker containers were the big use cases. They were easy to set up securely for remote connections, and I’ve never seen one fail.

    Nowadays though, I’d recommend something else. They have started on the enshittification journey. They removed hardware decoding features, they force you into their hard drives now, the hardware is overpriced, and other diy systems have caught up wrt features and ease of setup. Synology isn’t bad today, it’s just not the only game in town anymore. You can get more for less money with the same amount of effort.

    WRT to data collection-I don’t think they collect anything now. But I’m not sure I trust them anymore. It probably won’t stay that way.

  • Microsoft's New Windows AI Feature Comes With Warnings About Malware and Data Theft

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  • And many of us were laughed at for saying recall was going to come to win11. This is worse than recall ever was.

  • Microsoft has blocked Massgrave's KMS38 activation method for Windows

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  • I’ve installed Ubuntu and fedora workstation on 5 machines in the past 6 months. Not a single install required using the terminal even once. A couple of those installs were on sketchy hardware and everything still just worked.

    Meanwhile I installed win11 on a new machine a couple of weeks ago and it had missing drivers on install, trouble activating, and the login screen switched to Chinese characters after a few reboots (it is a known bug).

    /shrug

  • Feature parity or get out

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  • I miss screensavers :(

  • BluRay Disc Burning Copies

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  • I’ve had good success with makemkv for ripping both blu rays and dvs. I’ve not had good success making a duplicate disk though. It can be done but it’s been a very long time. I used to use handbrake in that chain but it got to be too much trouble. I resorted to ripping all my stuff, serving it up digitally, and only taking the disks out when nostalgia hit.

    But ya - makemkv and handbrake used to get the job done a long time ago, you can search in that direction. Maybe there’s a newer better way.

  • What distro do you install on other's computers?

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  • Yes, like this ;)

  • What distro do you install on other's computers?

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  • No no - not like that. Like crappy overpriced laptops. Like “I’m a piece of crap laptop masquerading as a good one and sold to people who don’t know better at a price way way way too high”.

    Of course we have laptops :)

  • What distro do you install on other's computers?

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  • It’s often a laptop, something us nerds wouldn’t buy generally speaking, so they tend to have hardware issues. So newer tends to be better. So plain old Fedora workstation with gnome. I pin their favorite programs to the dock, and show them the basics of the interface. I show them the software button and say they can install anything they want from there, and that they should do the updates that pop up from there.

    Zero issues. Honestly does a better job than windows - things are more intuitive for the non tech savvy.

    Edit: mint is pretty good too if it works. It’s one of those two systems.

  • Yet another "which distro should I choose?" Post

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  • I don’t know why there’s so much nvidia hate going on here. It’s MUCH better than it used to be. Lots of distros mentioned work out of the box with nvidia cards, and if you pick something else - it’s just a matter of installing the right driver. On fedora for example you just go to the rpm fusion site and follow the very easy directions.

  • Looking for DVD player recommentation

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  • Another option not mentioned yet - get a portable Panasonic or equivalent blu ray burner. 1) they still make and sell new ones 2) you can rip the disks once and have digital movies 3) you can play the dvd/blu ray/whatever on your pc OR use the usb c from there (like with a laptop if you own one).

    Should cover all your bases and give you more options (all the options?) than you asked for.

  • What is a good substitute for tomato?

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  • If it’s a texture thing, have you tried all the tomato varieties? Like Roma tomatoes have very little seed and pulp, cherry tomatoes are kind of like grapes, and I’ve even tried some obscure varieties that make me question what a tomato is.

    If that doesn’t work, I’m honestly having a hard time thinking about a substitute for a tomato. They are pretty unique.

  • Fedora 43 Is Not Ready for Release Next Week

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  • I had strange video crashing bugs on my laptop with 41. 42 has been rock solid for me. Was thinking of staying there for a while anyways.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 5th

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  • Silksong mostly. Game is hard.

  • Why?

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  • I’ve used it since the 90s, but windows was always my daily driver. Linux always worked, but games could be spotty and there always seemed to be to be the random breakage for no reason.

    But that changed a few years ago. Games “just worked”, device support became really good, and if I’m being honest - I became a gnome guy. That interface is very very productive, especially on a laptop with a trackpad.

    And then windows just, started sucking. They break machines with every single update, it’s like there’s zero qa anymore. And the little things became more and more annoying - the pop ups “upgrade to 11, try copilot, OneDrive isn’t working omfg let me help you fix that” the “where is that setting moved to now” game, the extra clicks everywhere.

    My dual boot setup found a windows drive that was never being used anymore. I didn’t switch, I just stopped using. Eventually I just deleted the partition and use it for extra space and playing around with other OSs.

    During this process I distro hopped quite a bit and eventually settled on fedora workstation. It’s been good to me on three PCs.

  • Migration from Win 10 to Mint

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  • I should note that depending on which internal drives are used - you can use them like external drives for backups. You can copy files and images there, then easily disconnect the sata cable. Then you can’t overwrite it by accident during install. But you get to use the large size of the drive for images and whatnot.

    It sounds like you have enough drives to do this super safely with zero chance of screwing things up :)

  • Migration from Win 10 to Mint

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  • Um, let’s just clarify a bit more just in case.

    You have your pictures, music, videos, and other personal files on what?

    On the internal hard drives (hdd/ssd/nvme/whatever) and the backup/copy of those files on the external drive (external usb hdd/ssd, flash drive, NAS, whatever)? Presumably both are formatted ntfs?

    What I described above is the ideal scenario. It could be as simple as formatting your internal drives and installing Linux, then copying those files back to your newly formatted internal hard drives. This is going to be fine as long as you are SURE your backups are good. Linux can read ntfs drives and copy files from them.

    I’m always a bit paranoid though and I like to take extra steps. Sometimes, you forget to backup a file. Like a save game file sitting in a random game folder, a configuration file (like a blahblah.ini) files for program settings, or your favorites, you get the point. This stuff usually isn’t a deal breaker - you really only care about the stuff that’s irreplaceable like pictures and home movies. But it’s annoying…

    So what I like to do is to take a drive image. Not a backup - a bit for bit clone of the internal hard drives. Then you can’t forget anything ;) Pick your program of choice - I’ve used macrium reflect successfully in the past and it was free - it’s been a while and there may be better options these days. Make that image and store it on a large external drive/nas/whatever. Then if you screw something up - you can simply restore your windows computer or go grab that file you forgot in your backup routine. I usually keep both my “backup files” and the drive image for a good long while after I reload a pc. Sometimes it’s months before you realize you’re missing something.

    So in summary/my advice.

    1. Get a big external drive
    2. Make a disc image of your internal drives onto that large external drive
    3. Make a solid final backup of your files double checking you’ve copied everything you think you need
    4. Disconnect that external drive and put it aside
    5. format your pc and internal drives as part of your Linux installation
    6. plug your external drive into your Linux pc, mount the ntfs drive, copy all your files
    7. Put the external drive away in a closet and don’t overwrite it for a good long time
    8. if you screwed something up - no big deal, you can go backwards in time because you have that external drive stored safely away.

  • Police drone tracks Walmart theft suspect in real time

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  • Imagine if we put as much effort into arresting pedophile politicians and priests.

  • New To linux- Memes

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  • 2 day old spam account

  • Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD

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  • Them being cool about the price means:

    • I buy hollow knight again on steam (I played it on switch)
    • I buy silksong on day 1 without waiting for reviews
    • if it’s really good, I probably buy it for a friend someday

    Reasonable pricing does not equal lower sales. Greedy pricing leads to lower total sales, waiting for discounts, and screw you piracy.

    These are regular people - they understand.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Kongar @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Linux really has come a long way

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    Kongar @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    What happens with optical drives