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MalReynolds

@ MalReynolds @slrpnk.net

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  • Is a NAS the ultimate goal? Which yes - which one?

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  • If that's all you're after (Contact, Calender, Drive) you may well be able to just plug a hard drive into your OpenWRT router (it has https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/radicale2 which does caldav and carddav), work out sharing (apparently at least samba works) work out how to back up the drive (plug in two, mirror and unplug one, RAID is not a backup) and call it a day. I don't have one, but it seems likely doable... Tailscale in when you're out and about...

  • Refurbished Lenovos in general (and LinuxPusher.dk, in particular)

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  • Thinkpads have long had first tier linux support, in fact many models have shipped with linux for at least a decade (?), checking that is a really good way to be sure, but you're going to be fine with W, P, T, X lines, many enthusiasts make light work. They were deployed (might still be) to Red Hat kernel devs for a long time, which helps things along. Fingerprint drivers tend to be proprietary and hit or miss, but passwords work.

    Honestly learning to install linux yourself, and configure it to your liking, is actually, imo, a really important path to learning and you're likely doing yourself a disservice avoiding it. It's part of the avoidance of vendor lock in you want. Installation is surprisingly easy now, start with something simple, Mint is often recommended these days, find a decent, recent, youtube and you'll probably be up and running in an hour. Find the apps you need for your workflow (which will take considerably longer). Get familiar with the terminal. Best thing you can do after that is burn it down and install a new distro, leaving any mistakes behind, keeping your list of apps. Arch if you want to get really deep into it, or Fedora / Bazzite are good choices and very stable. Best of luck.

  • Me after installing Bazzite

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  • I replied to @[email protected] and understood the question like “Is distrobox as secure as QubesOS?”, which I replied with “No”.

    Ahh, fair cop. Good point on Secureblue, but my threat model doesn't take me there.

  • Me after installing Bazzite

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  • Eh, it's fedora under the hood with SELinux enabled, and immutable, better than most security wise, I didn't say much more.

  • Me after installing Bazzite

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  • Bazzite is the better distro because you install things in a distrobox. Muck around, break things in there, but your main distro stays safe, secure and stable.

  • Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for free

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  • Perhaps not saved, but I'd venture the most significant nail in the coffin of the scientific publishing mafia so far, pursued with integrity and honor. The rise of open publishing that followed is very telling, and in my mind directly attributable to Alexandra's work and it's popularity, they know they need to adapt or (probably and) die.

    Still need to work on the publish or perish mentality, getting negative results published, and getting corporate propaganda out of the mix, to name a few.

  • Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs

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  • You can cycle the smaller drives to cold backup, that's not a waste. You do have backups, which RAID is not, right?

  • How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI?

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  • Sure, works fine for inference with tensor parallelism, USB4 / thunderbolt 4/5 is a better (40Gbit+ and already there) bet than ethernet (see distributed-llama). Trash for training / fine tuning, that needs higher inter GPU speed, or better a bigger GPU VRAM.

  • US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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  • Yeah, I have a broader view of the phrase, which includes complacency (not actively working at alternatives) as well as just voting, seems most agree with you.

  • US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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  • Valid point.

  • US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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  • many people believe that “funding” something equals to “controlling” it.

    Pretty much the definition of soft power, which an awful lot of politicians believe in.

  • US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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  • US funding having been a toxic source of dependency, and it being better in the long run to get money elsewhere.

    Yup, pretty much my intent, that and the insecurity it engenders, rather surprised by the reaction.

  • US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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  • How could you read it that way ? I'm saying eventually they were going to conflict with the interests of the US (oligarchs and techbros) and lose funding. Shocker, it happened under cheeto.

  • US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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  • Not a good thing, just an inevitable one, as they conflict with the interests of the US (oligarchs and techbros).

  • US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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  • Oh No ! Leopards Ate My Face.

    Better off in the long run.

  • Advice for a newbie trying to selfhost

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  • Seems like data integrity is your highest priority, and you're doing pretty well, the next step is keeping a copy offsite. It's the 3-2-1 backup strategy, 3 copies, 2 media (used to mean CDs etc but now think offline drives) 1 offsite (in case of fire, meteor strike etc), so look to that, stash a copy at a friends or something.

    In your case I'd look at getting some online storage to fill the offsite role while you're overseas (paid probably, but a year of 1 or 2 Tb is quite reasonable) leaving you with no pressure on the selfhosting side, just tailscale in, muck around and have fun, and if something breaks, no harm done, data safe.

    I've done it for what seems like forever and I'd still be worried about leaving a system out of physical control for any extended period of time, at the very least having someone to reboot it if connectivity or power fails will be invaluable, but talking them through a broken update is another thing entirely, and you shouldn't make that a critical necessity, too much stress.

  • Maybe rethink that one and try again

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  • OP: I knew what I was wishing for...

    Bastard.

  • Has anyone else questioned their choice of computers for running Linux?

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  • I say go for the desktop for grunty work and pick up an older thinkpad for the mobile use case or just remote in with your macbook. I have a T580 (last of the dual batteries, infinite battery life baby), works an absolute treat on linux and next best build quality to a macbook but with a repair manual and massive upgradeability.

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    Does your country have a discount Donald Trump politician? How do they compare?

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  • Would've sworn Potatohead/Voldemort was a caretaker and they'd switch for the election. Instead the shit stain is neck and neck (according to Murdoch polls). Wtf is wrong with this country, we see Trump and go 'hold my beer'. May not be the worst timeline, but it ain't good.