MiddledAgedGuy

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[–] MiddledAgedGuy 2 points 9 months ago

Are knowing nods acceptable?

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 3 points 9 months ago

Obsfucation can help stimey scripts. I saw using a non-standard port mentioned.

You can also setup a reverse proxy to deliver a different, empty site to a different dns entry by default. Use either a completely separate (as opposed to multidomain) cert for each, or a wildcard cert.

Jellyfin also supports using a custom path, instead of delivering at the root. Your reverse proxy would need to be configured accordingly.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 20 points 9 months ago

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

I agree with this opinion.

... you should never retire.

I'd retire tomorrow if I had the financial security to do so.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I read it was Pokémon like and wrote it off. I've tried to but never enjoyed Pokémon. I grew up on jrpg's so you'd think that was right up my alley. But I disgress...

The comments here paint a more complex story. It honestly still doesn't seem like my type of game, but my curiosity is piqued. I'll check it out.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 7 points 9 months ago

Of course! The first step to fixing ignorance is acknowledging it.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I'm an American who is reasonably well traveled (though I haven't been to Europe yet) and really wants to be less ignorant about these things than most of my countrymates so I spent a amount of time trying to figure it out before looking at a map and reading the comments. I did not. I guess I'm still that American. But I'll keep trying not to be.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 2 points 9 months ago

I came here to make a similar comment. In KDE just use.. I could swear it was ctrl+alt+arrow key but a quick search tells me it's meta+arrow key (currently on my phone) to tile windows if I want. Quarter or half sceen tiling works for me so I'm content with that. OP didn't specifically say dynamic tiling so perhaps one of these methods will be sufficient for OP?

I'll check out that tiling feature mentioned above, I wasn't aware of it and am curious!

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 2 points 9 months ago

most people are against you (them)

That has not been my experience, but it's subjective right? I live in a conservative area. So also generally pro our current law enforcement system.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You got my number on that one. And you're right about them being cut from the same cloth and part of a bigger problem. I suppose Musk annoys me more because he's louder.

I can't argue against being ethical in media consumption being a waste of time in the sense that the tiny percentage of us that choose to boycott any given platform make no difference. But I think having ideals and following them is worthwhile and I will continue to do so.

But I was also sincere in my statement that I don't think you (or anyone) has to share that concern. Those are my ideals. They don't have to be yours and I don't expect that of anyone.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This particular capitalist is having a significant impact on that platform.

If that doesn't concern you (and it doesn't have to) then carry on with giving no shits.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd like confirmation on this as well, if there's confirmation to be had.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For some reason otherwise obsolete setups that live on for a specific purpose please me. But also you can get a USB to serial device on the cheap.

Edit: Just noticed the community this is in. So I guess... live on niche XP laptop!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MiddledAgedGuy to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I've happily been a Fedora user for many years now, but RHEL's recent choice to put their source code behind a paywall has me pondering ethical considerations of my distro choice.

It's my understanding that this doesn't have a direct impact on Fedora, and I feel confident that it will continue to be a great distro for the foreseeable future, but I want the commercial/enterprise/corporate influence on the distro I run to be as minimal as possible. For it to be as free as possible.

With that in mind, what distros would everyone recommend?

I only have recent-ish experience with Fedora, Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu. I don't really know much about any others.

Ideally, I'd like it to fit within these boxes as well:

  • Reasonable release cycle time. Debian as an example tends to be too stale by it's nature. Edit for clarification: doesn't have to be bleeding edge, just don't want to fight with outdated dependencies if I'm compiling something from source. I feel distros generally ride this line well, but I've run into a handful of times in the past with Debian.
  • Doesn't try too hard to be user friendly. Obsfucating system internals, forcing a specific DE on you, that kind of thing.
  • Not overly time consuming to maintain. Arch would be an example of that in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, Arch is awesome. But maintaining a rolling release and a bunch of AUR's gets tiresome.
  • Doesn't try to force you to use a flatpaks, snaps, etc.

Seeing it all written out, that's pretty picky. And maybe this unicorn distro doesn't exist. But on the other hand, maybe it does.

A final thought. I know Debian has a testing branch. Anyone have any experience using that as a daily driver? Is it viable?

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