SK4nda1

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[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its sad but linux is still a second class citizen. Nvidea drivers have improved greatly over the years, but it can be still flaky especially newer ones.

Multi moniter support too, it has a history troubled with challenges. Its much much better than it used to be but sometimes there are setups and usecases which have problems. It used to be multiple monitors, just having them as a desktop, was impossible. Nowaday I can daily drive Linux and expect to have a good desktop experience across multiple monitors.

Mindyou, every windows update its a dieroll what breaks for my work surface labtop. Often my display or dock behaviour breaks or my bluetooth, or my networking. Not to excuse the bugs in linux, but to show that even MS on their own hardware have bugs like that. Pcs are hard and even MS can't do it flawlessly.

What you describe as simple multimonitor RDP might actually be a very complex task from a technology and display standpoint.

That being said, it totally sucks having a usecase and finding out that for you have problems getting there. I agree that Linux still has major hurdles for general adoption, (although again, it is so much better than it used to be). Look at it this way: if desktop linux had the same amount of money and development time thrown at it as Windows or MacOS, we'd have a very different experience.

As for tips. I recommend to dualboot. Use MS for your usecases that are not a good experience and use Linux for the other things. Keep checking in with the multiple RDP tech/workflow to see if it works. I did the same thing for years. The only reason I used windows was my games. For other things I used Linux and learned my way around the desktop while doing that. Eventually Proton came along and I could switch entirely.

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Wtf. Was this just an IP takeover?

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In that case yes ofcourse. Why even ask. Pirating is illegal. Vpns are cheap. I can recommend Proton or mullvad

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I do not understand your question. If you surf the web you should use a vpn. No matter your location. Some locations ask for vpn usage more than others.

 

Hey all,

I am looking into hacking TVs. Its well known they run linux most of the time, so we should be able to do some fun stuff with them.

I've found some guides, clips and other reference material online, but it isn't much. Do any of you guys have some reference material to help me on my learning journey?

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Music) Which side are you on boys, which side are you on

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It simply adds the jellyfin instance as source. Its more that I already had a jellyfin instance, and now run a pi4 with kodi as frontend for my tv :-). The added functionality on top of jellyfin is really nice.

 

Its amazing! I have come to love the kodi/jellyfin combo :-D

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Havent read it, but probably: money and lobbying (so money and money really).

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just poked my friends to go with me :-) thx

 

SKA. The music I love. Is alas very dead when looking at how sparsely ska bands populate the programming at music venues and stages.

Can anyone please help me find the few gems that still tour. New and old. Preferably ones that are touring Germany, the Netherlands or Belgium.

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your reply! Very helpful. The image I grabbed from the offial docs here: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mkfs.btrfs.html#mkfs-section-profiles

I'll do some testing with raid 1 to see if it behaves as I expect. The only way to be properly sure i guess.

 

Hey all,

I want to start using btrfs on my san/nas and use that as a backend for my nextCloud. Before I had read up on btrfs I was thinking about using RAID1. I thought RAID1 would fulfill my two requirements:

  • It would allow me to just pull out a disk and put in a usb dock and read its contents. (disaster recovery, or for my SO to just power down the server and get her data off if something happens to me).
  • It would simply Mirror the data so a single drive can fail and everything is fine.

Now I read things on the documentation of btrfs and in some other places that the RAID1 implementation of btrfs is non-standard, in that is also has some striping functionality.

The image included is from the btrfs docs and it seems it also stripes, not just mirrors, when using 4 disks.

Now my question is: What is its behaviour when using 2 disks? Will this fullfill my two requirements? If not do you have any other recommendations? (I mean i could use zfs...)

A penny for your thoughs :-).

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Hey all,

Edit: changed confusing wording based on dack's comment.

I have a problem. I'm building a SAN and I'm playing around with btrfs to learn more about how to use it.

I run into the problem where my sdd1 partition is recognized as swap filesystem. I don't understand whats going on here. I formatted all these drives through my usb-dock via my desktop. All the others are fine, so why is this one giving me problems? I tried removing it with parted amd recreating it as btrfs or ext4 doesnt seem to help.

Does anyone have any insight of why this is happening?

root@server :~# lsblk --fs
....
sdc                                                                                                           
└─sdc1                       ext4        1.0            e3e8849d-a25e-4235-8ebf-ca84a7637f64                  
sdd                                                                                                           
└─sdd1                       swap        1              445ae89e-05ef-4fd0-98e3-b592fb2a8a9c                  
sde                                                                                                           
└─sde1                       btrfs                      bc864736-2bf6-4379-aa57-46f1c0f3a95d 
[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, however language by its very nature is dynamic and changing. If enough people use adhoc in this way it will mean spontaneous ;-).

Care to try and answer my question?

 

Hey all.

I need some advice on how to deal with the adhoc vs planned work. There are emails, tickets and verbal interruptions that need my attention. Additionally there is an incrr sing amount of meetings I need to attend. At the same time I want to focus on the development of the infrastructure for the planned work. I notice that all the interruptions are detrimental to both the planned and the adhoc work.

The fact that I have to switch my attention all the time and can't just focus starts to frustrate me. It also has to do with my adhd. I cant utilize my hyperfocus to finish the planned work, instead it stimulates the attention switching side of my adhd and cant get into the problem. I just notice I am not as effective as I was before I got this workload.

Do you people recognize this struggle? How do you deal with this?

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Use configuration as code. Ansible, puppet, salt, nix or something else. Debian is nice but its a diy ubuntu. You appreciate the effort cononical puts in to take away the rough edges on places. Using debian allows you to craft the OS you want from scratch, which is great! Just make sure you don't have to redo work if your system dies at some point.

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use open dyslexia as I have dyslexia. Its very nice!

 

Im just starting out in my nixos journey. This thought came to me in the shower: would nixOS lend itself for a phone OS?

 

Hey all,

I would like to get the above certifications. What resources did you use to study? I can't afford the official training and my employer doesn't want to pay for it.

Any and all help, and all tales of your experience is aplriciated.

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Edit: new cable fixed it. The otherone wasnt crossover.

I have a problem.

I have an (Intertech 2U 2412)[https://www.inter-tech.de/productdetails-144/2U-2412_EN.html]. I have some old desktop hardware in it to build a SAN. The OS I'm running is currently Proxmox 7.

Now I have the problem i'm having is that the drives I put in the hotswap bay are not showing up in the OS. The lights on the bays light up, I can hear the disks spinning so they seem to have power.

The connection splits from SAS to 4 times SATA to a PCIE expansion card. This card is confirmed to work: If I put my bootdrive in it, the pc boots normally and the bootdrive shows up in the OS. The splitter cable could be the problem, granted, but the manual of the case specified this type of cable and I triple checked that this is correct.

When I look in /var/log I see kern.log files with loads of these messages in them. This is where things get murky for me. In my linux journey I haven't yet been this deep into the OS/kernel before. Can anyone help me debug what is happening in my system? Or at least help me understand what is happening in these logs?

[1378464.033553] ata14.00: status: { DRDY }
[1378464.033555] ata14.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[1378464.033556] ata14.00: cmd 61/08:a8:b0:ed:a0/00:00:0e:00:00/40 tag 21 ncq dma 4096 out
[1378464.033556]          res 40/00:01:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

EDIT: New cable fixed it! Turns out the other one wasnt crossover.

 

A friend ofminee and me are building a keyboard. And I think it might be my end game. Keychron Q6, stabilizer tape and lubed. WS heavy tactile switches. This is amazing!

 

I have a domain and I use a hosted email I use a catchall email address to create an address on the fly for webshops and such. If they get conprimised or spam me I can block that email.

Is there awauy to have something like this for the new Identifier on the web: the phone number

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