cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/27117109

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/27014984

Oh, we are almost there! So many people's hard work will be baked in...awaiting...

#linuxkernel #opensourcedevelopment #operatingsystem #linux

..as Linus preached, if everything goes well, we will have a flashy new kernel at our disposal.

Wake up from slumber, grab a cup of hot coffee ☕ and B B King's number

🎶 The Thrill Is Gone, Baby 🎶

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....and some rudimentary ritual ..

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Just wanted to share my experience moving to Linux from MacOS. Very satisfying, but of course not at first. I think my patience has improved a lot too lol.

I started out trying live bootables on my 2012 MBA. 4GB RAM, 60GB HDD. Not a beast really, but it is my only computer. I obviously couldn’t risk ending up without a working OS, so the only option was dual boot from an external drive. Bought an SSD connected via USB and started trying to install distros. Initially Fedora Workstation. Was a mess. Slow, wifi was not working well, odd crashes etc… Decided to start over with something lighter, but all other installers crashed halfway through. I kid you not I shot my back again bent over my small laptop wothout peripherals trying to install different distros. My doctor was not happy when I came back and told her I fucked up my back again because of my posture lol. Apparently, a shitty USB leads to crashes on most installers. I knew Anaconda worked tho, so I went back to a lighter DE with Fedora, XFCE. Set up an install on the SSD with a shared partition I could access from both MacOS and fedora. No big permission issues yet.

Then fixing drivers. There is a lot of info about what chip needs what driver, a lot of which is incorrect apparently, because my chip which was supposed to work with bcma needed broadcom-wl. The joy when I remembered USB tethering was a thing… For a laptop with no ethernet plug this was a godsend. Got the drivers, got wifi.

And since then, many issues I encoutnered where simply things that generally happened behind the scenes on MacOS I didn’t even know where happening. Learning about these things has been very gratifying, and gives a lot of respect for a polished OS that just worls like magic. Eventually, an issue on MacOS I could not solve due to it being a walled garden made me switch to Linux as a daily driver, and once I got over CMD and CTRL being swapped it sped up my workflows and runs better overall.

There are odd quirks but I found fun solutions for some, and began planning and learning to remedy others. Mostly, everything is working really well. I am having a lot of fun!

My tip for anyone struggling with getting started with linux, set up a log function so you can easily log any relevant changes you make, and have it accessible from somewhere else (like a shared partition if dual booting for example). This way you know what you have done and can use that to fix whatever you fuck up.

tinkering around with the latest release of #Synchronet #BBS on #Linux and I must say, things have improved for the better over the past two decades - nice!

Hi,

I have realised that my understanding of DNS isn’t very good, and that there are many new technologies being adopted by mainstream FOSS applications which augment DNS from how we traditionally know it (DNSCrypt, DANE etc).

I’m looking for a resource (blog, RSS feed) which talks about a lot about DNS and innovations happening in this space. If you have any recommendations, please let me know.

My interest lies mostly in DNS tech which is being adopted by FOSS server and client applications.

Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Mozart 🎼🎼

#life #coffee #music #linux #research

....and some rudimentary ritual

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So, I’ve decided that I want to reinstall Arch on my laptop, but this time separate /home from root, and encrypt it using LUKS.

I made a backup of my current, unencrypted home directory (I didn’t separate them initially) using sudo rsync -aXS --exclude=‘/*/.gvfs’ /home/. /mnt/home/.

Once I wipe Arch and reinstall it, encrypting /home, would I be able to transfer my unencrypted files to the encrypted /home partition, and have them become encrypted?

It’s only a proof of concept at the moment and I don’t know if it will see mass adoption but it’s a step in the right direction to ending reliance on US-based Big Tech.

I recently implemented a backup workflow for me. I heavily use restic for desktop backup and for a full system backup of my local server. It works amazingly good. I always have a versioned backup without a lot of redundant data. It is fast, encrypted and compressed.

But I wondered, how do you guys do your backups? What software do you use? How often do you do them and what workflow do you use for it?

Any distro would do, but for my case, it is Arch because I have more control over the partitions. I would like the OS, so root, swap and others on 1 drive. The /home should be on a separate drive. The tricky thing is to have everything encrypted, except /boot and /efi of course.

Now, here is what I can do

1. FDE on 1 drive. This is easy: you create /efi, /boot and then create a large LUKS partition. From there, you create LVM on that LUKS partition and get your: /, /home and swap. Then mount everything correctly and install.

In the grub config, you only need to set it so it knows the LUKS partitom and where the root is. For eg, if your LUKs partition is /dev/sda3, you do:

• cryptdevice=UUID=<uuid of the /dev/sda3>: cryptlvm rootfs=/dev/vg/root.

1. Unencrypted /home on another drive. This is like 1) but /home is mounted on a separate drive. Still need to do the grub config, but nothing is needed for /home. It is automatically mounted when you login.

Now for my case: Encrypt /home

The encryption and mount part is easy. But how to get the OS to recognize it? The Arch wiki has this weird thing where you create an encryption key, they called it home.key, using cryptsetup. You then store the key in /etc and then in your /etc/crypttab, you specifiy the drive with /home and location of the key. No need for any passphrase.

The problem I have with this is that keys are stored in root. So if my root system is corrupted, I cant even decrypt home…

Any advice is welcome…

The Linux Ship of Theseus

1. pick any distro and install it.

2. Then, without installing another distro over the top of it, slowly convert it into another distro by replacing package managers, installed packages, and configurations.

System must be usable and fully native to the new distro (all old packages replaced with new ones).

No flatpaks, avoid snaps where physically possible, native packages only.

Easy: pick two similar distros, such as Ubuntu and Debian or Manjaro and Arch and go from the base to the derivative.

Medium: Same as easy but go from the derivative to the base.

Hard: Pick two disparate distros like Debian and Artix and go from one to the other.

Nightmare: Make a self-compiled distro your target.

If USA is so great, why do we have USB?

#gnu #linux #bash

Wake up from slumber, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some Blues 🎶🎶🎶

#life #coffee #music #linux #research

....and some rudimentary ritual ..

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I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 and everything went well. It actually went better than the first time I set up the device.

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/paoloamoroso/upgrading-to-raspberry-pi-os-2024-11-19

#RasPi400 #RaspberryPi #linux

Makes you pretend you are working for NASA or for the FBI.

Instructions on how to compile the code and everything else can be found inside the code right here.

Alt...

"Work!". A "genact-esque" nonsense generator. [CLI command]

Alright, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Beethoven 🎶🎶🎶 🎼

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