This is just me celebrating a small win. I’ve been slowly learning bash scripting, and just now I was able to quickly write a simple bash script to automate a file moving task without referring to my notes or the web!

It’s not a super complicated script, I’m just happy I’m starting to internalize the knowledge I’ve been building.

I’ve been organizing my media files after ripping our DVD collection. I had all the files for The Smurfs cartoon (love the Smurfs) in the main Smurfs show folder. I wanted to put them all into their respective season folders (Season.XX). Here’s the script:

#! /bin/bash

for number in {01..09}; do
	find . -type f -name "The.Smurfs.S$number*" -exec mv {} Season.$number/ \;
done

I could have done it as a one liner, but I like to keep things like this for future reference.

Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Bob Dylan'snumber

🎶 Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight 🎶

#life #coffee #music #linux #research

.....and some bloody ordinary ritual ...

#linuxkernel #opensourcedevelopment #operatingsystem

💻 Me: "Alright, it's probably time to order a new laptop for conferences. Nothing too expensive, but powerful enough. Maybe something customizable. I think about it for a few days… and decide: I'll get a Framework!"

🔗 Opens website…

🎤 Framework: "Hey! We're announcing a new laptop on February 25th!"

🤦‍♂️ Me: "Well… guess I'll wait and see. But… will I get it in time for the March 21st conference? 😅"

#Laptop #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Linux

Good day nice people.

I, like many I’m sure, am taking Microsoft’s discontinuation of Windows 10 support as an opportunity so switch over to Linux. As such, I have some questions about various things. I have included some context as to my personal use case at the end of the post should it be relevant.

1. Does the distro I pick matter? There seems to be a lot of debate around which distro is best but a lot of the discussion I’ve seen breaks down to what each distro comes packaged with. This confuses me as if a distro doesn’t come prepackaged with something can you not just install it? Or is there some advantage to preinstalled packages other than mild convenience? Are some components difficult to integrate into your local environment?

2. One of the more salient differences I’ve seen between distros has been what the various companies and teams include aside from installed packages (such as snap and rolling out amazon search as a defult search), and the data they choose to retain/sell. Part of the reason I’m switching is due to Microsoft’s forcing in of unwanted features and advertising. Is the company that owns whatever distro I choose likely to be a problem in the future? Are there particular ones to avoid/ones to keep an eye on?

3. I am the sort of person who does like to tinker with things from time to time but I do also want to use my computer most of the time so I’d like to end up using a mature distro. I have identified a few frontrunners in my search but I have seen conflicting information on which of them is “mature” (sufficiently stable so I spend less time fighting my computer than I do using it as well as having a large enough community and resources to help me remedy issues I might come across). Do any of these seem like they wouldn’t fit that bill? The frontrunners are: fedora, kubuntu, mint, pop and tuxedo.

4. Does linux have issues interfacing with multiple monitors? Does it handle HDR okay?

5. In terms of UI and workflow I really don’t mind putting in some time tinkering with the DE, exploring it and getting it how I like. It seems Plasma KDE might be good for this? Please let me know if this is an incorrect assessment. If it is, does it matter what DE I choose? If so, is there something you could recommend for my use case.

My use case: I have a Nvidea build (RTX 2080). I have heard this can be an issue with Linux. I also have intermediate experience with linux through university and my job (with servers) as well as tinkering with SteamOS.

Things I use/do on my PC (roughly ordered in terms of priority):

• Gaming including emulation
• Firefox
• VLC
• Spotify
• Discord
• Godot
• Visual Studio
• Git
• Photoshop cs6, audacity, davinci resolve
• Misc “Tinkering” (Handbrake, dvd burners/rippers, Really any weird thing I come across that I want to tinker with)

Thank you very much for your time and help in cleaing up my confusion.

Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video, with some weird stuff happening...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZwHpZDm6F4

my home server needs to be redone and i’m seeking ideas on how to future proof it. here’s some ascii art in a screenshot to help describe how it’s currently setup:

description (left to right):

• laptops, smartphones, tables, etc connect to an access point configured on a windows 10 virtual machine (vm). the windows10 vm uses pci passthrough on the wireless adapter and this is done to get gigabit wifi speeds since intel’s drivers won’t allow linux to do this in ap mode; but will allow it just fine if you’re using windows.
• requests from the wifi clients are passed via dns & ip masquerade to another virtual machine based on pfsense
• pfsense serves as the router, firewall, vpn, ad blocking & web hosting and it’s also configured to use pci passthrough on the primary network interface to gap internet traffic from the server
• the center of the drawing shows how i perform data backups using a wired connection with a hardware switch and i setup the host ubuntu server to manage dhcp on the secondary network interface & the devices that are connect to the switch. the data is stored using rsync and harddrives are setup to use an extremely large lvm made of several different types of hard drives.

i’ve rebuilt this server multiple times each time i encountered a “gotcha” or a surprise that i had not anticipated and it made some needful component stop working; so i’m seeking advice from Lemmy on how to redesign this to mitigate future surprises.

some of the surprises i’ve encountered so far are:

• the pfsense logs overfilled the root volume of the bsd based vm because logrotate was configured for linux. the image is hardcoded with a single volume so i will need to find a way to borrow some space from the backup volume using nfs and configure the logs to write there instead of locally.
• i have no key for the windows10 vm; so i’m forced to clone it’s qcow image and manually configure the hotspot each time the 30 day free trial from microsoft expires. I intend to improve upon this creating an ansible job to rotate this virtual machine every 30 days automatically and include powershell based tasks to configure the hotspot in windows automatically
• intel limits the speed for linux native internet connection sharing to 100 megabits (already mentioned & fixed above)
• the local users home volume overfills when trying to take my google backups (already fixed)

constraints:

• don’t spend anymore $$$
• gigabyte wifi is A MUST

New blogpost: Blocking searches and removing other people's toots: my Mastodon server and the Online Safety Act

My attempts at trying to close off some of the loopholes in my Mastodon server:

• nginx configuration to limit access to the search tool, which can be used to essentially proxy content from other servers

• learning how to delete toots, and media, from the database, so that it is no longer on my instance. Blunt but effective?

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/02/blocking-searches-and-removing-other-peoples-toots-my-mastodon-server-and-the-online-safety-act/

#Mastodon #selfhosting #OnlineSafetyAct #Linux #FOSS

Routine stuff and a cup of hot coffee ☕ keep me interested in it 😜

#life #coffee #music #linux #research #opensourcedevelopment #operatingsystem

Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting

Link: https://dasl.cc/2025/01/01/debugging-our-new-linux-kernel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046174

#linux

#Docker alike container management on #FreeBSD? Let's have a look at #Kleene - which works very similar to Docker and makes the shift for Linux users even easier to #Jails without having deeper knowledge but by benefiting of all the features on Jails.

#klee #kleened #bsd #runbsd #linux #container #howto #devops #community #jails #freebsdjail #container #containerization #jailmanager #manager #jls

https://gyptazy.com/howto-kleene-as-a-container-management-platform-for-freebsd/

In the age of GenAI and privacy abuse, open-source software and everyone who is contributing to building, maintaining, and supporting FLOSS are real heroes. Today, I thank all of them on this #ilovefs day.

I appreciate keeping software free so everyone can afford and use it. I love #Vim, #Linux, and #FreeBSD very much.

Thank you.

PS: Please share your gratitude with the #ilovefs tag.

The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action

Link: https://gitlab.com/fedora/sigs/flatpak/fedora-flatpaks/-/issues/39#note_2344970813
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042985

#linux

Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some Blues 🎶🎶🎶🎶

#life #coffee #music #linux #research

.....and rudimentary ritual :)

#linuxkernel #opensourcedevelopment #operatingsystem

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

Link: https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036904

#linux

Not really sure how dualbooting or vms work at their core. I’m kind of over windows and want to swap, always liked the customizability aspect and have been using Linux more and more for self hosting purposes. Was wondering if I setup linux on my external ssd using a vm if I could change it from vm to a dualboot drive after I’m done setting it up. That way I could setitup and swap to it while keepign my original ssd with my windows install,. and not have to deal with dualbooting and going back and forth while setting up?

Alright, a cup of hot lemon tea 🍋🫖 and some glaring at #linux Next update

#linuxkernel #opensourcedevelopment #operatingsystem

Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Bob Dylan's number

🎶 Don't Think Twice 🎶

#life #coffee #music #linux #research