IsoKiero

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[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What's your end goal here? You try to keep files just on that one media without any options to make copies of them? Or maintain an image which has enforced files at their directories? And against what kind of scenarios?

ACLs and SELinux aren't useful as they can be simply bypassed by using another installation and overriding those as root, same thing with copying. Only thing I can think of, up to a degree, is to use immutable media, like CD-R, where it's physically impossible to move files once they're in place and even that doesn't prevent copying anything.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Geeqie is a quick one to go trough photos and it groups RAW+JPG as a single item on preview, so even a few hundred photos are quickly ran trough with just a keyboard. I'm not sure on how well it manages tags as I don't use it for tagging, but it's most likely in your distros repository so testing it out is quick.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

Then do sudo apt install xfce4 and sudo apt purge cinnamon* muffin* nemo*.

It's been a while since I installed xfce4 on anything, but if things haven't changed I think the metapackage doesn't include xfce4-goodies and some other packages, so if you're missing something it's likely that you just need to 'apt install xfce4-whatever'. Additionally you can keep cinnamon around as long as you like as a kind of a backup, just change lightdm (or whatever login manager LMDE uses) to use xfce4 as default. And then there's even lighter WM's than XFCE, like LXDE, which is also easy to install via apt and try out if that works for you.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

I understand the mindset you have, but trust me, you'll learn (sooner or later) a habit to pause and check your command before hitting enter. For some it takes a bit longer and it'll bite you in the butt for few times (so have backups), but everyone has gone down that path and everyone has fixed their mistakes now and then. If you want hard (and fast) way to learn to confirm your commands, use dd a lot ;)

One way to make it a bit less scary is to 'mv /tmp' and when you confirmed that nothing extra got removed you can 'cd /tmp; rm -rf ', but that still includes the 'rm -rf' part.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

Absolutely. Maybe leave Gnome/KDE out and use a lighter WM, but they'll be just fine. Specially if they have 8GB or more RAM. I suppose those have at least dual core processors, so that won't be a (huge) bottleneck either. You can do a ton of stuff with those beyond just web browsing, like programming/text editing/spreadsheets and so on. I'd guess that available RAM is the biggest bottleneck on what they can do, specially if you like to open a ton of tabs on your browser.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Make sure you have package alsa-utils installed and try to run alsamixer. That'll show all the audio devices your system detects. Maybe you're lucky and it's just that some volume control is muted and if you're not it'll give you at least some info to work with. Majority of audio devices don't need any additional firmware to work and they almost always work out of the box just fine. What's the hardware you're running? Maybe it is something exotic which isn't installed by default (which I doubt).

And additionally, what you're trying to play audio from? For example MP3's need non-free codecs to be installed and without them your experience is "a bit" limited on audio side of things.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

They both use upstream version number (as in the number software developer gave to the release). They might additionally have some kind of revision number related to packaging or some patch number, but as a rule of thumb, yes, the bigger number is the most recent. If you should use that as a only variable on deciding which to install is however another discussion. Sometimes dpkg/apt version is preferred over snap regardless of version differences, for example to save a bit of disk space, but that depends on a ton of different things.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 22 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Mullvad (apparenlty, first time I've heard from the service) uses DNS over TLS and I don't think that the current GUI version has the option to enable it. Here's a quickly googled howto from Fedora on how to enable it on your system. If that doesn't help search for 'NetworkManager DOT' or 'DNS over TLS'.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

I don’t know where the Debian project is based.

Trademark and at least some copyright for the project is owned by an entity in the New York and Ian Murdoch who started the project was US citizen. But calling the whole project as USA based is wrong, it is based 'on the internet' as even the core team is spread across the globe.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Think a large office space or industrial application with several hundred (or thousands) of hosts connected to the network. Some of them need to be isolated from the internet and/or rest of the network, some need only access to the internet, some need internet and local services and so on.

With that kind of setup you could just run separate cables and unmanaged switches for every different type of network you have and have the router manage where each of those can talk to. However, that would be pretty difficult to change or expand while being pretty expensive as you need a ton of hardware and cabling to do it. Instead you use VLANs which kinda-sorta split your single hardware switch into multiple virtual ones and you can still manage their access from a single router.

If you replace all the switches with routers they're quite a bit more expensive and there's not too many routers with 24 or 48 ports around. And additonally router configuration is more complex than just telling the switch that 'ports 1-10 are on vlan id 5 and ports 15-20 are on id 8'. With dozens of switches that adds up pretty fast. And while you could run most routers as a switch you'll just waste your money with that.

VLANs can be pretty useful in home environment too, but they're mostly used in bigger environments.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz -1 points 7 months ago

I'm tempted to say systemd-ecosystem. Sure, it has it's advantages and it's the standard way of doing things now, but I still don't like it. Journalctl is a sad and poor replacement from standard log files, it has a ton of different stuff which used to be their separate own little things (resolved, journald, crontab...) making it pretty monolithic thing and at least for me it fixed a problem which wasn't there.

Snapcraft (and flatpack to some extent) also attempts to fix a non-existing problem and at least for me they have caused more issues than any benefits.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

It's been a while (few years actually) since I even tried, but bluetooth headsets just won't play nicely. You either get the audio quality from a bottom of the barrel or somewhat decent quality without microphone. And the different protocol/whatever isn't selected automatically, headset randomly disconnects and nothing really works like it does with my cellphone/windows-machines.

YMMV, but that's been my experience with my headsets. I've understood that there's some propietary stuff going on with audio codecs, but it's just so frustrating.

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