Max_P

Max_P, 9 days ago

If you want FRP, why not just install FRP? It even has a LuCI app to control it from what it looks like.

OpenWRT page showing the availability of FRP as an app

NGINX is also available at a mere 1kb in size for the slim version, full version also available as well as HAproxy. Those will have you more than covered, and support SSL.

Looks like there’s also acme.sh support, with a matching LuCI app that can handle your SSL certificate situation as well.

Max_P, 9 days ago

No but it does solve people not wanting to bother making an account for your effectively single-user self-hosted instance just to open a PR. I could be up and running in like 10 minutes to install Forgejo or Gitea, but who wants to make an account on my server. But GitHub, practically everyone has an account.

Max_P, 9 days ago

There’s been a general trend towards self-hosted GitLab instances in some projects:

• gitlab.freedesktop.org
• invent.kde.org
• gitlab.archlinux.org

Small projects tend to not want to spin up infrastructure, but on GitHub you know your code will still be there 10 years later after you disappear. The same cannot be said of my Cogs instance and whatever was on it.

And overall, GitHub has been pretty good to users. No ads, free, pretty speedy, and a huge community of users that already have an account where they can just PR your repo. Nobody wants to make an account on some random dude’s instance just to open a PR.

Max_P, 9 days ago

The whole point is you can take the setup and maintenance time out of the equation, it’s still not very appealing for the reasons outlined.

Max_P, 9 days ago

Most VoIP providers have either an HTTP API you can hit and/or email to/from text.

Additionally, some carriers do offer an email address that can be used to send a text to one of their users but due to spam it’s usually pretty restricted.

Max_P, 9 days ago

Example of what?

VoIP provider: voip.ms

They support like 5 different ways to deal with SMS and MMS, there’s options. wiki.voip.ms/article/SMS-MMS

Carrier that accepts texts by email: Bell Canada accepts emails at NUMBER@txt.bell.ca and deliver it as SMS or MMS to the number. Or at least they used to, I can’t find current documentation about it and that feels like something that would be way too exploitable for spam.

Max_P, 9 days ago

The concern for the specific disk technology is usually around the use case. For example, surveillance drives you expect to be able to continuously write to 24/7 but not at crazy high speeds, maybe you can expect slow seek times or whatever. Gaming drives I would assume are disposable and just good value for storage size as you can just redownload your steam games. A NAS drive will be a little bit more expensive because it’s assumed to be for backups and data storage.

That said in all cases if you use them with proper redundancy like RAIDZ or RAID1 (bleh) it’s kind of whatever, you just replace them as they die. They’ll all do the same, just not with quite the same performance profile.

Things you can check are seek times / latency, throughput both on sequential and random access, and estimated lifespan.

I keep hearing good things about decomissioned HGST enterprise drives on eBay, they’re really cheap.

Max_P, 9 days ago

I mean, OPs distro choice didn’t help here:

EndeavourOS is an Arch-based distro that provides an Arch experience without the hassle of installing it manually for x86_64 machines. After installation, you’re provided with a lightweight and almost bare-bones environment ready to be explored with your terminal, along with our home-built Welcome App as a powerful guide to help you along.

If you want Arch with actual training wheels you probably want Manjaro or at least a SteamOS fork like Chimera/HoloISO.

It probably would have been much smoother with an actual beginner friendly distro like Nobara and Bazzite, or possibly Mint/Pop for a more classic desktop experience.

It’s not perfect and still has woes but OP fell for Arch with a fancy graphical installer, it still comes with the expectation of the user being able to maintain an Arch install.

Max_P, 9 days ago

EndeavourOS isn’t a gaming distro it’s just an Arch installer with some defaults. It’s still Arch and comes with Arch’s woes. It’s not a beginner friendly just works kind of distro.

Coming from kionite, you’d probably want Bazzite if you want a gaming distro: it’s also Fedora atomic with all the gaming stuff added.

Max_P, 10 days ago

It would be nice if they’d make “web” search the good old keyword search we used to have that made Google good, now that normies will just use the AI search and it doesn’t have to care about natural language anymore.

Max_P, 10 days ago

I must be lucky, works just fine for me with SDDM configured for Wayland only, autologin to a Wayland session.

<span style="color:#323232;">max-p@media ~ % cat /etc/sddm.conf
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Autologin]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">User=max-p
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Session=plasma
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#Session=plasma-bigscreen
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Relogin=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[General]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">DisplayServer=wayland
</span>

Max_P, 10 days ago

Arch. That leads me to believe it’s possibly a configuration issue. Mine is pretty barebones, it’s literally just that one file.

AFAIK the ones in sddm.conf.d are for useful because the GUI can focus on just one file without nuking other user’s configurations. But they all get loaded so it shouldn’t matter.

The linked bug report seems to blame PAM modules, kwallet in particular which I don’t think I’ve got configured for unlock at login since there’s no password to that account in the first place.

Max_P, 10 days ago

ActivityPub makes this impossible. Everything on the fediverse is completely public, including votes, subscriptions and usernames. Even if Lemmy did offer the option, other servers wouldn’t necessarily.

And honestly this is a system that would be mainly used for spam and hate speech anyway. Just make a throwaway like everywhere else.

Max_P, 11 days ago

Kbin is an example. But just due to the nature of the protocol, it has to be stored somewhere but Lemmy also just lets admins view all the individual votes directly in the UI.

Max_P, 11 days ago

I like how the low cost airlines known for charging for everything like Southwest aren’t listed there. It’s almost like people are okay with fees when they’re clearly outlined and have a clear choice.

Max_P, 11 days ago

What other OS could you upgrade like that?

Fedora Atomic / uBlue

Max_P, 11 days ago

Still report as well, it sends emails to the mods and the admins. Just make sure it’s identifiable at a glance, like just type “CSAM” or whatever 1-2 words makes sense. You can add details after to explain but it needs to be obvious at a glance, and also mods/admins can send those to a special priority inbox to address it as fast as possible. Having those reports show up directly in Lemmy makes it quicker to action or do bulk actions when there’s a lot of spam.

It’s also good to report it directly into the Lemmy admin chat on Matrix as well afterwards, because in case of CSAM, everyone wants to delete it from their instance ASAP in case it takes time for the originating instance to delete it.

Max_P, 11 days ago

That’s fine to do once you’ve reported it: you’ve done your part, there’s no value still seeing the post it’s gonna get removed anyway.

Max_P, 11 days ago

Genuine political dissent would become logistically impossible, and virtual mob rule a certainty.

There’s a major difference between political dissent and hate speech.

You can say: “I don’t think transgender people should be allowed to choose which bathroom they go to”, that just makes you a shitty person with no compassion. But if you say “If I see a trans women in the mens bathroom I’ll beat them up out of there”, that is very clearly hate speech and threats of violence.

It’s not like it’s hard to treat people with basic respect. You can disagree without resorting to hateful comments and threats and name calling. If you don’t see the hate speech problem you’re probably part of the problem because surprise, it’s only conservatives you see online constantly spewing FUD and hate speech.

Max_P, 12 days ago

Je sais pas si c’est le contraste avec Lemmy, or si ça s’est vraiment empiré. Les gens qui adoptent des plateformes comme Lemmy aussi tôt ont tendance à être plus éduqués et plus ouverts.

Y’a pas mal de gens qui passent beaucoup plus de temps sur Internet qu’ils le devraient, depuis la COVID. Et ce sont effectivement beaucoup de gens qui ne pensent qu’à leur nombril.

Peut-être un peu des deux.

Max_P, 12 days ago

Probably not the best example in retrospect, since its only gotcha is that it’s Fedora Atomic.

Mainly my point is if you Google “how do I install X” you’ll get plenty of Ubuntu results out of the box, which when you’re an overwhelmed newbie is very helpful. Like, if you start with nothing, you just kissed goodbye to your Windows 11 install, you dive head first into Bazzite and you’ve got Firefox, Discord and Steam going, everything feels good. Then you start looking up “how to install X on Linux”, first you get a bunch of Ubuntu results, then you swap Linux for “bazzite”, nothing because it’s fairly new, but it’s Fedora so you look into Fedora but you realize Bazzite is actually Fedora Atomic and it’s a whole other way of installing things, maybe you just try running a .run or .sh file, or you give up and try to just make install from source but t̶h̴e̸ ̵f̸i̸l̸e̷s̸y̶s̷t̸e̶m̴ ̴i̶s̸ ̷r̷e̴a̴d̴o̷n̶l̷y̷ a̴n̵d̸w̷̪͊h̵̟̏y̴̻͛ ̸͉̒i̶͖͆s̸̪̎ ̸̗̏Ḷ̴͌i̶̞͑n̶̫͂u̵̯͋x̴͓͋ ̵͈̀ŝ̴̗o̴̱̒ ̴̭̎d̸̨͊a̷͙̽m̵̘̈ṇ̸̐ c̷͓͝ò̵̙m̵̲͛p̷̖̓ĺ̴̰ĭ̵̥c̵̰̽ă̸̩t̷͗ͅe̵͈̍d̵̻̃.

I would argue Ubuntu kinda sucks, but it sucks in a familiar windows-y kind of way where pretty much everyone knows how to fix it or make it work usually by blindly executing stuff. Not great, but it works, and it doesn’t require much thinking. Ubuntu is pretty much the only distro you can find your way without caring what a distro is just by the pile of tutorials for Ubuntu or assuming Ubuntu. Case in point: Linus from LTT when he tried to apt install steam on Manjaro, after nuking his entire DE on Pop_OS using the same command. It’s entirely his fault, but that’s still a common and frustrating experience and they add up.

Same reason sometimes I just tell people honestly, just stick with Windows. Linux would be a good fit, it would be way better, but they’re not willing or accepting of the learning curve. Sometimes you’re just better sticking with what most people use, so everyone knows how to fix your problems.

Max_P, 12 days ago

Check the logs, but it’s probably related to the deprecation of compression. OpenVPN 2.6 now requires a flag client-side to enable it as it is known to be the cause of too many vulnerabilities.

Add

<span style="color:#323232;">comp-lzo yes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">allow-compression yes
</span>

To your config and try again. If it still doesn’t work set log level to 4, redact personal info and post the logs.

Max_P, 12 days ago

You can try running it directly, sudo openvpn --config yourconf.ovpn

That will also tell us if NetworkManager is at fault.

Max_P, 12 days ago

<span style="color:#323232;">ERROR: failed to negotiate cipher with server.  Add the server's cipher ('AES-128-CBC') to --data-ciphers (currently 'AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:CHACHA20-POLY1305') if you want to connect to this server.
</span>

That’s your error. So I think

<span style="color:#323232;">data-ciphers AES-128-CBC
</span>

In your config should resolve this. Basically there’s some issues with CBC and it’s now off by default.

Max_P, 12 days ago

Saw Boost mentioned already, but also I think Tesseract deserves a shoutout for clean and modern web experience.