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Isn’t it quite common to have /boot on an unencrypted partition?

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Wow. I’ve been using dd for years and I’d consider myself on the more experienced end of the Linux user base. I’ll use cp from now on. Great link.

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First time I realised systemd had a logo. And I’ve been using it for years!

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How would the update affect stuff like a GoCryptFS volume which I mount and use periodically but not all the time? Would those files be processed much faster than previously?

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Follow-up: OpenBSD routers on AliExpress mini PCs

I got lots of replies to the last post showing the little OpenBSD internet gateway setup (super interesting; thanks!). Here's more info and pictures:
https://www.srcbeat.com/2024/02/aliexpress-openbsd-router/

Something I've been meaning to share for years now.

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That’s how I’ve got mine set up, with OPNsense.

I’ve been using it a few years and I only know about half the stuff that pfSense/OPNsense can do. So I would advise newbies to just make small changes at a time because there’s a whole lot of stuff you can change. It’s worth learning, though. I wouldn’t use anything else for my main firewall/router nowadays.

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Another successful OpenBSD setup

I've been buying these little boxes from AliExpress for years to use as firewalls and routers. My oldest one is almost 9 years old now! OpenBSD installs just fine. Just a BIOS tweak to always boot up after power is restored.

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PfSense and OPNsense are both killer router “out of the box” distros built on BSD. I say this as a Linux user, with little interest in running BSD for my applications, but… Respect to BSD. ✊

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Yeah. I’ve no need to change to anything else. pf/OPNsense 4life.

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ZFS kicks arse. It’s worth learning enough to get a basic array going, with a couple of datasets and encryption. Once you get acquainted with that, you’ll be using it for years to come.

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This is why I love having luks covering my entire system disk. If I want to upgrade the system with a new drive or move the drive to a different pc or sell it or dispose of it I just dd the first couple of gigs to obliterate the luks header.

It’s obviously essential to have a backup strategy, of course, but full disk encryption is the only way to go for me.

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A centaur has four legs and a horse has four legs, so half a centaur and half a horse would have four legs.

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Peter Cook did this joke with infinitely more panache about 30 years ago. Search YouTube for “Peter Cook Clive Anderson talks back”.

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Hmm. I wouldn’t risk it, personally. I bet the data that syncs can be quite specific. Have you looked for an extension that can just do tab syncing?

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Yeah. I don’t know of an extension. I think you could create an extra Firefox profile and run two versions of Firefox (home and work) at once on the home PC. That might be a compromise that works?

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Reports of living beings 500 million years ago does weird things to my head. It kind of puts my life into perspective but also makes me consider what I’m doing with it.

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Use an old Pi 3B for running zigbee2mqtt on docker.

I used to run just the Linux version of it but decided to install docker on the Pi so it’s as easy as doing docker-compose pull to update it.

This is so I can control my various lights and switches using Home Assistant.

Bookshelf speakers sound worse on linux

I have a budget PC and edifier r1280t bookshelf speakers. From day 1 of building my PC about 6 months ago, I was using fedora. I also have a MacBook pro and soon I realised that the speakers sound much better when connected to MacBook pro. I always thought maybe my motherboard dac is not good enough to drive these speakers. But...

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I use a Topping DX1 DAC with Fedora for sending sound to my soundbar. It’s great.

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Same here. I wonder if it’s also regional or depends on your phone/android version?

I signed up a couple of months ago. In United Kingdom. Android 13/OnePlus.

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It’s really bad that people end up living like this.

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Special shout-out has to go to my local newspaper websites The Derby Telegraph and Nottingham Post .

They are a virtually unreadable mess, due to the layers of advertising and other JavaScript interruption.

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