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[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yes I watched your video. So many wrong comments from ignorance. And blaming a protocol for the behavior of people? Another commenter here pointed out how Tor could be blamed in the same way. Why not just do away with the internet then? Ridiculous.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Nothing wrong with the matrix spec. I've ran a matrix homeserver for several years now and have never had issues with illegal material. It's free, open source, and self-hostable. If you have an issue with matrix.org that's a different issue. Don't use matrix.org servers. In fact, they have made it a point in their literature that they want you to use your own servers, they preach against centralization, and point out that matrix.org is an entryway to get you started, not an endpoint.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At the very least you need to install a webserver and you need a proxy of some kind. If you truly want old school you can just create html pages hosted from the root of your webserver (although there are now easier modern ways to do this, you might learn more the classic way rather than using a CMS).

You will want a reverse proxy to lie between your webserver and the internet that handles SSL. Let's Encrypt is a good option to generate a cert so that you only expose port 443 on your router to the internet and your webserver. You'll have to open port 80 to generate the cert but can close it again once generated. Then you will have https.

That's the basics. The how-to's are easy to find online.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 5 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure about the software always breaking, I haven't had this issue. I will say though this most recent update (19.4) has me frustrated, mainly because the instructions are clear as mud (especially pictrs 0.5). Once I get it figured out I'll have to post a real upgrade doc instead of what is currently available. I have never seen the lemmy matrix as busy as it is now with upgrade questions and puzzled admins.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 2 points 4 months ago

This was a great watch, thanks for posting.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how soon you need this, but if you can wait sipeed has a $20 kvm with ATX control that should be out soon https://lunar.computer/news/sipeed-announces-new-20-risc-v-kvm-device/

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's an interesting book I read recently related to this called The Anxious Generation: how the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. I'd recommend it.

As a counterpoint, EFF put out this article today: The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort to Label Social Media

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is the part of the new compose file that I don't understand:

PICTRS__OLD_REPO__PATH=/mnt/sled-repo PICTRS__REPO__TYPE=postgres PICTRS__REPO__URL=postgres://user:password@host:5432/db

When I try to add it, pictrs complains about not being able to connect to postgres, even though the credentials are correct and I've already run the postgres migration script. Did you not do this part when you upgraded?

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 5 points 4 months ago

What will you be doing with your server?

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am using Kinoite for quite a while now and not once did layering break anything.

That's great for you. Not everyone may use their distro in the same way as you.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/is-silverblue-rpm-ostree-intended-to-be-used-with-layered-packages/26162/2 https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-silverblue-36-will-not-succesfully-deploy-after-layering-packages/77502/3 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/991 https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/4280

Not to mention the whole Firefox debacle of including an outdated borked version based with the system install instead of just moving to Flatpak install of most recent stable release. There's a very valid reason why package layering is discouraged by atomic maintainers and why toolbox is there by default as part of OS. And don't even get me started on DKMS and driver installation.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev -2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

It's not only discouraged but often times it's system breaking. I used Kinoite for a year before I just became too frustrated and gave up. The first thing I learned though was to stay away from package layering because it tended to break things more often than not. Basically if you can't find or build a flatpak and you don't want to use toolbox all the time, just stick with workstation. Immutable is great when deploying to multiple servers or locked-down corporate workstations, but it makes no sense for your personal setup especially if you're already familiar with Linux.

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