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So what the boink is Bazzite "cloud native" blah? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I've heard Bazzite mentioned repeatedly as a popular distro for Linux gaming (and I plan to test drive it on my old laptop soneday when I get around to it). My understanding is that it's a standalone distro you can run locally, same as Debian/Arch/Ubuntu/etc. I suspect the "cloud native" marketing term in this context just means you can run the same image file in a vm, vps, bare metal, whatever.

If I'm dead wrong, hopefully my reply will be sufficiently inflammatory to trigger a correction, lol.

macOS Sequoia is so buggy in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Mainly having issues with Sequoia's software firewall, but there are other annoyances as well. The latest iOS update all but broke my Mail app too. I'm tolerating the macOS issues for now, but about to replace my iphone with a Pixel running LineageOS. I've about had it with the big apple lately.

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[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

I have a Brother color laser printer (technically it's like LED or something? not home, don't have the exact model handy). It has built in wifi and ethernet for network printing. The wifi isn't configured, and the ethernet is manually configured with a static IP for my LAN... but no gateway address. This breaks outgoing network connections to the internet (as evidenced by the printer's inability to check for firmware updates), while behaving otherwise normally for all my LAN devices. I hope this info is useful!

Lanemu P2P VPN (LAN over Internet) in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ZeroTier might suit your use case. It's super easy to setup.

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[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Not your point, but I actually do recommend torrenting linux ISOs... often much faster than direct downloads from the devs' websites. ;-)

Best "just works" mesh router for open wrt? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a huge fan of Ubiquiti APs, and run their Unifi controller on a Raspberry Pi. Sadly, their code is proprietary - but it basically just works.

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from Linux@lemmy.ml) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe see if 'rclone mount' solves the problem for ya. Rclone can often be a super handy swiss army knife for stuff like this.

Apple May Launch First iPad-Like Smart Home Accessory Next Year in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Pair it with one of those toilet seat iBooks from the 90s and you've really got something!

Reasons why people want to vote Socialist in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This exactly. We need to pass ranked choice voting before any third party candidtaes (from either side of the political spectrum) will ever have a chance. Until then, our top priority is keeping the fascist extremists from seizing control, or we may lose our "right" to vote entirely.

What browser do yall use? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Good choices. I too run Librewolf by default, with ungoogled Chromium standing by for the occassional asshat website intentionally designed to work exclusively on Chrome

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[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

this is the way

Self-Hosted setup for remote music lessons? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

in my opinion, yes.

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wifi Temperature gauges? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Sorry if this is a newb question; I'm coming in cold. I've had HAOS running on an RPi4 for months, but I haven't invested in any smart devices to connect yet.

I'd like to start with some (ideally open source) smart gauges just to check the temp out front and back. Any recommendations?

Thanks!

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Good resources to monitor cybersecurity? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml to c/opsec@lemmy.zip

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One site I've been following for awhile is https://notifycyber.com/

...but I'd love some more. What are your must-haves?

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Looking for a good tablet PC distro (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I just inherited a handful of Samsung Series 7 Slate PCs that I'd like to rebuild to be as "tablet-like" as possible for a few non-technical friends and family. They power up but arrived with non-functional Windows 7 installs. They're Intel Core i5s with 4G RAM and 128G SSDs, so they should run pretty well under any popular Linux distro. I'm personally comfortable in the command line and don't want to sacrifice the fact that these are "real computers with a real OS" on them, but I'd still like them to behave somewhat similar to Android tablets for less techie users.

If these were laptops with keyboards and trackpads I'd probably just install kubuntu or Mint on them and call it a day, but I'm not sure if KDE Plasma behaves well on a touchscreen tablet interface with (hopefully) an on-screen keyboard and so forth. Ubuntu Touch sounds somewhat promising, but I haven't really played with it. I don't want to waste hours trying to get device drivers to work for the touchscreen and other built-in hardware, so I'm hoping for a novice-friendly distro that usually just works out of the box on most hardware.

Does anyone have an obvious choice they'd like to recommend? Thanks so much!

Edit - Update:

Zorin OS (Edu) for the win, with Pop! OS essentially a tie. Both distros do a fantastic job out of the box offering tablet options like on screen keyboards that automatically pop up when needed. I'm giving Zorin the win only because it just happened to be the last distro I installed and haven't had a reason to replace it yet.

Distros I tested for use on these tablets:

Bliss OS - Honestly, I really wanted to like this, in spite of it being an Android clone instead of a proper Linux DE. It sports an obviously tablet-friendly UI that almost won me over... except there were horrible issues just typing in basic settings like wifi password. The keyboard kept disappearing mid-password, making me start over repeatedly. I finally had to grab a real keyboard to join wifi, and it still misbehaved. Not an experience I want my less geeky family members to share.

kubuntu - I run this on a personal laptop and was biased toward it from the start. It isn't really a great tablet experience though, even with xvkbd installed. Works great while docked of course, since it's a Linux DE I already use.

ubuntu-unity - Another good DE, but just not very tablet friendly. I guess I hoped this would be more like Ubuntu Touch, which I was really excited about as a new phone possibility awhile ago, but just never really went anywhere. Instead it's just Ubuntu with the Unity DE and no automatic on-screen kb.

Pop! OS - I really like this, and might start playing with it more as a laptop OS as well. I truly love KDE Plasma, but I also find Pop!'s DE really intuitive.

Zorin OS (Edu) Loved this, left it installed. Their built-in Windows App compatibility (wine + PlayOnLinux) comes pre-configured to provide a surprisingly refreshing user experience. On a fluke, I wanted to see if I could run my mixer app on the tablet, and starting with nothing more than downloading the installer .exe file from Mackie's website, Zorin prompted me all the way through to a working app. Friendliest wine experience I've ever had, by miles.

Anyone have anything else they'd like to recommend? I'm always interested. Did I not give a popular distro a fair enough shot? I admittedly didn't invest a huge amount of time stress-testing each distro beyond initial setup and config from within the tablet-specific interface. I was mainly testing for out-of-box tablet experience, especially in regards to basic setup like joining wifi and attempting to browse the web, which shouldn't require a hard kb connected IMO.

Edit 2: Fixed copy/paste edit issue, no new info)

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[Help] Cloudflare Zero Trust WebDAV Access (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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(crossposted from c/Cloudflare on lemmy.ml) The Cloudflare community doesn't appear to be active yet, so I was hoping some fellow self-hosters might have a good suggestion. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions!

https://lemmy.ml/post/3723540