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@Root Moose

Monkeying with computers since 1984, Linux user since 1994.

Free/Libre Open Source Software, data sovereignty & privacy advocate.

I've seen some things; is there such a thing as computer related PTSD?

Transitioning to "just a user".

My automotive half can be found at https://weird.autos/@fxworks

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I'm running Plasma 6.6 on a box and I'm kind of struggling with the lack of adjustable window outline intensity. I really miss this... whined about it elsewhere.

Examples attached of with and without and where to set it in pre-6.6 and 6.6.

Anyone know how to get this setting back, either via command line or smoke signal or whatever?

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #Plasma66 @nprofile1q...


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I've been running two degraded ZFS arrays for the last few weeks (Debian host).

Yeah, I know. Whatevs.

One of the pools was basically "scratch" backup space and one of the spindles died (breaking the utility of the mirror). Pulled the drive, wiped the remaining, put back in service with minimum fuss as a single drive. I'll throw another spindle at it when drive prices drop again.

The other array had the SSD cache die and it's been chugging along fine ever since. Not a big deal, but from a "experience" point of view it "feels slow" like a working md array.

New SSD arrived in the mail so that'll get sorted sometime today/tomorrow.

So, what's this post about?

Linux peeps, if you are thinking about md arrays, just stop, take the time, and throw 'yer leg over the zfs horse. It's worth it.

#Linux #RunBSD #zfs #md #mdadm #raid #homelab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting
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Is there a "trick" to getting Firefox/Waterfox/spin_of_choice to actually reload images from source when you press Shift-Reload / Shift-Ctrl-R ?

Sometimes it does it - most of the time it keeps reloading the same image from cache for a really long time regardless how many times you shift-reload. Closing the browser doesn't help most of the time.

What am I missing?

#Web #Firefox
Stefano Marinelli · 5w
I start my modern car (2023) that's been sitting for about ten days. The very first thing it does is demand a software update, which fails because the battery is "too low". After driving it to charge,...
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@nprofile1q... As a fairly "hard core" car dork I am finally prepared to buy an electric car as the next daily driver appliance.

But I don't know if I'll be able to bring myself to do it.

Modern cars are rage inducing due to the terrible infotainment systems and dangerous active safety supports.

If every time I get in the car the first step is to turn off all the nanny systems then I'm not sure I'll be able to do it.

The newest car we currently own is 2016 GTI (wife's toy summer daily and autocross car) and that car has a dangerous accident avoidance system that can be turned off and stays off between restarts. Thankfully, our 2016 Touareg is of the older generation and doesn't have any of that nonsense on it. All my 'fun' cars are much older but I don't drive them in the winter time since we are in the rust belt. Getting into my MR2 is like a breath of fresh air. At the moment doesn't even have a radio in the dashboard. Ha.

ABS and traction control were great additions to every day cars. Beyond that the systems are intrusive and sometimes dangerous if they actively affect a car's velocity IMO.

Looking at the number of responses in your thread I think you struck a nerve. Ha!
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A tool that doesn't get enough love is the KDE "ISO Image Writer".

Sure there's dd and there's tools like Rufus, Etcher, and whatnot, but if it's effectively a tool meant for your platform then why not?

[ Currently writing Alpine v3.23 to a stick to wipe/replace my garage 'droid from Debian to Alpine after work ]

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #AlpineLinux #iso #iso9660 #USBStick

https://apps.kde.org/isoimagewriter/
Stefano Marinelli · 5w
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jhx · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq05uau5k6cy2fgfqywrpxelhl6t47y9z7cjt06m3k8jun5r5xhapsy6pphl Same game over here. Also trying to reduce electricity costs.
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There's one last thing I need to get my head around with respect to using FreeBSD jails as a replacement for docker/podman.

I generally configure containers as totally ephemeral. Any data or individual files that a container uses, and that I care to keep, resides outside the container. It is linked inside via volumes defined in the run shell script or compose file. In some cases even dumb things like root's .bashrc gets linked in so that nuking a container doesn't lose the shell history the next time something needs hand fettling (mediawiki, maintenance scripts, composer, bootstrap, and friends - yes, needs more automation).

Any time a container gets restarted, step one may be to delete the container (and associated volumes it creates), re-pull latest and instantiate fresh. This is pretty typical for Jellyfin for example.

Also, working this way means that the entire backup process can exist outside the container volumes and nothing redundant in /var/lib/docker needs to get backed up.

Anyway, I need to figure out how to achieve something similar under FreeBSD jails. I'm assuming there is something in ZFS that provides a similar type of functionality during jail startup but haven't dug into it yet.

Then there's the 'correct' and easy way on how to upgrade the software inside a jail (os components and services the container runs) that needs experimentation on my side. Some scripting to do.

Jails seem much more elegant but there is lot of old cruft and 'finger memory' to work around. Ha. A lot of stuff is pre-wired and ready to go for regular usage in Linux containers in comparison, I think.

The journey continues.

#FreeBSD #jails #docker #podman #RunBSD