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  • Recommendations to replace AWS DNS?

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  • Just chiming in with my suggestion - if the company's location also benefits you:

    Mythic Beasts

    A private UK company which also hosts VPS in US and NL

    I've moved my domain here and used their DNS API to remove the need to pay for a couple of DynDNS companys.

    0 downtime over... dunno... 5 years?

  • Installed Linux for the fist time in Feb, I've now started saving ISO's

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  • Wow, just looked that one up on Wikipedia... just... wow

  • Installed Linux for the fist time in Feb, I've now started saving ISO's

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  • Linux and BSD have the same heritage, but took slighlty different paths... so they're cousins.

    Look it up on Wikipedia, etc... it's an interesting bit of history.

  • And so it begins

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  • I've tried a few desktop environments and ended back with XFCE... all the whizzy snazzy stuff breaks over time, or get's "up"graded to something I don't like... XFCE just works...

  • And so it begins

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  • This is the way.

    The only way to find the right distro is to try them out, on the end device, with the end user.

  • Our favorite sustainably-minded tech specialist is back with even more eco-conscious over-ear headphones

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  • I bought originals first and then experimented with cheapos from Amazon, Aliexpress, etc... tbh, there wasn't that much difference...

    I don't have the latest seller details to hand, but I've been happy with them all so far... just pay attention to what you're buying; some try to sell other stuff in the same pack - for a similar price - ie I don't think you'll need a spudger / pry tool to replace them.

  • Our favorite sustainably-minded tech specialist is back with even more eco-conscious over-ear headphones

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  • When my Bose QC finally die I'll look for these, but with replaceable earcups, I'm doing ok for... dunno... 10years so far?

    I just assumed that was a normal thing until my daughter's headphones started falling apart (not sure, might've been Beats?) and I realised they couldn't be maintained / repaired.

  • Your favorite linux "task manager"

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  • Usually have tmux split into panes with htop, nmon and nload running whilst I'm doing whatever in the final quadrant

    It's interesting to watch what happens on my NAS when I run a backup, to see that the CPU, network and disks don't do what you think they'll do when they do whatever they're doing

  • 6-figure deployments show momentum of sovereignty in France - Nextcloud

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  • Yeah, TBH, I dropped NC some years ago because each update almost needed a complete reconfigure.

    I hope this means that they have enough funding to get the bugs squashed.

  • What folders do you make in addition to the default ones ?

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  • ~/Stuff(1) as well?

  • What all would you do to set up Ubuntu as a NAS?

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  • For a NAS, like, storage on the network, keep it as simple and as reliable as possible,, so avoid Ubuntu and go to the core underlying OS: Debian.

    Then just build up the functionality you need, is SMB, NFS, etc.

    Personally, I went from OMV to a home built NAS, but went with Arch as that's what I use elsewhere (btw), so am comfortable with it, but it's bleeding edge which isn't always the best if some functionality changes when you're not ready for it.

    If you're going for a server running lots of containers, etc, then find whatever the container handler (docker?) is best on... I just put everything on bare metal, so can't advise what's best for containers... probably Debian again...

    But, keep it simple.

  • This European Linux Phone Is a Beast (Jolla Phone)

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  • On your last point, most traffic monitoring is by the apps tracking everyone via Google (etc), not wires under the roads

    So, we'd need a LOT of people to be aware of the benefits of tracking for a specific app / backend before anyone would start using it.

    If we could get at the car tracking data the manufacturers use, that would be a start

  • PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup

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  • I came from Nextcloud to syncthing, you're in the right place.

  • Fooling IoT devices as if they have internet access is it possible? (Yeelight minas ceiling light goes unavailable after physical switch-off without internet.)

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  • Wireshark is the best way as it'll show you exactly what's going on; DNS addresses, traffic type, etc. (But not inside encrypted packets)

    But to do that it (you) need to see all the traffic between the ceiling light and the internet, so if you're on wifi and it's on wifi, that won't work.

    Hopefully your router has the ability to either do a packet capture, or, mirror traffic to a physical port.

  • Fairphone open sources software for Fairphone 5, 6, and the Moments switch

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  • I have a FP3 and ditched most of the standard apps for anything else from fdroid... that helped me.

    Or was it the firmware you're referring to?

  • Finally got my Linux laptop at work

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  • ... it's a policy driven hell

  • Two Android 0-day bugs patched, plus 105 more fixes • The Register

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  • Yep, I have a Fairphone... it can operate with an unlocked boot loader...

    I'm not an Android developer, but reading more it seems that where I thought the modular kernel would allow patching, it does seem to be a monolithic compiled object.

    So, ok, I could probably dig out the source for AOSP / LineageOS patches, but possibly not for the GKI.

  • Two Android 0-day bugs patched, plus 105 more fixes • The Register

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  • I wish we could just download & apply these hotfixes and patches ourselves...

    Surely it's only device drivers that really need to come from the manufacturer?

  • Do people with newer pcs prefer rolling release?

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  • Yeah, Point 1 here is exactly why I moved from Ubuntu to Arch ~10 years ago.

    I was trying to get something working and found that the bug / feature had been fixed ~1 year earlier, but that version wasn't in the repos... I couldn't move forwards.

    With Arch, all is well. And, I'm either reporting new bugs and helping to get things fixed, or I'm updating the wiki with any changes I notice.