I'm all for it. Accounts that are actively posting Zionist views are already breaking rule #4 anyway https://wiki.dbzer0.com/divisions-by-zero/the-golden-rules/
That said I can't tell how much of an issue this has been on the dbzer0 instance up to now.. but I wouldn't rule out Lemmy getting hit with pro-zionist bot accounts now or in the future.
Debian by default uses the Nouveau open source driver for Nvidia GPUs and that driver does support Pascal. Debian installations will continue to work just fine even without Nvidia's development support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau_(software)
I don't know if that's something that can be done on Arch but in theory you can test the fallback Intel driver vs Nouveau and see which fallback you prefer.
Nouveau works well for day-to-day use and works with Wayland. I'm not a hardcore gamer but have played low-mid range Steam games without issue. I suspect it may not do well playing high end AAA games but then again if you're rocking a Pascal era GPU it's unlikely you've been playing those type of games anyway.
EDIT: Just to add, pretty sure the built in Intel iGPU on your laptop is more power efficient vs the Nvidia GPU so it may be worthwhile to disable the Nvidia GPU entirely rather than worrying about software drivers.
I've been using Debian with the default GNOME on an old laptop and main desktop and have been very happy with it. Coming from Windows I love that it's way simpler and I don't need to set a million options.
But remember the thing with Linux is you're not locked into anything - So try GNOME or XFCE for a few weeks, then if you still want something else install and switch over to another desktop environment. You could even install all these desktop environments during the Debian install itself and just keep switching every time you log in.
You said you have a Framework PC, their support pages already have a list of supported Linux distributions and install guides for them
Yes, you can install other Linux distributions if you like and in fact most should work fine. But since you seem to be new to everything it is probably best to stick to the Linux distributions Framework themselves offer support towards.
Beyond that may just want to contact Framework support directly since you're using their hardware.
Just to be sure, did you already test that the port is actually open and forwarded? e.g. with your torrent client running browse to a port test website like https://canyouseeme.org/ , https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ , etc. put in your torrent client's incoming port and check if the website can "see" your open port at your torrent client.
And the ISP (or router) itself isn't doing anything weird to block torrents, right? In your torrent client if you click any working public torrent, click on the Trackers tab, you should see DHT as working along with whatever open trackers are on the public torrent. In other words you won't see anything like "waiting" something (I forget the exact message you'll see when DHT is being blocked but it'll definitely not be working).
EDIT: Also if it's a new ISP with new router it might have firewall rules set up that are slowing things down, something to check.
The copy protections on Blu rays are exceptionally annoying, to the extent where there is really only one closed source software – MakeMKV – that can work around them.
Not quite, RedFox formerly SlySoft (RIP) used to market their own Blu-ray ripper and it worked quite well. What it used to do is on-the-fly decryption so you'd run it in the background and could use any other software to read the decrypted Blu-ray (e.g. using Handbrake or whatever). It did also have an option to just rip to a file IIRC. Unfortunately they randomly disappeared so their software is pretty much done. (some background on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedFox)
That aside they always a competitor, DVDFab, that still exists today. Their Passkey software is the rough equivalent of what the old RedFox/SlySoft software used to do but they also sell a standalone Blu-ray ripper if that's more your thing (see https://www.dvdfab.cn/).
But yeah, in some ways you're stuck with MakeMKV, DVDFab, and maybe some others (?).
I'd have to dig it out but I actually bought a Blu-ray drive a while back that was on the list of drives compatible with these rippers but honestly it's been a few years since I've tried using it. Most times someone else already ripped a Blu-ray I'd be interested in.
Speaking of - If anyone knows offhand, how do people do this stuff on Linux? Does the Linux version of MakeMKV work well for this and/or are there other tools (?)
Wake on LAN is a LAN feature, not WAN, so you'd need to issue that over the local LAN there at the house. You're going to have a hard time trying to get that working over the WAN (if that's even possible).
The other comments mentioning a scheduled boot would be a much easier/simple solution if it works for you.
But I'll throw this in, the super basic least tech solution to this is to open a port forward to the house's network router. Yes, I know you don't want to do that, but it's probably the only network device at that house that's actually on 24/7 right? And by all means lock it down however you like. My simple method is to open the router login to a non-standard port number, with a IP whitelist, add my own home IP address to that IP whitelist, and bam you now have access to that remote home's router for just your IP address. Log in remotely, issue a wake on LAN via the router's own web ui, done.
It's perfectly reasonable to make this a bit more secure if you wanted but it gets slightly more complicated - open a non-standard port for SSH access to the remote router's SSH port that only allows SSH login with key. Generate a SSH key and share that key with yourself, then you can log in remotely to that remote house via non-standard SSH port using the SSH key (no user/passwords). From there you'd have to see if you can issue Wake on LAN on the SSH command line, or set up a SSH tunnel from that remote LAN to yours so you can proxy into the router login page and do your Wake on LAN from there. ... yes I realize this got complicated :/ But you've got a few things to explore given your patience for tinkering with this stuff :)
Of course much of this relies on that house's router having any of these features to enable and configure. The main takeaway here is that Wake on LAN requires something on 24/7 at that remote LAN for you to enable remote access into and issue a Wake on LAN command within that LAN. How to actually accomplish that is the tricky bit.
When I first started using GNOME the top bar was a bit off-putting but I got used to it TBH. It's not something I think about much nowadays.
However, you actually can move it to the side or to the bottom, and/or change it in other ways, with the dash-to-panel extension so definitely check that out if the top bar is bugging you https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
Unless you have a specific need for some specific feature there's nothing wrong with Hyper-V, it works quite well. And it's already built into all the Windows Pro/Server OSes since at least Windows 10.
I've never done anything like gaming with it / never tried to dedicate a GPU for it so it's possible you need something else if that's more along the lines of what you're after.
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Just curious was this a Tuta paid account, or a free one?
Tuta is very strict with the free accounts and flag them for all sorts of reasons. They take their time to "approve" free accounts just to be able to use them. And on top of that they might nuke your account anyway if they think it is being used for spam/illegal activity/whatever or they think it's not being used.
But I thought those are just issues with their free accounts, presumably their paid accounts don't get flagged for those things.. or so I thought.
Also to echo the other comments - best to buy and own your own domain for your email, that way it doesn't matter where the email is being hosted in case you need to switch email providers.
Is there a software for Linux to make windows to go external SSD like you can with Rufus on windows?
Windows To Go was discontinued back in 2019 so it's not really something that has been maintained or updated for a long time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_To_Go#Discontinuation
Apps like Rufus (Windows only) are still able to create that sort of boot USB but it's sort of a non supported feature, wouldn't be surprised if it just stops working one day.
On Linux Ventoy is often used for this - it does have a persistence plugin but not for Windows https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html
I haven't tested this idea, but maybe you can run a Windows VM within Linux, enable USB in it, download Rufus in it, then you can create your non-official Windows To Go boot disk that way? Could be something to try if you never find another solution.
Always good to double check, but yes, I used canyouseeme and the port is definitely open.
That means TCP should be working as expected with the current configuration. Note those port test websites are only testing TCP, not UDP.
A few menu options below the one for port forwarding
I'm not familiar with ProtonVPN configuration so can't guide you much there, presumably if the port forwarding option only allows for one setting then maybe it's doing both TCP/UDP? I dunno..
there’s another for configuring the connection as OpenVPN(TCP), OpenVPN(UDP), or Wireguard.
Don't worry about that one, that's for configuring the VPN client you will be using to connect to the VPN server. It should not affect the port forward itself unless ProtonVPN is doing something odd.
I’ve had other issues in the past and Transmission’s internal port testing thing
Yeah I wouldn't rely on that, the internet port test inside the torrent client isn't always reliable. But in theory it should show up as open all the time if you have a stable open port :/
Could I be missing a step with the trackers?
Doubt it being a tracker issue, they update themselves on their own schedule usually.
I also have a client I’m trying to test uploading to, but it can’t seem to connect to the seedbox
Maybe should have asked this before - can the test torrent client see that there is a seed on the torrent? Or does it load the torrent but just isn't seeing any seeds or peers at all? The open trackers take a bit to update themselves with a new torrent hash so sometimes it just takes a bit before the torrent client sees a seed and begins downloading from it.
Just to double-check did you already test that the open port is actually open and connectable from the internet? e.g. use any port test website & see if it can connect to your seedbox Transmission open port e.g. https://www.canyouseeme.org/ , https://portchecker.co/ or similar.
Also, not sure how the open port itself was configured but make sure it is open for both TCP and UDP traffic if you needed to specify that during your firewall setup.
Like some of the other comments, if you really need a DE then maybe give XFCE or LXQt a try. The distro itself won't matter too much in your scenario.
I do have an old laptop that has run Debian/Ubuntu + Gnome fine, not at all fast but usable for my needs. Mines has 4 GB RAM, get the feeling that going under 4 GB may be a bit much.
Otherwise Linux is perfectly usable without a DE if you're willing to stick to the terminal for all your usage.
Like Google Fi, it’s a VoIP (voice over internet protocol) service so coverage should be the same as Fi.
Strictly speaking Google Fi is a MVNO. After losing Sprint/US Cellular access a while back nowadays they are a T-Mobile reseller e.g. you're getting access to T-Mobile's network and coverage with Google Fi.
For what it's worth my Google Voice phone number does show up as being classified as a VoIP number so that might be more along the lines of what you're thinking. The phone number I have on Google Fi does not show up as VoIP.
There is an Linux compatible open source player being developed called fooyin (https://fooyin.org/) heavily inspired by foobar2000. When I tried it out a few months back it was still a bit rough for day-to-day use but it could eventually become a good alternative for people that miss the foobar2000 style player.
Pretty sure Strawberry does everything you are looking for.
re: #1 I kind of had the same issue but with multiple music folders, most of the default music apps only let you use one folder. Strawberry lets you add as many music folders as you like, I've been happy with it.
On Windows I used to use foobar2000 which was great, and in theory I could get it running under Linux, but I'd rather just use something coded for Linux compatibility from the start.
I still use Virtualbox, configuration is way easier with the GUI
To be fair you can pair KVM/qemu with any GUI manager and have a similar interface to VirtualBox/Hyper-V/VMWare/etc. virt-manager (https://virt-manager.org/) is a popular one for example, I just started using it and it seems to work well for what I need.
Normally I've been using VirtualBox but for whatever reason it asks me to recompile the kernel on Debian 13 just to launch. Meanwhile qemu just works.
Don't know if this helps you but did you already try changing Disk IO Type to Simple pread/pwrite (in advanced settings)? It was meant to address some issues with disk read/write + RAM usage. Not something that affected me all that much but could be worth a look.
Was mentioned in the 5.0.1 release notes and in the github pages
https://www.qbittorrent.org/news
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/21300
Beyond that I'd echo the other comment, try to just change settings you actually need to change. Oftentimes people make a whole ton of settings changes in their torrent client and then can't figure out how to get it back to normal.
I've never needed to do this but have you looked into creating a Reverse SSH Tunnel? Maybe that can accomplish what you want https://www.howtogeek.com/428413/what-is-reverse-ssh-tunneling-and-how-to-use-it/
Similar to what you are trying to do - A while back when I needed to remote connect to a firewalled Windows computer I set up a reverse VNC connection on that Windows computer that would get initiated whenever I sync'd a file over to the Windows system via Dropbox/Syncthing (those work without port forwarding). Reverse VNC, like Reverse SSH or other connections basically try to initiate the connection out of the firewalled system, it's an interesting workaround when you have no incoming port forwards. Not sure if I'd recommend that type of set up but it is more secure than sending emails so there's that.
If you're able to set up a mesh VPN that might work better but you do have other options if you need them.