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moonpiedumplings

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  • Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future

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  • I understand the technical challenges with running x86 apps on arm... but multiple wrappers that do something similar to proton have already been released.

    If you follow the r/emulationonandroid subreddit, they have gotten PC games working on android for a while now. One of the wrappers, gamehub, has made it to the playstore. You can just sign in to your steam account (don't do that gamehub is sketchy af, proprietary, and by a company that stole gpl code fro, yuzu and didn't release a derivative product), download games, and play them.

    The current concern is performance, but most lower and midrange games run just fine.

  • Zero Trust Architecture

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    1. Corporations really, really love being admin on everybody elses devices. See kernel level anticheat.
    2. I feel like people have gotten zero trust (I don't need to trust anybody) confused with "I don't trust anybody".
    3. I was listening to a podcast by packet pushers and they were like "So you meet a vendor, and they are like, 'So what do you think zero trust means? We can work with that'".

  • [solved] Why is there no .gz.tar?

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  • This is what zip does. It compresses files individually, and then combines them into the archive. This comes with the advantage that you don't have to extract the whole archive to view and edit files, but it comes with a very big disadvantage, which is that there is no compression across files. Redundant data in each file is not deduplicated.

    Tar.gz does compress across files, which saves more space. That is to say, the reason why we don't just tar gzed files together, is because people decided that compression savings matter more than not having to extract the whole archive to view/edit files.

    7z is the best of both worlds, as it compresses across files, but also lets you view and edit files without extracting the whole archive. But it's important to remember that tar.gz is ubiquitous for it's compatibility, rather than it's performance or features. Even the most smallest, stripped down utilities, or the most oldest, out of date systems, always have gz and tar, whereas even on modern desktop distros 7z may need to be explicitly installed.

  • Average Debian system update experience:

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  • Despite all the warnings not to install kali linux, I decided to install kali linux and I am now encountering an issue I would not face had I chosen to use a linux distro designed with normal desktop use in mind. Can anyone help me?

    Actually, modern kali is a lot more usable than the older kali. Kali used to only have a root user, so chromium and electron apps wouldn't start since they don't run as root.

    Despite this, nowadays I generally recommend new people away from kali, because I believe the process of installing the tools that kali provides on other distros is a valuable learning experience.

    Kali is great for the professional, but but learners I prefer they get to experience the package manager or other aspects of system management.

  • Harper: Free, Open Source Grammar Checker

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  • Languagetool's browser extension is no longer open source, which has me concerned. You can still point it at a local server, but yeah.

  • WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more

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  • UWP 💀

    UWP is Microsoft's "new" app format, it's what the windows store and the xbox use.

    It also isn't compatable with wine, and my pet theory is that this was the entire point of it. Combined with Windows S mode, which doesn't let you install apps other than from the windows store, the goal was to lock down the windows ecosystem by having apps that can't be made to run on linux.

    I remember seeing a compatability layer for UWP apps a while ago, and I am pleased to see that it has come this far. Great work!

    Edit: wait this uses a windows VM. Still good though and lets people escape the windows ecosystem.

  • Example authelia config for OIDC only

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  • As simpler and easier to use alternatives, check out voidauth and kanidm.

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  • Why did you link to a knot that's not the ian knot?

    I used to triple tie my shoes, but they would keep getting untied. After I learned a balanced ian knot my shoes would never get untied again.

    Balanced friction > total friction

  • Which company has a better reputation Lenovo or ASUS?

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  • Both have products with varying degrees of quality. Don't follow companies around, follow specific named model lines instead.

  • Docker setup for debian 13 trixie Ansible Playbook

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  • I don't really understand why this is a concern with docker. Are there any particular features you want from version 29 that version 26 doesn't offer?

    The entire point of docker is that it doesn't really matter what version of docker you have, the containers can still run.

    Debian's version of docker receives security updates in a timely manner, which should be enough.

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • I recommend libvirt + virt-manager as an alternative to hyper v.

    The cool thing about virt manager is you can do it over ssh.

  • Docker setup for debian 13 trixie Ansible Playbook

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  • You are adding a new repo, but you should know that the debian repos already contain docker (via docker.io) and docker-compose.

  • Share your music playlist for concentration

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  • Interoperability between self-hosted services

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  • I use authentik, which emables single sign on (the same account) between services.

    Authentik is a bit complex and irritating at times, so I would recommend voidauth or kanidm as alternatives for most self hosters.

  • Blame qt

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  • Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not?

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  • Would you use the cli?

    One of the cool things I liked about calibre is that extensions worked via the cli interface as well, which made it easy to do batch workflows of operations on ebooks.

  • The fate of “small” open source

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    1. I hope you realize the irony of posting this in an online community dedicated to open source.
    2. I physically go to Linux and tech meetups and conferences near me. So yeah.

  • Headscale vs Netbird vs Pangolin - How do you like selfhosting them?

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  • No, they added a beta vpn feature.

  • I made a project that can install/configure/orchestrate 115+ applications on your homelab using Ansible!

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  • Does it require docker installed and being in the docker group, with the docker daemon running?

    Just an FYI, having the ability to create containers and do other docker is equivalent to root: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/#docker-daemon-attack-surface

    It's not really accurate to say that your playbooks don't require root to run when they basically do.