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themadcodger

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  • Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head!

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  • Hey, thanks for your advice, and honestly the permission to be okay with not using it. I lost sight of that and it's a good reminder. I am a little concerned for the noise and power consumption that everyone is talking about, especially since I don't have an out of the way place to stick it.

    That said, while I might ultimately not use it, I will at least learn enough to get it running. And like you said, fail a lot. But if I don't have anything on it, failure won't be so painful when I inevitability have to start over.

    I'll have to get some sort of adapter for VGA, and thanks for the talking about idrac. I had seen that mentioned on the server and had no idea what it was. So is the idrac website I'm connecting to like the website on routers used for configuration?

  • Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head!

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  • Hey thanks for the advice! Proxmox and TrueNAS seem to be what I should be looking into. Flashing with Rufus I'm familiar enough with, so that I can do. The one thing I don't have is an out of the way place to put it 🫤 without any drives it didn't make any noise, but I imagine that all comes from the drives doing their thing.

  • Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head!

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  • Thanks for the encouragement! To be honest, while it was a good place to start from its hand holding, I don't love synology for how walled garden it is. I'll definitely take a look at TrueNAS and see what that's like.

  • Trump says US will not make Ukraine security guarantees ‘beyond very much’ and Kyiv can ‘forget about’ joining Nato

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  • Also with lots of lead.

  • Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account

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  • Same, I just switched over to them and have had a good experience with it.

  • Europe says it is ready to back EU membership for Ukraine

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  • That's exactly what Russia has wanted since the cold war "ended". That said, I honestly don't know how we heal from this. A third of the country is bat shit crazy, and the sane among us are never going to join in their fascism. I think Balkanization is, for better or worse, in our future.

    Assuming we don't all blow ourselves up first.

  • Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine

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  • There are dozens of us!

  • Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC

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  • It's gotten so much better since 2008. Ubuntu is good for servers, but probably not what you're looking for on a desktop. And you really don't need to have a coding background to use it, though it also depends on your use case.

  • Bernie Sanders keeps saying Ol-ah-gawky but I thought it was o-le-garky?

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  • The further NE you go in the US the more non-rhotic the dialect becomes, more or less.

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    We Don’t Surrender: Merging Canada Into The U.S. Would Be Too Absurdly Difficult To Even Discuss

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  • Yeah, no idea on the pros and cons of dollar coins, just that they'll never take off while there are still bills circulating.

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    We Don’t Surrender: Merging Canada Into The U.S. Would Be Too Absurdly Difficult To Even Discuss

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  • But never with taking away the bills. Get rid if the bills and force the coins and voilà.

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    We Don’t Surrender: Merging Canada Into The U.S. Would Be Too Absurdly Difficult To Even Discuss

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  • Ugh, we're not even. We're using the US customary system, which uses the British words but aren't the same values as British Imperial values. They're actually pegged to the metric system, so if the definition of a kilometer changed, so would the definition of a mile.

    We're using metric with extra steps. Not to mention certain products are already in metric, and everything else has the metric on it already.

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    We Don’t Surrender: Merging Canada Into The U.S. Would Be Too Absurdly Difficult To Even Discuss

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  • You shouldn't hesitate. And some USians would like to join you in eradicating the fascists.

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    We Don’t Surrender: Merging Canada Into The U.S. Would Be Too Absurdly Difficult To Even Discuss

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  • Um… you can't take California without also taking us in Oregon and Washington with you!

  • Can anyone recommend generic controllers that work with Linux? [Update2]

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  • I also have this controller (and the one that is SNES style) and both work well with my steam deck.

  • Planning to switch to Linux for my next PC

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  • Yup, that's exactly it. Booting to a USB drive doesn't change anything on your laptop until you tell it to, like by telling it to install. So there's no harm in doing a dry run nowish. If you're successful, it'll boot into the USB drive, you'll know you can do it, and then just reboot without the USB drive and everything is back to normal. If you do it incorrectly, same thing: just reboot without the USB drive and everything is back to how you left it.

    Once you get it, you'll be ready to go when you get your new laptop. But you can ask questions along the way and the real deal will be less stressful. Up to you though!

  • Planning to switch to Linux for my next PC

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  • Yeah, there's nothing wrong with default SteamOS. It doesn't have updates as often as Bazzite, but if you're happy with it, it's fine to leave it. I had some trouble getting it to work with my dock when I wanted to use a monitor and keyboard, and since I was already using Bazzite's cousin on my laptop I switched over and it everything just worked. I'm a fan of the work they're doing.

    Starting with a brand new computer is a good way to go because nothing to lose, and if you have trouble on install, nothing lost starting over.

    One thing you can start figuring out now is how to boot from a USB drive in windows. This was just a quick google search, but getting the computer to boot from the USB drive and not where it normally boots will probably be the hardest part. After you boot into the USB drive, the rest is fairly straightforward. So maybe start looking into that while you wait 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • Planning to switch to Linux for my next PC

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  • I guess in case no one else mentioned anywhere, when you install Bazzite (or any distro) it will wipe everything and you will start from scratch, so make sure your important stuff is saved elsewhere before you begin. Same with steamdeck. But one nice thing about Bazzite is that since it's made by gamers for gamers, it has a lot of the things you'll need preinstalled, or like emudeck you can just click to install it through their portal, so it should be minimal hassle.

  • Planning to switch to Linux for my next PC

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  • You can do it right now and see what happens. Go to Bazzite.gg and go to the download section. It just wants to know where you're installing it so it knows what version to give you to download. Installing to a laptop will be a different file than installing to your steamdeck.

    And since you shut down nightly you'd always have the most current version when you boot up the next day. But that only applies to atomic (formerly called immutable) distros like Bazzite. If you go Mint, which isn't atomic/immutable, that won't be the case and you'll have to stay on top of updating.

    It's early still, so you have plenty of time to do some research and when you're ready ask the questions you still don't understand and generally we're pretty helpful around here. 😁

  • Planning to switch to Linux for my next PC

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  • I touched on this elsewhere, but seeing your comment here… sort of.

    iso image is like a .zip it's a specific type of file… one that opens into a larger image, namely your entire distro. So you could install windows with an iso file. In order to be useful though, you need to get it onto a flash drive, but not just dragging and dropping. Programs like Rufus, mentioned elsewhere, will take that iso of Bazzite and open it onto the flash drive in a way that the computer will be able to read it later and do something with it.

    After you have a working flash drive, you do not boot windows like normal and run the installer from a USB. You'll have to figure out how to tell your laptop (different but similar for each brand of laptop) to boot from the USB. This usually involves having the USB in the drive, restarting your computer and hitting a specific key to tell it not to boot normally to windows, but instead boot from the flash drive.

    I haven't used Windows in a while and I think there's also a way to restart windows and tell it to boot from USB as you're exiting. But that's what you'll have to figure out for your specific device. That'll be true no matter what you end up installing.