dandroid

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[–] dandroid 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I used Ubuntu for years and never had a single issue with snap. I didn't even know about the hate back then, nor had I heard of Flatpak. I eventually started to really like it and prefer to get my apps as snaps when available. Eventually I had to give up that laptop because it belonged to my work, and I left for another job. When I installed linux on my personal laptop, I decided to move away from Ubuntu for reasons completely unrelated to snap or proprietary software.

[–] dandroid 33 points 8 months ago

This is an excellent use case for a self hosted service, since location data is frequently used for nefarious purposes.

[–] dandroid 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've tested this on r/lemmy, and it still got removed.

[–] dandroid 19 points 8 months ago

They definitely used to delete links to popular Lemmy instances. I posted a few as a test one time and found the comment to be shadow deleted. It looked like it existed to me, but if I logged out, I couldn't see it. I wasn't banned, though. Idk if this is still happening.

[–] dandroid 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have a mesh system made up of Asus Zenwifi ET8s, and I have been very happy with them. They have a lot of cool features, such as having a VPN server and VPN client, with the VPN client allowing me to apply the VPN to only selected devices. It has tons of customization options for those that are knowledgeable about that sort of thing. For example, I can tweak at what signal strength AP steering happens. It has WiFi 6E and 2.5 Gbps wired backhaul.

When I first got it, it was very buggy, and some features straight up didn't work. But they eventually got all the bugs that I found fixed. It's in a really good state right now.

To address your desired features, it does have wireguard. I don't know about DDNS, but it does not have pihole built in. It has adguard built in, but it doesn't really seem to do much, tbh. Then again, pihole didn't really do anything for me either. I ended up shutting off my pihole because I didn't even notice a difference.

[–] dandroid 4 points 8 months ago

I have a laptop that has an AMD embedded GPU for the desktop environment, and an Nvidia GPU for playing games. I have been using Wayland since plasma 6 hit Tumbleweed maybe a week and a half ago. So far I've had zero issues, likely because I'm using my AMD graphics all the time (I haven't played games on my laptop since I switched to Wayland)

[–] dandroid 2 points 8 months ago

I created my first account in June of 2023, like many of us, I'm sure.

Now that I have RIF back via Vanced, I spend a lot of time in both places. The communities that I want to engage with just aren't here. But when I want Linux news, this is my place to go.

I had my own instance for about 10 months. I started it when I was frustrated at the downtime all the big instances had. But now they seem a lot more stable, so I shut down my instance.

[–] dandroid 22 points 8 months ago

As a podman user myself, they're essentially the same. I look at the docker documentation when learning new things about podman. 99.9% of the time, it's exactly the same. For the features that aren't in podman, you can use the podman-docker package. This gets you a daemon so you can have some docker-specific features such as a container being able to start/stop other containers by mounting the socket as a volume, and it allows you to use docker-compose.

[–] dandroid 1 points 8 months ago

That's how the question was worded.

[–] dandroid 2 points 8 months ago

Oh, oof.

Hopefully most people take regular snapshots.

[–] dandroid 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Don't most distros have safeguards against this? I tried sudo rm -rf / in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.

[–] dandroid 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I just worked from home. The main difference was when I was in pointless meetings that I didn't need to be in, I just played Animal Crossing.

I don't really feel nostalgic about it because it was so recent, but maybe I will once more time passes. It still kind of feels like yesterday right now.

Hell, it still feels like yesterday that I was in college, and that was 10 years ago. 😬

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