MiddledAgedGuy

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[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Are knowing nods acceptable?

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

Obsfucation can help stimey scripts. I saw using a non-standard port mentioned.

You can also setup a reverse proxy to deliver a different, empty site to a different dns entry by default. Use either a completely separate (as opposed to multidomain) cert for each, or a wildcard cert.

Jellyfin also supports using a custom path, instead of delivering at the root. Your reverse proxy would need to be configured accordingly.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

I agree with this opinion.

... you should never retire.

I'd retire tomorrow if I had the financial security to do so.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I read it was Pokémon like and wrote it off. I've tried to but never enjoyed Pokémon. I grew up on jrpg's so you'd think that was right up my alley. But I disgress...

The comments here paint a more complex story. It honestly still doesn't seem like my type of game, but my curiosity is piqued. I'll check it out.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

Of course! The first step to fixing ignorance is acknowledging it.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I'm an American who is reasonably well traveled (though I haven't been to Europe yet) and really wants to be less ignorant about these things than most of my countrymates so I spent a amount of time trying to figure it out before looking at a map and reading the comments. I did not. I guess I'm still that American. But I'll keep trying not to be.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd like confirmation on this as well, if there's confirmation to be had.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For some reason otherwise obsolete setups that live on for a specific purpose please me. But also you can get a USB to serial device on the cheap.

Edit: Just noticed the community this is in. So I guess... live on niche XP laptop!

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

You are. Reformat and install the first hardware compatible distro you find on https://distro.moe/ right now. Don't think too much about it, just do it! /s, probably?

If checking out a different distro sounds interesting and/or fun then you should. If not, then don't. Whatever way you Linux is the correct way for you.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Genocide? That some new brand of energy drink?

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

That's fair. It's good to educate on these things.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I knew about Redhat's recent bad behavior, I somehow missed that IBM owns Redhat. So TIL.

I dropped Fedora in light of recent news but I'm not OP. They can decide for themselves on that. If OP or anyone is interested in learning more, a search for RHEL source paywall will get you there.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I've happily been a Fedora user for many years now, but RHEL's recent choice to put their source code behind a paywall has me pondering ethical considerations of my distro choice.

It's my understanding that this doesn't have a direct impact on Fedora, and I feel confident that it will continue to be a great distro for the foreseeable future, but I want the commercial/enterprise/corporate influence on the distro I run to be as minimal as possible. For it to be as free as possible.

With that in mind, what distros would everyone recommend?

I only have recent-ish experience with Fedora, Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu. I don't really know much about any others.

Ideally, I'd like it to fit within these boxes as well:

  • Reasonable release cycle time. Debian as an example tends to be too stale by it's nature. Edit for clarification: doesn't have to be bleeding edge, just don't want to fight with outdated dependencies if I'm compiling something from source. I feel distros generally ride this line well, but I've run into a handful of times in the past with Debian.
  • Doesn't try too hard to be user friendly. Obsfucating system internals, forcing a specific DE on you, that kind of thing.
  • Not overly time consuming to maintain. Arch would be an example of that in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, Arch is awesome. But maintaining a rolling release and a bunch of AUR's gets tiresome.
  • Doesn't try to force you to use a flatpaks, snaps, etc.

Seeing it all written out, that's pretty picky. And maybe this unicorn distro doesn't exist. But on the other hand, maybe it does.

A final thought. I know Debian has a testing branch. Anyone have any experience using that as a daily driver? Is it viable?

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