The opulence of the UAE lets a certain type of person overlook its human rights abuses and hostility towards women and queer people to view it as an appealing travel destination. It’s probably overlooked because without that opulence, Oman is just another dictatorship actively hostile to over half of the people who might travel there.

Qubes as a daily can be pretty cumbersome with a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it it’s a very unique modular kind of experience, and a pretty good way to safely(ish) use one machine for many things - certainly much more so than any of the main linux distros. If you’re interested in security, worth checking out!

Linux hobbyist for 20+ years, pro for 6+. Fedora for workstations, proxmox for hypervisors, and rocky for servers is my usual personal recommendation. Beyond that, secureblue (a hardened downstream of fedora atomic) with heads firmware is a fantastic daily driver if you’re into that kind of thing.

Started with debian sarge way back in the day, currently using secureblue and qubes with fedora vms for most work, with a debian htpc on the side. For servers, I’m mostly debian-based on hardware (a bunch of proxmox machines at various sites and debian-based raspberry pis everywhere), with mostly redhat-based vms. Some alpine and freebsd baremetal and virtual machines sprinkled in here and there for flavor where they fit right.

It isn’t much to ask for a game built for one operating system to work perfectly on a completely, fundamentally different operating system, by means of the vastly complex and enormous work of thousands of people, which they donated to the world so that you can access it for free?

You can use hdparm with the -S parameter to set the standby/spindown time for a hard drive.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hdparm#Power_management_configuration

A very rough sysadmin equivalent in my mind is infrastructure-as-code, like having a base system configuration pushed out via ansible that manual configurations can be made on top of. Saves all the preparatory busywork, equivalent to chopping your mirepoix in advance.

Vanadium on secure mobile and Trivalent on secure desktop, and a mix of Fennec/Firefox and Chromium where required on casual mobile/desktop/htpc

Ye Vagabonds are on a US tour right now, and I’m so excited to see them I’ve been listening to them nonstop. A lovely Irish folk music duo of two brothers.

My favorite recently:
https://youtu.be/3WMBtCOzYks

Your email is the root of your digital identity, and pretty much everything in your digital life is tied to it. If your email is provided by Big Email, they own your digital identity and it exists at their whim, with no recourse if it gets taken away, compromised, or abused.

If you own your domain and pay for mail hosting, you can at least move your email between providers if something goes wrong, and have some recourse with those providers since you’re a customer instead of a product.

You should only enter a password once to log in, so maybe we just use our machines 1000x more than other people?

You’re right, thanks!

This looks to be running a full virtual machine via the Android Virtualization Framework in the same way as the new “Terminal” app in AOSP, so you have full root control over it.

Edit: I was wrong about the backend, per below it uses proot instead

This is so cool! Thanks for your work uncovering these things, and thanks for posting it.

For those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza

Podman/docker leave behind old images, image layers, and containers that need to be cleaned up occasionally. podman system prune will do so.

If 8TB was taken up quickly or unexpectedly, it might be something like a container failing to start and being recreated over and over, leaving each failed container behind as it goes. podman ps --all will list all containers, running or stopped. Before doing the system prune run that and podman image ls --all to see if anything looks amiss.

Good opsec, really.

Edit: also I just realized this is the Privacy community lol

Subscribed/Scaled most of the time, which gives me a nice selection of things I’m interested in, with a boost for posts from smaller communities so they don’t get drowned out by larger ones.

All/Hot when I want to check in and see what the rest of the fediverse is up to.

“Jo March becomes god, Massachusetts is consumed by horrors beyond human comprehension, and everyone dies”

Bakker’s Second Apocalypse to Little Women was a pretty jarring transition already…

That’s pretty wild, given there are only around 6,836 extant mammal species at all. A quarter of all mammal species are bats!

Does the lion get prep time?