Why would anyone NOT parse a tab as whitespace? Like, python really wants you to use spaces but will still let you use tabs if you are consistent.

Do not do this. "Run as Administrator" is a Windows answer to a Windows problem. The only time you should regularly need root privileges is installing software and editing system wide configuration files.

Had to dig through the basement but I found it.

So I found out that qbittorrent generates errors in a log whenever it tries to write to a disk that is full...

Everytime my disk was full I would clear out some old torrents, then all the pending log entries would write and the disk would be full again. The log was well over 50gb by the time I figured out that i'm an idiot. Hooray for having dedicated machines.

For 16:9 (ish) displays you have more pixels left to right than up and down, it makes sense to use up your horizontal space first when placing permanent UI elements on your screen. Still up to preference though.

It's just like IRC but with privacy violations and ads!

Every day we stray further from god. I wonder if it could be used to make the worlds worst VNC server...

https://debian.org

I've seen people say that a few times here but any time I use gparted I get the Gnome 'enter password' dialog which seems to work fine.

I keep each service separate as far as DBs, if something breaks or get a major upgrade I don't have to worry about other containers.

Around 2007 I had a Windows laptop die on me and drove me to device agnosticism. Maybe I learned the wrong lesson but now I keep my OS and data separate enough that a b0rked OS is an hour's inconvenience instead of a day's recovery.

Still, it's pretty awesome that you can just shuck a drive into a totally new machine and only have to adjust network settings.

That's a permissions problem not a run as root problem.

Thanks, it was my first stab at painting something other than a wall.

ffmpeg has to be the runner up for most-got-damned-options.

coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, is a software project aimed at replacing proprietary firmware (BIOS or UEFI) found in most computers with a lightweight firmware designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.

Same reason you run Linux instead of Windows.

Namecheap, cheap, easy to use, easy to setup DDNS, helpful support staff. I have heard horror stories of them selling popular domains out from under their owner but none were recent.

If it runs Amazon-Linux it won't take long for someone to build a Wamazon Linux distro with all the features and none of the crap.

Taken from 'Don't Break Debian'

Take notes

It's easy to forget the steps you took to do something on your computer, especially several months later when you're trying to upgrade. Sometimes when you try several different ways of solving a problem, it's easy to forget which method was successful the next day!

It's a very good idea to take notes about the software you've installed and configuration changes you've made. When editing configuration files, it's also a very good idea to include comments in the file explaining the reason for the changes and the date they were made.

Taking good notes will save your as so many times. Good notes are as important as good backups.

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Take_notes

I love mc for its sftp/ssh capabilities. It makes it so much easier to do remote admin/support.

Github is untrustworthy, anyone can put anything on there. It is up to the end user to determine if a project is safe to use or not.

The default repos for Debain on the other hand are filled only with software that has been checked by at least one competent person, making them inherently safe.

When it comes to security, particularly at boot time, fuck the user. Users don't interact with devices at boot time so it doesn't matter if it shows a blank screen, a mile of logs or a screaming clown penis. If it was up to users no device or service would have a password or security of any kind, and every byte of information about your life would be owned by 'The Cloud." Let the marketing wanks insert their logo into the Windows boot process,

Plain old Debian on the hardware with all services living in LXC containers. LXC containers are like working with VMs or 'real' machines so I only needed to learn about 3 more commands to get new services running, the rest is regular old Linux.

I've used OpenMediaVault in the past and it is great, especially for new users, but I just prefer a bare-bones solution.

I used Sony Vegas/what ever it's called now for years, moving to kdenlive was pretty painless and I don't feel like I'm missing any features.

I run Void a netbook from 2012, I am always blown away when it resumes from sleep faster than I can open the lid. For the first day I thought maybe it wasn't suspending and sleep was broken.

Thanks, I thought it would be a weekend job, took a month 🙃

As much as Canonical are a bunch of dinks and snaps make my balls itch, Ubuntu has been an awesome gateway OS for getting users in control of their devices. If the project were every to go away it will be a sad day for the Linux/*nix/GNU/BSD world.

Debian, no flatpaks, snaps or appimages.

Device agnosticism. Life is easier when it doesn't take ONE laptop or phone failure to destroy all your data.

UT GOTY was one of my main reasons for this project. I played the hell out of that game!

From https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Take_notes

Take notes.

It's easy to forget the steps you took to do something on your computer, especially several months later when you're trying to upgrade. Sometimes when you try several different ways of solving a problem, it's easy to forget which method was successful the next day!

It's a very good idea to take notes about the software you've installed and configuration changes you've made. When editing configuration files, it's also a very good idea to include comments in the file explaining the reason for the changes and the date they were made.

This has saved me so much grief. If ever I mess up a system so badly that I want to re-install or when I want to set up a new machine, having a clear set of notes makes it a breeze.

You're in the wrong sub. OP didn't ask which Windows should I install.

virt-manager

I've used VirtualBox for years and only just tried virt-manager. I wish I had tried years ago, so much simpler and it is in my distro's default repository.

Yup, I think it might have been the first thing I ordered online.

LXC is killer. You can spin up containers that 'feel' exactly like a VM but with way less overhead.

Ram is pretty much your limiting factor. I run the latest version of Debian on a machine from 2008 but it only has 1.8GB of ram so for a desktop it is a little sluggish.

I have an MS Trackball Optical (that I have been using since 2002). Just can't go back to a regular push-mouse.

Tyrian is such an awesome game, I must have replayed it a dozen times!

Debian. On servers, on laptops, on desktops, even on my high speed camera. It's simple, it's reliable, it doesn't push updates that break my stuff.

This shit has become tedious

No kidding. Open source software is safe because it can come from a trusted source that can be checked by others. Not every open source project is checked but the default repos of Debian, for example, are checked and can be trusted.

All closed source software, on the other hand, is untrustworthy because it can never be checked. This goes for the iOS and Android ecosystems as well. Despite their walled gardens the software is not open and can not be checked, which is why malicious software keeps making it's way onto phones.

Have you ever heard of malicious code in the Debian repos?

Because most selfhosters are too lazy or inexperienced to break away from cloud services. Docker is great but it has also enables a "just run this docker" mentality that mirrors the Windows "just run this exe."

edit: I think that the opportunity to learn how a project works, how to debug problems and how to integrate a project into their own setup is obscured.

In the past 5 years stability has improved significantly, like I haven't had a crash in the past year of casual use. ymmv but I would recommend it to new users at this point.