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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I am a Linux fan, but I hadn’t really paid much attention to snaps/flataks/appimages, had mostly been a Debian-based distro user in my younger years, so knew about debs and tars (bleh) and of course apt, but I mostly daily drove windows for a long time.

    Came back to the Linux world on a whim on my extra old laptop to give it new life (same thing I had done back when I was like 12) -(EDIT: remembered) bounced around between distros like Fedora, popos, etc but ended up with EndevourOS as I knew I wanted to try an Arch based distro, it didn’t run as well as I’d liked and I messed up some package on AUR so I ended up wiping that after a few months and tried out Bazzite, very different then I was used to and is the only reason I’ve actually learned about appimages/flatpaks.

    Then I turned my old gaming PC into a proxmox box, set up Ubuntu server and started playing around with docker (which made way more sense after getting to know container based programs from Bazzite).

    Anyway, no point to be made there aside from… Flatpaks and the like are just a different way of doing things, which necessitates learning.

    I get the point being made about defaults being important as a first user experience is extremely important if you’re wanting to keep a user, but there is something to be said for a little common sense that you have to be able to try to learn a little when you’re doing something new.

    Alas, I work in a customer service adjacent role in fintech so I know all too well that users hate to learn lmfao

    And many don’t seem to know how to find information, like when I ran into exactly that situation where I was trying to attach a file by dragging and dropping from dolphin into FF and nothing happening. So I immediately went to Kagi (at the time, have since switched to self hosted searxng) and searched “unable to drag and drop file into Firefox browser bazzite” and very quickly found my answer. Alas Google fu is a skill many are sorely lacking









  • I used to play a rs private server called hackscape way back in the day, the client was a Java program you ad to run locally, so I threw it on a flash drive and my friend and I would play in our keyboarding class downtime.

    Well they found out we were playing, got very concerned we were “hacking the computers” because it was called hackscape, and I ended up getting a week of in-school suspension. I brought this up in another thread, but an interesting extra bit of context, the vice principal I spoke to and had given me the ISS, ended up getting caught with kiddy porn and hung himself in jail a few years later.

    Fun times.





  • I have been in for a couple months now, Proxmox cluster with two machines.

    1. Self built pc that was my daily driver for a while, rtx 3080ti 32gb ram, ryzen 7 3700x, runs the heavy stuff like a Mac VM, LLM stuff, game servers
    2. Rando open box mini pc I picked up on a whim from Bestbuy, Intel 300 (didn’t even know these existed…) with igpu, 32gb of ram, hosts my dhcp/dns main traefik instance and all the light services like dozzle and such.

    Works out nicely as I crash the first one too often and the DHCP going down was unacceptable, wish I got a slightly better cpu for the minipc but meh, maybe I can upgrade it later.