Re: 6 reasons you should use Ubuntu for your own NAS

I'm using Debian for my NAS at the moment. The only reason I'm using it over Arch though is because it's easy to setup Dropbear in the initramfs to be able to unlock an encrypted root remotely on boot. For the filesystem I'm using BTRFS. On Thu, Sep 5, 2024, at 9:37 AM, Ted Gould via PLUG-discu

Re: Elastic as FLOSS again?

Given that OpenSearch is licensed in the original Apache license, I imagine that it's still going to supplant Elastic. That said for most use cases the difference between Apache and AGPL isn't going to matter because you're just running it as an application in your stack rather than building on

Re: going back to a libre calc file from two days ago

If we're talking about backups, along with taking actual backups I use BTRFS and use snapper to take a snapshot of my filesystem hourly, keeping 3 of the latest daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups. So if I did mess up something I should be able to find an appropriate backup depending on h

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

I can't find anything about this, however I will say that *the* reason why Wordpress is as ubiquitous as it has been is because: 1. It's easy to use, but possibly more importantly... 2. The backend is entirely written in PHP Specifically #2 has allowed it to proliferate on cheap shared hosting s

Re: disable password prompts after upgrade

m via PLUG-discuss wrote: >>> Can someone point me to something that tells how to do this? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> On 7/26/24 05:06, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote: >>> > I did some digging and what you were using was polkit >>> &

Re: disable password prompts after upgrade

Should just be "apt install polkit-pkla" and then restart. On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 3:15 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Can someone point me to something that tells how to do this? > > Thanks > > On 7/26/24 05:06, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > I did

Re: what don't you need to update

In my many years of development and linux server management experience I've never actually used ansible... the one interaction I did have with it was managing OpenShift clusters and it was a pain. That's probably more of OpenShift's fault though rather than Ansible. As for setting up servers, I

Re: disable password prompts after upgrade

Weird; here it is in screenshot form to prove I sent it heh: On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 12:46 PM, Michael wrote: > if it was sent to the group it was never received by us. > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 2:24 PM Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss > wrote: >> __ >> You must hav

Re: disable password prompts after upgrade

You must have missed my second email... I explained how to fix it. On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 11:15 AM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote: > I just want what worked in 22.04 to work in 24.04. Thankfully I made a > backup of the system just before I started the upgrade, so I was able to go > back to 22.

Re: disable password prompts after upgrade

gular policykit configuration before the next Ubuntu LTS release or two. On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 4:39 AM, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Michael disables asking passwords for sudo, and now you're 1-upping him by > just disabling passwords altogether? yikes. > > Might

Re: disable password prompts after upgrade

Michael disables asking passwords for sudo, and now you're 1-upping him by just disabling passwords altogether? yikes. Might I ask why you're doing this and what you're doing where your password is being asked for enough for it to be a problem? Unless I'm trying to sudo something, I'm never ask

Re: internet connection

Coincidence maybe? On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 3:33 AM, Michael wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. So why does wifi not show as active before it is? > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 6:28 AM Ryan Petris wrote: >> __ >>> I turn off my internet before I go to bed; so in the morning I turn it on. >> >> W

Re: internet connection

> I turn off my internet before I go to bed; so in the morning I turn it on. Why? > So, why in the world does the wired network connection show as active before > the internet is up? Unless you have a direct physical connection to your internet provider (you don't, unless you live in a datacen

Re: Splash screen woes

Spash screen could refer to many things: 1. Your bios logo/text when you first turn on the computer (you could have had fast boot turned off or had a timeout) 2. GRUB or whatever other bootloader you may use (could have lowered the timeout to 0) 3. Plymouth, which I believe is what you're ref

Re: Xfce

>From the screenshots it looks like a theme + whiskermenu. There's not much going on with XFCE; it's pretty simple. On Mon, Jul 15, 2024, at 6:55 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Just on mint.they modified th desktop so it is nicer. I feel more user > friendly. > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2024, 7:

Re: Splash screen woes

Splash screen? On Tue, Jul 16, 2024, at 5:59 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > I just used chatgpt to shut my splash screen off and now my computer takes 1 > second to boot whereas before it took about 5. > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --- > PLUG-disc

Re: disable sudo but allow it's alias to work

I don't have an answer for you on the sudo bit, but I saw this in your history: > 5 nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh > 6 chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh Not sure if you're anti-systemd or not, but if you use systemd-networkd (or even NetworkManager) along with systemd-timesyncd,

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

f a discussion on this. > >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>> First, I know that for some reason RedHat seems to think that > >>>>>>>> sudo is > >>>>>>>>>>> bad/i

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

t; There's one other minor objection I have to the 'zero defense' >>> > statement below - the malicious thing you downloaded (and, I assume >>> > ran) has to be written to USE sudo in its attempt to break in, I >>> > believe, or it wouldn't

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

machine you use to download and > > test software on, which you can totally disconnect from your network > > (not JUST the internet), and which has NO confidential info, and which > > you can erase and rebuild without caring. Run the downloaded stuff > > there, for a lo

Re: VirtualBox, Proxmox, QEMU and CPU Vs vCPUs

you're using, that correspond with a vCPU for that guest. Those are just normal processes running on the host that the host operating system needs to schedule like any other program. On Tue, Jul 2, 2024, at 4:42 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > > On 2024-0

Re: VirtualBox, Proxmox, QEMU and CPU Vs vCPUs

I think the option you're looking for is called "affinity": https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#qm_cpu_resource_limits > With the *affinity* option, you can specify the physical CPU cores that are > used to run the VM’s vCPUs. Peripheral VM processes, such as those for I/O, >

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

y, if something did happen, the damage is limited to my development environment and not my regular setup. On Fri, Jun 28, 2024, at 7:46 PM, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote: > I didn't say that you *were* trolling, I said it *felt* like you were > trolling. There's a small

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

lieve is 'safe', and ALWAYS make sure you actually downloaded it from > >> where you thought you did. > >> > >> 2 - For the TRULY paranoid, have a machine you use to download and test > >> software on, which you can totally disconnect from your network (not >

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

REALLY paranoid, don't download anything from > anywhere, disconnect from the internet permanently, get high-tech locks > for your doors, and wrap your house in a faraday cage! > > And probably don't leave the house > > The point of number 3 is that there is

Re: kaspersky

This may sound kind of funny but I remember conversations a long time ago about email hosting and at the time it was actually suggested if you want to keep your data away from the three-letter-agencies, to sign up for and use an account from a Russian email provider. The rational being while Ru

Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list

> wanted sudo not to require a password. Please reconsider this... This is VERY BAD security practice. There's basically zero defense if you happen to download/run something malicious. On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, at 6:01 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > then I remember that a PLUG member mentio

Re: Does anyone use ventoy ?

I haven't used Ventoy as, when it was first released the author just published a binary blob to their github rather than the source and therefore gave me the feeling that they were either untrustworthy or didn't know what they were doing, working product or not. I do have a tool that does somet

Re: OT Humidity, was time off

nsidering it or doing it. Stay hydrated :) > > https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/04/12/toilet-to-tap-recycling-wastewater-drinking-water-safe/70104828007/ > > Regards, > > George Toft > > On 6/20/2024 5:14 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Ry

Re: OT Humidity, was time off

Jun 20, 2024, at 5:14 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 20 Jun 2024 04:05:30 -0700 > > >I lived in Florida for ~10 years myself, in the Ft. Walton > >Beach/Navarre/Pensacola areas, and got my degree there at UWF. > >Sometimes

Re: time off

Glad it worked! I lived in Florida for ~10 years myself, in the Ft. Walton Beach/Navarre/Pensacola areas, and got my degree there at UWF. Sometimes I wish I were still there but I'm enjoying the non-humidity of Arizona for now. On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, at 8:01 PM, Michael wrote: > Thanks, it worke

Re: time off

Try running: timedatectl set-ntp on If that fails, I assume you're on a debian system, in which case you probably need to install timesyncd: apt install systemd-timesyncd then try running the above command again. ...additionally it says EDT; are you on the east cost? If you're in Phoenix, y

Re: Framework getting interesting again

>From the blog post: > This Mainboard is extremely compelling, but we want to be clear that in this > generation, it is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers, and > hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V. The peripheral set and > performance aren’t yet competitive with

Re: Modular laptop concept

w up in the store. On Mon, Jun 10, 2024, at 7:14 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 09. Jun, 2024 schwätzte Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss so: > > moin moin, > > > I have several Framework (both AMD and Intel) laptops including the > > Framework 16 and they're great. Yeah there&

Re: Modular laptop concept

I have several Framework (both AMD and Intel) laptops including the Framework 16 and they're great. Yeah there's some small fit an finish issues that some have pointed out but IMO is an acceptable tradeoff for being repairable and upgradable. If anything, the ability to change out the ports is

Re: HAM help in West Valley sought

> The insurance for the house has specifically excluded me from the policy for > coverage, While *your* insurance has excluded you, the fire started due to your neighbor, and therefore *your neighbor's* insurance should cover anything that yours didn't. You should still be able to file a claim

Re: AZ Developer Wages, per Feds

I'm pretty certain that anyone directly involved with that was prosecuted in some way, including developers that knowingly helped. On Thu, Apr 25, 2024, at 2:47 PM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Has anyone worked in foreign country like Germany as a developer or IT > personal? > I wond

Re: AZ Developer Wages, per Feds

I can't say I've worked anywhere as strict as that, however I'll say that like any other career field, there are good and bad work places. Places that like to overly restrict things are going to lose good developers, and likely don't pay well to begin with. I worked for Meta/Facebook for a year

Re: AZ Developer Wages, per Feds

If you're asking whether the workers got their fair share of building a bridge 100 years ago given that it's stood for 100 years and that it's gotten a lot of use, I'd say that it really doesn't matter. The workers were paid a fair wage for their labor, regardless of what the finished product wa

Re: AZ Developer Wages, per Feds

As a software developer of 15 years, I personally would not want a union, at least not one in a traditional sense. Additionally, I've never been in a union so maybe my understanding is wrong or outdated, however my reasoning for not wanting one are: 1. I want my salary/benefits to be based on w

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

re acceleration? > > > > Thanks > > On 4/5/24 15:37, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> Yeah, I wouldn't use the proprietary AMD drivers. Jim, undo whatever it is >> that you did with the amdgpu-pro drivers and install the >> "xserver-xorg

Re: Radeon RX580 and trouble with Ffmpeg

Yeah, I wouldn't use the proprietary AMD drivers. Jim, undo whatever it is that you did with the amdgpu-pro drivers and install the "xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu" (if you're on debian or a debian based distro, which I assume you are based on the mentioning of a deb package) and restart. That should

Re: Can someone explain this to me about impending email changes?

The point of all these emails is so that you, as a non-owner of gmail.com, can't send an email with a "From" address of gmail.com without authorization. That also means that you, as the owner of thetoolwiz.com, and me, as the owner of petris.net, can restrict who can send email using our domains

Re: Looking for opinions on email providers

I've been using FastMail for several years with my own domain and they have been great. If you're good with having a @fastmail.com address then their pricing is as low as $3/month/user, otherwise if you want your own domain it's $5/month/user (+ the cost of your domai

Re: Linux Mint update questions ...

Given those are so old now, (18.1 pushing 6 years...), you're probably going to spend a lot more time trying to upgrade than if you just backed up your /home directory and reinstalled everything, then restore your /home directory. IMO LTS distros are meant more for commercial-type applications w

Re: Cheap Laptop

It's basically a CPU with just the Efficiency cores of a U or P series processor I believe. They're pretty good from what I've seen, much better than the older celeron J and N series processors. On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 8:47 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > > https://www.walmart.com

Re: interesting

I wouldn't trust any important data on exFAT; sure use it to transfer files between Linux, Mac, and Windows, machines, but don't let that be your only copy and don't remove it from the source machine until you've successfully transferred it onto the destination machine. exFAT is merely an extens

Re: Commercial Servers vs. Consumer Grade Hardware

My advice was for home lab use -- if you're putting hardware in a data center, of course use rack mounted hardware. First, rack mounted hardware is going to have more business oriented features, such as remote management, redundant power supplies, multiple hard drive bays, ECC ram, etc. Second

Re: Server CPU

t;> > >>> Thanks!! > >>> > >>> On 2023-07-20 11:36, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote: > >>>> I personally wouldn't even go for a used server. They're > >>> generally > >>>> loud, and even w

Re: Server CPU

That's right, a vCPU is a shared resource. Lets say that you had a machine with 4 cores on it. To the operating system, other than some nuances with the cache, PCI connections, etc., each core is effectively its own CPU, and therefore we'll say the machine has a total of 4 CPUs. Now, just becua

Re: Server CPU

refurbished server which you can get for almost ludicrously > inexpensive prices. > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss > wrote: >> __ >> The CPU's cheap because it's old and no one wants them anymore -- it's of >> the same g

Re: Server CPU

The CPU's cheap because it's old and no one wants them anymore -- it's of the same generation as 6000 series intel processors (i.e. skylake). It also uses a server socket, so the only motherboards you're going to be able to find are server motherboards. Those are going to be expensive and/or hav

Re: I'm looking for a good shared hosting web host

If you want to stick with shared hosting, I used these guys for a while and they were pretty good, and have been around for a long time as well: https://buyshared.net/ On Mon, Jul 3, 2023, at 7:11 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: > I would recommend a VPS from https://www.pixelgate.net/

Re: Docker

podman is free and available in most distributions now. One of the advantages of podman, even if you're still running containers as root, is that is plays nicely with systemd/cgroups. Docker containers would end up running in whatever cgroup the docker daemon was running in rather than the one

Re: formatted USB to ext4

A couple of observations from me: 1. When formatting a disk with parted, all it does is format, it doesn't set permissions on anything. On filesystems that have permissions like ext4, you'll still have to set the appropriate permissions. After you mount the disk for the first time, you can set

Re: Consumer Cloud Storage for InterOp

If you're willing to pay for it, Insync works well on Linux and syncs Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive to your machine, with selective sync and multiple accounts. https://www.insynchq.com/ On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, at 9:56 AM, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote: > In this order I use Windows,

Re: VirtualBox Update 11/15/22

I'm just wondering, after you installed VirtualBox, did you happen to restart your computer? There's a couple of kernel modules that are added via DKMS when you install VirtualBox, mostly having to do with networking. I suspect that NAT may work without these kernel modules, kind of like how KVM

SMTP and Email in general

I just wanted to comment on SMTP servers for a minute Setting up an email server used to be a bit easier, back when all you had was plain old SMTP. Programs like Postfix may have been hard to configure, but the actual concept of email wasn't that complicated. Now instead of plain old SMTP,

Re: PHP Question ...

Without contacting the owner and asking them for the php file, the only way to get it would either be a misconfigured web server or you're running afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which you don't want to be on the wrong side of. So, you should contact whoever you need to contac

Re: Is email to me working yet?

Looks like SPF records were added. Would be better if DKIM and DMARC were added as well. On Mon, Oct 31, 2022, at 1:56 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote: > It looks like I was finally able to get someone at cloudmark to listen > to me and the PLUG email is now getting through again. For ev

Re: T-Mobile Home Internet followup

T-Mobile, and for that matter Starlink, don't give you the options of port forwarding or any kind of DMZ, and therefore you're effectively unable to directly access any resource past the gateway. On Mon, Oct 31, 2022, at 1:21 PM, Joe Neglia via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Slightly OT but somewhat rela

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

I personally would refrain from installing X windows on the host. There's nothing that you'll be able to do from xwindows that you can't do from the web interface, and running that will just take away resources that you'd otherwise be able to use for your virtual machines. Additionally, you migh

Re: T-Mobile Home Internet via ethernet connection tip

I'll just add that I also have T-Mobile 5G Home Internet and am able to get > 100mbps out of the ethernet ports. When I first got it I was pulling > 450mbps out of it via ethernet. No way that would have happened if it were a 100mbps port. Something in your chain is probably 100mbit, a switch,

Re: SCALE parking

I had no idea this existed -- is there a list somewhere of Linux-related yearly events in Arizona and surrounding states? On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 7:04 AM, Shawn Badger via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Fyi, if you are going to SCALE the hotel parking is $44 a day, but if you > park next door at the "th

Re: ot- holes

It's coming through Maricopa now... On Thu, Jun 23, 2022, at 2:44 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Boy oh Boy. we just had a major storm blow through here. Our fence has > survived fifteen years of hurricanes until this storm (not a hurricane). It > was only missing one tiny section whe

Re: Should an opensource dev know Linux

The concept of "shared" hosting still existed in the late 90's, at least for PHP hosting. I distinctly remember using what was xoom.com at the time which offered free php hosting. I had some stuff hosted there for a bit until either I moved somewhere else or they disappeared. On Thu, Apr 21, 20

Re: flv to mp4

Not sure if anyone has mentioned yet but you may want to try HandBrake: https://handbrake.fr/ On Sat, Apr 2, 2022, at 4:04 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > I recorded a instruction session with someone today and my computer can't > handle the video output. The sound is OK but the video play

Re: vi

:wq! On Fri, Sep 10, 2021, at 8:36 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > how does one save and exit with vi? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your m

Re: path

Installing arch onto a USB stick is exactly the same as installing it to a hard disk; there's literally no difference in the installation method as Linux doesn't really care what the underlying disk is. The _only_ difference I can think of is, if using Grub, you'll want to use the "--removable"

Re: Name Cheap Registrar

I've used NameSilo for several years without issue. Note that they mainly only do domain registrations though, so if you were wanting to bundle other services or keep everything in one place, they're not for you. On Wed, Aug 4, 2021, at 1:59 PM, blake gonterman via PLUG-discuss wrote: > I use Go

Re: Problems with my System 76 Laptop.

If it is in fact a battery issue, a quick search says that the Galago Pro is a Clevo N130BU, of which plenty of eBay results turn up for a battery: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Clevo+N130BU+battery You'll probably want to pop it open to confirm the model number before you order though.

Re: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/59-million-americans-prohibited-buying-high-end-dell-gaming-pcs

While I don't necessarily agree with the law, I think it may be blown out of proportion. What it's actually restricting is the quiescent current (the amount of power a circuit/device uses when effectively turned off) of a device, not the full-load power, and the allowable amount actually increas

Re: compromised passwords

I'm surprised no one has mentioned KeePass yet. KeePassXC is open source, stores data locally, is secure, and supports some other things like OTP token generation. You can then sync the database with Nextcloud, dropbox, etc. On February 4, 2021 4:14:33 PM MST, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss wr

Re: OpenMediaVault Server

Given the performance level of hardware today, I don't believe parity calculation is really causing much if any slowdown for parity raid, just like encryption realistically does not caus any slowdown on modern hardware. As for what to use, I use OpenMediaVault at home and have a RAID6 6x8TB array

Re: Why Gnome?

I think it comes down to a few things: 1. It integrates very well with the rest of the system. Using just Gnome, you can configure your WiFi, Bluetooth, Network (ethernet profiles, VPN, etc.), whether your mouse scrolls in the original manner or Apple style, Wacom tablet integration, printer setup

Re: Linux Memory (again)

> Gnome and KDE are luxuries for folks with lightning fast processors and > huge quantities of RAM, who want their computers to perform like a 2015 > computer with 4GB RAM. Gnome doesn't use that much RAM at all -- on a system with lots of RAM and when running Wayland, I've found that typically a

Re: Linux Memory (again)

I think maybe you're looking at this the wrong way -- what use is having a lot of ram if it's not going to be used? This is how the kernel and some userspace programs think about it. When you look at memory usage, how much is actually in use vs cache? Cache is the yellow part of the bar in Htop

Re: Usable screenshot tools

On the developer side, it gets rid of a lot of the old cruft from the 20+ years of development and compatibility that's required of such an old project. From what I can tell, the concept of what's going on underneath the covers is also much simpler. On the user end, it solves some long-standing is

Re: Usable screenshot tools

I don't use KDE however I've used Flameshot for a couple of years now and it's always worked flawlessly in GNOME under Wayland and Xorg. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/flameshot/ On Sun, 2020-11-01 at 19:20 -0700, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Since my last (arch)

Re: OT: Looking for Some WiFi Networking Advice

I second the use of Ubiquiti devices, specifically UniFi. While the management interface is proprietary, you can run it in Docker or as I do on Debian in a virtual machine. It will automatically discover all Ubiquiti UniFi devices on the network and allow you to configure them all through the sa

Re: Public DNS Servers

I just run my own local DNS server using PowerDNS Recursor. I've never had any issues with it. On 2020-06-24 22:49, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: Hi All, I was curious if anyone has any recommendations for free public DNS servers that they've used. I've been using OpenNic for a while, but

Re: zoom and teams patches

That's not entirely true, I use Webex on Linux, including sharing my screen, nearly every day for work. It is true that there's no native client, though, but the workaround is to use Chrome or a Chrome-based browser (in my case, Chromium), and Webex is able to use the built-in screen sharing fu

Re: standalone mic

Great! Glad to hear it. On 2020-04-26 00:08, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote: Am 27. Mar, 2020 schwätzte Ryan Petris so: moin moin, The go mic has been working well for us. Music instructors are happy. ciao, der.hans If you're looking for a small travel microphone, this is apparently a goo