Re: a tidbit I just discovered you may like

2023-01-27 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Unfortunately (because I really like this hotkey, too), it is only preconfigured to do something (snapping of windows to a portion of the screen) for some distributions. I mostly find it works in KDE systems and Gnome, but not necessarily all distributions. \ Original Message

Fully automatic install (FAI) isn't automated enough

2022-11-17 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Hello everyone. I recently tried setting up an FAI server (fai-project.org) to PXE boot an automatic install of Linux to a machine. There is one major problem, in my opinion: It isn't automated enough To use the PXE functionality, one needs to either assign every MAC address in ISC-DHCP

AZ Loco still gathering for Installfests?

2022-11-09 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Someone mentioned wanting to regrow a community tech swap meet, and wanting it to have a community of people for it. He mentioned liking the idea of it being a bunch of people and maybe there would be some people to help with stuff like Linux installs. I remembered AZLoco had installfests, but

Re: OT: Linux Laptops

2022-08-26 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
You could do a frame.work PC. There are plenty of people in the Linux community that run Linux on these devices, including myself. Laptops using the previous generation of CPU start at $800 (not including tax), but if you are willing to do the simple construction of the laptop, they will

Re: Ultrathin Laptop ...

2022-08-10 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
My most recent laptop is like this. Frame.work is what I have and would recommend. Perhaps it has more power than you are needing, as RDP would mean remote processing, though? > Seeking input on ultrathin laptops that can run Linux adequately well. > Prefer a 15" screen, but don't care about

Using a VPN for Security

2022-03-23 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
There are a few interpretations to your question. If you mean for a company or homelab, yes, you can use a VPN and you internal systems are more likely to be safer from the outside, because malicious actors need to figure out how to access the internal network before being able to access the

Re: valve onboarding suckath

2022-03-01 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
This worked for me: I went to a Starbucks, Started a live-boot USB, Got on the public WiFi for their public IP (valve, Put in a simple login email, Received the email, and confirmed it with the link they provided from a cell phone on a VPN, Made a password of about 20 characters with

Scripting/automation method/language

2022-01-07 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Hello Linux folk. I'm making some bash scripts, mostly for templating purposes. In the past, I've used bash scripts to make basic configs of systems. Eventually I went to ansible, but came across trouble pushing to some OSs, as they needed python installed to work with ansible, but was not

Re: wifi and arch (or perhaps I should say systemd or iwd)

2021-11-21 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Actually, I'd say [bmike1@HavensARCH ~]$ nmcli device wifi connect -a So you don't have to put the password into the command line, and thus your history file. On 11/21/21 12:00, plug-discuss-requ...@lists.phxlinux.org wrote: About being able to login from the resort. How would I login to

Re: Squid Proxy question

2021-06-22 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
If you want, I can do a more specific containers presentation and be more specific on the configs for multiple domains on my 1 IP. (The nginx + ssl part that I didn't present on) Yes, you can use NAT, and in fact, I need to, because my servers don't use root ports. But that doesn't affect the

Free DNS for TLS Automation

2021-05-10 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Hello all. I saw others talking about ISPconfig and that it wasn't a great option for something simple. So what is a good DNS provider that one can automate getting LetsEncrypt certs through DNS ACME without paying? I know cloudflare is one... Any

BBB VS Jitsi

2021-02-21 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Hello all. I'm trying to figure out which good voice chat/screen share software is relatively easily implemented and utilized. I tend to prefer to build systems in containers, so if the dev has a dockerfile for it, that is a +1! These are the main two that I know can do both screen share and

Re: Need talks for Thu

2021-02-10 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
I would volunteer to, but I'm not sure I'll be making it this time. Sorry. -- moin moin, I'm working on getting something really interesting for March, but don't yet have anything for this week. Do you have a presentation or recommendation for something we can get for Thursday night in

Re: Built for Failure

2020-12-30 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:39 PM Seabass via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > >> That is a good question. >> Probably not, though. >> >> Have a software raid version? I need to check what these have, but I don't >> think there is much beyond raid1 and raid0. >> &g

Re: Built for Failure

2020-12-30 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf > Of Seabass via PLUG-discuss > Sent: Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:01 > To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > Cc: Seabass > Subject: Built for Failure > > Weird question: > > I can get a bunch of ancient (~2013) HDDs. Each have varying amo

Built for Failure

2020-12-30 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Weird question: I can get a bunch of ancient (~2013) HDDs. Each have varying amounts of space, and few (if any) are ever the same size. These were marked to be disposed, though that is just because of age or having plenty that are better. Thus I can take them. However, them being this old, and

Re: Nextcloud photos backups

2020-11-23 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
You don't want to use command line tools to remove files from nextcloud unless it is the occ tool. You were right, in relation to the trashbin; the database has an entry and all the files have something the correlate to. This is especially the case if your data is encrypted, because then there

Re: DDR4 Memory for Mac

2020-11-19 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Is memory in Mac only compatible with Macs? I'd take it but don't know if that is a thing. ___ Hey all. I have a package containing an unused Timetec 16gb DDR4 2400mhz memory for a Mac. If anyone wants it, they can have it for free. I got it from a friend who could not use it and I

Re: Usable screenshot tools

2020-11-02 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Flameshot is my favorite tool. Has many more functionalities than most and they are quite nice. I use xorg with i3, but I've used it on gnome and KDE, so surely it works with Wayland. --- Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:23:31 -0700 From: Ryan Petris To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Usable

Re: swap file vs swap partition

2020-10-29 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Defragmentation should be an issue for you on an SSD, even if there is some, right? -- Message: 4 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:08:03 -0700 From: Matt Graham To: Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition Message-ID: <064f92165a42d6f88a3430b42a521...@crow202.org>

Re: swap file vs swap partition

2020-10-28 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
I tend to prefer swapfiles. Doesn't require a partition, so it can be resized easily and won't require you to know the partition number. (Opinion: fewer partitions is just easier) It is encrypted swap when on a fully encrypted drive without needing more partitioning work. I don't actually know

Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 184, Issue 2

2020-10-04 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
I tend to use draw.io for any visio style needs. What kinds of things do you find in visio that you don't find in other software? Original Message Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 18:05:03 -0700 From: Michael Butash To: PLUG Phoenix List Subject: Windoze Ameliorated Edition

Re: talks for Thursday

2020-09-07 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
I have someone. Emailing you. moin moin, I've been striking out on getting talks for Thursday :(. Anyone have something they want to do? Since we're remote, we can have remote presenters if you know someone out of town you've been wanting to get in for us. I do have one talk set for next month

Re: KMS but AMDGPU And Black Screen

2020-08-19 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
No, on the desired monitor, it still black screens. Works just fine (Even without that parameter) on something that has a direct HDMI cable, though. (TV) > Message: 6 >Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:23:47 -0700 > From: Aaron Jones > To: plu...@codezilla.xyz, Main PLUG discussion list > >Subject:

Re: KMS but AMDGPU And Black Screen

2020-08-18 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Figured it out. If this happens, you may need a new HDMI cable or a monitor which has HDMI, rather than an adapter for it. It also froze during boot afterward, and that was due to kernel version. So if any of you run into this problem, know that might be a cause. > Recently setup a new

KMS but AMDGPU And Black Screen

2020-08-16 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Recently setup a new computer. Trouble is, every time I try to boot (popOS, about to try Ubuntu) it is just a black screen. So I get to the boot loader and add the parameter “nomodeset”. This is great, until I run AMD’s script to install the drivers. They will cancel saying it uses KMS. But I

Multi boot with encrypted OS

2020-08-12 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
I have a TB storage drive that Won’t get filled. It is also the only drive in the computer. So I’d like to partition the drive with multiple different operating systems with different purposes. However, I’d also like each OS to be encrypted, do nothing that gets on one system gets into another,

Dm-crypt freezing computer?

2020-06-25 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
I am extracting from a large tar file, and at around the 2nd gig, my computer starts to slow and even freeze up a bit. Mouse always moves fine, but that’s about it. iotop reports dm-crypt is the only thing and is using 99% of my read/write. htop shows minimal processing being used and ram isn’t

Re: Public DNS Servers (AZ Pete)

2020-06-25 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
https://www.privacytools.io/providers/dns/ Privacy tools IO tends to have a wealth of information for questions like this. > 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 in the last two >

Re: GnuTLS session resumption exploit

2020-06-09 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
What exactly is gnutls used for? Web servers, or do general users actually use this for TLS connections? Or something else? > moin moin, > > GnuTLS sessions can be resumed, allowing man in the middle attacks > > get yer updates > > https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1011 > > ciao, > >

Re: PfSense + ubiquity

2020-05-02 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
I'm with Mac, I think it is not the firewall, but if you have the ability to plug it into a display with a keyboard, you can use that for configuration and modify a different device at the same time. Makes it easier to troubleshoot by giving you the ability to configure your pfSense ports at