Mordikan

I think Arch is so popular because its considered a middle of the road distro. Even if not exactly true, Ubuntu is seen as more of a pre-packaged distro. Arch would be more al a carte with what you are actually running. I started with Slackware back in the day when everything was a lot more complicated to get setup, and there was even then this notation that ease of access and customization were separate and you can’t have both. Either the OS controls everything and its easy or you control everything and its hard. To some extent that’s always going to be true, but there’s no reason you can’t or shouldn’t try to strike a balance between the two. I think Arch fits nicely into that space.

I also wouldn’t use the term “cultists” as much as “aholes”. If you’ve ever been on the Arch forums you know what I’m talking about. There is a certain kind of dickish behavior that occurs there, but it somewhat is understandable. A lot of problems are vaguely posted (several times over) with no backing logs or info to determine anything. Just “Something just happened. Tell me how to fix it?”. And on top of that, those asking for help refuse to read the wiki or participate in the problem solving. They just want an online PC repair shop basically.

Then there is no reason for a VPN or I2P.

That is technically true with things like glibc, but I’ve never seen a system that did not already include baseline packages.

I like the sandboxing of Flatpak, but I prefer AppImage as I don’t like having the Flatpak runtime requirement.

Almost every laptop I’ve owned in the past 15 years has been this way. Just an old machine people wanted to discard because of viruses or crap performance. They’d give their “junk” to me and go buy a new laptop. After swapping it to linux with a few tweaks here and there, I swear that “junk” would outperform the new one they dropped all the money on.

I think the article is pretty accurate about what to expect. The author’s view is grounded in reality. They are a business, but that doesn’t mean “the capitalists are in control”. I would like to think commenters have researched Accel’s prior fundings, but I know that is not likely. In short, they do not attempt to control companies. In 300 fundings, they have never attempted to take a majority stake in any company and do not hold majority stake in any company. They don’t do acquisitions.

Accel is probably one of the few equity groups that isn’t pure fucking evil. If anyone wants to pick a fight over that, fine, but at least research that company first.

Ok, that is what mine and the other comments were addressing. It sounds as if you were VPN’ing into the VPS from your actual location which does nothing as the VPS is registered to you. If you are running a VPN client locally on the VPS and connecting through a VPN provider that is different.

So, all traffic leaving the device is going out the VPN? if you curl ipinfo.io then does that show an IP address present in ip addr?

I especially love the irony of Anubis using yesterday’s hype thing to combat today’s.

The problem here is that it sounds like you think torrenting traffic is using the self-hosted VPN, but that wouldn’t be true. Here is how it sounds like it is currently working: Torrent Client -> VPN interface -> Default interface -> Torrent Users You could probably confirm that with mtr/traceroutes and bmon.

The reason your internet goes done when you run your iptable statements is because you’re preventing DNS resolution which uses UDP 53 from leaving the device. Even if you are running your own DNS server on that VPS, unless you have trackers’ statically mapped, DNS recursion has to be allowed for your VPS to determine host IPs.

This is basically Reddit doing marketing. Its the Anti-“Anti-Piracy Publicity Campaign” Campaign.

I ran into this issue just recently. Wayland, trying to run i3wm, using lightdm. Once booted, lightdm greeter did not load and only a black screen displayed. I was still able to VNC into the device using tigervnc.

The issue appeared to be lightdm not supporting (or supporting well maybe) Wayland. I ended up switching from lightdm to gdm and installing hyprland on that machine.

As mentioned in the comments, the VPN isn’t really viable here. That being said, your DNS iptable statements don’t work for two reasons:

1. TCP 53 isn’t going to be used unless something like EDNS or zone transfers occur which is like never.
2. The first statement blocks any traffic on the output chain (leaving your network) that is destined to a remote UDP port 53. This kills your access to any off-device DNS server.

You would have to have an ACCEPT statement to allow the DNS traffic through the VPN. Something like: iptables -A OUTPUT -o tun0 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT

If you fully make the jump to Linux, you should test from the other side with QEMU+KVM and see about spinning up a Windows VM with GPU passthrough.

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Do you know how? Its pretty easy to just randomly generate addresses using something like this (https://www.bestrandoms.com/random-address-in-fi). I can just VPN to Finland and enter Itätuulenkuja 92, 02100 Espoo, Finland. Its just a construction yard, but is the petition recipient going to actually check that?

How is that petition even valid? For example, as a non-EU citizen, what’s to stop me from just selecting Finland and entering bogus info? Does that mean as a US citizen I get to decide EU laws?

Additionally, from the “initiative seeks to…” part, none of that is listed on their website as goals. They don’t list any goals which is kind of problematic if you have an EU petition. Its a petition to do what specifically (show me a goal)?

EDIT: I just read through the Past Actions & Results of their site. Of the completed Actions, all of the them have failed. I then realized this petition doesn’t require EU to pass anything, only that a committee look at it. I feel like this is a really well intentioned activity that ultimately will fail due to poor execution. Even if the petition succeeds, no action has to be taken by EU member nations and historically hasn’t.

This is really the truth. Auto-updating is really bad form when you are getting into server management. The first admin position I had back in the day had the rule that no automatic updates are to run, a manual update can only be run after 1 month of that update being released, and it had to accompanying documentation confirmed before it could be approved. The one time we did not follow that we ended up having to re-image the server in question from backup (as that was the quickest solution to getting it back online).

If you end up going with a SFF build, I would recommend a dedicated GPU for Jellyfin. Nothing fancy, just a low profile GTX-1030 or RX 550 to handle the transcoding. Otherwise you’ll probably run into high CPU spikes while watching content from browser or some smart TVs.

Starting line 6040 the Constants class. That isn’t bytecode, those are binary blobs that look like licensing/hardware identifiers. Given those byte arrays are named for HWID and KMS that would make sense. They also are also only being used for versioning calls for KMS4k (Key Management Service). There isn’t anything suspicious about that.