BaalInvoker

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BaalInvoker,

Made in Rust is not synonym of safety. Every code is as safe as its programmer made it be.

BaalInvoker,

For those who speaks portuguese or for those who don’t mind to read subtitle to understand the video, I really recommend Diolinux

For me this is the best channel about linux and technology.

BaalInvoker,

The only extention I use is system tray, cause I rely on apps that use it. But everything else is Gnome-way and I love it

BaalInvoker,

Idk why people are so passionate about it, cause there is no “Linux” - there is a lot of “Linuxes”.

I mean, what defines Linux? The kernel? The desktop environment? The flexibility?

Cause, dude, in a desktop level linux has many options, some very little smooth (like any window manager you have to configure everything by yourself) and some very smooth (like KDE and Gnome). I risk to say that Gnome and KDE are as smooth as MacOs/Windows.

Applications are kind the same. What applications are we talking about? There is a huge range of possibilities, which includes apps that run only in windows as well as apps that run only in Linux. Surely main stream apps are most designed for Windows, cause they have the majority of market share, however almost always there is an alternative good enough in Linux.

I wish the future of Linux would be our own people don’t blame on projects trying to innovate, like Gnome and KDE does. People on Linux looks like loves to makes things hard or exclusive, but man, we need simple things as well. Simple things on Linux does not “rot” Linux, but make Linux more usable and, as consequence, makes development faster while big techs have to start paying attention to Linux.

BaalInvoker,

We all know that nobody respect these definiotions and mostly when someone says linux, reffers to the full operate system

BaalInvoker,

I’ll definitely take a look at this power saving mode! Thank you!

Also, I would definitely try with your laptop wired instead of wireless if you can.

It’s kinda hard at my setup, cause the router is not close to anywhere I can put my laptop… But I’m looking for some SBC like Raspberry Pi or something to make it connected wired to the router

BaalInvoker,

I also suspected about DHCP, but at the router it says it’s connected and reachable…

I really don’t know if it’s DHCP or if the server did not renewed the connection somehow

BaalInvoker,

Well, I may try this… Maybe set a systemd timer to ping the router for once in a while…

But I’ll wait to check if disabling saving mode do the job. If it doens’t I’ll try the ping workaround

BaalInvoker,

The router is not mine… I’ll not change the firmware cause the router is borrowed from the ISP and I must give it back if I change my ISP

I’m trying the power saving mode and hoping that is the issue!

Another guy suggested ping the router from the server for once in a while as well and I think it must “remember” the router about the existence of the server

BaalInvoker,

Yeah… I can even ping the server from the router firmware! It’s really weird!

Yes, I rebooted and looked for firmware update, but nothing

You could also script a reconnection on the laptop to happen every six hours or something.

I’m trying other alternatives first, such as ping the gateway every hour and disabling power saving mode on the laptop

BaalInvoker,

This ia definitely an issue that Gnome must work with.

However I think I understood the issue. Google is pushing passwordless verification to us, but at the time it’s not supported on Linux.

There are a couple of 2FA to connect into Google’s account, one of them is this passwordless alternative, using a FIDO hardware or a bluetooth device to authenticate me.

When I tried to login with my Google account at a normal browser, such as Firefox, it asks me to connect my device to authenticate me, which I can cancel this operation and select any other 2FA method.

At the Gnome Online Accounts it does not show the popup asking for the device at all, but my hypothesis is that it still waiting for it undefinitely, preventing us to login or select any other 2FA method.

A workaround is disabling Security Device 2FA in your account and using other 2FA methods, like TOPT, SMS and Phone Authorization.

A solution would be implement a timeout on GnomeWebKit aborting the “waiting for authentication” operation and proceeding to select another 2FA method.

This is a issue by Google’s decision to not allowing us select our prefered 2FA anymore.

[Solved with Gluetun] Tailscale ExitNode with VPN

I would really really really like to have one device on my tailnet as the exitnode for all other devices on the tailnet. However, most VPNs make this really difficult. Is there any way to do this? I’ve read it’s possible with split-tunnelling, but ProtonVPN (which I use) doesn’t support that. I just installed Alpine Linux...

BaalInvoker,

With Tailscale you have only to declare this device as exit node. It’s just one single command, pretty simple

Edit:

Here’s how: tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/-2-advertis…

BaalInvoker,

Ok… I think I didn’t get what you’re trying to say. Do you wanna run a VPN through a VPN?

I mean, you have your RPI 4b as a Tailscale exit node, but the RPI 4b itself connects to the ProtonVPN?

BaalInvoker,

Well, I found this article saying that theoretically is possible, however not so much. It says that depends on how the other VPN works. They even suggest some workarounds, so take a look

Anyway, have you tried to create another tun/tap service to run both VPN?

BaalInvoker,

I never had to create a new TUN/TAP interface before, so I’m on the same boat as you. I’m brainstorming here with you and hoping for the best

But here is how to create a new tun interface:

baeldung.com/…/create-check-network-interfaces

You’ll have to manually set some parameters to make it work, I guess

BaalInvoker,

The easiest way I found to passthrough a cgnat is using a VPN.

I suggest using Tailscale, cause it does some tricks to bypass cgnat and you can access your truenas server.

BaalInvoker,

Based on your requirements Arch Linux or OpenSuSe Tumbleweed is what you want

Run away from Manjaro.

Transitioning from GnuCash

I have mostly enjoyed using GnuCash for desktop and GnuCash Android for years, but the Android version hasn’t been updated in a while and I noticed that it isn’t even available in the Google Play store anymore (or F-Droid, for that matter). There’s a different GnuCash Android app available, but it’s a different developer...

BaalInvoker,

Keep an eye on Denaro… I think there is a plan to make an Android app soon

BaalInvoker,

Haver you seem what’s your ip and ipv6 on the foreingner house?

Maybe your wireguard connection is creating a lan, but you didn’t configured an exit node or didn’t connected to the exit node.

Another solution could be using Tailscale as well

BaalInvoker,

Tailscale only make easier to set exit nodes and manage wireguard setups… Try it and tell us what happens…

Anyway, I don’t know exactly what’s going on. Maybe you’re forwarding some packages to your wireguard VPN, like TCP/80, but not UDP or TCP/443. Check if everything is being properly forwarded, so all your connection is from Wireguard

BaalInvoker,

I use KeePassXC on my laptop, KeePassDX on my phone and sync them with Syncthing.

This ia pretty sweet

BaalInvoker,

X is deprecated. I wonder why it still on the alphabet.

BaalInvoker,

What makes you think that a community called “Linux” is the best place to ask a question about Windows?

Borders for LibreOffice Draw like in MS Publisher

I have stopped using Office programs, mostly because I don’t want to deal with setting up Wine. I am making a birthday card for someone, but I noticed that LibreOffice Draw doesn’t have the Borders and Accents menu like Publisher does. Is there something that can replace it (website/extension/menu)? I’m looking for...

BaalInvoker,

I think inkscape is a better solution as well. Draw has some limitations. However you can use Inkscape to create this borders you want, and then load It in Draw, If you find yourself more familiar with Draw

BaalInvoker,

What are you trying to acomplish with it?

It looks to me like XY Problem

Internet Connection Issue #2

I seem to have a problem with internet connectivity. I use NetworkManager with Proton VPN on an Arch KDE system. The wifi and VPN stay connected, but every once in a while the upload and download rates will go down to, at most, a few hundred KiB/s. The issue can be solved temporarily by disconnecting and reconnecting the VPN,...

BaalInvoker,

You must isolate the problem to figure it out.

Try with another device using the VPN and try with your computer without the VPN.

Also I would suggest to check if this isn’t related to your wifi or router configurations/setup. Once I had a router that sucks a lot and for once in a while I had to reconnect or even restart the router to make it work again

BaalInvoker,

You probably is protected by your routers firewall already. But if you want to keep it safe and use a firewall in your computer, you may install ufw or firewalld. The default config should be alright to your needs

BaalInvoker,

I suppose PopOS is the best call for him

BaalInvoker,

Yes. With PopOs you can do pretty much everything by UI

System76 is a laptop manufacturer that uses its own system, called PopOS. So they’re aiming to be totally user friendly with the distro

BaalInvoker,

That’s not the case. Flatpak shows to be big because it includes the runtimes. But runtimes are shared between applications, so the size diff is not that much as it says.

BaalInvoker,

There are advantages and disavantages for using rolling release or release based distros.

Generally speaking rolling release distros needs maintenance more often (such as running updates and stuff), however you may choose not update. Anyway, rolling release distros are more up-to-date with the packages, if you care about it.

Release based distros requires less maintenance, cause its base is more defined. The maintenance would be update once in a while for security patches. Despite this kind of server may be installed for years with low maintenance, for once in a while you’ll be required to do a full update, changing the base.

I’m personally on the rolling release side. I run Arch Linux as a private VPN server in a old laptop. For once in a while I run pacman -Syyu (maybe once in a week) and that’s the maintenance I do with no issues. Arch Wiki itself is hosted on a Arch Linux server as well.

Anyway, if you want a release based distro I recommend Rocky Linux or Fedora Server. If you like rolling releases more, I’ll suggest Arch.

BaalInvoker,

I use the pre-built drivers in kernel. No need to worry or anything, just plug-and-play.

You don’t want amdgpu-pro unless you’re doing something really specific that needs OpenGL and OpenCL. amdgpu built-in is good enough for most games and use cases.

Mesa is just a graphic library. You’ll need it.

Edit:

amdgpu-pro may be even worse to gaming then the amdgpu built-in.

BaalInvoker,

It’s probably already installed. It wouldn’t be working if it wasn’t

BaalInvoker,

Not chromium based. I think it’s important to have alternatives to chromium-based browsers and Google’s monopoly.

If Firefox vanishes, I’ll use Epiphany instead.

BaalInvoker,

Complex and recent games run on Linux these days.

Not allowing run a game in Linux is, nowadays, a choice from its developer rather then a causality. Proton is a really powerful tool!

If a game don’t run in Linux, via Proton or natively, that’s dev issue that actively blocked Linux.

BaalInvoker,

Still… There are anticheats that allow Linux, like EAC, Hyperion and many others… If they choose one that does not allow Linux, or choose one that allow Linux but block it, it’s a dev issue

VENMusica, to linux
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@linux any global mesh networks that could replace ISP's?

BaalInvoker,

What’s the purpose on replace ISP’s? Create a new whole mesh of ISP’s from scratch?

BaalInvoker,

Ah, ok. You’re just paranoid.

Guess what. If your data pass through any node, ISP or not, you can be spied.

BaalInvoker,

This shit again… I moved to LTS kernel exactly because of this bug and now it reached LTS kernel as well…

BaalInvoker,

Because “inferior” is just a perspective. In your pov Linux may be better, but for someone who wants a PC to play games, mainly games with anticheats, Linux is objectively worst.

Linux, Windows, MacOS, etc are just software. You must be able to use the software that best fits in your needs and that’s it.

BaalInvoker,

AUR is a user repo, which means that If you install any aur package, you’re trusting the user who is maintaining this package.

But if you install aur enough, you may install packages and libraries in your system that may break stuff.

AUR is not containerized, which means that these packages shares libs and files with your system. If a package installs a lib unsupported by official repo, it will certainly break your system.

I like aur, but I always try to install the least amount of packages from this source as possible.

BaalInvoker,

Probably it’s a language issue. Try to select a language, maybe english, and post

BaalInvoker,

No. Because there is no need.

Antivirus just make people more negligent even in Windows.

BaalInvoker,

I know it does not solve your issue, but try OctoPrint instead

At least you’ll be able to print your things

BaalInvoker,

I’m not printing ABS yet. Just bought and am taking proper measures to make it safe to use

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