[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

Nope, it borked some dependencies for my DE and uninstalled most/all of it during an update run. To be fair, that was on me. Should have paid more attention when the list of packages was suspiciously long behind “Remove”, but package lists were usually quite long with testing.

Could have salvaged it, but I thought “Well, Debian just broke on you, can not be much worse on Arch” and TBH, never looked back.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I managed to break Debian Testing with updates, but so far never broke Arch or Cachy with updates of any sort. The fear of updates breaking Arch based distros is a bit out of proportion nowadays IMHO.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Misleading title. Regulators took offense with the tracking consent pop up, which gives users the possibility to opt out of cross app tracking.

    Changes only affect the EU, as far as I can tell. Don’t understand this, the old pop ups were fine as they were and called it as it was.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Springer is the cancer to Germanys journalistic landscape that Fox News is to that of the United States.

    Nothing of value would be lost if they disappeared without a trace over night.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Sure, but they are right that it’s faithful to the source. Which is a culture shock whatever way your coming from.

    Personally still on the fence about it, love me some SAC, but the animation of the new show is superb and a joy to look at.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Password Pusher is no password manager, only for securely sharing information.

    Running on Vaultwarden, though that still depends on the official BitWarden Clients. Works great though, and can be selfhosted on pretty small machines. Very satisfied with it.

    Passbolt was not on my radar when I was in the market for a new password manager, but would be a serious consideration today.

    If considering a self hosted alternative, remember that backups are your responsibility then as well.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    If there is a store near that has Macs on display, go check them out and try your most used workflows as best as you can. Even a used M1 Mac will run the newest macOS so that should be a good initial impression.

    Day to day tasks are no problem for any modern OS. Internet, Mail and the like. Look for the not so daily tasks to get a feel of the system and if it can do it a way you can arrange to.

    Interoperability between devices is best within the ecosystem, but applications like local send work cross platform and can replace something like Airdrop between Apple devices pretty well. If you have your documents and data on a self hosted system or something like Dropbox as well.

    I personally use both on my notebooks, and I always liked the Macs for pretty much just working. When having to troubleshoot and support windows machines at work all day, that is a big plus.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    A lot of journalists got that wrong in initial reporting. But as an IT administrator you can see where they are coming from with their switch to another platform.

    Signal is end user software, and a very good one at that. But it is no enterprise grade software. It lacks the management and policies needed for such user groups, which Wire seems to provide. Things like a mobile number as primary account handle spells ease and low entrance hurdle for end users, and a security problem for administrations.

    The fractured nature of the IT in German politics is probably still keeping the attack surface alive. As outlined here by heise:

    https://www.heise.de/en/background/Signal-attacks-Political-reality-bites-the-IT-admin-11279251.html

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    One of my two machines crashed a lot until I moved two Containers to my local server. They are quite small in regards to RAM and at their limit quite fast. Maybe check that.

    Also I read somewhere that you could enter credit card details and this kinda upgrades your account in their system though you still do not pay. Something to do with throttling free machines in favor of paid customers.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Oracle has an always free tier which provides two x64 AMD based virtual machines. They are more or less cloud based calculators in terms of performance, but out of experience I can tell you it is more than sufficient for a few docker containers.

    European locations are available.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    They are going the way normies would, which includes asking the LLM of choice for a recommendation. But as they just regurgitate listicles inhaled from the web, that is what you get.

    Bazzite and Cachy are the more sane choices, though Luke is by no means counting as a Linux noob

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Well, not every system can handle or support multiple VPN connections with different providers, or the VPNs could interfere with each other. E.g. when using Tailscale you can not use another WireGuard based VPN according to their FAQs.

    Also, it adds complexity to the stack and system as a whole on the client side. That is all fine and dandy as long as it works, but quickly a pain in the butt once you have to debug something.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Cloudflare Tunnels work great and are really easy to setup. Plus you are not exposing you machine completely to the outside, as the cloudflared service/container „calls out“, and Cloudflare is your reverse proxy. Downside is, you’re binding yourself to one of the US hyperscalers.

    Pangolin uses the same principle, but is a bit more challenging to setup. Plus you need some kind of cloud server to make it work.

    As you already have a VPN active at all times (at least it sounds like that), a VPN home seems out of the picture.

    Unless you have a dedicated firewall at home, maybe reconsider the reverse proxy route. Personally would not feel comfortable with exposing a machine at home to the internet in full without a handle on what it can do or how it may be reached.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    This. As an IT administrator I can absolutely understand the need to adhere to certain baseline requirements for devices accessing company data. And I know my best bet to have control over that is with company supplied hardware. Not BYOD, fuck that.

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