[–] 60 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I dumped proton 18 months ago when “andy88” pledged his allegiance to Donald. He wasn’t quiet about it. That’s entirely disqualifying for a tech CEO that’s meant to be a counter-balance to the other big tech CEOs. Maybe Andy’s just miffed they didn’t invite him to the billionaire party after the inauguration.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Even worse is updating the idrac/perc firmware in a server several hours away, knowing that you’ll get yelled at and have your whole day ruined if it goes badly. If it goes perfectly, nobody will know. Seems like no upside and unbounded downside…

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's not really though. This just describes installing Termux and some X11 gubbins to make it emulate a linux machine, but it's still running some parasite-ridden Android OS. It would be much more interesting to get it running bare metal Linux with all the creepy "smart TV" baggage removed.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    There’s probably a bunch of permissions errors, filesystems warnings for cross-filesystem mounts or links, etc. all going to stderr. Linux output streams are a bit odd, 1 is stdout and 2 is stderr. So the command is redirecting the “noise” to null and just printing the actual command output. That would be my assessment, but OP could probably give a more correct answer..!

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