ikidd

ikidd , 1 month ago

They're set up in Nobara by default, haven't had to use them yet but every once in a while I see them in the journalctl and get a warm feeling.

ikidd , 1 month ago

I walked my 83 year old dad through a Linux Mint install on his laptop over the phone a few weeks ago when the Windows install shit the bed. All he needs is a browser, he's good now.

Get out of here with that "software engineering degree" BS.

ikidd , 1 month ago

No, because like 99% of people on this planet, he uses webmail, and I haven't seen audio fail out of the box on a Linux install in 15 years.

Roflmao lol omg bbq

ikidd , 1 month ago

Get the maintainer to PR it to the linux-firmware team if its unique.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Can't tell if joking...

ikidd , 1 month ago

LMDE and don't look back.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Will the AI not hang up on me when I ask it a question that's going to take a long time to resolve and fuck up it's service metrics?

I've gone through like 3 service reps in a single problem because the call mysteriously drops after I outline the issue. "Could you hold please?" --- click

ikidd , 1 month ago

Dammit, you probably aren't wrong...

We're doomed.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Nobara works well.

ikidd , 1 month ago

sudo is not installed. Check apt search sudo for possible sources.

ikidd , 1 month ago

It'll get there. They're boiling the frog. If you'll pay now to get rid of ads, you'll pay more to get rid of them when they show up, until you can't pay more and then you'll watch the ads.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Yah yah, sure sure.

ikidd , 1 month ago

I'll just bet she does. Someone or several someones deserve to be in prison for a long time.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Well, you knew that was coming from the licensing changes.

ikidd , 1 month ago

I had to convince my cousin I bought him a Mac, but I didn't want to support a Mac, so I tweaked KDE to look like OSX. He thought it was great how cheap he got a laptop, and was surprised Dell made Macs now. Had him fooled for about 2 years until he asked some kid to help him do something.

I just shrugged and asked him if he'd have known if he hadn't been told. Yah, cuz knows cows, not computers.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Really, no issues. Manjaro KDE. All he uses is a browser and WPS Office.

ikidd , 1 month ago

I run Manjaro on about a half dozen systems for the last 5 or so years. I've had very few problems. I've used a lot of distros over the last 30 years, it's been the least maintenance.

There's a lot of unfounded Manjaro hate on this site, probably by people that have never used it and just parrot the Manjarno narrative. It's pretty sad to see how it gets maligned at every opportunity.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Every fucking Nextcloud post is covered with people shitting on this opensource project that is hugely popular and works well for a lot of use cases.

If you don't like and can't get it working right, then don't use it. But maybe keep your bitching to yourselves so the rest of us can discuss it.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Well, every project ends up finding things that aren't as easy as they may have thought, or chooses after the fact to devote the time to other things. I could cherry pick decade old features from every long-lived project, like KDE or Gnome and say that makes them worthless. They patently aren't worthless, and anyone that wants to criticize is welcome to file a bug and follow through on the fix. Most bugs don't get fixed because people won't follow up.

I'm happy with where they've gone overall, it fits a lot of my needs that I'd have to use something like Google or Microsoft instead, so it's annoying as shit to see every person that can't be arsed to put in the time to get it working properly for the things it does well to shit on it every. goddamn. time. it's. name. shows. up gets on my last nerve.

ikidd , 1 month ago

On the plugins, I couldn't say, I've not used those plugins. I do use ones like Gpoddersync, Recipes and Snappymail with no issues. I did try that Forms plugin and it was a bag of shit. Never had issues with the client, but I've only used it on Windows once, every other system its on is Linux, but it's been solid.

In the Docker All-in-One, the Collabra Suite integration is flawless and I have several people using it on my server. Performance is snappy, especially with a few recent updates. I highly recommend the AIO, after having used NC in baremetal, NextcloudPi, Docker, it's the least maintenance and best update experience by far.

ikidd , 1 month ago

I feel angry when I have to hunt down the installer for an application under Windows, and then know I have to go find it again later to update it. I have no clue how I got by without a package manager on Windows. Though if they had one, you have to know it would be complete intrusive dogshit about 5 minutes into its existence.

ikidd , 1 month ago

"All you have to do is set some flags in GPO policy editor and relogin the first time and every time there's an update. Easy"

• some Windows fanboi probably

ikidd , 1 month ago

Chocolatey's saving grace is that it's third party. IDK how well it's maintained and expanded, it's been some time since I used it and there wasn't much on it when I did.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Windows.

ikidd , 1 month ago

But... Volkswagen!

Oh, wait.

ikidd , 1 month ago

1.81M units sold last, that's $31,000/unit he wants to get paid. For pretty much single-handedly ruining the brand with his stupid yapper in a year.

$2000 a unit price decrease doesn't seem like much compared to that.

ikidd , 1 month ago

It's a tantrum. Just pat their head and tell them it'll be OK.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Kasts on desktop and Antennapod on Android, each using Gpoddersync to Nextcloud gives me this functionality.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Proxmox Backup Server is fucking awesome, BTW. There's also a good Proxmox integration in HACS for automations and alerts.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Not sure if you mean WoL for the VMs or the proxmox node. I do the latter on my backup node so I can do HA failover without running it all the time. I have the PBS box wake it periodically to take a replication from the primary, and then shut it down, and wake it up if the primary stops responding so it can do the HA thing. The PBS box also acts as a quorum device.

ikidd , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Edit: if you're evaluating this, use a chromium based browser because there's a pile of things not working if you use FF. That means I'm not going to use it, but you do you.

The hard to find ARP scan dialog box that is pretty much the starting point for anything here is very special. There's no dropdown that lists the physical interfaces so you have to hunt around to find the listing for Network Hardware that for some reason is under the About top level menu item. Of course, that lists every virtual docker interface along with the physical network devices so you'd better know what you're looking for.

Contrary to the poorly organized docs, the physical interface will rarely be eth0 or eth1, it'll be something like "enp5s2". So now you go back to edit the entries to the physical interface but you can't, all you can do is Remove All. Well, better get your entries letter perfect, because if you make a mistake on a single character, you're starting from scratch after another Remove All.

In your docs, you recommend not editing the app.conf file, but that would be way more forgiving than this. At least there you can add VLANs.

And there's no way I can see to bulk add new devices to a known and/or trusted state. Go into each device and uncheck the "New Device" box. How do I add a device to My Devices? Who knows.

Publishers: Nothing to find in the Settings for each of the publishers. Every publishers settings section is blank.

UI will take to blinking randomly as it gets into a refresh loop. Have to close the window and reopen it to get it usable again. Sometimes all the text in each setting header goes away. No headings on the tables for the Devices, just the set order arrows that would be on each column, not lined up with anything correctly. Oh, now I've lost every setting on each setting section, just blank.

I'm reticent to get much more into the app because if this is the introduction, I'm scared of what other frustration I'm going to find. Not to mention having the arrows for the left menu tree expansion backwards to how nearly everyone else ever does it, but I guess that's just my OCD.

Man, I want to like this because it looks like it could be a simple to use version of Nagios, but some of the design is pretty hard to take.

ikidd , 1 month ago

OK, sorry to discourage you, it wasn't my intent. I updated to FF 125 during my evaluation and that didn't fix anything, but switching to Chrome and things started working made me think this is just another project designed for Chrome. I've tried to help on projects like that and the attitude I've always gotten back is "then use Chrome like everyone else, weirdo".

I used to project manage a programmer team, and UI is the biggest user complaint I would get hit by. So I'm pretty sensitive to non-intuitive UI design. At this point, I'd rather edit the conf file than use the Settings page. Not sure how to reload that conf file other than to restart the container.

I wish I had time to spend on this submitting actual code, because I like a lot of what I see. Best I could do is add to your list of todo's by creating issues and it sounds like you have plenty on that list already. If you want a couple more, open the spoiler below. In any case, have fun on your project and don't let assholes like me bring you down.

spoiler

1. Remove Last: this isn't great. A selectable list with Edit and Delete buttons is more usable and standard. I saw all those Remove Last buttons throughout the Settings, and it's not much better than Remove All if you have to delete every entry after the faulty one to fix your list. There's plenty of settings that have a dozen items in the list that would all have to be re-entered manually as text.

2. Dropdowns pre-validate input. Making a box that you can put random additional arguments into means you have to chop up the input in arguments to validate, or maybe you aren't validating it until you press Save, in which case you're making it even tougher to validate the entire file. You can only show items in the dropdown that are valid for that input. Several pages of docker virtual interfaces and named networks is probably not what you want in the dropdown. Eth0 is not a standard interface name anymore in most distros.

3. That bulk-editing workflow; so I pick items on one page, why would I expect that they'd be carried over when I go to a completely different page in another section of the application? And in that section, there's nothing to indicate that clicking on the gray bar in the middle of the warning text orange box would pop up the list of devices so I can do things with them. What I typically see in things like this is checkboxable list items and a toolbar or menu at the top of the list on the Devices page to perform actions.

ikidd , 1 month ago

That's way better. Nice job.

I'll see it on the next docker build release.

ikidd , 1 month ago

If you're down on the "editing YAML until you're blue in the face" part, they've pretty much transitioned entirely to a good UI for that. Going into the yaml is rare now. I was of the same opinion a year or so ago, but tried it and it's improved immensely in the last year for configuring things. There's room left for improvement, but it's usable now.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Check out the FutureProofHomes youtube channel. He's developing a better presence/speaker puck, but the previous episodes get you something like an Alexa experience with voice assist. There's also a good thread in the HA forums about voice assist hardware ideas set up as a contest.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Dribble some whiskey on it, clears it right up.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Piped. Trust me.

ikidd , 1 month ago

How the hell would you double dip? They scan you in.

I built a ticketing app for folk festivals 2 decades ago and we had that problem beat even then.

ikidd , 1 month ago

PGP-encrypted email for everyone, problem solved.

Yah, yah, I know...

ikidd , 1 month ago

Postfix.

ikidd , 1 month ago

I run Mailcow-dockerized for my mail server and internal relay, and it's a postfix based system. Never have any issues with it.

ikidd , 1 month ago

One more reason to ditch any sort of physical mail.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Too soon.

ikidd , 1 month ago

And people moaning about people that like Linux.

ikidd , 1 month ago

I'm guessing you're responsible for the documentation, as well.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Pretty good discussion with appearance by the Kagi founder here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314

I'm not linking my personal/payment info to my search history because I hate being advertised to and from what I can see, there's little in the way of scruples/forethought attached to this company. They're going to sell that info if it isn't hacked out of them first.

ikidd , 1 month ago

Also; Modi and BJP. Carrying out assassinations in Canada should get you on that list.

ikidd , 1 month ago

OK, now I'm hungry.