Yeah...
I think I'm giving up on this install of Yuno Host. Too many things have gone wrong during my leading bash etc.
A friend wants me to try Proxmox, so I'll do that. Another potential one is Freedombox.
So we'll see.
I'd love if there was one that sat on top of a regular distro of Linux with a GUI. I think that'd really help me. Haven't found one yet though.
I have to admit, I'm tempted to buy one of these:
https://shop.fyralabs.com/products/suzyq-board
They help unbrick and modify chromebooks. I've thought I could buy EoL/bricked ones and resuscitate them with linux and sell them for a marginal profit. Like, in the $30-50 range.
One tech project at a time though.
Hey, does anyone know of any good online resources for teaching port forwarding and DNS stuff? I'm trying to set up a server and hitting my head against a wall. Bonus points if it's Linux/Debian specific and/or can be accomplished without an internet connection.
#AskFedi #TechHelp #PortForwarding #DNS #TourmaLinux #Debian #Linux
Got the computer today! Looks good for a little workstatioin and runs fine. I'll post pictures later. Installing #YunoHost atm. I was told it would only be a few minutes, but that's assuming a VPS with SSDs. I'm using that 5200rpm HDD and it's s l o w . Think I'll get tot he end of the DNS stuff and give up for the day.
Is there any official #Debian forum/Matrix/IRC/ Tin cans and string for asking questions and getting help? Or barring an official one, an unofficial one? Bonus points for being queer positive.
Thanks!
Well that's neat. I've been looking for a lightweight linux distro to try on my potato, (a windows tablet with 1GB of RAM.) and I found that #Q4OS allows you to install it from within the windows screen. That will allow the computer to dual boot. You can even go into BIOS and change it to the default boot.
One of the reasons I haven't converted it yet, (aside from lazy,) is that I might need a windows machine to talk to my printer. This might work out without me having to fight it to do a proper dual boot. The other is it's weird ass processor, am Intel Atom x5 Z8350 .
Thing could barely run windows 10
Well, after much dicking around and needing to use both gParted and Disks, I formatted my live Mint USB and slapped Vently on it. That also took some trial and error. After I realized I didn't download a live version kg Debian and it just wanted to install, I gave up testing it for the night and just shoved a bunch of OSes on the drive since its a big one.
I got:
Debian GNOME, Manjaro Xfice, Bazzite, Tails, Elementary, and Pop. I also did some research a bit ago for OSes on weak devices. I need to find that and download those to put on my potato. Since I'll have a blank slate with the ThinkCenter, I'll try out several.
Won a computer!
A used Lenovo ThinkCenter M710q. No hard drive, but its got decent ram and an it processor. Didn't come with a hdmi port either, but I bought one that will hopefully work. Otherwise I'm going to be trying to use a monitor at work to see if it operates at all as I don't have anything with a displayport orifice at home.
I'll try my old live drive for Mint on it. Though if it does wrok, I'm going to buy a cheap ssd, (if the old sata from my laptop doesn't fit,) and put Debian on it.
If all goes well, it'll live in a cabinet next to my router and become a cloud.
Fingers crossed!
Just backed the queer TLD .meow. Seems like a good project.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round-gtld-application
Running benchmarks on a cheap ass SD card I bought from Aliexpress. It didn't want to run at all at work, but that might have been the cheap ass microSD to SD converter it came with. After the benchmarks from Disks, I'll run f3 (Fight Fake Flash) to make sure it's the size it says it is.
I'll definitely leave a bad review if it's fake tho'.
Just took a quick test run of #Servo on my #LinuxMint machine. They're definitely working on functionality before looks, but the few sites I tried ran well-ish. Tech.LGBT is fine as long as you never like, boost, or comment.
That said, it did like several games, (so, #Proton,) have done to me. Hard froze. I had to hold the power button down to turn it off and restart it.
So the potato is still rather raw. But I can see the baked potato within.
...Now I want a baked potato.
Tried playing #PacMan256 on my Linux machine and it crashed into fallback mode. That's pretty rough.
I "like" how after I make Teams quit, Teams automatically boots. Nothing like closing a program I don't use twice.
Working on my website (https://tourma.great-site.net) has resulted in me removing two suggested search engines and adding 1.5.
I removed Mullvad Leta as they are discontinuing the service. Waterfox Search was removed as >500 searches cost $15/month. I'm not recommending Kagi because it's paid, I'm not recommending Waterfox.
I did add Lycos as it's so old it doesn't have any AI whatnot or other modern enshitification. And I added noai.duckduckgo.com because of the no AI. Also adding Onion links where applicable.
So...yeah.
#TourmaLinux #Website #Lycos #DuckDuckGo #Mullvad #Waterfox #Kagi
So, I let my annual plan with #ProtonMail lapse because of their CEO's statments around the US election, and their seeming pivot to crypto crap. It eneded on the 16th. I got an email, (that I just saw today,) that they were going to delete all of the data over what a free plan has by the 17th if I didn't do it myself/paid for a plan with enough data.
That's pretty shitty giving 14 hours (I got the email at 10AM.)
Makes me even more okay with having switched to #Tuta.
Now I just need a website address and maybe a cloud storage.
This is your periodic reminder that Linux Mint, (and probably other distros,) allow you to change the opacity of a window. I don't remember if its a default or if I had to change a setting, but scrolling on the title bar will make the window more or less clear.
It can be used for whatever, but I use it so I can make spirals or other hypnotic imagery visible no matter what window is focused.
Useful, if distracting.
This PC has a series of that Sailor Moon image redraw meme from 2020 as the desktop background set on shuffle.
On top of that is this site: https://zebra-north.com/hexcorp/hypnologo/
Shared by @hexlatex over on Bluesky. It is set to full screen and is mostly opaque, but with enough translucency to show off the background beneath.
On top of that is Discord more translucent to show what it looks like to have a window on top, but not fully obscuring.
I enjoy it.
#Hypnosis #HypnoSpiral #HypnoKink #Spiral #HexCorp #SailorMoon #LinuxMint #Linux #TourmaLinux #TourmaObeys
A question for my website: https://tourma.great-site.net/Links.html?i=3
I've been thinking about subdividing "Cool Links" into more categories. Would more on the same page be better, or more links at the top and bottom?
Or just leave it a hodgepodge?
Thanks!
Hey all.
I'm shifting from using indivitual #PortableApps to using the #PortableApp app. I'd like to move #Calibre to that way, but the Import/Export doesn't work with portable apps. Is there a way to get the PA app to see the old install?
Thanks
Trying out Bazzite, (KDE flavored,) in a VM. It's definitely a Linux sub-distribution.
Didn't get very far because the amount of hdd space I afforded it wasn't enough to install my test game.
Guess I should back up.
I was trying to play a Wallace and Gromit game I have through Amazon on Linux Mint and Heroic player and it crashes constantly. A friend suggested Bazzite. Not willing to commit to a full reinstall or dual boot, I'm VMing it.
Some...thing Bazzite does with steam won't work on my GPU, too old I think. Not sure if it's the KDE or the fedora, but programs are just different enough to be annoying.
I should also try to play the game through Lutris on Mint, see if that works.
I should also check out the Bazzite community. See how heavily populated by Linux bros (derogatory) it is. I don't think there is any distro with 0.
