Elvith Ma'for

Former Reddfugee, found a new home on feddit.de. Server errors made me switch to discuss.tchncs.de. Now finally @ home on feddit.org.

Likes music, tech, programming, board games and video games. Oh… and coffee, lots of coffee!

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 21st, 2024
  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•I wrote a blog post on selfhostesd software to be more organizedEnglish
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    4 days ago

    My journey:

    Had some form of Linux for a long time. Either in a VM (Oracle Virtual Box, then switched to S HyperV for compatibility reasons as I had Windows Pro anyways) or sometimes as dual boot.

    Then came WSL which eased some things and complicated others. What this makes really easy is to start and play around with docker containers on your PC.

    Then I experimented with Linux in a VM and put docker and other software there to practice.

    Up until here, there were no costs involved (besides having Windows Pro, but depending on where you get your windows key, there’s not a real difference between pro and home anyways…).

    After that I got my own VPS. As much as I don’t like AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Azure and such, they usually offer a very small VPS for free and these can be a good point to start. If you want to really go and host things, it can be beneficial to look for a hoster that isn’t one of the big 3 cloud providers and pay for a VPS there.

    For hosting at home: You could start with a raspberry pi, but looking at current prices, you usually get more flexibility and bang for the buck by buying a refurbished mini PC or repurposing an old notebook/PC. You can just put Yunohost or Proxmox on it and get going.

  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgtomemes@lemmy.world•I will be this old man for the rest of my life
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    15 days ago

    I’m using Fedora. Works out of the box. You need to add a MOK if you want to use custom kernel modules (or the current Nvidia drivers). But using the nouveau driver or just a standard installation of not using Nvidia hardware works flawlessly without MOK.

    Im using Nvidia. The initial import of the MOK is a bit… strange or scary for non tech people, but afterwards, akmods makes it a breeze. You don’t have to think about it. With Fedora 42, akmods regularly failed to build the driver’s and I had to restart the build manually after a kernel upgrade, but since I upgraded to Fedora 43, it just works.

  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Peasants...
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    18 days ago

    It’s was even easier - KDE showed a notification, I clicked it and got a pop-up telling me about the violation and the commands to fix it of this behavior should be allowed. I could never copy&paste them from there. But yes, checking journalctl every once in a while is a good habit.

    Since it was nothing that really prevented me from using the PC (e.g. virt-manager getting a violation when I shut down a VM), I reported it and waited for a bit if they’d resolve this and then just ran the commands after a two days without fix, because I wanted to get rid of the notifications

  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored HackersEnglish
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    22 days ago

    From my understanding: Basically the attackers could reply to your version check request (usually done automatically) and tell N++ that there were a new version available. If you then approved the update dialogue, N++ would download and execute the binary from the update link that the server sent you. But this didn’t necessarily need to be a real update, it could have been any binary since neither the answer to the update check nor the download link were verified by N++

  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... adsEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I bought it back then in the Android… 2.x or 4.x days as the launcher on my phone sucked. Hadn’t much complaints about the stock launchers of my next few phones and forgot about it until I got a Pixel. Wow, the pixel launcher was a complete letdown. Especially the forced unremovable search bar that’s completely useless for me and takes up so much real estate on the screen. Then I couldn’t remove the at a glance widget either (IIRC a big back then, but… Yeah…). I get it, that it’s nice, but… Again: Too much real estate for a clock, a totally unreliable weather info (at least in my area?) and info about the currently playing song.

    Searched launchers, remembered Nova and was surprised it was still around and had all the features I wanted. Bonus: it allows me to resize widgets.

    I tried Octopi, when the owner change news for Nova hit, but was so used to having folders on the dock from my previous phones and Nova, that I couldn’t use it without that feature. So I tried lawnchair which is basically the pixel launcher but with exactly the features I missed in the original. I can get rid of spotlight and can get rid of the search bar. Widgets are resizable. Also the dock features folders. And I can control the grid size and adjust it to my liking.

    Niagara was also recommended to me, but… IIRC in the end it felt to opinionated about the workflow and immediately lost me. Not what I’m looking for in a launcher. (Not saying it’s bad - just that it’s not for me).