Imagine if all the people who prefer systemd would write posts like this as often as the opposition. Just use what you like, there are plenty of distros to choose from.
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You install the Google services and Play store from the gOS Apps application, then use them like normal.
Behind the scenes they run in the sandboxed environment, but to the user it makes no difference.
- Open the GUI network settings
- Set DNS to the IP of the PiHole, make sure the “automatic” switch is off.
- Do the above for each active interface (ethernet, wlan) and for both IPv4 and IPv6
- Save/apply settings
- Turn the interface(s) off, then back on
resolvectl flush-cachesjust in case
Look at
resolvectl dnsto check there’s no DHCP-acquired DNS servers set anymoreIf you use a VPN, those often set their own DNS servers too, remember to check it as well.
1·1 year agoI run GrapheneOS too. Fortunately there are so few issues that I can just focus on using it, no need to engage the community around it.
Protonmail, but not really because of encryption. I just liked their Android client and webmail the most. I’ve had sensitive backups on Proton Drive for a long time, so that also played a role in the choice.
I hosted my own server for quite a few years, but the SMTP clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, K9 mail) all doing things slightly differently made me give up. Biggest push was that K9 mail didn’t really move deleted mail to trash. These were probably dovecot configuration issues, but I got tired of searching for solutions. Never had any deliverability issues.
The article is old, yes, the first one from a search engine. If you have a source for saying it’s not in the works anymore, I’d be glad to see it. Not saying you’re wrong.
Just this month there was a statement from FiCom (finnish organization advancing IT businesses’ interests) urging our government to not accept the bill, so to me it seems it’s just under development.
Coming soon to EU, probably.
This is true, with a couple gigs of RAM and SATA storage Nextcloud is not at all bad. Assuming an instance with not that much simultaneous users.
It feels like slow sometimes, then after an hour with M365 at work it doesn’t feel slow at all.
In Finland synchronization in gearboxes is starting to become a thing nowadays. Double clutching for 20 years now (38).
Just kidding, got my first automatic two years ago, so yes.
5·1 year agoThere’s a base image of ublue, which is Silverblue without a DE. I’d suppose you can mostly just layer e.g. Sway or i3 on top.
Traditional package model will still have it’s usage, of course, I agree. But if Silverblue works for a developer like me, I’d say a for more “regular” users immutable distros seem like a very viable option.
I recently put the nvidia variant of ublue-os on my work laptop, which has Optimus graphics. Couldn’t be happier.
It’s great to see these variants popping up! I really think ostree may be the future for desktop Linux, and not even very far away.
Rsyslog to collect logs to a single server, then lnav for viewing them on that server is a good combo. Oldschool but very effective for self-host scale.
Glad the tip was useful!
For a bit enhanced log file viewing, you could use something like lnav, I think it’s packaged for most distributions.
Cockpit can be useful for journald, but personally I think GUI stuff is a bit clunky for logs.
Grep, awk and sed are powerful tools, even with only basic knowledge of them. Vim in readonly mode is actually quite effective for single files too.
For aggregating multiple servers’ logs good ol’ rsyslog is good, but not simple to set up. There are tutorials online.
Oh the times when getting GTA from a friend required 30+ 3½" floppy disks IIRC. That plus making 5 or 6 round trips to friend’s house, because one of them almost always got corrupted during the zip process.
And since no one had the disk space or knowhow to store the zip packets on HDD for the inevitable re-copying, had to redo the whole pack from scratch each time.
Edit: disk->HDD
11·1 year agoRemember to check the polarity of the plug too. Some have + in the center pin, others have -
Devuan is more stable
So Devuan has even older versions of packages than Debian? Stability in the distro context means that features, APIs, UIs don’t change. Please don’t mix software bugs with stability.
It may be I’ve entirely misunderstood how systemd works, but I think your description of it is off by a mile too.
but a different init starts a new process ID for each separate program
Of course there are PIDs with systemd too! First of all, systemd itself has a PID (1).
For systemd, which runs system wide to handle everything, if one program locks, systemd has to make adjusts for the whole system to fix the problem.
This is just wrong… Sure, if the service in question is dependent on a lot of other services, or vice versa. If your programs tend to lock, that’s the application’s fault and should be handled at the application level.
I found Artix to run smoother or lighter than Arch.
This is most definetly a difference in what else is running on the system. Systemd doesn’t really use that much resources. Unless you are measuring RAM usage in the megabytes. Which is of course valid on constrained systems, but on a regular desktop one browser tab will need orders of magnitude more resources than any init system.
I want Firefox running an isolated process from the one that Plasama desktop is running
This just shows you have absolutely no clue on Linux processes, I really really doubt anyone is running Firefox under systemd. And neither have you.
There are valid reasons for choosing a different init system, but you have not provided a single one that is really true. It seems like you are only repeating things heard from some one else.
The difference is systemd is one thing to handle everything
This is true, but it refers to systemd handling a lot more than process management. Systemd has the problem that nowadays it does log management, memory management, login management, user management etc. This goes against the UNIX philosophy of one tool for one job, and THAT is why people frown on systemd.
I’d second this. Fedora is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not rolling or stable.
I think stable was referring to not crashing here.
1·1 year agoAny VPS provider can access your data via the hypervisor if they want, there’s just no way to prevent it. It has nothing to do with what payment methods are accepted.
If you want to be sure, you need your own hardware on your own premises.
Flashing the stock Pixel ROM back is just as simple as flashing GrapheneOS, the instructions in GOS website are very good for both.
The only two things I can think of that might be issues are banking apps and Google Pay, if you use that. I use Play services in the main profile and honestly there’s not much difference to the stock ROM in terms of user experience. Even Android Auto works nowadays.
For the banking apps, you can have a look at https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/. Just note that if your bank is not on the list, it doesn’t necessarily mean it wont work.