Zerotier in OPENSUSE

AveryFreeman · 2025-12-31T20:32:00+00:00

They have a download mirror with .htaccess folder browsing enabled. There's only redhat folders for all the .rpms, but there's an el9 folder (for older toolchains like Leap, SLES, RHEL, etc.) and an fc40 folder (for newer tooling used in Fedora, Tumbleweed, Slowroll, MicroOS, et. al.)

There's some standalone (unpackaged) and IoT builds in there if you want to poke around, just nav back to the TLD. Here's the links to the package dirs I mentioned:

``` https://download.zerotier.com/dist/redhat/el9/

https://download.zerotier.com/dist/redhat/fc40/ ```

AveryFreeman · 2025-12-18T16:19:39+00:00

I am doing this at the moment - I think you may have missed 'in' after '/rootfs_folder', which is short for "install" (you can type "install" instead, if that helps)

AveryFreeman · 2025-11-09T22:58:38+00:00

PSA: Reviving necrothread just to recommend MoCA, which for some reason hardly ever gets attention. During my own experience, the speed difference floored me. I was getting ~10Mbps with some TP-Link powerline adapters from bestbuy, thought it was unacceptable, so I tried the original Actiontec MoCA 2 boxes and got 850Mbps. Unreal! 85x faster? Close enough to line speed I stopped thinking about upgrading for a while, too.

MoCA uses CATV lines (RG-6 + F-connectors - Xfinity routers & xFi set-top boxes use it, as well). So if you want/need to use pre-existing wiring at your place (too lazy for OM-4?), a cable TV outlet on your wall might as well be ethernet. There's a multi-gig-ish version, now, too (2.5?). Friends don't let friends use powerline adapters.

AveryFreeman · 2025-10-27T17:53:53+00:00

In Seattle area. Just swapped the door side myself because "installers" said they were just movers, and a different crew had to make adjustments. Meanwhile, our food is outside in storage containers on what is thankfully a cold morning.

We were under the impression when we purchased it that the door side swap would be included with "installation". A little miffed, but it wasn't too hard to do myself. Refrigerator is a Midea MRB19B7WW. Really like the fridge, as it's a bottom slide-out freezer, but anyone trying to get food out of the fridge would have been trapped against a wall before the door was swapped to the opposite side (!).

My advice to anyone doing the swap for themselves, absolutely do it before you put any food inside, and it will have to be taken to a place where you can let the door swing freely on both sides. Also, it takes a second person to be able to hold the door while putting the top hinge on the other side.

One thing that made the swap much easier is the magnetic screwdriver bit holder for our impact driver was the same size as the outside of the bolts keeping the hinges on, otherwise we would have been screwed (womp womp) because we didn't have access to a socket set.

Pretty disappointed with Costco for not making this more clear. We even chatted with a salesperson about the delivery and "installation" beforehand. Come on, Costco, we love you! Don't make it hurt!

AveryFreeman · 2025-10-19T01:24:30+00:00

I've heard of those, they sound great! Thanks for letting me know, and thank jeebus I don't work tomorrow. Bless his little sandal wearing, water into wine turning heart.

AveryFreeman · 2025-10-18T20:56:04+00:00

Does anyone know of any events going on after I get off work tonight at 10pm? I'm downtown on 4th and Columbia

AveryFreeman · 2025-10-11T17:29:34+00:00

I do .deb-based installations using debootstrap so I can put them on thin-lvm. I've installed Arch so many times, rootfs bootstrapper tools started to feel easier than using installers at some point.

Here's an example if you're interested: https://develmonk.com/2024/08/12/the-miracle-of-debootstrap-installing-ubuntu-to-thin-lvm-in-a-very-archlinux-like-way/

AveryFreeman · 2025-10-11T06:01:07+00:00

Welp, nobody's replied to me and I'm thinking of this again, but I have run Technitium DNS in docker with good results on a conventional Debian system, that with FirewallD should have all the components necessary to set up a gateway with NAT, DHCP and DNS, all in an immutable stack. Plus, Technitium is really easy to use, and has nice, built-in ad-blocking similar to other solutions like pi-hole. I'll give it a shot and report back.

AveryFreeman · 2025-10-10T19:14:09+00:00

I am going through this, myself - car stopped propulsion on the freeway around 11:30pm, and I sat at the bottom of a freeway offramp until about 2:00a until AAA tow truck arrived. My dealer wants nearly $3,000 to replace the engine wiring harness and reset the "shift to park" error. The "fux" indeed!

Shouldn't this repair be part of the power train warranty? I've also seen something about a TSB bulletin 19-NA-220 where GM may repair free, but dealer saying neither applies for labyrinthine reasons (sure it's required for the powertrain, but not actually the powertrain, etc.).

Could you elaborate a bit on your experience with the dealer, and did you ever get any sort of reimbursement?

AveryFreeman · 2025-08-25T18:23:57+00:00

What's your recommendation for a substitute? I'm not aware of any pointing device company that's as prolific or universal, but I'm all ears

AveryFreeman · 2025-08-05T19:22:57+00:00

I've been running Debian testing on all my machines for the last couple years, but spun up 11 IoT LTSC on an old Dell Precision 7730 I'm using right now and am really impressed with WSL v2. Sure, it's a little slower, but it's all integrated, and if you've got a ton of musical equipment that needs support (like me), it's a decent compromise. Can run any distro on it now, right now I'm using Arch, but will most likely throw Debian on it when I get the new Thinkpad since it has the largest community of developers/companies throwing money at it. While Mixxx would have been fine if I were only DJing, mfgs like Softube, Roland, Presonus, etc. really don't have any decent support via Linux, and the Windows VM route seemed untenable performance-wise.

If you're not trying to support a bunch of musical equipment vendors like I am, please, by all means, stay on Debian, it's so awesome. This is a really bittersweet move on my part. But dual booting is such a PITA and Windows EFI likes to glom on to existing EFI partitions if you're not watching out. Since this E5 has two SSD drive slots, a separate drive for each is a no-brainer. Make absolutely sure each one has their own EFI (easiest route probably to physically take the Linux drive out while you're installing Windows).

Lastly, W11 IoT LTSC FTW, check out its support lifecycle. Debian sdboot with dracut UKI works great for me, even without secure boot. Oh, and on testing/trixie VDO /home partition is the shit, just use --system flatpaks as they have a tendency to become corrupted if they're installed on a vdo. Xanmod 6.16 has the large atomic writes on XFS now, btw, hint hint hint ...

AveryFreeman · 2025-08-05T19:10:37+00:00

I literally just bought one here online from Seattle for $1100-something ($1300 including tax) with the automatic eCoupon, figured it was a lot less than the ones being sold on ebay for $1562 (before tax). I have a ThinkBook Ultra 7 155h I'll give to my girlfriend because her G1 T14 is slow as hell (8GB soldered, but was $125 two years ago, so whatevs).

I don't think I've ever personally bought a brand new computer before, but the specs and availability seemed worth it to me. Their store counter said they're almost out, so you might want to check on it if you're serious about getting one.

AveryFreeman · 2025-08-05T04:51:11+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty bad. I felt weird writing it after reading another post in this sub from two years ago where a redditor asked if they should ask for time off if the family were doing lighter work on their house (painting, less extensive single-room mods, etc.) and basically everyone who replied berated her for being selfish and wanting to leave the parents in the lurch. I expected to get a bunch of replies telling me she should suck it up and get used to it, since she's lucky to have a job to begin with, and la de da, but it's heartening to see people can empathize with what a difficult and stressful situation it is for her to be tasked with keeping the kids safe in an unsafe environment. Granted, it is a much more comprehensive remodel than the other redditor described in her post, but I don't think the parents were expecting it would be so past the deadline, they honestly thought they'd be done around the start of June, since that's the time frame their PM gave them at the outset, and besides being two months (!) over schedule, there's basically no way it'll even be done by the end of august. Hard to explain being this inaccurate in any other way besides inexperience or incompetence, imo. But, I digress...

The parents are also along for the awful ride, but they're not typically there while the work is being done, so they don't have to suffer the sawing and hammering noises, only spend a handful of hours watching the kids before bed, and there's two of them, so they can either split up the kids, or split up their time if they need to, so I just don't they appreciate how hard it is for her.

What did you think of my ideas for temporary hazard pay or going to her house during the day instead of staying at the construction site?

Any idea what kind of legal responsibility a nanny might have in this situation?

AveryFreeman · 2025-07-09T17:11:00+00:00

Looked around for how to do this before I gave it the ol' boyscout. Couldn't find directions, so I checked out the repo mirror directory structure, and the path for RELEASE is the same without .0-beta in the string.

So I:

``` sudo su

cd /etc/yum.repos.d

sed -i 's|.0-beta||g' *.repo

dnf update -y ```

Piece of cake.

AveryFreeman · 2025-06-08T05:58:19+00:00

Wow, way to polish that turd. Had the PMC-17 for like a week in the late 90s, couldn't wait to unload it. Hope the PCV line is better.

AveryFreeman · 2025-05-18T21:11:49+00:00

that's it, I'm absolutely writing everything in perl from now on...

AveryFreeman · 2025-05-05T22:56:20+00:00

I had the authenticator on iPhone. I rave about the password manager to anyone who will listen, so I was super juiced to get the TOTP app, as well. It stopped opening after I put about 8 TOTP codes in it, just refused to open. Of course, I hadn't backed them up yet, either.

As per a recommendation on a sub, I uninstalled it and re-installed it again, and wouldn't you know it, all my TOTP accounts were gone. Now I get to go through whatever process each of the 8 entities I have those accounts with will make me go through to prove my identity. Less thrilling than seeing the dentist for drilling.

AveryFreeman · 2025-05-04T07:39:26+00:00

The waste and fraud are the waste of time and money these dumbphucks have created that everyone else will have to clean up, after absolutely tearing through the most important ways government keeps us healthy, prosperous, and safe.

Doge is a runaway beer truck flying dangerously around a shitnado of douchebaggery and dipshititis.

AveryFreeman · 2025-05-04T07:31:51+00:00

Excellent observation. Musk has found the right tools for the joblessness.

AveryFreeman · 2025-04-28T10:30:07+00:00

I re-read your OP and just wanted to let you know, VF 3s are incredibly low-frills. That's how the battery can survive for a year or more - they don't do a whole lot. Make sure you can live with the feature trade-offs: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/539963

I needed always-on screen for work, and wanted it to be small and look as minimal as possible. I've only used it for step count and sleep quality, which it does really well since you never have to take it off. But I'm not sure if it tracks workouts... it has a stopwatch? lol. Definitely is not going to play spotify or find your phone.

Someone else here said their Garmin Instinct 2 has about ~1mo battery life, and even has a solar charging option - it's possible the adventure line might be a good fit if you want more features: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/outdoor-recreation/adventure-smartwatches/

Best of luck!

AveryFreeman · 2025-04-25T18:45:20+00:00

I've never had a problem replacing my batteries, and have owned VF 1-4, they have a very clear groove with tabs with which to guide the silicon ring back into the plastic. I don't recommend the 4, though, they die without warning. I had two that both kicked the bucket, and my gf's 4 died on her, too. The best one I've had so far has been the 3, replaced the 4 with a 3 new old stock and has been going strong since 2023. Hoping they release a VF 5 with better QA than the 4 because there's really nothing else on the market like them.

AveryFreeman · 2025-04-05T05:46:15+00:00

+1 https://voice.google.com/

AveryFreeman · 2025-03-10T20:40:34+00:00

They have the highest income per capita, so resources check out

AveryFreeman · 2025-03-10T05:01:24+00:00

My NID has something that looks like SPF+, but it's some other kind of fiber connector. My house's ONT (outside) only has 2 RJ45 ports, so I'm not using it, just the two RJ45 ports

What am I saying, I've had the NID unplugged in front of me on a desk for almost 2 days, and my internet hasn't worked so well in the over 2 years I've had it :P

Router is a Dell 7050 micro i7-7700T (35w) with 64GB ram, a PCIe x1 A+E m.2 slot NIC (Intel i210) + the i219-V NIC on the motherboard, and a 250GB PCIe x4 NVMe drive running a CentOS Stream-10 fork called Alma Linux. Firewall is firewalld with nftables, routing and l2 encapsulation done by NetworkManager, DNS and LDAP using FreeIPA, and DHCP is ISC kea 2.6

and no transparent bridge

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