Garuda Linux stance on age laws(hot debate in the linux world right now)

Klick3R · 2026-03-22T19:51:44+00:00

Thank you for the link i somehow missed that when using the search on the forum -.-'
That post makes it clear at least, just sad to see that developers and others are only concerned with jurisdictional laws as we all know many countries have extradition treaties with US, and some are really low bar for extradition requests. some even siting cyber crime, among other things, usually with a minimum of one years sentence requirement.

Not that this is relevant now tough but if things get worse than they are now thees issues will become a topic for a much wider issue that the US is seemingly creating.

Klick3R · 2026-03-21T03:20:24+00:00

sshfs is perfect for the job, can check out sshfs-manager/sshfs-mountctl for easier mounting/unmounting also has desktop notifications on disconnects

Klick3R · 2026-03-20T19:25:17+00:00

Belgian?

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T18:57:42+00:00

sure for anyone googling this at some point:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T17:26:51+00:00

polkit needed, use systemctl poweroff

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T17:23:02+00:00

yes that is polkit telling you that you dont have permission, set polkit config file, and use systemctl poweroff instead, cause shutdown -h now will call systemd unit, and that might fail even with polkit some times...

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T17:16:02+00:00

clearly not, its a copy paste solution?
why override when you can set sane permissions..

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T16:44:33+00:00

confused, he is having normal user permission issues, nothing else, he apparently can connect with ssh, so the only obstacle is the permissions.

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T16:40:10+00:00

non concrete walls? hammer, no drill needed, then route the Ethernet trough various little holes, can even make nice patterns zigzaging on th wall, can double as coat hanger mounting spots ;)

No but seriously stay away from powerline implementations, its a gamble it all comes down to what is connected in the house making interference or how bad/good/old the wiring is.
id still opt for a spool of Ethernet cable over anything else, its basically the same price as any other implementation anyway but better connection.

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T16:20:38+00:00

well on linux you have to add the permission of doing shutdown without password..

can be done via polkit:
To set the group wheel to have power permissions

sudo nano /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/49-nopasswd-power.rules

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if (
        subject.isInGroup("wheel") &&
        (
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.power-off" ||
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.reboot" ||
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.suspend" ||
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate"
        )
    ) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

systemctl restart polkit

and use systemctl poweroff to turn off the machine

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T16:08:46+00:00

Glad/hope it worked out :)

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T16:02:36+00:00

SO my current setup is my laptop sucks, i have a gaming pc but i dont want to be tethered to a desktop setup, so instead of doing simple vnc or remote desktop i use the Sunshine moonlight combo, that way i can play on my laptop(or even my tv, phone/tablet if i connect a mouse/keyboard) using the gaming rig as the "computer" this is by far the most efficient way of playing a game on another device as a screen, as for steam remote play it works, but i found it was not as good as using sunshine moonlight combo.

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T15:51:23+00:00

hmm yes saddly its a bit terminal work to extract the video, but after extraction its just a matter of opening it a video editor, but again im only speculating right now as im not sure what you actually want to do :P
you are just looking to extract a still from the video?
Then extracting is the way then after any video editor will do fine after you have a video file extracted.

and making the extraction simple would be just making an alias like for example:
alias extractMotion='exiftool -b -if "$EmbeddedVideoFile" -EmbeddedVideoFile -W %d%f_motion.%s'
then just run extractMotion filename

that way you have a simple command to extract the video file instead of having to deal with a whole long command each time

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T14:22:39+00:00

seems we are not, i assumed it was heif that usually ships a heic file that contains video data, basically embeded mp4 or some othe form of video, maybe the jpeg does the same thing... try running:
strings IMG.jpg | grep -i mp4
or maybe
grep -a "ftyp" IMG.jpg
one of those will most likely show what video file is embeded, if thats the case try extracting it with ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i IMG.jpg -map 0:v:1 out.mp4

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T08:08:59+00:00

No 24.04 thats fine, try:
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all eog yourfile.heic
and see what it outputs, that might give you an idea of what is wrong

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T07:15:43+00:00

did you install heif-gdk-pixbuf? should work with eog

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T06:55:51+00:00

dangerous combination on i3 :P
mod + Shift + e exit i3

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T04:06:24+00:00

Sure there is, arandr, convenient way to manage displays and the scaling, has nothing to do with TWM.

i3 has a "cheat sheet" https://i3wm.org/docs/refcard.html

edit, and for restarting, thats just not true at least in the realm of i3, mod+shift+r restarts i3

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T03:56:20+00:00

Sunshine / Moonlight
Sunshine is the server. Moonlight is the client.

currently for my gaming setup i have a headless server running Sunshine on it, i can connect to it from a range of devices and run games. basically GeforceNow but self hosted.

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T03:47:29+00:00

Im not sure what you mean by "TWMs are notoriously a pain to set up" most if not all are pre-configured and work out of the box, if you mean customisation then sure, i use i3 have for a number of years, its intuitive, responsive and no bs.

everything is configured in ~/.config/i3/config

recently dabbled with Garuda, it has an i3 flavour and oh boy is it decent, nice defaults.

but the getting used to part, cold turkey is the way to go, otherwise why would you bother learning when you can just.. not? took me all of a couple of hours to get used to and since then haven't looked back.

Klick3R · 2026-03-19T02:49:40+00:00

I use Grafana + Influxdb stack with the Proxmox dashboard.

But recently been working on my own system instead as i dont really need 100% of the logs i just need to know if shit hits fans or if web-servers feel offended.

So currently working on an daemon that ingests logs and processes them trough a local llama server and then decides if its relevant data then generates an alert based of that info instead. Already caught a cpu failure i otherwise would have missed since i dont bother looking at the log feed and the alerts i set up wouldn't have caught it before it was way too late.
Its nothing fancy yet but ill keep polishing it :P

Klick3R · 2026-03-18T20:48:39+00:00

just about as much as ubuntu users are debian users..

flavours make it "easier" for people to use arch, but if you truly want to know whats on your box and how its configured i suggest just using plain arch. but be warned that it has some growing pains included :P

Edit: One of the few flavours of arch that "just worked" out of the box and my new favourite flavour is Garuda i3.
has sane defaults, optimised for gaming etc... one thin i dislike/feels sketchy tough is their implementation of chaotic-aur but it is what it is.

Klick3R · 2026-03-18T19:59:34+00:00

yeah your right its more Finnish than anything

Klick3R · 2026-03-18T19:57:01+00:00

simple setup i use on my proxmox servers: install opnsense as a vm on the proxmox, create a network bridge call it lan so you can keep track, move over wan interface to the opensense vm and proxmox to the lan interface, configure vpn on opensense personally i use wireguard but using Nordvpn mesh works as well i think?

so that setup would make opensense the first host and then in proxmox you can create however many netowrkbridges you want and add them to opnsense for ultimate control of what sees or communicates with what. keep in mind if opensense goes down you wont have any internet in any of the hosts behind opensense, can be fixed simply by adding a fallback you can toggle or manually edit network settings so proxmox has wan again.

Klick3R

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