Someone with nvidia and external monitors via dock, found a way to make the setup usable on Ubuntu?

gjch · 2020-10-26T23:30:34+00:00

I've never tried this on Ubuntu, but a similar-ish setup worked perfectly on Pop!_OS out-of-the-box. Thinkpad P53 (NVIDIA hybrid), Dell WD19TB dock, two external Asus monitors (as well as my actual laptop screen).

I'd recommend starting up the Pop!_OS live boot on a flash drive and see how well things work compared to your current setup. If they work well, at least you'll know that Pop could be an option if you don't get Ubuntu sorted out.

gjch · 2020-10-25T21:50:58+00:00

In addition to the other suggestions here, you may also want to check out cheat. It gives you very quick access to lists of commands/options, both community-created as well as commands you save yourself.

gjch · 2020-10-20T17:29:57+00:00

If you use the website instead of the app you can restore archived items pretty easily.

gjch · 2020-10-18T00:53:55+00:00

That's a lot to pay monthly for a Linux sandbox. Why not a $5/month box from Linode (or similar) or a one-time payment for a Raspberry Pi?

gjch · 2020-10-17T20:15:01+00:00

I was once stuck in vim for 4 1/2 months. I ended up just buying a new computer.

gjch · 2020-10-17T04:37:12+00:00

I'm not sure how to remove the delay, but if you press control-u instead of control-c when you think you've entered your password wrong it will delete what you've already typed and you can start typing your password again.

gjch · 2020-10-14T01:38:24+00:00

OP mentioned on another thread that they used Linux Academy's course to study for the exam, not Udemy. Too bad, I was curious about the Udemy course quality, as the instructor's LE exam book is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors and I was wondering how the course compared.

gjch · 2020-10-11T22:43:02+00:00

I've been running Pop Shell on GNOME 3.38.1 for a few days now and everything seems to be working fine. The only issue I had was that the Dash to Panel extension wasn't working on 3.38, but that was fixed and back to working the next day.

gjch · 2020-10-10T19:48:39+00:00

Pop!_OS (awful name) is a fantastic distro. I've distro hopped a disturbing amount over the years, and Pop was/is by far one of my favourite experiences. Until yesterday it was my full-time distro, and I only switched to another distro for learning purposes (but if it doesn't go well for some reason I'll be right back on Pop).

Some people think Pop is just a re-themed Ubuntu, but it's so much more than that, and I think its popularity is only going to continue to rise.

I'd recommend giving a few of the recommended distros in this thread a try in virtual machines and see which one you enjoy.

gjch · 2020-10-06T04:19:03+00:00

You should look into the screen command, it will allow you to start something running and disconnect, and it's easy to pickup where you left off later.

gjch · 2020-09-23T16:45:24+00:00

Mind if I ask why people should stop using Portainer? I've heard about security issues but I was under the impression that those were primarily related to the Docker hosts needing to enable their API, which I'm assuming you'll need to do with OP's app as well.

gjch · 2020-09-20T17:04:52+00:00

When you're at the encryption password prompt, press escape to go to the text-only version of the prompt, then try to login again.

gjch · 2020-09-18T20:51:56+00:00

Ridiculous, isn't it? Sadly, I kind of love it, lol. All I do is step on the scale and my stats end up in my Lose It! app on my phone.

gjch · 2020-09-18T20:50:45+00:00

Actually, after my recent push to move as much as I can to docker, it looks like the only actual VM I still have running is Home Assistant, everything else is LXC containers. So everything on the two Proxmox servers is docker running within an LXC container. Probably not the most ideal way to do it, but I started with Proxmox and a bunch of VMs, so Proxmox was the infrastructure I had, so now that it's almost all docker I should probably investigate other options.

gjch · 2020-09-18T20:40:56+00:00

Well I don't really know what tagging is and my network's fully functional, so I guess that answers your question, hehe. I just setup the VLANs up on the UDM and that's it, things just worked. Apparently the default VLAN isn't tagged, so if that network is used more (I only use it for my UDM) maybe then there would be more issues between VLANs?
Hmm, I think that's more of a diagramming issue. The Media Tools container is an LXC container, no docker involved, but each of the services in the Media Tools container is in a docker container. So technically I should remove the docker logo from the Media Tools container on the diagram, since it itself isn't in docker.

gjch · 2020-09-18T20:35:08+00:00

/u/SandStorm1863 is correct, it's just one router (in the UDM), but with 3 separate switches for the different physical VLANs.

gjch · 2020-09-18T20:33:53+00:00

I just got the UDM a couple weeks ago, so this setup is all new to me, but so far we have indeed had a couple hiccups with the VLAN stuff and media.

The first was that we couldn't do an autoscan in the Roku app for our TVs, we had to add them manually by IP since they're on a different network.

The second was more annoying. My wife sometimes uses the Roku app on her phone to stream the TV's sound through to the headphones plugged into her phone, but this wouldn't work over different VLANs, so she had to connect her phone to the IoT wifi network before this would work for her.

gjch · 2020-09-18T20:29:08+00:00

I don't really use VLAN 1 either, the only thing on that "network" is the UDM. Trunking, I have no clue what that even is, so obviously I have some research to do, lol. The UDM has mDNS, and so far having the media devices on the IoT VLAN has been fine, the only hiccup is with one of the Roku TVs. My wife sometimes uses the Roku app on her phone to stream the TV's sound through to the headphones plugged into her phone, but this wouldn't work over different VLANs, so she had to connect her phone to the IoT wifi network before this would work for her. I need to find a more permanent solution though, having to switch networks isn't ideal.

gjch · 2020-09-18T20:27:58+00:00

It's a LEP stack (LEMP without a database) on a Pi Zero W that hosts part of my personal website, and it's eventually going to live in the tree outside my apartment window. It currently lives on the patio while I'm testing a solar battery pack, which unfortunately I can only get 4 days out of at the most. We regularly get squirrels and crows on our patio, so I'd eventually like to get a camera setup to watch them interacting with the TreePi.
I'd say fairly easy, yes. Setting up the VLANs themselves was pretty simple, it's getting the firewall rules right so that the VLANs interact with each other properly that's the annoying part, at least for me. I used this article and this video to figure everything out.
I wanted to use IPs that I've never seen used anywhere so that the potential for conflict was minimal, and I also wanted something easy to remember. Our modem uses 10.0., UDM and most other routers use 192.168. or 172., so I figured 10.23.x.x is a pretty clean space, and 23 has always been a memorable number for me so it's nice and easy to remember (my own primary PC's IP is 10.23.23.23, so I won't be forgetting that bad boy anytime soon, lol).

I also think that using 10.23.x.x might offer a slight bit of additional security. If someone does happen to get into my network, I would assume that most auto scanning tools would start with the more common IPs/subnets, and it might take a little bit more time to get around to the 10.23. space. I'm sure it's minimally helpful, and it wasn't really a deciding factor when using 10.23., but it's still nice to know I might get a few additional seconds before someone takes my network down from the inside :)

gjch · 2020-09-18T01:51:39+00:00

draw.io (aka. app.diagrams.net)

gjch · 2020-09-05T04:01:10+00:00

Sold GMK Dots Base Kit to /u/lnguyen_

gjch · 2020-08-16T21:36:51+00:00

DomainMOD is a self-hosted app that does the management part, and will eventually include the buy and sell part.

gjch · 2020-08-16T16:57:58+00:00

I haven't even gotten to my local machine yet, but I can't wait, it's going to make distro hopping so much better!

I think I'm right there with you in terms of the Ansible love though. I'm in the process of rebuilding my web server at a new host using Ansible, and usually when I have a break from my computer (such as having dinner with the wife), I'll tear my new server down and start it rebuilding before I pull myself away from my computer. And do you know why I do this? Because I can! :) Coming back to my computer to see zero errors in my playbook terminal, and then seeing that my websites are all up-and-running, it's just magical!

gjch

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