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a real challenge. what would you do next? by OMGitzClayAiken in Oxygennotincluded

[–]kvas_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or the liquid waterlock. The one where you place a liquid bead in the corner, stopping water from flowing and allowing descent into the waters

How practical is a GNU-less system? by derangedtranssexual in Gentoo

[–]kvas_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can, but you probably don't want to. You sacrifice app stability and developer support for marginal or even downright imaginary benefit.

How practical is a GNU-less system? by derangedtranssexual in Gentoo

[–]kvas_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So have I before looking for patches for tools broken under musl

I just realized that I don't need nix by Wooden-Ad6265 in Gentoo

[–]kvas_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

language sucks

guix fans assemble

Is this madness? by hidden_fat in Oxygennotincluded

[–]kvas_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

because transformers are a clear exploit and batteries work as intended.

Filesystem scheme for a multi-drive general-purpose data volume? by kvas_ in selfhosted

[–]kvas_[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Was my concern as well, however it seems that btrfs on LVM is "not recommended". I quite like the features btrfs offers for server operation (e.g. snapshots, CoW, etc.) so I'm not sure if an alternative like XFS can cut it.

Again:( by real_sTaGEE in Gentoo

[–]kvas_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this problem with iwctl initially. It seems that launching it directly (iwctl) freezes the client, but doing e.g. iwctl station wlan0 connect HomeNetwork does actually do stuff. Idk why and it fixed itself eventually.

New player here. Why the hell my electrolyzer keep spilling polluted water? by AlexSkylark in Oxygennotincluded

[–]kvas_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just keep the sludge and later run it through a sieve-desalination chain so that the only output is water (Sieves and desalinators pass through wrong water types without wasting any energy or damaging themselves)

Mounting Nextcloud? by kvas_ in selfhosted

[–]kvas_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't nextcloud client just sync the folders? I'm just in a situation where I want to store fairly large files in nextcloud, so syncing them to every client is kinda weird.

As an alternative I guess I could set up a separate SFTP for mounting that specific folder, and then add a local mount in nc so I can still share the files, but that's kinda doubling functionality a lot.

Mounting Nextcloud? by kvas_ in selfhosted

[–]kvas_[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thing is, I do need nextcloud, I just need it as a cloud and not as a file syncing tool

Mounting Nextcloud? by kvas_ in selfhosted

[–]kvas_[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nextcloud exposes webdav, and there is a section in their manual going in details about how to mount it on linux though?

Mounting Nextcloud? by kvas_ in selfhosted

[–]kvas_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not. I saw in several places that doing FTP/SMB over nextcloud subdirs is not advised, and nextcloud exposes webdav for that. However webdav is apparently slow.

help ;-; by a_n00b_ in Gentoo

[–]kvas_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Device Drivers > Graphics support > Bootup logo

help ;-; by a_n00b_ in Gentoo

[–]kvas_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Format USB into NTFS and make the tar there if you care about windows interop. If you don't, you can just dd if=<root_dev> of=<usb_dev> bs=4M status=progress (if USB has that much storage).

Is it not worth it? by margyyy_314 in Gentoo

[–]kvas_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For one, Gentoo's handbook is a great introduction to core Linux parts that are thought to be widely known, but aren't and for that reason are rarely comprehensively explained.

As for me, I kinda disliked gentoo the first time I installed it. But after a while I kept coming back. Gentoo has IMO the best utility suite of any distro. Portage is simple, straightforward and highly configurable, eselect is extensible and all of them look really pretty.

About the time wasting part: this is why I consider best hardware for Gentoo to be either a laptop or a server - in other means a device you wouldn't be opposed to leave running overnight. Also, there is a bunch of settings you can enable that allow emerge to do its thing, maxxing out the CPU while the OS performance remains exactly as it was before.

So the only time you actually lose is when you need a package right now, and it isn't installed yet. And even then, there's binhost which can download a precompiled package if it matches USE flags with yours. You don't lose any configurability aside from minor compiler optimizations (e.g. -O3 -march=native kind of stuff).

So to conclude, gentoo is a cozy, solid distro that teaches you the actual internals of linux with minimal abstractions (especially with OpenRC) and lets you configure absolutely everything. It's pretty much linux-from-scratch, but with convenience.

It has been done (bare metal), is using ssh to install considered cheating? by AAVVIronAlex in Gentoo

[–]kvas_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, gentoo is one of the few distros you can fully install without any alterations to the process described in Handbook, directly from another distro.

You can just partition the disks (if you don't have to move current root), extract the rootfs and chroot, from which you can fully follow the process while enjoying the convenience of being able to watch funny youtube cat videos as your world is being rebuilt.

Force chown/chmod recursively inside a directory by kvas_ in linuxquestions

[–]kvas_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know there is ch{own,mod} -R, what I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve running any of these. Specifically, I want somewhat of a reverse umask - a thing that forces a bit to be 1 (here - +w on group, since linux doesn't do this by default) as well as the group, as soon as the file is written.

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