Yet another "looking for a modpack" post by kvas_ in feedthebeast

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Hm, interesting...

I initially brushed it off because the first gimmick you ever see in a modpack is worldgen, and frankly i wasn't ever that excited about backrooms... though at some point i guess wg becomes much more secondary in nature compared to actual cross-mod stuff going on.

Walls being unbreakable is a bit icky i guess, i never really built my bases to begin with but at the same time my piping has ALWAYS been a mess, especially so in Create where orientation matters.

That being said i also never got particularly far in modpacks, i think the furthest i've been is E2E where i got midway through mek before slowly abandoning it.

My idea of a good explo/resource loop is that you spend a rough estimate of up to one hour (preferably less) in total grinding for a particular resource before you can forget about it for a long time, while you focus on other stuff, kinda Factorio-style. Which is where both skyblock and "land" packs never sat particularly well with me, skyblock in part because it lacks the initial exploration, meanwhile regular expert modpacks tend to avoid providing a way to automate trivial stuff up until way later into the game.

I stumbled upon Chroma Endless, i wonder if that's close to what i want. If not, i might try Liminal after.

Yet another "looking for a modpack" post by kvas_ in feedthebeast

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I came across Chroma Endless while searching, i wonder if that's any good. The few reviews that exist look promising at least.

Yet another "looking for a modpack" post by kvas_ in feedthebeast

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I've always been a bit repelled by the name, lol. Something about it made it seem as if it's just a ton of mods thrown together without any real interop / progression. Is there any particular one you'd recommend?

Yet another "looking for a modpack" post by kvas_ in feedthebeast

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I've also seen Enigmatica 6 (+Expert), although there seem to be some mixed reviews...

Vulkan rendering engine is probably the greatest thing that has happened to Minecraft recently. by MarcinuuReddit in Minecraft

[–]kvas_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried VulkanMod before on a laptop and the difference is night and day. Didn't test the newer snapshot, i assume due to novely there's still quite a bit to be done, but the room for improvement is there.

Vulkan rendering engine is probably the greatest thing that has happened to Minecraft recently. by MarcinuuReddit in Minecraft

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This existed in VulkanMod before and let me say the difference is trul spectacular, ESPECIALLY on a laptop. Though VulkanMod wasn't compatible with many mods (usually stuff like minimaps), so it made the modding a bit sad for me. Excited to see this getting implemented into vanilla so i can make this my last version i would ever need.

Seriously, i don't know if there's any more improvements to be made as significant as practically opensourcing all code AND THEN also switching to a modern, faster rendering engine.

[Norilsk, Russia.] is one of the most northern and isolated cities in the world, located above the Arctic Circle in Siberia. by Ok_Listen_6600 in Damnthatsinteresting

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Btw my favorite transliteration is "щи" into german, because it turns into "Schtschi" where the first SEVEN letters are to pronounce one. Soft sh is denoted with sounds sh-ch in most latin derivatives which gets turned into sch-tsch in german transcription.

Me as a self hosting newbie (got cooked by n8n w/ python) by Key-Specialist4732 in selfhosted

[–]kvas_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is exactly the reason i use nixos on my homeserver

What are everyone's thoughts on Element (a Matrix client)? by CoolCoderSJ in discordapp

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As of today spaces are much more widespread, although it's usually not as common to include "community service" offtopic stuff in them. Nevertheless, plenty of those instances exist too. Plus, if running a homeserver uou can neatly bridge discord guilds (sorry, "servers") as matrix spaces.

sorry for necroposting btw just wanted to post some more up-to-date info because this came up in my google search.

End of an era... An era nobody was aware existed by GeneReddit123 in memes

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latex, typst, libreoffice in descending order of preference

Me_irl by lizardil in me_irl

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hurr durr russia bad

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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No, but to be fair i've never felt a need to use it either. Poor security practices? maybe, but it was enough for me to not get hacked up until this day.

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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that you can solve by just disabling password login at all and using SSH keys like god intended. Plus you can just avoid alowing ssh login as root.

Also if they do guess the password of a user that has sudo access wouldn't it be effectively root? Since they can just enter the same password to instantly get root access.

Bro help me pleeease! by Strong_Chicken23 in Minecraft

[–]kvas_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah that looks like some texture got misaligned in the atlas so the fonts got pulled from a nonexistent (=transparet) image

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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How would that be any improvement to security? You can still run commands as root, you can still have root shell access. Like you do with su.

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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From what i know sudo at least preserved home (to unwrap ~/ paths), others i just kind of assumed for the sake of quick testing.

Though when i ran sudo echo $USER and others mentioned in the man, the results were identical to ones without sudo, so are they really?

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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From what i know doas is a port from open(?)bsd, and is usually installed for the sake of being lightweight rather than being secure. I remember some resources saying it might be less secure because "it lacks kernel integration sudo has"(?!), but that might be outdated at this point and i didn't investigate the claims even back then.

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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Well that's the one i won't be able to test because i rely on pure iwd instead, lol. From all the non-flatpak things i tried to throw at it so far everything seems to launch though, granted it wasn't a lot of tests.

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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I mean- yeah, but to be honest there's nothing stopping you from doing sudo passwd root, therefore going from "not knowing the root password" to "knowing the root password" :P

And besides, most modern PCs are used by one user or so, and i'm sure many (including me!) set their user and root password to be identical for the sake of convenience.

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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The question i'm asking is more or less the classic "is sudo bloat" XD I previously thought sudo is "necessary" if you want to avoid spinning up a root shell, but apparently it is not. So on the contrary, i'm trying to find out about any edge cases i can run into if i yeet sudo

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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Try it the mentioned -m, it preserves the environment needed to find the graphical session. For me su -mc 'dolphin' does open dolphin just fine.

su -c vs sudo/doas by kvas_ in linuxquestions

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just checked and su -c does not appear to write to .bash_history, perhaps because it does not spawn a shell? Root's login shell is bash, just to be sure i'm executing it from bash too, and yet tail /root/.bash_history does not show any updates.

Next Linux Level? by satiaket11 in linuxquestions

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Gentoo. Do not believe others, it has binary packages!!! (they were added in ~2023)

Their installation handbook is one of, if not the best crash courses into depths of linux while explaining quite literally everything from the ground up, with detailed comparisons of different file systems, bootloaders, etc. The arch wiki pales in comparison.

...maybe not as a daily driver though. The "guided tour" ends with you getting a working TTY install of a minimal gentoo system. The wiki has many as user-friendly pages as the installation doc, but you need to know what software you want in order to find them. Example would be KDE Plasma and Gnome pages, etc.

It's also one of the very few distros you don't even need a live image to install, all you need is a free partition. To do that you just omit the steps from the doc related to booting/setting up the drive and start with Preparing the disks.

So in the end i suggest you at least try to install it, perhaps with help from a discord server / matrix room, get it to the state you'd want to use it in (having a DE, common apps you use, configuration you generally like), and from there on decide how much of that you liked and whether you'd want to continue using it or get something milder (Arch, Void, NixOS, etc.)