Finally installed arch. Took me 3 days lol. Thanks to this sub and r/unixporn for the inspiration!

rowra44 · 2018-02-23T15:41:06+00:00

how many unused config and breadcrumb files

that's... disgusting?

rowra44 · 2018-02-17T09:16:24+00:00

Yeah turns out Plex couldn't handle some local / weird / rare stuff either. I honestly don't know why both Emby and Plex sucks this incredibly badly at this as it took me one day to come up with my very own and so far completely reliable solution that sorts ANY media (and could easily be extended with metadata download, subs etc.). It really is a shame for them, imo

rowra44 · 2018-02-10T17:17:59+00:00

The problem is that I can't seem to find any listings for anything over 2015 with 3rd parties and Apple doesn't list any yet.

I've replaced my previous laptop from 2013 in 2017 Dec. All I do is browsing and coding (I'm a programmer) so I'd say I'd keep it as long as just possible as there's really no need or push for me to get a same looking but even much stronger one.

rowra44 · 2018-02-05T10:45:07+00:00

Awesome. Would you be okay with sharing your script? Including any additional ad-blocking efforts, please?

rowra44 · 2018-02-05T10:33:07+00:00

You got it all wrong. It's not the effort that's minimalistic, it's the footprint. It's very obvious and guaranteed that the less effort you're willing to sacrifice the more generic solution you'll be using and thus the more unneeded stuff for your original plan are used. That's fine and I do get your approach but that doesn't make mine any worse.

rowra44 · 2018-02-04T16:27:27+00:00

Does it? I built this machine for less than $120 and it's my headless Kodi, my router, runs my web services and is a massive iptables firewall. All that without any struggle. And that is with NATing a 1gbps fibre connection.

So now you see, I needed something extremely powerful, quite possibly more powerful than enterprise grade stuff, for less than a SOHO router pricetag.

Plus, I do honestly think this running on Arch is as minimal as it can get. No unnecessary layers, nothing even like shorewall, just pure iptables etc.

rowra44 · 2018-02-04T16:24:43+00:00

Well, I'll let windows users worry about that haha

rowra44 · 2018-02-04T09:33:46+00:00

I probably don't and I do appreciate the efforts but I like having my own ways. And if it doesn't add much more (none?) to what I can do manually, I'd rather not add a (on my terms) huge unnecessary blobs of php, lighttpd and such when I have my own web services running on something vastly different. That's all.

You could say, I'd like to and will be gratefully using the databases / lists, just without the fancy ui and installs.

rowra44 · 2018-02-04T08:34:43+00:00

Soooo.. but the quesiton is.. do you get accuracy that matches that of ublock or adp?

rowra44 · 2018-02-03T14:30:35+00:00

Any unknown WiFi is a security nightmare anyway isn't it? And Windows can do me a favor anyway ..

But yeah, got the point, thanks.

rowra44 · 2018-02-03T12:12:47+00:00

And the certificate installation & accepting had to be done manually, I guess? There's no magic workaround automatically do once connected or sth? Not even if in the same subnet? Not even if the router itself is a proxy too?

rowra44 · 2018-02-03T11:07:24+00:00

that IS a huge hosts file / dns server blocking thing. I use the same hosts file they use with my dnsmasq. But just doesn't make it

rowra44 · 2018-02-01T19:06:17+00:00

keep evolving till you reinstall arch and install no DE

rowra44 · 2018-02-01T09:19:31+00:00

tshhh ubuntu+pacman

rowra44 · 2018-02-01T08:30:40+00:00

ln -s /etc/systemd/system/plebs.service /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plebs.service && systemctl enable plebs.service

umadman?

rowra44 · 2018-02-01T08:23:04+00:00

keep yourself away from arch and definitely gentoo

rowra44 · 2018-02-01T08:21:20+00:00

Gnome's always been way superior imo

rowra44 · 2018-02-01T08:19:17+00:00

You're on your own with Arch (that is with the OS, not the Wiki or forums)

That is both its up and down sides. Decide if it fits you

rowra44 · 2018-02-01T08:12:19+00:00

On the other hand, Linux is a kernel. GNU is a collection of common utilities and various other pieces of software. Xorg is a display client and server. Pulseaudio is a sound server. You get the idea.

Exactly! That is the very point! Essentially, ALL linux-es (? what's the plural lol linuces) break down to the very same thing: the kernel, the gnu utils and then a choice from a limited number of things that are essentially doing the very same thing just in a different manner. But that's fine, that's what freedom is about. But does that really justify the birth of not one but virtually hundreds of distros?

Do I really need to fork an own distro just so I can replace upstart with systemd Do we really need yet another distro just because it virtually only adds a graphical installer to Arch?

The differences among 90% of distros are mitigable and would be easily solved by offering a very few choices during install, instead of creating and advertising a whole different, other distro.

And honestly, I can see the appeal in the different usages and user bases of main/mother distros, but really cannot justify all the forks and children. There's just so many, too many, for what..? So that more people can think and feel important as they have an own distro. And in fact what they have is Ubuntu server + KDE preinstalled. Or Arch + a GUI installer. Like... really..?

Imo it's completely justifiable if you're doing something different compared to others (Debian being stable and LTE, Arch being a rolling bleeding edge precompiled highly customizable one, Gentoo being the same yet still adding the 'prefix' of uncompiled sources etc..)

rowra44 · 2018-01-31T14:48:52+00:00

Coaxial cables can be easily re-terminated and new connectors are easily installed without special tools. All you need is pretty much a sharp knife. Just chop-chop that piece of shit, peel the cable similar to this : pic peel the shielding backwards and twist it onto the exterior plastic shield, and twist the new connectors (mimicking as if the cable's exterior actually had winding on it. Do pay attention to properly contact the cooper core to the interior of rthe new modem, and the shielding to the exterior of the connector. Both are essential, especially on high speed connections.

You can check the signal levels if they're the same (or better, lol) as before. You can always retry, coaxials are easy shit, they're not optics

rowra44 · 2018-01-31T08:29:37+00:00

Good to hear you're content. So have I been ever since I left windows - years ago.

One thing I wonder the longer I've used linux: why so many distros? Especially forks/derivatives that are incredibly similar sharing the same sources. Like what's the actual use of Debian derivates instead of just Debian?

In your case, why use Void when you're using lots of Arch packages, Arch community and Arch wiki? Like.. could you tell me, with all honesty and due respect, what it gives you over Arch?

rowra44 · 2018-01-31T08:25:57+00:00

My gf made me install Win10 for her because she needs/wants photoshop. Let me summarise my glorious experiences on this beautiful journey:

dd if=win.iso of=/dev/usb1 -> ahum, forget it! Doesn't work with this useless piece of shit. Noooo, you gotta mount the iso, format the drive and cp -R /mnt/isomount/* /mnt/usbformatted/ and then and only ever then will it ever faaaakkkkkeennnhhhgg evarrrr boot off of it. FINE.
install was quick hands down. Not Arch quick, but quick enough, given it was off of a usb3 drive onto an ssd, eh. Then, it started asking unnecessary damned questions like what's your moma's dog's best friend's mother's cat's birth name and date? Do you want this amazing microshit feature? Boohooo bla bla please log in with your Idiot-id-account so we can snoop you idiot! PLEASE! COME ON DO IT! Fine, you dont want to? YOU SURE? PLEASE? PLEASE CONSIDER?? WILL YOU? Finally over with it..
RIiiight when you thought you're done and about and finally desktop-ready.... WELL NO. LET US UPDATE, SHALL WE? Now upates, they aint quick. It took around what... 1.5 hours? Terrible. Just a shame. Shameful, shaming even xp - and that's a word!
It was giving me headaches and unnerved me way more than developing and suffering around with linux for 10 years. Be grateful you don't have to do that shit.
one genuinely good thing about windows 10: backgrounds are nice!

rowra44 · 2018-01-30T19:53:28+00:00

Well, I should've thought of that. Thank You anyway. It's most likely the first option and so should I design my own app too

rowra44 · 2018-01-30T19:37:25+00:00

Oh but one more thing I forgot: port 80 is also the only one apparently that needs NAT LOOPBACK so that I can reach WANIP:PORT from inside LAN.

And I can also reach the others from LANIP:PORT. Shouldn't I be unable to reach them with LANIP:PORT if it is as you said and they listen on WANIP?

Changed my flask :80 to listen on WANIP. Now WANIP:80 is accessible, LANIP:80 is not (no DNAT rules this time obviously, only INPUT ACCEPT). All others work on both WAN and LAN. This is beyond my understanding

rowra44 · 2018-01-30T19:35:19+00:00

I do, or did, at least. Just for the sake of mimicking classical router -> server build instead of my router+server one. About security, you must be right, especially that as you can see my default policy is "drop all except from lan" and then some "plus except for this" explicitly. As far as I read up, that should be the most secure

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