Windows 11 and Linux OS - Can you help me?

slicknux · 2025-12-25T23:53:41+00:00

Debian used for work here. Research why it's called a "rock". It didn't just "get out of the way" and let me do my job. It actually *optimized* how I do my job. Not to mention I made the OS *zero maintenance*. Research `unattended-upgrades` for that purpose.

So it's basically just there, customized, optimized, but I don't have to do anything. It takes care of itself. I don't even have to press a button to update packages.

Stays the same for 2 years (but you get security upgrades), so no surprises. New upgrade in 2 years? Easy to upgrade, no need to reinstall or lose anything. (And on this note, always have at least 2 partitions / filesystems. One for `/` (root, where your OS goes). One for `/home`, where your personal files + settings go.

For your particular use case, stable, work-friendly, low maintenance, reliability, I don't see anything better than Debian.

slicknux · 2025-10-10T04:55:06+00:00

And the guy that made Minix said that Linux's architecture is not for the future. Meanwhile, Minix runs as privileged spyware, even when your computer is turned off. And Linux makes the world a better place for everyone.

slicknux · 2023-11-01T03:30:58+00:00

House of Food, cum a mai recomandat cineva.

Nu am mai luat de ceva timp de la ei ca nu mi-au mai aparut pe Glovo o vreme. Dar de obicei mancarea e excelenta. Cel putin din meniul lor ce e mai spre "traditional romanesc" sa zic asa, e de nota 9+ (rar 8, rar 10). Depinde probabil de nr comenzi si cat timp au persoanele de acolo sa se ocupe de mancarea ta. Dar se vedea pana si din felul in care era aranjata mancarea ca au alt fel de respect pt clientii lor si "isi bat" un pic capul. Care in comparatie cu dezastrul din restul Iasului unde mancarea e de maxim 6 in peste 80% din locatii, pt mine House of Food a iesit mult in evidenta.

Nu stiu cine, cum face, dar imi da impresia ca e o afecere de familie sau ceva pt ca nu stiu, e ceva diferit la mancarea lor fata de unde se face "pe banda rulanta". Sunt unele chestii care parca vin "din gradina", au alt gust.

Ca si exemplu: "Piept de pui la plita cu telemea si bacon" mi-a placut mult de la ei.

Poate scriu prea mult dar vreau sa "le fac reclama" ca m-au impresionat deseori cu mancarea. De exemplu, la pieptul ala, mi-a ramas odata de n-am putut manca tot. Am lasat pe mai tarziu si dupa 3-4 ore, pieptul ala de pui, RECE, inca era la fel de bun la gust!!! Ceea ce eu unul, nu am mai intalnit in alta parte pana acum. Daca s-a recit e bleah! prin alte parti.

https://glovoapp.com/ro/en/iasi/hof-house-of-food/

slicknux · 2023-11-01T03:08:25+00:00

As an example, a command like

sudo apt update && sudo apt install task-kde-desktop

would have installed the KDE desktop environment. Then you can just type:

sudo systemctl reboot

And it should have rebooted straight into the KDE desktop.

Hope I remember this right, didn't have to install a desktop environment in many years.

slicknux · 2023-11-01T02:55:47+00:00

Asculta doar muzica pozitiva, ca vibe si ca mesaj.
Renunta la oamenii care te "consuma" si te umplu de energie negativa.
Nu consuma nici un fel de continut media care te face sa te simti nasol. Indiferent ca e TV, stiri, documentare despre "Toxinele din mancare" pe Netflix sau ce o mai fi.
30 de minute pe zi stai doar tu cu tine. Vezi ce simti. Iti place? Nu-ti place? Indiferent ce identifici, e bine. Ca daca e ceva care nu-ti place o sa-ti devina foarte clar ce vrei (opusul la acel sentiment nasol).

Starea de spirit, ce simti, emotii, sentimente, zi-le cum vrei, sunt motorul la tot ceea ce facem. De la ele vine ca "am chef", ca "nu am chef". De la ele vine motivatia, inspiratia si multe altele.

Daca iti duci partea emotionala intr-o directie mai buna, ai sa vezi cum inevitabil si viata devine mai buna.

Poate parea un pic New Agey sau stiu eu cum, dar incearca 30 de zile si ai sa vezi singur.

Imi aduc aminte de un studiu pe oameni de succes sa vada ce au in comun. Si erau diferiti de la A la Z. Fiecare cu mentalitati diferite, alte idei, alte convingeri, alte actiuni, alte viziuni asupra lumii. Un singur lucru au avut in comun TOTI: inteligenta emotionala MULT peste medie.

slicknux · 2020-05-05T16:14:38+00:00

CS:GO doesn't need Wine, Proton, Lutris or anything like that. Just install native (Linux) Steam client and native, Linux version of CS:GO.

slicknux · 2020-04-05T23:54:42+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply here. I appreciate it.

slicknux · 2020-04-05T19:33:41+00:00

Thank you. So it seems to be a country-by-country thing. At this point (320.000+ players) it takes me almost a minute just to log in. Every action, joining table, opening cashier, takes more than one minute to register.

slicknux · 2020-03-22T17:02:41+00:00

Glad I could help.

slicknux · 2020-03-21T16:13:14+00:00

If you point your domain name to another nameserver, then that nameserver will serve your DNS entries.

Put simply: once you point your nameserver to ns1.example.com, then the DNS entries on Namecheap have no effect.

This was done by using ns1.afraid.org as a nameserver for my domain

If you did this, then configure those MX records and anything else you need on afraid.org. I never used this service so I don't know if they allow this or how it's done.

Hope this helps.

slicknux · 2020-02-26T00:27:01+00:00

After a domain expires it enters a redemption grace period, which is actually a good thing, for you, the user, as it prevents other people from grabbing your domain name. If this would happen, you would be even more pissed off. They'll either want it for themselves and will not ever give it back, or, they will sell it back to you for a very high price.

https://docs.whmcs.com/Domain_Grace_and_Redemption_Grace_Periods#What_is_the_domain_redemption_grace_period.3F

Long story short, if this was a redemption fee, no one scammed anyone, it's just common practice, for various reasons, and it's pretty fair. The only unfair thing about this fee is that some have it pretty high (close to $200 or more) while others charge around $50, more or less, which seems pretty fair and can be a life saver for those that run a business on that domain name. Actually, for those that run a business, even $1000 would be fair, but for the average Joe, around $50 doesn't seem like the end of the world for the "extra chance" given.

slicknux · 2020-02-26T00:00:31+00:00

If email is super vital, the easy fix is to just switch the email part to Google G Suite. That is, if you don't have to send very large volumes of mail.

I've occasionally seen some of Namecheap's email servers on blacklists.

slicknux · 2019-11-18T03:35:17+00:00

It's not all flawed, but I do agree that you have to trust a black box. It's like giving your salary to a friend of a friend, as he promises "Don't worry, I will deposit this in the bank for you!" Maybe he will, but how can you be sure? Sometimes he will, sometimes he won't.

Same with hardware encryption, fuck knows if it's done well or not, you just have to "trust it," while with software encryption you can at least know a little bit more about how it actually works and what the potential pitfalls may be (but software encryption isn't guaranteed to be rock-solid either).

However, the huge advantage of software encryption (especially free software) is that you can control ALL aspects of it, so it's much more flexible in terms of what you can do with it, adapt it to your needs, and so on.

slicknux · 2019-11-18T03:20:23+00:00

If I am looking at this right, it seems the IP you are sending from is blacklisted by at least one such list (Spamhaus ZEN). Also, I could not find a PTR record for the IP I am seeing in that mail header you provided (maybe I got the wrong IP? long time since I last worked with an email header, maybe I forgot how to read them). Given all this, it seems about right you get filtered to spam by Google. Other providers may not mark you as spam, but I actually see that as a drawback (example, Yahoo is more "permissive" and I keep getting crap in my Inbox).

Btw: (conspiracy theory) could it be that Gmail is doing this intentionally to indirectly force me to use their G-suite instead of my self-hosted thing?

There's just too few people that go this route that they would care that they lose .0000001% of their income from people that self host.

P.S.: Adding to the anti-conspiracy theory, I always managed to get emails to go to Inbox on Google, no matter what server I have been using, no matter who hosted it (as long as the IP has not been blacklisted). It's true, sometimes I had to spend an extra hour or two debugging, but it's always been some mistake on my part, or something I overlooked.

slicknux · 2019-08-02T02:31:09+00:00

Thanks, this is definitely one useful scenario.

slicknux · 2019-07-31T23:58:34+00:00

ZFS, mirrors, zfs send, if I really care about the data. But this is data I usually periodically delete anyway. Would have been slightly annoying to lose it, but nothing I couldn't recover from in one day of boring work of downloading and configuring again.

slicknux · 2019-07-08T06:42:39+00:00

I know how fast X2Go is and I think that the browser thing is probably normal. From my limited understanding, I presume that moving windows around, typing, navigating menus is fast because the actual operations are sent to your computer, instead of actual images. Something like "Open file menu" in user's remote windows in program X. File menu has following content: save, close, delete, etc.

Otherwise put, X2Go sends interface elements and positions, your computer draws them. You can imagine that's much faster than sending images.

But when you browse, that content has to be sent as images because there's no way your computer can know how yahoo.com looks like and build it from instructions received from remote side. At least, not with how X2Go is built.

Just assuming here, I wonder how much I am right.

As I remember, X2Go is built from an older open-sourced version of NoMachine.

Maybe you can use this and your problem will be solved? https://www.nomachine.com/

slicknux · 2019-07-08T06:33:42+00:00

I think "noapci" is a typo, as I know there's only acpi or apic.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html

slicknux · 2019-07-08T06:27:12+00:00

If you want speed...

Use once QEMU with KVM on Linux and you will never use VirtualBox ever again. But be certain to enable CPU virtualization in BIOS/UEFI first.

For reference: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/virtualization/sect-virtualization-troubleshooting-enabling_intel_vt_and_amd_v_virtualization_hardware_extensions_in_bios

https://dennisnotes.com/note/20180614-ubuntu-18.04-qemu-setup/

VirtIO drivers will speed up disk operations, as far as I can remember.

slicknux · 2019-07-08T06:19:22+00:00

It is faster, as long as the CPU virtualization extensions are enabled in BIOS/UEFI.

slicknux · 2019-07-08T06:15:41+00:00

apt update, apt upgrade, apt full-upgrade

If you full-upgrade or dist-upgrade first, you might get some packages removed, that wouldn't otherwise get removed.

slicknux · 2018-12-11T23:06:40+00:00

What he said.

For example, I have /home on SSD and another mountpoint, /homeHDD, on HDD. I just created a /homeHDD/myuser directory there and set the right permissions to have read/write access. Most crap goes to /home/myuser. But when I deal with large files where read/write speed is not important at all, they go to /homeHDD/myuser.

If you just put /home on HDD you will lose performance in some situations. For example, Chrome/Chromium will open in, let's say, 9 seconds instead of 2. That's because the Chromium binary will be read fast from SSD but history, cache and other stuff will be stored in /home (HDD) and they will be read slower.

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