Linux hobbyist, Machinist and tinkerer

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • Some real talk.

    Can we just include the 4 most popular text editors on basic systems??

    Like i wanna scream when there isnt my text editor installed on a lightweight distro.

    Vi Emacs Micro Nano

    For context,

    Debian ships with nano and vi Openwrt only ships with nano

    Like cant we just include small editors. In a perfect world i would want neovim installed. But i understand its larger and has alot more dependency’s.

    So having VI isnt as good but im willing to be reasonable.

    JUST INCLUDE VI

    the reason i learned vim is because VI is installed by default on almost every distro.

    Im tempted to try emacs tho

  • At times i have felt that my distro was so not worth the flak.

    But the thing that keeps me on it is i write it once and never half to dick with it again.

    NixOS is really powerful, but the learning curve will push you to the edge!

    I currently self host alot of stuff on my server which runs NixOS, theres some services that are as simple as ollama.service = true;

    And others that you spend hours cussing at. But i feel the declarative nature is what makes switching to any other distro feel so unintuitive.

    My linux journey had been,

    Manjaro > ubuntu > arch > fedora > silverblue > opensuse tumbleweed > gentoo > nixos > opensuse tumbleweed > nixos.

    I kept coming back to nix because i wrote what i wanted it to do and it did it that way every time. Its been a godsend for ZFS, although its not super bad to use ZFS on debian just mostly time consuming. The fact i dont half to worry about a update breaking DKMS and making my filesystem not work. I SWEAR SUN IF YOU COULD HAVE JUST DONE THE GPL INSTEAD OF CDL!!!

    I have recently been exploring Guix, purely because of the NixOS drama. But i think nix is my main server OS

i have recently built a ZFS array for long term storage, i bought some refurbished drives from ebay from server part deals. Ive seen online alot of people happy with there referb drives so i pulled the trigger on 3 drives. After about a week they arived packed well and were all labeled from 2017. I think thats kinda old, but i guess if its a enterprise grade drive it shouldnt matter its got 61655 hours on it. well i was at work and got a fun little notification from notify. and it said dev/sdd was unplugged. I thought that was weird but maybe it was a bug, so on my lunch break i ssh’d into my computer. and ran a scrub it said the same no /dev/sdd. I thought something quirky may have happend like the drive cage rattled and unpluged the drive. either way i wasnt worried because i have a Z2 array for my hardives. but when i got home the drive wouldnt show up on my main rig or laptop. and it makes gravely noises.

i contacted the seller about getting a replacement drive as its under the 90 day warranty. What are your experiences/recommendations for hardrives?

I dont mean to be a bother, but recently i got wiregaurd setup so myself and my friends can access resources such as my server. i have it setup for the client and the server to only allow 192.168.8.170. To be tunneled, so for example my friends can google and resolve DNS just fine and its all in there network, then when they want to access the server it will be at 192.168.8.170 and the docker services will run on ports for example 8080:80. and to be honest it works great for me and friend 1. but for friend 2 DNS doesnt resolve???

he can ping 9.9.9.9 he can acess the services on 192.168.8.170 but he cant resolve DNS when wiregaurded in.

his network has ipv6 and ipv4, my network only has ip4 and friend 1’s network is ipv4 only. do you smart people on the internet think ipv6 could be an issue? friend 2 is running linux mint if that matters. I know a little about networking but by no means am an network engineer.

its a slight issue friend 2 really wants to be able to google and play command and conquer pvp at the same time. any help would be greatly appreciated as im kinda stumped!

-edit SOLVED i had a DNS for the client config and i just had to remove it client side.