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When putting Debian.iso onto a flash drive do you have to use root?
  • Raw disk access is a privilege in Linux, usually reserved for root.

    You could have root change the permissions on the directory to allow another user or group write access.

  • Is there a way to use a vpn on one network card, and use a second network card for a regular connection?
  • goes to Google, on the raw network, and on the VPN.

    You can't "go" to a destination on two networks in a single request. It's all packets on a wire, if it comes from two sources, it was two requests.

    Unless you mean two different requests. As in while on the VPN everything is tunneled, and while not on the VPN it's not, but this is the opposite of what the OP was asking for. He wants the VPN on for some use cases, and off for others. That's split tunneling.

    He'll likely wind up with difficulties around trying to figure out which destinations he doesn't want routed through the VPN, because there's no way to do it by protocol, since routing happens on layer 3, not 4 or 7. He'll likely need to know those address in advance.

  • Linux and your family
  • Told my wife and kids they can run whatever they want if they don't involve me. If you want me to help with computer issues then I'm installing Linux.

    If you don't want that, you better learn how to computer because you're on your own

  • Is there a way to use a vpn on one network card, and use a second network card for a regular connection?
  • Swipe keyboard. It picks random yours, and I'm exhausted from flying all day so I didn't proof read.

  • Is there a way to use a vpn on one network card, and use a second network card for a regular connection?
  • Yes that's called routing.

    You don't bind it to a NIC, you specify the destinations you want forwarded to each interface. Your VPN connection is just another interface.

    If you're looking for good docs, you may want to Google split tunnel vpn, and also bone up on your networking.

    A few static routes should get you what you need

  • Any recommendation for a cheap, small #firewall for my #homelab ? I realized I can’t control easily what goes out of my network only via DNS block lists
  • Pfsense is built on this, but it has some free software issues.

    OpnSense was a pfsense fork from some of them original creators, that is free software.

    Both are fantastic.

  • P3477R0: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
  • I can see this being a breaking change for some strange edge cases and (ab)uses.

  • Canada has no legal obligation to provide First Nations with clean water, lawyers say
  • The treaties the federal government has say they will maintain water infrastructure?

    Don't get me wrong, they should, and we shouldn't leave people behind. I'm just trying to figure it all out

  • Canada has no legal obligation to provide First Nations with clean water, lawyers say
  • I want everyone to have access to clean potable water. But in my community, that's the manicupalities responsibility, not the federal government. Genuine question, why is that different for first Nations?

    Another genuine question. Why are so many first Nations without it, if they're all seperate communities with separately managed water systems?

  • Can someone explain to me how to use pass?
  • Pass uses GPG and git under the hood.

    You create keys to encrypt your data, and keep the encrypted data in git locally which can be cloned to github, gitlab and the like.

    It's just files on your computer, so you can back them up that way, or use a thumb drive as a remote git repo and push to it.

    Day to day Type pass and tab complete to find the entry. Enter the command and be prompted to unlock it. It will then print the credentials to the terminal.

    To create a new password, you type and add command followed by a name and a text editor opens up for you to type credentials in, or it can generate them for you.

    To keep your backup up to date you just git push to the remote of your choice. I use github

  • BSD Vs. Linux
  • It very well could be these days. It could also be default settings that are better on Linux for certain activities. The network stack is highly tunable.

  • BSD Vs. Linux
  • The majority of the Internet's routing and switching architecture is BSD based. Historically it had the most stable and performant network stack of all the OSs.

    I used it extensively at one job in a previous life when I was a network appliance developer. It was rock solid and lightning fast. Tried it as a desktop at home and had a terrible experience.

    The little differences in the Unix commands used to drive me nuts as well...

  • Desalination in a freezer?
  • It's harder to freeze salt water then fresh water, do it's not economical.

    The most energy efficient method of desalination i believe uses a membrane and pressure to get the fresh water to one side.

    But these aren't even the biggest issue. The real question is what do you do with the left over brine? Desalination is not 100% perfect. You're left with fresh water and a salty sludge called brine. It's extremely difficult to dispose of without causing environmental impact

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  • https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/140/

    This pod cast is about someone who went through something similar, and ended up prosecuting.

    See how negatively it affected their lives and decide if involving the police is best for you. I hope you agree that it is.

    You may be preventing future crimes by stopping the behaviour early, even though it can be socially awkward to navigate this with a friend.

  • Is sex really that awesome? am I really missing out?
  • As good as eating.

    Most are like junk food Few are like fine dining And a few are like eating food you hate at a friend's house but you're trying to be polite.

    Overall I'd recommend experiencing it, but if you don't or can't no biggy.

  • what are these rubber holes on the back of the pc case?
  • Those are rubber grommets. They'll protect cables from wearing on metal that pass through the case.

    Likely for things with hard wired controllers, like fan controllers or led lighting. You can hang the controller outside of the case in the back where nobody will see it.

  • homelab @lemmy.ml lungdart @lemmy.ca

    Replacement disk arrived...

    So I posted not too long ago that I had a drive failure in my RaidZ pool. Ordered a replacement disk (WD RED, purpose built for NAS), and tried resilvering only to see this after a short while...

    https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/10214 https://www.truenas.com/docs/hardware/notices/componentarticles/wdsmr/ https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/

    Turns out WD started pushing out a new disk technology called SMR, that's slower, and fails when rebuilding RAIDs due to heavy write operations, and specifically marketed it towards NAS users? WTF Western Digital?!

    Anyway, disk RMAd, and a replacement CMR disk is on the way. I'll never buy WD drives again... Lesson learned the hard way.

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    homelab @lemmy.ml lungdart @lemmy.ca

    New dashboard new you

    Recently rebuilt my homelab using proxmox and k3s. I like it a lot! Also loving dashy over the old heimdall dashboard.

    If you have any suggestions for workloads, let me know!

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    homelab @lemmy.ml lungdart @lemmy.ca

    Oh no...

    Recently rebuilt my homelab. While restoring files to the new zpools, one of them had a few faults and ended up in a degraded state.

    Replacement disk on the way, Hopefully resilvering the pool after disk replacement doesn't cause any more issues. Luckily, all the data is backed up as I recently rebuilt it, so no worries if it explodes.

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    www.wfsb.com NTSB: Airline worker ‘ingested into’ plane engine at Texas airport

    Officials are investigating the death of an airline ground crew member, who was reportedly caught in a plane engine.

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    homelab @lemmy.ml lungdart @lemmy.ca

    Finished racking my homelab!

    lemmy.ca Lab rebuild next steps - Lemmy.ca

    A little update on the racking the basement lab. New patch panel and cables made my life much easier. All the packets are flowing! Working out some KVM issues while I get rancher harvester deployed.

    Lab rebuild next steps - Lemmy.ca

    Continuation of a post earlier in the week. I ordered pass through patch panels and premade cables due to bad connections, and everything is working great!

    Getting rancher harvester installed now, then rancher, then setting up a small cluster to play with.

    I may grab some OCI freetier and vpn to add another node.

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    Homelab @lemmy.cloudhub.social lungdart @lemmy.ca

    Lab rebuild next steps

    A little update on the racking the basement lab.

    New patch panel and cables made my life much easier. All the packets are flowing! Working out some KVM issues while I get rancher harvester deployed.

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    homelab @lemmy.ml lungdart @lemmy.ca

    Rack wired up, but not functioning

    Patch panel was second hand, and unfortunately you get what you pay for. Fewer than half the ports are functional. I ordered some premade cat6 and a rj45 through connector patch panel to fix it.

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    Homelab @lemmy.cloudhub.social lungdart @lemmy.ca

    Wired up the rack, but you get what you pay for

    Rack is wired (patch cables ordered). Unfortunately the second hand patch panel is a bad idea, less than half the ports are functional...

    I ordered a rj45 cat6 through panel and a bunch of premade cables. Should be here at the end of the month!

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    homelab @lemmy.ml lungdart @lemmy.ca

    Finally racked my lab

    lemmy.ca Finally racked my lab - Lemmy.ca

    Finally got around to racking up my lab! (Still needs wiring up, but that’s tomorrows problem) Top to bottom: * 1u PDU * 1u cable management * 1u custom super micro pfsense build * 1u tplink jetstream. 24x1Gbe 4x SFP * 1u cable management * 2u patch panel * 4u custom super micro server * A shelf wit...

    Finally racked my lab - Lemmy.ca

    Trying to cross post, not sure if I'm doing it right. Apologies if I'm breaking any rules!

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    Homelab @lemmy.cloudhub.social lungdart @lemmy.ca

    Finally racked my lab

    Finally got around to racking up my lab! (Still needs wiring up, but that's tomorrows problem)

    Top to bottom:

    • 1u PDU
    • 1u cable management
    • 1u custom super micro pfsense build
    • 1u tplink jetstream. 24x1Gbe 4x SFP
    • 1u cable management
    • 2u patch panel
    • 4u custom super micro server
    • A shelf with a UPS and a gaming rig (ryzen with a 1070ti)

    Going to run rancher harvester + rancher vm + k8s cluster. Usual media stack, nextcloud, pihole, etc etc.

    Mostly just want a cluster to play with and harvester seems fun!

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    Reddit @lemmy.ml lungdart @lemmy.ca

    It's started

    Some of my favorite subs have started going private already. I moved RiF out of the tray and replaced it with Jerboa.

    I started my aggregated news with slashdot and fark. Moved to Digg after Kevin Rose announced it on TTV. went to Reddit at digg v2 because Reddit looked like diggv1. Went to rif when mobile usage passed my computer usage, now I'm here!

    What's your story?

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