It uses the Xen hypervisor, not qemu/KVM. Technically it is a Xen kernel virtualizing Linux since it is a type 1 hypervisor.

TBH i used to alt-tab away from what ever non-work-related thing i was doing, to a terminal emulator when ever my boss walked in.

It was usually showing my latest package upgrade.

Lots of people have already mentioned Ventoy.

MediCat is Ventoy with a ton of images and a config file. It seems great, although I chose to roll my own as MediCat had a lot of Windows-centric images i have no need for.

1. Fedora has a major update every 6 months, and every version is supported for 2 releases + 1 week (= ~1 year).
   Updates have always been pretty painless for me. Most of my problems during updates have come from NVidia drivers (on a laptop), but a fix has always been available from the community.
2. Fedora has auto-update systemd services for both DNF and RPM-OSTree (more on this later). IIRC it’s just enabling a service and maybe editing a config file, but this is easy to search for, so I won’t tell you stuff I might not remember.
3. SELinux mostly just works, and if it doesn’t it’s probably a bug (if something is a package for Fedora, SELinux should work OOTB. Browse Fedora Magazine for the quirks you need to know how to handle.
4. I have no experience with ARC GPUs but Fedora might have better support as it tracks the latest kernel release = latest driver (depends on what was actually the issue, of course)

Concerning you RAID, just make sure the installer doesn’t touch it and mount it afterwards. You might have to do some kind of “restore” to give the files the needed SELinux metadata. The Discourse forum would probably be a good place to ask.

Now, a bit about DNF vs RPM-OSTree. Fedora with DNF is the standard distro much like most other distros. Use this if the next part doesn’t sound useful to you.

RPM-OSTree is used in a new family of distro that work a bit like git for your OS.
Your system runs off an “atomic” image. Atomic means unsplittable in Greek. Everything you change on your system is applied to your atomic image, like a file is added or removed from a git repo.
This is nice because upgrading to the next major version becomes a simple matter of rebasing you changes on top of the new version, and likewise, rolling back (in case of issues) becomes a single command and a reboot.

Fedora IoT is the “Server” edition of the Atomic desktops. Fedora CoreOS is a more “immutable” approach.

Feel free to ask more questions if something doesn’t make sense.

Oh how sweet is the irony of the bigots in this thread, who thinks the tag is there to “free” from them from seeing gay people holding hands and kissing, when it’s actually there because bigots have outlawed being gay some places.

By “heavily homosexual”, do you mean pornographic? Because that’s a separate tag.

Edit: typo.

That argument is obviously wrong.
Homosexuality (and other sexualities) exist in nature. This is not uncommon knowledge.

Also, the whole “they don’t make babies so they’re unnatural” thing. How long have you thought this argument through?
Humans and animals are born sterile, they grow too old and become infertile. All of that happens in nature.

That fantasy world of yours is verifiably not how nature works, and it wouldn’t take you more than 5 minutes to disprove the bullsh*t.
It makes it hard to believe you are arguing in good faith.

Cockpit is great.

It’s pretty simplistic. It gives you an overview of your system ressources and handles libvirt VMs and Docker (i think. I used it with Podman, but in this context both should work).

My impression was that the container and VM interfaces were pretty simple, and I wouldn’t have liked it as my main interface for those services, but it would be perfect for getting an overview and restarting them!

Node-Red can do dashboards. I don’t know if it does data logging, but I would guess so since it can do dashboards. It also supports MQTT so it should handle ESPHome devices without a problem.

It’s made for automations (and great at it) but it can be a minimalist HA hub too.

I run the built-in automatic rpm-ostree upgrade service every 6 hours.

If you think that’s too inefficient, maybe read the docs for shutdown.target and see if you can use that to run an upgrade service before shutdown?

I’m not too experienced with that part of systemd but it seems like it could be a “proper” way to run things on shutdown?

Nextcloud doesn’t verify your email and has tons of other nice features as well. ProtonDrive (/ProtonMail as another user suggested) probably doesn’t or you could use your Proton address for that.

You mention allowing weak passwords are a plus. Please use a weak password, especially without email as 2nd factor.

Have you considered using mnemonics for your passphrase?

Generate a number (i would use around 5) of random words (EFF has a wordlist, humans are really bad at randomness) and link them together using silly images. For example:

• sparrow
• window
• automobile

First, you link sparrow to window: imagine a sparrow trying to break through a window, not just flying into it by accident, no, this sparrow is mad and is set to destroy it.

Second, you link window to automobile: imagine an automobile with huge windows. The car is completely normal sized except every window is at least 3 meters tall. It looks absolutely ridiculous and you feel embrassed that youvhave to drive it everywhere.

Repeat this proces for the rest of the words. It helps remembering them if the image makes you feel something, like making you chuckle or feel angry that you have to deal with this stupid contraption (only in your mind, hopefully)

Also, make sure each “link” is distinct. Eg. Don’t make the second link an automobile driving into a window when the sparrow does the same. It will mess up the order and make you jump around between similar mental images.

I only tried running rootless when i set them up several years ago and i was completely green, so it was probably me who was the problem.

Regarding podman-compose, Fedora repos has a a package that aliases podman -> docker and the regular docker-compose package, which i used before migrating to podman+systemd. It worked flawlessly unless i did networking shenanigans because Podman and Docker differs (/differed?) in so some thing simply couldn’t be brought over.

Edit: i found the docker-compose and Podman alias thingies in a Fedora Magazine post.

However, unless you use docker-compose a lot for other stuff, learning to use Podmans systemd integration (also called quadlet) is very much worth it. They’re just a really powerful combo and systemd has a ton of nice features for making stuff run and keep running.

Podman is CLI and API compatible with Docker (except where differences in implementation doesn’t allow it)

Running Podman as root is 99.9% the same as running Docker.

I have been running my homelab with Podman for several years and it is absolutely mature enough for a regular user.

Also, the docs are really good.

I barely use a calculator, but you could try SageMath if you like the thought of writing you math in Python.

Then use Bugzilla. That will show you are ready to flail yourself for the good of the company /s

Sorry, but i find that platform so painful to use.

On a more serious note, i think some of the “github-style” (Gitlab/Gitea/Forgejo) can migrate between each other.

Check out if that’s true and if so, try them all!

Forgejo/Gitea are probably the most common “low-resource” (read: doesn’t use a couple of GB RAM, like Gitlab supposedly does) code forges.

Do you want to impress future employers by running an enterprise-grade bugtracker or by showing that you can document your work with meaningful bug reports/etc.?

If it’s the first option, consider Gitlab, if it’s the second option, what ever you like.

There already good recommendations, so i’ll just add that you shouldn’t make your work life harder for the sake of running Linux.

Definetly give it a go, and see if it fulfills your needs, but maybe hold off on nuking your Windows install until you are satisfied.

I use my Linux computer for personal stuff and some work stuff (web-browsing, email, office suite) and i have a separate Windows PC just for running applications specific to my field, which don’t have Linux versions or alternatives (or where it makes the most sense for me to use the industry standard)

Because they will quickly use up a ton of storage just for showing other instances content, or did i misunderstand you?

That is a good question, but methods like pruning old content from other instances might evolve into a path for solving this (very real problem).

Federation as it stands right now is a terrible system.

I beg to differ. Right now federation is an okay solution. My proof is that it at least works, and that the problem you mention isn’t killing the fediverse (yet).

We should not forget that ActivityPub is a W3C standard, (which itself is a huge milestone for a decentralized internet) and like other similiar standards (eg. HTTP) it can be iterated on and improved when solutions to new or old problems are found.

I believe we are reffering to two different, but related things.

As i understand your comment, you are reffering to “the platform is responsible for what the users upload to it”, or rather whether they are responsible and i am reffering to “(eg.) Torrent sites don’t host copyrighted content, they only link to it”.

My knowledge about the latter is from many years ago, so i might be wholly or partly wrong.

The former i think is a really interesting balancing act, since i believe that huge platforms that earns billions on hosting user content should be forced to use some of that profit to remove dangerous content, but if that obligation was put on small platforms like Lemmy instances or even the initial Twitter or Facebook, right when they lanched, they would be never be able to get up and running, which would cement the current Big Tech monopolies.

I am not very knowledgable about this specific topic, but i believe the European Unions attempts at solving this is distinguishing between the giants and everybody else, which again, is a great balancing act.

Base64 encoding is not a legal loophole, it’s a method to avoid automated content filters on platforms like Reddit and Discord. Encoding a link in base64 offers no legal protections.

Thank you for correcting me. It makes a lot more sense that you can’t just encode something to make it legal.

I must admit i don’t know exactly what is and isn’t in this community, but The Pirate Bay ended being closed because it “facilitated piracy” or something like that. (Of course it didn’t actually close but the legal loophole was closed, so legal action could be taken)

I don’t remember details but essentially it was decided (in some court, somewhere, i guess) that linking to illegally copied material was also illegal.

IIRC the new loophole became encoding the link to what ever you wanted to copy, for example as base64. That’s what’s done here, right? (Please correct me if i’m wrong)

My point is that this may, in a legal sense, actually be spreading copyrighted material, and the risk of being sued (no matter if you are in the right) is a very good reason to not run the risk, since the legal system favors deep pockets and good lawyers over challenging the limits of the law.

For good measure, i want to point out that i am absolutely for the free sharing of knowledge and culture. The whole world gains from free access to this. I just also sympathize with not wanting to be a martyr in this battle.

Also, as the person i replied to earlier made me aware, the admin of LW is apparently a homophobic asshole, so fuck that guy.