Each AI generated polar bear, kills one real polar bear.

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So thanks to OpenWRT (it's a fork but still..), we have a Banana Pi Wifi 6 router for just 35 dollars/euros.

I have used many many distros in the past, from Debian to Gentoo, from Ubuntu to Arch, etc. etc.. But I need a system that works and does the job well, hence I'm using Linux Mint for the past few years. Linux Mint XFCE Edition to be precise.

However, always during the end of the Linux Mint support cycle.. I have the issue that it's based on Ubuntu LTS, also known as long term support (instead of the latest release), causing a lot of issues in my daily work.

I just want to use the latest clang format & compiler. Or a newer GCC compiler. And/or other tools I love and use on a daily basis... The problem now I need to add a lot of manual package repos / PPA's to the version I want. Furthermore, it introduce sometimes package conflicts. Do NOT get me started with PHP8 from ondrej + Wine stable from WineHQ.

I do not want an unstable distro like Arch, my time is limited (sorry Arch lovers). I also tried Manjaro. Also broke my system once I think, I do like Manjaro. I like Linux Mint a bit more, except at the end of the support cycle (where we are now at).

That all being said, I think I'm ready for something new... Void Linux! That is right, I think I will move over to Void Linux, created from scratch. Using a rolling release, but focused on stability (we will see). It's therefore also using it's own package manager (XBPS). As well as it's own init system: "runit". Non-free packages might be a bit harder to find, but I mainly use VSCodium, Element (Matrix), Nextcloud, KeePass, Firefox, Telegram, Transmission, Wine (Windows games :P), Mumble, Inkscape and of course various dev tools: npm, go, php, gcc/clang, pip, you name it... I use them all. I think Void Linux will be a good fit. I will keep you posted.

Feel free to leave a comment if you have ideas/feedback or your own story on your distro you're using. Are you planning to distro hop again?

I used to work with Photoshop for years (industry standard, I thought). Moving to Linux, GIMP was the next to go logical step. I was never good in manually drawing vectors or embracing the vector image manipulation tooling in general which I regret now that I didn't move to Inkscape from day one. Yes, I used Inkscape back and forth but I used Gimp more in the past years.

Inkscape is 20 years old and improved a lot in terms of usability in the past 10 years! I still think the right-sidebar options are too much hidden to be honest. For some unknown reason to me the Inkscape UI was just confusing for me. But I get the hang of it now (I think :D). Except exporting to plain SVG is still a bit strange where the image size I entered is not becoming the SVG document size during a SVG export. Inkscape still has a lot of room for improvements in those kind of areas.

That being said, I embrace SVG images more and more! I use it for business logo designs and recently also for Mbin logo designs.

I'm not going back to Gimp for logos that is for sure. And you shouldn't either, use Inkscape!

Ledger Live, the most popular crypto hardware wallet software, is tracking and transmitting sensitive user data to third parties.

If you are running big applications on top of PostgreSQL or having a lot of queries your performance might be impacted. By default the default PostgreSQL configuration is to say the least, less than ideal. Same is true for MariaDB but that is out of scope now.

Performance fine tuning your server configuration is key for better overall improvements and making the best use of your hardware! Increasing several key configuration settings in PostgreSQL can already make a huge impact! In the guide below I explain which configuration you need to pay extra attention to and also advise to increase huge pages under Linux when you're using PostgreSQL or MariaDB for that matter.

Please follow the latest PostgreSQL configuration I shared here for Mbin specifically, but can be applied to any application using a PostgreSQL DB: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/blob/main/docs/admin_guide.md#postgresql-configuration

For more information on fine tuning MariaDB, Nginx, PHP or other Linux kernel configurations, I advise you to checkout my snippets on my GitLab instance: https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/609, https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/92, https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/87

I saw today the infamous pop-up of YouTube again that they will block the video player after 2 more videos if I keep using uBlock Origin. ** Google.

Some people might think you can only use or set environment variable of the service in docker compose eg.:

my-service:
  image: lts-alpine
  environment:
    MY_SECRET_KEY: ${MY_SECRET_KEY}

But the same ${} syntax can be used to set a version of Docker image of PostgreSQL, like in this example below:

my-service:
  image: postgres:${POSTGRES_VERSION:-13}-alpine

If nothing is set, version 13 is the fallback value. Now you can set POSTGRES_VERSION environment via your shell. Or leverage the .env file of Docker:

POSTGRES_VERSION=16

When running: docker compose --env-file .env up, Docker should now use PostgreSQL v16 Alpine as Docker image.

Bonus: The docker-compose.yml filename is an old filename, use compose.yml from now. Same for other Compose files like compose.override.yml.

More info: https://docs.docker.com/compose/environment-variables/set-environment-variables/ and https://docs.docker.com/compose/environment-variables/set-environment-variables/

When you want to cherry pick a specific commit from another remote, you do NOT need to manually copy files or fetch a patch. It's git after all...

So when I try to cherry pick a commit from Kbin and merge it back into Mbin in cases we want changes back in Mbin as well you can use git cherry-pick.

But first follow these steps below, which assumes you already have cloned Mbin repository locally and are in the working directory of Mbin (eg. main branch):

git remote add kbin https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core.git
git fetch kbin
git checkout -b call-it-what-you-want  # Creates a new local feature branch

# Now check the log on the other remote and other branch
git log kbin/develop

# Finally, cherry pick the commit you want, use the commit hash here
git cherry-pick  <commit_hash>

To all instance owners. If you are using Nginx and use the following security header:

add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer" always;

Please, consider changing this setting to (note: same-origin):

add_header Referrer-Policy "same-origin" always;

Which should be safe enough for users, while also fixing all the redirect issues the user (or you) might experience with your own Mbin instance.

Referer headers are used to store the previously requested pages/URLs. This can be used to navigate back from which the user came. There are also alternative methods like putting this information in the query string or adding a cookie or session data.

Either way, for now consider changing to same-origin when using Mbin.

Ps. if you are using Apache or Caddy.. Well you know what to do^^

Yes, I also saw the popup today. Youtube trying to block me because of ublock origin. I will move away from youtube if I can't use ad blocker anymore.

Today Bun v1.0.3 has been released. But it's still not ready for production in most cases. Eg. cluster module is not implemented yet.

I also wrote a blog post about Bun (the pros and cons): https://blog.melroy.org/2023/bun-v1.0/

Whether you will try to migrate to Bun it up to you, just know that Bun isn't a fully drop-in replacement of NodeJS. Maybe it will never be? Just like Deno is also not a replacement of Node.