"Dieselpunk transhumanism" is a criminally unexploited concept.
This is where the RTFM mindset is important. If you encounter an issue, there's multiple decades' worth of information on the internet that will most likely immediately provide an answer.
The location of installed files is determined by long-standing conventions that were in effect even before Linux was released... but I won't go into it. You can read about it yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem
This is my point: do you need to know this? Nine out of ten cases, this is not useful knowledge. I'm a sysadmin and even I don't need to know where each program's files are located. You should not be interacting with these files at all. Let a package manager do that.
At the same time, I've seen people use their Steam Deck as a server.
To delegate the responsibility of securing login data to a company better equipped to deal with it (in theory at least). You can also use an external OIDC provider.
Not as glamorous if you consider that Liz Truss lasted 3.5 Concords in office, and a rotting head of lettuce exceeded even that.
#define EIGHTY (4 * 20)
"Please, guys, we really need the money!"
Destiny is on life support, Hunters Gathering is dead on arrival, Marathon's future is bleak, Concord is Concord, and the one studio that could've printed them easy money is dead because the sorry excuse of a circus that is Sony leadership really wanted a live service God Of War title. Gee, I wonder why sales are low.
I bought my current car with ~69000 kilometres in it (which may or may not have influenced my choice), but got complacent and missed 80085.
Tailscale. Create an account, put the client on the LAN device, put the client on the remote device, log in on both, you're done. It bypasses NAT, CGNAT, and the firewall through some UDP black magic fuckery. As long as the router allows outgoing connections, it will work.
If the factory resets cause the router to lose connection to the ISP, though, then nothing will work.
I've found the solution, and it's exactly as stupid and obvious as I was expecting.
The classroom computers were deployed using Clonezilla from an image that had the VirtualBox VM pre-configured. As a result of this, every VM had the same MAC address, which probably caused a lot of ARP collisions, since all the hosts and VMs were essentially on the same broadcast domain.
The solution was to simply randomize each VM's MAC address. After that, ICMP, SSH, and HTTP worked as expected. Thanks for the suggestions, but it was caused by my own oversight in the end.
(edit) I got around to reading the comments just now, @maxy@piefed.social was totally correct.
I know this isn't "selfhosting" as most people imagine it, but it is about hosting services on own hardware, hence why I'm posting in this community.
I'm supposed to help a teacher set up a networking exercise where pairs of computers are connected directly on a crossover cable and can access services (echo, HTTP, SSH, FTP) on each other. Every computer is identical: Windows 10 host, one VirtualBox VM running Linux Mint with a bridged adapter in promiscuous mode. Each host and VM has its own static link-local IP address.
The problem is, the VMs can't talk to each other, and I don't know why.
From one VM, I can ping itself, its host, and the remote host, but not the remote VM. Each host can ping itself, the local VM, the remote host, but not the remote VM. I've tried connecting both hosts to a layer-2 switch, with the same result.
Can someone point me at the one thing that I'm obviously doing wrong?
(edit) I've also tried to set the default gateway to the host's, remote host's, and remote VM's address, but nothing changed.
Running Linux on metal isn't an option. In the past, the classroom computers used to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu, but the Windows install got so bloated (the software too, not just Windows) that it needs the full SSD.
I'm getting this error that says Error. I can't tell if I fat-fingered the community name in the URL, or it got removed, or it doesn't exist in the first place, or maybe there's a legitimate issue with the software, but I hope it's useful!
I need to clarify because some people apparently never encountered the error page: it used to show the actual error. It was later changed to not do that.
(apologies for the atrocious aspect ratio)
Low effort meme while flatpak update finishes.
I understand why having eight very specific versions of the same library is important. Doesn't mean it isn't annoying.
Transcript
FLATPAK EMPLOYEE: what would u like?
ME: one flatpak update please
FPE: so u want "a whole bag of updates?"
ME: no, just a "flatp-"
FPE: I definitely heard "more updates than u could ever handle"
ME: please, no--
FPE: JERRY, FOIST UPON THIS MAN "A FUCKASS LOAD AMOUNT OF UPDATES"
This image is no longer available on nasa.gov.
It's a Creative Zen Stone that I got as a Christmas gift in 2008. I just found it in a drawer, and it's still holding charge. The last thing I put on it was The Life And Times Of Scrooge by Tuomas Holopainen, in 2015 -- I don't know why, at that time I definitely had a smartphone.
It has a headphone jack, which immediately makes it better than every smartphone produced in the last several years, and it can easily drive my 80-ohm Beyerdynamic. The audio quality is as good as one can expect. The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB... my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back.
Let me reiterate that this has been sitting untouched for a decade and was immediately ready for action. No login, no annoying software updates, expired subscription, or remote bricking by the manufacturer. Eat my shorts, Spotify Car Thing.
P.s. A Lifetime Of Adventure is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k
You're approaching the game from the wrong angle. Progression doesn't reset because there's no mechanical progression. The only way to make progress is to uncover more of the story so you know where you should be looking in the next loop, or how to get around an obstacle. It's a metroidvania of information.