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  • Came to second this. I have an old hp Chromebook that is indestructible, has insane battery life, and still has a few years of updates left. The built in Linux terminal is fine and just about anything you can get through apt-get, dpkg, or otherwise works fine as well (if there is an arm version), it’ll even add menu entries for GUI apps.

    I do light reading or dev work on it, and use the built in terminal to keep track of and ssh into my remote boxes. I take it on the road to take notes or hop on a wifi.

    When I first got it the interface was kinda crap for a laptop, but through the updates (dark mode, new menu, etc) it’s actually just fine now.

    It’s slow, low ram and only usable for a few tabs at a time, but for what I use it for it does fine, and it was cheap enough I won’t cry if it dies.








  • That’s not bad at all gonna have to check it out. I host my site on digital ocean it’s on the smallest single core 1gb ram droplet. I run crowdsec and nginx and a couple other little things and it sits around 40% ram usage. Costs 6$ a month and I added 4 weeks worth of automatic weekly backups for $1.50 a month.

    I can deal with $7.50 for a little static web server.

    They do offer a free $200/60 day credit if you get in with one of the free Linux Foundation cloud classes which is plenty to play with.


  • Just came here to say you could always look for alternative projects that have this built in as well. I’m not sure what logs you as looking at, but it might be best to contribute or request this feature directly for the software.

    For example I use crowdsec and they have a button on the logs pages that will anonymize the entire page and is great for taking screenshots.

    I agree with another poster that getting something to work with a number of different logs would be a huge undertaking and unrealistic for most solo devs. I do think asking whatever project could be a start. I’d love if journalctl and syslogd etc had a flag to anonymize the log output.

    Personally often times I just open the screenshot in gimp and pixelate out the areas I want hidden, but that’s not an automated solution.




  • I’d suggest one of the fedora atomic installs, maybe even get a couple renewed Thinkpads all set up, one with kde and one with gnome and let them play with them for a few days. I was the only engineer in my company that ran Linux and the bosses only concession was that I carry a windows PC too when he was onsite with me so he’d understand what I was doing, but he provided a nice one for me so I never complained.


  • I had no idea it was standard. I had heard they had issues with it not being able to handle certain constructs so they were working on getting it to a place it would perform better. Has this changed? I’m not a rust person, but I intend to be. I’ve barely made it 1/4th way into the book (just started in the past month and I’ve been busy), but I have a good background in programming and so far it’s been super easy. I’m really enjoying how specific the compiler is, and the binary sizes vs Go.


  • No offense taken we all have different knowledge and background. I have a general understanding of podman, but now I’m going to go play with it a bit at some point and get more familiar with it.

    Docker is Apache 2.0 licensed. It is open source. Or at least all of the important parts. I’m not sure about docker desktop. It’s partly that I just have a lot of experience with docker, and partly just that it’s what is supported in most projects’ documentation. The fact that a lot of the Linux foundation training uses docker is another reason I’ve got more experience with it.


    As far as what you are talking about people have been trying for years. The Pirate Bay wanted to develop a new method of being entirely decentralized. Odysee is working on something like blockchain/torrents combined that is very interesting. We have I2P and TOR which have some of the features you mention. I’d love to see it happen where the big companies didn’t control things.

    There is progress though. https://letsencrypt.org/ is non-profit, and there are a variety of open source projects using this to automate TLS certificate signing.

    Check out https://www.sigstore.dev/how-it-works and pay special attention to Fulcio and Rekor. It’s not for web certs, but it’s still a very interesting take on a certificate authority.


    There’s no technical reason what you are saying couldn’t work. It just comes down to how do you trust it, and if you can’t at all, it doesn’t do much good anyway. That’s the problem to be solved. You could compromise somewhere in the middle but then you have to work out what is acceptable. I suppose the level of trust could be configurable, with different nodes earning a different level of trust, and you could configure your accepted levels for DNS or CA. It’s an interesting idea.




  • h0bbl3s@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlGolang on debian
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    Thanks :) Exactly. I do a lot of development and testing in an alpine linux container, simply because it has much newer versions of libraries and musl c. If I can get it to compile there, and on debian, I’m in good shape as far as compatibility goes. I used to really enjoy Arch and the rolling updates when I was younger, but I’ve gotten to where I don’t want to mess with things constantly changing.

    I use python venv for nearly everything I do python, and the way go is setup does make it extremely easy since it uses a per user environment anyway.