Yeah, that’s the simple answer. Install a VM, don’t give it network access. Probably quicker to install a distro with a ready rolled installer (Ubuntu/Fedora etc) than to install Arch
VirtualBox is quick to install and easy to use (but the owner of Oracle, Larry Ellison is evil so not the moral choice). Qemu-KVM is a bit more of a faff but is FOSS.
It can be considered slightly inferior depending on your viewpoint. Debian tends to have older versions of software components than Ubuntu, and there’s some Ubuntu tools that are quite handy (the graphics driver management tool is one I believe).
So, in my understanding there are good reasons they don’t just pivot to Debian. I am not on the Mint team so you’d have to talk to them, but my recollection of a press realease or interview from a few years ago was that bringing all the ubuntu stuff into LMDE and maintaining it would be a massive effort
LMDE exists as the DR plan for if Ubuntu loses the plot again and Mint can no longer rely on Ubuntu as the upstream. Yes it does create extra work, which is one of the reasons why LMDE releases tend to lag behind the primary Mint Cinnamon, but it’s worth it from the Mint perspective to have an alternative route immediately to hand.
You do realise that the Linux Kernel has Rust in it, right ?
You’ll need to go to BSD if you want to be Rust-less
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes
" Linux 7.0 also declares the Rust for Linux effort as “here to stay”"
I’m using the default/official container image jellyfin/jellyfin one
As per a post elsewhere in the thread - it turned out it was the browser settings changing the NAS/container time stamp to what it thought was “local” time in the browser gui.
Thanks for the thoughts, appreciated
Hey thanks for the response, yes the storage is mounted via the compose script
Thanks both, it worked, although I had a bit of a heart attack when it took a lot longer to come back up than I expected.
Now to try and work out how to get immich working.
Thanks very much for the reply, yes the config and data are visible as directories from the NAS itself so I think it should be ok then. I’ll back up the folder structure now.
Thanks very much for the reply, yes the config and data are visible as directories from the NAS itself so I think so.
I’ve just kicked over an ftp of the entire jellyfin structure as a back up - I’ll duplicate the container as well for belt and braces
Thats because it takes years of practice to get the motor skills for writing trained, remember how bad you were in kindergarten at writing ? If you practised with your left your writing would improve.
Out of curiousity (because I’ve not met another ambi in real life) do you also have things you do left handed and things right ? I play tennis left handed and write right handed for example.
I’ve not heard that one, but it’s a better acronym to pickup the privacy abusing tech bros
FAANGs = Facebook, Amazon, Apple, NVidia, Google - ie the big tech companies - technically it’s kinda out of date because Nvidia isn’t doing much (any ?) creepy shit whereas Palantir are the worst. However the acronym was actually an investing one as short hand for high capital gain tech stocks
TLAs are “Three Letter Acronyms” - a short hand way of referring to the govt dept’s who tend to use TLAs - CIA, FBI, NSA, MI6, MI5, BND, etc.
Technically a lot of them are FLA (four letter acronyms) CIA equivalents are CSIS for Canada - ASIO for Australia, DGSE for France and GCHQ is the UK equivalent to NSA for example
Yep. It’s real, scores of noobs on the reddit subs sobbing about.
I believe protonvpn install was the usual culprit. I won’t link to reddit but the /r/linuxmint sub has many posts
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=446923
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/yes-getting-gnomed-is-a-thing
Using a VPN may subject you to NSA spying.
NOT using a VPN WILL subject you to NSA spying.
Might as well make their job harder.
Edit to add
Everyone on the internet in any country should assume their local spy squad is spying on them plus the Americans & the Chinese. You’ll rarely be wrong anywhere in the world, and they have a lot of backdoors via network hardware (among other ways).
You can potentially have privacy from the FAANGS if you are careful. TLAs not so much.
OK, in broad terms you want a distro that is reasonably up to date, but doesn’t have to be bleeding edge.
I run Mint Cinnamon and Arch KDE for the limited gaming I do, they both work perfectly fine.
Almost all games that have a Linux port will have the support & requirements specified for Ubuntu, which has a KDE flavour, however most people won’t recommend Ubuntu (for good reasons). An Ubuntu derivative with the issues removed however is a decent choice: Mint or PopOS.
Mint is by a long way the most recommended Linux distro for beginners and for good reason - the install process is easy, the community is supportive, and it does pretty much everything straight out of the box.
Cinnamon desktop environment is customisable, not as much as KDE. If you’re really keen on sticking with KDE then either EndeavourOS (which is basically a bundling of Arch so it’s easy to install) or KDE Plasma - which is Debian based but more up to date than Sid I believe.
I don’t recommend Arch for beginners unless you’re highly technical and willing to RTFM.
Most windows games will work in linux via proton/wine etc. You’re Your only really blocked ones are the couple of companies that insist on kernel anti-cheat and are anti-Linux (EA I think ?) it’s a handful of AAA games that are locked out.
Generally you don’t need any hardware changes nowadays, in fact it’s often the other way around - stuff that W10 & 11 no longer support can often be made to work on linux. AMD & Intel GPUs are less troublesome than Nvidia, but it’s generally not a big deal anymore.
Reddit’s /r/linuxgaming has fairly reasonable people (for reddit) and a fairly deep archive that will allow you to search for the specific games you most play, and ways to get them running.
Is there a way to get rid of the huge distracting “Swipe for next article” overlay on the-independent.com?
uBlock Origin and add “annoyances” to your filter list
KDE is not a Mint supported DE and the KDE files are not in the Mint repos.
This can be made to work if you’re experienced but is definitely not a good idea for beginners. It will eventually break, and dependency hell is a thing.
For a KDE option suitable fir beginners, Fedora offers KDE as does Ubuntu, or there’s KDE Neon
Ubuntu touch project runs linux on a tablet while retaining the phone/android functionality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch
https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/install.html
https://liliputing.com/ubuntu-touch-mobile-linux-distro-is-now-based-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts/
There’s a list of supported devices there. Lenovo was one
And a “d” gently falling to complete the word
I love it, it’s a nice touch
I use non EU european for preference. Albania Serbia etc.