True. I knew I should have left that as “NFS 4” because someone would comment this. From what I’ve read (never used it), NFS 3 is very different to 4 and also just kind of not worth using, especially just for Windows, since it has no security at all.

Please just use Kerberos instead of fiddling with uids. It’s the only sane way to get NFS access controls and user mapping. Works on both Linux and macOS (but there’s no NFS on Windows anyway).

I’d say you can run the Kerberos KDC on the NAS but if Synology has some locked down special OS you’ll need another machine for that (edit: but you say you have other servers already so that shouldn’t be a problem).

Unfortunately SMB is so screwed that you can’t reuse ordinary Kerberos for authentication there, which is unfortunate if you want to have both that and NFS. I’ve yet to look into whether Samba AD can be used for both.

That would make sense if they were overlapping. They aren’t. There’s no need to “focus” the window.

Window focus is important for things like determining where keyboard input goes. If you want to type text into another window that isn’t focused, you need to switch focus before continuing to type so your text goes into the right window.

The need to focus on the window before clicking?

It doesn’t delay the click action for a double click because it already does it for a single click, so it would be pointless to do the same for a double click. If you’re double clicking, it’s pretty much always because you actually want to double click on something specific in the UI.

I don’t understand the question. All of them.

Skill issue.

No. It doesn’t. I’m beginning to think you’ve never used a Mac.

I use a Mac almost as much as I use Linux, which is almost daily, right now exclusively even since I’m not at home where my Linux computer is.

I’m beginning to think you’ve never used any computer since you don’t even know what window focus is for.

Well, theoretically yes. On a Mac, no.

Yes, even on a Mac. Necessarily so since it strictly places windows on one monitor. You’re always switching to a window on another monitor.

Can you give an example of what you’re talking about?

Why would I want to do that? Why does double-clicking suddenly remove that need?

So you can activate a window without first having to find a free space in the UI to click on (especially if it partially overlaps). It much increases the surface to click on to focus a window and therefore makes it faster since you can be more inaccurate in where you move the mouse.

What need?

No you can’t. It just minimizes them. Just like the yellow button.

It does not.

Can you give an example of a window that gets minimized by clicking the red button?

Like I said, sometimes you can, sometimes you can’t. Apple does not give any fucks about consistency or intuitive design.

No, drag and drop tile actions always work, even if it doesn’t entirely make sense (e.g. windows that can’t be resized).

Can you give an example of a window that it does not work with?

You have to click to switch monitors but if you do it twice it registers as a double click so you have to click…wait…then click again.

You don’t switch monitors, you switch windows. That is how it works for all windows. It’s like that so you can click anywhere in a window to focus it without activating something in the window by accident.

You can’t close anything from the window buttons and the red and yellow buttons do the same thing. You have to go into the taskbar and right click to close them.

You can close windows with the red window button, and the yellow button minimizes a window. Absolutely not the same thing. The whole application you can close via the dock, or the menu bar, or cmd+q. Two different things.

Some apps have a single main window though which will reopen when the dock icon is clicked (e.g. Mail), but that is still different to what the yellow minimize button does. The distinction is much more useful for document style apps like TextEdit which can have multiple windows (or none, if no file is open). There is also Hide which hides the entire application and all its windows until it’s activated again.

Then they took the time in Sequoia to add window tiling but it’s just such an awful experience. You have to hover over the green dot and wait for the prompt to popup and choose from a drop-down menu. WHY CAN’T YOU JUST DRAG AND DROP!?

You can absolutely drag and drop to tile windows, and there are also keyboard shortcuts for it. Check the Window -> Move & Resize menu for that.

ok

They might take some data from OSM but it’s certainly not “live” OSM. Unfortunate, because that would make correcting data much easier and better (and you wouldn’t have to correct much in the first place)

Also, they

• Fucked over Unreal fans by dropping the new Unreal Tournament the moment Fortnite took off (this one is personal, I was looking forward to that)
• Fucked over people who bought Fortnite Save the World (the original paid PvE mode of the game) by dropping that the moment the Battle Royale mode took off (this is objectively worse than UT because people paid for this)

Edit: Also want to mention Timmy’s frequent trash talking of Linux on Twitter

This seems super overcomplicated. What I would do is put all the subdomains on the public DNS, let HTTP(S) through the firewall for the respective hosts, deny everything from outside of your local network on the http server that isn’t under the HTTP challenge path and then run the HTTP challenge as you would for a public site.

Then you can get certs, everyone outside trying to access will get 403, and inside the network you can access as normal.

Of course you’ll have to trust your http server’s ACL for that, but I’m just going to assume servers like nginx (which I use) have a reliable implementation.

Are you talking about these? They don’t look like they have a PCIe slot…

In any case, the specifications say

Form factor Low-profile 119.65 x 68.9 x 17.24 mm (Without bracket 119.65 x 68.9 x 12 mm)

It would need a PCIe slot, not a SATA connection. But I assume it doesn’t have that either then.

I have the QNAP TL-D800S. It’s an 8 bay DAS but there is also a 4 bay variant. Works well for me. It uses SFF cables to connect to the PC and comes with the appropriate PCIe card which seems more robust to me than anything USB for this.

GRUB is still the standard bootloader in physical deployments because it is the most likely to work

The countless issues you can find online about being stuck at the GRUB prompt say otherwise. I’ve personally recently experienced GRUB on a computer seemingly randomly losing information about where the config file was stored, or at least not automatically loading it. God knows where that was supposed to be stored, running grub-install fixed it in any case.

More likely it’s used by the big non-DIY distros because it’s less effort to maintain a single bootloader than one for UEFI and one for BIOS boot, because the latter you still need anyway.

and supports most of the features you might want in a bootloader.

That’s the understatement of the century. It’s basically a decently sized operating system at this point, with seemingly everything tacked on that you can think of such as support for what looks like a grand total of 11 partition table schemes, “The Bee File System”, disk driver for classic Macintosh, and a JSON parser.

While some of what it has may have been needed for BIOS boot, the essential functionality is now provided by EFI APIs, and you do not need 337979 lines of C code anymore to implement a suitable bootloader for a contemporary system.

And I probably wouldn’t even say anything if it was well written or maintained code. There’s clearly something very wrong with it if distributions feel the need to apply hundreds of patches to it, Fedora has 283 right now. I’ve also had a terrible experience trying to script some of its commands.

I have 2 disks which each have an efi system partition. And the root file system is btrfs raid1 across 4 disks. This was very easy to set up and completely supported by grub with no custom configuration needed.

This is of course also supported by any other bootloader, since which of the two ESPs to load from is determined by the UEFI, and mounting the rootfs is done by the kernel. You just need to sync the two ESPs. systemd-boot’s kernel-install admittedly can’t do this out of the box, but you can make it work with hooks.

Try systemd-boot, it’s lightweight and well designed.

Since you use UEFI, you don’t have to use GRUB. It basically consists 90% of cruft left over that was needed for BIOS boot, and has a lot of moving parts and bad design (such as a single config file which has to be shared between OSes, which is so complex it needs a generator for it).

Try systemd-boot, it’s lightweight and well designed.

Anyway, looks like the target parameter is default now, the “esp” in the arch command is supposed to be substituted for the ESP path, for example /efi, so the only difference is bootloader-id. Which looks like that’s the label that show up in your UEFI setup for the boot entry.

I’m not talking about that, considering there is an argument to be made here that he is threatening others with these weapons. This wouldn’t be okay if he was clearly doing all this for fun either, would it.

Besides, the video makes it sound like he’s homeless, living in that car. He himself says the weapons are to protect himself from the neighbors. He should be given a home, it does wonders for mental health when you don’t have to constantly worry about getting attacked by someone who doesn’t want you living on the street. There’s a high chance that would solve the problem.

If it’s not you yourself who decides whether you are “in crisis”, what you want to do about it or whether you want to do anything about it at all, you do not truly own your own life. This is something incredibly personal and subjective that nobody else has the right to judge, or can even judge accurately in the first place, except for you.

And yes, this includes the right to take your life.

If you are not allowed the right to self-ownership like that, what it comes down to is someone else can imprison you because they don’t like how you express yourself. There is a huge power imbalance here, and you won’t be able to advocate yourself because you’re “insane” and “don’t know what you’re talking about”.

If it’s not you yourself who decides whether you are “in crisis”, it will be used against people for simply refusing treatment for a mental disorder, for example schizophrenia. It will be used to silence “undesirable” people by the state who decides what counts as “in crisis”.

Often, the conditions inside of a mental hospital are actively making the mental state of the people who are confined there worse, which is then used as a justification to hold them there longer against their will.

This is abuse, it’s dehumanizing, it’s traumatizing. It’s unacceptable.

This is a right that falls in the same category and is equally as important as, for example, the right to have an abortion. Which of course, is also under attack right now from people who want to control others’ lives, especially in the US.

I’m not talking about someone harming others. Clearly that is different.

It probably should be easier, but there needs to be a set process for doing it correctly.

Absolutely not, it’s a massive violation of people’s autonomy already.

Someone is in a mental health crisis, but not threatening themselves or others? Street Response pulls up instead of the cops.

but they can’t have someone committed.

Which, in my mind, kind of defeats the purpose.

I think it’s completely unacceptable to involuntarily commit people that aren’t even threatening anyone. Let alone “threatening themselves” which is equally a concept that goes against autonomy and should not be a valid reason for commitment either. And I’m not even talking about how often abused this is in practice.

Any registrar worth using has an API for updating DNS entries.

I just found this with a quick search: https://github.com/qdm12/ddns-updater

Yeah, when I got started I initially put everything in Docker because that’s what I was recommended to do, but after a couple years I moved everything out again because of the increased complexity, especially in terms of the networking, and that you now have to deal with the way Docker does things, and I’m not getting anything out of it that would make up for that.

When I moved it out back then I was running Gentoo on my servers, by now it’s NixOS because of the declarative service configuration, which shines especially in a server environment. If you want easy service setup, like people usually say they like about Docker, I think it’s definitely worth a try. It can be as simple as “services.foo.enable = true”.

(To be fair NixOS has complexity too, but most of it is in learning how the configuration language which builds your operating system works, and not in the actual system itself, which is mostly standard except for the store. A NixOS service module generates a normal systemd service + potentially other files in the file system.)