Even when my internet doesn’t suck for a minute, I have yet to find a linux remote software that is not sluggish or ugly from compression artifacts, low res and inaccurate colors.
I tried my usual workflows and doing any graphic design or 3d work was impossible. But even stuff like coding or writing notes made me mistype A LOT, then backspace 3-5 times, since the visual feedback was delayed by at least half a second.
I run this somewhat. The question I asked myself was - do I R-E-A-L-L-Y need a clone of the root disk on two devices? And the answer was: no.
I have a desktop and a laptop.
Both run the same OS (with some package overlap, but not identical)
I use syncthing and a VPS syncthing server to sync some directories from the home folder. Downloads, project files, bashrc, .local/bin scripts and everything else that I would actually really need on both machines.
The syncthing VPS is always on, so I don’t need both computers on at the same time to sync the files. It also acts as an offsite backup this way, in case of a catasprophical destruction of both my computers.
(The trick with syncthing is to give the same directories the same ID on each machine before syncing. Otherwise it creates a second dir like “Downloads_2”.)
That setup is easy and gets me 95% there.
The 5% that is not synced are packages (which are sometimes only needed on one of the computers and not both) and system modifications (which I wouldn’t even want to sync, since a lot of those are hardware specific, like screen resolution and display layout).
The downsides:
I have to configure some settings twice. Like the printer that is used by both computers.
I have to install some packages twice. Like when I find a new tool and want it on both machines.
I have to run updates seperately on both systems so I have been thinking about also setting up a shared package cache somehow, but was ultimately too lazy to do it, I just run the update twice.
I find the downsides acceptable, the whole thing was a breeze to set up and it has been running like this for about a year now without any hiccups.
And as a bonus, I also sync some important document to my phone.
Here is a nice video that gives you an easy to grasp intuition about durations of different operations and access of components of a computer (Cache vs RAM vs SSD vs HDD etc.)
I find it illustrates well why a fester drive or even faster RAM (unless there is a different bottleneck) would give you a more noticable performance uplift than a different Kernel.
Sorry, it’s been a while since I did the install, what I meant is the default config of: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram#Using_zram-generator
I usually run the default arch zram config which is 50% of the RAM. For your case I’d go with 2 or 3 GB
Dokploy is a pretty easy web gui and is itself a docker container.
Makes it dead simple to manage multiple containers and domains. (Not for power users that need kubernetes level flexibility)
If you like TUI you might find this useful:
I use freetube and grayjay
I didn’t know about mCaptcha. Thanks for sharing.
The only way I can think of is blacklisting everything by default, directing to a challanging proper captcha (can be selfhosted) and temporarily whitelisting proven human IPs.
When you try to “enumerate badness” and block all AI useragents and IP ranges, you’ll always leave some new ones through and you’ll never be done with adding them.
Only allow proven humans.
A captcha will inconvenience the users. If you just want to make it worse for the crawlers, let them spend compute ressources through something like https://altcha.org/ (which would still allow them to crawl your site, but make DDoSing very expensive) or AI honeypots.
Dog hardware … with dog software I guess. Barks mostly reliably, but sometimes bugs out and keeps barking for no reason.
Next, show us your butthole by drawing it in the linux terminal
I have a raspberry pi running from a microsd (which uses the same kind of tech as a usb stick) for over 5 years with dietpi.
But considering that you think you chewed through an nvme somehow, you may be right.
The state of mind depends on sensory input.
Great concept, but I don’t live in the terminal and prefer GUI text editor features (like jumping the cursor with a mouseclick).
The workflow on the git page looks extremely clunky compared to a textfile.
Here is my personal approach to this.
I have set my bash history to a ridiculous 1000000 max length, so that I can use CTRL+R to search for commands that I have ran before
I write down a lot of commands in a searchable note text document
Ask chatGPT
Use the tldr command
Added A LOT of verbose custom aliases and scripts. For example instead of
inotifywait -m -r --exclude "(/tmp.*|/var/cache.*|/dev/pts/|/var/log.*)" -e MOVED_TO -e CREATE -e CLOSE_WRITE -e DELETE -e MODIFY . (nobody can remember that alphabet gibberish)
I just type watch_for_changes .
Since it is verbose, straight from my brain, I always remember it and it works with autocomplete. I have like ~30 such commands so far.
I loathe to grind all the software setup, it’s so dull, yet I have to concentrate to not fuck anything up.
Just wanted to vent.
Thank you 🫰
finish setting it up
I have all the hardware laying around collecting dust
I usually recommend Zorin OS to noobs, but personally I prefer arch based
I think I am limited by the software.
With a gigabit ethernet connection, I was not able to have a good experience.