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But you need that legal banner in case your spouse acts up and you need to throw their ass in prison.

I’ve used i3wm for a long time now before switching to hyprland. The top useful thing: Workspaces. Even without tiling, workspaces give a massive productivity boost. You can have email clients open on one, monitoring systems on another, browsing on a third, gaming on a fourth. When you combine with tiling, everything is in its own perfect space and nothing overlaps. This is especially useful on single-monitor or laptop setups as you don’t need multiple monitors to keep track of everything.

I also see people struggle with notifications tiling. You probably don’t want a bluetooth connected message to take up half your screen, so you’ll want to make sure to properly configure those things. At least in i3wm/hyprland, you can use the window class name to exclude a window from tiling (ex. for_window [class="mako"] floating enable or windowrulev2 = float,class:^(mako)$).

At most I have about 3 windows open at a time per workspace with 4 workspaces being used at a time for specific tasks. With the combo of tiling and workspaces I have never run into an instance of “clutter” on my desktop. This is off a single monitor setup too that I also use on my laptop.

I’ve had good experience with smollm2:135m. The test case I used was determining why an HTTP request from one system was not received by another system. In total, there are 10 DB tables it must examine not only for logging but for configuration to understand if/how the request should be processed or blocked. Some of those were mapping tables designed such that table B must be used to join table A to table C, table D must be used to join table C to table E. Therefore I have a path to traverse a complete configuration set (table A <-> table E).

I had to describe each field being pulled (~150 fields total), but it was able to determine the correct reason for the request failure. The only issue I’ve had was a separate incident using a different LLM when I tried to use AI to generate golang template code for a database library I was wanting to use. It didn’t use it and recommended a different library. When instructed that it must use this specific library, it refused (politely). That caught me off-guard. I shouldn’t have to create a scenario where the AI goes to jail if it fails to use something. I should just have to provide the instruction and, if that instruction is reasonable, await output.

You could use AI for self-healing network infrastructure, but in the context of what this tool would do, I’m struggling. You could monitor logs or IDS/IPS, but you’d really just be replacing a solution that already exists (SNMP). And yeah, SNMP isn’t going to be pattern matching, but your IDS would already be doing that. You don’t need your traffic pattern matching system pattern matched by AI.

Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn’t…

I wouldn’t trust a Sales team member with database permissions, either. This is why we have access control in sysadmin. That AI had permission to operate as the user in Replit’s cloud environment. Not a separate restricted user, but as that user and without sandboxing. That should never happen. So, if I were managing that environment I would have to ask the question: is it the AI’s fault for breaking it or is it my fault for allowing the AI to break it?

AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.

So are interns. I don’t think you can hate the tool for it being misused, but you certainly can hate the user for allowing it.

Yeah, GPG keys expire, but that happens with all package management systems if left alone long enough. I mean you’d have to maintain like 3 packages (linux, wireguard-tools, archlinux-keyring). In Debian you’d have to maintain the kernel, debian-archive-keyring, and wireguard-tools. Its the same.

If its solely for setting up a wireguard server, it doesn’t need to be rolling release. Nothing should really need changing.

1. Alpine Linux due to it being lightweight and hardened
2. Arch Linux due to it being lightweight and fast
3. Rocky 9 due to HAProxy in case you decide to turn this into a DIY datacenter :)

I really like btop/bpytop too. Its more useful than glances imo.

1. lazydocker: terminal based docker management
2. ncdu: disk usage analyzer
3. nmtui: terminal based network management
4. browsh: terminal based web browser with headless Firefox backend

One other thing I didn’t mention is it depends on the backup tool you use. Not all of them are filesystem aware. What that means is if you have hardlinks present those will not be preserved.

That can be important to remember as it will bork things down the road with the restoring. If you aren’t familiar with linking: Hard links point to actual data (think of it like a pointer in C). Soft links (symbolic) point to file path.

Have any other distros been tried on this box and do the same issues present with them? I think the recommended PSU combined with an RX580 is 600W, so you might try swapping PSUs. Another option if you don’t have a spare to test with is to undervolt the GPU. If it stabilizes at that point, it would suggest the PSU needs replacement. At least that way you wouldn’t be dropping money on a hunch.

Another good indicator of that being GPU/PSU issues is the fact you mention not being able to get past the login screen. Both X11 and Wayland (especially Wayland) crank up the VRAM usage at that point due to compositors caching and whatnot

For me, I tend to focus on specific directories I know I’d need data from (or that will just be a hassle to rewrite config for). I have a scripts folder that gets backed up, Books, .mozilla, etc. A lot of things I just know I won’t need like .cache. That folder is 7GB and mostly just the cache from yay needing to be cleared out.

I don’t backup my entire home directory because I’m worried ACLs may change or other little issues that will take more time than its worth to correct. That said, you could. You worried about something like that, you could pull the existing ACLs: find ~/ -type f -exec getfacl --absolute-names {} + > home_acls_backup.txt and then restore them: setfacl --restore=home_acls_backup.txt

I haven’t really used KDE much, but I know it has a theme data in .local/share that you’d want (and probably the .cache folder as well). GNOME keeps theme data in .themes, .icons, .fonts. They might just be defaults, but if you have anything custom, you’d want those folders too.

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For Arch you run pacman -Qe which lists all installed packages that were not installed as a dependency. I output that to a location via golang script which is monitored by the pCloud client for automatic backup along with a lot of other configs from $HOME/.config. I then have a systemd service that fires the script and a timer to kick off that service periodically.

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I’m not going to discount Murdock Family Trust just because it makes you feel bad.
As for exports, here you go. Feel free to try and deny it, seems like something you’re used to doing.

Murdoch’s media empire spans multiple countries, with strong conservative influence in: United States: Fox News, Fox Business, New York Post (via Fox Corporation) United Kingdom: The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times (via News UK)

Across these regions, Murdoch’s companies control: 120+ newspapers across five countries Multiple TV networks and digital platforms with conservative leanings

Murdoch’s outlets dominate: UK: ~25% of print circulation and large digital reach US: Fox News is the defacto and most-watched cable news channel in the country

I’m sorry if that makes you feel all bad inside, but fix your shit.

Australia has been definitively proven to be the biggest TERF exporter now and you can’t even contest it. You should do something about that, geez.

Oh, and the Murdoch Family Trust owns 40% of the Fox Corporation (which owns the US based Fox News). So really your argument is the same that a heroin addict might have: “If you discount my heroin addiction, I’m doing great!”

Multiple times now you’ve accused people of being American for saying that Australia outputs some garbage right wing stuff. Aside from the vampire fuck Rupert Murdoch himself, here is a list:

1. Sky News Australia (especially through YT and social media)
2. GB News (based on Australian right-wing media)
3. News Corp Australia
4. The Daily Telegraph
5. The Australian
6. Andrew Hastie
7. 7News (this is arguably one of the worst as they sprinkle facts into their narrative to cloudy the waters)
8. Herald Sun
9. The Spectator Australia
10. Quadrant Magazine

All of these media sources and publications output to the rest of the world. It doesn’t matter about “well the UK has more. well the US has more”. Australia is exporting fucking garbage. This isn’t a race to bottom.