My desktop PC running Fedora 43 goes to sleep in a weird way. When I was running Windows and the computer went to sleep the power button would blink and I could wake the PC with my keyboard or mouse. On Fedora the power button doesn’t blink (no big deal) and I can’t wake the PC with my keyboard or mouse, only the power button works.

Another issue is if I have the option to turn the monitor off after a certain amount of time I cannot get it to wake from sleep. If I turn the monitor off and on there’s no signal. If the monitor goes to sleep because the PC goes to sleep it’s fine.

Something randomly causes Firefox to hoover up all my computer’s RAM. I can tell my system is going to lock up because the fan on the CPU cooler ramps up. When Firefox finally sucks up all the RAM the entire desktop is unresponsive. I had to enable the system rescue keys and I sometimes have to manually trigger the OOM killer.

Raw photo editing on Linux sucks. I’ve tried DarkTable, RawTherapee and some other program and didn’t like any of them. The UI is incredibly complex or blurry.

Does KMS work with an nvidia gpu now? I remember ages ago the boot sequence would be stuck at 640x480 until X started.

My best guess is there’s a permissions issue with whatever you have the ISO stored on. Try copying the iso to somewhere in your home folder.

Debian because it just works. I am interested in trying NixOS though.

For starting out I would suggest Longhorn, I’ve had several issues with it but maybe they’ve been fixed. I also used Rook Ceph which is overkill but neat to play with. Techno Tim has several videos on Kubernetes including setting up a cluster (he has an ansible playbook for it) as well as how to set up Longhorn.

I made my own solution since I wasn’t impressed by projects I had found. There’s two parts, the backup image and the restore image.

I use it like so:

services:
  restore_sabnzbd:
    image: untouchedwagons/simple-restore:1.0.5
    container_name: restore_sabnzbd
    restart: no
    environment:
      - BACKUP_APPEND_DIRECTORY=/docker/production/sabnzbd
      - BACKUP_BASE_NAME=sabnzbd
      - FORCE_OWNERSHIP=1000:1000
    volumes:
      - sabnzbd:/data
      - /mnt/tank/Media/Backups:/backups

  sabnzbd:
    image: ghcr.io/onedr0p/sabnzbd:4
    container_name: sabnzbd
    restart: unless-stopped
    user: 1000:1000
    volumes:
      - sabnzbd:/config
      - /mnt/tank/Media/Usenet:/mnt/data/Usenet
    depends_on:
      restore_sabnzbd:
        condition: service_completed_successfully
    networks:
      - traefik_default

  backup_sabnzbd:
    image: untouchedwagons/simple-backup:1.1.0
    container_name: backup_sabnzbd
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      TZ: "America/Toronto"
      BACKUP_APPEND_DIRECTORY: "/docker/production/sabnzbd"
      BACKUP_BASE_NAME: "sabnzbd"
      BACKUP_RETENTION: "24"
      BACKUP_FREQUENCY: "0 0 * * *"
    volumes:
      - sabnzbd:/data:ro
      - /mnt/tank/Media/Backups:/backups
      
networks:
  traefik_default:
    external: true

volumes:
  sabnzbd:

The restore container looks for a file called RESTORED in /data and if one isn’t found it’ll try to restore the latest backup (if available) and then create a RESTORED file. The backup container ignores this file during backup.

I think it started with Linus and Luke of Linus Tech Tips doing a 30 day linux challenge to see what it’s like daily driving linix. Jeff of Craft Computing did one recently as well.

Zsh + oh-my-zsh

I’ve got a t14 and it works perfectly under fedora 40. My only complaint is that the Left Ctrl key isn’t in the corner.

I remember watching a youtube video about UI design on computers and the lady narrator said that the corners of the screen have effectively infinite size. I don’t remember anything else but that line stood out.

Oh cool I’ve been looking for something like mobaxterm but for Linux. I’ll definitely check this out.

Everything went smooth for me though my install is fairly pedestrian.

I use systemd mount files instead of fstab, that way I can specify a network dependency in the off chance there’s no network connection. Plus I can have other services like jellyfin depend on that mount file so it starts after the share is available.

None of the above. Native debs/rpms/whatever for desktops, docker images for servers.