Phoenixz

Yeah no, Putin is a different story

He doesn’t give a shit about dead soldiers in body bags. Almost noone in Russia sees that, or if they do they’ll be told som lie about it. Its much simpler than in the US

You know what’s not simpler? Demographics. As I recently read somewhere, demographics is like a freight train, slow, but all of the sudden you hear this horn bare and you’re splattered under it.

Putin lost now about a million men of working age. That is a huge gash that will come back to haunt Russia. Not Putin, mind you, he’ll be dead and gone within a few years. Russia, though, is thoroughly fucked for the next decades. It already has low population issues before, and their demographics chart at this point is a fucking rollercoaster. Their population is already relatively old, and with the loss of about a million men, in a country largely dependent on mineral extraction and sale, it will be ugly.

I stand corrected!

They can for red hat but canonical is (or at least I think it is) South African

Either way, it doesn’t matter, it’s open source software so we’ll happily download it somewhere else. loads of distress to choose from

Trying to force other countries to comply? Well the US could do that 2 years ago but since Trump utterly obliterated all of its soft power it has no way of enforcing that beyond threatening with tarrics (and we all know how well that has worked) or a full on invasion which will be bad for said country but as soon as the inevitable body bags come crashing back into the country, it would kill this administration

It’s just another way of minimizing your attack surface. It’s pretty much the same as hiding behind a barrier when being shot at, you stick yourself out as little as possible.

In the same way it also helps to change your SSH port to somewhere in the high numbers like 38265. This is anecdotal of course, but the amount of attacks on SSH went down by literally 99% by just changing the port like that

Then you accept only keys, you lock down root (so the username must be guessed as well) and yeah, you’re safe.

I’m just like wtfuuuhuuhuuuuuu… Oh wait…

KDE, always

Used it since I switched to the Linux Desktop 25 years ago. Quickly tried gnome, and others, and hated it.

KDE is fast, efficient, looks awesome, is ready to work with, and highly customizable

Nothing wrong with it

It was built years ago by the NSA but I’m sure that by now any backdoors nwould have been found

Having said that: it could use some rework to become more intuitive, especially with the error messages and how to resolve them

Which is supposed to be who?

It’s still open source

Yay, finally Linux is being attacked!

And as expected it takes whole lot more than clicking on an email attachment

Always check before you curl download something!

Are there US open source projects?

Fully agree with this

Any dictator at some point can cause irreparable harm, this is something that should never be able to happen.

This is coming from a huge fan of Linus, he really is a hero to me

Welcome to the dark side, we have cookies

Having said that, just as a suggestion, take a look at KDE. It feels a bit more windows like, is extremely customizable and as such can be made to work exactly how you want it

Eh, no?

You got 8bits for RGB each, so 8x3=24 bits, not 16

HDR will give you better brightness and contrast levels, and will give a slightly wider color gamut. Visually, you WILL notice the difference

Update in my previous message: so now I’m trying to install onlyoffice in a docker container on a server and I can’t even get http to work, less even https. A simple connect to port 80 just gives me connection refused, even though netstat shows docker proxy listening there, port 443 gives me connection opened that right away closes, doing nothing. Logs show nothing

This is the sort of WTF that I really don’t understand. Onlyoffice is really nice, why is the installation such a headache and fight after fight?

I’ve installed countless different services and programs in a myriad of different ways, and 99% of the time it’s a few commands and done. 0.9% of the time I have tondo some significant extra work to get it completely done (nextcloud is here, not that it’s hard but there are so many built in functionalities that you need to perform a number of extra steps) and then there is the 0.1% which is just a right nightmare for no good reason.

I have setup various dockers with little issue, onlyoffice just never works. WHY?

I would go for collabora if it wasn’t s shitshow itself when used in an office setting with dozens of users. Colabora is nice for a single user system, that’s it. I need perfect multi user document editing and onlyoffice offers this.

How do I set this crap up?

I’ll be sure not to pay them a dime, then, but the ope source version should be good enough to work with

Yeah, but collabora isn’t a great option by itself. Only office install is a freak show at best, but once it’s running it’s awesome

With Wayland finally exploding on the scene these past two years, I want to imagine the devs having worked on that. Many distros are already Wayland default and another 5 years and X will mostly be unsupported by most distros

We just recently started using zabbix. Open source and has a web interface to get a central view that can be accessed from wherever we allow it.

So far it’s been great but er have had little time and so far have used only 1% of what it can do

Still, I’d recommend it. Super easy to install, seems light weight, has clients for any os you’d need, can send out alerts (we currently use pushover for that)

Let me preface this rant with that I think only office is the best online web based solution, I loved what it could do 8 years ago and I assume it’s a lot better now.

I’m trying to setup nextcloud with only office, again. Nextcloud setup is a btrrze, only office always is and always has been a crime against humanity to setup correctly.

I’ve used only office successfully only once, some 8 years ago or so, in my own company. I’ve made some 10 attempts after that, over the various years, and I always failed. I have some 25 years of professional it experience and only office always eluded me.

Issues are either that I just can’t get it installed and running at all, or that it’s impossible to connect to next cloud.

Installing it with Deb files (or the installation script that does Deb files) is a very bad idea, that never works, the install crashes and usually leaves your server in a broken state, even after removing everything.

So now I am again trying to set it up using docker, so far with little result.

So having said all that: can you give some pointers on what you did to get it working?