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I’d go with Ubuntu LTS - it receives updates for 5 years and security updates only for another 5 years. In other words, it is explicitly for your use case. Additionally, it offers kernel live patching as a free managed service, which nobody else offers afaik.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•made my first bash file to make yt-dlp easierEnglish
1·12 days agoYou could make it an alias and shorten the number of keystrokes
I prefer keeping my aliases in ~/.bash_aliases, which is sourced in my ~/.bashrc, ie
. ~/.bash_aliasesThen you would just need to source your bashrc to load it the first time.
Not yet it seems. Also looks like it doesn’t have a pedometer function. Hopefully a future version will add those, along with some way of downloading that data
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Music@beehaw.org•Tom Morello announces 'Defend Minnesota!' fundraiser gig with Rise Against: "Ain’t nobody coming to save us except us and it’s now or never"English
4·1 month agoWut? Rage Against The Machine was always political. What do you think they meant by the album name “Evil Empire”?
C suite at work has been ramping up pressure, and the news is very Israeli lately. AI has helped me navigate new challenges, but I want to learn to do those things on my own, so I’ll be studying. Also thinking I might start canvassing for the candidates I like (a demsoc and a soc)
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Is there a way to automate ad-free podcast downloads?English
1·1 month agogpodder could probably accomplish what you want
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?English
3·1 month agoThose are indeed normal stumbling blocks.Thanks for being one of the very few Linux game devs!
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Help me understand the workflow for cloning dotfiles after a fresh install without hosting dotfiles in the cloudEnglish
1·2 months agoYou could host gitea locally on a spare computer and use that to store you dotfiles.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Mom's Linux mint install keeps going to a black screenEnglish
5·2 months agoCheck /var/log/syslog, dmesg, and /var/log/auth.log
Like the others suggest, try setting up ssh access so you can see what’s happening.
If you use ssh and login, I’d recommend using top or htop and maybe diskhogs and see what’s up
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Vanilla OS 2 (v1.4.0) is officially here!English
3·2 months agoIt’s an immutable distro that leverages containers to allow you to install packages from different distros. Further, it provides friendly tools and guis to make this easier than it would otherwise be
Like, the 2012 model? That should work. Xubuntu would run nicely.
Recommendation: you can get a decent used laptop from eBay or Craigslist and install mint on it. Cost would be under $200.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?English
2·3 months agoAs I understand it, the issue is that tmux invents its own terminal emulator functionality that conflicts with the existing terminal it runs within, while screen simply defers scroll functionality to the terminal emulator.
Nice – thank you
Some of my favorite ambient artists:
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Pausal
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Olan Mill
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Hakubune
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Chihei Hatakeyama
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?English
1·3 months agoulimit can also be used to define limits, but for a user rather than a process. This could protect you against, ie, a fork bomb
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?English
61·3 months agosystemd-run lets you run a command under some limitations, ie
systemd-run --scope -p MemoryLimit=1000M -p CPUQuota=20% ./heavyduty.sh







Fucking stupid. What now, everyone adds a script to enter 04/01/1984 for every continuous integration pipeline? Every kubernetes cluster has to include an age automation? Idiot politicians should not draft policies about shit they have no clue about.