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If worse comes to worse, you can always just remove the symlink of /etc/resolv.conf which presently will point to something in /run/systemd, and replace it with a static file with known good name servers in it. You’ll lose having a DNS cache but at least your machine will function.

@maliciousonion You can go into network manager and specify different working name servers, you can cat /etc/resolv.conf to make sure it is sane.

Fact that you can still ping but not resolve means your name servers aren’t set right.

Depending upon how much you have customized it, you could just copy the entire OS, adjust various config files for the new partition UUID’s.

@boredsquirrel @Chewy7324 I think yum is already adopted to 3.x

@eugenia I believe this is true for the paid version but I believe the free version does.

“The Only caveat is that the free version of DR on Linux can’t work with H.264 or H.265 encoded files.” this actually again depends upon ffmpeg and can be fixed by compiling these protocols into it. The free version does whatever ffmpeg does because it uses it for it’s codec.

@entropicdrift Not that I am aware of, I searched for some before I went to the effort of chasing down all the libraries and compiling myself and wasn’t successful at finding one.

@entropicdrift It is not a complete build, many codecs are not compiled in.

With budget, soldered is what you’re going to get because budget means they’re going to save every penny they can even minor things like so-dimm sockets.

Somewhat depends on the version of Linux you have. The ffmpeg build that is included with Ubuntu 24.04 for example is really an incomplete build and as a result there aren’t a lot of encoding / decoding options with any software that utilizes it for encoding and decoding, this includes Davinci Resolve and also kdenlive and for vlc playback. There is a fix for this but it is arduous, download ffmpeg from github and compile from scratch. Enable all the libs and codecs except for the MacOS specific ones. Now the fun part, run the configure script, it will break af the first missing lib, install that. Some libs you will also need to download source and compile from github at least with ubuntu because it’s not included in the distro. You will need to do this around 300 times because the moron that wrote the ffmpeg configure script, instead of listing ALL the libs missing so you could snatch them and install in one go, bombs out at the first, so you have to go through 300 or so iterations. I’ve done it, it’s painful, but at the end you end up with a much more capable ffmpeg and by extension Davinci Resolve than the pile of crap they provided you with.

@communist @UltraGiGaGigantic I disagree, I started with Redhat and moved to Ubuntu, MUCH prefer the latter.

@BCsven @Mwa I disabled tracker and use plocate from a shell to find stuff. The reason, tracker’s crawl of the disk space is extremely inefficient, but plocate keeps track of things like directory update times so does not recrawl a directory if the time stamps have not changed, thus saving a lot of disk I/O.

No. I have used both with Linux but I prefer my Logitech keyboards to the Mac keyboard, better full travel mechanical switches, lighted keyboard, separate number and arrow pads, macro keys, all around hands down better than the Mac keyboard.

I was working on a Lemmy instance here at Eskimo.com, but ran into some technical issues because rather than having Lemmy installed on the same server as the web server and rather than on the same server as the database, I have them all different machines and had to find where it looked for localhost and change to the appropriate hosts, but after seeing the general behavior of the Lemmy userbase, I’ve decided to shelve this project for now. When I initially approached Mastodon a year ago I was met with a similar situation but it turned out to be transient, hopefully this will be the case with lemmy as well, only time will tell.

I use Mate. When I first started using a Desktop in addition to terminals, it was with Redhat 6.1, Redhat came with Gnome-2, I got used to it. I didn’t like the changes made in Gnome-3, so I switched to Mate which retained, or at least had the option to be configured to look as I was used to it, save for more refined graphics. It also works well remotely so that’s another reason I use it as much of my work involves remote acess.

@CameronDev No, but there was a time that was the norm. There also was a time that triple-DES was the encryption standard. But again those times a 100Mhz single core CPU was a high end CPU.

The passwd file gets it’s name from the historical password file when there were in fact encrypted passwords in the file. Back then CPUs were generally less than 100Mhz so brute force password cracking was at best a very leisurely hobby. After it became more of a thing people got the idea that maybe it made sense to put it in a seperate file without public read access. Still, you CAN put encrypted passwords in the password file if you really want to, else the :x: just says go look in the shadow file.

@Tinidril @0x0 I’m sorry but I think our shoeing in of Zelenskyy did count as an invasion.

@theshatterstone54 I am not, usually. I have Mate, and compiz is one of the compositors available with Mate-tweak and it makes a lot of fun effects like wiggling frames around terminals and translucent backgrounds, BUT, it does not work properly with X2Go which I rely on for a number of functions, so usually I do not enable a compositor (no compositor works with X2Go). I do wish they would fix that.