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Get the fo out?

Oh yeah, the “run headless” tip too was great! I would never have used a desktop environment, and would in effect have been using it headless. But had you and others not specifically suggested running it as headless it would probably not have occurred to me that that’s a setting change I’d need to make while installing it.

Absolutely!

Tux’s right eye being occluded by the guy’s black hair, and his left eye being partly shaded into a more angular shape makes it look like he’s giving an evil smirk.

Too close to green and gold, the indication “only Australians can swim here”.

Edit: Who the hell is taking this seriously enough to downvote?

amarynthia@sh.itjust.works and Passerby6497@lemmy.world

That runs into the problem mentioned in the article that I was just discussing with @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world, where people apparently interpret “swim between flags” differently.

Thanks! I genuinely wasn’t sure how much RAM would be necessary, and would have probably seriously considered 8 GB enough if I hadn’t gotten the feedback.

I’ve no comments on RISC-V, but I agree that a move towards ARM in the Windows & Linux worlds would seem sensible. I would guess it hasn’t happened for the same reason IPv6 hasn’t taken over. Too much momentum. Too many developers still working in an x86 world, too many legacy apps that won’t easily run on ARM, too many hardware manufacturers each making the individual choice to keep making the current-popular option. Apple could transition because they’re the single gatekeeper. They make the decision, and everybody else who wants to use a Mac has to follow along. I’m going to guess that the control they have over the hardware and the software also means Rosetta 2 works a hell of a lot better than Microsoft’s Prism. (I can’t say for sure, having never used an ARM-based Windows machine or an ARM-based Mac.)

In terms of heat, what kind of room do you have it in? Somewhere with good natural airflow, or away in a closet somewhere?

I guess I have the same question for you as I did for curbstickle. What’s the advantage of doing things that way with VMs, vs running Docker containers? How does it end up working?

Interesting. I’ve never really played around with that style of VM-based server architecture before. I’ve always either used Docker (& Kubernetes) or ran things on bare metal.

If you’re willing to talk a bit more about how it works, advantages of it, etc., I’d love to hear. But I sincerely don’t want to put any pressure and won’t be at all offended if you don’t have the time or effort.

I’m not sure I agree with your definition of walled garden. I’d say it’s a place that’s designed to be nice and easy to use within the bounds designed for you (the garden), but which protects the user from doing something that might harm them, even if that “protection” comes at the cost of being able to do other things they want to do, in a kind of paternalistic way (the wall). The classic example would be iOS, where the only apps you can install are the ones Apple has approved for you. Getting apps from the open web the way you would on Windows, macOS, or Linux could be dangerous!

Your description of:

you may run into roadblocks doing things that way, yes. You are pretty much limited to what’s on their (vast) catalog

Makes it sound very much a walled garden to me. Not as high-walled as iOS of course, but it’s a spectrum.

But anyway, it’s basically semantics. Not that important what you call it.

There’s a good argument to be made for intuitive design. Red means danger, green means safe. That’s a pretty worldwide understanding. Yellow means caution; that’s a little less universal, but still pretty common.

There are, in my opinion, good reasons to not say “safe” at the beach under any circumstances, so I don’t think using green flags is a great idea, but that doesn’t mean some other form of tweaking is inappropriate.

The only thing worth doing is adding a few common international languages

The problem with this, as the article says, is getting the translations right. To convey the message properly. “Shore dump” is currently being translated into Chinese as “beachside rubbish tip”, and “shore break” is being translated into Korean as “shore relaxation”. And many people are already seeing “swim between the flags” as an indication that people doing serious swimming (e.g. swimming laps) are the only ones who should be between the flags.

In Dutch, they have two words for cyclists: fietser (cyclist) for the average person using a bike to get around, and “wielrenner” (literally, “wheel runner”) for people doing cycling as sport. I wonder if a similar language difference might be a problem here with “swim”. We normally use it for anything in the water, but some people are obviously interpreting it as more like the aquatic equivalent of the wielrenner.

It’s not an insurmountable problem, but it is a difficult one.

Plus: most people don’t read signs. So it’s not a bad idea to make the symbols as self-explanatory as possible.

Not at all. It’s completely open source

Being open source doesn’t necessarily preclude being a walled garden. If (and I fully admit I could be completely wrong about this) it makes it easy to do certain things through a friendly UI, but it becomes much harder or more awkward (or impossible) to do things that aren’t explicitly supported, as part of a deliberate design decision/tradeoff for that usability.

Anyway, thanks a heap for answering all my questions. Has been very helpful.

The effectiveness of the red and yellow patrol flags is unequivocal as there have been no recorded coastal drowning fatalities this summer or in the previous year between the flags.

Oof. That is…not the slam dunk they think it is. The whole point of the critique is that evidence shows many people don’t realise they’re supposed to swim between the flags.

Now, I’m not fully on board with the reporting of the Guardian here either. The studies they cite talk about people misunderstanding the signs and flags, but they don’t say anything about what people actually do in response to this. If they misunderstand the sign and then just ignore it and swim between the flags because that’s where everyone is anyway, then there isn’t much of a problem. If, on the other hand, the confusion causes them to either make a conscious decision to swim away from the patrolled areas, or to throw up their arms and go “well I dunno what I’m supposed to do” (and then either decide against swimming at all, or decide that swimming outside the patrolled areas is fine), then it’s a significant problem. But we don’t know, based on these studies, which of those is happening.

The Guardian’s suggestion of using green flags is a silly one, but the study they cited just before that, where pictograms of a lifesaver were put on top of the classic red and yellow flag, could be a good idea to follow.

if I’m doing virt though

What’s the use case for that? My plan has been to run a single server with a handful of Docker containers. No need for more complex stuff like load balancing or distributed compute.

Yunohost automates this stuff, if that’s what you’re looking for

I’m not familiar with Yunohost, but a really quick search makes it look like kind of a walled garden? I already have a walled garden with the Synology, and for a NAS I think that’s fine and I’m happy using the tools that come with it, but the shortcomings of such a system are precisely why I’m wanting to get a more standard Linux server to actually run my applications. If my first look at Yunohost is correct, I very much doubt it would be suitable for me.

Someone else suggested Caddy. And between their recommendation and some of the stuff I’ve come across when trying to install Nextcloud already, I think that if I do decide the Synology reverse proxy is insufficient, that’s probably what I’d go with.

I don’t see any reason to continue doing that.

The simple answer is just that it’s easy. I don’t have particularly complex needs right now. These two tools are already installed. I haven’t done very much with them, but what little I have done has shown itself to be really, really easy. And I don’t know what I would actually gain from a more manually approach. Definitely open to the idea of doing it myself if there is a particular reason for it though.

The one thing Intel is better at is hardware transcoding. So if you want to run Plex, Jellyfin, etc.

Ah ok yeah, thanks. So video transcoding is the only reason to consider Intel over AMD, then? I don’t have immediate plans to run Jellyfin, but it’s one of many things at the back of my mind I might want to do, so I’ll keep it in mind. It’s easy enough to have Jellyfin run on a server which accesses files stored on the Synology, and have transcoding take place on the server, right?

Thanks for all the help!