Is this the card you got?
Didn’t know there was a membership, good to know.
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This week, I failed to install docker on my Gen 1 Raspberry Pi. What a shame, guess I’ll have to buy a newer one!
Yep, that’s what I got. There was a membership drive back in…November(?) and that was part of the swag pack. Got some stickers and a physical newsletter booklet too.
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After listening to a very upsetting and disturbing Podcast by Sam Harris today, on the prevalence of Child Pornography/Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) on the internet, it got me wondering: what if some criminal user posted some CSAM on my Mattermost server, and I, the administrator, had an obligation to notify the authorities? Or, what if I was merely suspicious that there might be CSAM on my server somewhere, unbeknownst to me, and I wanted to quickly scour all the attached image files, for all users, to see if any were detected, which the authorities should be notified about?
What would I do? How could I track those criminal users down? I wanted to know a clear procedure I could follow, because once the stress of an ugly situation strikes, it can be much more difficult at that time to keep a cool head. Having a good procedure ahead of time can make things much smoother. It’s also good Public Relations, if one can set the tone ahead of time to all your users (by having a posted procedure), that one is ready to deal with such criminals as these in a quick and efficient manner.
I wrote such a procedure (involving numerous Linux commands), and posted it here.
Ain’t that the truth.
Now I know about wormhole, thank you.
Wormhole - Securely Share Files From One Computer to Another in Linux
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This week I fiddled around with EndeavourOS (Arch BTW). Interesting, but not going to be my daily driver any time soon. It was, as advertised, the easiest Arch install I’ve ever done by far. So good on them.
I have two Gen 1 RPi’s and looking for a purpose for them. I have found them to be a bit flaky with corrupting the SD cards. Often if I reformat the SD cards, and re flash them they will work again. Usually they will run for about 3-6 months 24/7 and then a corruption happens, and it looks like the Gen 1 RPi died, but they have come back to life with new reformated or new SD cards.
Even on my RPi 3 I had some corruption with SD cards but only when I was playing with a bunch of ISOs.
I totally forgot to update on my Suse experiment. I installed Tumbleweed and it runs great. Though I have to say I still prefer Xfce to Plasma and it looks neat compared to some years ago where it came completely vanilla and ugly, something like Leap 42.xx. Now it uses a customized openSUSE theme based on one of my favorite Gtk themes for Xfce, Greybird. Of course rather green than blue like in Xubuntu. 
Even the fonts are out of the box acceptable. I only added Packman and this time I only used the cli and it worked with vendor switch and everything.
Let’s see how it goes over time with the updates. I will test it thoroughly for one month.
Snapper is configured and I decided to go with only one partition because of the snapshots. On a rolling release they will take some space as expected.
I disabled the update notifier. I never trust those things on a rolling release and the RAM usage already dropped significantly because by default the Xfce desktop booted with 700 MB. Insane. Now it boots like every other distro with Xfce.
I come from Debian sid, I only dist-upgrade from the command line and that is what I will do here with zypper even though I heard that the GUI now should also work.
OK, glad it’s not just me. I have one for PiHole, and I’ve had to redo it twice now. Each time, it seems like the SD card is unreadable. That’s interesting! Either way, I want to get a newer one. I used the Gen 1 to learn how they work and how to get things running on them, now I want a Zero and one of these. And I might get a Gen 3 to try to redo PiHole in a Docker, learn how proxies work, etc.
I can confirm issues with the RPi 3 too. The one that has been rock solid is the RPi 3+. We have a 4 with 4GB but haven’t put it through the paces yet. Our Gen 1 RPi’s are the 512mb versions that seem to corrupt the SD cards.
I have the same Gen1 and want to get a 3+, they’re the best value at my local computer store.
Windows Update is not really bad. I updated my Windows 10 Virtualbox VM on my Ryzen desktop and shut it down. I forgot to restart. I moved Windows VM to my i5 laptop, started it and Windows completed the Ryzen update on the i5
For reasons unknown to me Mumble now hides the chat’s input box by default. To access it you need to hover your mouse just above the bottom border of the window containing the chat text. You’ll see an up/down resize icon, it’ll be an icon for resizing the bottom border if you go too far down. Hold down the left mouse and drag up.
You can also right-click on the channel and click “Send Message…”
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Tried openSUSE in a Vbox VM and it looks nice, but it has some problems like getting the Vbox shared folders accessible. Starting programs on login was too user friendly presenting program icons only, sometimes I prefer a script to startup stuff, but I got around it.
What completely turned me off is:
- The poor programs to play music, videos and look at photos. They only support the home directory location and their is no preferences menu to change it.
- The poor support of multi-media codecs. Googling and following a one click install, I ended up with dependency problems during the installation and afterwards I still could not play the wma files, I have since 2004.
That finished openSUSE for me, it has been archived. I never had these problem before not with the Ubuntu family, not with Ubuntu derivatives, like Linux Mint and not with others like e.g. Manjaro.
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Today I’m going to give PureOS a try, because as far as I can tell it’s the most actively-developed GNU-Libre distribution out there. I’m curious how well it works for my daily tasks (minus gaming of course).
Edit: I’m not going to poop all over such a nice thread with all my opinions. If the correct time and place shows up, I’ll give them again.
tl;dr
I don’t believe Purism to be good faith stewards of Free Software as defined by the Free Software Foundation.
I’m making myself my homepage in python, django. It’s going nicely. I even catch myself starting work with one small change in mind (as I do it after day of programming in work), but ending up adding more.
I like it much more than web development in php (Wordpress, Laravel).
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Interesting. I have no proverbial horse in the race, so who would you recommend as an active FSF-friendly daily driver?
I’ve been using Parabola for two weeks now and it’s been fine. Getting it set up is annoying as it is Arch with worse documentation.
By all means try PureOS first though because, even though I might get triggered by Purism, at its worst it is as FOSS as Debian and Debian is pretty FOSS.
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