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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Intel NUC running Linux. Not the cheapest solution but can play anything and I have full control over it. At first I tried to find some kind of programmable remote but now we have a wireless keyboard with built-in touchpad.

    Biggest downside is that the hardware quality is kind of questionable and the first two broke after 3 years + a few months, so we’re on our third now.


  • This is my wireguard docker setup:

    version: "3.6"
    services:
      wireguard:
        image: linuxserver/wireguard
        container_name: wireguard
        cap_add:
          - NET_ADMIN
          - SYS_MODULE
        environment:
          - PUID=116
          - PGID=122
          - TZ=Europe/Stockholm
          - ALLOWEDIPS=192.168.1.0/24
        volumes:
          - /data/torrent/wireguard/config:/config
          - /lib/modules:/lib/modules
        ports:
          - 192.168.1.111:8122:8122  # Deluge webui
          - 192.168.1.111:9127:9127  # jackett webui
          - 192.168.1.111:9666:9666  # prowlarr webui
          - 51820:51820/udp           # wireguard
          - 192.168.1.111:58426:58426  # Deluge RPC
        sysctls:
          - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1
          - net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
          - net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
        restart: unless-stopped
    

    Can reach the webuis from LAN, no other network configuration was necessary. 192.168.1.111 is the server’s LAN address. The other services are configured very similar to your qbittorrent, and don’t expose any ports. Can’t promise it’s 100% correct but it’s working for me.










  • We just had Windows Update brick itself due to a faulty update. The fix required updating them manually while connected to the office network, making them unusable for 2-3 hours. Another issue we’ve had is that Windows appears to be monopolizing virtualization HW acceleration for some memory integrity protection, which made our VMs slow and laggy. Fixing it required a combination of shell commands, settings changes and IT support remotely changing some permission, but the issue also comes back after some updates.

    Though I’ve also had quite a lot of Windows problems at home, when I was still using it regularly. Not saying Linux usage has been problem free, but there I can at least fix things. Windows has a tendency to give unusable error messages and make troubleshooting difficult, and even when you figure out what’s wrong you’re at the mercy of Microsoft if you are allowed to change things on your own computer, due to their operating system’s proprietary nature.






  • Personally I’m not looking an OS that is “not so bad”, the initial impression should be “this is great” :)

    Ubuntu is kind of the “Windows” of the Linux world

    That’s also the thing, I switched to Linux because I hated using Windows, and I don’t like how Microsoft operates. The last think I want is a distribution which tries to be Windows made by a company which tries to be Microsoft. It’s of course an exaggeration, and Ubuntu doesn’t do EEE and patent trolling as far as I know, but at least for me it feels like they’re going in the wrong direction when they keep reinventing the wheel, forcing solutions that users don’t want, and generally trying to create a “one size fits all” desktop. I’m not against it, Ubuntu is probably a good choice for some users, it just doesn’t fit me. I used Xubuntu for many years, and I also tried both Gnome and Unity at different points, but currently I use Fedora KDE.