wtf is “GeForce NOW”?

Ah, cloud gaming

Well of course they’re going to rake suckers over the coals. Anyone with an ounce of foresight knew years ago that game streaming was going to be toll roaded to hell and back.

I sounds like you suffer from internalized proprietary.

I2P eepsite

I usually use

dd status=progress conv=sync,noerror bs=64k if=/path/to/source/drive of=/path/to/destination/drive

Take a reading of the drive health first with something like smartctl and if it has a lot of failing attributes, consider lowering the block size to something rather smaller like bs=512.

Edit: To elaborate, using the sync and noerror arguments will instruct dd to ignore errors and continue in the event of read failures, while allocating zeroes to the remainder of the block space. Which is also why smaller block sizes are better for potentially failing drives. The copy will take longer, but a single error won’t take large swaths of data with it.

Archived

Minetest

Disable unused interfaces in BIOS.

Netinstall with only basic utilities.

Reduce Debian

TIL jump hosts are an existing concept

I do use ClamAV. Most users just run some sort of daily scan, but this is remedial and not preventative.

In order to truly harness clamav’s potential, you need to configure clamonacc on-access scanning. It passes items off to clamd with lowered privileges and prevents file access through inotify until its realtime scan has cleared.

I wonder sometimes if the advice against pointing DNS records to your own residential IP amounts to a big scare. Like you say, if it’s just a static page served on an up to date and minimal web server, there’s less leverage for an attacker to abuse.

I’ve found that ISPs too often block port 80 and 443. Did you luck out with a decent one?

"Hey we released this new game buuuuut you’re going to need to purchase an entire separate computer system we call a ‘console’ because we refuse to compile the game binary for PC OSes, nor provide the source for you to do so yourself”

I interpret distributors and publishers treating me as a second (or third) class citizen as carte blanche to acquire your content and make the necessary changes to make it work on my environment of choice.

I’ve always wondered that. Why not just throw a git repo behind I2P or onto IPFS? It’s like they want to be attacked.

Anyone tried Lubuntu with LXQT desktop lately?

LXQt is developing nicely, but does not yet have wayland by default.

graphviz

https://files.catbox.moe/zwe5ns.mp4

Before I migrated, I had devised elaborate lists of programs and things I thought I would always want with me. But now, years later, looking back I realize that most of those list items had been replaced by new stuff that I found I like even better, or simply dropped from my routine altogether as I grew to realize they weren’t actually all that essential.

Schneider Electric APC Back-UPS 1500VA, 900W.

They power on self-test okay, but go on to just fail to switchover during outages. I’m still trying to figure out if it is a factor of cumulative time, running hours, or they’re only good for a fixed number of power failures. And whether its the battery or the UPS device itself.

It feels like crashing your car, and then the airbags go off after you’re already mangled and bleeding out.

Retail UPS batteries don’t even last a single year, in my experience. The weekly brownouts and momentary blackouts probably aren’t helping.

At this point, I’m just thinking of building my own with a charge controller, inverter and a bank of car batteries.

Consider running some kind of file integrity monitoring. samhain, tiger, tripwire, to name a few.

considering containerization, but so far, I find it not worth foregoing the benefits I get of a single package manager for the entire server

Just do MAC with either AppArmor or SELinux.

I’m so glad I grew up when I did and got to experience video games before they began injecting overt political messaging into games.