I know, I’m 6 years late to the party

You’ve qualified to join [email protected] and [email protected] 😉

Return to Castle Wolfenstein, then found the RealRtCW mod after a few levels and continued to play that improved version. And now I’m doing Saints Row 2. (Played SR3 and 4 on the Switch several months ago.)

Debian is usually pretty good at auto-detecting hardware. It might be that your Ethernet and/or WiFi adapters will get new IDs and thus you might have to reconfigure your IP address and/or WiFi. But that should be about it.

But how many of these cycles can the battery withstand until it goes up in flames or loses capacity?

Born there and lived there until very recently. That’s why I’m so against it. 😉

I’m against the whole EU construct. I’d like to see them downgraded to the EEC/EEA again. So, yes, I’m also against those pencil-pushers in little Brussels making stupid (to be fair: sometimes, very rarely, less stupid) laws instead of letting people decide with their money.

IMHO it’s Apple’s product and thus Apple’s rules. It’s not about monopoly, it’s just Apple having control over their own product. You’re still free to NOT buy their product.

Funny how you’re talking about monopolies when the most probable outcome of Apple opening up their OS will be even more Chromium-based browsers in the mobile world.

Did you not notice that almost every browser from recent years is based on Chromium?

Did you not notice how Google Search basically eradicated almost every alternative there was (RIP AltaVista…) over the years?

Did you not notice how Android dominates the mobile OS market in most countries?

fuck do I hate swipe typing on iPhone

If you can get used to the idea of carrying a brick, maybe have a look at Clicks Keyboard.

We all thought that when Google came along, too.

It’s only React now. But misguided developers WILL also package Chrome if given the chance.

And maybe it’s not Safari making the sites misbehave, maybe it’s Google pushing arbitrary features via their Chromium/Chrome ownership and developers optimising for them instead of adhering to actual standards?

Great, let lazy developers ship lots of React/Electron/whatever apps each coming with their own Chrome engines and each being 100MB+ in size. Websites won’t be tested properly on Safari anymore because “please install Chrome from the App Store for maximum compatibility”. And Google’s domination of the browser market will be completely unstoppable.

There’s also FreeDNS. Their only ask is that you log into the account once every 6 months so they know you’re still using it.

But can Prometheus + Grafana e.g. monitor a website’s content and alert when there is a new firmware version available?

Zabbix can be configured completely via its GUI. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it.

I have this running on a Raspberry Pi 5:

services:
  db:
    image: postgres:16-alpine
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=zabbix
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zabbix
      - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data
    volumes:
      - /opt/docker/zabbix7/pgdata/16/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    networks:
      - zabbix7
    restart: unless-stopped

  # fping needs setsuid
  # Connect to container as "root" and run: chmod +s /usr/sbin/fping
  server:
    image: zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=zabbix
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zabbix
      - PHP_TZ=Europe/London
      - ZBX_SERVER_NAME=zabbix.domain.com
      - ZBX_NODEADDRESS=zabbix-server:10051
    cap_add:
      - NET_RAW
      - NET_ADMIN
    volumes:
      - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/alertscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts
      - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/externalscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts
      - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/mibs:/usr/lib/zabbix/mibs
      - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/modules:/usr/lib/zabbix/modules
      - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/export:/var/lib/zabbix/export
      - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/snmptraps:/var/lib/zabbix/snmptraps
    ports:
      - 10051:10051
    depends_on:
      - db
    links:
      - "db:postgres-server"
    networks:
      - zabbix7
      - traefik-public
    restart: unless-stopped

  web:
    image: zabbix/zabbix-web-nginx-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
        - PHP_TZ=Europe/London
        - ZBX_SERVER_NAME=zabbix.domain.com
        - ZBX_SERVER_HOST=zabbix-server
    #ports:
    #  - 10080:8080
    #  - 10081:443
    depends_on:
      - server
      - db
    links:
      - "server:zabbix-server"
      - "db:postgres-server"
    networks:
      - zabbix7
      - traefik-public
    labels:
      traefik.enable: "true"
      traefik.http.routers.zbx.rule: Host(`zabbix.domain.com`)
      traefik.http.routers.zbx.entrypoints: https
      traefik.http.routers.zbx.tls: "true"
      traefik.http.routers.zbx.tls.certresolver: le
      traefik.http.services.zbx.loadbalancer.server.port: "8080"

networks:
  traefik-public:
    external: true
  zabbix7:
    attachable: true

Yeah, I’m trying to build some muscle memory in yazi, too, as I like its instant previews.

I’ve also just remembered this website that has lots of other cool terminal tools:

https://terminaltrove.com/

Midnight Commander (mc) is a classic file manager if you grew up in the 90s with Norton Commander on DOS.

For my local Git repositories I prefer lazygit now. There’s also a plethora of other lazy* tools for e.g. Docker.

And you should maybe look at dialog or whiptail to spice up your shell scripts.

If you do Python, there’s the rich library and there’s also pythondialog. Both pretty easy to use. If you want more, there’s textual.

EDIT: mutt for emails is nice once you’ve managed to set it up.

Technically, yes. And you would be able to ask for those taxes back upon returning to your home country (with the same phone). But since this would create huge queues at the airports, nobody actually enforces that.

However, travelling with e.g. 2 Steam Decks or with one in its original packaging raises suspicion and you could get stopped when going through the green portal at the airport.

https://www.douane.gouv.fr/fiche/volume-and-value-based-customs-and-tax-allowances

Value-based allowances, which apply to goods you’re carrying (purchases or gifts), mean that you don’t have to fill in a customs declaration or pay tax or duty. You don’t have to declare goods (including gifts) so long as their total value or their quantity doesn’t exceed the allowance limits.

The overall market value of goods cannot exceed the following amounts:
Arriving by plane or ferry: €430

Any item whose value exceeds the limit must be declared and you will need to pay the amount of value added tax (VAT) and customs duties that would usually apply. These duties and taxes apply to the full purchase price on the receipt or an agreed-upon estimated value.

If you are bringing multiple items into the country, each item will count toward your overall limit; once you reach the limit, any surplus goods will be taxed.

Also note that the Steam Deck contains a Li-Ion battery and thus isn’t allowed in the cargo hold. So you’d have to take this into your carry-on onto the plane.

EDIT: Oh, and since it has a Li-Ion battery, you’ll have to take it out of its packaging and have it scanned separately during the security check. At least that’s how it usually is when travelling in the EU.