stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

First of all: get rid of the broken ones. You’re not doing anything with the running systems, so there’s no need to hang on to the ones that don’t run.

Next, make a list of the things you want to do and start doing them.

If you’re worried about power consumption, don’t be. If you’re still worried about power consumption, get an inline watt meter (a kill-a-watt), take some measurements, do the math and feel at ease. If you don’t feel at ease, look up wake on lan. You can have powered down computers turn back on when they get a packet so you don’t need to worry about power consumption.

When you feel like you’ve done enough stuff, get rid of the computers you’re not using.

Atop, btop, htop, top.

If that’s not good enough sar.

If that’s not good enough, set up cacti.

When you realize none of that stuff is actually helping you, journalctl and grep.

Don’t worry about swap, you’ll be fine unless you’re usually working with huge chunks of data like big 4k video files or something.

The firewall built into mint is the kernels included nftables the same one built into Debian and Ubuntu (I think, I don’t fw Ubuntu). It’s fine. Don’t touch it. When you need to mess with it you can figure out how to open ports or split routes or whatever really easy because there’s lots of documentation out there.

Putting everything in your home folder is fine. Programs will install automatically to /bin or /usr/bin or something like that and if you want them in your home directory you could make a ~/.bin/ directory and add it to your path and have your private programs there, but:

Stop using flatpaks or snaps unless it’s your only choice! You have a built in package manager with decades of testing and development behind it and a very capable team of maintainers who watch over the packages, use that instead! That’s why they say not to use the snap store, it’s a vector for using Joes Weird Program that no one has tried before and requires Joes Special Version of a normal system library.

Use your package manager.

You’re not at the point where you understand enough to do the stuff in the linux hardening guide without making decisions that unexpectedly cause you pain somehow. That’s not an insult, sometimes you just don’t recognize the “universal” symbols for engine oil as opposed to coolant and ruin your car by the side of the road because you just don’t know. You can learn that stuff later, but it’s best not to mess with it yet. Speaking of:

If you don’t have a backup solution setup and you haven’t recovered using it and aren’t periodically checking to make sure it’s still running right, turn off disk encryption. It’s much harder, sometimes impossible, to recover data off an encrypted disk. If you don’t have a backup and you don’t know how you’d access the files on the disk without booting the computer then turn disk encryption off.

Do update first, do dist-upgrade.

Stop using kali.

If it sounds like data access and not a failure, be at peace my brother, hard drives are at least as complicated as your computer and just do things sometimes.

Kokoro claims to have Spanish. Here’s a link to the voices list and flags from their page:

https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/blob/main/VOICES.md#spanish

“I don’t want to”

Shrink the partition with the iso dd’d into it and partition and mkfs the resulting space.

Upnp is not recommended for router and switch setup, it’s the normal way for devices on the local network to advertise and discover each others functionality though and is definitely the way off the shelf doodads do it.

It’s like how anyone in the house can open the refrigerator door but people outside can’t.

Over the past five or so years I’ve been regressing my own linux problem solving and question answering process back to a combination of first party documentation and directly observed results.

It’s been a long strange trip, but I think the days of being able to “just google it” are officially over.

So based on both the man page and your findings, it’s safe to assume that the medium article is wrong.

We both see different behavior than what it suggests and that behavior is in alignment with a different, trustworthy source of documentation!

Just try it out?

From the curl man page: -x

Oh shit, you’re right! I assumed the op was trying the same thing on smb and nfs.

Do you think it needs the “soft” option which makes data loss a possibility.

You’re overthinking it.

The password is there to gate access to resources based on who knows a secret.

It’s honestly an upgrade to go back to 10 and for me it was an upgrade to go to iot ltsc because literally everything that’s annoying about windows is not there including ads, preinstalled apps, news, weather etc. I have done a few installs of it for other people who want some of that stuff and it can be added back but in terms of clean, crisp taste, those mountains are blue.

I’ve used everything for a long time and you’re never going to get away from needing the terminal in linux because everything is a wrapper for something you can do in the terminal and if you need to communicate what to do it’s easier to say “type “sudo journalctl —since today | grep /dev/sda” and tell me what errors it’s giving” than to figure out what desktop environment, window manager, file manager, log system, log viewer and text editor a person is using or has installed and walk em through installing and using each of those to troubleshoot the same issue. So any two linux users will eventually triangulate down to the terminal unless they’re discussing things specific to guis.

If you’re looking to avoid ai, apple is a better bet than Microsoft just because of the money flow. It’s always gonna be hard to get away from ai on the platform that makes its money through ai, ads and web services as opposed to the one that takes a cut of App Store sales and charges for hardware.

There’s also the positioning of each company in their own words, Microsoft selling itself as the ai computer and Apple selling itself as the private and secure computer. We can’t trust what corporations say, but their presentation has to be believable or no one would buy their stuff and their self talk can tell us things about them.

Man that makes me feel old, apparently konqueror was the kde web browser!

So if I access a smb network share in pcmanfm-qt then switch networks my cursor turns into the watch when I try to click stuff in the share but nothing is hung or stuck and I can just click off it and even unmount using the eject icon beside the share name.

This is using Debian 13 with lxqt.

I’d suggest you don’t listen to anyone in this thread and don’t switch.

You don’t want to learn how to use linux, you want to keep using windows and you’re trying to do something about it now because the clock has run out on you. Go to massgrave.dev/windows10_eol and follow the instructions to get esu updates for three years or do an in place switch to iot ltsc 2021 and get updates for eight years.

During those years, branch out a little and try using a mac or linux on their own terms. Neither will be an easy switch, you’ll have to retrain your muscle memory and you will absolutely have to learn to use the terminal if you wanna use linux but especially if you have someone who can help you in person, you can easily get switched over.

You’re asking the wrong person, I use lxqt.

Tonight I can see if konqueror (the kde file browser still think…) does the same thing.

How are your network filesystems mounted, fstab?

When using gnome you’re supposed to not have specific filesystems mounted if they’re not gonna be available.

The proscribed solution is to use systemd to figure out if those mount points are available and mount them, but that would have to be coming off networkd instead of fstab which it sounds like is what you’re using.

A script to figure out if the server you want is available before mounting the filesystem would be easy, but a bad idea because that should be handled by your init system (probably systemd as above).

You could also just abandon gnome and use something else.