I suspect this machine might be memory constrained and if so zfs might push it to its limits if it’s already close.

If it has <8G and doesn’t already have decent headroom I’d think twice about ZFS depending on how its gong to be used

I worry I could be risking data corruption or something swapping to this setup

I really hope this is just a turn of speech and you’re not actually planning to put swap on those HDDs

With your edit that yields a succinct proof that things are nuanced 😉

Nope but I guess a workaround would be to make a oneshot workaround-nvidia-gpu.service systemd unit file that runs the command and have the lxc autostart depend on it?

Might be something about PCI resets that running the command triggers 🤷‍♀️

BunDGiE LiNuxXx 🤪

There are some bug fixes that are relevant for installs and base images. For example, security update in GPG is probably not a big deal for you but might be for someone building and pushing things from these.
Kernel, firmware and microcode updates might only affect a small minority of users depending on hardware.

Operating and securing Postgres is a steeper learning curve. MariaDB is more forgiving for best-effort shoestring setups without compensating scalability for it.

As a dev I’m agnostic, as an owner and computer scientiest I prefer Postgres, as a sysadmin or *Ops I will put my hand up for MariaDB any day if I’ll be on call or maintain deployments.

And thank you for the refining exchange!

I also recognize that both the rave scene and free software are enabled in part by people with cushy high-paying jobs and what Lemmy would call rich kids who don’t mind sinking some money (and sometimes employer goodwill) into their passion without expecting any returns.

You can replicate across more than one provider and do automated regular monitoring that backups are still accessible.

If one goes down you hopefully have time to figure out a replacment before the other(s) do.

Probably not worth it for a bunch of xvid dvdrips or historical archives of full system-level backups but for critical data it’s sensible.

I’m involved with people organizing free rave parties of all sizes and production grades and it’s something I hold dear so your analogy hits close to home!

They all have income streams from outside the scene, including the ones responsible for events with thousands of attendants. While there are countless stories of people making industry connections promoting their careers and getting work there, a DJ or producer expecting they will be able to sustain a professional career purely through scene exposure or free parties is delusional.

That a few have been fortunate and resourceful enough to do so for a while is great but it’s not an indictement of the scene if one of them makes a “The Scene Is Dead” post on Instagram that they’re tired of the freeloaders and only doing paid gigs from now on. If they then continue publicly theorizing on how one could successfully financially exploit this community, they shouldn’t be surprised if the people who have been volunteering (usually a better characterization than charity IMO) for years feel rubbed the wrong way.

it’s bizarre to me to see the “fuck AI in every way” place turn around and attack this guy

Agreed in the mobbing of the wider thread but I hope you don’t see that going on here?

What you can do is segregate networks.

If the browser runs in, say, a VM with only access to the intranet and no internet access at all, this risk is greatly reduced.

Best coupled with frequent refactoring and breaking of APIs so any community efforts at documentation are eternally outdated.

LVM itself does not provide redundancy, that’s RAID.

I think this is potentially a bit confusing.

LVM does provide RAID functionality and can be used to set up and manage redundant volumes.

See --type and --mirror under man 8 lvcreate.

It’s more like busking on the street and then feeling offended about not getting any money despite people liking your music. Maybe you’re even inadvertently part of some commercial ad shoot profiting of the city vibes. Or offering free trials of a service and then being upset when nobody converts.

I don’t think things you do become “charity” just because others benefit from it and you don’t get compensated. The bar is higher than that.

No reason to expect that everyone will be in a position to do that indefinitely, especially when it comes to massive projects that turn into full time jobs.

For sure. No strings attached goes both ways.

At least Brave is open source, in contrast to Orion.

My next suspicion from what you’ve shared so far apart from what others suggested would be something out of the http server loop.

Have you used some free public DNS server and inadvertently queried it with the name from a container or something? Developer tooling building some app with analytics not disabled? Any locally connected AI agents having access to it?

You say you have a wildcard cert but just to make sure: I don’t suppose you’ve used ACME for Letsencrypt or some other publicly trusted CA to issue a cert including the affected name? If so it will be public in Certificate Transparency Logs.

If not I’d do it again and closely log and monitor every packet leaving the box.

I adored Budgie precisely because it was still on X11 🥲

Anyway, for a relatively simple and clean holistic GNOME-that’s-not-GNOME, it’s a very polished desktop. Worth checking out for your F&F.

The need to think about and deal with snaps is the reason I don’t recommend Ubuntu to noobs in general. It’s confusing and unnecessary and adds to the frustration of being forced to make judgement calls about things you don’t want to understand just to do your thing (we have enough of that as it is). And if you do decide against snaps, it’s a bit of an uphill battle and it’s easy to start feeling that the OS, like what they came from, is antagonistic. Canonical decided to isolate and take control of part of the Ubuntu ecosystem with snaps and that has made the distro a bit more niche compared to before.

For better or worse Ubuntu is also known to be on the edge with new developments on the desktop. Switching to new shiny desktop environments between major versions, being very early on Wayland-first, etc. Having to learn new OS UI after an upgrade is not ideal if you are not an enthusiast.

Other than that, Ubuntu can be a fine distro, both for server and desktop. If you either accept the particularities like snaps or know how to work around them, it can be a very good experience and it’s well-maintained in general. But it’s less of a no-brainer and more situational if it’s appropriate or not.

Like Alpine or Gentoo: Great distros but for different reasons not anything I would recommend a non-technical Linux virgin to replace their Windows or macOS with.

Good first distros for beginners:

• Linux Mint Debian Edition
• EndeavourOS
• Debian
• Pop! OS
• Fedora Workstation

Not Good first distros but still getting picked up by people who don’t know:

• Manjaro
• Ubuntu
• Omarchy
• Zorin
• Garuda

Everyone: If you’ve only used one of the latter, try another distro before you believe “Desktop Linux is not ready” or “Linux is not for me”.

Specifically on Steam: Which hardware you run on can affect on which distro it runs out of the box on and if you need to fiddle with drivers and firmware or not to get things running smoothly. There is also some difference between installation methods (some people swear by the flatpak version and others swear off it).

Maybe also check the health of your SSD and that your firmware/BIOS are up to date.