My bank used to complain that my browser was out of date. I wrote an email to customer service explaining to them that:

A) debian’s “out of date” browser actually includes all up to date security patches. B) simply reading the browser agent isnt really security. I had simply been spoofing my browser agent to get around their silly browser “security” policy

They removed the browser check 2 weeks later. Not sure if it was because of me

I hope you’re upgrading from debian buster to bullseye!

If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing

Debian is middle

For most programs, manpage or -h is more than a whole screen of text… 99% of the time i’m just looking for a common usuage example in one line. Tldr provides that very quickly

I cant believe i only learned about tldr two weeks ago…

It’s been a total gamechanger for me. I have such shitty memory for options flags. I’m pretty comfortable with the terminal and i’ve been full time linux for 15 years now

But i STILL cant remember common options for basic stuff like tar and curl…

curl output to file… -O or -o??? Have to look it up every time

Thats why i said you just need a few minutes on ethernet… Although i can see the problem these days with a lot of laptops shipping without ethernet ports

totally anecdotal… but i’ve installed debian on a bunch of different machines and i’ve never had to “prepare additional installation media” for any weird hardware/firmware/drivers… i just installed the base system and connected ethernet if any non-free stuff is needed. has anyone ever come across an ethernet interface that didn’t work out of the box? maybe it didn’t work 100%, but at least good enough to download the proper firmware to fix?

Weather underground is owned by IBM now

Anyone know of a community driven, non-profit weathet platform we can share weather station data with?

Wow, did not know this…

I think i will accelerate my plans for a new NAS lol

QNAP is taiwanese and still providing software patches for my 8 year old NAS. I think they are reasonably trustworthy

But i agree with you, i’m going to build my own NAS from scratch this year…

I would really like an LLM to be integrated into the terminal to provide helpful explanations of error messages and reminders of which common options to use for things like curl and tar

Like, i still dont know how to use tar without looking up the options every time

i added 10 different ppa to my sources.list and it broke everything!!! why did debian do this?!?

Unless you have the latest, newest hardware, most things should work out of the box

Worst case scenario you may have to edit one file in /etc/apt/sources.list to enable some drivers and firmware

Dont let the internet scare you with stories about how only L337 hax0rs can use debian. Its really easy

Just use debian and skip the hopping between overly specific distros

end up with all kinds of dependencies and leftover files from shit that you didn’t like.

I’ve been using debian for 10 years and never had this problem. Apt keeps everything very neat and tidy

Are you downloading random .deb packages off the internet and installing them manually?

Running sid for 5 years now. Had one major breakage where couldnt boot into DE automatically for a few days. I think it affected everyone…

Had one other minor breakage where i ignored a warning from apt-listbugs… I learned my lesson after that

So… Overall, sid has been a really good experience… Just make sure you read the listbugs warning on every update. And always double check if running full-upgrade to ensure nothing important is getting removed

Some dude wrote a driver for the temp sensors on my motherboard… Then quit maintining it because people were being shitty

https://github.com/a1wong/it87

DRIVER REMOVAL NOTICE ===================== I have been unable to meet support demands for this driver, resulting in unpleasant experience and frustration for everyone involved. Consequently, the driver will be removed from github, effective August 1, 2018. Interested parties are encouraged to clone the driver before that time and to start maintaining it on their own.

I’ve been reading nextcloud forums/reddit/lemmy/etc. for years now, and i feel like 90% of the problems are from people using docker or whatever easy one-click solution is out there

I’ve been running NC the old fashioned way for years now and i’ve never had problems of NC dying for no reason.

Have i had issues? Of course… Not not like the ones people keep coming here and shitting on NC

The only times i’ve had major issues and it was actually a problem with nextcloud, is buggy major version releases… So i never install a new major release until X.0.1 these days. Havent really had problems since

Nextcloud can be self hosted… It’s not really “the cloud”. Can be LAN only if you want