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Not really worth it unless you’re downloading attachments from spam emails or sketchy websites. It’s pretty dated tech - old school AV definitions, but there’s nothing better that’s free afaik

As a media client, totally. Lots of people run jellyfin on Android TV sticks and things like that.

It still is! If you try and boot a kernel with nothing in /dev, you won’t get most of the kernel boot messages since /dev/console doesn’t exist. You need a basic set of device nodes in /dev before udev is started.

If you’re going to rsync a system to new hardware and exclude /dev /proc /sys, it’s better to setup a new mount of your / to a different directory and sync off that, so you get the underlying stuff without the cruft.

/dev and /sys are the other two special ones

No, you can’t have a hard link cross filesystems and proc is its own fs type.

If you delete a file that’s still open by the app, the link in proc will still exist and you can copy the file back out of proc.

Sounds like you might be running out of ram and using up swap, which just grinds things to a halt.

Open a system monitoring tool at the same time and keep an eye on your ram and swap usage. If swap is filling up, that’s usually a bad sign. (if swap usage is small and not changing, that’s not necessarily bad)

For bios look at https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd and it might do it for you.

On top of the other suggestions here, upgrade your bios. We really need to know exactly what you mean by freezing though.

As someone is very comfortable on Cisco / Arista / juniper, yes. It’s the only platform I’d push someone to use the web ui on.

Ubiquiti isn’t perfect, but it’s what I’d recommend over mikrotik.

I have a mikrotik 10gb switch and managing it is super frustrating. The mikrotik cli just makes no sense imho

I gave it a ip and enabled snmp for metrics, then have never wanted to go near it again.

I’d also suggest throwing more cores at it than you think it needs, and increasing the nic buffer sizes. This is what finally solved the random 1-2 minute outages I was seeing on lemmy.ca, turns out we were somehow saturating the queues even at relatively low traffic levels. (these issues might be specific to our model nic)

Finally, make sure hardware offloading is disabled, and your CPU type is set to host.

Revert back to the previous kernel / initramfs to get yourself booting. There’s no devices listed, so you probably need to add the disk driver and make a new initramfs.

https://github.com/mdshack/shotshare maybe?

#2 with opnsense

Personally I’m fine with paid apps here, lots of people use tailscale for example. I think the larger issue is the drive-by spamming without contributing outside of their own promotion thread.

I like the comment elsewhere in this thread referencing a subreddit that requires X comments over Y days in the community first.

They should hang out a while first and not have only posts promoting their software, and not only have comments in those threads.

The lemmy attitude is very anti commercialization, and they don’t know any better. That doesn’t mean we should allow it.

I think new accounts that show up to shil their app should be banned. They’re not actively participating in the community, it’s just spam. There’s been a huge uptick recently.

Yeah I use VL for lemmy.ca and it’s super quick and lightweight, but getting what you want into grafana can be difficult.

Elastic is heaaaaavy. You might want to check out Loki, I haven’t used it but I think it’d be easier to get started with than Victoria logs since it integrates tightly with grafana

VL is really about aggregation, not displaying it. You’d probably just need to setup a grafana dashboard with filters for all your normal traffic