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Twerk from Home posted:There is a cutthroat competitive industry of people making bots that do this. If you're trying to get shoes or PS5s, know that you'll be competing against people who are intentionally renting dedicated servers physically closest to the places that restocks are known to show up first, and using commercial custom software to buy things as they restock. Oh no that's OK, it's nothing high demand, but rather niche. I just don't want to keep going to the site(s) hoping to catch the day they restock. That's something a robot can do. For now I have implemented a web check in zabbix to monitor for the "sorry out of stock" text and notify me if it disappears. But that doesn't work for every case I was thinking of. No need to snipe a purchase or anything crazy like that, I expect there to be an opening for a few days.
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That link was great. It’s almost like high frequency trading, except for Air Jordans. E: For an actual contribution, have you considered requests/beautifulsoup in Python? Not that familiar with Zabbix but beautifulsoup will make the web scraping part suck less. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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SEKCobra posted:Oh no that's OK, it's nothing high demand, but rather niche. I just don't want to keep going to the site(s) hoping to catch the day they restock. That's something a robot can do. For now I have implemented a web check in zabbix to monitor for the "sorry out of stock" text and notify me if it disappears. But that doesn't work for every case I was thinking of. https://distill.io/ is what I've used for this
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TwoDice posted:https://distill.io/ is what I've used for this I might just have to do something like that, I was hoping there was an easy selfhost solution, but it doesn't really seem like it. One of the things I am trying to monitor is the Factorio Merch store (https://www.factorio.com/store) and they use ugly JavaScript so implementing that is a nightmare.
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SEKCobra posted:I might just have to do something like that, I was hoping there was an easy selfhost solution, but it doesn't really seem like it. One of the things I am trying to monitor is the Factorio Merch store (https://www.factorio.com/store) and they use ugly JavaScript so implementing that is a nightmare. Changedetection.io is FOSS and self-hostable.
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SEKCobra posted:I might just have to do something like that, I was hoping there was an easy selfhost solution, but it doesn't really seem like it. One of the things I am trying to monitor is the Factorio Merch store (https://www.factorio.com/store) and they use ugly JavaScript so implementing that is a nightmare. I'm like 80% sure their chrome extension runs entirely locally but I haven't checked recently.
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Having an increasing number of Linux VMs to play with, I decided to try setting up a domain controller (probably overkill for a one person setup...). I briefly considered using Samba-DC but went the route of FreeIPA. Having once inherited a linux facility at work that used YP/NIS, something that always seemed to be unreliably black magic, I've been impressed with how easy it was to get up and working.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Having an increasing number of Linux VMs to play with, I decided to try setting up a domain controller (probably overkill for a one person setup...). I briefly considered using Samba-DC but went the route of FreeIPA. Having once inherited a linux facility at work that used YP/NIS, something that always seemed to be unreliably black magic, I've been impressed with how easy it was to get up and working. Don't worry. Once you get into troubleshooting multi-master replication failures you'll be firmly back in black magic territory (kidding aside, it's a pretty great project)
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This is for the various Linux machines/vm around my house. It's complete overkill and I expect to only ever use the bare minimum of it's functionality so should avoid most of the complexy. (Just the one domain server, two or three defined users, sudo permission for some accounts, nothing more.)
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I have a problem with Wireguard and I can't seem to fix it. I have serverA -> gwA -> switch <- gwB <- serverB for testing purposes. GwA is a wireguard server and gets a connection from GwB, it routes the complete network that serverB is also on. This works fine for Iperf; I did some tests and it gets 500 MBytes a second between serverA and serverB over the tunnel. The problem is that SSH connections die over this tunnel. If I "cat" something it just drops out. Like this: ssh receiver cat /dev/zero | pv | cat > /dev/null. It starts at 56MB goes to 111 and then just drops to 0.0. I am thinking that it is a MTU problem but I've already changed everything to an MTU of 1280 and it does not seem to make a difference. So both wg0 interface are running an MTU of 1280. Servers are both Ubuntu, gateways are OpenBSD 7.1 running on KVM on the servers themselves with a network card that is passed through from the host. Any pointers? Edit: I figured it out. there was still an old IP on my bridge configuration on server2. So a part of the traffic would go over the tunnel and some of it would go over the switch itself because of missing routing information. Removed the offending IP address and added a route on gwB and it all works. Only took a couple of hours 
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Jul 22, 2022 14:11
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I have a question about grub that I'm not able to google the answer to: Can grub write to a mdadm or llvm drive from grub.cfg? That is, if in grub.cfg I call save_env somevar and grubenv is on a mdadm or llvm partition currently it fails. Is there something I can do to make it succeed? It seems that just insmod mdraid1x doesn't do the trick, is there something else? Volguus fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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Jul 22, 2022 19:36
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Does anyone know a good free way to push notifications to an Android phone from a linux script? I currently just send an email which isn't too bad other than the usual vagaries around delivery speed, but I wondered if there was something a bit more 'in your face'. There doesn't seem to be an official Android/Google API. I considered using Signal but the ecosystem seems a bit messy, incomplete and badly maintained. Nothing in the playstore jumped out at me a good and free.
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Jul 22, 2022 19:49
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Pablo Bluth posted:Does anyone know a good free way to push notifications to an Android phone from a linux script? I currently just send an email which isn't too bad other than the usual vagaries around delivery speed, but I wondered if there was something a bit more 'in your face'. Telegram is hands down the easiest way to get instant notifications onto an android with a very easy web API. Just create a bot and you can literally just use a curl command.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Does anyone know a good free way to push notifications to an Android phone from a linux script? I currently just send an email which isn't too bad other than the usual vagaries around delivery speed, but I wondered if there was something a bit more 'in your face'. IFTTT webhooks will work for free. But if it's worth spending any money at all a one-time $5 for https://pushover.net/ is cheaper and easier than IFTTT subscription. (Also if this is a desktop, and you use KDE, and you only need this to work when connected to the same network as your PC / maintain a VPN connection, KDE Connect can pop notifications to a phone. Only mentioning it because it would be the easiest setup, and doesn't rely on other services.)
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It's for scripts running on various Linux servers to notify me if stuff happens. I hadn't realised Pushover was that cheap so I'll probably go with that.
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Pablo Bluth posted:This is for the various Linux machines/vm around my house. It's complete overkill and I expect to only ever use the bare minimum of it's functionality so should avoid most of the complexy. (Just the one domain server, two or three defined users, sudo permission for some accounts, nothing more.)
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Jul 23, 2022 09:33
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I was only looking at Samba for it's implementation of Active Directory, but that seems incomplete and unsupported on redhat/alma which I'm using for the base os.
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Kind of going back here:Mr Shiny Pants posted:Maybe it is just me, but Ubuntu is becoming really annoying. I get some of these vibes and I'm trying to make sure it isn't a simple "just getting old" kind of thing. In my case, I'm trying to integrate some Rust packaging into a Debian distribution at work. Rust's cargo tool normally wants to resolve dependencies from github repositories and constantly hit the network, where I need an offline compilation using pre-installed, expressed dependencies. What a chore this has turned out to be! I'm hoping all this Software Bill of Materials and SLSA compliance stuff will have a side effect of increasing general robustness. Sure, they are paranoid about supply-chain attacks, but maybe it'll help us determine when a dependency is just plain poo poo.
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I find netplan useful, it's helpful to be able to describe the properties of a network bridge in a single YAML file instead of spread across four different systemd config files. Snap is, OK? I'm bothered by Snapcraft being proprietary. I'm also bothered that LXD is an install dependency for Ubuntu Server but also only available as a snap. There's just some environments where snap's forced updates won't fly, and in those environments I have to purge snapd and not use LXD. Cloud-init has its place for bootstrapping AWS instances and all, but again I think it being a dependency of an Ubuntu Server install goes too far and I purge it there too. Even on AWS I recently had to migrate an instance and cloud-init took it upon itself to blow away the existing ssh keys. Canonical figured out they can make money convincing folks they can use Ubuntu in their data center to build their own AWS or whatever, so they're going to invest in technologies that provide a value add for using Ubuntu. That doesn't mean the technologies themselves aren't worthwhile in their own right, but there's a lot of throat shoving for sure.
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I have a question about the OP: I noticed that in the OP a lot of distros we're mentioned. Debian, Ubtunu, Gentoo, etc etc but there's no mention of Arch Linux? Do goons just not like arch or is the thread just so old that Arch wasn't around yet. I run arch on my main laptop as a daily driver but I have Gentoo on my desktop. Truthfully though I haven't done my home work in the history of arch (or any distro actually now that I come to think of it.) So, come to think of it I actually don't know how old arch is. Is there any reason there's no mention of Arch in the OP or is it just an over sight?
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Well the OP is from 2007 and hasn't been edited. Isn't the standard practice to ignore the first page on all megathreads since they're all woefully out of date.
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As I remember it, arch became the new Gentoo around 10 years ago. You can't expect us to keep up with such speed? Actually, what is the consensus beginner distro right now? Last time I looked it up it was still Ubuntu, but everything I heard about them recently had been bad.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I find netplan useful, it's helpful to be able to describe the properties of a network bridge in a single YAML file instead of spread across four different systemd config files. Snap seems convoluted with all the mounts and permissions weirdness. I like appimage, that seems really simple. Download, chmod +x and done. To be honest I like apt the best. I used to just use the interfaces file.... I don't know. Creating a bridge is just really simple with the interfaces file. You have one file for the resolver and one file for the network cards. I like BSD even better: hostname.if I don't know, maybe I am getting old, but it seems like a lot of the stuff are just answers for questions no one ever really asked. I've been playing with ZFS send and receive, now that is something that just feels really well thought out. You create a send pipe and you are free to do with as you please. want a gzip? Other filesystem on another host? External disk? VictualSquid posted:As I remember it, arch became the new Gentoo around 10 years ago. You can't expect us to keep up with such speed? Mint or Debian?
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Mint for sure. It largely just works on everything I've thrown it on. PopOS would also be up there.
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Pop! Is pretty great and I like system 76 for what they do, but I kind of wish they'd have gone with Debian as their source instead of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is basically "Debian + Canonical's Vision", and then pop is "Ubuntu, but like, without Canonical's muckups". Edit: I haven't had much chance to try mint yet, I've been on Ubuntu for 14 years or so. Shoved mint on my work laptop last year but have been stuck in a Windows project so haven't given it much time yet. Phosphine fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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Phosphine posted:"Ubuntu, but like, without Canonical's muckups". Which is kinda funny cuz that's how I see Mint. Though, LMDE exists and I like that idea so much more. I'm all about Debian and I think it's a good recommendation when people specifically say "I am new and want to learn Linux. Because you might have to, you're gonna have to probably check the wiki to get your wifi working with some firmware from the nonfree repo. But it will still all probably work and be stable at least. But if someone just wants something that works and they don't really care about learning anything, Mint just seems like the right place to be. I dunno the goon perception of Arch, but I dont like the AUR in Arch for the same reason I don't like PPAs in Ubuntu, you put all that trust in what? Just some dude? At least with Debian there's some kind of trust. But yeah whatever you get bleeding edge packages I guess.
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I gave Linux a chance on my HTPC, and unsurprisingly it took less than half a year before it broke in some fashion I couldn't fix, even after completely wiping the userprofile as a last-ditch effort.
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VictualSquid posted:As I remember it, arch became the new Gentoo around 10 years ago. You can't expect us to keep up with such speed? I got into Linux around 6 years ago and I started with mint. Everything in the last few years I've heard about Ubtunu hasn't been positive. When I started getting into linux every one I talked to recommended me mint. My experience with mint was really positive. The GUI was familiar and I just started tinkering with the terminal which lead me to get into arch and Gentoo. I tinkered with Ubtunu way back in 2010-2011 but I dropped it because gnome is akward to people who grew up on windows XP, lol. But, nah, I don't expect people to keep up or anything. Just curious. The mods could possibly edit Op's, but, I'm not familiar enough with the site to know if that's possible or even worth it. I've known about SA since like 2004 but never did join, so, I'm new. Just kind of getting the feel for things. You know? Cumdog Millionaire fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I gave Linux a chance on my HTPC, and unsurprisingly it took less than half a year before it broke in some fashion I couldn't fix, even after completely wiping the userprofile as a last-ditch effort. Sounds more like user error than anything, but I'm sure there's a Kodi port you can use instead.
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I think the main advantage of going something Ubuntu based is that there's usually fairly up to date Ubuntu guides for everything and it's just a bit easier having it as the base. I still use debian on my servers but I've not tried running a desktop with it for quite some time. I've heard Arch also has great documentation and is probably a good 'learn linux' starting point too but I've never given it a go.
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Fwiw my switch to Linux started with kubuntu and my experience was altogether pretty good. I think kde is awesome, especially for someone coming from Windows. For as much hate as snaps get, you can just install flatpak and... not use them. Also makes some things like using proprietary Nvidia drivers with secure boot much easier than they might otherwise be, and on mature hardware it was very stable. I think at least some of the negative reactions Ubuntu gets as a distro for new users are overblown.
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Keito posted:Sounds more like user error than anything, but I'm sure there's a Kodi port you can use instead. That'd mean I wouldn't be complaining about it breaking though - because I could've fixed it, or simply reverted to a previous boot environment where it was working. Maybe the mistake is mine, but I feel like it isn't. If I gently caress up, it tends to be in ways that lead to that sinking feeling of "Oh poo poo..", which is also made better by ZFS. 
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VorpalFish posted:Fwiw my switch to Linux started with kubuntu and my experience was altogether pretty good. I think kde is awesome, especially for someone coming from Windows. I am running KDE on Ubuntu right now and I really like it. It is really stable and KDE comes with some nice tools.
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Aware posted:I've heard Arch also has great documentation and is probably a good 'learn linux' starting point too but I've never given it a go. Arch is a very good 'learn linux' distro is a very specific way I guess?  It's been working great for me! (I was a pretty expert troubleshooter and OS-wrangler before starting. I would not recommend it to anyone who isn't already pretty technically competent and capable of understanding stuff in the arch wiki, not just following instructions.) VorpalFish posted:I think at least some of the negative reactions Ubuntu gets as a distro for new users are overblown. I think it's more just Ubuntu-on-desktop has a negative reaction as a whole these days, rather than specifically for new users. If the community is trying to steer newcomers away from Ubuntu, they're probably thinking along the lines of "the default install is all Snaps so your firefox takes 20 seconds to launch, this will give a bad impression about linux as a whole" rather than information resources & guides.
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Gainax posted:I have a question about the OP: I noticed that in the OP a lot of distros we're mentioned. My experience with Arch was that even when following the wiki, it was really hard to determine the actually complete list of packages that I needed to install to have a functioning system after a reboot. After going back to the installer repeatedly to add just the DHCP client or the wireless driver or whatever and then finding after yet another reboot that I needed something else just to get on the network, I gave up on it. I'm sure this is at least partly my fault and it's a great base to work with (see SteamOS) but if someone said they wanted to run Arch and asked me for tips I'd tell them to look at Manjaro. I think Ubuntu and Fedora are both pretty great starts for desktop/laptop use, but I have a lot of tolerance for a bit of performance loss in favor of a feature-complete base with packages and documentation readily available. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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VorpalFish posted:Fwiw my switch to Linux started with kubuntu and my experience was altogether pretty good. I think kde is awesome, especially for someone coming from Windows. Frankly finding out years later that they included the Amazon web app into default builds of the distro is what killed Ubtunu for me. I've heard people say that they were sending user data to Amazon as well through this service but that always came down to more as speculation to me, though, it wouldn't come as a surprise if they were because of how these applications function to generate targeted advertisment. But even if not as a principal and as a concept for what free and open source software is, or even just open source, for me, that seems pretty egregious.
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In my experience, the strongest argument in favour of Ubuntu on laptops is that, given it's a standard model from any known manufacturer, it's likely that 1. It mostly works out of the box and 2. Someone has an easily googlable GitHub wiki page with fixes and workarounds for any remaining issues. It is likely that all of the above applies to mint/pop as well, but you'll have to Google for laptop+Ubuntu still. This might be true for other distros as well, but I've never bothered to investigate because I've had maybe two problems in 14 years and something like 8 laptops and 4 homebuilt desktops. I'm mostly looking at others now to see if I can find something that works as well for me while being easier to use for less powery users, as I tend to be the local IT for both friends and colleagues. Edit: and as the above poster said, some privacy concerns, plus snaps and general lack of trust in Canonical's Vision and priorities.
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Also, regarding AUR:BrainDance posted:I dunno the goon perception of Arch, but I dont like the AUR in Arch for the same reason I don't like PPAs in Ubuntu, you put all that trust in what? Just some dude? At least with Debian there's some kind of trust. But yeah whatever you get bleeding edge packages I guess. So at least for AUR, the only thing that the "just some dude" is doing is making a pkgbuild script. Nothing else is actually hosted on AUR, source tarballs come directly from github or wherever. So when you install SomeApp, presumably already having chosen to trust SomeApp's creators, so the only thing you need to check is the script. Which is just 20-200 lines. If you don't trust the author of SomeApp because said author is "just some dude", I suppose Debian is a safer choice. I don't know how much vetting Debian really does themselves for security, but at least you have the rest of the linux world discovering that SomeApp's authors went rogue 6-12 months before you hit the malicious version.
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