IngeniousRocks (They/She)

I DO do software dev, so my answer might not be relevant to you. Its because If the window is open, I need it right now. Otherwise it wouldn’t be open, or it’d be stashed away on another desktop.

Honestly.

On payday I’m running to the local electronics shop for a breadboard. I’ll make my own RGB controller. Fuck drivers.

If you’re on a Gigabyte mobo openRGB may not work at all.

I didn’t see anything like that last time I was on peertube.wtf

Like any other fediverse thing, the instance you use makes a difference.

If you don’t mind used, I had great luck with my Samsung L2020w, cat got some celophane stuck in it and it died (for good)

Replaced it with a Brother HL-series because they’re what I used at work.

The lil guys are beasts.

I’d normally not wanna go with the “big corpo option” but for a printer without HP shenanigans its really great.

If you set up with the apps it will try to get you to subscribe to an ink subscription, this is not required.

How old is this hardware you’re installing on? I’ve had similar issues on my last install using a totally cursed lvm setup involving 3 HDDs, 2 SSDs, and an SD card that was apparently not up to the task.

Once the SD card went bad any time I’d try to access it my filesystem would fail and I’d have to fsck after a reboot. Couldn’t take the SD card out of the array though, it was full too the brim so I didn’t have the knowledge needed to remove it correctly. Ended up just nuking the system and restoring from backup without the SD card involved.

Anyway the download issue might be worth following up on.

FreeBSD offers a 32 bit variant still via their i386 image.

Expect a small learning curve if you’ve never used UNIX, but most things are similar enough that you’ll be fine. If you’re ok picking up the FreeBSD handbook.

Manjaro has also DDoS’d the AUR several times and is known for not keeping their certs up to date.

Say no to manjaro https://github.com/arindas/manjarno

I don’t ever mean to be a downer but I feel this will hurt users in the long run. Just simy extending an umbilicle to Microsoft’s teat because they can’t be assed to let go and stop suckling. M$O and Adobe CC are some of the worst offenders for SaaS bullshittery.

I have my reasona for using FreeBSD, the system I’m using is ancient, about 20 years old. Its a decommissioned corpo unit, HP/Compaq DC5700S with 2 gigs of RAM and a dog slow Celeron D processor. I’m actually compiling a custom kernel right now to match my hardware because I’m severely limited on RAM and in true UNIX fashion it needs to only be doing what I tell it to, and not a damn thing more.

That’s what I’m finding, there’s some overlap but not enough that I can confidently administer the system yet. I’ve had the FreeBSD Handbook open in links for days 😅.

I’m starting to get the hang of things, there’s a few things I wish there were analogs for on FreeBSD that I’ve used on Linux for modifying swappiness and other minutiae but I suppose eventually I’ll know enough to be the change I wanna see in the world and just write the kernel extension to do it myself.

I’m using FreeBSD as is, I’ve got a 20 year old PC I’m learning on and FreeBSD afict is my best bet on this system.

I’m honestly kicking myself for using arch instead of something without systemd.

I used Arch to learn Linux and ended up just learning systemd really well.

That’s the one!

SO much of the documentation I’ve seen refers to the Bourne shell I just assumed thats what I was using!

I used to use fish but I’m learning Unix right now and am trying to use only defaults so I can learn freebsd the way it exists on a dvd, so right now I’ve been using the Bourne shell

I’m a Linux user and the games I play are usually not supported, so troubleshooting time often exceeds the two hour return window. This is nearly a non-issue these days though.

{intitle:game I wanted}{infile:*torrent}

This was how I used to format my piracy searches. 13 years later I recognize that forcing the search engine to generate direct links to the torrents instead of handing me pages I could get was probably where those viruses came from 😅

I think my grievance is in how “do it for me” I expected the app to be. Setup was simple enough, syncing files seemed to work fine. Sharing files between users I never figured out, and is why I got the application in the first place.

I guess when I hear file transfer, I assume that interuser transfers should be just as easy as system to system transfers.

I think I expected the app to do things it isn’t for, easier than it does. Tbh I can’t exactly remember, as I found it near the beginning of my selfhosting journey and my mind was swimming with new information at the time. It’s possible I’m just a big dummy 😅

Ok so it shouldn’t be on this list then, or should at least have a disclaimer that it isn’t the greatest for user to user file transfers

I’ve used all of these except packet and localsend.

Warpinator: your firewall is closed open it. It’s a fine app, insecure mode is a bit like airdrop for Apple devices, send files to any unsecured warpinator instance on your network.

KDE connect: calling this a file transfer app is like calling a Corvette a radio. Like, yeah it does that but that’s not the point. If ALL you want is file transfer, there are smaller apps. S’good shit though, check it out.

Syncthing: idk maybe I’m dumb but I didn’t get it. Felt like it was for backups, could never access my files on the destination device after transfers despite verification that they are in fact where I put them. Maybe a weird permissions issue?