Yeah we had the bundle from a big ISP, home phone, TV, and unlimited internet and 10 email addresses. As kids moved out etc. We dumped home phone, and TV, just internet now as a bridge. I’d move to another provider but I still have 5 people using the email addresses; and for mine I’m slowly moving all my signups and bills over to another email so we can eventually make an easy switch.

I’m sure you could. I personally haven’t tried that, but games work well for me, as do the random windows engineering tools I gathered in the 2000s

Our ISP ships new routers that are admined from the cloud via a phone app. Its a disaster waiting to happen, so I told them I’m keeping my old outdated modem as a bridge and bought my own router.

Never turn on uPnP for external use, its a way to let hackers manipulate your network. It should never have existed as an option.

Maybe a buffer issue, does scp work?

Could be this https://omnitech.net/reference/2023/03/15/0x8007003b-timeout-copying-large-file-to-samba-server/

Or could be if you copy it via Nautilus GUI, people have suggests doing a straight cp from CLI has better results than Nautilus.

Microsoft being closed source hides their bugs and vulnerabilities. Even when security researchers have sent in reports MS has sat on them due to profit being motive not security, and not taking vulners seriously until the researchers say screw that and publish it.

Linux being open can have all eyes on it, and if there is an exploit, there is a community willing to help ASAP.

On many distros you may have weekly or even daily updates or patches coming through with fixes. A distro like OpenSUSE has various patch and list patch commands that show what security patches are avilailable, their status (critical, recommended) and if it’s needed on your system or not depending on what you have installed. You don’t get transparency on closed source systems.

If you are paranoid about security you can use AppArmor tools or SELinux. AppArmor can be set to learn how an app behaves, then you lock it so the app can’t do new things.

SELinux you set rules for files and folders, so even with remote access an attacker can’t access data if rules don’t allow file listing over SSH etc

You can solve that problem by making an additional efi/boot partition when you install Linux over the Windows install.

You have Linux setup with its own boot partition and the install should probe for a foreign OS, it then adds a chainloader entry in grub to point to the Windows EFI partition.

You set BIOS to boot from Linux EFI partition. When it comes up at boot you can chose Windows and Grub hands over control to the windows bootloader, but Windows is ignorant of Linux EFI existing. It now only messes with its own EFI and never touches the Linux stuff.

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Yep a 2TB 2010 NAS drive still holding data, the spin up time is getting a bit slow and some SMART numbers show it is getting older, so moved my data to a new drive to avoid catastrophic failure.

However watch out for bit rot on old drives. I had a few images fail to load because bits had become corrupted.

A ZFS system would alert you or fix these problems

You can get broadcom to work, it means adding the missing driver.

For example in NixOS its adding a line in the hardware/config file then running a rebuild.

For Ubuntu there appears some steps spelled out lower in this thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers

Some distros publish their known working hardware lists https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware

Yes

Ironically lightweight KDE runs worse on my 2010 laptop than GNOME does. KDE is sluggish and GNOME is peppy like a modern laptop. A dev type explained to me that GNOME fetches everything that’s needed for a function and caches it ready, where as KDE does lazy loading? Where it only loads what it immediately needs and knows what to load next when needed. And with my older system and slow processor grabbing this from memory with GNOME preloading is faster than KDEs method.

Portainer helped me get my head around docker images. And docker hub sometimes has the steps to configure the container, and sometimes not; many assume everyone knows how to pass bind or volume mounts and bridge or host network stuff.

I played with portainer a while to visually see what thing do.

Then it led to command line and yaml configs stuff after that. Its a learning process.

It is possible Gnome keyring holds the key, and the gnome password / key wallet is not unlocking during login. But I’m guessing. The error message sounds like the decryption key is not available

We use Odoo, but I can’t coomment on how it would suit you running a bar. But wanted to mention if you a need a very simple shift organizer (not self hosted) for employees Float is super easy to fill in and float shifts on the calendar. Odoo has some tools but I found it clunky for arranging the achedules

I have had no issues with nVidia on openSUSE. Just add the nvidias own repo to SUSE, and it pulls their specific driver for OpenSUSE. Everything works, even turning on RTX shading in games.

I had windows issues this morning, trying to set the aeay message expiry in teams. When I click the date … no problem, when I click time there is a long scroll list of times, when I go to move mouse over a time it closes the time picker window because it thinks I have moused off of it. I tried various mouse methods and acrolling. Had to resort to keyboard only to move and select.

He should get an OpenSUSE boat.

If an update breaks something, you restart the boat with the older key, and magically its running again.

And in the background your boat throws old stuff overboard so you don’t have to be concerned about it filling up.

Each Distro is effectively a different OS, so depending on what you run you will have a different experience.

I started out on OpenSUSE because a CAD software for work only was supported on RedHat or SUSE. NVidia hosts a repo specifically for OpenSUSE so I added that and it figured out the driver. So all those nVidia complaints I read about just never happened for me. No tearing or flickering.

My wife’s old laptop couldn’t run W10 so we put Linux on it. Every Debian based distro I tried would crash on install, or hardware error during boot. But Fedora or OpenSUSE worked fine (warned of error but worked around it). Eventually moved her machine to NixOS, and its been stable for years.

Just because a distro gives you pain, dont give up if you still enjoy the idea of Linux, there are so many distros that one will work better for your needs

There’s a project that virtualizes those apps via containers VM install