So I keep a windows partition just so I can manage a 16 year old mp3 player and radio. That has to be the worst reason to keep a Windows partition, right?

Yeah, and you can often assume that someone else has had that problem and was also enough of a nerd to fix it for us all.

https://github.com/Klar/ZuneSyncLinux

This brand of argument is basically ‘If you can’t do everything perfectly, then it is pointless to do anything especially the thing that you’re suggesting.’

You see this person in every thread on every topic where people discuss things that they can contribute their expertise to. Their message is ‘it is hopeless, your plan won’t work, give up what you’re doing, you don’t stand a chance’.

Honestly, and forgive the langue, but fuck those people. You know what your strengths are and what you’re capable of, not some faceless bot pushing violent political rhetoric who is, by its own admissions, not in the US.

If you don’t want to participate in the tech landscape as it exists today, there is absolutely nothing wrong about avoiding it entirely and building something else. Companies will not be so complacent about their position in the market if they know there’s a completely Free alternative that does everything that they charge a subscription for.

The people who are doing self-hosting today are exactly like the early adopters of the smartphone or any other technology. There’s always people trying new things and sometimes they succeed.

People who are using privacy focused approaches to personal technology, like self-hosting, are beta testing the ability to use cheap, mass produced hardware and open source software to build a product ecosystem that meets their needs. That progress is enjoyed by anybody in the future who decides they also want to leave the walled gardens of Tech Giantopia.

Yeah, exactly. You could glob with find to locate the directory, store the path in a variable and then pass that to stow.

I’m not sure what you have to do to make Firefox acknowledge the profile, but I believe it simply enumerates all of the folders in the directory and displays all that are valid (but definitely double check on that first).

Stow has no “glob for target” option, so you can’t do *.profile.

You could write a script that, when you’re deploying a stow, symlinks the profile into the right location. You’d have to remember to run it in the future so create a README file and include the instructions.

Your options to try out Linux without disrupting your Windows experience are:

• WSL, which is using a Linux kernel that is running in a VM (WSL 2). This will let you run some Linux applications on Windows.

• Live Disk, This gives you a full Linux environment but may lack persistence (your settings are loss on reboot) and performance issues (using a USB drive as a system drive is slow).

• Linux on a VM, This gives you a full Linux environment with persistence and good performance but you won’t have access to your hardware, like your graphics card, to do things like gaming (You maybe able to use passthrough, I haven’t used Windows VM software in quite a while).

• Dual Boot, The full Linux experience. Requires another hard drive or a willingness to resize your partitions (which could* destroy your Windows install).

The installation step is trivialized on some distros, just a simple series of dialog boxes. Like installing Windows was in the 00’s before you had to watch streaming ads and give it access to your medical records while creating your OneMicrosoft Online Co-365-Pilot Teams Drive Pro account.

*I have literally never had a single problem resizing partitions in 20 years of doing this, but it is technically possible if you lose power or are really unlucky with the cosmic ray lottery.

e: To your question directly: As long as you’re not trying to mess with Window’s system partition you should technically be able to resize/create partitions, create a new file system, copy files, and add a boot entry from inside of Windows. Ubuntu was the last big project to have a sustained effort to attract new users, WUBI was a big part of that project. Now, there just isn’t as much interest.

ou’re Try just running findmnt, the type may be ntfs instead of ntfs-3g. The -t switch is saying to filter and only show ‘ntfs-3g’ mounts and it maybe called something else in your environment. The list will be a bit longer but you should be able to find the listing, it’ll be the directory where your drive is mounted.

I then unmounted Samsung and ran sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=1000,gid=1000,rw /dev/disk/by-label/Samsung /mnt/Samsung

Did Emby work after this? You said you had to remount, what did you use to do that?

If you can get Emby to work, you can then look at findmnt to see how the working directory is mounted (which options/etc) and then you can update your fstab to have those options so that it will mount on startup.

I’m guessing I could also open fstab and change it manually but I’m not quite there yet haha.

Now’s a good time!

Editing the fstab is the ‘correct’ Linux way of doing things, the GUIs can be convenient but they can also prevent you from learning how the system works (so when it later breaks, you have no idea where to start).

fstab is just a text file, there are 6 fields: <file system/device> <directory where the device will be mounted> <filesystem type> <options> <dump> <pass>. The way it tells the fields apart is through white space(a tab or space character).

/dev/sda1  (any amount of spaces or tabs)  /home/external-drive   options,seperated,by,comma    0(old way of marking a drive to be backed up)   2(fsck check order, 1 for your root directory, 2 for everything else, 0 if you don't want disk checking like for a swap device)

If you’re worried about breaking anything you can just make a backup:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak

If you break something, just restore it:

sudo cp /etc/fstab.bak /etc/fstab

That fstab entry is correct (assuming the by-label path is valid), you could change auto to ntfs-3g but it is likely detecting the correct type so that isn’t needed.

If you can put it in the ‘not working’ and also in the ‘working’ state you can compare how it is mounted with

findmnt -t ntfs-3g

That’ll show the options that the mounts are currently using, a quick thing that you can try unmounting and remounting

sudo umount /mnt/Samsung
sudo mount /mnt/Samsung

That should mount it with the options in the fstab file, you can confirm with the findmnt command.

If not, that doesn’t work try umounting and then mounting with the options set explicitly:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=1000,gid=1000,rw /dev/disk/by-label/Samsung /mnt/Samsung

and see if they show in findmnt.

EDIT 2: Spoke too soon. After a reboot they were ro for Emby again. I added rw to the drive options and it worked again. But after another reboot, no go again. Turns out after each reboot unmounting then remounting works. Not sure if there’s a way to make this work. Maybe they mount too soon? I dunno, but for now it’s functional.

You shouldn’t need to remount if you added the options, they should be in the fstab file now so they’ll be applied at every reboot. If it isn’t doing that check the fstab file

cat /etc/fstab

To see what the relevant entry says. The options block is the block of text just before the two numbers at the end of the file.

However, I think I got it set. I added uid=1000,gid=1000 to the end of the options string and Emby now has control.

Yup, that’ll do it.

Now I just gotta look into why that worked haha.

Adding uid=1000,gid=1000 tells the NTFS mount driver “Present every file on this NTFS volume as if it is owned by UID 1000 and GID 1000.” The account running Emby is probably just your user account (guessing) so this did what you were trying to do with chown. Chown won’t work without the ‘permissions’ option and a usermapping file to translate linux IDs to the SID’s that NTFS uses, probably way more configuration than you need.

You should try to get off of NTFS ASAP. It’ll be fine for media storage but some things (pc games, esp) really hate running off of NTFS. I know how unwieldy it is to shift the data around, but it will save you a lot of headaches going forward.

Next, I have ntfs-3g installed and plan to run mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sdxY /mnt though I think I either need to create a drivename folder in /mnt or add mount -t ntfs3 /dev/sdxY /mnt/DRIVENAME the drive name to the end and it’ll create it maybe?

mount -m -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdx /mnt/mountname

Will create /mountname in /mnt and then mount the device on the created directory.

Instead of doing that you could just edit the fstab file and change the fileystem type to ntfs-3g(the package may be just ntfs on CachyOS so ymmv). Although, I suspect this is already done since you’re able to access and read the drive.

You may need to add -o permissions so that standard Linux permissions are applied (TFM: https://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfs-3g), alternatively you can add ‘permissions’ to your current fstab entries, then remount the drives.

ex:

/dev/sda1                             /mnt/windowsdrive           ntfs-3g            permissions,rw     0 0

I can now access my drives, so I began setting up my server. No problem this time! Emby sees the directories and scans them. Finally! However even though I can rw on the drives, Emby sees them as read only. Bummer.

How is Emby installed? In a container or are you running it on bare metal?

When you say it sees them as read only, what indicates this? A log? A GUI element?

So you read a bunch of articles detailing exactly how they plan on using AI and they have specifically said that they’re not using it for vibe coding.

And your conclusion after reading all of this is that they’re going to be using it for vibe coding.

It seems like you’re doing some vibe reading

Rsyslog comes standard on most linux distros, yes. It didn’t get that way because the development team are idiots who don’t know what they’re doing.

So, on one hand we have the developers of a piece of software used by a majority of Linux users saying that, after 2 years of evaluation and testing, that these tools are useful and effective and on the other hand we have random social media people who’s only knowledge on the topic is that they know AI is bad and therefore this cannot be anything but bad.

I, like the other commenters here, am not privy to the 2 years of evaluation and experimentation.

However, I won’t let that stop me from condemning this in no uncertain terms because AI bad and that’s more correct than any amount of “observational data” or “experimental evidence”.

We may not be users of the software, contributors to the project or were even aware of what rsyslog is prior to seeing this announcement but as people who are chronically outraged we have valid concerns about this development which will ruin the software that we only recently discovered existed.

Amcrest cameras have a RTSP stream open by default. If you know the camera’s IP address you can just open the stream in a media player, like VLC, and set it to save the stream to disk.

Also, you could probably save the stream without viewing using ffmpeg.

Or Frigate

Run pw-top while you’re having the issue and post the output.

It’s probably a bad default setting that’s setting the buffer/quantum incorrectly.

I just prepend everything in the home directory with a dot every 6 months or so, no problems so far

Disabling Secure Boot fixed it? That is very interesting.

Glad you got it solved! :)

it seems to happen primarily when I try to move the mouse regardless of the situation (if I’m in dialogue or exploring, but it’s the worst when fighting), and during cutscenes where they always play slowly and voices go out of sync

There was an issue with the Steam overlay that happened when they added the screen recording feature. After about 25 minutes any input will cause a delay in rendering the current frame.

You can disable the overlay or add LD_PRELOAD=“” to your launch options, if this is the problem

Spectacle

Flameshot is pretty good too

About [Secure Boot], here’s the related settings I found in the BIOS settings, but I forgot one more option and it’s like a boot list with two entries about openSUSE, one has “secureboot” on the name and the other doesn’t, if it helps I’ll add a picture of it to that album.

Try booting with the non-secure boot option then

cat /sys/firmware/ipl/secure

1 means secure boot is enabled, 0 means disabled.

If it’s 0 then you could use any distro, regardless of secure boot support.

There’s a config file somewhere to make it permanent, if you can’t find it just let me know and I’ll dig through my notes (if you find out, post it here for future googlers)