It’s also illegal in my country

you don’t have to follow a wiki anymore; there are distro’s out there that specialize in repairing broken bootloaders using a point-and-click interface and they’re great if you’re as lazy as i am. lol

my xiaomi is clearly far superior than the other phones i’ve had at this price point and i want to stick with that brand for as long as i can now that i know what to do to get them to work in this country.

The rabbit hole I went into to get my smartphone to work in this country has taught me that Google silently placed controls that American carriers wanted into all Android builds since at least version 12 so it’s not hard to imagine that the likes of Netgear or Linksys doing something similar to the stock firmware of thier home routers in the near future, when Uncle Sam inevitably tells them to.

In at&t’s & signia’s case: Uncle Sam hasn’t said anything yet, they decided to pre-comply out of their own accord; so it doesn’t even have to be a law.

even if you got them; you’re going to encounter some stupid rules:

i bought at xiaomi phone and i can’t use it on most cell phone carriers in the united states because they’re banned based on their imea to please uncle sam; so it doesn’t matter that it’s capable of working, it’s just not allowed.

same is true for hearing aids: when i connect them using ordinary bluetooth, they work fine on both my xiaomi and samsung phones; but when i use the recommended software, they only work on the samsung and their tech support told me that they don’t work on “banned” hardware like xiaomi or huawei.

i bet, in the near future, huawei’s hardware will be banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address and american smart phones will refuse to share data w then via hotspot for the same reason.

Glusterfs?

It’ll let you turn the storage on each server into a single volume and you can set raid-like mirroring/striping.

I’m glad to learn that this is a thing; I’ve been doing my own cloud like service, VPN and backups using my own home built router/server and the consensus on both Reddit and Lemmy is that I’m foolish for doing so.

Thank you for making me aware that there are others like me so feel about relying on profit seeing parties the same way.

prepper… as in doomsday prepping?

distrowatch used to have this thing where you would recommend similar distro with similar themes; but i guess it disappeared for the last decade or 2; nevertheless, i would start my search there.

reading your post reminded me of myself 25 years long ago; searching google, or articles, or forums with well done informations like yours and my comment was intended for someone like the old version of me tearing his hear out trying to get something like vmware to work, when someone could have just told me that the names of a lazier version that works just as well… so i’m paying it forward. lol

Alternatively: you could just use what’s already preconfigured for your system by using kvm & qemu using nothing but simple “dnf install” commands and I recommend using virt-manager if you want a GUI like VMware

i took it for a spin also since i hadn’t touched it in 20 years; the colors are indeed odd, as well as the scaling.

i used dillo back when i only had old, used laptops

it should have, but it wasn’t and now it’s part of modern pop culture lexicon and i’m 100% onboard with divorcing words from thier ugly, painful history.

for me; it’s like owning the word “queer”

never heard that one before

ricing was a pejorative word that used to describe what people did to japanese & korean cars; but it’s stopped carrying that connotation in a similar manner to the words picnic and thanksgiving.

it’s like the words picnic and thanksgiving in their american-specific contexts: with both words no longer carrying the connotation that implies lynching black people or giving thanks to god for genociding native americans; the present day version of both of these words, along with ricing, is neutral now.

effectively, i am; but doing so in a manner that would allow polkit to continue running as designed.

my real goal is to understand why this post has such a negative vote count when the conditions for its existence seems like an acceptable risk since it’s disconnected from the internet; it’s literally how a lot manufacturing controlled by off-the-shelf computer equipment is done in this country.

specifically for that askubuntu post; you can set the “user” flag in your /etc/fstab or setup a udev rule to allow a disk or volume to be mounted by anyone, on demand, and without a password.

i’m sure you know that there’s multiple ways to skin a cat using linux and that’s what i’m referring to.

there’s other ways to facilitate the kind of convenience that, that post is trying to achieve.

i’m not a fan of polkit either and since they’re effectively airgapped from the internet, i see nothing wrong with what they’re doing and some part of me whishes i knew what this controversy is about.