Same here. Started around ham/slink and then just kept using it.

Mostly on servers but for over a year it has been the only booted OS on my desktop (maybe time to recycle the windows m2-drive soon). Sid on desktop is great.

Servers are debian, desktop debian. Why swap when you found the best already? 😁

I guess technically steam deck is not on debian, but I didn’t choose it so it doesn’t really count.

Didn’t the writers just ignore the source material and thought they could write better? Which made them effectively write fan fiction. And even by those standards, bad fan fiction.

I know the purists might sneer at me for this, but I just spun up a server via Hetzner so I could run Docker in the cloud

Not an answer to your question, but don’t let some gatekeeper… well, gate keep. There are many ways to selfhost. Running your own hardware is one, renting a VPS but hosting the services yourself is another one. One is not better than the other.

Just pick what is the best solution for you and your problem.

Ideally the services should only bind to localhost and not 0.0.0.0 or similar as well. Allowing both proxied and non-proxied requests will 99/100 times cause problems, and then one time it doesn’t it is just confusion for no benefit.

What is wrong with $HOME?

Just run unstable, especially on desktop. It is just unstable in name. Debian’s unstable is probably 100x more stable than some other distros stable line.

I just run sid (unstable) on my desktop. Still very rare to get a broken package, and when it happens it gets fixed within hours.

Maybe he started the install at 02:30? And included a coffee break

Especially annoying since colons are already used to specify port number. Sure you can put it all inside [], but that just makes it even uglier.

Yes. Writting down a complex password helps against most attacks, except one where the bad guy has physical access to your note. Based on the normal users use case that is probably a very good trade off. Most hacks are done over the internet without access to your note.

Ideally everyone should use a password manager, but that is highly unlikely any time soon.

I know this is a meme, but security is not binary. It is not you either have 100% or 0%, it is always a sliding scale, and usually on the opposite side is convenience.

Encrypting your drive protects against someone stealing your computer or breaning into youe house while the computer is off/locked.

People like to trash people that write down their passwords on a post-it note and keep next to their computer. It is not ideal, but having a somewhat complex password written down protects a lot more against attacks over the internet than having “password”. However, if others have physical access to the note then it is obviously very bad. Like for example in an office.

Testing doesn’t get security updates as quickly as unstable, or even stable sometimes.

For desktop I run debian sid (unstable), despite the name it very rarely breaks. And once in a blue moon when it does it gets fixed in a few hours/a day. Usually it is just some package that doesn’t play nicely with something else, so not like it is unusable during that time.

The unstable part is that they do not guarantee that it will work, it is still more stable than most other distros and you get new packages.

It is also possible that microsoft will disallow it in the future. Even they realise what a huge attack vector it is.

I am kinda turned off by how awful and hacky it is, but sadly it is used everywhere. And the Facebook ties is another big minus.

Left: start/stop playing music via xmms2

Right: open a zenity file selector to load music into xmms2

Levitate? Do I look like some priest? I just blink away!

Or more likely, hit blink, it bugs out and you go half a meter backwards instead… But then you can always ice block or slow fall to save the day!

other warlock

It is always the warlocks that are the problem.

Signed, a mage

mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully.

Well no, your shell does. And there are limits to how many matches, for a more robust way use find.

As for the post topic. I use xmms2 with a small script bound to the windows-keys, left for play/pause and the right opens a file selector to load new files.