There’s no simple answer to that question.

I’ve been self employed for over 25 years as an ICT professional, writing software, troubleshooting, training, doing research, data analysis, designing databases, reverse engineering code, writing reports, helping startups, installing satellite communications, rescuing ransomware victims, building Arctic capable GPS trackers, doing events, public speaking, voice overs and plenty more.

It’s a tough gig with lots of ups and downs. You have to be extremely self motivated and persistent. Work comes and goes. Sometimes you’re so busy that there’s not enough hours in the day, other times you have nothing coming in for weeks, months or even years. If you have a holiday, everything costs twice as much because you’re spending money while not earning any, and if you’re not earning enough, there’s no holiday pay, sick leave or retirement funds.

I’ve seen some interesting and scary software in production and met and worked with an utterly amazing variety of humanity.

It’s not for everyone and if you asked me today if I’m better off mentally, physically and financially as a result of this, I’d be hard pressed to give you an answer.

At least the thermal paste isn’t too thick…

Depends on how you install the software.

If you used snap to install it, then this affects you.

From the article, uninstall the software and use a .deb, .rpm or flatpack installer instead.

Essentially the snap version has a long standing bug that causes deleted files to be stored outside the normal “trash can” structure.

History repeats…

Build a website on your preferred platform, you’re already using WP.

Create a static version of it. There’s plugins for exactly that purpose.

Put the static files on a web host, I use s3, but you can use whichever you prefer.

When you update the site on WP, run the static extraction again and update your actual site.

This is the job for the OS.

You can run most Linux systems with stupid amounts of swap and the only thing you’ll notice is that stuff starts slowing down.

In my experience, only in extremely rare cases are you smarter than the OS, and in 25+ years of using Linux daily I’ve seen it exactly once, where oomkiller killed running mysqld processes, which would have been fine if the developer had used transactions. Suffice to say, they did not.

I used a 1 minute cron job to reprioritize the process, problem “solved” … for a system that hadn’t been updated for 12 years but was still live while we documented what it was doing and what was required to upgrade it.

Linux aggressively caches things.

4 GB of RAM is not running out of memory.

If you start using swap, you’re running into a situation where you might run out of memory.

If oomkiller starts killing processes, then you’re running out of memory.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/638975/how-do-i-tell-if-a-file-does-not-exist-in-bash#638980

man mv

https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/linux-sed-command

Look at tailscale.

I’ve been using Linux for 25 years, awk is a more recent addition to my arsenal, but rapidly becoming more and more useful.

For example, awk is extremely helpful if you want to rearrange columns, do math on columns, essentially do things that would take multiple lines of bash with cut and read.

grep, sed, awk, and find

Interesting. TIL. Thank you.

I did discover this collection of tools that appears to provide code signing by the Linux Foundation project:

https://www.sigstore.dev/

Why can’t RustDesk use Let’s Encrypt instead?

Source?

The fact that Debian is not on your list makes me doubt that it’s accurate or complete and while I’ve been using Linux as my primary desktop for over 25 years, I’ve never heard of any of those distributions listed.

Well, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.

Forgive me, but in my opinion, the headline is misleading … at which point in time have any lawmakers anywhere Known What They’re Doing?

So far all I’ve ever seen in the 49 years I’ve been allowed to vote, is short term politically expedient decision making, aimed at getting re-elected (or paid), rather than science based decision making processes aimed at improving society as a whole.

This seems relevant:

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

Is it just me, or does that seem … abrupt?

That’s interesting, since my list of addresses contains numerous ones that don’t exist and nobody here has ever used.