I’d keep macOS for Pixelmator Pro, but Photoshop …

Yet, yeah, that’s very cool to have! I’d have one installed, probably. However, Gimp is close to being gunshot usable, with PhotoGIMP.

Thanks! So, why does it matter? It’s a server, you can have it to do the job unattended. Or does it affect other services and you’re unable to use anything else before it finishes?

If not joking, what would you want a huge amount of ram for on a server?

Imagine buying one for cheap because it has some bad blocks and it’s unreliable to keep real valuable data on it! I have a 8 TB HDD bought for like less than a $100 a decade ago, from a friend though, as he had some bad blocks there. I host only media for the HTPC there, but it’s been a solid all these years. And when it dies, sad, but nothing valuable that I cannot redownload.

Ok, thanks. It really sounds like a simple solution to the problem. I think even if it does drain battery for some reason (e.g. a repository with a huge number of files), this could be automated, like the on/off switch to run the app to sync and be done with it.

On iPhone, I use sushi train, and it does automated sync via Shortcuts (a built-in app for light automations), via timers or other events like charging. It works perfectly fine for my use case. It syncs my notes multiple times a night, plus during the day while on charge or when I join trusted WiFi networks. I expect the same can be achieved on an Android. So, really, the CLI version might do the job plenty good, I believe.

How does it handle the battery life? Is it run all the time or do you just start it to sync when you need it?

Thanks to Lemmy, I quit the orange site. I didn’t expect the discussion on Lemmy to be that good! From HN I had this impression there are mostly idiots, plus these VC guys willing to utilise these masses of idiots to their advantage by various means. Via hiring them, making them do something (like adore YC and making them more popular, a fan base), by promoting one topics and suppressing others. They do modify the narrative all the time, to the point people start self-censoring.

There are interesting people as well, sitting there for some reason. But I guess they are heavily invested into the platform, and also benefit from their popularity there, so it’s a win-win for them too.

For me, an average guy, not even interested in becoming anyone popular, but seeking a normal discussion over topics I’m interested in, they’re just a moderation propaganda piece. While Lemmy mostly good. Unfortunately not all topics are covered here, some are quite tumbleweed, but some technical topics are rather good. So, my view, HN is just absolutely shitty trash in comparison.

I’ve been visiting the week or so, not even slight mention of the Epstein files I found there. I hadn’t been spending my all day there, but at least that wasn’t on the surface. I bet they’d just brush it off as irrelevant to tech, but come on, you can discuss a variety of precisely tech aspects of these (they used regular gmail or yahoo accounts, their passwords were like wtf very simple, the opsec was non existent, yada yada). Crickets. On the other hand, there are multiple irrelevant (to tech) topics wildly discussed. So, when you’re long enough there, you’d start seeing patterns and very obvious censorship.

Came to ask whether someone uses this.

What about actual developers of Cosmic?

I bet you’re looking for zathura.

Since Linux is not an operating system, but the kernel, I think the guy means:

• Gentoo
• Arch Linux

But hey!

• I don’t like Debian, but it’s good, quite a lot of people like it
• Fedora is good either. I like it. People don’t like corporate influence, but hey, it’s good, isn’t it?

I’ve heard good things of Bazzite (a repacked Fedora, isn’t it?). Also, Pop_OS! looks promising too, especially with their recent Cosmic Desktop. Personally, I despise Mint (especially the Ubuntu version, lol, shit based on shit, sorry everyone) but many people like it, so it’s not as shitty as I believe it is. Em, Ubuntu … anyone uses it? I’ve seen folks using it as a server OS. I have no idea, perhaps that’s not incompetence, but there are use cases.

So yeah, still more than three. I’ve heard BSDs are quite good, but maybe not for everyone, especially as desktops. Yet, I’ve heard good things about them.

Alpine. Even on a desktop, people use it. And if you like SBCs, I think DietPi is a great project, Armbian is a great effort too.

So… I don’t know man. We have more than three, our issue is with the opposite, we have too many. Someone uses Slackware even. Others Linux from scratch. There are Nix people. I should have missed someone. But as I’ve been saying, we have too many already.

Can you explain this DNS thing further, please?

I start with what I understand. DNS stands for domains name system, which means a huge database of domain names and their IP addresses. When I ask for a website, DNS tells my computer / browser which IP addresses to look for, to reach the website.

At home, I have Pi-Hole and Unbound. The first one censors DNS addresses by not including domains that serve advertisements. It can work with various DNS providers, including those from Google or Cloudflare. Unbound allows me to self-host DNS database, periodically fetching it from somewhere. That way my ISP may not see … here I’m not sure what, DNS lookups? It sees which IPs I reach, so I assume there’s no big difference, if they’d want to know which resources I reach for. Frankly, I don’t understand this solution entirely, perhaps unbound is for something different. I used Pi-Hole without it for years, only recently I added unbound, because it was quite easy to do with DietPi distro.

Cloudflare actively promotes their WARP service, for people to use their DNS servers. They have three options, four ones, three ones and two, three ones and three. My guess is they theoretically can analyse these DNS lookups for some reason. (E.g. by partnering with three letter agencies, doing some service for them.)

What is DNS in the context of my website being registered with them? When I reach to my website, or any other website registered with them, what would happen? Isn’t the record everywhere already? I cannot understand what this means in this (different, isn’t it?) context.

The rug pull scheme ‘now you pay us for DNS too!’ seems unlikely, for some reason. If it’s no different from what they provide as a free service. If it’s something else, I assume you can migrate to any other registrar, unless you’re too heavy into their ecosystem.

On a personal note, I’m not too heavy into their ecosystem, I hope. I have a couple of static websites hosted for free with Cloudflare Pages. Plus I have a bare metal file server with images which is shared to the internet with Cloudflare Tunnel. I’m nobody with a few readers, tens of posts and hundreds of images, and I chose this architecture because I don’t understand how to properly self-host my blog on a residential connection (meaning dynamic IP behind a CG-NAT or what it’s called). When I do, I may drop them in favour of a simpler architecture. But also I was curious how it works.

So, saying all this, I still don’t understand what this them being an authoritative registrar means in this context. Perhaps I lack some web dev skills to understand that properly. When I had my domain with Squarespace, they allowed more than Cloudflare, but I lack understanding to properly formulate that, to even understand what it was. I think I could host my top level domain with Cloudflare Pages only when they are my registrar, while having those Pages on a subdomain was trivial even with a different registrar. If I remember that correctly now, I might’ve been confusing some things here.

Thanks for your previous explanation, it was quite informative.

Thanks! I haven’t thought of com as being the real TLD, actually!

Thanks! It’s a bit more clear now.

To contribute to the discussion, I remembered that with Squarespace (my previous registrar), I had unlimited redirects, which I used heavily. I am not really sure about the unlimited part, perhaps that was hidden somewhere in the interface, and they have limits, and I just never saw them. But I remember Cloudflare communicated I have like 10, so I decided to not use it for nice-to-have but not really needed things. E.g. I used a subdomain for a blog, and created redirects for typical misprints in my name. Was handy, but not really needed. I should have document this, but I was too busy at the time, and now, almost a year later, I don’t really remember. There were differences with Cloudflare and Squarespace.

My first registrar was Google domains. As always, they killed the business. And sold it to Squarespace. I’ve been their customer for a year or two, nothing bad I can say, except the price was about 1.5 or even 2x of that from Cloudflare for com domain, so I migrated there. I have no deep understanding of the nuances, so I cannot say whether Cloudflare is a bad actor. At least I trust them to not elevate the price, as it’s not their primary business, sell domains.

I see that, but what does it mean in practice?

I have my domain with Cloudflare too, and at this point, I’m not aware of these DNS servers. Can someone explain it a bit? I know what DNS is, but I don’t understand what’s the use case for having them elsewhere. I’m not to argue, just didn’t know where to register a domain, so I went with them. I’m concerned with the future of the domain either, but don’t understand the issues at this early point.

I was thinking of this, being not sure whether I should even upvote this post. But then I thought whether it’s possible to design some similar system, interface wise, or would it be just too complex and inferior to what is currently used. I assume the whole systemd thing is a nightmare for FreeBSD architecture and nothing of a kind would be implemented there.

Thanks, I use it, but I could mention it, so it’s great you did! To me, Gimp became usable, I cannot stand its interface without it!

I assume they’re just talking of the GUI front-end, so it’s almost the same.