No open source Flash alternatives? Disappointing.

My company has decided to dedicate me and another coworker to go computer-2-computer and check if they have TPM 2.0 support.

I’m doing my best to push a Linux switch in our workplace!

This is why I chose an ASUS nuc + external bay-storage for my home networking needs, felt like synology NAS would be a limiting factor.

When i first researched Linux distros and learned that Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux, etc were all derivatives of Debian I knew it was the distro I wanted to learn.

Granted the package manager does tend to fall behind and the Linux kernel is quite outdated on Debian 12 however, it works great for 99% of tasks (including gaming!).

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Is there any point of logging in with a different account?

When you edit & save a file as root, root takes ownership of that file. I personally don’t like having to run chmod or chown every time I make minor changes to something.

And lying isn’t the answer either.

drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux

I dunno man, Debian makes it pretty easy.

1. Prerequisites

x64 Kernel headers:

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

2. Debian 12 Installation

Disable secure boot & add ‘Contrib’ repository to sources list:

sudo deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Install Nvidia driver

sudo apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

Restart system.

Bonus points for optimal performance follow CUDA doc & OptiX doc for Ray-Tracing & utilization of Nvidia cuda cores.

If ProtonDB says that it’s working then it’s working, most likely something ain’t right with your setup.

ditch the homepod and don’t replace it with any other spyware

Family has gotten use to the HomePod being around, makes simple things like settings timers for cooking or other related task a bit easier.

And yeah, I’m aware it’s spyware. I wanted a “smart-home” and essentially landed on Apple products.

Yeah I was looking into Linux based mobile OS’s and I’ve come to the consensus that hardware selection is very limited.

I was very interested in GrapheneOS but unfortunately it’s for Pixel phones only.

Ntsync got rid of performance degradation that can occur with some games under esync and fsync

This explains SO MUCH! I was getting frustrated when games start out perfectly fine than 30 minutes in frames would drop significantly.

I was so hyped when the EU pressured Apple into allowing external software on Apple devices.

Apple killed that hype making the change EU only, problem is I’m encapsulated in the walled garden with an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Air Tags, HomePods.

Thinking of getting a second phone Android based to partially-escape the garden but if I ditch my iPhone all hell will break loose network wise.

Forks of Firefox (like the Tor browser) are still Firefox, no matter how neutered it is.

9 times out of 10 the software you’re looking will typically land in your Distribution’s repository, before it lands in the main repository it’ll be vetted for stability and security in a testing repository.

For example; Steam-Installer is located in the main repository for Debian 12 (Bookworm) they also have a newer version in their Debian 13 (Trixie) repository for testing the next generation of Debian..

If you want to install software outside your distributions repository you will need to vet the software yourself and make sure it’s compatible with your distro.

Hope that explains it a little easier.

Why not just host the stack at home and VPN in? Jellyfin is pretty snappy I don’t think you’ll struggle much network wise.

Just bricked my Proxmox install an hour ago and I had the pleasure to learn their recovery process sucks. (At least for my case)

Think of them as a simplified mimic to the windows file system, they create this fake C: drive & user directory with basic windows paths (user, app data, program files, etc) an you can choose what firmware gets installed to prefixes (like .Net frameworks) an all this is how people can run .exe executables on Linux.

When you run wine ./something.exe a prefix is automatically created and the application uses that prefix to make it think it’s using the windows fs.

I picked myself up a Asus NUC 13th gen I7, chose Proxmox VE as the OS (headless Debian 12 for the main VM) and have about 35 services running via Docker Compose essentially 24/7.

Is it the most elegant setup? No, but everything runs beautifully.

Just make sure your Linux kernel supports the Intel chipset as they are relatively new.

This was maybe 2-3ish years ago;

I started with a raspberry pi 4 bundle from Amazon, played around with the Linux filesystem, bash shell, APT package manager and just kept reinstalling the headless Debian 12 OS if I believed to have bricked it beyond repair.

Eventually learned about the Docker Engine & Docker Compose and that essentially gave access to a plethora of software I would’ve have never have used before.

The raspberry pi 4 started to show sluggishness as I started piling more and more services on it so, Instead of buying traditional server grade hardware I liked the small form factor of the Pi so I opted for a 13th gen Asus Nuc with an 12 core i7.

Everything runs beautifully now and I even run Debian 12 on my desktop as well!