Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • All of those should be fine, the main caveats w/ Linux are:

    • anti-cheat games generally don’t work - there are exceptions, and this is a limitation by the developer, not Linux
    • Windows-only software can be iffy - e.g. photoshop and whatnot
    • using an NTFS drive on Linux can have surprises - don’t mount your game lib on Linux, just redownload

    Blender works perfectly fine, gaming on Steam and Heroic works well, emulators work well, and while I don’t know anything about Linux music production, I know there are software options available.

    Anyway, I recommend buying a separate disk and trying Linux out. That way you don’t touch your current Windows install while messing w/ stuff.




  • Been messing around w/ podman, and after hours of slamming my head against the wall, I decided Seafile isn’t worth it. :) It launches a bunch of stuff inside one container, and I just couldn’t figure out how to get that to work w/ quadlet (worked fine w/ podman kube play though).

    I got forgejo set up and now I’m looking into setting up runners so I can finally migrate off hosted gitlab onto my own forgejo instance.

    Some other things I’m planning on doing this week:

    • migrate existing services to podman quadlet from docker compose - will make each existing service into a pod and play w/ pod networking
    • set up technitium - tested it locally and it worked well, so just need to move it and configure it; hope to use it as the primary DNS for my house
    • set up owncloud ocis - there’s a new POSIX FS option, which was my main hangup when I last looked into a nextcloud alternative (I only need storage + collabora)
    • probably some kind of dashboard, because the number of services I host is getting a bit long

    If I get time, I want to install openSUSE MicroOS onto my NAS and start migrating everything to it (from openSUSE Leap). I really like the idea of an immutable base OS, and my NAS is already 90% containers (pretty much just Samba left). I need to fix some permission issues anyway (keep having to chown my videos so samba and jellyfin can work together), and this should make things a bit more obvious.

    I’ll probably also start a blog about my self-hosting journey, because the info around podman is kinda sparse, especially when it comes to quadlet.

    Edit: got OCIS working, but it was a bit of a pain. Starting that blog really sounds like a good idea…















  • The original 14-year duration w/ an optional renewal is pretty fair IMO. That’s long enough that the work has likely lost popularity, but not so long that it’s irrelevant. Renewals should be approved based on need (i.e. I’m currently living off the royalties).

    The current copyright term in the US is utterly atrocious.

    Oh, we should also consider copyright null and void once it’s no longer available commercially for a “reasonable” price. As in, if I can’t go buy the book or movie today for a similar price to the original launch (or less), then you should lose copyright protections.