Your first distribution
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    Debian Sarge which was testing back then. Woody was stable.

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  • School is just one simplification after the other
  • ben ben Now 100%

    Ahh yes. Good ol' Michael Reeves. Awesome.

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  • It's not DNS
  • ben ben Now 100%

    Oh dang, I need to rebuild that one as well by chance. Still running on Buster...

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  • ISP Suggests That Record Labels Can Sue Torrent Client Developers * TorrentFreak
  • ben ben Now 97%

    With that logic they should sue the creators of the AV1 codec as well. Lots of pirated movies will be encoded with it....

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  • Knowing what you know about Elon Musk, why are you still on X?
  • ben ben Now 57%

    My best guess: Ignorance is bliss.

    (As for me I deleted my Twitter account that moment Elon bought the platform).

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  • Gentoo goes Binary (packages)
  • ben ben Now 100%

    😋

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  • Gentoo goes Binary (packages)
  • ben ben Now 92%

    So.... Bentoo? Bintoo?

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  • What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?
  • ben ben Now 100%

    Better mainline support for RK3588 SoC

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  • How do you manage your photos and videos?
  • ben ben Now 100%

    Indeed. Immich is the way to go. While stating heavy development I find it quite stable. Did not have major issues with it. However I don't use their interface much. I just use it as 2nd backup location to automatically upload stuff from my phone to something else than the big G.

    Obviously this need some sort of server but a VPS will do.

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  • How to make sure transmission is using my vpn?
  • ben ben Now 100%

    Use a firewall to block all outgoing packages through all interfaces but lo and tun (or wg for Wireguard). Like this for iptables:

    -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
    -A OUTPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
    -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
    -A OUTPUT -d 1.2.3.4/32 -p udp -j ACCEPT #replace with public IP of your VPN you try to connect
    -A OUTPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
    -A OUTPUT -o tun+ -j ACCEPT #replace with wg+ for Wireguard
    -A OUTPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
    

    If you are paranoid you could mess with INPUT table as well but if OUTPUT is configured properly nobody well ever know your real IP address.

    Not sure how well this works with Docker and such, I use LXC containers.

    The funny thing is that I am actually seeding Linux ISOs (yes, real ones). The reason I am using a VPN to seed those is because the ISP is complaining about random peers hitting (non-existing obviously) addresses in private IPv4 ranges (like 172.16.1.1) and instead if simply dropping those packages at the switch ... oh well. I guess some people have multiple peers connected to each other via private networks but external peers don't know about these connections and simply try to reach them on their private addresses over public internet.

    Anyway yeah I could mess with routing table on my server and null-route those ranges but I have an active VPN contract already so why not using it?

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  • Who's your favorite fictional US President?
  • ben ben Now 100%

    Leslie Nielsen would be perfect.

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  • is cyberpunk 2077 good now?
  • ben ben Now 66%

    Might be a bit too early to be the judge of balancing since it has been just a few days. But for now all I can say is it looks promising.

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  • Why are you on lemmy right now?
  • ben ben Now 66%

    Because I can 💪
    Anyway mostly to screw reddit.

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  • What is your favorite content creator that has under 10,000 followers/subs?
  • ben ben Now 100%

    NicoD's SBCs. Does single board computer reviews, traveling videos and music. Around 4,4k subs https://www.youtube.com/@NicoDsSBCs

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  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
  • ben ben Now 88%

    Cheese is just rotten milk. Though I enjoy it.

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  • As badly described as possible, what is your favorite video game?
  • ben ben Now 100%

    Bumfights on an island where losers become zombies.

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  • what you think about funkwhale?
  • ben ben Now 100%

    I think it is a great piece of software. Unfortunately I have no real usecase for it so I don't run it on my own. Gave it a shot in the past though.

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  • Be honest, do you still use reddit?
  • ben ben Now 100%

    Nope. Account und its contents deleted and never looked back.

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    Ben "Werner" Zucker

    ben@ lef.li