Using SMS through signal defeats the purpose of signal...
The UI is fine, what more do you expect out of it? It has a list of chats, a menu button with menu options, like it's a messaging app not a social media platform akin to discord or telegram.
Today I learned about Linkwarden, and I am so excited to check it out. Thank you!
NPM I did use, however it was ultimately the catalyst as to why I quit homelabbing. But when it did work, it was simple even for SSL cert renewal.
Traefik or Caddy are the 2 I am bouncing back and forth between currently. I may spin up a nextcloud instance.
I still want to get familiarized with NixOS and the concepts behind it. Just haven't taken the time.
I appreciate that mentality though. When things break, if your understanding of your setup is there, it's less to deal with.
I am forgoing the Portainer route this time. I am going to strictly use Docker Compose for my containers. I had too many issues with Portainer to consider using it.
For reverse proxy, I just need/want it for simple ip:port to sub.domain.lan type addresses locally. Anything I need outside of my home will be tunneled through wireguard.
I always quite liked Dozzle. It was handy, and has helped me comb through logs in the past.
I think Traefik is going to be what I investigate using. However the last time I tried, I was a little lost. I will have to comb over the documentation better this time.
That is good advice, and honestly never really occurred to me to set specific versions for containers.
I will likely dabble with Logseq.
I used NGINX Proxy Manager for a while, then had some issues that ultimately killed my homelab setup, so not sure that I want to go down that route again, or if I want to investigate Caddy, Traefik, or another.
I think I am going down the docker compose route. When I started using docker, I didn't use compose, however, now I plan to. Though, Ansible has been on my list of things to learn, as well as nixOS.
Thank you for the suggestion. The fact that it's FOSS wins my vote. I have been trying to go all open source where possible.
I think I need to utilize this strategy because I get lazy and don't update external documentation.
I really should spend time familiarizing with maintaining a git repo. I'll likely find one I can self host.
I have looked at Obsidian, it looks nice, but the closed source part is why I can't personally use it. Though, from discussions I have seen Logseq be thrown out when talking about similar software.
The wiki idea is a good one. The way to handle that is to have the wiki backed up incrementally.
Homelab Organization
Hi all!
So I want to get back into self hosting, but every time I have stopped is because I have lack of documentation to fix things that break. So I pose a question, how do you all go about keeping your setup documented? What programs do you use?
I have leaning towards open source software, so things like OneNote, or anything Microsoft are out of the question.
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Edit: I didn't want to add another post and annoy people, but had another inquiry:
What ReverseProxy do you use? I plan to run a bunch of services from docker, and would like to be able to reserve an IP:Port to something like service.mylocaldomain.lan
I already have Unbound setup on my PiHole, so I have the ability to set DNS records internally.
Bonus points if whatever ReverseProxy setup can accomplish SSL cert automation.
It was able to get an IP, and I was able to get smb access, but for some reason still won't allow me to open a web browser and browse, or pull windows updates.
I may have to play around with what is allowed through UFW a bit yet.
Completely unrelated, but on my Wireguard/PiHole server I setup this weekend I did get a bit more familiarized with UFW and how that works a bit better. So with that fresh new experience for me I think I may have a few ideas on how to accomplish this.
And thank you again!
I will check again later tonight when I am back to my desktop.
Though I think another project I am going to do is instead of using a qcow2 image for my windows installation I am going to experiment with using a dedicated SSD for my windows installl to keep it out of my BTRFS snapshots, and hopefully have a bit better performance. As well as I might install my second GPU for GPU passthrough.
This interests me. I may have to check this one out specifically for my configuration files. And I will definitely go the self hosting route if I do this. Thank you!
I did allow TCP/UDP for ports 53, which didn't seem to work, and 67 and 68. I can get some network connectivity but not fully.
Grub-btrfsd.service degraded and failing to start
-` hellmo@archie .o+` ------------- `ooo/ OS: Arch Linux x86_64 `+oooo: Host: INTEL `+oooooo: Kernel: Linux 6.9.7-zen1-1-zen -+oooooo+: Uptime: 7 mins `/:-:++oooo+: Packages: 1169 (pacman) `/++++/+++++++: Shell: bash 5.2.26 `/++++++++++++++: Display (ASUS PB278): 2560x1440 @ 60Hz `/+++ooooooooooooo/` Display (ASUS VG32V): 2560x1440 @ 144Hz ./ooosssso++osssssso+` DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.1 .oossssso-````/ossssss+` WM: KWin (Wayland) -osssssso. :ssssssso. WM Theme: Breeze :osssssss/ osssso+++. Theme: Breeze (Dark) [QT], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3] /ossssssss/ +ssssooo/- Icons: candy-icons [QT], candy-icons [GTK2/3/4] `/ossssso+/:- -:/+osssso+- Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [QT], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4] `+sso+:-` `.-/+oso: Cursor: breeze (24px) `++:. `-/+/ Terminal: yakuake 24.05.1 .` `/ CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete] Memory: 3.43 GiB / 62.60 GiB (5%) Swap: 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%) Disk (/): 151.91 GiB / 1.82 TiB (8%) - btrfs Local IP (enp7s0): x.x.x.x/x * Locale: en_US.UTF-8
I am having some issues with my Arch install:
``` UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION ● grub-btrfsd.service loaded failed failed Regenerate grub-btrfs.cfg
Legend: LOAD → Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded. ACTIVE → The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB. SUB → The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
1 loaded units listed. ```
I have already tried:
sudo systemctl restart grub-btrfsd.service
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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Does anyone have any suggestions? I am failing to understand how to resolve this issue... Any help would be wonderful...
I can see two sides to this:
Removable batteries are great, if you want longevity for a phone, and don't mind sacrificing water resistance.
On the other side of the coin:
Removable batteries have more potential to lower water resistance ratings.
I think more manufacturers should give the choice of a model with a removable battery.
Synchronizing user (files, configs, etc) between 2 machines
Not a stranger to using linux, but never bothered with keeping things synchronized between devices.
I have a laptop, and a desktop both running Arch (I use Arch BTW) and wanted to investigate the best way to synchronize things from device to device. Just to outline some details, both are running KDE on Wayland, both BTRFS, as well as a number of other similarities such as username.
I want to be able to synchronize certain config files, Documents and Files, and was going to go the Syncthing route.
What are you doing, or what would you recommend to setup in order to have parity between two devices?
UFW and a Windows KVM with Virt-Manager
So, I finally ditched Windows... All except for my need for a VM to use some hardware that aren't supported in Windows.
I setup a Virtual Machine with Virt-Manager for a Windows VM but the network traffic is being blocked by UFW. If I disable UFW the Windows VM can pull an IP, which is static as is, and even after turning UFW back on, the network traffic is still allowed.
I am in need of some help with networking for the VM.
<interface type="network"> <mac address="52:54:00:d7:8f:48"/> <source network="default" portid="d7ff3b1f-2c9b-4a62-b9e0-180855f14de7" bridge="virbr0"/> <target dev="vnet2"/> <model type="e1000e"/> <link state="up"/> <alias name="net0"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x01" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/> </interface>
This is the networking setup within Virt-Manager.
Any advice for getting network access on the VM?
Goverlay/Mangohud issues
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35034629
> I am having issues with Mangohud and Goverlay. > > Upon opening Goverlay it gives a black box and has issues closing without forcing it shutdown. > > https://ibb.co/pnzKZdd > > OS: Arch Linux x86_64 > Kernel: Linux 6.9.5-zen1-1-zen > DE: KDE Plasma 6.0.5 > WM: KWin (Wayland) > CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz > GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete] > Memory: 4.09 GiB / 62.60 GiB (7%) > > I have tried uninstalling both Goverlay and Mangohud > > I have also removed .conf files from: > ~/.config/MangoHud > /usr/share/doc/mangohud > > Is there more that I need to do to clean uninstall and reinstall? > > Any help would be appreciated
Goverlay/Mangohud issues
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35034629
> I am having issues with Mangohud and Goverlay. > > Upon opening Goverlay it gives a black box and has issues closing without forcing it shutdown. > > https://ibb.co/pnzKZdd > > OS: Arch Linux x86_64 > Kernel: Linux 6.9.5-zen1-1-zen > DE: KDE Plasma 6.0.5 > WM: KWin (Wayland) > CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz > GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete] > Memory: 4.09 GiB / 62.60 GiB (7%) > > I have tried uninstalling both Goverlay and Mangohud > > I have also removed .conf files from: > ~/.config/MangoHud > /usr/share/doc/mangohud > > Is there more that I need to do to clean uninstall and reinstall? > > Any help would be appreciated
Goverlay/Mangohud issues
I am having issues with Mangohud and Goverlay.
Upon opening Goverlay it gives a black box and has issues closing without forcing it shutdown.
https://ibb.co/pnzKZdd
OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.9.5-zen1-1-zen DE: KDE Plasma 6.0.5 WM: KWin (Wayland) CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete] Memory: 4.09 GiB / 62.60 GiB (7%)
I have tried uninstalling both Goverlay and Mangohud
I have also removed .conf files from: ~/.config/MangoHud /usr/share/doc/mangohud
Is there more that I need to do to clean uninstall and reinstall?
Any help would be appreciated
KDE Plasma 6 wakiing up display issues
Having issues with the display when waking up resolution and position is reverting on one of the monitors.
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.9.5-zen1-1-zen
DE: KDE Plasma 6.0.5
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete]
Unsure of how to go about this. I am using Display Port (unsure of what version but it supports sound too.) Not sure where to look for logs, or what exactly could be the culprit.
Any suggestions?
Hide LSPosed
Will Zygisk + PIF + Shsmiko hide LSPosed?
Currently I am passing safetynet/integrity checks with root on LineageOS 21, if I install Pixel Xpert and LSPosed_mod will I nerd any thing else to continue to pass the checks?
I used to use Hide My App List to help hide root/LSPosed. Is this still necessary?
What Rom do you prefer for your Pixel device?
Hello everyone!
A lot has happened since my last post, specifically talking about my LineageOS inquiries. I had a string of bad luck and broke the digitizer but no cracks to my Pixel 7 Pro.
So I ended up "upgrading" to the Pixel 8 Pro because the store I went to only had the 8 Pro and not the 7 Pro in stock and it was dire that I have a phone.
So this leads me to my next questions:
What is your favorite Android spin for your Pixel Device?
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I have used GrapheneOS, LineageOS, and Stock Android (of various versions on my Pro 7)
This leads me down the rabbit hole of deciding which experience I want on my Pixel 8 Pro.
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I have GrapheneOS on my 8 Pro right now because I wanted to see if I could make it fit my needs, and I am leaning towards it not working for me. Since I switched, android auto is not connecting even following the instructions GrapheneOS has to offer.
AdAway (nonroot) is not working on GrapheneOS, as it just kills any internet connection to everything on GrapheneOS. So that's another point against me wanting to stick with GrapheneOS.
No AFwall+. Another point against it.
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It appears that CalyxOS is going to give me a similar experience with issues related to the ones I mentioned with GrapheneOS.
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I had considered trying out LineageOS for microG but unsure if this is the route I want to go because I am unsure if some of the apps I will rely on will work for various reasons. (Mainly unsure if MicroG will suffice for them.)
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I am open to other options to, and would love to hear what you are using!
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Thank you!
LineageOS Inquiry
Hello! Longtime Android user here.
I am currently using LineageOS 21 on my Pixel 7 Pro, however after rooting and running a few Magisk modules I have been having issues with overheating.
So what I planned to do is build LineageOS myself, and use a custom kernel.
One of these:
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Some follow up questions:
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Will this break using banking apps because of custom kernel? (even with Chiteroman's PIF, Zygisk, and Shamiko?)
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However, I am unsure if I build LineageOS 21 with one of these custom kernels if I will be required to build each update with the custom kernel, or if the updater would update my build.
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I am open to suggestions on how to solve my thermal issues if anyone has any.
Thank you!
Edit: more questions
Alternative to Nova Launcher
As the title states, I have used Nova launcher for years. As it is the most feature rich, most customizable launcher that supports basically everything I could need from it. However I am looking to switch away from it.
What launchers are you all using?
I have tried a handful of them and none quite fit the bill. And one feature nova has but no other launcher seems to is invaluable to me; that feature being able to swipe up or down on an app on the home screen to launch another app or task. It's how I keep my main page from being cluttered.
I have tried Neo Launcher which I love, but it doesn't seem to be updated anymore.
I have also tried:
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Trebuchet - I am on LineageOS 21
So the only option I am feeling is gonna work is Nova but I am trying to ditch as many closed source, data thieving apps and services as possible.
I could however just use AFWall+ to block internet connection.
Any suggestions?
Follow-up to installing Arch
So, I am making the switch to using Arch full time instead of Windows.
Here is the rundown:
I have windows installed on one NVME and installed Arch on another NVME. After installing Arch on the one drive, and rebooting Arch hung at loading initial ramdisk. It never completed, I force shutdown my PC.
I went back into bios, and there wasn't an entry for my Arch drive whatsoever.
In fact, before this happened I had all bootable drives go missing from within my bios.
So, after the reboot, I left the boot options default, and it did in fact boot to windows.
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Other potentially important details:
I used archinstall rather than walking through manually.
UEFI
Secureboot off
GRUB bootloader
Unified Kernel Images on
Luks encrypted BTRFS partitions
Audio Pipewire
Kernels: Linux and Linux-Zen
Network Manager
Hardware:
CPU: i7-12700KF
Motherboard: TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4
GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3
RAM: Corsair VENGEANCE® RGB PRO 16GB (x4)
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 GT 1000W
Drives: 1tb WD Black SN750 (Drive intended for Arch to be installed on)
1tb Samsung 980 Pro (Drive windows is installed on)
2tb Samsung 980 Pro (separate data drive)
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Should I remove my windows drive while installing Arch on another drive?
Rather, what would be the best approach to this?
Could anyone provide any help regarding this?
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Edit: More details
2024 Is the year I will commit to ditching windows
2024 will be the year I finally be the year I ditch windows.
I am not exactly new to linux, yet I am far from an expert. I made my journey over the years form trying Ubuntu (many many major revisions ago) and have found myself down the rabbit hole of going Arch. I run Arch with KDE on my laptop. I want to fully ditch Windows on my desktop, however I feel this will be a much bigger hurdle to overcome.
Build Specs: i7-12700KF Copper Modded EVGA RTX 3090 64gb of 3600mhz DDR4 ASUS Tuf Z690 Wifi D4
I could go into more detail about my specs, but the specs aren't what has made this journey a bit tougher. I use a Line 6 Helix and a Line 6 PowerCab 112+ and both have usb connections to my computer for integration with, you guessed it; windows or mac software only. Now I don't have a problem running wine, and a number of other solutions to run windows programs, I do however have a gap in knowledge in order to try to use these specific programs with specific USB peripherals.
Now, I am not sure if this is the best way, but I had heard the idea of USB passthrough. And I have no clue where to begin with that. Would this be the direction I should be going for programs such as those?
The only other software that I am going to struggle replacing is the RGB lighting software for all of my hardware. Most of it is corsair (Fans, RAM, Water Cooler, and plugins for the asus motherboard.) And my Steeleseries keyboard which uses GG.
I have looked into using OpenRGB but I was unable to figure out how to get those setup as it wasn't as plug and play as the manufacturer software, but understandably of course.
The absolute biggest hurdles is my Nvidia problem. I have always had issues with Nvidia on Arch. I would gladly take an suggestion. For reference, I would be using this mainly for my gaming. I occasionally dabble in Stable Diffusion.
I will be running Arch with KDE preferably, but every single time I have had issues.
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I suppose any feedback anyone may have would be helpful.
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Checklist of things I need to get working on in Arch, any help would be welcomed:
- Helix Guitar pedal and PowerCab 112+ (USB Passthrough or any other alternatives people may suggest)
- RGB for SteeleSeries Apex Pro (GG software on windows, open to alternatives)
- RGB for Corsair (iQue on windows, open to alternatives)
- Nvidia Drivers