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  • @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

    Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

    my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

    That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

    yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

    i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

    Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

    Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

    Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

    i know.. before i would say "i drink so much pepsi and eat so much sugar as food for thought for my brain activity..." then i had diabetes 2 scare.. no i am trying to be smart abvout that stuff.

    I really need to get my glucose levels checked as well. Haven't checked that ina long time. It's said, it is better to have it checked at regular periods, esp. if it runs in the family.

    you can just buy stuff to do it, it's not expensive. after doctors visit i bought the meter and the pocking needles and cardboard things that you mop up the trickle of blood with, and with time noticed improvement and stopped checking blood completely.

    at the same time i understood how real diabetics have it hard.. besides all the sickness and such, they also CONSTANTLY pick their fingers with needles to collect blood.. my fingers didn't love it from 2-3 checks a week. sick people do it several times a day..

  • By the way, we are already at 194 pages. Can we join hands and reach 200 in the next 20 minutes or so. Who's in?

    @morgan44 you still here?

  • @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @morgan44 said:
    Tech advice: "Use a hardware firewall to protect your home network."

    am i missing the joke in this one?

    Wait, was it supposed to be a joke? I thought he posted it to see what responses including funny ones we came up with. I could be wrong though.

    I don't think so

    That I am wrong or am I right?

    that it wasn't a joke.

    Oh ok. Wonder if there are actually affordable physical firewalls for use with home networking equipment, I mean hardware-based ones.

    Hardware based firewalls? Surprise looks inside it's just any mini pc running an overly complicated set of softwares.

    Yah, I don't think a hardware level security is possible, right? Like Kensington lock or something for ethernet. That a thing?

    I mean there are hardware based cryptographic chips and all the fancy names in the industry but in the end everything boils the software functions. Even in cars and bikes there's some short of software nowadays that works silently tuning your entire ride.

    Oh yah, forgot about that. Heard of such chips on Samsung phones, it's called Knox I guess. But, still don't know if it's just software-level gimmick.

    yeah KNOX is a part of protection of Galaxy lineup

  • @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

  • @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

    Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

    my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

    That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

    yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

    i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

    Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

    Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

    Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

    i know.. before i would say "i drink so much pepsi and eat so much sugar as food for thought for my brain activity..." then i had diabetes 2 scare.. no i am trying to be smart abvout that stuff.

    I really need to get my glucose levels checked as well. Haven't checked that ina long time. It's said, it is better to have it checked at regular periods, esp. if it runs in the family.

    you can just buy stuff to do it, it's not expensive. after doctors visit i bought the meter and the pocking needles and cardboard things that you mop up the trickle of blood with, and with time noticed improvement and stopped checking blood completely.

    at the same time i understood how real diabetics have it hard.. besides all the sickness and such, they also CONSTANTLY pick their fingers with needles to collect blood.. my fingers didn't love it from 2-3 checks a week. sick people do it several times a day..

    Oh yes, those kits are available pretty cheap, but, someone recommended always checking both your blood and urine to be 100% sure. That's why I prefer visitign a lab for it.

  • @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @morgan44 said:
    Tech advice: "Use a hardware firewall to protect your home network."

    am i missing the joke in this one?

    Wait, was it supposed to be a joke? I thought he posted it to see what responses including funny ones we came up with. I could be wrong though.

    I don't think so

    That I am wrong or am I right?

    that it wasn't a joke.

    Oh ok. Wonder if there are actually affordable physical firewalls for use with home networking equipment, I mean hardware-based ones.

    Hardware based firewalls? Surprise looks inside it's just any mini pc running an overly complicated set of softwares.

    Yah, I don't think a hardware level security is possible, right? Like Kensington lock or something for ethernet. That a thing?

    I mean there are hardware based cryptographic chips and all the fancy names in the industry but in the end everything boils the software functions. Even in cars and bikes there's some short of software nowadays that works silently tuning your entire ride.

    Oh yah, forgot about that. Heard of such chips on Samsung phones, it's called Knox I guess. But, still don't know if it's just software-level gimmick.

    yeah KNOX is a part of protection of Galaxy lineup

    But, I don't seriously think they have a hardware security chip on even those affordable A and M series phones. I think they have a software susbtitutte under the same Knox brand for those affordable phones and the hardware based Knox chip is only for their flagship offerings. Again, I might be wrong.

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Honestly, If you're really curious or want to learn stuff, I say create a VM and try going through the handbook and getting a booting system. Then after that, try more things/etc. as you will learn things. Can even use the binhost if you don't want to deal with compiling everything.

  • @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @morgan44 said:
    Tech advice: "Use a hardware firewall to protect your home network."

    am i missing the joke in this one?

    Wait, was it supposed to be a joke? I thought he posted it to see what responses including funny ones we came up with. I could be wrong though.

    I don't think so

    That I am wrong or am I right?

    that it wasn't a joke.

    Oh ok. Wonder if there are actually affordable physical firewalls for use with home networking equipment, I mean hardware-based ones.

    i know my car and any car in general has a firewall. it's the invisible metal panel that separates driver from the engine, you know, in case engine catches fire, explodes or something.. i actually had mine replaced a few years back as a recall on my car for free, it wasn't an official recall, but there was a note on Subaru website saying "it is a known issue" (when clutch pedal pressed, it made lots of metal scraping noises), so the dealer where i brought it to check contacted regional subaru office and they approved the repair for free. i was really happy, as it was nearly $3000 repair.. otheriwse it would still be squeaking, and i use this verb loosely.. i was doing Uber/Lyft at that time, and my passengers kept asking me what was going on with all the metal screeches..

    $3000 repair fee sounds exorbitant. How much does the car cost then? But, I like US companies for exactly that. They do not hesitate to recall and accept their mistakes. For example, here is a list of all Apple recall-kinda programs - https://support.apple.com/en-in/service-programs

    Most companies, even MNCs once they are out of their origin 1st world countries do not care about inherent issues and recalls. They just reimburse or take action only when there's a consumer complaint against them.

    i have the top of the line subaru - STI 2008. it's like that subaru from Fast and Furious movies, was featured in 5 or 6 of them.. Paul Walker used to be the one who drove it all the time..

    Oh yah, I love that car. Never seen one in person, but, loved it as soon as I saw it in one of those F&F ovies.

    i will only give it up if/when subaru comes out with new electric version of the same hatchback shape.. love it more than anything else i own.. honestly.. although i don't own much.. PC is in the running, thanks to all the data on it collected in many years, from previous PC etc..

    But, would you really trade your ICE Subaru for an electric? I hate electric and automatic vehicles. Absence of a stick does take the fun out of driving for me. But, on long drives, not having to worry about the clutch and shifting gears is a boon.

    STI is only available with stick, so i am assuming electric or hybrid version will still have if not stick, then some kind of "emulator"... dunno.. of course i will not trade my stick for some launch control software.. i like to drive my car, i do not like when the car drives me..

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Honestly, If you're really curious or want to learn stuff, I say create a VM and try going through the handbook and getting a booting system. Then after that, try more things/etc. as you will learn things. Can even use the binhost if you don't want to deal with compiling everything.

    Now with chatgpt, learning has become much simpler

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Honestly, If you're really curious or want to learn stuff, I say create a VM and try going through the handbook and getting a booting system. Then after that, try more things/etc. as you will learn things. Can even use the binhost if you don't want to deal with compiling everything.

    I'd really love to check this out as well, once my plate's a bit free. I do love Linux development and have been trying to get into low level development for quite some time now. With AI and all though, would that be a good career path?

  • @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

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    @bchot said:
    because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

    Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

    my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

    That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

    yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

    i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

    Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

    Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

    Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

    parkour.. lol.. one day you'll find yourself smashed on some wall and slowly leaking down it like a slime or something, and you'll know the truth.. LMAO

    but really, try with the PLANK first, it's like the beginning of any parkour training.. =) plank can be done anywhere.

    Yah, it's a daredevil's hobby for sure. But, I was madly inspired by the movie Banlieue 13 as a kid. Have you seen it?

    no, is it french? i saw lots of french stuff when was younger.. but do not recall this one.. i did see a movie or two based on/or heavily featuring parkour..

    like taxi 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 or 5.. when eventually turns out the guy doing all the jumping was actually Syl Stallone.. LOL

  • @bchot said:

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    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @morgan44 said:
    Tech advice: "Use a hardware firewall to protect your home network."

    am i missing the joke in this one?

    Wait, was it supposed to be a joke? I thought he posted it to see what responses including funny ones we came up with. I could be wrong though.

    I don't think so

    That I am wrong or am I right?

    that it wasn't a joke.

    Oh ok. Wonder if there are actually affordable physical firewalls for use with home networking equipment, I mean hardware-based ones.

    i know my car and any car in general has a firewall. it's the invisible metal panel that separates driver from the engine, you know, in case engine catches fire, explodes or something.. i actually had mine replaced a few years back as a recall on my car for free, it wasn't an official recall, but there was a note on Subaru website saying "it is a known issue" (when clutch pedal pressed, it made lots of metal scraping noises), so the dealer where i brought it to check contacted regional subaru office and they approved the repair for free. i was really happy, as it was nearly $3000 repair.. otheriwse it would still be squeaking, and i use this verb loosely.. i was doing Uber/Lyft at that time, and my passengers kept asking me what was going on with all the metal screeches..

    $3000 repair fee sounds exorbitant. How much does the car cost then? But, I like US companies for exactly that. They do not hesitate to recall and accept their mistakes. For example, here is a list of all Apple recall-kinda programs - https://support.apple.com/en-in/service-programs

    Most companies, even MNCs once they are out of their origin 1st world countries do not care about inherent issues and recalls. They just reimburse or take action only when there's a consumer complaint against them.

    i have the top of the line subaru - STI 2008. it's like that subaru from Fast and Furious movies, was featured in 5 or 6 of them.. Paul Walker used to be the one who drove it all the time..

    Oh yah, I love that car. Never seen one in person, but, loved it as soon as I saw it in one of those F&F ovies.

    i will only give it up if/when subaru comes out with new electric version of the same hatchback shape.. love it more than anything else i own.. honestly.. although i don't own much.. PC is in the running, thanks to all the data on it collected in many years, from previous PC etc..

    But, would you really trade your ICE Subaru for an electric? I hate electric and automatic vehicles. Absence of a stick does take the fun out of driving for me. But, on long drives, not having to worry about the clutch and shifting gears is a boon.

    STI is only available with stick, so i am assuming electric or hybrid version will still have if not stick, then some kind of "emulator"... dunno.. of course i will not trade my stick for some launch control software.. i like to drive my car, i do not like when the car drives me..

    "i like to drive my car, i do not like when the car drives me.." Wonderfully said. I love my car to have all the tech in the world, but, nothing that takes the fun out of driving.

  • @noob404 said:
    By the way, we are already at 194 pages. Can we join hands and reach 200 in the next 20 minutes or so. Who's in?

    @morgan44 you still here?

    i am not up to this challenge. have to feed some cats quite sooon.

  • @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:
    By the way, we are already at 194 pages. Can we join hands and reach 200 in the next 20 minutes or so. Who's in?

    @morgan44 you still here?

    i am not up to this challenge. have to feed some cats quite sooon.

    we would need @dustinc to start going thru bandwidth upgrade requests to actually hit 5 pages in 20 minutes.. =)

  • @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

    Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

    my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

    That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

    yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

    i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

    Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

    Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

    Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

    i know.. before i would say "i drink so much pepsi and eat so much sugar as food for thought for my brain activity..." then i had diabetes 2 scare.. no i am trying to be smart abvout that stuff.

    I really need to get my glucose levels checked as well. Haven't checked that ina long time. It's said, it is better to have it checked at regular periods, esp. if it runs in the family.

    you can just buy stuff to do it, it's not expensive. after doctors visit i bought the meter and the pocking needles and cardboard things that you mop up the trickle of blood with, and with time noticed improvement and stopped checking blood completely.

    at the same time i understood how real diabetics have it hard.. besides all the sickness and such, they also CONSTANTLY pick their fingers with needles to collect blood.. my fingers didn't love it from 2-3 checks a week. sick people do it several times a day..

    Oh yes, those kits are available pretty cheap, but, someone recommended always checking both your blood and urine to be 100% sure. That's why I prefer visitign a lab for it.

    iwas gonna joke about tasting sugar in urine, but maybe i shouldn't.. =)

  • @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

    Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

    my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

    That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

    yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

    i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

    Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

    Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

    Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

    parkour.. lol.. one day you'll find yourself smashed on some wall and slowly leaking down it like a slime or something, and you'll know the truth.. LMAO

    but really, try with the PLANK first, it's like the beginning of any parkour training.. =) plank can be done anywhere.

    Yah, it's a daredevil's hobby for sure. But, I was madly inspired by the movie Banlieue 13 as a kid. Have you seen it?

    no, is it french? i saw lots of french stuff when was younger.. but do not recall this one.. i did see a movie or two based on/or heavily featuring parkour..

    like taxi 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 or 5.. when eventually turns out the guy doing all the jumping was actually Syl Stallone.. LOL

    Yah, it's French. It was dubbed in English and released as Banlieue 13. Infact, there's a remake with Paul Walker and the original French actor, David Belle - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430612/

    But, the original is so much better, because David Belle's co-actor, Cyril Rafaelli is an awesome daredevil - jumps off from 3rd floors landing on his back, doesn't open car doors to enter the care, etc. It's unlike any parkour movie you might have seen.

  • @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:
    By the way, we are already at 194 pages. Can we join hands and reach 200 in the next 20 minutes or so. Who's in?

    @morgan44 you still here?

    i am not up to this challenge. have to feed some cats quite sooon.

    Sure, try to be ther though when we hit 200. sara might do a giveaway maybe :lol:

  • @noob404 said:

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    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @morgan44 said:
    Tech advice: "Use a hardware firewall to protect your home network."

    am i missing the joke in this one?

    Wait, was it supposed to be a joke? I thought he posted it to see what responses including funny ones we came up with. I could be wrong though.

    I don't think so

    That I am wrong or am I right?

    that it wasn't a joke.

    Oh ok. Wonder if there are actually affordable physical firewalls for use with home networking equipment, I mean hardware-based ones.

    Hardware based firewalls? Surprise looks inside it's just any mini pc running an overly complicated set of softwares.

    Yah, I don't think a hardware level security is possible, right? Like Kensington lock or something for ethernet. That a thing?

    I mean there are hardware based cryptographic chips and all the fancy names in the industry but in the end everything boils the software functions. Even in cars and bikes there's some short of software nowadays that works silently tuning your entire ride.

    Oh yah, forgot about that. Heard of such chips on Samsung phones, it's called Knox I guess. But, still don't know if it's just software-level gimmick.

    yeah KNOX is a part of protection of Galaxy lineup

    But, I don't seriously think they have a hardware security chip on even those affordable A and M series phones. I think they have a software susbtitutte under the same Knox brand for those affordable phones and the hardware based Knox chip is only for their flagship offerings. Again, I might be wrong.

    ugh,i don't look that deep into what's in my pocket.. it works, i am fine with it.. i am quite shallow about security..

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  • @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?

    Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).

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    @bchot said:
    because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

    Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

    my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

    That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

    yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

    i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

    Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

    Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

    Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

    i know.. before i would say "i drink so much pepsi and eat so much sugar as food for thought for my brain activity..." then i had diabetes 2 scare.. no i am trying to be smart abvout that stuff.

    I really need to get my glucose levels checked as well. Haven't checked that ina long time. It's said, it is better to have it checked at regular periods, esp. if it runs in the family.

    you can just buy stuff to do it, it's not expensive. after doctors visit i bought the meter and the pocking needles and cardboard things that you mop up the trickle of blood with, and with time noticed improvement and stopped checking blood completely.

    at the same time i understood how real diabetics have it hard.. besides all the sickness and such, they also CONSTANTLY pick their fingers with needles to collect blood.. my fingers didn't love it from 2-3 checks a week. sick people do it several times a day..

    Oh yes, those kits are available pretty cheap, but, someone recommended always checking both your blood and urine to be 100% sure. That's why I prefer visitign a lab for it.

    iwas gonna joke about tasting sugar in urine, but maybe i shouldn't.. =)

    Well, that's what they do actually find in urine if you are diabetic. So, that would be the way to go in the post-apocalyptic world, ig :lol:

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    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

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    @bchot said:

    @morgan44 said:
    Tech advice: "Use a hardware firewall to protect your home network."

    am i missing the joke in this one?

    Wait, was it supposed to be a joke? I thought he posted it to see what responses including funny ones we came up with. I could be wrong though.

    I don't think so

    That I am wrong or am I right?

    that it wasn't a joke.

    Oh ok. Wonder if there are actually affordable physical firewalls for use with home networking equipment, I mean hardware-based ones.

    Hardware based firewalls? Surprise looks inside it's just any mini pc running an overly complicated set of softwares.

    Yah, I don't think a hardware level security is possible, right? Like Kensington lock or something for ethernet. That a thing?

    I mean there are hardware based cryptographic chips and all the fancy names in the industry but in the end everything boils the software functions. Even in cars and bikes there's some short of software nowadays that works silently tuning your entire ride.

    Oh yah, forgot about that. Heard of such chips on Samsung phones, it's called Knox I guess. But, still don't know if it's just software-level gimmick.

    yeah KNOX is a part of protection of Galaxy lineup

    But, I don't seriously think they have a hardware security chip on even those affordable A and M series phones. I think they have a software susbtitutte under the same Knox brand for those affordable phones and the hardware based Knox chip is only for their flagship offerings. Again, I might be wrong.

    ugh,i don't look that deep into what's in my pocket.. it works, i am fine with it.. i am quite shallow about security..

    Most of us are. I don't know if that's a blessing or ignorance.

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

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    @noob404 said:

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    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?

    Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).

    What I mean with OG xbox

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    @bchot said:

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    @noob404 said:

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    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @morgan44 said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @morgan44 said:
    Tech advice: "Use a hardware firewall to protect your home network."

    am i missing the joke in this one?

    Wait, was it supposed to be a joke? I thought he posted it to see what responses including funny ones we came up with. I could be wrong though.

    I don't think so

    That I am wrong or am I right?

    that it wasn't a joke.

    Oh ok. Wonder if there are actually affordable physical firewalls for use with home networking equipment, I mean hardware-based ones.

    i know my car and any car in general has a firewall. it's the invisible metal panel that separates driver from the engine, you know, in case engine catches fire, explodes or something.. i actually had mine replaced a few years back as a recall on my car for free, it wasn't an official recall, but there was a note on Subaru website saying "it is a known issue" (when clutch pedal pressed, it made lots of metal scraping noises), so the dealer where i brought it to check contacted regional subaru office and they approved the repair for free. i was really happy, as it was nearly $3000 repair.. otheriwse it would still be squeaking, and i use this verb loosely.. i was doing Uber/Lyft at that time, and my passengers kept asking me what was going on with all the metal screeches..

    $3000 repair fee sounds exorbitant. How much does the car cost then? But, I like US companies for exactly that. They do not hesitate to recall and accept their mistakes. For example, here is a list of all Apple recall-kinda programs - https://support.apple.com/en-in/service-programs

    Most companies, even MNCs once they are out of their origin 1st world countries do not care about inherent issues and recalls. They just reimburse or take action only when there's a consumer complaint against them.

    i have the top of the line subaru - STI 2008. it's like that subaru from Fast and Furious movies, was featured in 5 or 6 of them.. Paul Walker used to be the one who drove it all the time..

    Oh yah, I love that car. Never seen one in person, but, loved it as soon as I saw it in one of those F&F ovies.

    i will only give it up if/when subaru comes out with new electric version of the same hatchback shape.. love it more than anything else i own.. honestly.. although i don't own much.. PC is in the running, thanks to all the data on it collected in many years, from previous PC etc..

    But, would you really trade your ICE Subaru for an electric? I hate electric and automatic vehicles. Absence of a stick does take the fun out of driving for me. But, on long drives, not having to worry about the clutch and shifting gears is a boon.

    STI is only available with stick, so i am assuming electric or hybrid version will still have if not stick, then some kind of "emulator"... dunno.. of course i will not trade my stick for some launch control software.. i like to drive my car, i do not like when the car drives me..

    "i like to drive my car, i do not like when the car drives me.." Wonderfully said. I love my car to have all the tech in the world, but, nothing that takes the fun out of driving.

    sometimes i dream about snow treks.. those triangular ones that make your car look like a tank. but chicago doesn't even get enough snow to plow anymore.. maybe this year.. fingers crossed. last huge snow we had 4-5 years ago, i was the only one driving around, could go anywhere, helped by prowling and making the road possible for others to drive.. i just did it for fun.. even drove up one short and steep ramp, almost got stuck and slid down, but switched to 1st gear and then there was i at the top..was so fun..

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?

    Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).

    Oh yah. Soldering is still a nightmare for me. I do that still though it keeps reminidng me of the time I disassembled my PS3 to repaste under the heat spreader on top of the CPU. I ended up striking a few jumpers on the motherboard in the process because the thermal paste/glue was stuck really hard on there. Since then, I have been extremely careful of what I should and shouldn't do.

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:

    @mark said:
    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?

    Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).

    What I mean with OG xbox

    Oh this one. I have only seen images of it. Never seen a live one.

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    because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

    Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

    my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

    That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

    yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

    i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

    Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

    Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

    Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

    parkour.. lol.. one day you'll find yourself smashed on some wall and slowly leaking down it like a slime or something, and you'll know the truth.. LMAO

    but really, try with the PLANK first, it's like the beginning of any parkour training.. =) plank can be done anywhere.

    Yah, it's a daredevil's hobby for sure. But, I was madly inspired by the movie Banlieue 13 as a kid. Have you seen it?

    no, is it french? i saw lots of french stuff when was younger.. but do not recall this one.. i did see a movie or two based on/or heavily featuring parkour..

    like taxi 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 or 5.. when eventually turns out the guy doing all the jumping was actually Syl Stallone.. LOL

    Yah, it's French. It was dubbed in English and released as Banlieue 13. Infact, there's a remake with Paul Walker and the original French actor, David Belle - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430612/

    But, the original is so much better, because David Belle's co-actor, Cyril Rafaelli is an awesome daredevil - jumps off from 3rd floors landing on his back, doesn't open car doors to enter the care, etc. It's unlike any parkour movie you might have seen.

    from the trailer seems that i watched Paul Walker version. i will try locate the french one.. thanks! looks fucking cool..

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    @dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

    (Ticket ID NP46576)

    As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

    No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like

    tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
    

    then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract

    tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
    

    After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

    If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).

    That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.

    Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)

    Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
    BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?

    Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
    If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself. :joy:

    Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.

    Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).

    That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.

    Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse :joy:

    Honestly, If you're really curious or want to learn stuff, I say create a VM and try going through the handbook and getting a booting system. Then after that, try more things/etc. as you will learn things. Can even use the binhost if you don't want to deal with compiling everything.

    Now with chatgpt, learning has become much simpler

    Hehe, yes but if you take is as 100% accurate, you can easily be totally wrong about stuff :joy:

    Thanked by 1tansel
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    Tech advice: "Use a hardware firewall to protect your home network."

    am i missing the joke in this one?

    Wait, was it supposed to be a joke? I thought he posted it to see what responses including funny ones we came up with. I could be wrong though.

    I don't think so

    That I am wrong or am I right?

    that it wasn't a joke.

    Oh ok. Wonder if there are actually affordable physical firewalls for use with home networking equipment, I mean hardware-based ones.

    i know my car and any car in general has a firewall. it's the invisible metal panel that separates driver from the engine, you know, in case engine catches fire, explodes or something.. i actually had mine replaced a few years back as a recall on my car for free, it wasn't an official recall, but there was a note on Subaru website saying "it is a known issue" (when clutch pedal pressed, it made lots of metal scraping noises), so the dealer where i brought it to check contacted regional subaru office and they approved the repair for free. i was really happy, as it was nearly $3000 repair.. otheriwse it would still be squeaking, and i use this verb loosely.. i was doing Uber/Lyft at that time, and my passengers kept asking me what was going on with all the metal screeches..

    $3000 repair fee sounds exorbitant. How much does the car cost then? But, I like US companies for exactly that. They do not hesitate to recall and accept their mistakes. For example, here is a list of all Apple recall-kinda programs - https://support.apple.com/en-in/service-programs

    Most companies, even MNCs once they are out of their origin 1st world countries do not care about inherent issues and recalls. They just reimburse or take action only when there's a consumer complaint against them.

    i have the top of the line subaru - STI 2008. it's like that subaru from Fast and Furious movies, was featured in 5 or 6 of them.. Paul Walker used to be the one who drove it all the time..

    Oh yah, I love that car. Never seen one in person, but, loved it as soon as I saw it in one of those F&F ovies.

    i will only give it up if/when subaru comes out with new electric version of the same hatchback shape.. love it more than anything else i own.. honestly.. although i don't own much.. PC is in the running, thanks to all the data on it collected in many years, from previous PC etc..

    But, would you really trade your ICE Subaru for an electric? I hate electric and automatic vehicles. Absence of a stick does take the fun out of driving for me. But, on long drives, not having to worry about the clutch and shifting gears is a boon.

    STI is only available with stick, so i am assuming electric or hybrid version will still have if not stick, then some kind of "emulator"... dunno.. of course i will not trade my stick for some launch control software.. i like to drive my car, i do not like when the car drives me..

    "i like to drive my car, i do not like when the car drives me.." Wonderfully said. I love my car to have all the tech in the world, but, nothing that takes the fun out of driving.

    sometimes i dream about snow treks.. those triangular ones that make your car look like a tank. but chicago doesn't even get enough snow to plow anymore.. maybe this year.. fingers crossed. last huge snow we had 4-5 years ago, i was the only one driving around, could go anywhere, helped by prowling and making the road possible for others to drive.. i just did it for fun.. even drove up one short and steep ramp, almost got stuck and slid down, but switched to 1st gear and then there was i at the top..was so fun..

    I hate winters. Do you guys in the US change tires to drive in the snow or are these cars equipped with all-weather tyres straight from the factory?

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