fabien@debian2080ti:~$ history  | sed 's/ ..... //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
# with parameters
     13 cd Prototypes/
     14 adb disconnect; cd ~/Downloads/Shows/ ; adb connect videoprojector ;
     14 cd ..
     21 s # alias s='ssh shell -t "screen -raAD"'
     36 node .
     36 ./todo 
     42 vi index.js 
     42 vi todo # which I use as metadata or starting script in ~/Prototypes
     44 ls
    105 lr # alias lr="ls -lrth"
fabien@debian2080ti:~$ history  | sed 's/ ..... //' | sed 's/ .*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
# without parameters
     35 rm
     36 node
     36 ./todo
     39 git
     39 mv
     70 ls
     71 adb
     96 cd
    110 lr
    118 vi

Maybe I interest you in pgrep? pkill? killall?

Because I can tell it to do whatever I want. I get to control the device I own. Pretty basic. Same principle for my others devices, so deGoogle Android phone, earbuds with open source firmware, keyboard with open source firmware, Zigbee for IoT, etc. My stuff should do what I want.

That’s what shadow IT is for.

You try through the normal channels, explaining why, and if it’s not enough, you find a way to still be productive DESPITE the rules of the place. Then eventually you move on to a saner place.

I got very confused by this title… I did search on DuckDuckGo and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_modding was a top result but not far behind was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modding which is not specific to video game.

Because this is the Linux community I would clarify that it’s about game modding, not general modding.

Ugh… why? I mean it’s a fun process to distro hop and better understand the different package managers, boot process, default services, etc but beyond that I’m confused at what the point is.

FWIW one can distro hop “virtually” in minutes using containers via Podman or Docker (or even QEMU to be more isolated) with images that do have a window manager, e.g. https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/ provides Alpine, Arch, Debian, Enterprise Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu with i3, KDE, MATE or XFCE. Switching from one to another takes minutes (basically download time of image content) and if you mount the right directory you can even use your own content for your tests.

Edit : if one wants to install nothing https://distrosea.com/ is quite neat but it’s online.

Which of these commits https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commits/ as actually made with “AI” support and how?

Yes.

TL;DR: I don’t actually know, that’s how much I care.

Looks like, I’m not familiar enough to spot obvious differences.

For a bit of mindfuck check kdialog : Tool to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts

Maybe the shell truly is enough BUT in some cases, say you want to help somebody who for some reason doesn’t want the terminal, you can bring the bare minimum of UI to give utility. My favorite example is the file picker e.g kdialog --getopenfilename "*txt" | wc -l as most CLI commands do support a filename as input.

On mobile check out OctoStudio.

IMHO qrcode-terminal is pretty good.

• ~/Prototypes for … my prototypes, typically either starting from an empty directory or cloning a repository and adapting it for my needs. I have this directory on nearly all my devices, desktop of course but also NAS, server, phone, standalone XR headset, etc.
• ~/Apps in addition to ~/bin, typically binaries but all AppImages

Can’t talk about AMD but I’m on NVIDIA and I always followed https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers and never had issues others seem to be having. I typically hear good things about AMD GPU support, on Debian and elsewhere so I’m surprised.

Now in practice IMHO GPU support doesn’t matter much for NAS, as you’re probably going headless (no monitor, mouse or keyboard). You probably though do want GPU instruction set support for transcoding but here again can’t advise for this brand of GPU. It should just be relying on e.g. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/AMF

Finally I’m a Debian user and I’m quite familiar with setting it up, locally on remotely. I also made ISOs for RPi based on Raspbian so this post made me realize I never (at least I don’t remember) installed Debian headlessly, by that I mean booting on a computer with no OS all the way to getting a working ssh connection established on LAN or WiFi. I relied on Imager for RPi configuration or making my own ISO via a microSD card (using dd) but it made me curious about preseeding wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed so I might tinker with it via QEMU. Advices welcomed.

PS: based on few other comments, consider minidlna over more complex setups. Consider Wireguard over tailscale (or at least headscale for a version relying solely on your infrastructure) with e.g. wg-easy if you want to manage everything without 3rd parties.

IMHO fix whatever you can, donate it all locally (HackerSpace, RepairCafe, Linux non-profit, etc) as there are quite a few people dedicated to refurbishing computers for schools, people who need a computer to find work, etc.

Then for the tinkering aspect, keep one, that’s enough.

Honestly even 1 isn’t really required. Pretty much everything listed here can be done more efficiently without an actual physical computer :

• your current computer can be a server, just turn off the screen or even accept (which I’d argue is a fair assumption) that at night it will be off. If you want external access put WireGuard or another VPN on it.
• Want to test distributions or anything else? QEMU or containers, no need for actual hardware

Nitpicking but a line is missing IMHO namely The code of the program: should also suggest which file to edit, e.g potato.go. It might be obviously to anybody working with Go but for others it’s not.

FWIW makes me wonder how much work would be required to have this as a Web container, e.g. Dockerfile with

FROM debian:13
RUN apt update && apt install -y qemu-system-x86 qemu-utils
WORKDIR /linux-inside-out

then https://github.com/container2wasm/container2wasm#container-on-browser

Edit: FWIW the image of Debian 13 with QEMU and its utils is ~1.1Gb

Very cool, reminds me of https://jsandler18.github.io/tutorial/boot.html

Half a dozen people said so already but I’ll repeat :

backup your stuff.

You are like a tightrope walker on a high line without security. Sure the view is amazing, yes you feel free… but a misstep and that’s it.

How? Well depends what your data is but start simple, copy your most important files, e.g. family photos, personal notes, etc (NOT HD movies from the Internet… not anything you can get elsewhere) on a USB stick you go stuffed in a drawer.

Once you DO have your stuff saved though, please, pretty please DO go crazy! Have fun, try weird stuff, bork your installation… and restart from a neat safe place. It’s honestly amazing to learn, so deeply empowering for yourself and those around you. Just make sure your data don’t suffer from it.

Had one from the start and also had a reMarkable 1, 2, Pro and e-readers with e-ink. I did discuss all that before so feel free to check my comment history. You can also check related prorotypes at https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Eink including for the PineNote.

Now on your questions :

how usable is the pinenote with Linux?

Last time I check it didn’t run well enough (basically CLI only) so I’m still on their stock Android OS. Worked great. According to other comments it seems fine now and I’m familiar with KOReader and a bit Xournal++ so I’ll try again.

How hard is the install process?

Easy, I didn’t do anything ;)

Can an average Linux user/self hoster use it daily?

Well in my case yes but again Android, so if you are familiar with it, e.g. adb then it’s easy.

How’s battery?

Fine but power management kind of sucks so it will not go to sleep properly and thus waste battery. It’s also heavy so honestly I wouldn’t travel with it.

Couldn’t find many reviews online…

Again, I did share on Lemmy quite a bit. I do warmly recommend it if you are a tinkerer who doesn’t travel too often. If you are a minimalist who wants to get things done then IMHO reMarkable is better.