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• What new Linux distribution should I try?

  cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/42673820 Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali. Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT.

• Modest laptop arriving, what new Linux distribution should I try?

  cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/42673820 Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT. Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram.

• Suggestions for running a mailing list (listmonk)

  cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/41558684 Setup listmonk and now wondering about suggestions for how to maintain a basic list and campaign. Wondering about a few things: Privacy. All I want to know is if people are actually able to read the posts. Any thoughts from others who’ve been managing their own lists / campaigns. Basic idea is to use for email and RSS to post updates on latest happenings, maybe once a month. Just want this to be both successful and not annoying. 😄

• Anyone using twtxt? It is for posting entirely as plain text.

  cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/40941829 Details at twtxt.dev and elsewhere. This has been in development since 2016. All you do is create a txt file in www or html and include info like # nick = username # url = https://example.com/posts.txt # avatar = https://example.com/avatar.png # description = Describe this to then begin posting using a command like like echo -e "$(date -u +‘%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ’)\tHello to all of you out there! >> posts.tx...

• Anyone using zram and similar memory management with 32gb of ram or more?

  I have been setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness and EasyOOM daemon on 16gb ram boxes, or lower. Someone asked me about 32gb of ram, or more, and I’m unsure. Wondering if others have experimented with this!

• Local Tools, Offline Networking and Building Resilience (Linux Prepper Podcast)

  cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/37854087 Lemmy struggles with properly displaying the Castopod shownotes. I’ve filed a bug report here. Relaying show notes here… Why Offline & Local-First Rising Cost of Consumer Technology Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting Re-purposing older machines into functional use! (00:11) Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction (00:50) Sponsor Ameridroid LINUXPREPPER code (01:14) Domain Changes and thoughts af...

• Post #210039

  cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34432697 Show notes link, since Lemmy struggles with properly displaying posts from Castopod.

• Post #159895

  cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34537889 cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34494723 Detailed episode for pairing with the very light “A Great Day for Linux”. Hope you enjoy it. Since Lemmy struggles with markdown from Castopod, here is a link to the notes.

• Post #63177

  cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/32165111 I realize my options are limited, but what about any robots.txt style steps? Thanks for any suggestions.