Among other things, I quite like the blog, especially travelling photos. There’s some ‘old Internet / old blogosphere’ vibe in it.

Nothing really add to the topic of having a MacBook Air M2 with Linux. Glad it works well, I’m eyeing an M1 one for myself. Yet my Retina (2014 model) works perfect with Arch Linux (including sleep), so I’m patiently waiting for it to break. And at the same me I hope it would work another decade, so good it is. Battery life is quite great, it’s between 3 to 4 hours with battery being at 50% of capacity. So, I expect the new battery could give me up to 8 hours, which is pretty impressive for me. In reality, I don’t need a session for over an hour or two. The only thing I miss is USB-C charging, as that way I could charge with anything when I have no charger on me. Again, in reality, it’s a pretty rare scenario.

Do you know of a better alternative? No irony here, I’m looking for something similar for family and company (50 to 100 people) setting. Was thinking of deploying Mattermost. For family, we settled on Matrix and it mostly works. We are at their default server, and I’m considering self-hosting it in the future. Yet, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to have Matrix deployed for a company. It lacks too many features, including search. Mattermost looked like the best option for me. I did try it locally a couple of months back, and mostly liked it.

However, I never liked them as a company. They have been giving me those ‘we’d give you the community this wonderful opportunity to develop the software for us, for free’ vibes. Now, it feels like my impression correct.

Among other things, I quite like the blog, especially travelling photos. There’s some ‘old Internet / old blogosphere’ vibe in it.

Nothing really add to the topic of having a MacBook Air M2 with Linux. Glad it works well, I’m eyeing an M1 one for myself. Yet my Retina (2014 model) works perfect with Arch Linux (including sleep), so I’m patiently waiting for it to break. And at the same me I hope it would work another decade, so good it is. Battery life is quite great, it’s between 3 to 4 hours with battery being at 50% of capacity. So, I expect the new battery could give me up to 8 hours, which is pretty impressive for me. In reality, I don’t need a session for over an hour or two. The only thing I miss is USB-C charging, as that way I could charge with anything when I have no charger on me. Again, in reality, it’s a pretty rare scenario.

Yeah, I thought about that too. Long ago, each attack felt scary and they were having some results. These days, it feels like the anti-air crew gets down most of the shit that Russians throw at us.

Thanks! Both for the wishes and for the excerpt from the article. Merry Christmas.

Fuck you. Learn to read then, if a couple of sentences written off the iPhone is an essay for you.

Do you mind elaborating, please? I really did not read the article, so I might be totally wrong on commenting right away. It’s just not the first time I see things like that from BBC. Which disappoints me quite a lot, since that’s literally the only news outlet I watch and have some respect for. Yet, since 2022, I started paying closer attention at how wrong they were with covering Ukraine, sometimes literally giving Russian shills some platform. I have no record of that at the moment, it’s buried in the pre-musk Twitter of mine, but I remember that disappointment I had quite very clearly. That’s why I thought ‘oh no, are you at it again?’

So, wasn’t the attack quite large? I do live in Ukraine with my family, by the way, and we’re having electricity for like 3 hours today. So, I assume this attack was quite massive, wasn’t it? Literally, I had very little time to learn today.

Why is it ‘massive’ in quotes? It was massive, wasn’t it? Sounds as if they doubt it was massive.

Also, a year or two ago, I installed Windows XP (the one from 2001) on a relatively modern computer with an SSD. (The hardware was supported, as it wasn’t too modern.) I expected the whole thing to be like 5 minutes compared to an hour it was back then. Turned out, it took about an hour! Why? I couldn’t get it, Ubuntu or Fedora took like 5 mins for that very PC with an SSD.

The funny thing, installing Arch Linux to a relatively old computer, if you did the install pretty often, to the point of knowing what to do, the installation takes like a minute or two, completely depending on the internet speed.

Technically, other distros with modern SSDs and powerful processors, are in the same league. As there’s little difference in what they do upon installing. It’s really cool! I stopped bothering backing up some important system data beyond some configs and the list of installed apps, purely because reinstalling the whole thing is just non-issue, a couple of minutes.

And I’d say that was an interesting read, as someone who’s long in the game, so I cannot install the thing for the first time again. I hope your post would inspire someone else to try waters too.

I second this. When I came to the world of Linux almost 20 years ago, it was different. Games were mostly non-existent, interfaces were mostly super ugly (but tolerable), and things did not work quite often. To solve these issues, I developed a pretty solid base of knowledge that helps me in my day to day work, and life too. I just understand things much better, I guess. All that thanks to Linux. These days Linux, I’d say it just works. I run Fedora at home, and apart from some inconveniences, it was rock solid and very easy. A cherry on top, our shared home computer is mostly HTPC serving media to the huge screen, running Kodi on top of Gnome. And it has no keyboard attached! Which is fine, Gnome is quite manageable with just a mouse. I bet it would manageable the other way around, with just a keyboard.

That sounds quite good, actually. I mean, I have a gazillion bash scripts, but I can keep them. I think I don’t care about posix, or whatever it’s called, for my day-to-day navigating the shell.

I tried to learn it, but failed. Looks like I’d love to use both, but I have no idea where to start. Any suggestions?

I use it on a Raspberry Pi 2B and Orange Pi Zero, both work wonderfully for the task, and it looks like Pi-Hole can work fine even on a router. Both of my SBCs are passively cooled, that’s why I decided to comment on the photo: you don’t need a computer this powerful to run it. As far as I remember, my very first Raspberry Pi (v. 1B or something like that) handled this task very well too. I temporarily retired that SBC in favour of Orange Pi Zero, so I cannot say for sure, but I think that computer had no issues with being fast enough for Pi-Hole. Really, give it a try if you didn’t, it’s ‘install once and forget’ type of software. Perhaps it should be updated periodically, but I don’t manage that. The only nuance with it, you need to have two computers, for the redundancy. Otherwise you’d be having downtimes when you need to turn off the SBC, or even reboot it.