General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop!

[drblah]

[QUOTE=AG;52505037]you'll be bored in a few days max[/QUOTE]

I used the original RPI 1B 256 MB RAM as my home server for almost two years. It was totally acceptable for stuff like file server and VPN.

The RPI 3 is a beast compared to the first one. Just make sure to get a fast SD card (as in > 40 MB/s).

[Cakebatyr]

[QUOTE=AG;52505037]you'll be bored in a few days max[/QUOTE]

Raspberry Pis are great. I run a weather satellite ground station with one, an airplane tracker with another, and a third is my Asterisk/SSH gateway/home weather station.

[J_C]

[QUOTE=Number-41;52504819]Ordered a Raspberry Pi 3B, super stoked. I was thinking of setting up a server so I can play my entire music library from my phone. That or CCTV :v: Or maybe a media center+server, or maybe use image processing to make heat map of my cat's routes :v: Or maybe automate grow lamps for weed. Christ, the possibilities are endless.[/QUOTE]

Always nice to have a Raspberry Pi lying around! It's one of the few things I'm proud that us UK dwellers made. :thatwasfunnyright:

You can make your own code repository with one, I believe! If you want to go full Richard Stallman mode, you can download the software for it and put your code there!

Oh also, there's also Pi-hole which you can set up on your Pi and have your router route the traffic through it, so that you won't get any ads on any website so long as you're connected to that WiFi regardless of whether you already have an adblocker on your web browser. It's pretty neat.

Media servers sound good too. I'd probably use mine for some inane stuff like extra cloud storage or something to host a private, low-key game server on. :v:

[brushtool]

The best use for a Raspberry Pi is to have a portable Quake III Server wherever you go.

[Lyokanthrope]

I still use my OG Model B as a Pi-Hole and SSH proxy v:v:v

I have a PocketCHIP for other tinkering.

[naelstrof]

I have a Pi-hole myself and it's great. I instantly realize when my phone's wifi is off because there's all these ads I usually never see. So a bonus for me is I use my data plan less.

[Cakebatyr]

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;52509965]I have a Pi-hole myself and it's great. I instantly realize when my phone's wifi is off because there's all these ads I usually never see. So a bonus for me is I use my data plan less.[/QUOTE]

Now setup an OpenVPN tunnel and run everything through that so you can surf without ads anywhere.

[reevezy67]

[url]https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install[/url]

Reminds me of this, though it's for common distros.

[Number-41]

Woop, it arrived. Should I put Arch on it? :v:

[helifreak]

That's not a question. The question is what to put Arch on next.

[J_C]

[QUOTE=Number-41;52511723]Woop, it arrived. Should I put Arch on it? :v:[/QUOTE]

Arch seems like something that might go well on a Raspberry Pi in fairness. :v:

Also, do we have a Discord / IRC channel / Matrix channel where the lot of us could hang out and such? I think it would be a nice idea. :thinking:

[brushtool]

[QUOTE=J0SEPH;52511933]Arch seems like something that might go well on a Raspberry Pi in fairness. :v:

Also, do we have a Discord / IRC channel / Matrix channel where the lot of us could hang out and such? I think it would be a nice idea. :thinking:[/QUOTE]

I could set up a discord for you guys but I don't really know how 2 linux so I may not be the best choice.
Should I?

[Number-41]

So the first setback is already mechanical: the RPi case I got it with was supplied with screws made out of butter. They're so goddamn soft and now already one of the heads is messed up. Could've seen it coming when I saw shavings on the screwdriver head...

[J_C]

[QUOTE=brushtool;52511944]I could set up a discord for you guys but I don't really know how 2 linux so I may not be the best choice.
Should I?[/QUOTE]

I can set up a discord, but I'd only be invested in doing so if it's something that other people would also want. :P

[QUOTE=Number-41;52511964]So the first setback is already mechanical: the RPi case I got it with was supplied with screws made out of butter. They're so goddamn soft and now already one of the heads is messed up. Could've seen it coming when I saw shavings on the screwdriver head...[/QUOTE]

wellshit.jpg

[Number-41]

I'll get them out probably, from then on it's gonna be duct tape until I find good quality screws...

[Lenny.]

[QUOTE=reevezy67;52511155][url]https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install[/url]

Reminds me of this, though it's for common distros.[/QUOTE]

Any reason why people use openvpn so much? What bothers me about it is it needs a client that needs to be always running on every system you want to connect to your vpn on.
Personally I have found open/strong/libreswan to be a much better alternative as their protocols are pretty much built into every platform natively. (Even android so you don't have a permanent notification from openvpn annoying you)

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52512274]Any reason why people use openvpn so much? What bothers me about it is it needs a client that needs to be always running on every system you want to connect to your vpn on.
Personally I have found open/strong/libreswan to be a much better alternative as their protocols are pretty much built into every platform natively. (Even android so you don't have a permanent notification from openvpn annoying you)[/QUOTE]

Last time I needed a VPN, I ran the VPN connection through a SSH tunnel.

Basically letting SSH's various security features add security, while the VPN just made sure everything else than the SSH tunnel went through it.

But that was because I used one of the old, simple but unsecure VPN setups

[drblah]

[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52512274]Any reason why people use openvpn so much? What bothers me about it is it needs a client that needs to be always running on every system you want to connect to your vpn on.
Personally I have found open/strong/libreswan to be a much better alternative as their protocols are pretty much built into every platform natively. (Even android so you don't have a permanent notification from openvpn annoying you)[/QUOTE]

IMO openvpn is much easier to set up on the server side. That is why I use it.

[Cakebatyr]

[QUOTE=LennyPenny;52512274]Any reason why people use openvpn so much? What bothers me about it is it needs a client that needs to be always running on every system you want to connect to your vpn on.
Personally I have found open/strong/libreswan to be a much better alternative as their protocols are pretty much built into every platform natively. (Even android so you don't have a permanent notification from openvpn annoying you)[/QUOTE]

I like that you can setup split tunnels, so you can access your LAN (and pihole) but all internet related traffic goes out the normal way (HTTPS at most). This is handy when your home bandwidth sucks like mine does.

But IPSec is my prederred method because of strong hardware acceleration.

OpenVPN is also handy when dealing with hideously locked down corporate networks like BC Ferries which only allow traffic on ports 22 and 80. You can set the openvpn tunnel to operate on port 22.

[Number-41]

gnome-media-server-miner is annoying me like hell. Every single day I get a SIGSEGV error, what the fuck does it do anyway? I also saw that the crash has existed since Ub15.04 or earlier...

[J_C]

So, I created a Facepunch Linux Discord server!

Simply join and ask for a role, I've added roles to cover most Linux distributions . :)
[url]https://discord.gg/62xKTQX[/url]

I also made a logo for it whilst I was at it. :)
[img]http://i.imgur.com/K7mmqE9.png[/img]

[Fate]

Gotta make the invite permanent bud, it's expired.

[J_C]

[QUOTE=SataniX;52515833]Gotta make the invite permanent bud, it's expired.[/QUOTE]

You might want to try again, as the invite link is permanent.
[url]https://discord.gg/62xKTQX[/url]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/ooMrqjr.png[/img]

[Fate]

Worked the second time. weird.

[SocMinarch]

Today I created a Bash script that SSH's into my line managers MacBook and makes it talk. God bless you Ansible.

Next week I'm going to SSH into all the MacBook's and make them have a conversation to confuse one of my colleagues who comes back from holiday next week.

[AtomicSans]

Switching from Xubuntu to debian stable

wish me luck bois

[editline]28th July 2017[/editline]

this the worst thing ever, I can't find my non-free wireless firmware anywhere

[editline]28th July 2017[/editline]

my wireless card is somehow in none of the official or unofficial packages

ubuntu did this fine from the get-go, how can debian be this useless

[J_C]

[QUOTE=AtomicSans;52517199]
I can't find my non-free wireless firmware anywhere
[/QUOTE]

This is literally me when I install anything other than Mint

[AtomicSans]

[QUOTE=J0SEPH;52517336]This is literally me when I install anything other than Mint[/QUOTE]

I'd go for Mint but ubuntu has bizarre behavior on my hardware, which is why I'm leaving it in the first place

for real, if anybody can find the package that has ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin and ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin in it then you are officially more helpful than the debian website itself

[Thelurker1234]

What laptop model or wireless chip specifically?

[AtomicSans]

The two files above are what the installer says it's missing. I can find the model in a bit if you need it