[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 8 months ago

I believe you can set up a http stream and then have others connect to it

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 8 months ago

Where does it write the file

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submitted 9 months ago by neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have 6 devices that i rsync to a central location to back them up. Ive been using ssh as the -e option. Problem is i use public key with passphrases, meaning to backup all six i need to go to each device and run the backup script. Since i typically backup /etc, /home, and /root this means entering sudo and the ssh passphrase 3x for each device.

I would much prefer a script that runs on back storage device that can pull the data from each device without having to use ssh (encryption is not necessary since all traffic is either local or going through a vpn connection).

I could then put this script in root's crontab or make it a systemd service running as root.

But i dont know how i can remote sync without ssh

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 months ago

I got 2 questions. How do permissions work with ntfs on linux. I use rsync a lot to backup to the drive and i've read how exfat doesnt really save all the linux permissions. Likewise from my research in order to run a proton game on a ntfs drive would require symlinking rhe compat directory to my home folder. And i use the home folder for smaller games. I have heard that it may or may not work with ntfs

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Ok i have a 5TB usb hard drive that is mostly used for weekly backups of my system. It is hooked to a raspberry pi and has an exfat file system and used as a samba share.

But i need to occasionally unplug it and connect it directly to some other machines for 2 reasons.

  1. For use with steam on linux (i store my games on it)

  2. For use with obs on windows (i do some screen recording and need to be able to save the output to the drive)

Here's the dilemma. Games that require proton will not launch from an exfat drive (trust me i've tried all the "hacks" and cant make it happen). So i plan to reformat the drive as an ext4 file system.

However, windows does not support ext4 natively. I do have WSL and could probably mount it there but here are the issues.

Another user in my house will be primarily the one using obs and they are not technically inclined (or at least not linux inclined) i want them to be able to plug this device in and just press record and have it output to the drive, this was working fine with exfat but obviously once i reformat it could be an issue.

I have a few options and wanted to run it by here first before committing to the reformat.

Option 1) reformat drive to ext4. Keep it as a samba drive at all times, except when gaming, and have obs output the video to the drive over the network

-is obs capable of doing this reliably?

Option 2) reformat to ext4 and unplug drive when gaming or needing to use obs. Rig up a script to automount the drive with wsl when detected.

-will the mounted drive show up in the windows file explorer natively? Or could i at least pin its location to quick access?
-can i actually create some way for it to automount the drive with no user input required?
-ooh but the distro is on the drive to conserve the laptop's space, could present an issue

Option 3) reformat the drive as part ntfs part ext4 and then plug it in for gaming and obs?

-i believe in linux i could just add the part-uuid to fstab so it only mounts the ext4 portion or maybe i could mount both?
-would windows automatically just mount the ntfs portion?

Imo, option 1 is the best but i would like to have a fail safe in case i ever need to plug it directly to the windows machine. So realistically a hybrid of option 1 and 2 is best. Is there a better way to do this? Will any of these methods work?

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

I think for best games of all time i think fallout new vegas. Its super well regarded amongst bethesda fans but i dont hear it listed as one of the greatest in general and i think i definitely deserves to be up there. The size of the world, the zaney humor, the amount of quests, weapons, amd your effect on the world. There's just so much to this game

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submitted 10 months ago by neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have been using linux about 4 years now and in that time i've done a bunch of installs. Lately i've been setting up luks and lvm, but each time i install a distro ive set up bodhi and nixos with this setup but the issue i have is that each time ive done it i've had to follow a guide.

For both these distros there werent official docs on how to do it but found guides on github. For both i had to try multiple guides and reinstall multiple times.

While ive learned a lot doing this i feel like i have too heavily leaned on the guides and would not be able to install it without a guide.

I understand the basic lvm commands to set up pvs, lvs, etc but for example when installing nix i had to reinstall twice because i didnt set up the preLVM setting and the luks device uuid. But if i hadnt found a guide that showed it i never would have known to do it.

What resources can you recommended to really understanding how to properly set all the different types of partitioning schemes (gpt, mbr, lvm, luks, etc, etc)

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

This is a first for me. I was able to pick up nixos pretty well but gentoo scares me

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

Isn't the can the vpn server and the guys are just vpn users?

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago

In their defense debrid is the same cost as vpn

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago

I mean alchemy is an occult practice. It's just history only pays attention to the physical aspects (turning things into gold, etc). Often times the medium to turn a substance into gold is called the philosophers stone

But this is only a portion of it. The philosophers stone in alchemy is actually spiritual enlightenment or becoming one with everything. Hence the concept of turning anything into gold, gold being enlightenment and the universe and the plain material before the transformation is preenlightened individuals. They all become the same (one, gold) after attaining it.

Most alchemical philosophy is occult/spiritual and the chemistry aspects are a metaphor for the evolution of the soul.

I think because modernity is mostly materialist in its philosophy that we ignore the underlying spirituality associated with alchemy

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

I went to increase the lvm portion of my / and /home by taking 10G from /home and adding 10G to /. Instead of writing -10G i wrote 10G on my /home volume and changed it from 450G to 10G instead of 450G to 440G

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 year ago

So there are multiple technologies at play. One is an indexer program (jackett/prowlarr/etc). These basically hook up to public trackers (1337x, TPB, etc).

Then you have Sonarr/Radarr which are connected to the indexer. Sonarr and radarr basically have an rss feed (which is basically a list of content, podcasts and youtube apps use this to show you new episodes/videos).

I think they use tmdb or something as there source of rss feeds. They also let you select which shows to monitor and it stores that inforamation in a database. So sonarr will reach out to tmdb and request the latest rss feed for a show every so often for the shows in the database. If an episode that sonarr is supposed to download is listed on the rss feed it will then send a request to its indexer and tell it what show, what episode, what season, etc.

The indexer then searches each tracker it is connected to for that show, season, episode combo and returns a list of links to sonarr/radarr.

Sonarr then has a set of rules in its database to filter these links (ie minimum quality, language, etc) to determine which link to pick). Finally in its settings sonarr/radarr has a location where it should save the files.

Now sonarr/radarr cant download themselves, instead they are also hooked to a torrent client. For example qbittorrent which has an api which allows you to programatically download torrents (ie it has a command to download a torrent and sonarr/radarr sends the command along with additional information like the link and where to save the files.

This is the basic setuo but there are other tools used sometimes like unpackarr which is for decompressing files that get downloaded. Unpackarr watches a folder for new files and if it finds a file in a compressed format (7z, rar, zip, etc) it will automatically decompress it so that a media program like jellyfin can play it without you having to do it manually.

Programs like jellyfin are media servers where you would specify folders for movies/tv shows/etc and any playable file in those folders can be streamed in their app/web interface. These kind of programs are really just graphical programs that are easy to set up and use that are built on top of more technical programs like ffmpeg which does the transcoding and streaming.

Then there are also programs like flaresolverr. You would integrate this into your indexer because some trackers might use cloudflare to prevent bots (they require you to click a checkbox and watch the movement of the cursor to see if it is robotic). Flaresolverr uses something called selenium webdriver which is a program that can automate a webbrowser. You can program it to open web pages, click things, etc. I assume the code uses randomization to make cloudflare think a person is moving the mouse to click the button so you can access those trackers

In simple terms that's how it works. All these programs set up a web interface and api and send each other http requests to communicate

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago

Thief no doubt

[-] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Piped is alternative frontend, so still youtube

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