😹 that’s great

Hmmm I do need a reason to learn rust… But a cross platform DAW feels like too big of a project for my level of disorganization 😹

Maybe I should try building ardour for android, it would be way easier to rebuild Ardour’s UI for mobile.

ddrescue is probably your best bet

dd is the simplest: dd if=/path/to/disk/device of=/path/to/backup/file but it may fail with a broken device. ddrescue is similar but handles io errors appropriately and can retry bad reads.

That one DAW for electronic music… The logo had a hexagon or something… Caustic maybe?

ChromeOS does this well because it’s android, a walled garden that users aren’t allowed to break. You can buy it at Walmart, and it works well.

Other big “consumer” distro projects (Debian, Ubuntu, fedora, rhel, etc) are similar, especially if you’re installing stable releases on hardware that is supported.

The question for me is what do users want their OS to do? My guess is internet, office, print, scan, photos, games, updates, and get out of the way. Almost all big distros will give you that experience already, as long as you don’t expect to play Windows games or pick a specialized gaming distro.

Users who want to step outside using supported repos are back to googling for a solution when things are broken, and should see themselves as part of the tech-savvy group that need to fend for themselves.

Idk why I feel compelled to add this info, but / doesn’t have to be local as long as the necessary kernel modules for mounting it are available in the initrd or built into the kernel.

For me it’s I can make Linux do this when I see another system perform well, in contrast with they took my vertical taskbar in windows 11 and I have to gut the system to get it back

I do have to remind myself that I’m still used to living in a world where Linux enjoyed immunity to most “consumer” malware just because it wasn’t a popular desktop. Ultimately Linux is not more secure than any other system unless someone put in the work to make it that way.

That makes sense, I was thinking the executable is crashing without any output because something is wrong with the libraries available or executable itself. I should have made it clear that I don’t use jellyfin and the steps above are general debugging advice for applications that crash immediately.

For possibly more information on why the core is dumping (lol) try running jellyfin from the cli (probably just typing the path to the jellyfin executable and pressing enter)

If nothing interesting is printed, try adding strace before the jellyfin executable (Google strace, it intercepts all system calls and logs them) if that doesn’t work tell strace to follow forks.

Other than that you could start using binary debugging tools to see what shared libraries jellyfin is looking for? Maybe run it in gdb…

I found the solution, we’re running debug builds in prod from now on

Sounds like you may want to run chrome in docker or try using nix. Nix won’t clean up your user data automatically but with a few tweaks could do it easily. Docker will completely prevent files from hanging around (if you don’t mount your home directory in the container), but if you want to download files to your host is its a bit tricky.

Can you try booting with acpi=off boot parameter? (Edit the boot commands in the bootloader before it loads the kernel, it’s temporary)

Related: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html

If that works you can add the option permanently in your configuration.nix

Why not try /dev/urandom?

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Have you considered storing your keys unencrypted? In this case ssh doesn’t need the agent or a password.

Yes it’s not as secure, but for me it’s good enough considering my systems at home are not doing anything important. If you have an encrypted home partition it’s just as secure when your partition is unmounted.

Your shell for user pi may be broken. Try adding the shell command to your ssh command explicitly like

ssh pi@host /bin/sh

Or use /bin/bash

What’s the big deal they already target the NT kernel 😹

Duckdb has pretty good cli support https://duckdb.org/docs/api/cli/overview.html#non-interactive-usage

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What do you know, my brother just opened up an art auction house.

If you can intercept boot ( press a key to get to the grub menu or whatever… I haven’t used Ubuntu in a while so maybe it’s not so simple anymore) you may be able to enter rescue / single-user mode and let apt complete the changes and then revert them.

A clean reinstall may be easier depending on how much you’ve changed on the system. Easier isn’t always better, fix this and you’ll know how to do it again in the future.