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  • deepdive@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlJust moved to Linux: a follow up
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    11 months ago

    Heyha ! Read about dd on makeuseof after reading your post, to see how it works.

    Restoring from an image seems exactly what I was looking for as a full backup restore.

    However this kind of 1 command backup isn’t going to work on databases (mariadb, mysql…). How should I procede with my home directory where all my containers live and most of them having running databases?

    Does it work with logical volumes? Is it possible to copy evrything except /home of the logical volumes?


  • This post was about browsers but my feelings when I wrote It was a more general “conclusion”. I only found out recently about some “hidden” privacy concerns with browsers (WebRTC leaking your real ip, fonts fingreprinting…) But when I found out about android’s default keyboard sending samples, IOT weaknesses, smart devices data hoarding… It really feels like a losing battle while being connected to the world…


  • Do not overthink they want to know about you everything.

    That’s true, they probably already have everything they need… It’s not only about my personal data, and my example only points out to the web technology, but everywhere around us are some data hoarding devices that are either used to targeted ads, campaign, profiling, IA dataset feeding… whatever !

    It feels like we already lost our right to privacy and how personal data, telemetry is used as a whole in our society…



  • Thank you for your insights and personal experiences :) I love Debian stable as server, never had any issues on a old Asus laptop ! I have only 2 years of “experience” and started with Ubuntu. Good introduction to linux but switched to Debian (<3)

    That’s way I’m asking arround I don’t wan’t to have a too bad experience with Debian as main personal PC !

    Thank you for your personal blog post and the wiki link :) will surely read through before making my final choice !






  • deepdive@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlSwitching to Debian on my gaming pc
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    11 months ago

    Do you consider testing a better choice than sid for desktop/gaming environment?

    I’m really not sure which one I should use. I only have experience with bare bone debian stable as server, I’m trying to find the best choice when switching from windaube to debian :)

    Thanks for your insights and personal experiences !


  • Thank you !!

    I’m currently looking into xfce vs KDE plasma, something I need to pay attention to is a DE with x11 because nvidia hasn’t fully supported wayland ?

    Am I right to consider it that way? Or do both support nvidia drivers?

    I’m sorry, I only use debian as bare bone on my server and currently considering to switch my main desktop from windaube to linux and alot of informations on the web seem contradictory or incomplete :/



  • You probably have your reason to run Debian testing but I read somewhere that testing is somehow a bad idea as desktop environment !

    If somehing is stuck and being updated in sid, and bugs are still happening, you could be stuck for month without the correct update in testing.

    Sorry if it’s not clear, but I read it somewhere in the official debian documentation.





  • Strange enough TLS 1.3 still doesn’t support signed ed25519 certificates :| P‐256, NIST P‐384 or NIST P‐521 curves are known to be “backdoored” or having deliberately chosen mathematical weakness. I’m not an expert and just a noob security/selfhoster enthusiast but I don’t want to depend on curves made by NSA or other spy agencies !

    I also wondering if the EU isn’t going to implement something similar with all their new spying laws currently discussed…