You got some great answers already :)

Let me just add that, in general, it’s expected to have executable files inside your home directory.

For example, ~/.local/bin is intended for user executables and usually added to the $PATH, and a lot of package managers (such as cargo, go, pip,…) will install applications under ~ (Steam also does that).

I must say, this is really creepy.

In your shoes, I’d put some effort into explaining what (legitimate) use case you have, least people won’t be much inclined to help.

Why do people think we care why they decided this or that? (same goes for people who switch to linux, or upgrade their gear, or whatever)

Basically, the only way is to disconnect the TV and use it as a dumb screen. Lineageos supports a few set top boxes (see here).

I heard (take it as hearsay) that some smart TV periodically capture screenshots of what’s on screen and upload it, so it actually disconnecting the tv from the network could (again, hearsay) make a real difference.

It’s no secret that we trade our information for access to the Internet.

I pay a monthly subscription for access to the Internet (actually two: one for the landline and one for my phone).

So what do you prefer a subscription based Internet with privacy protection or a free internet with companies allowed to take and sell your data

Either one would be better than what we have now, which is not free and not private.

What’s crashing? the Linux host? Virtualbox? the windows guest?

(personally I won’t be able to help you, but other people might)

Based on a US distro whose versions are supported for 1 year, and “built to the requirements for the EU public sector” (because the EU public sector has one coherent set of requirements and the dev knows them, even if he doesn’t list them out).

This is most probably good-intentioned and it is admirable how the dev sprung into action, but it’s naive at best.

Visitors to the US have been asked if they were members of the communist party since forever though?

IDK if those who replied “yes” would be sent back, but I do remember reading about Chinese communist party members being denied entry to the US.

I don’t see much difference between this and that as far as the 1st amendment is concerned… aren’t you idealizing the 1st amendment (and/or how seriously the US takes it)?

PS: let me make clear that I’m not trying to defend the indefensible behaviour of the Trump administration in any way

You must have an outdated version. The current version is “We announce that there must be no criticism of the President, and that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong. Anything else is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

Is git bisect what you are looking for?

Generally speaking, if someone asks/talks about some local topic without bothering to specify where they live, you can just assume they live in the US :)

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And… what started out as honest advice, ended up being a preventive strike against Internet villains. Very Internet-villain-like, I must say :D

Does it run lineage? Any other FOSS, third party OS? No? Hard pass.

I too experimented with k3s, but then abandoned the idea of using it after I realized the proper way to run postgres on it was (IIUC) to use bitnami’s helm chart. I like to have some level of understanding of how my homelab and it’s config works, and that humongous amount of unreadable templates was not appealing in the least.

As for containers, I am not really looking for service isolation (IIUC until ##368565 lands, all virtualisation.oci-containers basically run as root and I’m fine with that*)… I just want to be able to run different (usually more recent, but in nixos one also can’t easily “pin” an older version of a package if the need arises **) versions of services than those packaged is nixos. Also, not all services I want to run are available as nixos packages, and even less have modules.

* I know what risk I’m running (more or less): nothing in my homelab is accessible from outside my lan and, even if the container host was somehow pwned, that machine can’t really do much harm (the important stuff is on a separate one).

** I guess I could import an older version of nixpkgs in my flake, but that requires way too much editing just to pin a package (time I’d rather spend solving the actual issue).

(rightfully) does not like mixed language codebases for projects as large and important as Linux

You make it sound like it’s a matter of taste rather than a technical one (and I suspect it actually might be just about taste in the end)

I stopped at “secret” (yes, the occurrence in the title) :)

TBH the checksums are pretty useless for humans who download an .iso and install it… they are mainly for mirrors and similar that download files without using them

Thanks that was really helpful!

In my case, the system did not have a default route - I’ve updated the post with details.

He never said he wants free speech for everyone :) TBH the shame should be on those who believed that Musk could somehow be the first right-wing extremist in history that wished the people at large had more rights and more freedoms.