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  • The second icon looks like the Kirac vault pass rewards one. You have to open the chest in the vault for that to go away. Not sure about the first one though.

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    Advice for a newbie - Multiple drives setup
  • A lot of this is personal preference but I will suggest the following strategy. Mount all of your drives into subfolders of /mnt or /media (/mnt is usually used for more permanent storage but either is fine). Then symlink various folders on the system to this mount point. Like maybe you want your home folder downloads on one of these drives so /home/spawnsalot/Downloads is symlinkef to /mnt/drive1/Downloads.

    This lets you pick and choose various places across your system that are actually on the additional drives but also the ability to see everything on the drives in one place.

    Game installation location completely depends on the game itself. Some might install to /usr/bin, others to /opt, etc. You might have to dig around a little after install, move the folder, then symlink it like nothing ever happened.

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    Turns out, I wanted a tiled window manager all along
  • It's a work provided device. It was either that or Windows, so it was really the only option. I might try out some tiling options for it, not sure how upset IT will be about that though...

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    `"☹️".reverse() == "🙂"`
  • It's also incredibly useful as a failsafe in a helper method where you need the argument to be a string but someone might pass in something that is sort of a string. Lets you be a little more flexible in how your method gets called

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    How can I mask off an area from an oil finish?
  • Couldn't you use painter's tape? Unless your glue joint is thin, it won't matter if some of the oil seeps past the tape. Pre-finishing is way easier than finishing after final assembly.

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    Turns out, I wanted a tiled window manager all along
  • I spent years using i3 as my main machine and I loved everything about it. Fast forward to now where I have to use a Mac. Most of the time I'm in a terminal with tmux so it's fine but any time I have to deal with a gui element that is under something else I get more and more upset.

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    KVM or USB switch reccomendation
  • If you can somehow manage to install software on your work laptop then I highly recommend Synergy. It is by far a better solution than a KVM and you could keep the keyboard and mouse plugged into your PC so no effect on gaming.

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    UPS guidance/advice
  • Generally you plug a cable in from the UPS to the server and install software that monitors the UPS. You would set up that software to power down the server.

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    Venting in the homelab/mechanical room
  • If it were me I would give it a shot and use a thermal camera to see the temperature differences. Worse case you have to patch the hole. Might also be a good idea to contact an HVAC company to see what they think.

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    Loki logging driver for Docker or Promtail
  • Promtail is for collecting metrics from log files, Loki is for log aggregation. Really depends on what your needs are. Do you want to be able to view the actual log entries or do you only want to see metrics about the logs?

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    Multiple punchdowns vs brush panels
  • Traditionally all incoming lines into a server room or wiring closet gets punched down to a panel in the rack and then jumpers are wired to everything in the rack. You never put an end on a cable that came out of a wall. The idea being you would have maybe 5 feet of extra cable in a loop behind the rack in case you needed to reorganize the room in the future. It sucks pulling cable, so leave some extra.

    If there were multiple racks then usually one of them was just for wires and switches and the others were for servers. I usually used different color cables for different things too (like use orange for links between switches and blue for servers, etc), but for a home rack I wouldn't bother with that. Different color zip ties on cables can be handy too.

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    Testing packaging which targets multiple distributions?
  • If it were me and I was intending to automate this I would probably do the following. Set up each test distro as a VirtualBox image and take a snapshot so I could easily roll back. Then I would write a script for each distro that downloaded the package, installed and launched the app. I would then probably query the window system to make sure the gui showed up, wait a period of time if I had to and take a screenshot.

    This can probably all be done as a set of bash scripts.

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    Burst of SSH attacks, why?
  • This happens literally all the time for me both personally and professionally. I see mostly low effort attempts across various ports or things like sweeps of common username/password attempts on ssh or common management endpoints on http.

    This is why it's important to keep all publicly accessible servers and services updated and follow standard security guidelines. Things like only using public key auth for ssh for instance.

    At work we get hit occasionally in large bursts and have to ban ips for a bit to get them to go away.

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