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For servers, yes. Not so easy for desktop usage!

@hongminhee awesome! Thanks for the detective work. I'll catch us right up.

@hongminhee so, the good news is that I can use the Fedify CLI to do an authorized fetch for an actor, and the debug output shows that RFC 9421 signatures worked. 🥳 The bad news is that the follow test still doesn't work. 🫤 I'll keep trying and see what I can do.

GNU GRUB 2, mostly just referred to as GRUB these days, is the most widely used boot loader for x86_64 Linux systems. It supports reading from a vast selection of filesystems, handles booting modern systems with UEFI or legacy systems with a BIOS, and even allows users to customize the “splash” image displayed when a system boots. Alas, all of those features come with a price; GRUB has had a parade of security vulnerabilities over the years. To mitigate some of those problems, Ubuntu core developer and Canonical employee Julian Andres Klode has proposed removing a number of features from GRUB in Ubuntu 26.10 to improve GRUB’s security profile. His proposal has not been met with universal acclaim; many of the features Klode would like to remove have vocal proponents.

Ubuntu provides two versions of GRUB: one for UEFI systems that enables Secure Boot (referred to as the “signed” builds), and another for systems with legacy BIOS or systems that otherwise don’t support Secure Boot (the “unsigned” builds). The unsigned GRUB builds from Ubuntu would continue to have the existing set of features, but Klode is looking to strip quite a bit out of signed GRUB builds; he proposes removing support for reading /boot partitions that use Btrfs, HFS+, XFS, or ZFS filesystems. That would leave ext4, FAT, ISO 9660, and SquashFS. He also wants to disable features to use custom PNG and JPEG splash images, and strip out support for “complex partition setups such as LVM, md-raid (except raid1), and LUKS-encrypted /boot” because those were not tested nor used by the Ubuntu installer

Yes but the ESP is not /boot, it can be, but rarely is in grub installs

Sure, but having /boot on BTRFS won’t save you if the bitrot fucked up your ESP.

Ah sorry to hear you had a hard time. But it’s crazy times, one has to step back and recharge a bit!

Yeah I don’t have a portable pc yet, so I suppose I could justify it that way lol. But yes, I’ll have to wait and hope that the hardware crisis ends at some point. Makes no sense until then.

I love my steamdeck oled.

I use it primarily for upscaled emulation using retrodeck, (it runs PS2 upscaled to 4k, with all the beautification hacks switched on no problem) and in-home streaming which it excels at because of specialized hardware - sub 15ms 2k frame decode time over wifi (indistinguishable from being in front of your PC).

It can run large amounts of the steam catalogue, but very modern games that are quite demanding are going to struggle a lot, even at the native 800p. I prefer to stream them from my PC which it does very well.

Definitely get the oled model. Still might be the best screen I own. No ghosting and very good visual clarity. It’s still 800p though. I got the 512GB model and upgraded the SSD to 2TB myself. It was a little bit delicate, but nothing really major.

Worth noting that despite hating games running less than 60Hz, and preferring 120+, the performance target of the switch is actually 45Hz. With the 90hz display, locking the fps in for vsync at 45hz is actually perfectly acceptable for most games. Not allowing screen tearing is enabled by default for everything, and the frame limiter is available for changing/switching in game via a quick menu.

That said, if I wanted it as my sole gaming device, I would get something else.

I keep a USB-C dock behind my tv and when the tv is mine for an hour, I plug it in and grab my controller, and I’m in my game in less than 30s. If the tv is not mine for an hour, I can still get a bit of game time in handheld on the sofa.

Currently replaying unfinished games from my childhood - or ones I wanted but never got to play.

Battery life is highly variable. For emulation, you’ll get ages - 6+ hours. Same for much older steam titles. I played half life for 7 hours during a hurricane power outage once. Elden ring gets maybe 1hr20m.

I did get a Killswitch kit from dbrand, and would recommend that. It makes slinging it in a bag much easier and friendlier size wise compared to any case you can buy. It’s the best. The stand is surprisingly useful too. Fair warning, the deck is heavy enough without this extra mass, it’s not easy on the elbows for extended play on your back in bed e.g.

The killer features are:

• the overall simplicity
• steam in-home streaming hardware performance (outperforms theoretically much beefier hardware in all scenarios)
• screen

Bummers are:

• lackluster performance in modern titles.

Note: I am holding out hope for the recent Wine 11 ntsync patches being ported to proton - steams version of the windows compatiblity layer. With the recent fps improvement numbers, I’m hoping this will have a big impact.

The reason being, on the deck, the performance being poor isn’t all across the board, just for lots of newer titles. The Halo Master Chief collection will run at 120Hz at 1080p no problem.

Seems like they are testing the waters with the newest ep.

I figured they’d do one season focusing on the nightshift, but I’d definitely watch a spinoff.

Feel free to have a look at

!movies@piefed.social
!television@piefed.social
!animation@piefed.social

Watched Happy Gilmore 2 last night.

It wasn’t awful. But it wasn’t as good as the OG, either. It will be easily forgotten.

I watched the new scrubs reboot. Not the same as the original, but not bad either. Surprisingly excited about it and I hope it gets another season.

Also for those people trying out wine, try WineGui: https://github.com/winegui/WineGUI

Lemmy struggles with properly displaying the Castopod shownotes. I’ve filed a bug report here.

Relaying show notes here…

Why Offline & Local-First

• Rising Cost of Consumer Technology
• Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting
• Re-purposing older machines into functional use!

(00:11)

Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction

(00:50)

Sponsor Ameridroid - LINUXPREPPER code

(01:14)

Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org

(01:32)

Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups - Show notes listed there as well

(02:21)

Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is?

(04:38)

KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years

(08:30)

Unbound, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers

(09:30)

Quad9 - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google

(09:55)

Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters

(12:15)

Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc.

(13:04)

Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments

(13:55)

Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively

(15:20)

Challenges You Can Try at Home!

(15:59)

Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum

(17:00)

Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users! - Forum post for registered users

(17:36)

100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware

(19:11)

HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. Unedited interview available on Premium

(19:29)

Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing

(20:00)

mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https

(22:35)

Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show

(23:36)

How resilient is your setup? Let me know! podcast@livingcartoon.org

(24:05)

Discord and bridged Matrix Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others!

(24:55)

LFNW Schedule, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th

(25:11)

AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm!

(26:17)

Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences!

@thisismissem

"I don't think that would be accurate at all, in terms of what I presume most might think."

That was in reference to Elena's comment about being viewed as a team player... and nothing else.

As for "my memories failing me...", I was recalling from memory what I read years ago and recollected as Eugen's comments on why he had chosen to work on ActivityPub and Mastodon. I'm not a member of the board, nor do I have access to info on those events.

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

For now i use eOS, but i’m affraid that their update will be locked. I think i will have to move to sailfish.

Be careful when you change your rom : remove your google account first.

Some guide badly written on eOS omit that Lock system from google : FRP. Factory Reset Protection, mainly used against thieves but it also make changing rom harder…it wasn’t here before 😒

Not the place to be talking about this. I swear Lemmy is 99.99999% tech talk. This is probably like 1 of 3 places where this is usually not the case.