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So my update. I did install it, rather I did a chroot install of Jammy then upgraded each release in turn to current Noble via the Debian method. Been using it the last few days with nary a whisper of a problem. Quite pleased and surprised. I haven't seen a single error of any kind pop up in a notif...

None of that would make you a traitor, or anything negative. You use what you want and no one will judge you for it. Once you start doing something ridiculous like using PPA's and Ubuntu packages on your Debian system though you will be judged, potentially mocked because it's been known to cause all...

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/gitlab-runner/builds/t_Wy2xFrX/0/project/test/.git/ Created fresh repository. Is it running from the proper directory? It's saying you aren't downloading anything rather creating one. remote: You are not allowed to download code from this project. fatal: un...

either. you want to keep it simple. if there is no reason for the runner group then eliminate it. You can do just fine with 755 for the gitlab-runner user. the only way you need the group separate is if someone else needs to be in it, but in that case3 you can add them to the gitlab-runner group any...

The only thing you should need to do is give the /mnt/partition folder the proper permissions for the gitrunner user? and it will work. The rest of that stuff is nonsense to me. The global sudo for that program is a very bad idea. Global ALL:ALL nopasswd is never the right answer. There is no reason...

For awhile I had debated getting it installed. And honestly a part of me still might want to. But I've finally come to terms with the distro not mattering as much as one thinks it does. There is no perfect. There is only the one with the least problems. So Debian it is at this point. At this point I...

I'd like to reinforce that this works for all kinds of things. As long as your config .folders and .files are separate you can do this with any and all data. some stuff though like flatpak .var and .steam folders will need to be fully bind mounted though. they don't seem to work correctly with a sym...

While I can't and won't claim to know how the Debian mirrors work I can say that for Arch sometimes the mirrors don't work correctly. Seems quite rare but a few times when I've done various installs while distro hopping I've had to adjust my available mirrors because they just timeout repeatedly. Po...

You are correct. For the average user the official upgrade guide is a mess. Many steps, some seemingly pointless. But you must remember it is written for people running production systems where there is no room for error. How valuable your uptime is is what determines how many of those steps you sho...

A couple years ago I bought a machine on Craigslist for 80 bucks US. CPU: quad core Intel Xeon E31225 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 1598/1600/3400 MHz Kernel: 6.1.0-18-amd64 x86_64 Up: 14d 1h 41m Mem: 1806.3/15700.6 MiB (11.5%) This thing has been running my media collection for the past 4 or 5 years now. ...

All of that data seems relatively unchanging. As such I'd suggest a simple rsync on a schedule would be quite sufficient. How often really depends on how much is added to it on a regular basis. You can do it via a systemd service or cron, either way. In the case of the docker data I personally like ...

Maybe in the next stable release. Maybe not. Depends on how fast stuff gets squashed. Debian is not known for the latest and greatest. It is known for reliable software that doesn't give you to many surprises. Nothing stopping you from getting the source and trying to build it. Make a good backup fi...

While it may not be advisable I just create a PATH in my /etc/environment file
This eliminates the entire issue. But it's not the proper way to go so do it at your own risk.

I wish I had known that learning programming when you are 42 is much harder than when you are a teenager. Instead I spent time playing games on the computer. I could be much further along if I had started learning back then.

I used to do folding. I was to busy wasting my time with games to get into mining while it was profitable. Somewhere I have instructions for pxe booting folding clients via ltsp. But financially it's difficult to keep up with the power draw. The big coin like Bit and Eth are out of range for small t...

With all due respect while Debian does the best it can to keep free software and non free separate there is entirely too many ways stuff can get in. They can't catch every single one of them. The only way you can get what you seem to want (by the essence of the thread) is to build your own from LFS ...

Perhaps they're aware of how mistreated they are by their software and feel powerless to change it, so they seek to sabotage others who achieve any greater success in "leaving the bucket". By spreading FUD and belittling solutions or those who suggest them. Or maybe they are tired of Linu...

While I don't work in the field a Linux desktop is no different than a Linux server, only with a gui added to it. So any common tool will work. Ansible for one, Puppet, there are quite a few options. I tinkered with something called Foreman a long time ago but it was far to involved for what I neede...

I know I'm not the longest serving Linux user by any remote measure but this is the first time I've personally ever heard of doas. As such if it's somewhat recent it will need to be proven for quite a time before Debian would make it any kind of default I'd think. If it's not recent then I'm curious...

Debian Wheezy is actually where I started my Linux experience. It was the first one that worked on my apparently odd combination of hardware at the time. Almost nothing else would boot much less actually install and be usable. Debian may not be as user friendly as something like Ubuntu or Mint. But ...