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> Be me, uses linux
> Need to share ReTHAWed mod files on their website
> catbox.moe does not keep files permanently
> OneDrive and GoogleDrive are too evil 4 me
> Could use ProtonDrive, but no
> Dropbox is handy and familiar to most people
> Now I just give up and use Dropbox because reasons
catbox does keep files permanently iirc, it's litterbox that doesn't
I use s-ul.eu for my occasional filesharing needs, downloads are no bullshit you click the link you have the file and never had issues with it. Not sure if storage limits on the free tier are lower than dropbox though.
Oh and you get your own url prefix.
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I had Dropbox installed on Linux awhile back. Not just a Windows thing.
IMHO networked file systems have never not felt like magic to me. Sure my NFS share is only 12tb but I smile every time I use it
NFS is weird to me because the only security seems to be by what ip is connecting?
I only access it over a local network or wire guard. It's not perfect security, but also I'm willing to accept that risk.
And the encryption you hopefully put on your files.
If the server is going to serve them in a useful way, they need te be decrypted. Pretty inconvenient to decrypt every file before use.
I find that decrypting locally is piss-easy, you only have to do it once on mounting the drive. Maybe not if you use shitty devices like smart TVs.
You mean decrypting on the client, or full disk encryption on the server?
What are you using?
Decrypting on the client. Create an encrypted container on the server (e.g. with gocryptfs), mount the drive on the client, decrypt the container and mount the decrypted container as a drive.
I guess that works.
The owner of the machine is the owner of the secure boot keys.
J4k3, hope youre doing alright dude.
Got a question you may be able to help me with. I have never changed my secure boot key on my motherboard after switching from windows. Do I need to worry about anything? If I don't, what's the pros and cons and what not.
I remember reading that there's some sort of potential issues with keys from windows if you're a Linux user a few months back.
not j4k3 but my understanding is that the default keys are expiring soon and need to be rotated, and the rotation is up to your Mobo OEM to push out (?). I am not entirely sure that is correct, but I think it is.
Pros and cons of your own key: Pros: its your key, so youre responsible for your security
Cons: its your key, so youre responsible for your security
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You can generate your own keys. Here are two PDF links I copied just now from a post I made 2 years ago here. I don't keep these white listed, so I did not check them for connecting. The first is the official UEFI overview. The second is a great guide from the US government detailing exactly how to set the keys. If that link doesn't work, pull out the document number from the link and search for it. Gentoo and Arch have guides on this. Fedora has the most advanced pre Linux init system in my opinion.
If you have secure boot enabled, and you are using the shim from fedora or ubuntu, then yes you need to worry about it if you want to dual boot with w11.
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One day, Linux will be ready for a no-headaches gaming PC. Genuinely looking forward to it.
Its mostly there if your ready to dump your League addiction. Proton Db has guides for the games that don't just work first try and most of the fixes are select a different launch option from a drop down in Steam.
Except games with shitty anti-cheat like Battlefield. Those are just unplayable.
I discovered that Helldivers 1 ran fine on Linux despite having an anti-cheat, because when the anti-cheat fails to launch the game just says "fuck it" and runs anyway. Though other games like PUBG refuse to run when their anti-cheat fails. I love PUBG but not so much that I'm willing to let some shady publisher from the other side of the world run unknown and unrestricted code at the lowest level of my home computer just to play it. That will never be a worthwhile trade.
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Though on that note, I started playing a lot of DOTA 2 on linux without issue.
It is native on Linux, just like most of Valve's catalog, so it should run as well as running a Windows game on Windows.
Some games run worse natively on Linux, because they fall back to some badly optimized OpenGL renderer.
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Everyone will have a different experience based on their hardware, distro, and game preferences; But for me Linux has been a far less headache-inducing gaming platform than Windows literally for years at this point.
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already is for me!
I had this mindset for about 2 decades, from when I first played around in OpenSUSE and Compiz back in 2005 up to 2024 when I finally switched because of Windows 10 being put out to pasture by Microsoft. But since I'm now in my early 40s and no longer play competitive games as I used to 15 years ago, I've had zero problems with Linux and gaming.
So I totally understand your mindset as I too once thought the same.
Problem with waiting is of course that developers don't favor linux due to lack of people on linux playing game, so it's a vicious circle:
- not playing on linux because it's not well supported by games
- game devs not making games for linux because not enough players are there.
I hope you enjoy linux when you're ready.
I switched in my 20s when I stopped caring about competitive games, and I'm always surprised at how little effort it is to do the things I want to do.
To be fair, I did find a few very early windows 98/XP'ish games or so hard to get going. There was a period where developers tailored the games very specifically for the OS. But they're fairly rare.
That's tricky on Windows too, and generally you need a compatibility layer anyway (e.g. dosbox).
This post accurately described my life. High five brother.
Hell yeah! ✋
Can someone enlighten me as to what is M$ doing this time?
I had to install windows the other day on my kids laptop, and had to skip like 10 screens of Microsoft ads and then disable OneDrive, but saw nothing about Dropbox.
Edit: my household has been using Mint for a few years now, the m$ enshitification was just too much for us. I only had to install windows on my kids school laptop because they won't accept anything else...
No idea but here's some tools you should look into
and this one isnt a tool but more of a tip. When installing Win11, set the region to English (world). This will prevent bloat from being installed by default, then use the OOBE\bypassnro command at the M$ account screen to skip signing up for a M$ account.
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Fake: anon existed happily Gay: lets daddy Satya penetrate their machine
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anon, it's time to uninstall windows
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