Re: 6 reasons you should use Ubuntu for your own NAS

2024-09-05 Thread Ted Gould via PLUG-discuss
I think that you could definitely get something working well for that setup. The one comment I'd have is use ZFS for your filesystems and then it becomes super easy to add storage later, or setup mirroring, or whatev you want. ZFS does an amazing job of separating out the physical drives from th

Re: Firefox and VM

2023-11-30 Thread Ted Gould via PLUG-discuss
On Nov 30 2023, at 1:55 am, Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Flatpak is an alternate to snap. > Just be careful with Flatpaks. Snap requires apps to be confined to be in the store (or require CLI options to override and install) so things are generally walled off from your system. Whil

Re: Firefox and VM

2023-11-29 Thread Ted Gould via PLUG-discuss
On Nov 29 2023, at 3:34 pm, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Is anyone here doing something similar? Looking for suggestions as to which > OS to use. > Not a VM, but I just use the Snap version of Firefox which runs it under Apparmor and a bunch of other filesystem chroots. That's on Ubuntu.

Re: API Help ...

2022-08-03 Thread Ted Gould via PLUG-discuss
On Aug 3 2022, at 11:00 am, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Even if you're not familiar with Chef, or Automate ... I think I need help > with API. > I have a friend that built this site: https://curlhub.io/ I find for dealing with new APIs it helps a lot, you can play with the var

Re: newer wide screen monitor

2022-04-11 Thread Ted Gould via PLUG-discuss
Not sure how new you're thinking, but I use an Ultra-widescreen monitor with Linux. It is about 3 years old. I use on Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop via USB-C to a docking station. I also use it with my RPi 4 running Ubuntu 20.04 via HDMI. I'd imagine most modern graphics cards that have drivers for

Re: Ubuntu moving to rolling releases

2022-03-27 Thread Ted Gould via PLUG-discuss
On Mar 26 2022, at 10:52 pm, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > This is interesting news - ubuntu moving to rolling releases. > > > https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-becomes-a-rolling-release-with-rolling-rhino/ If you follow the links you get to the Rolling Rhino webpage: https://rolling

Re: Electrical costs to run a home web server

2021-07-23 Thread Ted Gould via PLUG-discuss
On Jul 23 2021, at 1:50 pm, Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss wrote: > There will come a time long after you install the OS that something will > happen and the computer won't boot. You then need to (1) find that old > monitor; (2) find the right cable; (3) find the right mouse; (3) pull out the

Re: jitsi updates

2020-04-16 Thread Ted Gould via PLUG-discuss
Dude, you've missed the most exciting Jitsi announcement! https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/ Because Jitsi works with multiple streams and doesn't require decoding and resampling on the server side they can send them encrypted to the server which then will choose which to send on. Real e2e video chat.