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I've been trying to create my own splash screen but there's not exactly a lot of documentation out there. I've created an SVG for it but it's not working properly. Is there limited functionality? I suspect it might be because my install is pretty fudged and I'm missing some package but before i go reinstalling my OS I thought I'd check.

I know this probably comes up a lot and I’ve done some reading but it’s a little overwhelming so I thought I’d just post to help me get my thoughts together. I want to set up HA primarily to start using it with Frigate and give me remote access to my cameras but I might as well double down and get everything on this. I like the idea of clever houses and I’m glad there’s a good option for doing it locally with decent FOSS solution.

So in my network I have a sort of DMZ network. This network has all those dodgy IoT devices on it and it’s basically an untrusted network with internet access. I then have my normal network with everything else on it, like my laptop, phones, home server, etc. I’m planning on installing HA in a Podman container (Docker) on my server but I’d like to have some remote access so I can check out my cameras, 3D printer, and maybe a few other things, I’d also like to be able to receive notifications. However I still want to be able to run it normally without too many complications so I’d like it internal to my trusted network.

I’m thinking about the possibility of running two containers, one on my trusted network and one on my DMZ. I could sync them up or give them access to the same storage areas maybe. Is this possible? ChatGPT suggested it so I’m not sure if it’s worth pursuing. If not what are my other options? I basically want all the positives of having it on the internet with none of the negatives, how hard can that be?

I know I’m late to the party (and Lemmy search is rubbish) but I only just got a chance to watch this. I’ve always liked Wallace and Gromit, I always thought the only low point was A Matter of Loaf and Death, which was simply lacking a bit of magic. I was excited to watch this one and kept holding off for the perfect moment but it wasn’t coming so I just watched it when I had the chance.

I won’t go into loads of details but I just found it all quite unappealing. I hate to be crude but the whole thing just felt like it had been made by an American and left me suspecting that Netflix were quite heavily involved in it. It just didn’t feel like Wallace and Gromit, it felt like a Hollywood remake. It was all just so exaggerated and all the subtlety had gone. There were big grand instruments emphasising what was going on, lots of funny camerawork, and they really stressed the personalities of the characters, like how Wallace is an inventor, the relationship between the two, and Wallace being a cheery sort of fellow. And that soppy bit at the end between the two, I don’t know who felt like that had to be in there but that had American corporate thinking all over it. These kind of things were more endearing when they were just unsaid but understood. It just left it coming across like a kids film without the universal appeal. Probably explains why my 5 year old loved it.

I guess it was okay as a film on its own but it was definitely a low point for the series. I think they were trying to make it more accessible to a wider younger audience so they could turn it into a new franchise they could milk for a while.

Anyway, I wouldn’t be moaning so much but all the reviews were raving about it and I’m sat here thinking I watched a different film.

Also, something else I just thought about. Previous entries have been absolutely jam packed with jokes, like every scene was meticulously laid out. In this one they were few and far between, and they weren’t that funny when they came up. I don’t remember laughing once.

Hi. Sorry if this is a really generic question but I’m looking to upgrade my server and wondering if there’s some standout solution. I’m currently running an old Dell Poweredge T20 which has been fine but I’m running into issues with driver support because it’s all considered legacy now being nearly 10 years old. I wouldn’t mind upgrading the mobo, CPU and RAM but I really don’t need it to be too powerful. I’m just running Plex, Frigate, Home Assistant, and a few other small things. I need GPU for Frigate and I can’t get the onboard HD4600 on mine to work with Debian. I have a TPU for the AI stuff but I need support for videos rendering.

Are there any cheap mATX combos that are good and cheap, something like £100 and low power?

So I was using Tumbleweed on my old laptop but I got kind of sick of all the updates; I felt like that icon showing I had updates available just had a permanent space on my screen. Every time I refreshed I had at least 200mb of updates to do. So when I got my new laptop I went with Leap instead.

But what’s the actual difference? So the OS only gets updated once a year or so does it? Are smaller releases more forthcoming? What if there’s other packages that get updated? Do I have to wait a year to get the latest version or are they updated more regularly? I’m wondering if I should look at Slowroll as I don’t want to be waiting a year for new features.

Morning everybody. I’ve got a server at home running Debian and I handle everything over SSH aside from file transfers for which I use webmin. I’d be trying to get Frigate working on it using Podman but couldn’t get it to find the hardware I was passing to it and got pissed off and gave up, that was a few weeks ago and everything was fine. The Podman container had its own user and I’d set it up so I couldn’t access the containers with any other users, even with sudo. I’ve gone back to it this morning and found that when i try to sudo su in (which is what I normally do) i get “This account is currently not available”. I checked everything my friendly AI hero suggested but I couldn’t figure out why it had locked. The last reference in journalctl was me closing the session and there was no records of failed logins or fail2ban being triggered. I had the ! in the shadow file and passwd was showing me an L to say it was locked. In the end I gave up trying to figure out why it had locked because I couldn’t see evidence of anything dodgy so I just went to unlock it. I’ve tried passwd -u and I’ve remember the ! and rebooted but it still won’t unlock.

I suspect Podman may have done something but I’m pretty sure I stopped the containers before I last logged off because I got sick of them filling the log files up, and though I’ve rebooted at least once in the last three weeks I don’t know if my containers are auto starting, or what that would do. I can’t even check until I’ve got the user logging on.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm thinking about buying a new GPU. I'm looking at the 7700 xt as it's about £355 and I want Linux support and I like newer features. Before I pull the trigger can anyone tell me why I'm making a huge mistake?

I just can’t find a decent email client that looks like it’s from the last 20 years. Geary and Evolution both appear to be pretty modern but something about using Gmail with a Yubikey just doesn’t work and neither of them will connect to my account. Both on Fedora and OpenSUSE. Thunderbird works but it’s so old fashioned and Betterbird doesn’t look much better. What’s everyone else using?