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  1. This is exactly why you should never ever trust cloud based solutions for something as sensitive as password storage! You should only keep them on hardware you physically own. I use KeepassXC combined with nextcloud which runs in a docker container on my private server/NAS/PlexServer. Which is also getting weekly updates. Now I both have securty through the encryption Keepass uses and securty measures in nextcloud. On top of that I benifit from securty through obscurity. Try finding the URL for my nextcloud instance... Not saying that my solution cannot be hacked. It is just way more unlikely. Those lastpasses of this world are just big juicy targets to attack. Moral of the story: the cloud is just an acronym for "somebody else's computer" and personal passwords just don't belong on somebody else's computer.
  2. If the volume of goods sold in europe is large enough you can benefit form the economics of scale. Then you could still make up for the bulk shipping and customs clearing costs and european staff by charging the same price in euros as in dollars. since one EUR is about 1,20 USD
  3. Also don't trust in cloud password managers. Run your own! I use KeepassXC in conjunction with a local hosted Nextcloud server which I actively maintain. Nextcloud allows me to sync the database file to my desktop, laptops and mobile phone. This way I have the best of both world. The security of not getting pwned when a big cloud password manager gets pwned, but I retain the ability to have all my passwords available to me on all my devices. Never trust "the cloud" with anything important. It is just synonymous for "someone else's computer". And Bob can be hacked or decide to turn off his computer at any time!
  4. If I would have to guess it would seem that you don't have a working network stack on Arch. try the command "ping google.com" The best way to fix it is boot the ISO of the install medium in the virtual machine and mount your primary partion again (as you did installing it) and use the command arch-chroot to start the command line in your current installation. However I would advise you to just try a more beginner friendly distro to get your linux feet wet. Min,Pop or Ubuntu should do fine
  5. Or you can just install it outside the package manager: (if the package is still borked sudo apt-get install -y curl wget wget -E http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb sudo dpkg -i steam.deb sudo apt-get install -yf
  6. The problem is that enthousiasts are most of the times 'powerusers' They know every knook and cranny of the computer and OS they are working on. This makes them do tasks just on muscle memmorry. If I want to continue development on my indie game I just mash the windows key press v, i ,s and visual basic community would pop up and after pressing enter it is off to the races. Now I also rock a netbook with Arch32/LXQT. Out of the box LXQT has a legacy start menu and the standard keyboard shortcuts are different. For instance the 'windows-key' does nothing out of the box. Instead you have to use ALT-F1. But this will just open the start menu. And typing does nothing. Now there is in fact similar and IMHO better functionality. To access it you have to press ALT-F2 and boom type "ka" for kate and I am happily programming away. (Sadly there is no visual studio Code for 32bit architecture anymore). The windows search breaks every other day. The LXQT variant just works. So for me the experience on my netbook is actually better. But for someone new to this particular environment the experience is going to be awfull. They will think this feature is missing and just doing the simple task of loading a rich text editor will take them longer then they are used to. It is like having to drive on the right hand side while you are used to driving on the left hand side of the car. While I was in South-Africa the first couple of days I would constantly turn on the window wipers when I meant to turn on the turn signal! But after some time I became used to it and turning the turn signal on and off was again something that I was just doing from muscle memory. The point being: It took some effort to become as proficient a driver as I was in my home country. Now imagine this but the controls are a lot more complex. That is the learning curve a new GNU/Linux user has to go through! It might be useful to make a video just explaining all the analogues for common 'Windows power features' Like shortcuts, commands and recommended apps for tasks. Although this will most likely be a minefield because just for terminal emulation there are more then 20 options. Most of them just forks with a slightly different feature set. Which is really nice because you can use the app that bests suits your needs. But to be honest the terminal emulator bundled with your desktop environment is probably more then good enough for >99% of users. But the mere amount options can be quite overwhelming for new users.
  7. It should run fine. Although I think freeNAS and ZFS especially is overkill for the homelab enviroment. You pay quite a hefty ZSF-Tax when doing any kind of upgrade later down the road. For referernce: https://louwrentius.com/the-hidden-cost-of-using-zfs-for-your-home-nas.html You might want to look into more flexible solutions like linux with snapraid/mergerFS or unraid although the latter is not free. If you still like a one stop shop that is free look into openmediavault. It runs debian linux under the hood so you should not run into any hardware/driver issues. Which is a slight risk with freeNAS since it is freeBSD under the hood. Since the machine is overkill and is going to sit idle for 99% of the time, be sure to remove any overclock you had. You could even consider undervolting and or downclocking your hardware to save a bit on power consumption.
  8. You can use docker to run all kinds of services. Personaly I run: - plex server - (radarr/lidarr/sonarr)seedbox - pihole - nextcloud - smarthome hub - openVPN - webserver (php7/mariadb) - Resillio Sync - NAS (mergerFS/SnapRAID All from a i5-3570K with 24GB of ram and four 8TB Seagate ironwolfs and a 500gb SSD. And I think those specs are even overkill.. I use openmediavault as OS. Mostly it is sitting there idleing away and using power...
  9. Go for openmediavault with snapraid and mergerfs. It will grant the flexibility of unraid while being debian under the hood. OMV is Linux rather than FreeBSD based. This means it is more likely to run reliable on more various hardware. OpenNAS/freeNAS is very expensive and inflexible because it uses ZFS which is a bit overkill in the homeserver envioroment IMO. It does not allow you to add a single drive to a data storage pool. Rather you have to add a software raid array. This means that for every amount of hardrives you add you will have the pay the ‘ZFS tax’ and dedicate at least one drive for redundancy! And even worse: if one of your arrays in the pool suffers catastrophic drive failure from which it cannot recover the ENTIERE DATA POOL is gone! So the entire data pools is as redundent as the weakest array added to the pool! With snapraid and mergerFS you can access every drive independably if you wish so even in the event of catastrophic drive failure not ALL of the data is lost. The system allows you to add a single drive to a pool and it allows for a certain flexibility for the amount of drives you reserve for parity data. Of course, you can also install docker or any other hypervisor you wish for all your virtualization needs. And unlike unraid it is free as in free beer and as in free speech. A good tutorial to set this up: https://www.networkshinobi.com/snapraid-and-mergerfs-on-openmediavault/ I’ve been running it on i5-3570K with 24GB of ram and four 8TB Seagate ironwolfs and a 500gb SSD. It runs several services: - NAS - Resillio Sync - Plex server with hardware decoder (970 with patch to unlock the transcode limit) https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch - PiHole - Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Bazarr/Qtorrent (for sailing the high seas) - Nextcloud - openVPN
  10. Also to prevent components moving/dislodging put something like a swabs of bubblewrap inside the case and you should be fine
  11. Arch Linux 32Bit running LXDE Running on an old MSI Wind U100 (which I did upgrade to 2Gb and an SSD) Running LXTerminal with htop open on the desktop I use 160-180 megabytes of ram.
  12. I've figured out why battlefield is preforming poorly on older intel CPUs. It all has to do with the crippling of hyperthreading and speculative computing on cpus from 2016 or older that came with the spectre and meltdown patches. With some tweaking and disabling the spectre/meltdown patches during gaming sessions I went from 97-100% cpu usage on my 2600k and getting 30-40 fps on low to 60-80% cpu usage a with a steady capped 60 fps. I've written a step by step report on my blog about it. http://www.gamesdust.nl/index.php?id=249 Specs for reference: i7 2600K @4600Mhz Z68XP-UD3P 24GB kinston hyperX @1600Mhz CL9 Geforce eVGA 970 OC 4GB @ 1250Mhz core & 3750 Mhz memmory 500GB samsung 850 EVO
  13. Be sure to go for a head unit (HU) sporting a at least MTCD/MTCE with a PX5 preinstalled with Oreo (Android 8.0). The PX3 ones are not going to be upgradable to android Oreo. So you run the risk of the HU becoming unsupported by the google play store before the lifetime of the car. Google maps on the PX5/PX3 on android 6 has an annoying bug where the app's cache gets corrupted every time the HU shuts down while the app is still open. This corrupted cache will make the app crash the first time you try to navigate after that, which is really a pain. Also offline maps would cause random crashes. On android 8 google maps works fine. Also get one with the appropriate CANBUS adapter for your car, so the HU can take advantage of the buttons on your steering wheel, proximity sensors and it can display some car information on screen (like ambient temperature, open doors, current speed by speed-o-meter, engine RPM, oil pressure and temperature). Most importantly get one with physical buttons! Trust me you don't want to be looking at the screen every time you want to change the playback volume, radio station, or navigation.
  14. Processor Information: Vendor: GenuineIntel CPU Family: 0x6 CPU Model: 0x2a CPU Stepping: 0x7 CPU Type: 0x0 Speed: 3410 Mhz 8 logical processors 4 physical processors HyperThreading: Supported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Unsupported SSE41: Supported SSE42: Supported Network Information: Network Speed: Operating System Version: Windows 10 (64 bit) NTFS: Supported Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0 Video Card: Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 DirectX Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll Driver Version: 10.18.13.5582 DirectX Driver Version: 10.18.13.5582 Driver Date: 25 Aug 2015 OpenGL Version: 4.5 Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 VendorID: 0x10de DeviceID: 0x13c2 Number of Monitors: 3 Number of Logical Video Cards: 3 No SLI or Crossfire Detected Primary Display Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Desktop Resolution: 6800 x 2160 Primary Display Size: 23.50" x 13.23" (26.97" diag) 59.7cm x 33.6cm (68.5cm diag) Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x Primary VRAM: 4095 MB Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x Sound card: Audio device: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti Memory: RAM: 24533 Mb Miscellaneous: UI Language: English Microphone: Not set Media Type: Undetermined Total Hard Disk Space Available: 4413579 Mb Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 380086 Mb OS Install Date: jan 01 1970 Game Controller: SideWinder Joystick detected VR Headset: None detected
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