Oracle (yes, the evil company) gives you one VPS for free

I hate that it’s oracle…

3.60 €/month is not bad. however i’d look for something even cheaper, given that the lowest plan gives 4 cores and 8gb of RAM, which I probably won’t need

You’re the only one giving me a positive answer!

I do not mind RAID, so i won’t lose data when a drive fails (the most valuable thing will be backups, which i mean, are backups, so not that critical if i can make a new one, but even losing other data would be a bit boring). I think I’d do software RAID tho, so if the controller breaks i wouldn’t have to find the same model, which could be hard for old hardware i guess.

the other comments scared me about power consumption, so i’ll have to investigate more of it.

Old desktop pc would be ideal, for exactly the problems you pointed out. The only thing that is making me consider this is the already included drives, which is where i’d end up spending most of my money (especially now, thanks ai)

I mean, the same capacity would cost WAY too much more. For a similar capacity + the system i’d have to spend at least double :(

yup, desktop components are what i was originally looking for, but this is 200 euros for a lot of storage, which would be way more expensive if i were to buy it separately

Do you have an estimate on the energy consumption?

Forgot to clarify, that was reverse engeneered code from the train firmware (i don’t remember what it was trying to do)

The best part of that presentation was code thst looked like the this

if (day > 15 && month > 11 && year > 2010) {
    // Yes the date is random i don't remember the real one
}

Encrypting home is good (although full disk encryption is better and with mint it’s still easy enough)

Mint uses some helper scripts to mount/unmount your encfs, so maybe while trying to delete the files you deleted those too, and this would explain the login failing. It’s been a while tho so I’m not sure, better to wait for someone else.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114738606142462442

Good enough source for you?

Oh yeah i figured there were some tools able to do that, i meant to say that you can’t substitute one with the other in place without doing some sort of conversion.

sorry for the late reply. I honestly do not remember what the procedure is. The best thing you can do is look on the internet for a easy to follow guide, or wait for someone else’s response

Unfortunately changing from MBR to GPT also deletes existing partitions and partition table, because the two are not compatible.

Luckily, testdisk should be able to recover the old partition table without much fuss, if you didn’t write other data to the disk.

I don’t have a manual handy but the man page from what i remember is pretty clear, and there’s also an online documentation.

And all that just because someone decided that an array bigger that 16 bytes would have been too expensive (/s probably)

I’m almost sure the backstory to how you gained this knowledge is “i spent hours debugging something, and that 15 chars limit was the problem”

I might be a robot, I don’t know why but i can’t solve the captcha lol

I’d love to give this a try tho so maybe I’ll come back later

Just a random idea, but would you consider using anubis instead? (That new thingy that has been popping up lately, for example on the archwiki). I haven’t checked it out but I bet it’s also better on a privacy standpoint in respect to google’s captcha

There’s no shame in combining multiple tools, that’s what pipelines are all about

Not at all, but some times it’s just funny

You can select specific lines, with regex or by using a line number; or you can select multiple lines by using a comma to specify a range.

Yep, learning this made sed even more useful to me.

I also gave awk a try and now i know what i’ve missed all these years

(Also, sorry for the 12 days old reply :))

12 days late, but thanks for the bit of history, I always enjoy this stuff :)

Are you opposed to using awk?

Not at all, I’m just not familiar with it so I find it confusing.

Although, looking at your command, i think I understand what it means

I see. I guess what confused me was that i didn’t understand what addresses were.

Thank you for your explanations :)