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I don’t understand, is suggesting someone write a 7 line bash script in a Linux forum post about using a cli downloader, unreasonable?

It would be more accurate to say they _try and block the vpn providers and Tor exit nodes. In practice, they do have ~95% of Tor exit nodes blacklisted but major vpn providers it’s closer to 40%. Vpn providers go through a lot of effort to hide their exit traffic and it’s pretty simple to use a provider that has a reasonably robust cli to just rotate nodes until you find one that works

Connect

Test known-good video using yt-dlp

If fail, use vpn cli to connect to a new node

Reeat until success

If your provider let’s you connect to specific nodes you can even store the last-known-good and use it on first connect until it gets blacklisted, extending uptime considerably

I like the stable, but newer packages that Ubuntu offers, plus the first-party support you get from a lot of projects. I wish debian was the standard dpkg assumption for first-party support but it unfortunately is not. Ubuntu makes it pretty easy to build automation on top of that is good for 5+ years without touching.

Yes I have, admittedly it’s been about a decade but at the time I switched because getting hardware acceleration in chrome and Firefox was difficult on debian, trivial on Ubuntu. I like the stable, but newer packages that Ubuntu offers, plus the first-party support you get from a lot of projects. I wish debian was the standard dpkg assumption for first-party support but it unfortunately is not.

Ubuntu server (headless)

Install pulse, x11, awesomewm.

Building the gui stack yourself on top of Ubuntu server gives you all of the debian/Ubuntu stability and issue searchability with none of the gnome/canonical cruft.

Because the philosophy of the Linux kernel is

We don’t break userland

They have no way of knowing who is using what parts of the Linux kernel, where, and why. Generally if it’s not hurting anyone it just stays until it causes a problem.

Very cool project!

What was the motivation to make it cross platform? On the Linux side I see immediate value but I’m struggling to understand the usecase for win/Mac.

This sounds a lot like juicefs. I wonder what the motivation was to make this when juicefs exists and is reasonably mature already.

People shit on it but there’s a lot of good open-source tooling that supports it.

There are nist l1 profiles

Tutorials and guides for everything

etc

Part of being a good sysadmin is knowing when not to reinvent the wheel. Ubuntu has a lot of options for vetted, hardened, “other people’s wheels.”

Also, for posterity, the competent ones are running the headless, server version of Ubuntu. (As opposed to the bloated mess that is Ubuntu Desktop). The server version catches a lot of flack it doesn’t deserve.

Code rewrites are always going to have growing pains. Rewriting gnu-corrutils in rust is a noble effort.

The simpler the arbitrary string/blob parsing logic the less this happens

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?product=grub2&vendor=gnu

I agree with you that it’d be nice if the cuts were a little shallower and allowed for an encrypted boot partition, but you could still have the system reasonably secure by encrypting the data partitions and signing the entire boot process to detect and abort decryption if the boot partition doesn’t match signatures. You already have to do this with the efi partition if you’re particularly paranoid about that attack vector, so this really isn’t a new one.