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[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is plasma big screen really an option? Id like to install it on a desktop to act as a android tv. Launch Stremio, YT and maybe one or two other apps/websites. Easy big tile navigation with remote (flirc).

It's in dev since 2020. The images hosted on the site are bit for any of my hardware. It says theres a Debian package. Installed that though LMDE but it was horrible. Somone mentioned Kububtu can install it with apt, but its not listed. Think I'll give up.

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[–] Wav_function@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I got one!

What constrains access to an rpc socket in the file system? Is it just the permissions of the socket or is there more to the whole process?

E: I originally wrote port instead of socket because it was early lol.

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[–] Manalith@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've got one progam that I need for work that I cannot get to run on Linux. I've tried WINE on both Ubuntu and Zorin (and winlator for android). I have the installer exe file and try to launch with WINE but then nothing happens. Is that a program problem, WINE limitation, or something else? Is there a different program I should try to launch it?

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[–] PatrickYaa@lemmy.one 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Howdy. I have a "homeserver" that I'd like to actually start using. What's currently keeping me from it are... Permissions.
I have TrueNas Scale running on top of Proxmox, and I can't for the life of me not access NFS Shares from other VMs (specifically a Debian VM that I use as Docker Host) that I host in Proxmox. Plox hlp.

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I have a server that has multiple services running under multiple users that each store data. I want to be able to bundle all this data up and send it to another server for backups.

At a high level, how do I manage permissions for this? Currently I run the backup as root, then chown it to a special backups user which can log in through ssh. But this all feels clunky to me.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Might want to take a look at a dedicated backup tool like Borg. It will keep all the proper permissions and file attributes in the backup.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are many ways to do this, but the next up from users is using groups!

For each file or data directory, create a group that owns it. This group should have the service's user as member. Then create a user for running the backups, and add it to all these groups.

The benefit of this is you don't have to use root, and you have an association of directory to group that you can always change. You can for example grant a user access to a data directory by just adding it to its group.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it that much better to have a Desktoo Environment, on my desktop computer? I'm still halving it with Windows trying to get my games to run on arch lol

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 3 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Can you elaborate on the issue you are having? Having a desktop environment is usually necessary to run games.

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