Saving for later, pretty cool.

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If you mean I’ve installed, configured and used it, yes.

If you can get it working, pretty bad.

Conky is just a standalone program, you just need to install it and invoke it. It lives in the default repos.

There are some windowing switches you’ll need to get familiar with to make it behave the way you want, but it’s just the one .conkyrc file to change things.

X11 tablet interfaces do exist, but they all use mouse emulation, which is a pretty poor experience.

I can speak to the xfce experience on a surface pro 6.

Oh, yeah, I remember that time. Upgrading between major versions isn’t perfect, but it has improved dramatically since about 2017 on both Ubuntu and Debian.

Debian has also just implemented apt v3, which adds many basic http/s quality-of-life improvements to package downloading and installing (like multithread, better config definitions, easier key mgmt, etc)

I don’t know about Ubuntu because I moved from Ubuntu to debian 4 years ago for other reasons, but I’m sure they have aptv3 as well.

How were dist upgrades going bad?

Sir… Unless you are on gnu herd or on 100% open hardware, you are also using proprietary drivers and software.

As I said, not all Linux is oss.

I’m not following. Are you suggesting the subject of android doesn’t belong in this instance of Linux on Lemmy?

Sorry, what is the relevance here?

Not everything Linux is oss

Whatever it is you’re referring to here certainly doesn’t change the fact that the FSF sucks at marketing.

<gestures at all the enshittified software products from the last 30 years>

In our current economic philosophy, yes.

Google is what happens when good marketing meets OSS, so careful what you wish for.

What you’re saying is true, however VPNs connect both hosts and subnets. If you have a VPN server on your subnet, you can easily allow any client that connects to it to have access to your LAN.

VPNs are simply networking over encrypted tunnels. What you do with that tunnel is up to you.

It was a general statement, I was using “work” as a Lithmus test of “playing the video in public”.

Glad I was able to help, because samba has a lot of knobs and switches.

When I was first learning samba in 2003, I got overwhelmed pretty fast until my colleague told me the best way to handle samba is to start with a working and simple global directive, then one simple share, and layer security on top of that.

I agree.

I’m getting bored with the AI influence on everything. And now this poor person has been led down the garden path with that silly article.

You are being prompted because the nobody/nogroup user/group has no password, no shell, and no permissions.

That tutorial is wrong. Couple of problems immediately:

• “valid users” specifies “all the users in this group are allowed access”. It is incompatible with “force user/group” directive
• you should be using the “guest user=” directive, which sets the identity of any public access. Your permissions should match this user.
• nobody/nogroup are special user and group that (usually) have no access to any file. They exist for processes to run with minimal provileges, or for a fallback default if UID/gid map are invalid. Using this user/group combo for this samba share implies that you will either alter them so that they now DO have privileges to access files, or that you intend samba to never access any files. Create a guest user, set permissions and umask in the directory.