I mostly stick to things in the repos, if theres something I want that’s not yet packaged I package it myself because Gentoo packages are fancy bash scripts with libraries (eclasses) to handle the normal make && make install sort of things for most build systems

I still use X11 because one of my necessary voip apps (mumble) doesn’t yet support wayland’s method of global hotkeys.

Otherwise I don’t particularly care one way or the other.

Heres an example, ebuilds are named package-version.ebuild and that version in the filename is used to define variables (such as $P here which is the name-version) to make new versions as simple as copying the ebuild with the new version in the filename.

use_enable is used to generate the --enable-(option) or --disable-(option) as set by the user.

For more info, see the devmanual. They’re nice relatively straightforward bash like PKGBUILDs, but with the repetitious stuff taken out.

# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=8

DESCRIPTION="GNU charset conversion library for libc which doesn't implement it"
HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/"
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="LGPL-2+ GPL-3+"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~sparc ~x86"
IUSE="nls"

RDEPEND="!sys-libs/glibc"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"

src_configure() {
	econf $(use_enable nls)
}

one of the reasons I love gentoo is how easy it is to package things for it.

You know how for pkgbuilds you have to explictly write out the whole configure make make install stuff that pretty much every package uses some variation on? Gentoo abstracts that out to libraries (eclasses) that handle that sort of thing for each build system so you can focus down on anything unique to the package, like build system options.

3G generally refers to the 3rd generation of cellular communication (the frequencies and ways a phone communicates with cell phone towers). Phones can’t really be updated between them, the modems in them are made to support what they support and thats it.

3G is being shutdown gradually world wide to make room for better 5G speed and coverage. 5G is the newest generation of cell communication.

3G networks debut in 2001 and 2002. 5G networks started being deployed in 2019.

why did you link to a kbin view of another post right here on !linux@lemmy.ml ?

I’m glad lemmy’s fetching seems to be better: once a community is on your instance its there and you get everything except stuff from servers you’ve defederated with.

I recommend avoiding political communities in general. too many extremists on either side of the political spectrum.

btc is bitcoin yes. coinbase is one of the bigger exchanges so that’s fine

if you live in the USA crypto makes your taxes more complicated; the IRS wants to know when you buy and sell it and how much you got it for just like traditional investments.

you’re probably looking for getopt/getopts. one big difference between them is getopt handles --long options while getopt doesn’t.

other example

eh, its true if you want it to be signed by microsoft, which some projects have forked out for, buut it was put into the spec for x86_64 systems that users can replace the keys. so you can make your own keys, and if you want to dual boot add microsoft’s keys to the ok to boot list.

one of the signed projects is a shim that lets you approve whatever you want more or less; pretty much everything that talks about MOK refers back to this shim. many distributions use this shim

kubuntu is already literally just a package.

if you just install kubuntu-desktop (or something similar) from any buntu flavor you get it.

all you need to do is refresh the page after the error message appears and you’re golden, no big deal

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package myself; I chose Gentoo (and previously Arch) in part because its reasonably easy to package things there.

Most build systems are covered by eclasses ( libraries) that handle the repetitive minutia every package that build system needs.

Here’s the tuba ebuild for example (from GURU, the Gentoo equivalent of the AUR), 90% of it is just listing the dependencies and telling it to use a few eclasses to handle everything else.

Oh, and here’s the lemmy back end ebuild, the giant wall of crates is automatically generated/updated from a tool that reads the cargo files. (needed because Gentoo doesn’t allow internet access during the build for normal packages so crates are downloaded ahead of time)

There’s nothing wrong with solid old file systems; ext4 is almost 17 and no one complains about it,

its the internet, they are. Putting it behind cloudflare and locking down the firewall to only allow their ips has filtered out pretty much everything. its free and pretty straight forward if you own your own domain.

check your nginx access logs, I’m sure they’re full of people poking it.

134.122.30.157 - - [22/Jul/2023:07:45:28 -0500] "\x00\x00\x00\xB2\x9A\xD6\x8E\xCF.\x22\x83\xA9\xBF2\xBA|ro\xAE_\x95\xEC\x80\xE4\xE9n\x82q\x9E\xC6\xA9\x8F\xF5" 400 157 "-" "-"

and all kinds of other obvious incorrect stuff when a normal request looks like

2001:19f0:5c01:dd3:5400:2ff:feba:75b - - [27/Jul/2023:07:21:25 -0500] "GET /comment/165203 HTTP/2.0" 200 953 "-" "Lemmy/unknown version; +https://lemmy.xcoolgroup.com"

GET/POST/WHATEVER /url …

It has the power to run a one user instance, I’m sure it would run into issues trying to squeeze a normal amount of people onto it, but a handful sure.

I run everything off an external hard drive

lemmy can run on a decent variety of hardware, just has to be some thing left on 24/7 and exposed to the internet (be careful, the internet is a hostile place… mine was getting scanned and poked constantly until I put it behind cloudflare and then locked the firewall down to just let in cloudflare), and of course more users take more powerful hardware.

For my personal just me instance though, I’m just running it on a Raspberry Pi 4 I run some other stuff on. Uses less than a gig of memory.

you should see kbin , I had a poke at that the other day and it needs php, postgres, nginx, mercure, rabbitmq, supervisord and also nodejs.

I got close, but I couldnt quite get things working the other day. Had it to the point I had an ugly unthemed version up some of the time.