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  • I never felt systemd as addressing any issues I personally had, so meh, I still don’t use it and don’t feel the need for it. Of. Course, this is only my personal choice. Good to have.

    Maybe systemd fixed issues for other use cases, so there is that.

    Wayland too, but the rel difference is that X has been an unmaintained mess for decades and was designed for different technology. Hard to adapt to modern issues like privacy, security and hardware acceleration. So Wayland is a good way forward, and still backward compatible which is a cool and needed feature too.

    While systemd, after decades, I can still do without in all my use cases (personal use laptop, various servers, work workstations, and a largish work laboratory with a few mixed workstations and servers). Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have. But also yo have choice.


  • I see the point and I find the article honest in exposing its authors views.

    But honestly Wayland is better than X in most ways and while it’s taking time to grow and replace X fully, well, on 10 years from now X will be rightfully forgotten.

    This is not a systemd/sysinit issue. Wayland actually fix issues, deep issues, in an old outdated and broken also mostly unmaintained stack of tech that didn’t age well.

    I did not yet switched to Wayland everywhere for various reasons, but the fact that where I did it worked very well and didn’t even noticed the transition is proof that Wayland is the wayforward.

    Fegmentation is bad? Well, it’s the core of Linux, so get used to it and let everybody pick what they prefer…


  • ShimitartoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDNS server
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    15 hours ago

    Just a normal 4 people home, two teenagers tough. Enabling a DNS resolver indeed stop working after a few days while setting it up as forwarder to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 or pick yours works just fine.

    Maybe it’s something else, but when it happens, that’s the feel



  • ShimitartoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDNS server
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    02 days ago

    Above some threshold, the one you will cross when filtering port 53 in your network and setup a custom full resolver, it can happen.

    I experienced it, it seems they filter excess dns traffic from inside. Probably more a malware/anti spam measure than an actually DNS blocking.


  • ShimitartoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDNS server
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    2 days ago

    My 2c.

    Changing “DNS” won’t fix it. There are two DNS: dnsmasq and unbound (and bind, ok). What else you use doesn’t matter (pihole, adguard, opnSense) at the end of the day it’s always them inside.

    In my experience ISPs will block your direct DNS queries overtime, so it might be that. I set up my unbound as caching and forwarding, not as a pure resolver. This fixed all my issues with DNS self hosted. You can forward to 9.9.9.9 if you like it.

    Another issue might be with your blocklists of course, your azure might have been temporary listed maybe.

    Over time I ended up choosing a very lax blocklist setup due to this reason





  • I used to run Gentoo (and build it too) on an arm tablet with 1gb RAM, quite a few years ago. It was an Asus TF700T with an hardware keyboard and touch screen.

    It’s painful and really almost useless. You can setup the tyniest of the window manger and tools, but forget about browsing, using any office program, and probably a lot more.

    With patience, it can be used i guess. Also, could be a nice command line only device with decent results.









  • Spotizerr + navidrome + tempo

    Spotizerr (fast development, sometimes breaks) will let you download you spotofy playlist. 320kbps too if you have premium. Also, deezer premium accounts are free for 1 month and let you download flac.

    Navidrome replace Spotify as streaming server.

    Tempo is a good android client. O also love symfonium but its not free (very worth paying for, though).