I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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[–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (24 children)
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname SOMETHINGNORMAL

git clone https://github.com/popey/unsnap
cd unsnap
./unsnap

The first one will set the name behind the @ sign to something not that long. I recommend just usint "PC" for privacy reasons. Often nobody needs to know your device model.

The second one removes snaps and snapd and installs installed apps as flatpak instead. Flatpak is a universal format, similar to snap, came out a bit later but not only Ubuntu uses it. Snap also works on multiple Distros but people dont like it, it is still slow (now just slowing down boot) etc.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    perfect demonstration of culture sharing for a newbie. Like advising them to always trust commands they find online without even explaining them what each command does!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    What hostnames do people use? I'm tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I use names from FFXIV.

    For my work-related VMs, raid bosses. It makes it easy to spot my VMs because nobody sane would name them stuff like Erichthonios or Hippokampos. Unfortunately I had to draw the line at 724P-Operated Superior Flight Unit A-lpha.

    For my home server VMs/CTs, I use the names of the gods - Byregot, Rhalgr, Azeyma, etc. and Eulogia for Proxmox itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    my old desktop was named George, inspired by the word "GeForce" on the gpu. my new one is Leo, mostly because I just like that name, but also because it's my first desktop built for linux. My first server was Bertha bc its physical size was a lot bigger than I expected and I had to find a new place to store it, and my newest server is even bigger so I named it Marge. My clunky old 16" laptop from 2010 is named Mondo.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Similar to other people:
    laptop-56
    phone-56
    server-56 (or the actual domain name...)
    ...palmtop-56 (I'm not sure if that's actually possible)

    I like the look of all-lowercase hyphenated words. And "56" is a conveniently short identifier I use for myself.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    charlemagne for my desktop, and invictus for my laptop - no particular theme, just liked the names lol

    My servers however previously used gods from Greek mythology though, as controversial as that apparently was (?)...

    (To be fair, I think the controversy was regarding doing that in a professional / enterprise environment of which I am definitely not in)

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