sxan

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I stub my toe. Is that a "have to?"

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a lot of phaelenopsis.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 0 points 2 days ago

It's true some things are harder to do in the container configuration; it's easier installed as an OS, especially integrations like Z-Wave, ZigBee, RTSP, Eufy, ESP, and so on. All of these require running other software, and in containers it's a fair bit of fussing with port and host OS device connections.

I've always run it in a container, without issue. It works fine, but I'm comfortable with the command line and LXC. That said, flashing an ESP hardware device and getting it connected to HA running in a container has so far defeated me, because I have to give access to the device in the configuration of the container before I run it, but the device flashing process itself is time limited and expects a process to be waiting on it when it is connected. It's a chicken/egg problem I haven't yet figured out which wouldn't be a problem if I were running the HA OS.

HA isn't the only software that just works better when it controls the while OS. Kodi is another that encourages users heavily to running it as an OS.

Regardless, it runs fine via

podman pull ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant: latest

and there's a package in AUR that wraps the container up with a systemd service - it's as close to a bare package install as you're likely to get.

What's a little funny to me is that, despite that I've been running HA in a container for the past 4 years, I'm working towards getting a dedicated device and running HA OS on it. If we ever move out of this house, I'm not going to spend weeks going around replacing all of the hardware - smart sockets, lights, garage door opener, security, etc etc - with dumb devices; and for any of that to be worth anything, it's going to need a controller configured for it, which means, I'm planning on selling the HA server device with the house. For that case, I don't want anything but HA running on that device, and for that, it'd just be easier and smoother to run HAOS.

My advice is to run HA in a container until you are sure that's the direction you want to go, but not for so long that it's going to be a PITA to migrate to a dedicated server. But - hey, just IMHO - plan on running HAOS. If I knew then what I know now, that's what I would have done.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

🕸️🕷️

But that's not a very friendly spider emoji. I sense an unfair bias.

/╲/\ºo;88;oº/\╱\

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Greater opportunity, yes; however, cash is still legal tender in the US and it used to be illegal to not accept it as payment (this may have changed). And, as the payer, make sure you get a receipt so they can't screw you and if the landlord doesn't pay taxes, you're not culpable - it's their responsibility, not your's.

Cash is fine. The receipt is important, though, for a number of reasons. Not many people are going to go withdraw $1,100 just to pay rent, unless they're getting a discount for cash, which is a good indication there's some tax dodging going on.

Even if you trade sex for rent, get a receipt saying you paid your rent.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You mean, they're mounting something that isn't an SD card to the /sdcard directory? Like something truly evil, such as mount -t btrfs -o subvol=@home / /sdcard? Or do you think there's not anything mounted there; it's just a directory in the root partition? None of that would make any sense.

If they're letting whatever automount tool (eg udevil) do its thing, this is practically impossible. And if they know enough to do it by hand, I think they'd have answered the direct question of "which filesystem" with a filesystem rather than a mount point. Don't you think? We still don't know what filesystem they're working with, since they haven't answered the question.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

I agree; it probably didn't occur to them. But it was a fairly common job in IT in the 90's. Not a career or job description, maybe, but a duty you got saddled with.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

Oh, queer, sure. Star Trek has had plenty of queer relationships; she wasn't the first. Trans is a whole different thing, though; queer is who you're attracted to; trans is a self-identity topic. Trans says nothing about who you're attracted to; you can be a gay trans person, a hetero trans person, a bi or asexual trans person. Trans(sexual) is about what plumbing you feel you should have, not whether you're hetero or homo.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 4 days ago

I can see that, although TBH I almost never have to "admin" EndeavourOS. I just upgrade every once in a while.

Most important to me is being able to find and install whatever software I want, and I have a string preference that it either be installed in my ~, or be managed by the package manager. I really dislike sideloading software globally. And Arch does this better than most. AUR is massive, and packages are trivial to write and install in the rare event something isn't in AUR.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It doesn't matter. FAT filesystems - which are usually the default on SD cards, simply do not support ownership or file permissions. Linux emulates these attributes at mount time, but they apply to the entire SD card. You can mount an SD card and tell Linux to act as if root owns everything on the card; you that you own everything on the card; and it will be so until you unmount it and remount it with a different ownership.

These are filesystem level attributes, not device attributes. If you have a modern internal nvme drive and you format it with vfat, you will not be able to set permissions or ownership at the file level, but only at mount time, for the entire drive.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have to completely avoid mirrors, myself. Walking down a city street on a sunny day is downright hazardous, lest I catch a glimpse of my reflection.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

What they really got wrong was the clothing: so much anime/hentai.

This is a techno-goth.

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