This is an amazing article for folks interested in the low level IPC dbus. systemd, network manager, and or applications are leveraging dbus and with the new dbusbroker I expect more and more applications leverage it. It’s MASSIVELY confusing at first, but this is such a great article I hope it helps anyone interested in thr low level communications of userspace level linux applications.

Linux Cast: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxcast_channel/videos

Chris Were: https://share.tube/c/chrisweredigital/videos

Veronica Explains: https://tilvids.com/c/veronicaexplains_channel/videos

Techlore: https://neat.tube/c/techlore/videos

Linux Lounge: https://tilvids.com/c/linux_lounge/videos

Nicco’s videos mentioned in the article: https://tube.kockatoo.org/c/niccolo_ve/videos

FYI: I’m linking to their home location, but you can follow them from any Peertube instance. I’m on Tilvids and follow all of these folks from there so I don’t have to jump around to multiple places.

Coukd it also be that he used to work for them and is just familiar with it?

https://canonical.com/blog/author/popey

Please NEVER stop asking questions. As other have said, there really are no stupid questions.

If someone else acts like it’s a stupid question, then it’s their issue and not yours. NOTHING is easy until you understand it. The only way to understand it is to ask questions.

I’ve told numerous folks at work that before they do something if they have a question then let me know, because I’d rather answer a question then spend an hour or more fixing something broken.

I ask a LOT of questions. So many questions that when I first started in IT I had a lead that got used to me being in the office 2 hours before him so he knew I’d have a million questions and before he’d even go to his desk he’d stop by mine and ask if I had questions, which I always did.

Please please please please please ASK QUESTIONS.

I have been in IT for 12 years now, I have been on Linux for 16. Before this post I literally was in another thread and asked about BTRFS. I looked it up and it wasn’t making sense to me, so I asked a question. You can NEVER know EVERYTHING. And when you start to get comfortable that’s when something new comes out or you start digging deeper and have more.

Also anyone know if JustALinuxGuy is on Fediverse/Mastodon or a way to reach them about uploading these incredibly instructive videos to Peertube such as TILVids?

Question about the video. I’ve never used btrfs or Timeshift, so maybe this is just a thing with them, when he jumps to the CLI and unmounts, remounts RW, changes the @rootfs @, adds a dir and then mounts the subvolume on /dev/sda2 to /target.

This is totally new to me and I was wondering if anyone had an explanation as to why this was necessary?

I’m used to EXT4 and that’s what I run. But if BTRFS has FINALLY gotten stable and usable and I can take snapshots and roll back to older ones, kind of like branches in ostree, then maybe it’s worth this little extra work.

From what I find subvols are their own isolated branch with their own hierarchy. Is this how they’re meant to be used? Manually creating them and mounting/unmounting?

I just created a helper for this new build system, I plan on getting angel investors for my startup.

I’ve also created my own license so anyone that views it is now working for me. The wrapper:

#!/bin/bash

g++ *

• Jellyfin - Media streaming type app - basically use it for movies/shows and pictures.
• Joplin - Note taking app
• Syncthing - Sync for phones to PC for backing up pictures
• Miniflux - RSS reader
• Minetest - FOSS Minecraft voxel engine
• Veloren - FOSS Cubeworld game written in Rust
• GoToSocial - Microblogging server - aka Twitter/Mastodon
• Semaphore - Frontend for GoToSocial
• SearXNG - Search engine
• Conduit - Matrix server - chat
• Libremdb - IMBD frontend
• Invidious - Youtube frontend
• Nitter - Twitter frontend
• Libreddit - Reddit frontend
• Rimgo - Imgur frontend
• Proxitok - TikTok frontend

Failed to get working:

• Mobilizon - FB groups type alternative
• Peertube - YT alternative on the Fediverse
• Lemmy - Tried for a day and just couldn’t get it working. Found out there are issues with Rocky Linux and Lemmy that broke about two months ago but no further work was done it. I’ll try again someday.

That’s terrible … show me where so I never go there …

On a more serious note, if you’re going to the federated timeline, you can get all kinds of unwanted things. It’s usually best to search interests by hashtag and build out your community of folks you follow that way. Also most platforms allow you to block stuff market as #nsfw but that’s completely on the person to do the right thing. Which in reality, sadly, you should never depend on someone else.

I personally run my own GoToSocial, so I can defederate with folks I don’t want and have more control over what I see. More work for me, and GoToSocial isn’t fully ready for primetime, but that’s always an option.

The Fediverse is still in it’s infancy, so it’s gonna have some growing pains, but I’m hoping it continues to grow and things like you’re suggesting become an after thought in the future.