No.1302
>>1301>Tor relay>Linux for 3DLoliphilesAh, please don't misunderstand. I don't look at any of that stuff or support it's production I just thought the image was funny. Tor is just neat, privacy is for everyone.
Posting these two posts via Tor either way so it's not like I have anything to protect by lying about it.
No.1312
>>1305>I was thinking of using it to engage more in software development.That is a great idea, friend!
>IRC and anonymity Is Tor no option for you? I'd instinctively try to use a proxy. Like this:
https://www.darknetstats.com/how-to-use-tor-as-a-socks5-proxy-for-irc-networks/It's not very elegant I admit.
No.1319
https://www.lainos.info/This is a reskin of MX Linux that I'm trying to raise awareness for. I'm just a fan and have nothing to do with the project in any capacity.
No.1328
>>1319Thank you for posting this, friend. I wasn't aware of it's existence and now think that this sounds like the best OS ever. I'll give it a try on one of my old devices this weekend. <3
No.1336
>>1301>Still not 100% sure which SBC I'm getting, but thinking about grabbing a gbps capable one at least.Update on this.
Most of the SBC's available have a 100mbit/s port and while that is almost 1/3rd of my bandwidth I don't want to rule out the possibility of upgrading my internet bandwidth in the future. I found a lot of quality looking SBC's made by Libre Computer. I will be using the
https://www.loverpi.com retailer for this as the only other option is Am*z*n.
https://community.torproject.org/relay/relays-requirements/https://www.libre.computer/products/aml-s905x-cc/The La Frite is $25 for 1GB ram and 100mbps and probably their best value for people looking to donate 4MB/s or less to the Tor network as it looks like a non-exit relay only needs 512MB available ram (+OS) to deliver 40mbit/s or 5MB/s. More than that they suggest 1GB or more available.
https://www.libre.computer/products/aml-s905x-cc/The Le Potato is $40 for 2GB ram and 100mbps and probably their best value for people looking to donate 12.5MB/s or less.
https://www.libre.computer/products/roc-rk3328-cc/The Renegade is $45 for 2GB ram and 1000gbps.
For my purposes who wish to donate 12.5MB/s or more, up to 1000gbps or 125MB/s the Renegade looks to be the best fit. This is because it has a gbps ethernet connection and the CPUs unlike the others have cryptography extensions which should include AES encryption afaik.
Tor's websites recommend that CPUs have AESNI support to allow for up to 400-450Mbps simultaneous up and down bandwidth. Even if a board like the Le Potato or a similar one by another manufacturer had a gigabyte ethernet connection it may not be able to handle the rapid and constant encryption and decryption of packets to deliver the highest speed.
I will be ordering a Renegade as it looks to be the perfect SBC for a high bandwidth Tor relay. There is of course a lot more to these SBCs, and some went unmentioned since I have only one goal in mind.
Hopefully it goes well, I have no experience with SBC's. I will be updating with my experience of setting it up with Armbian when it arrives, and then my experience with setting up Tor and properly configuring it as much as I can by following the RTFM method. I believe the setup should be mostly the same for the other SBC's, just make sure to get the correct ISO. I hope when I am done with this experience I will have inspired someone else to do the same and that they found my writings useful and lessened the amount of research and effort it would take.
No.1338
>>1336Please make sure to post updates on this project in the future, friend. It's both righteous (Tor-Node) and cute (SBCs).
Didn't know that Ian was a butch, tho.Deleted this post because i thought it was wrong and weird to refer to him with "was", then googled and found out he died in 2015 by hanging himself. ;_; No.1345
>>1338>Please make sure to post updates on this project in the futureOf course. It will take time for the order to arrive. I don't know how long, but the estimated time was several weeks with the cheapest option I had ($30!). I ended up buying a power supply, a case, and a heatsink too. Together with the international shipping fee it ended up being almost $100. I already have a microSD card due to always ordering multiple at a time since you never know when you need one so I won't need to buy that, it would probably be another $10 though, or maybe less since it doesn't really need much space in this case. Since it's going to load the OS and Tor into memory and do all the work there I decided eMMC would be a complete waste of money, but if you're ever using an SBC as a computer for multimedia or a fileserver or whatever it might be worth doing for read and write speed since it's basically a tiny SSD.
>Deleted this post becauseThat explains why Elite went missing.
No.1353
>>1336 Nice site
http://www.lesbian.mine.nu/>setting up a Tor node Doing some pure altruism here, unfortunately i can only share bandwith with i2p
No.1356
>>1328It's not, not by a longshot, but maybe you can help make it better.
No.1370
>>1356>not the best OSYeah, should have been named Copland OS Enterprise.
No.1375
>>1370Nah, it’s not trying to be Copland. The Copland in SEL is an extrapolation of Apple’s Copland and BeOS. This project is a reboot of the early 2000s LainOS. LainWM isn’t working though.
No.1417
>>1411Wasn't that in alpha test distro you just downloaded?
No.1419
>>1417Yes. You download the ISO and create a bootable USB drive with it. It was just curiosity if/how it runs on this ancient piece of hardware.
No.1464
Anyone have any experience with Ubuntu Studio for recording music? I'm dual booting with Windows 10 and Linux Mint but never use Mint due to how bad it is for audio applications in comparison to Windows. I was wondering if Ubuntu Studio is capable enough that I could justify weaning myself off Windows with it once Windows 10 support ends.
No.1466
>>1465The thing is that I use FL Studio, which almost works on Linux but not quite. The lack of being able to actually record anything into it is the biggest problem. Ubuntu Studio's low-latency kernel seems like it could solve that problem, at least with recording an instrument that isn't relying on MIDI data. I'm not sure what's out there that's good for that. From the little I've read, with Ubuntu Studio you shouldn't have tear your hair out screwing around with JACK.
Maybe I could learn MIDI sequencing with another program and rely on a different one for recording non-MIDI instruments. I know Audacity should be good for something like guitar. I don't know if there's one that has the capability to both send MIDI data out and record it.
I just don't know how feasible it would be for someone who's used the same DAW for well over a decade.
No.1469
>>1466Ever since jack have been transition from jack 1 to jack2, It feels a lot more simple to set up jack using its gui front end. As for Kernel, you can switch to RT kernel or even better, compile the RT kernel your own with custom CFLAGS Optimization. You can do this fairly easy on Gentoo or Arch. I'm not sure how you could do optimization on Ubuntu.
In regard of software choice for Linux, I would prefer Audour any day for recording and editing mainly because of their LV2 plugins that they have. Guitarix plugin is one of my favorite that I have already tried. You can also play around with VST converted to lv2 plugin in audour which makes everything so much better.
No.1474
>>1469>>1466Okay stop you two, this won't go anywhere.
>You can do this fairly easy on Gentoo or Arch.I don't know shit about DAWs but this single line indicates to me this answer won't be helpful for the target audience aka
>I just don't know how feasible it would be for someone who's used the same DAW for well over a decade.Someone who literally tells you they are afraid of learning new software.
To the DAW dude: learn the name of the features you need properly, you don't need to know the algorithm and how it works, but you need to know to describe what you want from it
To the Gentoo guy:
Come on man, he's asking for Ubuntu stuff for a reason
Personal opinion and advice: you can only expect feature parity as a content creator if the software gets developed for all platforms and has industry wide adoption like OBS for streamers or Krita for digital artists. This sounds like bruteforcing but if you use a software for mission critical purposes, expect to have a dedicated machine for it tailored to the supported hardware by the application if you really want to separate your personal computing from microsoft.
If you are a hobbyist, become an informed hobbyist and send bug reports and feature requests for the things you want to finally get rid of that redmond box
No.1486
>>1474DAW stands Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), it is something like FL-Studio or Audour in linux where everything comes with full package. Whether you're editing, composing your music or improve the sound quality of your music. Everything can be done in (DAW) software.
Sample List of DAW softwares:
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Ardour
LMMS
MusE
Qtractor
OpenMPT
Adobe Audition (proprietary)
Ableton Live (proprietary)
FL-Studio (proprietary)
Sorry for being slightly off topic on distro usage. The reason I brought this up because I consider DAW as a heavy duty resource usage software. Therefore getting the software compile from source that is specifically designed for your cpu processor could give you a bit of a perforamance advantage compare to the standardized x86_x64 binary packaged form software. I thought that having a good performant DAW would be beneficial for your experiance.
No.1507
>>1486Are you braindead? I swear the last group of imageboards I kept in my routine become dumber and dumber by the day. Surely this is not a sign from life itself to leave this pisspool
I KNOW WHAT a daw is. I DON'T KNOW WHAT MAKES A GOOD DAW
Do you not get this distinction?
Linux propagation is inhibited by the imageboard linux prophets being terminally autistic to the point they can't reply meaningfully
Stop talking about fucking custom kernels when your target audience has problems naming key features they want from the software they use
holy shit
No.1509
>>1507Very /kind/, friend.
No.1527
Has anyone used the gpu passthrough hack for nvidia gpus? Thinking of trying to do it but lazy.
On the topic of composition, I saw another board do an album which sounds cool. If there's any interest here that would also be cool. It was mostly ear destruction though, which was not cool.
>>1507It's not that big a deal.
>holy shitNow you've done it.
Have a rotten day.
>>1486If you want optimal performance, I recommend 'Touhou.sf2', i.e. the first random touhou sound font I found and instantly downloaded.
A midi trombone that doesn't sound like a rat has fallen inside the tubes? Wow!
It sounds like a metal whoopie cushion instead. I guess that's not inaccurate? No.1528
>>1527>Touhou.sf2Post link, where do you get that soundfont?
No.1529
>>1528I was kinda joking but sure.
https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts?formats=sf2&order=most_downloaded&tags=touhouIt is still in fact the first result that appears for 'touhou soundfont' just like I remember. The trumpet is fun. Go wild friend.
No.1530
>>1469>Ever since jack have been transition from jack 1 to jack2, It feels a lot more simple to set up jack using its gui front end. As for Kernel, you can switch to RT kernel or even better, compile the RT kernel your own with custom CFLAGS Optimization. You can do this fairly easy on Gentoo or Arch. I'm not sure how you could do optimization on Ubuntu.The last time I piddled around with JACK was a few years ago when I wanted to see if I could go with Mint full time. The whole thing just seemed like a headache.
Now that I think about it, I also remember PulseAudio constantly having problems. I'll have to see if Ubuntu Studio handles that differently.
>In regard of software choice for Linux, I would prefer Audour any day for recording and editing mainly because of their LV2 plugins that they have.I think Ardour is my best bet for trying to find a single program that can do most of what I want. I've heard about it for years but never looked into it. I've been doing so today but don't know what to think yet. It does look good for recording from what I've seen so far, although I've seen some complaining about the way the piano roll feature works.
I might just have to suck it up and try it out. I've had FL Studio running with WINE before, so I could use that for composition and then export to MIDI when necessary.
>>1474>To the DAW dude: learn the name of the features you need properly, you don't need to know the algorithm and how it works, but you need to know to describe what you want from itI thought I was clear about some of what I was after in my post. I'd like to know if there's something that Just Werks™ at handling hardware instrument recording (both from MIDI data and live playing).
>Personal opinion and advice: you can only expect feature parity as a content creator if the software gets developed for all platforms and has industry wide adoption like OBS for streamers or Krita for digital artists. This sounds like bruteforcing but if you use a software for mission critical purposes, expect to have a dedicated machine for it tailored to the supported hardware by the application if you really want to separate your personal computing from microsoft.Yeah, I was wondering how close Linux software is to what I'm currently after at this point. Maybe I could learn to adjust.
No.1720
DAWfriend here. It looks like the Ubuntu Studio performance tweaks are available in Linux Mint. I guess it shouldn't be surprising considering how close they are in the first place, but I'm glad because it means I might be able to return to my Mint setup when Microsoft drops support for Windows 10.
It looks like I'm probably going to have to get used to Ardour though.
No.2163
Is there a distro that has the benefits of Arch, but minimizes the downsides of an update breaking something? I like Arch, but I'm always worried about an update being more likely to break something than other distros.
No.2164
>>2163That's a good question. I've heard of people fucking up Manjaro in a similar way to its parent distro. Arch and Manjaro seem to be two of the biggest rolling-release distros, but maybe it's not a problem inherent to the development model and there's some more niche distro out there without as many issues.
I've never ventured outside my Ubuntu-based kiddie pool.
No.2171
>>2140Anon, there's an easier way to setup tor web server if that's what you mean.You can do this by running "Onion share" program and you don't need to configure torrc for it because everything is automatically set up. Although, you have to run it as root because alot of its core files it touches are in /etc. Once it is up running, the program will provide you the onion link to your server.
No.2181
>>2171>tor web serverDoes that offer anonymity for the server, or what? TIA
No.2182
>>2163Yes, actually. What you're looking for is OpenSUSE tumbleweed, I drive it daily and its a wonderful OS! It has all the pros of arch and fedora, without any of the drawbacks.
>>2164Oh no, dont use manjaro, it has plenty of issues.
https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/https://github.com/arindas/manjarnoIf you're adamant about using an arch-based distro I would recommend either Artix or EndeavourOS, otherwise I would use OpenSUSE tumbleweed
No.2194
Wondering if learning Nix would be worth it.
No.2201
>>2171Haven't even looked at it in a couple days to clear my head because tech frustrations, but when I say relay I mean relay. It's about being part of the network to increase sybil resistance to prevent de-anonymization. The network would not function without relays and there's only 6000 of them.
No.2209
>>2201There are 3 types of tor relays and each of them have different torrc configuration.
1. Exit relay (Very risky)
2. Middle/Guard relay (also known as Non exit node)
3. The Bridge relay
###===>>>
Exit relay is the last node of tor connection where user can connect to. It is risky to setup exit relay because you're more likely being targeted as culprit if in case other tor users who connected to your exit node did some mischivous things towards another group of users on the internet. I wouldn't recommand setting this up unless you really own a virtual private server somewhere else.
The Middle/Guard relay is what majority of tor user would normally setup. You pretty much become the guy in the middle within the tor network connectivity.
The third relay is the Bridge relay. This relay specifically design for anyone that have static ip address.
###===>>>
So given the choice, I would assume you would prefer the non exit node relay like how most users setting up their tor. To do this properly, you have to go to some major steps.
No.2210
>>2209[STEP 1]Ignore all the existing lines in torrc file. Don't ever uncomment anything by removing # in torrc file because they're cluster fuck to manage. Scroll down at the very bottom of torrc and type in your new configuration line there. At this point you can just copy paste the existing configuration from other tor users:
###===>>>
Nickname InsertNickname # Change "InsertNickname" to something you like
ContactInfo email[AT]address.com # e-mail address, and be aware it will be published
ORPort 443 # Service must be started as root. You might use a different port, should you want to
ExitRelay 0 # Guard/middle relay need to be set as 0, where else Exit relay need this to be set as 1
SocksPort 9050 # tor port for webbrowser and any other application that use torsocks.
Log notice syslog
DataDirectory /var/lib/tor
User tor # Return to tor user after service started as root to listen on privileged ports
Log notice stdout # Default Tor behavior
ControlPort 9051 # Tor connections listening
CookieAuthentication 1 # Security measure related to ControlPort
Address $IP # IP address or full DNS name for incoming connections to your relay
RelayBandwidthRate 500 Mbits # bytes/KBytes/MBytes/GBytes/KBits/MBits/GBits
RelayBandwidthBurst 1000 MBits # bytes/KBytes/MBytes/GBytes/KBits/MBits/GBits
DirPort 80 # Service must be started as root
DirPortFrontPage /etc/tor/tor-exit-notice.html # Original:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/plain/contrib/operator-tools/tor-exit-notice.htmlExitPolicy reject 192.168.0.100/24:* # Block domain of public IP in addition to std. exit policy
DisableDebuggerAttachment 0 # Debugger in terminal when running tor
### Performance related options ###
AvoidDiskWrites 1 # Reduce wear on SSD
DisableAllSwap 1 # Service must be started as root
HardwareAccel 1 # Look for OpenSSL hardware cryptographic support
NumCPUs 2 # Only start two threads
DNSPort 9053
AutomapHostsOnResolve 1
AutomapHostsSuffixes .exit,.onion
###===>>>
No.2211
>>2210[STEP 2]Check your firewall whether you are behind a firewall. If you are, then open the port for incoming TCP packet for tor network. The incoming packet that are related would be 9051, 9050 and 9053.
[STEP 3]Check your active connection activity. In linux, you can type in "ss -tanp" in the terminal. It will show you the list of all active connections that are currently running.
I hope this help. Good luck Anon.
No.2213
>>2210>>2211 Why abuse the spoiler function?
No.2215
>>2164>I've never ventured outside my Ubuntu-based kiddie pool.Don't feel bad about that. Ubuntu is fine, and distros based on them, like Mint and Pop, are great. I would actually use Ubuntu if it wasn't for snaps.
>>2182>Opensuse TumbleweedThanks, anon. I've always heard of it, but never really used it. I'm going to take a look at that on my backup laptop.
>It has all the pros of arch and fedora, without any of the drawbacks. I like Fedora, but it uses more RAM than I think it should and I wish they let you enable Flatpak + RPM fusion before installation.
>don't use ManjaroI was going to add that Manjaro had issues, but you beat me to it. I don't know if the worse stability is due to the Manjaro developers or the design of Arch.
No.2224
>>2210>>2211Thank you for your help, but it is still a complete mystery. Dozens of connections seem to be made, but nothing is happening. I can only suspect it has to do with my router configuration somehow, but disabling firewall or forwarding ports doesn't seem to do anything.
I like technology, but this is exactly why I didn't enter tech for a living. I get too frustrated for my own good. At least there are two anime episodes airing today that will help with the pain.
No.2228
>>2224What firewall do you use anon?
No.2231
>>2229If your router is openwrt by default then all port are obviously open on that router. I know this because I have had a similar default network setup before with openwrt.
I think there might be a problem with setting up tor ORPort as 443. Just now I had some warning from terminal tells me that my tor couldn't find my own ipv4 address. Maybe that port could have clashes with clearnet https port, I dont know. So what I did was change the ORPort 443 to something else (eg. ORPort 9040) in torrc. After that the warning seems to be gone for good.
Not to forget, make sure you run your tor as root or else your relay won't work. Once tor is running, try test your torsocks with application. For instance like playing youtube with mpv:
torsocks mpv –ytdl-format="(bestvideo[ext=webm][height<=?480]/best)+(bestaudio[ext=webm]/best)"
http://kbjggqkzv65ivcqj6bumvp337z6264huv5kpkwuv6gu5yjiskvan7fad.onion/watch?v=75gnquXjQSEIf you can run that, then your tor relay are working just fine. On my distro, "torsocks" and "tor" are saperate package. So I have to download "torsocks package" to use torsocks.
No.2236
>>2215>Don't feel bad about that. Ubuntu is fine, and distros based on them, like Mint and Pop, are great. I would actually use Ubuntu if it wasn't for snaps.Yeah, nothing has really been able to get me to try a distro other than Mint so far. Over the years I've installed Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE and found Cinnamon to be the closest thing to what I'm after. It's been a long time, but I remember really liking Nemo compared to Thunar and Caja (or whatever it's called that MATE uses). I think I gave KDE a try in a virtual machine too back when they were still coming out with Mint versions of that, but I never spent any real time with it.
I just booted into Mint on my desktop for the first time in a long while just out of curiosity and had headaches with it (I've gotten a new graphics card and a new monitor since the last time I'd used it and was having display problems I didn't feel like trying to troubleshoot), and with the other problems I've had in the past I've got my hands full with one distro as it is. Pop!_OS seems interesting though.
No.2290
>>2236>I just booted into Mint on my desktop for the first time in a long while just out of curiosity and had headaches with it (I've gotten a new graphics card…The only times I've ever heard or seen Mint fail is when someone has new (as in recently released) or very obscure hardware. I hate to suggest it, but did you try a clean install after the putting in the new card? Is it Nvidia? I've got a system running Mint with an Nvidia card, but it's an older one.
>Pop!_OS seems interesting though.It's pretty solid. There's a reason why people have been recommending it to new and older users in the past few years. However, it's currently in a weird position. System76 is working on a new user interface written in rust. I don't know how big the company is, but once they finally release it, I don't know what they're going to do about their current versions using Gnome.
No.2292
>>2290>The only times I've ever heard or seen Mint fail is when someone has new (as in recently released) or very obscure hardware. I hate to suggest it, but did you try a clean install after the putting in the new card? Is it Nvidia? I've got a system running Mint with an Nvidia card, but it's an older one.No, but I plan on doing that once Windows 10 is discontinued. I just got a cheap AMD card a while back since my old graphics card was getting close to ten years old. I plan on going all the way once Windows 10 is discontinued, but I just booted up to get a feel for Mint again on my desktop (I run it on my old laptop but only for streaming videos and only about once a week). It took forever to boot up, and I got a message about my processor wasn't optimized or something. I don't remember exactly. I was stuck in a low resolution and my monitor was recognized as a laptop. And unlike my old Nvidia card, AMD cards aren't supposed to require any tinkering.
I'll just wait, get rid of my partitions, and do a clean install. I have everything backed up anyway.
>There's a reason why people have been recommending it to new and older users in the past few years.It definitely seems like it's worth a try. From what I can remember as someone who's not all that knowledgeable about this stuff it really seems to have gained traction.
No.2293
Can the /kind/ly wizards give us any advice about sel4?
https://docs.sel4.systems/projects/sel4/frequently-asked-questionsTIA.
>t. /robowaifu/ No.2313
>>2292>No, but I plan on doing that once Windows 10 is discontinued.That explains things. Good luck then. In that time, you could prepare yourself by switching over to applications that are more easily available on Linux. For example, instead of Photoshop, start using Gimp more.
>AMD cards aren't supposed to require any tinkering.Sometimes, problems happen. When I was first moving away from Windows, I had an MSI R9 390. My particular model had a bug or a quirk where every Linux distribution would fail to boot unless I edited a grub or boot command. Who wants to deal with that? After I got a different graphic's card, pretty much everything worked fine.
No.2322
>>2313>That explains things. Good luck then. In that time, you could prepare yourself by switching over to applications that are more easily available on Linux. For example, instead of Photoshop, start using Gimp more.I always go for open-source programs whenever possible. I've used LibreOffice since OpenOffice was discontinued, and have used GIMP since I was a teenager who didn't want to pay for PhotoShop. The audio side of thing is going to take some adjusting, but PipeWire with Wireplumber sounds like it could solve some of the problems I've dealt with in the past. I doubt I'll be happy with any of the music players judging from my past experiences though. I went through all the Linux programs I could find hoping to find something that could replace foobar2000 for me, but no luck. I remember finding fault with each one I tried, and I have a specific way of listening to music based on starting from huge foobar2000 playlists I've saved years ago and adding to them and tabbing between them depending on what I feel like listening to. I remember having problems with one program due to how long it would take for it to detect my massive music collection every time I opened it.
I just looked at my backups, and apparently it was three years now since I last tried to use Linux as my main OS.
>Sometimes, problems happen. When I was first moving away from Windows, I had an MSI R9 390. My particular model had a bug or a quirk where every Linux distribution would fail to boot unless I edited a grub or boot command. Who wants to deal with that? After I got a different graphic's card, pretty much everything worked fine.Hopefully there's not something wrong with my card itself. I chose an AMD card figuring that it would have good Linux compatibility.
No.3799
I am a bit late with making this post, but I do have a Tor node running. I restarted the steps from zero and got it working.
>>1336>Even if a board like the Le Potato or a similar one by another manufacturer had a gigabyte ethernet connection it may not be able to handle the rapid and constant encryption and decryption of packets to deliver the highest speed.Correction for this.
The Raspberry Pi 4 has a gigabit connection, but also no AESNI support (
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=207888). Supposedly the Pi 5 will, but it will likely be a lot more expensive and not released for a while. Libre Computer has also updated their site to show that the La Frite and Le Potato does in fact have cryptography extensions, at least the hardware support. Unfortunately there is no software for it right now. They seem to be using the same Cortex-A53 chip at different clock speeds. Regardless, I'm only after >100mbps connection capable devices.
There are not that many active Tor nodes (about 6000 according to
https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html) and you typically won't be connected to 100% of them either. This explains the recommendation for 7000 or above for relays as well.
The Renegade snailmail package arrived.
Applied the heatsink, placed the Renegade inside the cooling case, followed instructions on the box for the fan pins and promptly disconnected the fan because it was too loud (annoying!), and closed the case. Put some dense black tape over the led on the power supply because it was way too strong.
I made a tiny ethernet cable using tools I had and connected it to the router.
Grabbed the latest copy of the CLI version of Armbian (23.02.2 jammy, Feb 27, 2023) for the Renegade [
https://www.armbian.com/renegade/ ].
Flashed it to my MicroSD card with Etcher [
https://www.balena.io/etcher ].
Booted up the Renegade. SSH in with root@"ip" and password 1234.
I setup root password and followed the CLI configuration process, disconnected from SSH to retry connection before continuing.
First things first, sudo apt-get update, sudo apt upgrade, reboot. I also upgraded the firmware with armbian-config.
Benchmarking:
- ethernet speed, crypto++, OpenSSL
- Simple Phoronix guide:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/single-board-computer-benchmarks/the-testsI would have done this step, but since the support isn't written for AES-NI it seems pointless.
- iperf3 test directly from router to sbc gave about 950mbps.
"/etc/update-motd.d/30-armbian-sysinfo" is useful to fetch cpu/memory/storage usage and cpu temps.
No.3800
>>3799Following the Ubuntu/Debian setup guide for Tor [
https://support.torproject.org/apt/tor-deb-repo/ ], don't forget to set arch=arm64 when adding the repository or you will get an error about armhf.
>deb [arch=arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org jammy main>deb-src [arch=arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org jammy main- Setup Tor [
https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/guard/debian-ubuntu/ ]
- Setup Tor post-install [
https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/ ]
- Setup Tor autostart on reboot
- Secure Backup Reputation key
- There's probably some extra things to configure like unattended-upgrades.
To make things easier I portforwarded the router 9001 wan to 9001 sbc lan. I would have preferred 443, but it was a hassle.
>systemctl status tor@default>tail -F /var/log/syslog | grep tor -iIf it doesn't confirm reachability within a minute something is probably wrong. It's fast, don't trust the wait 20 minutes text.
After the bandwidth self-test there was no more text and it took about 2-3 hours to show up on the relay search site.
I watched a bit with iftop and netstat to see connections and whether it data would be transferred both ways. Didn't really start getting many peers for an hour or two. You can use vnstat to look at data usage.
As the Relay is public [
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html ] I will not share any further information about my relay and the date that I actually set it up is unknown. Might setup low/medium bandwidth for i2p one day as well eventually considering there's a lot more relay nodes than demand and the biggest bottleneck for clearweb is exit-nodes. I assume i2p will be similar. The main importance however is to reduce risk of sybil attacks so even though a lot of bandwidth may go unused or you may not be able to provide a large amount of bandwidth — every node counts in ensuring each connection has a higher probability of being private.
To anyone else wishing to contribute a stable connection to the P2P network, Gambare!
No.3814
>>1378You would love Haiku:
>Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.>https://www.haiku-os.org/Before you ask, it's not usable yet. But at least it has consistent GUI, unlike Linux or modern Windows.
>>1411>what other distros should I test with the trusty potato?Void Linux. The musl version uses slightly less memory than the Glibc version but non-free software usually requires Glibc. Alpine Linux is another good distro if you need something lightweight.
>>1464Ubuntu Studio is just Ubuntu with more applications pre-installed. I think Linux Mint is better than Ubuntu. You need to visit Arch Linux Wiki to find good programs:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multimedia>>2164Overall, I would say that Linux Mint (Mate version) is the best distro for a beginner. Gnome 3 sucks hard. Avoid.
>ArchInstall it only if you are willing to read the wiki. You also need to have some basic GNU/Linux command-line skills. You can learn everything and more by reading this free book:
https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php No.3815
>>3814>Ubuntu Studio is just Ubuntu with more applications pre-installed.Yeah, it just makes it easier by having things like the real-time kernel installed. I've got a new computer just about ready and have decided just to go with Mint again. I really don't like the way Ubuntu Studio looks and would rather put a little bit of work in seeing what I need and just stick with what I know. Either way it's going to take some adjusting to learn how audio recording and MIDI work in Linux compared to Windows.
>Overall, I would say that Linux Mint (Mate version) is the best distro for a beginner.I haven't spent much time with it, but Zorin OS looks pretty good too.
No.3829
>>3828I think Plan9 doesn't work on bare metal. I'm not sure if any of the forks work on real hardware either (I expect that 9Front might work on some ancient ThinkPads but not on other real computers). You probably want to install it on a VM. 9Front is the Plan9 fork that is most actively being developed. Plan9 has really good GUI in my opinion. I haven't tried it myself but I have watched Russ Cox's videos on YouTube (he uses Acme).
Here are some resources:
>https://fqa.9front.org>https://man.9front.org/1/intro>http://acme.cat-v.org>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt3Dr3jUPjo>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M>https://archive.is/kpVdc>https://wiki.9front.org>http://9p.cat-v.orgSorry for the link dump.