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  • On Linux VA-API works really well for AMD video encoding. I have a small home server with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and my experience has been excellent.

    The only downside is that some companies decided hardware decoding violated some patent and disabled hardware encoding in the default va-api package. You just need to switch to the freeworld version of va-api and everything works well.






  • They changed the refund policy on the Linux phone that they sell.

    At the time when the phone was under development they let people preorder in exchange for a small discount. Many people including myself wanted to support such a product and payed in. At the time the policy was you could get your money back any time before the phone shipped.

    The phone was delayed for years and years and naturally people got impatient and demanded their money back.

    Purism on the fly changed the policy and said you could only ask for your money back in a small window just before your phone shipped. Not before and if it shipped it was too late. They just refused to honor the original policy.

    It was discovered that people could content the attorney General of California and the state would force them to honor the original policy. A lot of people, including myself did this.

    The fact that it came to that makes them a shady company.

    This all being said I am very happy they are profitable. While I would never preorder anything from them again, if they update the phone specs I would consider buying one.

    More Linux first companies is a good thing.





  • There is a lot here but I think the most important thing is that docker containers should always be disposable. Don’t put any data into the container ever.

    All of your data and configuration should be done in volumes. Local disk to inside the container is all you really need.

    By doing this you make updating any given docker container easy as just pulling the newest tagged version of the container. If you are using docker and not podman you can use tools like watchtower to do this automatically.

    As for what distro, it depends on your goals. Do you want to learn and improve your skills? Stick with Fedora or Rocky or Debian or openSUSE. I recommend learning the command line as you go, but if you want a nice UI openSUSE has Yast which is a very robust tool.

    If you want to just have a home NAS but don’t want to learn that’s a different question. In this case if you’re getting a proprietary NAS anyway you could just get one that supports docker (like synology) and kill 2 birds with 1 stone.









  • mholiv@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.devRedis is no longer OSS
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    8 months ago

    For the record. The SSPL that Redis switched to while technically not recognized by the OSI really isn’t bad at all.

    It’s exactly like the AGPL except even more “powerful”. Under the SSPL if you host redis as a paid service you would have to open source the tooling you use to manage those hosted instances of redis.

    I don’t see why anyone but hyper scalers would object. It’s a shame that the OSI didn’t adopt it.