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Can a Linux installation be run as a VM in Windows?
  • Honestly, this is the point where I'd just make a new VM and manually migrate what I need to

  • Can a Linux installation be run as a VM in Windows?
  • Hyper-V will work with physical disk, but be warned - the wizard you run through when making a VM will make it look like you give the VM a VHD file for storage or nothing. Just attach no storage to the VM initially, then go into the VM settings after the wizard is complete to attach something besides a VHD.

    Can't entirely remember if it handles partitions but I know it can boot particular disks and if the setting exists, that's where it would be

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  • Windows 7 was a competent OS with low system requirements, a stable kernel, a simple feature set that was well-known and useful, an interface that was comprehensible and clearly conveyed to the user, and it didn't require extra investment or online accounts, and compatibility options for the really old stuff. It remains the Best version of Windows in my eyes.

    8 took away the comprehenisble UI, low spec options, and lack of online service requirements, then 10 further complicated the UI and filled the OS with ads, the then 11 bloated the feature set, added even more ads, borked compatibility, and made the online accounts a requirement unless you pay extra and/or know what you're doing.

    Textbook Enshittification

  • Galen Weston is Satan.
  • Just one more tax break will fix everything, I'm sure of it!

  • Here's the album, can anyone name the tracks for it?
    1. Eiffel (Intro)
    2. Straight Shooters
    3. Olympian
    4. Sevval
    5. Pistols at Dawn
    6. Viral
    7. What'd He Really Say?
    8. Straight Shooters (Reprise)
    9. LA '28
    10. Dikeç
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  • YEA HEAH

  • SumatraPDF: a lightweight FOSS PDF reader (can not edit)
  • Been using this for years. Highly recommended if you want a lightweight pdf reader. It's bare bones and that is both a curse and a blessing.

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    Fearlessly, the idiot faced the crowd
  • It's the cover of the Pink Floyd album Meddle

    Though it's really just an ear with some 70s image modifications

  • Dow jumps 300 points to record as Trump survives assassination attempt
  • PRAISE BE TO THE LINE for some reason

  • AITA I (24M) Saw something weird in village today
  • Oh dear, you....might need to beg your gods forgiveness.

    I've heard of other villages merging this tin with their copper to create sturdy tools and weapons, even ones capable of breaking bronze and wooden implements like shields. A marauder we captured last year called it "eyerown", but I didn't understand his language so please confirm with your elders.

    Our village has such a traveling merchant we've traded with in the past who was able to get us a small amount of tin. We've only used it to produce elaborate bowls and chalices for our leader, at his request. He likes the way they shine in the sunlight.

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  • Forget about EA, they're a different company. Ubisoft is the one you want to worry about, they own Watch_Dogs and all related copyrights like DedSec

  • Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10
  • But muh platform growth!?!?! It just needs more AI, that'll get the people upgrading

  • Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10
  • Even 11 doesn't require a TPM if you know what you're doing.

  • favoring meme, please
  • Remmina failing to connect to local VM connected to Microsoft Azure/Entra ID
  • I had tried that previously, but on trying it again I realized that I’d missed setting the Color Depth. Apparently this was enough to make it work properly. Thank you!!

  • Remmina failing to connect to local VM connected to Microsoft Azure/Entra ID
  • I had tried that previously, but on trying it again I realized that I'd missed setting the Color Depth. Apparently this was enough to make it work properly. Thank you!!

  • Remmina failing to connect to local VM connected to Microsoft Azure/Entra ID

    Hey folks! Hope your day's going good.

    I'm hoping someone else has had this problem or knows the application enough to where they can help me. I'm moving my main desktop from W10 to linux (Q4OS, Debian-based) and it's gone well so far.

    The only thing I truly need Windows for is work, so I've decided to build a Win11 VM on my Proxmox server and remote into it when I need to do work there. Install went smoothly, and my M365 user is the Admin of the W11 box. Remote Desktop is enabled, and my user is added to the Remote Desktop Users group on the local machine.

    I had issues remoting in from anywhere, but after researching I was able to make a shortcut that worked on a Windows machine by adding the below options to the .rdp file. With these added, a web page opens and takes me through M365 authentication, and then I remote in.

    > username:s:.\AzureAD\name@domain.tld > > enablecredsspsupport:i:0 > > authentication level:i:2

    `Note: email address changed for anonymity'

    I've tried and failed several different ways to remote into this machine via Remmina. It works as described from Windows machines, but Remmina doesn't seem able to open the webpage that lets me sign in. Instead, I get Remmina's login prompt which I've so far been unable to log in through. This occurs whether I create a profile from scratch or if I import the previously-mentioned RDP file.

    I have 2 Windows 10 VMs which are just regular solo machines, and I have no trouble remoting into them, it's just the Azure/Entra joined machine that causes this.

    I'd like to use my Azure account on the VM so I can keep work at work, so to speak, and so I don't have to activate Windows (a license is included in my business account). If anyone's got some kind of solution or can tell me how to apply the options above to Remmina, I'd love to know how.

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    What Are Your Recurring Costs?
  • I have 5 20TB HDDs in a RAID array at home, in the real world I get a little over 72 of them. I can lose one disk and have no data loss, though

    As for how quickly you fill it up, I'd say that really depends on how much data is redundant and how many backups you want to keep.

  • Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage
  • It's like back in the day when everyone used Internet Explorer for their web browser. There's little to nothing in the marketplace indicating to them that an alternative exists in the first place, let alone that they could switch to it.

  • Moving away from Nextcloud AIO, where do I start setting up a Nextcloud instance WITHOUT Docker?

    Hi selfhosted! Hope you're having a good day :)

    I'm pretty new to self-hosting and have been traipsing through a minefield attempting to make NextCloud AIO work inside Docker. The instance runs for a few days/weeks and then starts getting extremely slow on the website, then dies entirely. Usually, either the ClamAV or Apache containers get stuck in an unhealthy state that no number of reboots or reinstalls can fix.

    Quick context for how this all works. I have one machine that runs Proxmox and a group of VMs for various purposes. One such VM runs my Nextcloud. This VM is running Ubuntu 23.10, Docker, and the NextCloud AIO package.

    Another VM hosts OpenMediaVault, which contains a set of SMB Shares mounted to the host VM that act as storage for NextCloud. The symlinks (I think I'm using that word right) on the host VM have user and group permissions updated according to AIO's documentation. Proxmox is configured to boot this VM first, then boot the rest in sequence once the files are available.

    Right now I've got Nextcloud handling Synchronization of Files, Calendars, Contacts, and Kanban boards via the Deck Extension. Everything else can be abandoned at this point, these are the only functions I'm truly using. If this gives you an idea for an alternative app I'd love to hear it.

    So after AIO broke for about the 5th time in the 8 months since I started trying to self-host it, I've been looking at alternatives. Before I go that route, I want to try installing Nextcloud without Docker. Some of the posts I've read here suggest that the Docker distribution of NextCloud has serious issues with stability and safely installing updates.

    I plan to make a new VM entirely for this, Distro undecided. I still want to run it as a VM and still use my SMB shares for bulk storage.

    So where would I begin if I planned to install NextCloud directly to the VM rather than through Docker?

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    Pittsburgh, PA @lemmy.world *dust.sys @lemmy.world
    Anti-Flag Announce Break Up Following Possible Rape Accusations Against Frontman
    www.stereogum.com Anti-Flag Announce Break Up Following Possible Rape Accusations Against Frontman

    Anti-Flag have broken up. Last night, the the long-running political punk band announced on Patreon that they had disbanded. The breakup is sudden. The band was on tour in Europe and they were scheduled to play in Prague with the Dropkick Murphys tomorrow night. The announcement includes very little...

    Anti-Flag Announce Break Up Following Possible Rape Accusations Against Frontman

    Copied from the article:

    Anti-Flag have broken up. Last night, the the long-running political punk band announced on Patreon that they had disbanded. The breakup is sudden. The band was on tour in Europe and they were scheduled to play in Prague with the Dropkick Murphys tomorrow night. The announcement includes very little context. Here it is, in full:

    >Anti-Flag has disbanded. the patreon has been switched into a mode where it will no longer charge the monthly fee. I will begin to process refunds to all patrons in the coming weeks. once all refunds are processed the patreon page will also be removed.

    The band’s website and their social-media pages have all been removed. This leaves a lot of questions unanswered. On Reddit, fans pointed out a podcast episode that went live yesterday. On the latest episode of Enough, a podcast dedicated to sexual assault in the music business, a woman tells a story about being raped by the singer in a political punk band. She never names the band or the singer, but it’s hard to hear that story without connecting dots. The story is extremely upsetting, both in its details and in the sense of betrayal that surrounds it. You can hear it here.

    Justin Geever, who goes by the stage name Justin Sane, started the first version of Anti-Flag in Pittsburgh in 1988. The band released their demo in 1992 and their debut album Die For The Government in 1996. Over the decades, Anti-Flag became hugely popular, moving to Fat Wreck Chords and then to RCA in the mid-’00s. The band has remained active in recent years, and they released their most recent album Lies They Tell Our Children earlier this year. For their entire lifespan, Anti-Flag have pushed left-wing principles and political causes.>>

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    First-time self-hoster here. OS and DNS Questions

    Hey /c/selfhosted! Reddit refugee here with a couple questions on things I'm a bit uncertain about. I'll try to keep it brief, but I can clarify anything that needs clarified.

    I came into a little money recently and I'm coming into some more in the nearish future. My plan is to put some of that into a new server build that I'll use to host VMs running Docker, Portainer, and Nextcloud for starters. Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, and some kind of dashboard site will come once I get NextCloud in a good place (I'm torn between Dashy and Heimdall, so if anyone's got opinions I'd love to hear them.) I plan to add more once I'm more comfortable with Docker, and once I have a better idea of how to keep all these things organized and backed up.

    I have two domains I'm going to use for these, one for test and one for "prod". I use quotes because all of these things are for me only until I'm confident enough to invite my family. I don't plan to make anything that's going to be used by more than a handful of people overall.

    I've been trying all this with an old server I got off Craigslist which I installed Server 2019 on. I know IIS is a thing, but I'm not certain how or even if IIS plays with Docker, which has me questioning if Windows Server is even worth messing with on the new hardware. Right now, I have a VM set up in Hyper-V which is hosting Docker/Nextcloud in what I'm considering a test environment, but it's not accessible outside the home. Mostly I did this to learn Hyper-V for work, so I'm not married to Windows Server or even Windows for all this.

    The other problem, of course, is DNS. It does appear that my ISP has given me a static address (or at least they haven't changed it since I moved in 6 months ago). Assuming that's true, I'm not certain how I'd go about configuring a DNS server at home and making it accessible outside my home. If anyone's got any resources they want to recommend for setting up a DNS server in-home for this kind of thing, I would love to see them.

    tl;dr

    1. Is there any advantage to using Windows Server to host VS some flavor of Linux or even Windows Pro, or am I just wasting my time (assume cost is not a factor)
    2. Am I making my life harder trying to manage DNS through Windows Server, and is there an alternative if so. Linux alternatives also accepted
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    Pittsburgh, PA @lemmy.world *dust.sys @lemmy.world
    Sorry I'm late, Tunnel Monster was doing its usual thing

    This meme needs to be on Lemmy somewhere

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