This wasn’t satire?

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OMG this is so dumb.

Edit: I’m thinking this was satire?

Until then, people who have sacrificed enough of their weekend to the linux gods will be pipe internet text into their root consoles

“I’ll do what’s easy even if it’s not good” is a terrible approach to, well, anything. I would expect people in this community to look for guidance on what the best way to do things is. Seems I’m wrong.

Yeah - it’s remarkable that I receive pushback about it. I guess it’s down to the technical immaturity of your average home-gamer vs. people who support Linux systems for a living?

Piping scripts directly to bash is a security risk. You can always download the scripts, inspect them and run locally if you so choose.

This entire trend needs to die. Package managers exist. Use them. Shun and shame sites that promote shell script installers.

How much is your time worth? “Free” is the cost of the licensing but you take on the role of IT now (in addition to whatever your role in operating the bar is now). If you’re comfortable with being the IT department (managing the infrastructure, applying updates, running and testing backups, watching security notices, troubleshooting when things go wrong, providing user help desk support) then maybe.

I’m comfortable with all of that - I’d still pay for the license if I were using it for a business.

Seedit is a serverless, adminless, decentralized reddit alternative. Seedit is a client (interface) for the Plebbit protocol, which is a decentralized social network where anyone can create and fully own unstoppable communities.

In the plebbit protocol, a seedit community is called a subplebbit. To run a subplebbit, you can choose between two options:

First, they take the dinglebop, and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then repurposed for later batches. They take the dinglebop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It’s important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice. Then a schlami shows up, and he rubs it and spits on it. They cut the fleeb. There’s several hizzards in the way. The blamfs rub against the chumbles. And the ploobis and grumbo are shaved away. That leaves you with a regular old plumbus.

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It’s distributed through standard package managers, it would be trivial to create a Dockerfile to make your own container.

I started my selfhosted journey with a synology nas. But the nas was crap, so I ended using it only as storage and backup solution, providing NFS shares.

So, as a NAS then.

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Looking at the table above AI gpus are a pure scam

How much more power are your gaming GPUs going to use? How much more space will they use? How much more heat will you need to dissipate?

That’s awesome.

Dude - you gotta get off the snap hate train for a bit.

Do you not understand the difference between “hey, run this rando shell script on the internet” and “hey, use this standardized installer which may run some shell scripts”?

I don’t give a shit about all the canonical hate. For me snap does what I want:

1. Installs things in a standardized way using a standard interface i can easily script with ansible
2. Provides a similarly standardized way of upgrading and uninstalling that can also be automated easily with ansible
3. Works “just fine”.
4. Edit - I’ll add in a fourth - creates a fucking binary I can run (no flatpak run something.something.something BS)

It’s not bash I’m criticizing. Do you understand that? Because stop reading if you don’t and go back through my list. I’ll wait.

So good - you get that bash isn’t the problem. It’s the bespoke unstructured installer/upgrader/unisntaller part that is bad. You could write your installer in C, Python, etc. and I’ll levy the same complaints. You want me to install your python app? It should be available through pypi and pip. Not some rando bespoke installer.

Ah - you have discovered my complaint.

That is precisely why I went with microk8s instead. I don’t install software from people who can’t be bothered to package their software using standard deployment tools which has been the correct way to distribute Linux software for decades.

You’ve made this about snap. Flatpak, rpm, deb, etc. all work too.

You’re welcome to make whatever bad decisions you like. I can manage snaps with standard tooling. I can install, update, remove them with simple ansible scripts in a standard way.

Bash installers are bad. End of.

Microk8s manages to install with a snap. I know that snap is “of the devil” around these parts but it’s still better than a custom bash script.

Custom bash scripts will always be worse than any alternative.

I really want to push back on the entire idea that it’s okay to distribute software via a curl | sh command. It’s a bad practice. I shouldn’t be reading 100’s of lines of shell script to see what sort of malarkey your installer is going to do to my system. This application creates an uninstall script. Neat. Many don’t.

Of the myriad ways to distribute Linux software (deb, rpm, snap, flatpak, AppImage) an unstructured shell script is by far the worst.

curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io/ | sh -

Never, ever install anything this way. The trend of “just run this shell script off the internet” is a menace. You don’t know what that script does, what repositories it may add, what it may install, whether somebody is typo-squatting the URL and you’re running something else, etc.

It’s just a bad idea. If you disagree then I have one question - how would you uninstall k3s after you ran that blackbox?