At the very least keys without passphrases (such as for automated tasks) should restrict what commands can be run, should not give access to an interactive shell, and should go to a very specific user with as little file system access as is necessary to do the task. If an automated ssh task is giving access to the places you put your private keys and bash history, you’re probably doing something very wrong.

Containerization is not virtualization, so why would it have any bearing on hardware transcoding?

As long as you restrict the user of those keys access to an interactive shell and limit access to only the directories rsync needs for backup, it’s more like giving the pool boy keys to the pool rather than allowing access to the whole house.

WTF is going on with Batman’s head? He’s got his eyes set wide and low like where sideburns should be. And speaking of that area, it looks like the Dark Knight is dealing with a goiter distending the left side of his cowl. It’s not like Liefeld level bad, but I’d have expected better from McFarlane. That’s totally a McFarlane physics defying cape there though if I’ve ever seen one.

I’m barely rebuilding my server once a decade, so that’s all pretty irrelevant. I do use docker a bunch for programs I’d never interact with in the terminal, but that’s not really my issue with immutable; it’s flatpaks and the CLI, bash wrappers or aliases and all that noise. Too much trouble till they sort that out better.

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Cool so you didn’t really get what I was saying.

Immutable distros sound great for desktop users, distro hoppers, and system admins maintaining a fleet of desktop Linux machines in the wild. They sound more than a little annoying for homelab server users that mostly interact with their machine via the terminal and are more likely to want to run unpopular software on unpopular hardware in a niche distro.

You can have both. I hear dual booting has gotten a lot safer lately, but I prefer to keep windows contained in a virtual machine, which has the added benefit of snapshots for when windows update eventually does something I didn’t approve. Maintaining windows is so much less stressful when it’s not running on bare metal.

If you’re very worried about performance, then you probably will need new hardware by the time you need to make this decision anyway. I’ve never actually purchased windows directly; I just find an upgrade that bundles an OEM key if I need a new Windows.

I’m sure you know what you’re talking about. But your comment becomes a techno babble word salad when you throw in a typo or two, skip essential words and forego practically all correct use of punctuation and capitalization. I know this makes me sound old, dumb, and maybe a little mean. I know I’m old and dumb, but I’m really trying to not be mean.

I posted a cookie recipe in response to a cookie meme, got roasted for not converting baking units to science units. So yeah, people are getting kinda aggressive.

And you just know that the tools to access Google Drives natively in Linux must already exist and have been in use internally at Google for a decade, but Alphabet can’t figure out how to profit so we’ll never see it.

Not my circus, not my monkeys. You’re doing things the hard way and now it’s somehow my responsibility to fix your mess? I’m SUPER glad I don’t work with you.

Sounds like you’re doing things the hard way, making you believe that you are being forced into choosing between security and convenience.

Whose letting you run dozens of servers if managing dozens of passwords is “pretty much unworkable” for you?

If I could find a prompt that I could pre set the font, layout of the final work, and then have the program leave me alone, it would be perfect.

You’re describing a workflow using TeX or LaTeX, like typesetters for publisher’s use. I don’t have a specific recommendation, but in your shoes, I’d look for a CLI text editor (to avoid distractions) that supports word wrapping and do your actual formatting and typesetting totally separately from your writing with LaTeX.

A spreadsheet is always going to be a bad fit for a problem like this. You want something like the command line tools sed and awk (maybe combined with some simple regex) to parse a stream of input like this. These tools were literally built to solve this kind of problem. If you are stuck in windows, the Windows Subsystem for Linux will have these tools.

Who pays per SMS anymore?

So I take it you’ve never had your mouth washed out with soap for sassing your mother? I guess you also never mistook wax fruit for real fruit as a kid? Or just took a bite anyway to make smartass joke? Maybe I was just a bad kid.

You need a new router, preferably one that doesn’t do double duty as a WiFi AP. There are lots of options. Find something that can run one of the open source router options or go for something more pro-sumers. I was in a similar situation, having to reboot my router every couple days. I’m pretty happy with my Edge router X + Unifi AP setup from ubnt. I was hesitant to spend the money, but it was worth it for me. Be prepared to learn a lot more about networking.