Welcome $HOME 😊

Holy shit, year of the IPv6??

(I know this was 2025)

The update rolled out perfectly for my Kubernetes setup (using the Docker image). 👍

You’re backgrounding the cunnilingus?

Xe Iaso my beloved

True, true haha

Oh good! Happy I could help. :)

Enjoying your snaps, Neo?

How do you know?

Zoom not having working audio—discovered right before a job interview 💀

But yeah, I bet it would work! Just make sure you run modprobe-db with the manufacturer’s kernel long enough to run all the software you’ll actually use, so it can record the modules you need.

Of course, make sure you read up on it with that ArchWiki article and take a look at the source code to be sure (it’s basically a simple shell script), but from what I understand it should do what you need.

Yeah, if you use a kernel you built off modprobe-db’s config output, but the build config was generated before you ever used that USB device, then yeah, your kernel wouldn’t have the right modules for it (if the device required some unique kernel modules). modprobe-db will only tell you what it’s seen you use.

Those modules, man… they’re the biggest cause of—dare I say it?—bloat in the kernel

For the few people here who may not know about it: there’s a utility called modprobe-db that watches what kernel modules get loaded at runtime, and can generate a kernel build config file accordingly. There’s even an ArchWiki article about it. You need to keep it around for a while (e.g. several weeks or months) so it can get a proper sample of the modules you use; that way, your kernel can have all the modules you need (ask me how I know). If you do it right, however, you can slim down your compile time significantly.

100% ethically-sourced, organic code

The funny part of the original scene is that that is exactly what Morpheus himself does when Neo is outside the Matrix—tells him what the Matrix is.

This is one of a few different examples (in that film and the others) that give credence to reading Morpheus as less trustworthy than he is styled. He should maybe be doubted more often.

I gotta get my ass off Ubuntu. It’s literally just Business Debian—or in other words, Debian but worse.

And it’s your computer! if anything should be the way you like, it should be that.

No place like /home/$USER!

Ah but you see, this is my bloat! 😂

I have to echo what others have said, and tell you exposing your router’s login to the public internet is very risky (if you’re referring to the WiFi router in your home). I would strongly recommend some other solution to whatever broader problem you’re trying to solve with this—why do you need to access your router login from outside your home? Can the logging in (and presumably tinkering) be done at home? Definitely things to think through before proceeding.

Non-technical readers? In my Linux memes community??

You probably know this, but Mint is kind of just Debian with extra stuff (some might call it bloat, but that’s a matter of use case). So a switch to Debian from Mint should be very straightforward, if not seamless. The package manager is the same, and that’s usually the biggest part of switching distros. Debian is also ideal for hosting specifically; many, many production servers run on Debian. It’s also arguably the best-supported distro out there, so whatever question you have had probably already been answered.

TL;DR you should totally try Debian out (especially a headless version). It mostly like won’t be an issue.

Yeah, Gentoo is really tough to use if you’re not somewhat familiar with Linux, it’s ins and outs, and its general ecosystem. Even the handbook assumes a lot of knowledge. But when you get it operating… boy is it rewarding. It’s like difficult hike—you’re wrung out, but you’re stronger from it in the long-run, and the view is amazing.

You know, I’d recommend starting with Arch, actually. It’s got challenges of its own, but a manual Arch install can help familiarize yourself with the Linux install process in general, and can help ease you into the Linux-from-Scratch-with-training-wheels that is Gentoo. And the documentation (ArchWiki) is famous for how helpful and informative it is. It’s definitely better than the Gentoo Handbook on that front!