Thanks for clarifying, and I can appreciate your overall concerns as I face the same dilemma with my aging relatives.
Just to confirm, have you opened these files in Word yourself (or witnessed them being opened), to verify they are in fact valid documents? if valid, are they meant to be in English?
It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen “other” files renamed with an incorrect file extension.
Assuming you meant “.docx files”, those should open without issue in LibreOffice. As others have said, OnlyOffice is another popular option if format preservation is a goal.
What do you mean when you say the files are “not supported” by the tools you’ve tried? What, exactly, is happening and what are you trying to accomplish? The end goal wasn’t clear to me from your post.
Getting Word to run under wine will require much more effort than copying the Word binary.
I think I’ve tried nearly every monospace typeface over the years and I’ve finally settled on JetBrains Mono for more than 2 years now, though IBM Plex Mono is a close second.
Looks great! I’ll definitely give this a try!
You can go with something like this if you want a clean solution.
I use a drive dock station for my backup drives, and I have a few of these for one-offs too.
Crucial is fine. It’s commonly found in corporate and government workstations.
I don’t use RCS myself, but there are recent posts on the GOS forums and it appears to be working fine once all of the prerequisites are installed.
Sure, like I said above, GOS doesn’t at all prevent you from rooting the device. They only discourage it from a security point of view. Regarding MicroG, I’ve never had need for it myself but I’ve read many other posts over the years from users who have installed it on GOS in lieu of Graphene’s own implementation.
I would argue that overall GrapheneOS provides more control over the OS than some other Android-based operating systems.
You can root GOS like any other Android-based OS. It’s just highly discouraged, completely unsupported and, in the opinion of the GOS devs, you will no longer be considered to be running GOS since you are compromising the core OS by doing so.
Amazon typically has a few vendors that specialize in refurbished Optiplexes and/or HP Elites in small or ultra small form factor sizes.
A word of caution about these refurbs though…the memory and storage they include are often dollar store brands (Kingfast) that I wouldn’t even trust for a child’s PC. It’s worth purchasing your own after the fact.
Your options will depend on many things…
I don’t know how demanding photoprism is, but you could probably do fine with a refurbished i5/i7 Dell Optiplex or similar, with one or more SSDs added to it. If money is really tight and storage needs are high, you could go with mechanical drives instead.
The problem with enterprise servers is that are generally very loud and use a lot of power…not unlike adding a second refrigerator to your environment. In my opinion, they’re not worth it unless you have a specific use case (training for a career, etc.).
If that’s one of those old 10" netbooks, I had good experiences running dwm and xmonad on mine back in the day (had an Acer and later an MSI Wind U120(?)). Typically ran all my apps maximized, one per desktop. Firefox did okay, but this was around 2010-2012. Mostly stuck with terminal apps and it was more than snappy enough.
Some screenshots from days past…
I recently posted about setting up my new Brother HL-L5210DW printer under Fedora Atomic, which was also having issues with duplex printing using the brlaser driver. Maybe this will help you too:
https://lemmy.ca/post/23695569
If yours is networked, I think you just need to select the IPP option mentioned in my post, and enter the path as ipp://<printer-ip-address>
Mind if I ask what you don’t like about French Press coffee? I ask only because we’ve been FP-only when at home for more than 10 years now. I can enjoy a cup of coffee from just about anywhere when on the road, so I’m definitely not a picky drinker but I do enjoy homemade FP the most.
I write everything in markdown, and I mean just about everything. Tech notes, recipes, work procedures, shopping lists…everything. If you check my comment history from today, you can see a quick example of the kind of tech notes I keep (firewalld in this case).
I keep all of my plain text files synced across multiple devices using Syncthing. For desktop editors, I use mostly vim and VSCodium (though Kate is nice too), and I use Markor on Android. This workflow has been highly efficient for many years now, and I no longer waste time constantly reviewing the latest note-taking app.
Frankly, I welcome multiple unixporn communities, as the largely singular community on reddit was too strict, in my opinion, and many screenshots went unshared as a result.
I’ve been happy with whc.ca for hosting…been using their pro account for years. I generally use canspace.ca for domain registration, and have done so for more than 10 years without issue.
I can’t provide specific advice for tailscale, but I can share my notes for my own use case, which is for PCs that are safely behind the home firewall. You’d want to adjust your ssh/smb settings accordingly. You shouldn’t need any rules for ProtonVPN, as you’re likely just trying to block incoming connections, not outbound.
It’s my understanding that Fedora opens ports 1025-65535/tcp and 1025-65535/udp by default.
To lock down to sane defaults (--permanent saves the settings directly, avoiding the need to run firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent separately):
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --remove-port=1025-65535/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --remove-port=1025-65535/udp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=27031/udp # steam remote play
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=27036/udp # steam remote play
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=27036/tcp # steam remote play
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=27037/tcp # steam remote play
Ensure that ssh and samba-client are listed as allowed services too (sudo firewall-cmd --list-all).
firewall-cmd --reload--permanent or by committing all changes with --runtime-to-permanentCommon commands:
sudo systemctl enable --now firewalld # enable and start firewalld service
sudo systemctl disable firewalld
sudo systemctl stop firewalld
sudo firewall-cmd --state # show running state of firewalld
sudo firewall-cmd --get-active-zones # list active zones
sudo firewall-cmd --get-zones # list all zones
sudo firewall-cmd --get-default-zone # list default zone
sudo firewall-cmd --list-ports # list allowed ports in current zone
sudo firewall-cmd --list-all # list all settings
sudo firewall-cmd --reload # reload firewall rules to activate any rule modifications
Add/remove ports, services, IPs:
sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=port-number/port-type # allow incoming port (tcp,udp,sctp,dccp)
sudo firewall-cmd --remove-port=port-number/port-type # block incoming port
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=<service-name> # allow incoming service (see /etc/services)
sudo firewall-cmd --remove-service=<service-name> # block incoming service (see /etc/services)
sudo firewall-cmd --add-source=192.168.1.100 (or 192.168.1.0/24) # whitelist incoming IP or IP range
sudo firewall-cmd --remove-source=192.168.1.100 (or 192.168.1.0/24) # remove whitelisted IP or IP range
Block an IP or IP range (rich rules):
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule="rule family='ipv4' source address='192.168.1.100' reject"
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule="rule family='ipv4' source address='192.168.1.0/24' reject"
Whitelist IP for specific port (rich rule):
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="192.168.1.100" port protocol="tcp" port="3306" accept'
Removing a Rich Rule
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --remove-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="192.168.1.100" port protocol="tcp" port="3306" accept'
Not mutually exclusive, but it’s highly probable that if you’re running a mainstream distro, the default kernel is in lockdown mode, preventing hibernation while secure boot is enabled.