And Finnish version. Also available in English.

And me.

Not for everyone, but if you live in Finland you can (most likely) access National E-library. Unfortunately it’s only for IOS or Android, no e-readers are currently supported.

They are excactly what the name implies. Testing is generally pretty good, but it’s still testing. And unstable is also what the name implies. People, myself included back in the day, run both as daily drivers, but if you want rock stable distribution installing unstable revision might not be the best choise.

Debian. I’ve had installations which went trough several major version upgrades, I’ve worked with ‘set and forget’ setups where someone originally installed Debian and I get my hands on it 3-5 years later to upgrade it and it just works. Sure, it might not be as fancy as some alternatives and some things may need manual tweaking here and there, but the thing just works and even on rare occasion something breaks you’ll still have options to fix it assuming you’re comfortable with plain old terminal.

1. VM running on a proxmox host. Tips: make sure you know your backups are in a state you can restore data from them.
2. Nightly backup via proxmox to Hetzner Storage box with 2 day retention. I’d like a local copy too but I don’t currently have hardware for it.
3. Don’t know. Personally I have a DNAT rule on firewall and my instance is directly open to the internet. You might not want that and I might not recommend it, but right now, for me, it works. I’d need to look in a VPN solution for android I could replace the current ‘open for all’ situation.

And don’t you dare to forget wear a very nice suit and say thank you to everyone you see.

Sure. But the American company is currently managing development, have their own money on the table to improve the code and so on. Depends on how pedantic you want to go on this.

Even Torvalds himself, while originating from Finland, is currently a USA citizen and Linux foundation is paying his salary. With FOSS the borders are a bit different than in the real world and if you want to really be strict about it, fully European operating system just does not exist, at least not viable and well supported one.

Personally I’ll keep using whatever free software there is, regardless of the country of origin.

Originally from France. Current owner is 8x8, American company, but the software itself is open source. So yes and no, maybe?

Actual shortage. Performance drops significantly when zfs doesn’t have enough memory. It might have been an option to tweak configuration for zfs pools, add SSD for caching and so on, but I needed to change drive configurations anyways for other reasons so for me it was easier to drop zfs and switch to software raid.

How much RAM your system has? Zfs is pretty hungry for memory and if you don’t have enough it’ll have quite significant impact on performance. My proxmox had 7x4TB drives on zfs pool and with 32 gigs of RAM there was practically nothing left for the VMs under heavy i/o load.

I switched the whole setup to software raid, but it’s not offically supported by proxmox and thus managing it is not quite trivial.

Who out there thinks anyone but Russia is the ‘main obstacle to peace’?

No one, I really hope. But either way this was a good move from Ukraine to throw the ball to the russians as now the orange guy is thrown in front of the bus with his “i’ll end this war in a day” statement and global pressure is on Russia.

What the fuck happened to rationality or even common sense?

Very good question. Let me know too if you find the answer.

Fiskars. (Finland)

Robbers roast (rosvopaisti) in Finland. I suppose other countries have something similar, but it’s a piece of meat cooked in a ground oven. First dig up a small hole, line it with rocks, keep bonfire going in the hole for couple of hours, scrape the coals out and put meat wrapped in parchment paper, wet newspapers and foil in to the hole, fill it with sand and set up a new bonfire on top of the sand. Throw onions, garlic, carrots and whatever you like to accompany/season the meat while you’re at it. Things like potatoes or sweet potatoes doesn’t really work as they just turn into a mush, at least unless you individually wrap them, but the process isn’t consistent enough, just cook whatever sides you want separately.

With meat include pieces of fat on top of it and season however you like. It’s traditionally made out of lamb, but I prefer cow (or moose if it’s available). Pork works just fine too. The whole process takes 10-12 hours, so it’s not for your wednesday dinner, but it’s very much worth the effort.

When the weather is good and you do it right the meat just breaks down and you’ll almost need a spoon to eat it. Absolutely delicious. And as you have bonfire going for all day you can cook sausages on a stick and have a ‘few’ beers while feeding the fire. It’s an experience with absolutely delicious food in the end.

Just be careful that you don’t pass out on all the beer while cooking and miss the fun part.

I mostly use battlestar galactica ship names for my own hardware, but it’s been mixed with boring ‘<function>.mydomain.foo’ names as well. I should rename a bunch of stuff around and include them in my DNS.

The exchanged mails between the IMAP host and the MTA need a unique identifier to organize contents of the DB, and this would not be possible or automatic if your switched the upstream MTA.

It sure is possible. I’ve copied maildirs over different software, different servers, local copies back to the server and so on. Also if you just rely on your own IMAP server the upstream doesn’t matter as fetchmail (or whatever you choose to use) anyways communicates between hosts on their preferred protocols.

Obviously there’s a tradeoff since now you’re responsible for your backups and maintaining your server, but it can sit nicely on your private LAN with access only locally or via VPN without direct access to the internet. And you don’t need MTA to run IMAP server in the first place.

You can run a dovecot (or any IMAP server) where ever you want and use fetchmail to pull data from POP-server into it. There’s plenty of discussion and instructions around the web so I won’t copy’n’paste them here, search for ‘fetchmail dovecot’ or something similar.

Can you switch to console? Try ctrl+alt+F2 when the system is booted up and log in to that.

I suppose some package update was interrupted or crashed. You can attempt to re-run what’s missing with ‘sudo apt-get install’ and ‘sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a’. And, assuming your console access works, you can at least check log files on what’s wrong, but for that I don’t think any generic ‘read /var/log/syslog’ file is too helpful as there’s a ton of stuff and with things like journalctl it’s pretty difficult to navigate around if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

And also, more details would be helpful. What you mean by ‘enters a loop’, what it actually says that went wrong and so on.

would he be forced to end it if the war ends

I don’t know about Ukrainian laws, but I’d suppose so. At least that’s how martial law works in general, it’s not easy to activate and there’s written rules on when it has to end. And also I don’t think it’s the president alone who can decide for that to either way.

But again, I don’t really know about their laws, just bits and pieces i’ve learned from the news. I barely know our own martial laws (or our law in general).

what allows him to remain president ends

Strictly speaking, the war is not the (whole) thing which allows him to stay in office. His era continues up to the point when the successor is elected and there can not be legal elections during martial law. So, yeah, the war is the reason, but once the peace is achieved it still requires proper elections (no idea how long that takes in Ukraine as a whole) and then he’s released from the office. So even if the peace came tomorrow I think it would take in minimum at least a few months until elections are open. Possibly even more as significant amount of Ukrainians are out of the country right now and they might want to secure option to vote for them too which might take quite a bit longer than few months.

But I have no doubt about it, they’ll have fair elections when it’s possible, Russia will try to influence the hell out of it and in the end Ukraine has new, fairly elected, president eventually.