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#virtualmachine

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utzer [Pleroma]
That there’s still no genuinely good #RDP client for #Android is such a bummer. Why is that, seriously? Are people just not using #Android devices as remote clients for #Linux or #Windows, or what’s going on here?

(And yes, I know there are alternatives to #RDP. I tried them. The user experience is just… bad. Like really bad.)

What makes it worse: modern #AndroidPhones are actually pretty great. Many come with a full-fledged Android desktop environment, and once you plug them into any USB-C dock, you basically have a powerful little #Computer — just with a really limited operating system. (Same applies to the #iPhone, by the way. I tried that too for the same use case.)

All it really needs is a solid #VirtualMachine setup (like #Debian or similar) or a decent #RemoteDesktop solution. But here we are, still stuck in a bad UI hell.

With a real (virtual) #Linux there would be no need to have both, laptop and phone, but one would do.

#MobileComputing #RemoteWork
#remotework
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seanpm2001 🇺🇦️

There are a couple of systems I really want to be able to emulate in the future. One of them is iOS 6 (or any version prior to this) I have been looking for years for a disk image or installer, but have never found one. It was my favorite mobile operating system.

#ios6#emulation#apple
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Kusalananda

I've gotten so used to running my everyday Unix system as a VM on top of various host systems that I notice myself hesitating to install it on bare metal. It feels unsafe. With a VM, I can back up the disk image(es) in various ways (wholesale or incremental snapshots), move it to new hardware, transfer it to a completely different environment and have it up and running in no time. On a bare metal machine, I feel "stuck". Does that make sense to anyone out there? #virtualmachine #vm #kvm #unix

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Asta [AMP]

hey hey #Linux #FileSystem #ZFS #RAID #XFS entities! I'm looking for extremely opinionated discourses on alternatives to ZFS on Linux for slapping together a #JBOD ("Just a Bunch Of Disks", "Just a Buncha Old Disks", "Jesus! Buncha Old Disks!", etc) array.

I like ZFS but the fact that it's not in tree in-kernel is an issue for me. What I need most is reliability and stability (specifically regarding parity) here; integrity is the need. Read/write don't have to be blazingly fast (not that I'm mad about it).

I also have one #proxmox ZFS array where a raw disk image is stored for a #Qemu #VirtualMachine; in the VM, it's formatted to XFS. That "seems" fine in limited testing thus far (and seems fast?, so it does seem like the defaults got the striping correct) but I kind of hate how I have multiple levels of abstraction here.

I don't think there's been any change on the #BTRFS front re: raid-like array stability (I like and use BTRFS for single disk filesystems but) although I would love for that to be different.

I'm open to #LVM, etc, or whatever might help me stay in tree and up to date. Thank you! Boosts appreciated and welcome.

#techPosting

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