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  • Pop supports automatic updates since 22.04, but it is not enabled by default. You can check the settings under “OS Upgrades and Recovery” panel in the settings application.

    Note that the dry-run flag means don’t actually upgrade, just show what you would do, which could be used by another program to see what would happen if an upgrade were to happen. I’m guessing packagekit is using this output to determine what packages are available for upgrading.















  • pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.orgtoFediverse@lemmy.mlWhy so many POST requests?
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    2 years ago

    POSTs are how federation works (ActivityPub is a Push-based protocol). When you “subscribe” to a community on say lemmy.ml, you are telling it to periodically send you updates about that community. This comes in the form of POSTS.

    As to the frequency of the POSTs, I can imagine something like lemmy.ml having a lot of activity that it needs to inform your instance of (new votes, new comments, new posts, etc)… but I’m not sure if one request per second is reasonable or not.







  • ZeroTier is a way to basically create a peer-to-peer VPN of sorts. This is just a blog about how to set that up.

    One possible use case for having such a VPN or overlay network is that you can then play LAN games over the Internet because every machine in the ZeroTier VPN is on the same LAN. This is great if a game you play (usually older) does not support Internet play but does support LAN multi-player.

    Another possible idea is that you can also use this to stream games from say your desktop computer to your Steam Deck even if you are out of the house (if the machines are on the same ZeroTier network).

    An alternative to ZeroTier is Tailscale which would allow you to do basically the same things.