Just change the port Headscale is running on.

You also don’t want a reverse proxy out in front of Headscale. It doesn’t serve a purpose, and does nothing but introduce added complexity and performance degradation.

Just make an A record in your DNS that points to ‘vpn.whatever.com’ if you just want to treat it as a named host.

They have Open Source versions of their stack. Just run it yourself at no cost.

Am I missing something?

Also, use any other similar service which all have open source counterparts: Head scale/Tailscale, or ZeroTier.

Any RSS reader will work with RSS feeds. It’s an open standard.

I think you’re asking the wrong question here. You should be asking “Is my tech stack doing what I need and working for me?”.

If yes, then just keep doing what you’re doing.

If not, then figure out what’s wrong, and take steps to fix it.

Trying to “compete” - as it sounds like you may be trying to do - IS futile. But what are you competing over? Why would you feel the need to compete with the things you hate? That’s not where your battle is, it sounds like.

Sorry, ma dude. This is 100% incorrect. Been doing this a long time, and have managed massive numbers of desktop sessions for enterprise end users.

Lookup dconf. It’s the tool that manages the underlying configuration engine for Gnome specifically.

Outside of the granularity there, you could also just lock everything to a group and exclude logged in users from that group. That’s a very simplistic way of explaining it, but achieves the exact same thing. You build a base image with only the apps the user needs, set execution to an inclusive group that user belongs to, and everything else to some other groups, and there you go. Dead simple.

Of course that’s not how you’d do it for an org with thousands of users, but you get the point.

Uhhhh yeah there is? You can customize any user profile and centrally control it just as you can on Windows. You can even PXE boot all workstations with new images whenever you want instead of relying on individual machines to issue updates, something that Windows isn’t capable of.

Not sure where you got this idea, but you’re misinformed.

For starters: Rails, PHP, and passthrough routing stacks like message handlers and anything that expects socket handling. It’s just not built for that, OR session management for such things if whatever it’s talking to isn’t doing so.

It seems like you think I’m talking smack about HAProxy, but you don’t understand it’s real origin or strengths and assume it can do anything.

It can’t. Neither can any of the other services I mentioned.

Chill out, kid.

HAProxy is not meant for complex routing or handling of endpoints. It’s a simple service for Load Balancing or proxying alone. All the others have better features otherwise.

I’ll be honest with you here, Nginx kind of ate httpd’s lunch 15 years ago, and with good reason.

It’s not that httpd is “bad”, or not useful, or anything like that. It’s that it’s not as efficient and fast.

The Apache DID try to address this awhile back, but it was too late. All the better features of nginx just kinda did httpd in IMO.

Apache is fine, it’s easy to learn, there’s a ton of docs around for it, but a massively diminished userbase, meaning less up to date information for new users to find in forums in the like.

It’s called a Reverse Proxy. The most popular options are going to be Nginx, Caddy, Traefik, Apache (kinda dated, but easy to manage), or HAProxy if you’re just doing containers.

That’s not really the point though. I’m not even talking about end users. Government agencies, corporate backend services, customer service agencies and more are all abandoning Windows for Linux partially because Win11 is a horrible product, but also because the requirements just keep growing which is stupid.

Microsoft’s response to this is the above, which they were STAUNCHLY opposed to previously because they need to try and force AI down users throats to justify the money they have pissed away on it. They’re shoehorning Copilot bullshit into every product line they have now, and it’s WILDLY unpopular and unnecessary. If this is the best they can do to address it, they’ll continue to hemorrhage users.

When more state agencies in the US start switching, they’ll release some “Windows Lite” bullshit, but it will too late because the commitments needed for these organizations to bother switching is massive. They’ll be losing licenses for an entire generation of Windows at the very least.

Looks like you’re hosting a mostly static frontend there. Could be hosting that for free in a number of places, and then you’d have no problem.

“Allow”

Fuck you, Microsoft. You and Apple have lost millions of users to Linux, and I’m here for it.

Unless they specify Solar, Wind, or Hydrogen, it’s just going to be these assholes building their own coal generators FFS.

Big NOPE

🙄

The KVM is the most likely culprit. Remove it from the equation for awhile and see what happens.

If you’re ever present or have remote access to her network, make sure sshd is enabled, and try to SSH into it to see what happens.

Q’s:

1. Is this a laptop or desktop?
2. If Desktop, what kind of cable is the monitor connected with?
3. See if you can get dmesg output (needs to happen during the event, but the machine is still accessible - hence ssh above)
4. Does the monitor have its own power saving settings?

GEEEEEE, what a coincidence, eh? Almost like these companies may be coordinating some sort of market shift for some reason.

What do you call that when a bunch of companies responsible for large swathes of market share of a particular good or service use the guise of unnatural market pressure to create conditions unnaturally beneficial to themselves and not consumers?

You don’t. That comment was misinformed. No idea where they heard that from.

We’re all running high performance games through the same thing all the time now. Benchmarks best Windows in most cases.

You’ll be more than fine.