1.What's the lowest recurring price you've seen or paid during previous Black Friday sales?
2.Are there usually good deals for US West locations (especially San Jose or nearby)?
3.Based on your experience, is it worth waiting for Black Friday?

To be honest, Vultr's entry plan is currently $5/month, which is actually $1 cheaper than GreenCloud's budget plan. That's why I'm wondering whether GreenCloud's Black Friday deals are usually good enough to make waiting worthwhile.

Reliability is more important to me than CPU or RAM.

Thanks!

Has anyone here ever created a second Oracle Cloud account after already having (or previously having) a Free Tier account?

I'm not asking about bypassing any rules. I'm simply wondering if Oracle allows legitimate second registrations under certain circumstances, or if it's effectively one account per person forever.

If you've gone through the process yourself, I'd appreciate hearing your experience.

Has anyone received an approval lately?

I'm mostly trying to understand how the application process works these days. Do they normally send a rejection email if you're not selected, or do applications simply stay pending until a slot opens up?

It would be great to hear some recent experiences.

I’m Andy, and today I’m finally doing something I’ve been overthinking for a very long time.

The idea for a dedicated, privacy-focused link management tool for our specific niche has been living in my head for several years. I’ve always felt that as a community of sysadmins, hosters, and tech enthusiasts, we deserve a utility that isn't owned by "Big Tech," doesn't sell click data, and understands the "LowEnd" aesthetic.

A while ago, I finally sat down and built it: LowEnd Shortener.

You might wonder why it took so long to see the light of day. I wanted to do this the right way, so I reached out to the management of LowEndTalk months ago to coordinate a release. Unfortunately, I hit a massive wall.

Despite "LowEnd" being a generic industry term used by all of us for over a decade, WNY IT Services, Inc. (LET owners) claimed that using the name "LowEnd" and domains like lowend.vip, low.ad or lowendspir.it was a trademark violation. I was told that the service would not be allowed on their platform.

I spent weeks in back-and-forth negotiations, even offering to hand over the entire project for free just to ensure it could exist for the community. But communication eventually went silent. This impasse drained my motivation and delayed the launch by months. It felt like a "corporate takeover" of a term that belongs to all of us.

After speaking with Mason (LES Admin), who was incredibly supportive and shared a much more community-oriented perspective, I decided to stop waiting for a "green light" from the corporate side.

I’ve realized that the spirit of this community doesn’t live in a trademark office – it lives right here on LowEndSpirit.

The system is currently in Beta. It is built on secure infrastructure, uses deSEC.io for DNS integrity, and is designed to be a bridge between our platforms.

• Branded Domains: Use low.lc, lowendspir.it, lowend.vip, low.ad, and more.
• Provider Features: Verified hosters can request vanity subdomains (e.g., yourbrand.lowend.vip) for professional-looking links.

I’ll be honest: I am still worried. I fear that releasing this tool under the "LowEnd" name might lead to the "ban hammer" being dropped on me. I’ve had my share of trademark disputes in the past, and they are exhausting.

Furthermore, I want to apologize in advance if my response time is sometimes slow. Due to health reasons, I occasionally have to step away from the screen, and it might take me a bit longer to reply to requests or support tickets. I hope you can forgive me for that.

But I truly believe this tool is useful. I’ve decided that the community’s need for a clean, free utility is more important than my fear of corporate retaliation.

I am releasing this as a beta because I need your feedback. Most importantly, I hope for some support from the LES family. If you believe that a community tool should be independent and free, I’d love for you to try it out.

You can find it here: https://lowend.vip

Note: I have retired the lowendta.lk domain out of respect for their specific brand, but I am keeping the project name as "LowEnd Shortener" because that is what it is.

Thanks for reading my "Ted Talk." I’m looking forward to your thoughts!

Best regards,
Andy

The ones I found online, their VPSes in Singapore are very expensive, costlier than other regions. Does anyone know cheaper affordable VPS providers in Asia?

Thanks!

Do you have any experiences with above.com for domain registration?

I have a few handfuls of .nl domains that are just worth transferring to them, it saves a few euro per domain per year, but things count up.

Their pricing is actually a few cents lower than their current listing at https://tldes.com/nl ; the other contenders are less than a euro difference and make not so much sense in the small number of domains I have.

My current registrar is a relatively local party, which I like to support, but their interface is not too convenient and well, there are savings to accrue.

I searched the forum, but 'above' is a a too generic term to get useful results.

Our DNS service is almost feature-complete g we offer vanity NS, failover with monitoring integration, GeoDNS, API, DNSSEC, within next few weeks we will add free SSL certificates. Do we miss anything?

Our anycast-as-a-service is growing, we have recently added complementary, best effort, DDoS protection. Next month we will increase free data quota to 1TB and add support for BYOIP. Anything else you need?

Already noted (based on previous comments):

• free 1TB of traffic
• better docs

Looking forward for your input and feedback.

Cheers. Piotr

@yoursunny no push-ups I'm afraid

My Kimsufi is running Proxmox with encryption and all, thanks for the help!

The past few nights I've spent trying to get IPv6 to the containers. As OVH shows my server as having a /128, I've searched for yoursunny's hall of shame, but was not able to find the list (I'm sure to have seen it a couple of times during BF/CM).

I did find @loay 's IPv6 subnet-checker. It warned me of OVH's on-link practise and suggested ndppd.

Enabling forwarding and proxying (all/vmbr0/eno1) and configuring ndppd on either the bridge (vmbr0) or the actual interface (eno1) does not have the desired effect: neighbour advertisements / neighbour sollicitations are not proxied.

I tried setting a static neighbour for two containers on eno1, seperately also on vmbr0, again with no result.

I threw the story in a chatbot, which regurgitated the same commands and told me that it should work that way.

Is there something obvious I must have missed in the context of Kimsufi OVH BHS?

I registered a .eu via Dynadot last week.

Now I got an email from eurid.eu, on the email address I use for Dynadot.

The email writes that my domain will be suspended if I don't register with Eurid, which requires upload of ID or other means of identification.

I have a handful of other .eu domains with other registrars, but never had this requirement.

Seeing the mail comes from Eurid, it seems legit enough, but I'm not very happy about either the requirement nor Dynadot leaking my email address.

Any idea whether it is something new?

Is there an equivalently available BSD distribution which is equivalently small?

Has anyone here at LES used Oasis or an equivalently small BSD distribution?

Thanks!

Tom

References:

https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

• Completely statically linked.
• Fast builds that are 100% reproducible.
• Minimal bootstrap dependencies.
• BearSSL is the system TLS and crypto library.
• No package manager. (Can use pkgsrc or nix.)
• Integrates well with OS-agnostic package systems.
• Extremely simple system configuration.
• Mostly ISO C conformant.

https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis/wiki/Install

https://www.osnews.com/story/141713/oasis-a-small-statically-linked-linux-system-2/

Oasis seems to work with Qemu inside my Chromebook's Debian Crostini container:

chronos@penguin:~/oasis$ ls -l oasis-qemu
total 397036
-rw-r--r-- 1 chronos chronos   3769872 Jan 26  2024 bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 chronos chronos      1420 Jan 26  2024 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 chronos chronos 402784256 Apr 28 21:00 root.qcow2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 chronos chronos      1456 Apr 28 20:59 run
chronos@penguin:~/oasis$ ls -lh $_
total 388M
-rw-r--r-- 1 chronos chronos 3.6M Jan 26  2024 bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 chronos chronos 1.4K Jan 26  2024 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 chronos chronos 385M Apr 28 21:00 root.qcow2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 chronos chronos 1.5K Apr 28 20:59 run
chronos@penguin:~/oasis$ 

Initial boot messages:

Note: qemu command inside run file modified by removing -enable-kvm and -cpu host.

chronos@penguin:~/oasis/oasis-qemu$ ./run -s
Booting oasis qemu image...

Tips:
- To access the qemu monitor, use Ctrl-a c.
- The root password is empty.
- A regular user 'oasis' is available, also with empty password.
- To run commands as root, use doas(1)
- Text editors available are vis(1) and ed(1)
- To launch velox, run `swc-launch velox`.
  * To launch st from velox, use Alt-Shift-Enter
  * To launch netsurf from velox, use Alt-b
  * To launch dmenu from velox, use Alt-r
- To shutdown, run `kill -s USR1 1`.

See README.md for more information.

ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered
random: crng init done
loop: module loaded
virtio_blk virtio4: 1/0/0 default/read/poll queues
virtio_blk virtio4: [vda] 16777216 512-byte logical blocks (8.59 GB/8.00 GiB)
NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family
Segment Routing with IPv6
In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6
NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family
9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support
IPI shorthand broadcast: enabled
sched_clock: Marking stable (2274137438, 23672496)->(2344706219, -46896285)
ALSA device list:
  No soundcards found.
EXT4-fs (vda): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
EXT4-fs (vda): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: disabled.
VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 254:0.
devtmpfs: mounted
Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 760K
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 12288k
Freeing unused kernel image (text/rodata gap) memory: 2044K
Freeing unused kernel image (rodata/data gap) memory: 852K
Run /bin/sinit as init process
EXT4-fs (vda): re-mounted. Quota mode: disabled.
oasis login: root
Password: 
# 

Not too much in /etc:

# cd /etc; ls 
LICENSE
doas.conf
fstab
gitconfig
group
hosts
hotplug
kshrc
mtab
ntpd.conf
passwd
perp
plumb
profile
rc.init
rc.local
rc.shutdown
resolv.conf
services
shadow
ssh
ssl
sysctl.conf
velox.conf
# 

I received the following email from info@m.uptime-monitor.io, claiming that the free plan of UptimeRobot will be discontinued on March 23, 2026 and that I should switch to a paid plan at uptime-monitor.io.

Sender email address: UptimeRobot [Uptime Monitor] (info@m.uptime-monitor.io)

Dear Uptime Monitor user,

Thank you for being part of the Uptime Monitor community. We truly appreciate your trust in our service.

We're reaching out to let you know that we will be transitioning away from the free plan. Your monitors will continue working as usual until March 23, 2026.

To continue monitoring after that date, you can select a paid plan at:
https://uptime-monitor.io/dashboard/billing

Plans start at $4.95/month for up to 10 monitors, and we offer a 7-day free trial so you can try it out first.

If you have any questions or need help choosing a plan, simply reply to this email — we're happy to help.

Thank you for using Uptime Monitor!

This already looked suspicious to me because:

• The sender domain is m.uptime-monitor.io
• The website uptime-monitor.io looks generic and somewhat AI-generated
• I have not seen any official announcement about discontinuing the free plan

To verify this, I contacted the chatbot on the official website of UptimeRobot. The response I received was:

“That email did not come from us. The domain ‘uptime-monitor.io’ is not associated with UptimeRobot - this appears to be a fraudulent email attempting to impersonate our service.
Our official domain is uptimerobot.com and our legitimate emails come from @uptimerobot.com addresses. We have no plans to discontinue our free service.
Please do not click any links or provide any information to that suspicious sender. We recommend marking it as spam and deleting it.
Our free plan remains available with 50 monitors and we continue to support it alongside our paid plans.”

I have just discovered something much more concerning: I was able to log in at uptime-monitor.io using my actual UptimeRobot credentials.

This makes me seriously worried that I may have fallen into a credential harvesting / phishing trap. If this site is not officially affiliated with UptimeRobot, then it appears to be actively collecting real user login data.

If anyone else received this email, please be extremely careful and do not attempt to log in there.

At this point, I strongly recommend that affected users immediately change their passwords on the official UptimeRobot website and enable additional security measures if available.

So this strongly suggests that the email is a phishing attempt.

I’m posting this here to ask:

• Has anyone else received this email?
• Has anyone investigated uptime-monitor.io further?

Please be careful and do not click any links in that message.

Thanks. Greetings, Andy

@AuroraZero said:

@host_c said:

MS said:

@host_c said:

@MS said: I just thought that the RAM to Storage ratio, like 4.55 TiB to 4.12 PiB (or ~1GB RAM for 1000GB Storage), is low.

That math is for ZFS.

If you go HW Raid ( cache on controller ) you only have to worry about VM's running plus the overhead they do on the node.

With ZFS you can have flexibility ( expand the pool as you change / upgrade the drives ) on the go but will eat RAM,CPU and induce Latency
With HW raid you will have the lowest Latency, no CPU and RAM usage on the Node ( all that if you use a modern HW raid controller, not something 2 decades ago ), but cannot expand the pool on the go ( you will need to empty the node, decommission the raid array, put the new drives, wait a few days for the to initialize )

It is a trade off, we picked out poison. ( I will go for low latency any day of the week )

Until ZFS crashes then let the cluster begin!!!!

I use Proxmox and ZFS. Don't let my cluster explode!

Any ideas where to check?

I have a dedi that is reporting a failing disk, or actually, it is reporting that THE disk is failing.

How is a dying disk generally handled in such cases? It is, of course, a low-end dedi. Seeing current storage prices, I worry it may be taken as a reason to decommission the server. Is that a realistic scenario for a smaller, but legit provider?

I'm quite happy with the little server at the current price, and would hate to see it dying or going up in price.

I'd like to get a bit street wise before contacting them about the issue.

What are my options and perhaps opportunities?

I am looking for a china-optimized provider for the following use cases. Any recommendations/reviews/etc. would be highly appreciated!

1. Website hosting (preferably Hong Kong region - client will be on Shenzhen)

2. Personal VPN for travel (preferably Japan/Korea/Hong Kong region - travelling to Qingdao)

Both will be only used for 1 month, using around 300GB-ish traffic.

For 1, pricing doesn't really matter that much as long as the connectivity is good (~$100/mo)
For 2, pricing does matter - willing to pay ~$30/mo

My research brought me to Misaka, xTom (V.PS), DMIT, BandWagonHost, and GigsGigsCloud. If anyone has good/bad reviews for those providers, as well as any other providers that offer similar services it would be highly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

I have been promoting VirMach for several years and currently have an affiliate balance of $143.85 USD, marked as available for withdrawal in the system. However, no affiliate commission has ever been successfully paid out since 2022.

Over a long period of time, I have submitted withdrawal requests and opened multiple support tickets. Unfortunately, these tickets are consistently left unanswered for weeks and eventually closed or ignored.

I also attempted to raise this issue in the community, but no official response from VirMach has been provided so far, which is why I’m now opening a dedicated thread.

Account details:
• Affiliate ID: 9729
• Latest Ticket ID: #495930
• Ticket Status: Open (no response)

I have fully complied with the affiliate Terms of Service, and all referrals are legitimate. I am not making accusations — I am simply requesting a clear response and resolution regarding the unpaid affiliate balance.

If any VirMach staff or administrators are active here, I would appreciate your assistance. I’m also interested to hear from other affiliates who may be experiencing similar issues.

I did send a ticket last night but I've seen some bad things about support times, is the phone support only for sales or can they forward on billing issues like this too? Also worried they may not understand the issue that no bill was created for me to pay.

But now, I login to one of the hosts I have used before and start to order some new shared hosting services, but lo and behold:

Now, I presume I could just toss some other domain in there, continue with registration, then set the real one up in the config area. But as someone who is still fairly noobish in this field, doing so makes me worry I'd run into other similar issues in other places (like in cPanel, or in WordPress, which I was probably going to use for this). The specific host I tried isn't important, butI tried 3 total, (granted, all ones with WHMCS), and I doubt the specific TLD would be a concern either, as it's one available at PorkBun and NameCheap (but not yet at CloudFlare) so hypothetically is not all that obscure.

Suggestions, alternative ideas, or thoughts appreciated!

Running GB6 benchmark test... cue elevator music

Is the VPS so bad that it couldn't even finish the test properly?

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo reboot

Previously I created a shell script that I ran from my linux box to ssh into the servers one by one and update them. I also configured the servers sudoers file to allow to run the above 3 commands for my user without password.

So I am wondering if there is a better way to do this.

Current ideas:
1. Continue to use shell scripts
2. Setup unattended-upgrades and run all updates through that
3. Use ansible from a control node
4. Give root access to chatgpt to run updates for me
5. Maybe a mixture of options 1 to 3?

Would love to hear how you are handling the updates and what you recommend is the best way.

I moved to Mac 10 years ago because there were applications in Windows that weren’t available for Mac (Sketch, specifically). But that's not the case anymore, most of the most interesting tools are browser-based, and that means, they are heavier.

But there is now way I’m returning to Windows.

I’m a developer, I like CLI, I use containers like Docker (which I can’t run properly on my still powerful MBP 2015). I sometimes run multiple projects with different versions of Java and Spring Boot, Node.js, and I design in Figma. I manage local databases for testing, sometimes with millions of rows. Most of my workflow is terminal based, and I just want something reliable that can handle several containers, local services, and some light virtualization without slowing down.

Given all that, what kind of Linux laptop would you recommend that balances performance, battery life, and thermals? I’m looking for something that can replace macOS comfortably for development without paying Apple prices. Any suggestions or experiences with Linux laptops for this kind of workload are welcome.

Thanks LESbians, thanks LLMs.

I was lucky enough to get a Kimsufi transfered to me last BFCM-weekend.

Their system doesn't, howewer, allow for encrypted OS installations out of the box. Resources on getting that done seem sparse, I found a single blog entry from 10+ years ago, and a 5+ years old script automating said blog entry.

If it works, it works, but I can't imagine so few people have encryption requirements that there are not a few more hints in that direction.

Any experiences here on the forum?

If anyone here has hands-on experience with a solid management stack, I’d appreciate recommendations.
Open-source or paid is fine, I mainly care about stability and low overhead.

What are you using today and what’s been your experience long-term?

Our organization is actively looking for colocation providers that can reliably offer 100Gbps network connectivity (IP transit/blended bandwidth) for our infrastructure. We are focused on Europe

Which colocation facilities or providers are you using/aware of that offer 100G uplinks/ports for colocation customers?

What is the general pricing model (e.g., flat rate, metered, 95th percentile, commit size) and, if you're comfortable sharing, the general cost range per Mbps or per 100G port?

How is the network performance (latency, peering quality, network redundancy/uptime) for the 100Gbps service? Any issues with traffic shaping or overselling?

Is there direct access to a major Internet Exchange Point (IXP) or hyperscale cloud on-site (e.g., AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute)?

Are they carrier-neutral?

Any specific provider names (especially for smaller, regional players that might offer aggressive pricing) or advice on negotiating a 100Gbps circuit would be highly appreciated!

Thank you!

I'm unclear on what's happening, whether it's related to any single VPS that I happen to be testing, whether it's related to some other VPS or some node process using high file I/O at certain times, or maybe something else.

I've been watching iotop -b 3 -o a little. So far, no obvious insight.

Ideas? Thanks!

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 193.28 MB/s  (48.3k) | 1.78 GB/s    (27.8k)
Write      | 193.79 MB/s  (48.4k) | 1.79 GB/s    (28.0k)
Total      | 387.07 MB/s  (96.7k) | 3.57 GB/s    (55.9k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 2.12 GB/s     (4.1k) | 2.18 GB/s     (2.1k)
Write      | 2.23 GB/s     (4.3k) | 2.33 GB/s     (2.2k)
Total      | 4.35 GB/s     (8.5k) | 4.51 GB/s     (4.4k)

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 193.53 MB/s  (48.3k) | 1.95 GB/s    (30.4k)
Write      | 194.04 MB/s  (48.5k) | 1.96 GB/s    (30.6k)
Total      | 387.57 MB/s  (96.8k) | 3.91 GB/s    (61.1k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 957.00 KB/s      (1) | 18.49 MB/s      (18)
Write      | 1.12 MB/s        (2) | 20.26 MB/s      (19)
Total      | 2.07 MB/s        (3) | 38.75 MB/s      (37)

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 16.51 MB/s    (4.1k) | 1.84 GB/s    (28.7k)
Write      | 16.52 MB/s    (4.1k) | 1.85 GB/s    (28.9k)
Total      | 33.03 MB/s    (8.2k) | 3.69 GB/s    (57.7k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 2.11 GB/s     (4.1k) | 2.19 GB/s     (2.1k)
Write      | 2.22 GB/s     (4.3k) | 2.34 GB/s     (2.2k)
Total      | 4.34 GB/s     (8.4k) | 4.53 GB/s     (4.4k)

=============================================================================
**root@host:~# apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@host:~# apt install neofetch
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Recommended packages:
chafa caca-utils imagemagick jp2a libsixel-bin w3m-img pciutils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
neofetch
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 81.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 360 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 neofetch all 7.1.0-4 [81.8 kB]
Fetched 81.8 kB in 0s (1478 kB/s)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Selecting previously unselected package neofetch.
(Reading database ... 24542 files and directories currently install
ed.)
Preparing to unpack .../neofetch_7.1.0-4_all.deb ...
Unpacking neofetch (7.1.0-4) ...
Setting up neofetch (7.1.0-4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
root@host:~# neofetch
_,met$$$$$gg. root@host.domain.com
,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P. --------------------
,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x
,$$P' $$$. Kernel: 6.1.0 ',$$P ,ggs.$$b: Uptime: 276 days, 5 hours, 30 mins
d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Packages: 334 (dpkg) $$P d$' , $$P Shell: bash 5.2.15 $$: $$. - ,d$$' Terminal: /dev/pts/0 $$; Y$b._ _,d$P' CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 (1) @ 1.9 Y$$.."Y$$$$P"' Memory: 44MiB / 128MiB$$b "-.__
Y$$Y$$.
$$b.Y$$b.
"Y$b._"""

root@host:~#

With a full OS install, it would look more like this other VPS:

:~# apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~# apt install neofetch
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
caca-utils chafa fontconfig fontconfig-config
fonts-dejavu-core fonts-droid-fallback fonts-noto-mono
fonts-urw-base35 ghostscript gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme
imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16 jp2a
libaom3 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3
libcaca0 libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2 libchafa0 libcups2
libcurl3-gnutls libdatrie1 libdav1d6 libde265-0 libdeflate0
libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libfftw3-double3
libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgc1 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgif7 libgomp1
libgraphite2-3 libgs-common libgs10 libgs10-common
libharfbuzz0b libheif1 libhwy1 libice6 libid3tag0 libidn12
libijs-0.35 libimath-3-1-29 libimlib2 libjbig0 libjbig2dec0
libjpeg62-turbo libjxl0.7 libjxr-tools libjxr0 liblcms2-2
libldap-2.5-0 libldap-common liblerc4 liblqr-1-0 libltdl7
libmagickcore-6.q16-6 libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra
libmagickwand-6.q16-6 libnetpbm11 libnghttp2-14
libopenexr-3-1-30 libopenjp2-7 libpango-1.0-0
libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpaper-utils libpaper1
libpixman-1-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common librtmp1 libsasl2-2
libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-db libsixel-bin libsixel1
libsm6 libspectre1 libssh2-1 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff6
libwebp7 libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux3 libwmflite-0.2-7
libx11-xcb1 libx265-199 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxrender1
libxt6 netpbm poppler-data toilet toilet-fonts w3m w3m-img
x11-common xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils
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transfig ufraw-batch xdg-utils cups-common libfftw3-bin
libfftw3-dev liblcms2-utils inkscape librsvg2-bin
libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit | libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal
libsasl2-modules-ldap libsasl2-modules-otp
libsasl2-modules-sql poppler-utils fonts-japanese-mincho
| fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-japanese-gothic
| fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming
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dictd mailcap man-db w3m-el xsel
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root@xxxxxxxx:~# neofetch
,met$$$$$gg. root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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,g$$P" """Y$$.". OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
,$$P' $$$. Host: KVM/QEMU (Standard PC (i440FX ',$$P ,ggs.$$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-37-amd64
d$$' ,$P"' . $$$ Uptime: 57 mins $$P d$' , $$P Packages: 428 (dpkg) $$: $$. - ,d$$' Shell: bash 5.2.15 $$; Y$b._ _,d$P' Resolution: 1280x800 Y$$.."Y$$$$P"' Terminal: /dev/pts/0$$b "-.__ CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 6122 (2) @ 1.7
Y$$ GPU: 00:02.0 Vendor 1234 Device 111Y$$. Memory: 188MiB / 7906MiB
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I understand the locale issue (I'm pretty sure). I was just wondering if that was the only issue? I don't recall ever seeing any perl output from apt installing in the past-I didn't even know it was involved in apt. Is this the expected behaviour/outcome (locale issue will cause it to not install necessary/recommended packages)? I thought it was interesting that it had errors & just installed the neofetch .deb. It seems to be missing a few things from the neofetch output, such as Host, Resolution, & GPU (I assume from missing packages).

Anyhow, is there another script or program that you 1337 sysadmins use to quickly output some of the system basics similar to neofetch? I don't care about colors or ascii art.

edit: Holy balls! I can't get the markdown right! Apologies! How in the world would I even do 'code' for this?