NotAnArdvark 3d ago • 100%
I don't see what would be wrong with a world where businesses just satisfied themselves with providing employees with a reasonable living, contributed to the communities they were in, and provided a good or service that was needed. Sitting under a tree and reading a book sounds better than watching the world burn in your name-brand clothes and 5 bedroom 2.5 bath house.
NotAnArdvark 6d ago • 100%
Adding my "Me too" to Vorta/Borg. I use it with Borgbase, which I like because it's legitimately cheap and they support Borg development. As well, you can set Borg backups with Borgbase to "append only," which prevents ransomware or other unexpected "whoopsies" from wiping out your backup history.
I backup most of my computer every hour, but have pruning rules that make sure things don't get too out of hand. I have a second backup that backs everything up to my NAS (using Vorta, again). This is helpful for things like my downloads folder, virtual machines, or STEAM library - things I wouldn't want to backup over the network, but on occasion I do find myself going "whoops, I wanted that."
I also have Vorta working on my Mom's Macbook, then have Borgbase send me an email when there isn't any activity for longer than a couple of days. Once I got automatic pruning working right I never had to touch this again.
NotAnArdvark 1w ago • 100%
I want a GPU to do silly AI stuff, but my hesitation with Intel is I'm not convinced they're in the GPU market for the long haul. The irony, of course, is that if there are lots of people like me, Intel may actually abort their GPU efforts because no one is buying.
I suppose that they're working on their 3rd generation already is a good sign.
NotAnArdvark 1w ago • 100%
I moved from Kubuntu to Tumbleweed and really like it. For some reason I really don't like RPMs and that caused some hesitancy when I thought of switching, but really I never deal with RPMs directly. Zypper is ok and I've made peace with Flatpak. I update the whole distro every weekend and I've tested out reverting using Snapper.
In the year and a half of using it I can think of two problems I had from updating - one is fixed by removing the GPUCache directory of an Electron app when Mesa gets updated, the other is with Zoom which I mostly fixed by moving to the Flatpak version.
NotAnArdvark 2w ago • 100%
I did this this year for wildfire smoke, and it works great. Having said that, it is not quiet and the way I was using it was to run it at full blast for an hour, then leave it off for most the day.
If you wanted an always-on solution, I think I'd actually suggest a commercial air purifier.
NotAnArdvark 2w ago • 100%
The model for most the content on the internet doesn't work without advertising. The people who are "zero tolerance" on ads are going to prevent possible compromises from being made and just encourage an arms race. I don't think we win that arms race, we get more insidious forms of tracking and brazen advertising.
NotAnArdvark 3w ago • 100%
A 500lbs. bomb doesn't get you very much. I'm surprised how little damage there is.
NotAnArdvark 3w ago • 100%
The general discovery I made was this: for the small price of foregoing pretty colors and buttons and chrome, you can get a computer to do exactly what you want it to do much quicker. Assuming a willingness to learn a bit of shell scripting, of course.
I find the emphasis people put on speed interesting, because by far the slowest part of any interaction I have with my computer is caused by me just figuring out what I'm doing next. When I'm functioning at top speed not needing to click around, or say, having the perfect keyboard shortcut, would save me only fractions of a second.
Actually.. to add to this I think the cognitive load of visually navigating is much lower than typing specific things it. I think this is why I find I'd prefer to click around my bookmarks or files to find something than just pull up a "Find" dialog and type something reasonable in.
NotAnArdvark 3w ago • 100%
I have to say that hearing this story initially, then reading this update has made me question how I might jump to conclusions.
The security footage sounds really damning. In the least, it proves the woman lied about the police not talking to her. Her and the neighbors cursing at the guy suddenly makes the "neighbors agree this guy just complains a lot" fact a lot more suspect.
In all, I can totally see this might be a case of racist neighbors, and not simply "police charge teaching assistant with a water gun with assault."
NotAnArdvark 4w ago • 100%
CBC Hamilton spoke to two other homeowners who purchased houses by Marina Homes in the same subdivision. They said they've experienced serious issues with how their homes were constructed, but are reluctant to speak out and worried it will jeopardize their property values.
"Uhhh, no comment. We're hoping we can scam someone else into buying this house like we were scammed into buying it."
NotAnArdvark 1mo ago • 100%
I tried using KOrganize which had KMail and some other stuff integrated together and ended up feeling like it was a gigantic, archaic codebase just hanging on by a thread. It struggled a lot with Gmail and several times I deleted my whole mail profile to try to fix some strange bug.
If I recall, what did me in was that it would stop sending emails after running for a while. The fix had something to do with restarting Akonadi. It was really disappointing, because I love a good UI/Plasma integration.
I use Thunderbird now and ... eh. It's ok.
NotAnArdvark 1mo ago • 50%
NotAnArdvark 1mo ago • 66%
Doesn't VirtualBox use KVM if it's available?
I likeVBoxManage. Any crazy thing I've ever imagined doing with a VM it's already supported.
So, to answer your question - I use VirtualBox because it does everything I want and I've never had a reason to look elsewhere.
NotAnArdvark 2mo ago • 100%
"Chaser" because we live out in the country and use it to pick up our dogs who sometimes wander off and we have to go retrieve. Also, because it's a Chevy. It's Chevy Chase_r_.
NotAnArdvark 2mo ago • 100%
Some of the videos of this are really frustrating to watch. Like, what are you trying to do!? You just found your spot, now you're coming back out?? More circling, stopping, going back, going forward. Uughghhh..
NotAnArdvark 3mo ago • 100%
Wow, thanks for this. Those are two very similar flags and I missed this entirely.
Everyone - Now that you know my passphrase, be sure to keep it a secret!
The following command works even though I _really_ don't think I should have permission to the key file: `$ openssl aes-256-cbc -d -pbkdf2 -in etc_backup.tar.xz.enc -out etc_backup.tar.xz -k /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key` I'm unable to even ascertain the existence of the key file under my normal user. I'm a member of only two groups, my own group and `vboxusers`. The permissions leading up to that file: ``` drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4010 Jul 31 08:01 etc ... drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 206 Jul 14 23:52 ssl ... drwx------ 1 root root 26 Jul 31 14:07 private ... -rw------- 1 root root 256 Jul 31 14:07 etcBackup.key ``` OpenSSL isn't setuid: ``` > ls -la $(which openssl) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1004768 Jul 14 23:52 /usr/bin/openssl ``` There don't appear to be any ACLs related to that key file: ``` > sudo getfacl /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key [sudo] password for root: getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key # owner: root # group: root user::rw- group::--- other::--- > sudo lsattr /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key ---------------------- /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key ``` Finally, it's not just the case that the original file was encrypted with an empty file: ``` > openssl aes-256-cbc -d -pbkdf2 -in etc_backup.tar.xz.enc -out etc_backup.tar.xz -k /etc/ssl/private/abc.key bad decrypt 4047F634B67F0000:error:1C800064:Provider routines:ossl_cipher_unpadblock:bad decrypt:providers/implementations/ciphers/ciphercommon_block.c:124 ``` Does anyone know what I've missed here?
Zoom is vital to my job this month and prior to an update last week I had the openSUSE version of Zoom's RPM installed and working fine. I updated my Tumbleweed installation to `openSUSE-20240704-0` last week, after which Zoom started crashing when sharing a screen. There was a message in the logs about the library `libqt5qml.so` and I thought I could fix this by backing out either the update for the `libQtQuick5` package in particular, or just booting from the pre-update snapshot. To make a long story short, I ultimately installed the Zoom Flatpak and resolved to get back to this when I had a bit more time. **My question** - Can people suggest the right way in openSUSE Tumbleweed to handle the situation where an update breaks something on the system? Assuming libQtQuick5 was the updated package that was at fault here, is there a way I could have downgraded just that package? Would booting from the pre-update snapshot and then just carrying on with my week have been a reasonable way to proceed? *To be clear -* I'm not so much concerned about Zoom, I'm more curious about how to use the openSUSE Tumbleweed tools to recover from updates that cause problems. Thank you!
NotAnArdvark 3mo ago • 100%
VisiData may do what you want.
NotAnArdvark 4mo ago • 100%
Are you happy with the Kiyo X?
NotAnArdvark 5mo ago • 100%
I ordered mine from http://clove.co.uk/ and they happily shipped to Canada. It has worked fine in Canada, the US, and Barbados (eSIM and physical SIM).
I like the phone a lot, but whenever it's talked about I'm surprised how many people feel the urge to chime in on why it wouldn't work for them.
I'd say my biggest gripe is lack of accessories. I paid the huge price for the official screen protector twice. They both cracked relatively quickly and there are pretty much no other options. I'm using a flexible matte-finish screen protector from Amazon now, but it scratches really easily and will slide around on the screen if I keep my phone in my back pocket.
NotAnArdvark 5mo ago • 100%
When you put about:support into the Firefox URL bar, do you see evidence that your GPU is being used? I'm not sure which settings, exactly, would indicate that, but mine, under "GPU #1" has "Active: Yes."
Lots of GPU-related options are also disabled, but I still get a smooth Google Earth experience.
I'll be emailing the site admin... or some contact at the site, but, is there anything else that can be done to try to put pressure on these websites that tell me "you're not getting the best experience... download Chrome."? I know Firefox has a "Report a broken site" feature, but, the site isn't technically broken. They're just telling me to switch browsers.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/14107888 > I have a very specific questions about Linux Traffic control and u32 filters in particular. However, I don't know where the right place is to ask such a question as it's fairly niche. > > The [Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control](https://lartc.org/) site says it has a mailing list for questions, but the last post was from 2019. There is also the incredibly busy ['linux-netdev' mailing list](https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev), but, the traffic there looks like strictly source changes. > > Any ideas? > > **The question I'm trying to find an answer to is:** The u32 tc filter seems to support negative byte offsets which allows you to examine the Ethernet frame header (I don't think I even found documentation on this, this is thanks to ChatGPT). However, when using u32 values to examine 8 bytes I can only use offsets in increments of 4 - like "at -8" or "at -12", with any other increment giving me the error `Illegal "match"`. > > This seems like only a curiosity, but, I've been struggling to get my bit-matching to match the way I expect, and I'm wondering if this suggests that matching doesn't function the way I think.
I have a very specific questions about Linux Traffic control and u32 filters in particular. However, I don't know where the right place is to ask such a question as it's fairly niche. The [Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control](https://lartc.org/) site says it has a mailing list for questions, but the last post was from 2019. There is also the incredibly busy ['linux-netdev' mailing list](https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev), but, the traffic there looks like strictly source changes. Any ideas? **The question I'm trying to find an answer to is:** The u32 tc filter seems to support negative byte offsets which allows you to examine the Ethernet frame header (I don't think I even found documentation on this, this is thanks to ChatGPT). However, when using u32 values to examine 8 bytes I can only use offsets in increments of 4 - like "at -8" or "at -12", with any other increment giving me the error `Illegal "match"`. This seems like only a curiosity, but, I've been struggling to get my bit-matching to match the way I expect, and I'm wondering if this suggests that matching doesn't function the way I think.
With the cold weather I was hoping to hear of some experiences people have had with their heat pumps. What kind of backup heat do you have? Are you using it? Is there some temperature where you just stop using the heat pump, or are you even consciously thinking about it? Thanks!
I really had no idea where on Lemmy to ask this, so apologies if this seems like a bit of a strange place to post. I'm a computer guy, but "fixing computers" isn't usually my thing. However, I offered to migrate my veterinarian's accounting laptop to a new laptop she had bought. This involved getting an old version of Quickbooks running on Windows 11, a bit of back-and-forth with login details for various accounts. Generally though, it was straight forward. This took me about 4 hours (more, really). The only other time I did contractor work like this I picked my rate based on what my mechanic was charging - $95/hour. So my invoice, for my tiny-town vet, is going to be $380. Can I get input from anyone on whether that's high? The laptop itself probably only cost $500. Something that makes me feel a bit better about the number is that I've helped her out lots over the last couple of years and never billed her for it, despite her saying I should. Thanks!
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My hood fan vents into the top of this metal box, which then has a vent to the outside about halfway down the metal box. The box itself it maybe two half-height shoe boxes in size. I looked pretty hard, and the closest I could find was that it _might_ be related to collecting condensation. Does anyone know what this is for? Thanks *I should say!* The picture that comes up for this album is clearly the outside vent and is not what I'm talking about. Click on it to see all the pictures!