SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet , 1 day ago

Same here. Made the switch back to Firefox a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall about where Google wanted to take Chrome with Manifest V3.

SpaceCadet , 1 day ago

That man-in-the-middle principle doesn't work with TLS.

SpaceCadet , 20 hours ago

What you're describing is not a man-in-the-middle proxy, but a simple DNS block. That's a very crude approach to blocking ads and notoriously doesn't work for YouTube and Google ads because they're served from the same domain.

I run a pihole myself but there's still a huge difference between browsing with pihole only and pihole+ublock. It's certainly not the answer to the Manifest V3 shenanigans.

SpaceCadet , 11 days ago

Why not your current computer? No time like the present...

SpaceCadet , 11 days ago

It's not just about trusting Microsoft, but about control over the technology. Users will never have real control over AI technology, it's too valuable and the inner workings are anxiously being kept under wraps by the big techbro companies. It also runs on their computers for the most part, so of course we can't trust what's being done with it, regardless of whether Microsoft has been a good boy or a bad boy recently.

SpaceCadet , 10 days ago

Use Xorg with the proprietary driver instead of Wayland for the time being. Much less issues. You can always switch to Wayland later when either Nvidia support matures, or when your next computer has an AMD GPU.

Or get a cheap ass AMD GPU, like an RX6400, plop it in as a second GPU and run on that in Linux. Perfectly serviceable for plain desktop stuff.

Or run on integrated graphics, if you have it. Again, perfectly serviceable for plain desktop stuff.

Problems have solutions :)

SpaceCadet , 10 days ago

Yeah but you said you wanted a dual-boot machine for your next computer, with Windows only for gaming. What I meant is: why not get a head start and make your current computer that dual-boot machine?

SpaceCadet , 16 days ago

Good news ... it's a suppository!

SpaceCadet , 14 days ago

It's like those websites and applications that ask you:

Hey do you want to turn on this bullshit feature?

[Yes] [Ask me again later]

SpaceCadet , 16 days ago

videos above 1080p can sometimes cause problems if they have heavy encoding like vp9 or av1

Yeah they're probably decoded in software because I doubt that the integrated graphics supports hardware decoding of those recentish codecs.

At that point, just put a gt1030 in it.

SpaceCadet , 20 days ago

Actually, are these 2 forks of another, when?

Yes forgejo was forked from gitea in 2022. It was a soft fork at first, but became a hard fork earlier this year.

Full story here: https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/

SpaceCadet , 25 days ago

Don't you control your dhcp server?

SpaceCadet , 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

True that. Hadn't thought of that as it's not my typical VPN use case.

I'm not sure what a VPN provider could do about that though, they don't control the operating system's networking stack. If the user or an outside process that the user decides to trust (i.e. a dhcp server) adds its own network routes, the OS will follow it and route traffic outside of the tunnel.

The defenses I see against it are:

• Run the VPN and everything that needs to go through the VPN in a virtualized, non-bridged environment so it's unaffected by the routing table.
• Put a NAT-ing device in between your computer and the network you want to use
• Modify the DHCP client so that option 121 is rejected

Edit: thinking about it some more, on Linux at least the VPN client could add some iptables rules that block traffic going through any other interface than the tunnel device (i.e. if it's not through tun0 or wg0, drop it). Network routes can't bypass iptables rules, so that should work. It will have the side effect that the VPN connection will appear not to work if someone is using the option 121 trick though, but at least you would know something funny was happening.

SpaceCadet , 2 months ago

In the case of Arch the backdoor also wasn't inserted into liblzma at all, because at build time there was a check to see if it's being built on a deb or rpm based system, and only inserts it in those two cases.

See https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27 for an analysis of the situation.

So even if Arch built their xz binaries off the backdoored tarball, it was never actually vulnerable.

SpaceCadet , 2 months ago

Bloat multiplies when you have to back it up.

SpaceCadet , 2 months ago

That's committing the cardinal sin of cherrypicking your backup contents. You may end up forgetting to include things that you didn't know you needed until restore time and you're creating a backup that is cumbersome to restore. Always remember: you should really be creating a restore strategy rather than a backup strategy.

As a general rule I always backup the filesystem wholesale, optionally exclude things of which I'm 100% sure that I don't need it, and keep multiple copies (daylies and monthlies going some time back) so I always have a complete reference of what my system looked like at a particular point in time, and if push comes to shove I can always revert to a previous state by wiping the filesystem and copying one of the backups to it.

SpaceCadet , 2 months ago

Full kernel corruption

What does that even mean?

Was the file system on which your kernel resided corrupt, or did something go wrong with a kernel upgrade/installation?

SpaceCadet , 2 months ago

I've found that the silliest desktop problems are usually the hardest to solve, and the "serious" linux system errors are the easiest.

System doesn't boot? Look at error message, boot from a rescue disk, mount root filesystem and fix what you did wrong.

Wrong mouse cursor theme in some Plasma applications, ignoring your settings? Some weird font rendering issue? Bang your head against a wall exploring various dotfiles and rc files in your home directory for two weeks, and eventually give up and nuke your profile and reconfigure your whole desktop from scratch.

SpaceCadet , 2 months ago

It still sucks that features are physically present in the car, but you have to pay to unlock them.

SpaceCadet , 2 months ago

Goodbye warranty then. Many manufacturers have already been doing that with chip tuning, which is also just a software modification. When you take your car in for service they read out the ECU to detect chip tuning, and your VIN gets flagged in their system if it has been modified. So if at some point in the future you make a warranty claim, you are SOL.

Then there's also the technical barriers they're putting up, locking them down so unauthorized software can't be flashed to them (much like Apple's iphone and ipad crap).

SpaceCadet , 2 months ago

No. They closed their sources to subscribers, which in itself would be fine, but the terms of service contain a clause forbidding redistribution of the sources by subscribers, at the penalty of termination of the agreement.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

lazy men who don’t want to bother with a separate perfume and have a distinct lack in taste, but it’s not the norm for anyone over the age of 16.

What the actual fuck?

I am 48 and don't know a single man who wears perfume daily. For me a fragrance is reserved for special occasions, like weddings or dates and to wear it to work would be considered quite unprofessional (like dressing up above your boss). But I guess we must all be lazy and lacking your refined taste... yeah

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

It might be a cultural thing then

I doubt it. I live in Belgium too.

I do agree with you that Axe is vile, and I use a lightly scented deodorant of a different brand myself ... but this notion that wearing an actual perfume every day is the norm for adult men is frankly ridiculous.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Do you have a link to such an Axe "deodorant+perfume" combo? Because I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Oh right, so the same Axe as I had in mind then. Yeah, none of them smell good.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

People be like:

https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/489d27cf-0dfa-45ec-83b3-230455be3129.png

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

No it isn't.

It's more like saying: if that guy you hang out with keeps pushing you into the water and you almost drown every time, perhaps you should stop hanging out with that guy.

Of course, that's not what people who are in an abusive relationship typically want to hear.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

When people tell you to use Linux, they're not telling you that to solve your immediate problem (e.g. your "show desktop" icon has been replaced with a different icon), but they are telling you to get out of your abusive relationship with Microsoft, because that is the real problem: Microsoft does not respect you, the end-user of their product, and this kind of abusive shit will keep happening for as long as you keep using Windows.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

That's exactly the kind of shit abused people say to justify staying with their abusive partner. ("Oh it's not so bad" - she says with a black eye - "and he's really sweet normally")

Yes in the short term it can be painful to leave an abusive person you've come to depend upon, but in the long term it's always the better solution.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

For people like me who took that advice: pretty damn great actually, thanks for asking!

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Even if it's only one, I will have helped one person, unlike you who has only been bitching and moaning.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

This may sound strange to you, but I actually don't give a single fuck about how you perceive things.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Yes you were sweetie.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

JFC people like you ... You have like the worst case of Stockholm syndrome I've ever seen. I swear the only reason you are getting so angry and defensive when people recommend Linux is because deep down you know they're speaking the truth.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Even point 4 is something I have never experienced, and is probably also lack of understanding.

A filesystem is either mounted or it isn't. Mounted for one program but not for another doesn't exist. If they don't see it in the filepicker, they probably just don't know the mount point.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Fuck off with your stupid takes

Yeah, real mature take you have there buddy.

offer a real solution to the problem.

"My husband always beats me when he is drunk. Don't tell me to leave him, just tell me how I get him to stop beating me"

^
This is you basically.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Listen, if you don't like what I have to say, don't read my comments, block me or stop replying or something, but I'm not going to shut myself up to please some random twerp like you.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I'm not a Windows user, and certainly not a Windows expert. Why should I have to provide solutions to Windows problems? I use Linux so that I don't have to bother with that shit.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Again, I'm not going to silence or censor myself for some random internet bully like you. Who the fuck are you to say what kind of advise I can and cannot give? Get lost.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Well even so you're barking up the wrong tree. Read my comment history: I never gave anyone the personal advise to switch to Linux, because honestly I don't care about what anyone uses, and frankly I dislike Windows users coming over to Linux forums expecting everything to be the same as Windows under a different name and complaining when it isn't. I was merely explaining why people are giving that advise.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Tunnels also don't take away space from people. This nice looking tramway could be a nice promenade for people instead.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Green space being used for vehicles instead of for people, even if it is public transport.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

It can and should be both whenever possible

Roads or tramlines don't need greenery. It adds nothing.

It would be much better if this place was a promenade for people, with some benches, a playground for kids, maybe a place to sit and have lunch, ... and the transportation stuffed out of sight underground, aka a subway.

rail only needs, well, rails

And overhead lines ... which trees often interfere with.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Looking at the way this particular road is constructed, and the age of the trees, I guarantee that this space was a promenade before and the space to build a tramway has been taken from pedestrians (people) not from cars.

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Asphalt field? Your comment makes zero sense.

Have you never seen a promenade with trees, greenery, benches, ... ? You know a place where it's nice for people to spend time instead of space taken up by yet another vehicle?

SpaceCadet , 3 months ago

Otherwise a second PiHole set as the secondary DNS in DHCP would keep things online.

No, that just creates time outs and delays when either of them is offline.

The proper way is to have a standby pihole that takes over the IP address of the main pihole when it goes down. It's quite easy to achieve this with keepalived.

SpaceCadet , 4 months ago

24 vs. 16 (available) PCIe lanes that’s not half

24x PCIe 5.0 vs 16x PCIe 4.0

So 8 lanes less and each lane has half the bandwith = less than half the PCIe bandwidth.

SpaceCadet , 4 months ago

It’s hardly a useful comparison to compare the CPU on its own against a Video Card + CPU.

It is a useful comparison if the latter combination is the same price