wreckedcarzz

wreckedcarzz , 24 days ago

The best NC setup, is uninstalling NC. Seriously, I spent a month getting that monstrosity to work and not bitch about configurations OUT OF THE BOX that it does NOT HAVE A UI FOR just to find out that half of the 'apps' are half-baked buggy messes and the other are out of date, half-baked buggy messes. A to-do system without repeating item availability was the last one I learned about before salting the earth of that hopeless project.

...

Actually got me pissed off, thinking about it again. Jesus.

wreckedcarzz , 24 days ago

yelling BOOMER!!

wreckedcarzz , 25 days ago

"we created the problem of soldered-on ram! now we have the solution: a new standard, for no fucking reason!" -every memory, board, and system company

wreckedcarzz , 24 days ago

"they did it to save power!!! 111 one eleven"

there was perfectly fine memory that was upgradable before. They (system integrators/oems) saw it as a way to kill the upgrade market, boosting profits.

wreckedcarzz , 24 days ago

No, not at the cost of locking in customer choice and flexibility. I have soldered-on ram in my ThinkPad, but not in my Predator gaming laptop. There is a -157% chance that Lenovo was trying to extract a few percent of extra speed so that I can open Firefox 0.13 seconds faster. Perhaps they'd try to cry "but battery life!", in which case I'd respond with "well it's not fucking working" as that machine barely gets 2.5h on a brand-new battery, browsing the web + terminal windows doing server admin stuff. (ThinkPad X13 Gen 2, Intel, with WWAN if you're curious. Fucking 1.5k and it's just passable for basic usage on the go.)

I'm not really upset with this 'new' standard, but the fact that oems are absolutely going to use it as bullshit marketing "look, we fixed the problem! get our un-fucked ram for only $129 per stick!". That's what the fuck I'm pissed off about.

wreckedcarzz , 27 days ago

"Nope!" slams, locks door

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Per Kagi's summary tool:

There has been a significant increase in GPS/GNSS jamming and spoofing attacks, particularly in the Baltic region and around Ukraine and the Middle East.

The attacks have disrupted air and maritime navigation, with thousands of planes reporting issues with their GPS systems in the Baltic region.

Russia has been increasingly blamed as the source of these GPS attacks, with signals traced back to Russian regions like Kaliningrad.

The attacks can either jam GPS signals entirely, making the systems unusable, or spoof the signals to show false locations.

The disruptions have led to flight cancellations and aborted landings, raising concerns about the potential for major accidents and environmental disasters.

Governments and aviation/maritime safety experts are increasingly sounding the alarm about the threat posed by these GPS attacks.

The attacks may be a form of "hybrid warfare" aimed at creating uncertainty and disrupting civilian and commercial activities.

The number of GPS jamming and spoofing incidents has increased significantly over the past 4 years globally.

While the disruptions have mostly impacted high-altitude planes and ships, there are concerns about the potential to impact individual GPS-reliant systems in the future.

Technical countermeasures are being explored to reduce the impact of these GPS attacks, but the threat is expected to continue growing.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Do you guys not have 3 phones?

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

It's the internet. Nobody has any credibility.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Tello, 100 minutes talk/unl text/a gig of data, $6. Uses the tmo network. You can also port your number to Google voice for a $20 one-time fee and have unlimited voice/msgs, as long as you have wifi service. Uses the Voice app.

Tello is my second number, few years now, had no issues. Used to have GV back when I had no money as a teenager, and would use my tablet as a phone. Worked surprisingly well.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Goat: breaks into your house, shits all over your living room

You: "oh fuck it's Steve"

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I stopped dating normies after my first... unofficial? boyfriend. (we never called it dating but we cuddled, fucked, and cried like hell when we found out his family was moving away)

Immediately stop pretending to be normal. Dating pic? Your fursona. Your kinks? Of course, knots are a given. Future dating plans? You need a barq account. Your response to an unexpected lewd statement? "oh murr". You were made for this. Accent it, embrace it.

Seriously when I limited the dating pool to furries, the quality of the applicants skyrocketed. Being yourself, unabashed (release your inhibitions 🎶 FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN FUR 🎶) is fucking phenomenal. Currently I'm a pet to the sweetest dragon there is, and by extension his boyfriend, but the dragon is normally a subby boy, and before this all my partners were switches that were actually subs, so my experience is as a dommy top. It was his idea to be my Master, and it's super fun to experience; and we've known each other for 15+ years, so expectations are clear with everything from the get-go, so there's no awkwardness, the cards are on the table. He craves being vored, I need orgasm denial, our kink lists are largely incompatable, but we are making it work and enjoying it. (... and fuck it, if this awoke something in you, I am an open pet, so...)

I've been a fur now for 20 years, and I implemented this policy in... 2007? Fuck the haters (no no not like that) and just be yourself, always.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

I am very, very much a person who needs sex in a relationship, but both the dragon and his bf (who I have yet to meet irl but I'm going to do my damnest to make a good impression) are quite... almost asexual. Apparently the bf even more so. We have talked about it, and the dragon is well-aware of my needs (we were roommates at one point, and going on 3y of master/pet), and so it's awkward but he tries to be supportive, and that means a lot to me. And I'm demisexual anyway, so the fact that he cares about me so much is a turn-on of itself.

I also have trust issues. My ex, whom I was engaged to, broke things off in a very painful way, telling those around him lies about me, that I did this or that. I sought therapy as I wanted to kms, being in my 20s, a stroke "survivor", unable or extremely limited in the things I love to do, and then the person I love and would do actually anything for, rips my heart out with the emotions of a stone-cold killer. I was also bullied very heavily in school, people I thought were my friends were actually terrible bastards. I have few actual friends and every day I wake up is a day of suffering. But master is trying to make me feel better about myself, remind me that my ex was abusive, that I am worth something. It's hard - I want to be close with him, I like him very much, but I don't want to be hurt again. Everything I wanted, everything I loved, brutally taken from me. I can't go through that again.

... anyway ...

While I can't offer anything meaningful, I'm just a wolf-tiger-fox hybrid on the internet, don't give up. There are so many wonderful people in this community, and yeah some of us are the deviants that your mother warned you about (looks in the mirror), there are a good bit that I've bumped into that want more... meaningful activities from a relationship. You will find someone. friendly hug!

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

SpyHunter was a great game (the 3D ones). I still have both (?) for Playstation.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

"why are the servers all fucking each other?"

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

I've played the 2D very briefly, but it was before my time so I lack the nostalgia and interest. Seeing the car transform was freaking awesome at the time, so futuristic. I was a kid back then and obtaining all secondary objectives was legitimately hard, but provided replay value.

I'd really like to see another, but I don't know if whoever has the IP has any interest, or is even in business anymore.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

"be reminded that you forgot to get tp when you really need it with this one weird trick!"

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Half of America: why am I suddenly erect?

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Haha yes very good

(what does any of that mean, I'm not down with the kids these days)

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

All the other services, at once: "Nah nah, hold my beer, WE are the shittiest of them all"

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

last paragraph, "at the time"

(long, super recent story/rant)

I just switched to Kubuntu for my ThinkPad (not my first choice but hardware incompatabilities) over the last few days, and it still very much is a terminal-based system. It took me ~4 days to set everything up, and nearly every step aside from "change things in the settings UI" was "in a terminal, type..."

I dipped my toes into Linux... 19 years ago? As someone who likes windows up until 10, and heard all of the 'it's so amazing' gospel from Linux users, two decades later I'm like: "it's still not ready"

Shit, I wanted to install Debian 12(.5) with KDE on this TP. It has a snapdragon X55, that I need working, and previous attempts at getting it working (year+ ago) failed. I read docs, did more research, I was ready. Made a live USB, install it in the live environment, restart, and... it hangs during boot. Research, 'use the option presented at the boot menu'. Okay. "no network" errors, that's fine, it's not a net installer. Done, restart. Hangs. Research. "use rufus, it solved my problem". Rinse, repeat, hang. Isn't Debian supposed to be super reliable? And Kubuntu booted fine, like what the hell?

Then cue the 4 days of setup. This machine is a very light use box, mostly to be a hotspot. Browser, email, password manager. Btrfs for snapshots (WHY IS THERE NO SNAPSHOT UI IN ANY DISTRO I TRIED?!). I'm far from a novice, been trying to switch for two decades. This will be easy.

deep breath

WHY IS GRUB NOT TAKING MY UPDATED SETTINGS (it's a known bug in Ubuntu since 20.04?!)? WHY CAN'T I GET HOWDY TO INSTALL? WHY AM I GETTING APT ERRORS ON A FRESH INSTALL? WHY IS BITWARDEN FAILING TO SYNC? WHAT IS THE NEW-NEW-NEW METHOD OF SETTING UP NEXTDNS? WHY CAN'T I RESIZE A PARTITION (/) LIVE? WHY DOESN'T MY HOTSPOT WORK WHEN I USE WPA3 (still broken, actually, and WPA2 isn't an acceptable solution imo)? WHY DON'T I GET ANY ERROR MESSAGES WHEN THIS HAPPENS (a recurring theme)? WHY DO I HAVE TO SIFT THROUGH 3 DIFFERENT LOGS? WHY IS SEVERAL HUGELY-POPULAR PROGRAMS NOT IN THE DEFAULT REPO (omfg - Librewolf, Telegram, Element, Signal, Discord, Bitwarden...)? WHY DO THESE ALL TAKE DIFFERENT STEPS TO INSTALL ON MY SYSTEM WHAT THE FUCK WE HAVE A SYSTEM FOR THIS SCREAMS

E: WHY DOES KDE CONNECT JUST DECIDE THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO CONNECT TODAY UNTIL I TROUBLESHOOT FOR 3 HOURS, CHANGE NOTHING, THEN WORK?

And then, the 5G modem. Why in the shit doesn't the fcc unlock tool just fucking detect, and unlock, automatically. Why. WHY. This is simple, the installer is already detecting hardware. It's right there. This could be easy. Instead I had to dig through pages of solutions that didn't work, until I landed on a page for my laptop (but seemingly a different architecture?) for Debian 13 (unstable) talking about needing to edit the installer with commands (omfg what) or the screen will just show nothing on boot, that you need to change wifi and bt stuff or they don't work, etc etc... But in this heap of "I should just revert", there was one line, the line I needed, to run this stupid fucking fcc unlock tool - and how to find the hardware address. Enter both, nothing (a 'success' message would be nice...). No further instructions in the doc. Luckily, I am persistent and went into the networkmanager anyway, tell it to connect to mobile broadband. Fill in my apn. Save. It works.

There's a ton of stuff I glossed over, but it should not take FOUR DAYS with the terminal essentially living on my screen, with my browser having a dozen tabs at any given time for troubleshooting, for someone who has done all this shit before (minus the modem) many times in the past. It's done, I'm setup, but there isn't a soul alive who would switch their generic Dell machine running windows, spend several hours a day for several days, just to get their base system running. And the second they see "open the terminal", which is still very much a necessity, they'll be running to the hills.

I have a friend asking me questions about Linux since I've been harping on this the last few days, and I'm like... it's not the easy path everyone says it is. I don't want to push them away, but fuck they use many of the same programs that aren't one-click installs, and I haven't even touched gaming, multiple sound cards, gpu drivers; they use their machine for gaming, and mine is on W10 for a reason. It would be a nightmare guiding them through the minefield I just emerged from. Not to mention games that aren't handled by steam/proton and don't have guides, old games like Midtown Madness/2, Midnight Club 2, Insane/2...

It's still not ready, not anywhere near close.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

computer

installs iOS

Que?

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

So what's the deal with vim? I spooled up a vps recently and decided to forgo the gui options, like a real Linux server admin. I have been using nano and it seems to do all I need from a basic text editor in the terminal. I get that vim/emacs meme-bantering but actually why. It accepts texts and stores them in files. What is the actual point/difference?

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

...mostly

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

dog war flashback meme

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

At the time (a couple of years ago), I tried a Dell... Precision? laptop, but it had a different cell modem in it (I was just starting my interest in cellular computers) and my provider AT&T locked it to an utter shit plan where I could pay like $45 for 15gb of data with overage fees per month, fuuuuuck that. I was searching for one that would be bound to their 'tablet' plans, as they got unlimited data for $20 (this is a business account, not consumer). AT&T offered the TP X13 Gen 2 Intel from them, that was guaranteed tied to the unlimited plan, with 0% financing, so I jumped. It is my first TP, but an ex has an older TP and had mostly positive things to say about it. And the modem (and antenna?) gets blazing fast speeds, like 400-500Mb/s. But that's why I have the TP, it's a "business" line for my (families) business.

I tried Fedora last year but again couldn't get the X55 modem to work, which was frustrating. Information about it in the X13 is scarce since it wasn't offered with Linux officially afaik, and you either got it early and Ubu or something 'just worked' with it out of the box, or you had to compile the driver from source for some reason (I don't remember but they yanked the driver from newer releases I think). I guess at some point it was re-added but again nobody talks about this machine and it's WWAN card so I got super lucky to find that one Debian 13 info page.

While I've played with Fedora briefly when I was distros hopping to see what worked last year (and before that), and the ex had it on his TP, I don't actually know what the difference is vs Debian-based systems, since I try to stick with that as it's what I started on and know/am comfortable with. All I know is its based (?) on RHEL. Care to give me a tl;dr major differences?

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Second big paragraph: I usually have ethernet ports that just decide to wake the system up, almost all my machines in the last 15 years do this. Disabling the ability to wake from sleep (from the ethernet port) has always resolved this. Just something to look at.

Third: yeah, and it's fine to not be ready - I'd rather it not be and everyone accept that. Problem is (and what I was alluding to) is that many don't. I've got attacked here, reddit, and elsewhere because "er mah gerd I found the perfect build guide and didn't care about the distros so I followed everything to a T and you too should have no creativity or desire for exploration so that you can be as much of a sheep as I am" and it's like... I like the hardware I selected, I like the distro and want to see it improve because of [feature], etc but god damn some people if you step out of their mental line, they lose their shit. Tell them that X doesn't work because of Y and they want to rip you to shreds for breaking their perfect bubble they've built. Spend any time in a Linux-heavy gaming community and their holy penguin can do no harm.

I dunno if my venting above comes off as it, but I want this project to succeed. It's just, every time it's been a wall of issues, every time "oh it's better now" but 'better' is 'we fixed the old issues' and doesn't touch on 'and we added some new ones, too'. That's the catch. Two steps forward, one step back - but it's progress.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

✈ 🏃

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

I had an msi board in my father's build, and as I was eyeing hardware upgrades I decided to get some more life out of it by adding some memory and updating the bios, as it was quite old. After the bios update, it never booted again. The upgrade tool said it was the correct file, that it was installed successfully, and that I just needed to reboot. Their flashback system? Didn't work. Researching, it was apparently a KNOWN PROBLEM that msi just shrugged off, and several boards from that era would die after an update. No apology, no resolution, not even an admission of guilt. Because of that fuck up, proprietary software that my father used for business finances, wouldn't activate on a new machine - the company shutdown the activation servers, and it required hardware checks, and there was no work around. The new program? Unable to read the old file format. We lost access to 20 years of tax/receipt records.

MSI is blacklisted for me, my family, friends, and anyone who I perform IT services for. I don't give 2 fucks if the hardware is 80% cheaper and 200% better. Fuck you, they fucked perfectly good hardware, my reputation, and if we ever get audited we're fucked. Eat shit and die, MSI.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Brb ima order 64gb ecc ram and an epyc to play minecraft

(/s obviously)

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

main storage [...] was

oh no

I backed everything up

OH YEAH 🥤

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

... I've been using nova for like, 14 years. It's not complex. Now if you want a lot of options, FairEmail will overload your brain. Which I also have...

Backing up config files is actually a lifesaver.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Well, except when a second drive dies 36 hours later and suddenly you are panicking..

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

"honeyyyy, I figured out our vacation plans!"

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Same, plus porn. I haven't run across active communities on lemmy that cater to what I'm looking for, but reddit still going strong in that regard.

Other than that, I haven't visited in months.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

I use the (hidden?) rss feed that every sub has, to get a chronological order of posts. Then when I find a user I like, I'll add their (again, hidden?) user rss feed to a category of users I follow. It was a huge pain in the ass to start but now I have a pretty steady flow of users whose content I like. All this is wrapped together via FreshRSS, which I self-host. This has the unexpected side-effect of capturing images/links that may be taken down by picky/overbearing mods, but because I still have the source link (not just the reddit post link), I can usually still access it.

When they silently axe that feature, it's the end for me.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

I am a fan of Vista, but 95 was my gateway drug to tech. I remember when I was like, 4? And I discovered that exes were like, huge! But lnks, tiny! Why do we have all these space-hogging exes anyway? Begone! Look dad, I saved us so much drive space! Why does nothing work now?

And that's basically been my method of learning ever since. How much can you really break, before it's broken, and why? Let's find out!

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Self-healing capabilities, and the ability to do an 'in-place upgrade' (installing win over itself without data loss) were huge too. I had to wipe + reinstall XP dozens of times throughout the years, often for some small bullshit. I was a Vista beta tester, and got a copy for my machine as soon as it went gold. I went all-in and it was actually a fantastic OS. 7 was good too, but it didn't do that much new, comparatively. It stood on the shoulders of giants.

All live Windows Longhorn (Vista).

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Look ma, we have so much space now!

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Where did that green heinz ketchup go....

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Thank you :)

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

"cool, guess I don't have to pay that one"

"no wait not like that!"

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

No wonder, they are so outdated, we use pci express now

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Have you seen other people in a car wash? Park, reverse, drive but they start holding the brakes when the track pulls them along, leaving antennas up, not closing windows, opening fucking doors... A vast majority of the human population is some level of braindead.

Fuck me, I've seen someone pull up into a manual car wash bay, open all their doors, and wash the INSIDE of their car. This was not a washable interior like a Jeep Wrangler or something, it was a typical sedan with carpeted floors and cloth seats.

And these people (theoretically) are licensed to drive, right next to you.

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Well when you have to release a patch to a customer and they are quite far away...

(e: also I have my house networked with patch cables to every room via the attic, some are 100')

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Slayer

Running riot!

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Me, two+ decades into tinkering and still a dumbass: "look at me, I'm the expert admin now"

wreckedcarzz , 1 month ago

Something something don't let 'good' be the enemy of 'perfect'