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~~Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals~~ [see comments] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Closest I've seen was rooting a printer via a security exploit

What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? February 25 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World" by Vivek H. Murthy

Been looking for something to read after "Bowling Alone". "Together" is not as dry-sciency as the book by Putnam though it jumps to "evolutionary psychology" conclusions too quickly at times. The anecdotes are so overly positive that sometimes they're hard to believe.

My personality for the longer while has been "guy who read Bowling Alone recently". I started to drink cofee at the bar rather than go sit down. I've watched Quadrophenia (set in 1964) recently and the scene with the big ballroom dance party (i.e. people socializing) gave me "look what they took from you" vibes.

Valve's monthly survey reveals that almost 45% of Steam users on PC are still using Windows 10 even with the sword of Damocles hanging over them in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I enjoy this headline writing style. Imagine if we turned "try these 7 tricks" headlines into "Dionysius I of Syracuse would like you to try these"

hexbear.net comically loses its domain name in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (12 children)

You do have a point there [email protected]

What's a good email provider? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

People shit on it for lack of dkim verification (mail spoofing) but it's ok for me. If you enable beta in the setting you can even log into the webui with a normal OTP for 2fa instead of the pin+yubikey tap weird one they had before

Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

https://github.com/LuckyTurtleDev/docker-images/tree/main/dockerfiles/anki

start with env var sync_user1=username:password or something like that

change server url in anki desktop or ankidroid to what you started in docker

done

Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nice replacement topic after the maintainer drama last week

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I agree with the person you're replying to in the sense that Linus's decision is OK, but the delivery could be less "idiotic". This could be a different message entirely. Even a cold "Yes we have some things happening. Can't tell more for now" would've been fine.

I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression?

Where did that come from? Sir this is a kernel mailing list. Why the nationality chest beating? I'm Polish and I have a smirk all day on November 4 but it's just so childish from Linus.

Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did you know that if you use the "transfer data from my old phone to the new phone" thing, only the apps installed from Google Play will be carried over? That is, FDroid apps and their data will be lost.

Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Man I hate how I barely ever buy anything, makes it impossible to boycott any company

Translating in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Remote work is a lie made up by big white collar to sell less jeans for mining

Router died - Replacement/solution recommendations in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

As for backup, you can also buy a e.g. Lenovo M920q minipc, buy a pci-e riser, buy a dual port ethernet card, set up Proxmox, set up an pfSense (or OpenWRT, or OPNsense) VM inside, pass-through the ethernet card directly to the VM. The VM is very backupable, since you just copy the VM state and save it somewhere. This would only work for the router though, since the AP's that'd be running OpenWRT wouldn't be VMs. This is at the cost of having to deal with an additional layer for the VMs.

I guess the problem you're asking about in regards in regards to cross-device portability of a backed up config is valid. If you had a four ETH port router, backed up the config, and then uploaded it on a two ETH port router, you'd run into trouble, but I have no experience here.

You can also install OpenWrt on some switches these days (PoE also reportedly works with realtek-poe module):

That way you'd have a fully open OpenWRT-only network lab, so you'd always be working with the same system.

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Away from home for months; homelab unreachable; now looking for UPS (szmer.info)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm currently traveling for months at a time and my homelab has become unreachable to me over VPN due to a unknown complication after a power outage.

Just as a learning experience for all, my mistake was that I set-up my VPN very far down the stack - as a wg-easy app inside TrueNAS SCALE's apps ecosystem. My very important reason for doing it was that way was that wg-easy allows for setting up client devices with a QR code...

Anyway, the NAS is not booting back up nor do the TrueNAS apps. I should've set my VPN up right at the front of the network - on my MikroTik router that also supports Wireguard. The funny thing is I was so happy that my NAS has IPMI and whatnot but now I can't even access it.

For now the NAS is kept powered on from what I know, it just doesn't boot. This should help prevent bitrot until I'm back. All important files are backed up on a 3rd party service.

It's a shame my Jellyfin and Navidrome inaccessible, but I'll live.

Now I'm thinking about buying an UPS so that this doesn't happen in the future. I'd like the UPS to be fanless and rackmount, so that limits me to ~700VA territory.

Devices in my homelab pull about 65W idle and spike to say 150W when everything is booting. ISP modem, router, POE+ switch, AP, NAS. I might add another 20W due to a Lenovo M920q in the future.

I only really care about NUT and graceful shutdown instead of long runtime on battery.

I was thinking about this: https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SMT750RMI2U/

In my country I can get it with new batteries (no front panel) and a network card for NUT for a total of 180 EUR.

Would that work? Would you be afraid of leaving an UPS (it is kinda like a bomb after all) unattended an leaving your home for 6 months at a time?

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Information retention after reading non-fiction (szmer.info)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After reading a non-fiction book, do you beat yourself up over not remembering all that much? This is especially painful if the book took years to complete (e.g. Anne Applebaum's "Gulag").

It's a bit ridiculous to expect to become an Encyclopedia after reading something in passing too, though.

I feel as if working with a computer and using the internet daily destroyed my attention span, which is why I'm self concious about this.