Tech Questions Thread #6

>>36474 reached the limit. Ask tech questions not worth its own thread here.

want a good flip phone, something that respects my privacy as much as possible. obviously no cell phone will completely respect my privacy, but what's the best I can get on the modern market?

I'm considering getting a new CPU soon, but the one I want is has a 45W TDP, and my PC is only made for 35W processors. Will it be able to handle it?

Does anyone have a valid guide on how to fully encrypt a raspberrypi (possibly on raspberry os)? Have been looking for days on different search engines but haven't managed to find a working guide.

>>40174 look it up on yt. learn to use dm-crypt by checking the arch/gentoo wiki. >>40166 the question is does it have a cpu blacklist? i'm sure there's a list of supported processors somewhere. i've seen a 35w usdt form with a 4790k. >>40137 why the need for flip form-factor? even if you did manage to get a lineageos phone you would be surprised on how much just adding one single app compromises your entire privacy such as demonstrated >>32596 there's a lot going on, even the secret MEMS microphone they intentionally labeled as some sort of sensor that an bad app can access with no permission granted. as long as you just exclusively use FOSS apps and a well audited system you'll be fine.

>>40180 I want a phone without the capability of installing apps. Just something to keep in touch over text and calls. Something as private as possible.

>>40185 carrier pigeon with gpg encrypted messages

>>40180 >the question is does it have a cpu >blacklist? i'm sure there's a list of >supported processors somewhere. >i've seen a 35w usdt form with a 4790k. From what I've seen online, probably not. In fact the only reason I'm trying this is because I saw a video of some dude putting a Xeon in his. It was also rated for 45w, but he never took the time to actually measure the temps (and never did any testing under load either)

hey lains have this machine at work that has some buttons want to be able to trigger buttons with arduino but dont know the name of the part that i need maybe a relais? but for low current what is '?' in the picture

>>40225 if you want it to work for any machine then you'll need to use one of those slow and expensive relais. most buttons, however, are either simple pullup or pulldown, if you know which and what voltage then you can hook the arduino onto one of those wires directly, or use a transistor. procedure: 1) measure voltage on the wires 2) press button, and note how voltage changes 2 a) voltage on both lines becomes high 2 b) voltage on both lines becomes low The arduino's job is to replicate this, so it could be as simple as putting your 5V gpio onto one of the wires and writePin(High) when you need to. If the arduino doesn't provide enough voltage or current, you'll have to figure out how transistors work.

Is there a good list of which Ubuntu-based distros do and don't get rid of snap as a core system component? I know Mint does, but is it just Mint or do others get rid of it as well?

>>40406 check out Pop!OS, they also do not ship with builtin snap support

PDF is a mess of a format. It is however ubiquituous. It's required for signing contracts for a job. Anyone know of a linux/FOSS PDF editor/signer? Master PDF is meant to be good but it isn't FOSS.

>>40438 I use apvlv dunno if you can sign tho

If I use the DuckDuckGo onion link to do my searches it doesn't really matter if it logs "my" IP, right?

>>40185 So it's only "network" privacy? Just get a proper senior phone. It's not that private really (but then again the recipient would be a smartphone leaking your conversations). There's still tracking and susceptibility to fake cells (unless you plan on using phone with apps to verify fake cells) and it's been a huge zero day since day one. At least you'll have something better with a removable battery. Check with your local telecom providers too. They might be dropping support for 3g or something in 5-10 years so a 4g phone might be good enough.

Looking for a good mp3 player app for android, i really hate modern simplistic ui and cant find anything that looks nice :((

>>40464 https://www.shuttlemusicplayer.com/

Are any of you guys using it? I'd like to be able to test it out, however my PC is likely far too weak to run it at a reasonable speed with only two cores. Once my new Xeon comes in, this shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, for those who have, what was it like? How does VM performance compare to something such as KVM or VirtualBox? Are they managed neatly?

>>40478 >what is it like? good >performance? my PC is noticeably louder and I can't run too many applications simultaneously but most things run paravirtualized, so they're much faster than KVM and use less memory >are they managed neatly? Yeah, they have a Qube Manager that's really handy. If you're not familiar with linux internals it could be hard to customize.

>>40136 Why does windows7 32bit not like putty in current year? I cannot connect it to my raspberry pi (zero), the ssh feature. It also hates samba and I could not get that to work. The win7 32bit crashed once during a lan scan to try to find out what the pi address was, outside of raspbian I don't have a way to get lakka's, unless they are the same address. I had ssh enabled in raspbian but it still did not let putty access it. My goal was to get the audio to work through a circuit I've soldered to make it have audio while using the composite video through a tiny speaker I salvaged with the parts I also salvaged. But I hear not sound. I've had the pi for 3 years so it has beyond pissed me off. It's made me appreciate andriod devices despite their spying dystopian ways. I could have bought several android's for the pi's price. But that's not the question. >how to fix samba in win7 32bit >how to fix audio in pi zero without ssh >how to fix ssh in win7 >how to fix putty in win7 >how to know if removal of the cmos is going to break a laptop by making it forget drivers to the keyboard and such That last is because I'm stuck on windows otherwise, am locked out of the boot order. All this is doing is making me hate linux and pi's more and more as time goes on. The issues I run into. A month ago or so I figured it can't hurt to install picore to the pi, but the modules never got installed no matter what I tried and I even bothered their forum over it. The wifi modules you need before the gui shows up. I wanted a non-bloatware os for the zero to read books, txt files. Lakka can't do it, so I needed two os's. As it is noobs version of lakka cannot work with composite, so I had to use two sd's and then only raspbian has audio that way with composite. It is quite the dumpster fire. Another lain was helping me through the resent attempts to fix it up to be an umpc of some value but so far I have failed to get it to be one. It is a silent emulation machine, and you'd have to take it apart to switch os's as I needed nightly on that second sd. And it's silent. Unacceptable. The bloatware raspbian can't even boot up with noobs until you press enter as noobs can't output to the composite itself. The lakka stays in a boot loop if you change blind the os choice, on that first sd. My first lcd was the many gpio kind with driver issues. Lakka cannot use it, so I abandoned that. That and I find soldering not very fun and that's a lot to solder, those many pin type of lcd's. I spend 200+ on perhipherals and are a neet so I hate throwing this away, but for my mental health I might have to cope with androids at some point and leave behind the notion of cool umpc's as the ones that would work will be 500+ usd and with that awful win10, so androids make more sense at that point. This pi stuff has been nothing but trouble even while spending this much money on it. Oh, one thing was a sound card via usb, but while treating it with care the first I bought broke and so I don't even really want to buy another. The hdmi splitter froze the pi. The circuit I made has no use so far, not without ssh working, so the main issue I have now that I assume blocks me is the lack of ssh ever working nor samba. I'd turn off my firewall but I know I'd just forget to turn it back on at some point and get mega-hax'd, so I hope that's not the issue. tl;dr: my pi zero is still not a mobile pc after three years of owning it due to a sound obstacle lakka has (raspbian can use bluetooth headsets and the damaged usb sound card but lakka cannot but neither the circuit I made for pwm audio) ssh does not work via putty on my windows7 32bit

>>40136 I want replicant os on my phone. They still have no port for the s6, what is the best alternative?

Hello I don't know a lot about networking but my gateway address is 192.168.1.1. I can log into my router through this address, and I am using the default name server. For kicks I decided to go to 192.168.0.1 when lo! I am brought to a login page for Arris which looks like pic related. What could this be? My hosts file contains nothing relevant, my router does not have this address, and is a Netgear router, so I was wondering if someone could explain this strange phenomenon.

>>40580 It it your modem?

>>40593 err...

Can i get help some help with this? ;_; I use Tor on Palemoon and I need to access a cloudfared site, is there any way to access the soykafy site without disconeccting Palemoon from tor? I've read that changing my user-agent might work, but how exactly that "simple" string is going to grant me access to cloudfared sites?? Thanks beforehand lainons

>>40627 dont mix memes with professional life if you really need to access it forget the meme credit and just use firefox

>>40633 You can try to hop around tor nodes, some of them aren't derezzed by cloudflare.

>>40627 > but how exactly that "simple" string is going to grant me access to cloudfared sites?? Cloudflare is that dumb, you just have to change your user agent, for the same user agent tor uses. To do this, go to about:config and create a new rule called network.http.useragent.global_override type string, and put network.http.useragent.global_override as value restart palemoon, and it shold work

>>40638 soykaf, put Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 as value

>>40633 well, u are actually right lmao

>>40633 >>40637 >>40638 >>40639 I see, thanks lainons :)

Favorite feature phone? I want to dump my tracker device and wondering if theres anything out there that specializes in encryption/privacy or should I just get an old school flip phone or something

Is there a way to use 2 different versions of an app in one device.

Any ideas on how to INCREASE USB latency on Windows 10? I need to add around 7-8 milliseconds of latency on a specific USB port to get 3d stereo glasses perfectly in sync with a TV. Hubs I have introduce negligible <0.5ms latency, chaining won't help.

>>40666 If you're in the US, most carriers have dropped 3G support or are very close to doing so. I don't even know if 4G dumbphones exist. If it proves to be too much of a hassle, just disable all of the bells and whistles of an old smartphone. My LG soykafbrick from 2016 serves as a phone, MP3 player, and a note-taking device. Have fun, Satan.

i get this when i try to play something on cmus after i close it: Error: opening audio device: Device or resource busy all solutions online were useless , a help would be appreciated

>>40750 Are you using alsa without pulse? If so, does speaker-test or aplay work properly? What do you have your audio backend set to in cmus?

>>40760 i do use pulse and aplay,

wtf is pam?

>>40748 Thanks. I guess feature phones just aren't viable anymore, so I'll try to find an alt-android or linux based smartphone instead and just turn it off when its not being used for a specific purpose. I need linux phones to get better kek

>>40775 Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules. http://www.linux-pam.org/

>>40781 Yeah, but what is it used for?

cat /etc/ntpd.conf is it just me or they made the default fallback to some ad company and a suspicious dns server

>>40633 pale moon is not a meme. they adopted tls 1.3 when browser giants haven't yet, they were also against pwned ciphers (site mitm) and had an option to choose when in firefox or chrome you don't even have a choice but to get the mitm version of even popular sites (surprisingly occurs when it is legitimately signed by your local ISP/cloud mitm-ed site mirror that is of different ASN). well surprisingly the browser giants even lowered the ssl/tls minimum back to pwned af during the pandemonium so that the pwned service called "Zoom conference" could let the zoombers use their video app which has tls errors they don't plan on upgrading for "reasons" maybe like having your entire meeting unencrypted to mitm middleboxes.

>>40580 Either of the two: >They modded the firmware which means the default password might be not default and it's just a reskinned CPE login. If ARRIS is a internet provider they might have just made a reskin but I don't think it is an ISP. >The CPE login is a man-in-the-middle attack AND/OR that your router just acts as something like a switch/hub/extender I'm not saying that you're under attack but what I mean is your router just acts as if it's a switch/hub/extender and the actual router is someway farther and it is an ARRIS equipment. Once you lose internet connection, you might also lose gateway connection and ping to 192.168.1.1 so keep that in mind, if gateway connection is lost upon downtime then that confirms this. This means you do not have any control over your router and the ARRIS device is actually a different company router that you are "interfacing" from far away which means you can't modify it or even your own Netgear settings (or they can do it more easily for you, like setting up port forward for you) but also means they can intercept anything they want because you're just using a switch/hub/extender.

How can I make sure that a system I build is 100% Linux compatible?

>>40818 Go for the most generic components possible, i.e. Intel HD graphics, Centrino WiFi card, stuff like that. I heard AMD's GPUs work better than nVidia but I'd still use Intel to be safe.

>>40819 Thanks Lain

>>40818 Just build anything. Nvidia cards work fine on any mainline os (drivers can be found on apt, aur etc.) CPU literally doesn't matter, if it can run ARM it can handle whatever CPU you pick.

>>40789 Um... authentication? Maybe try putting in some effort into asking useful questions. Or look at the documentation that previous Lain linked to. The very first link on that page answers your question. People aren't always going to spoon feed you answers. Learn how to seek out and obtain information.

Noticed this while configuring a Dell workstation. I'm on the standard U.S. website, so this is rather confusing. Aren't governments the only ones allowed to disable to ME? Or is this just a fake "feel good" thing?

>>40891 Wipe the ME anyways, but I'm pretty sure the US Gov. targeted Dell for removing the ME for the average user a couple years ago.

>>40954 So you're implying that the government has pretty much forced Intel & AMD to implement a form of "management" technology?

Is there a way i can load a linux hdd from windows and vice versa?

>>40975 you can install ntfs (windows file system) support on linux. it might even be installed by default sometimes. reading ext4 (linux file system) on windows is more difficult from what i recall.

>>40975 there's paragon extfs for windows which somehow works only with ext4 but it's not as reliable and doesn't work with encryption. on linux there is ntfs-3g but keep in mind it's experimental and you could break your ntfs, generally you wouldn't want messing with ntfs partitions like shrinking/expanding. just my theory but maybe there is a way by setting up a VM in windows to access linux drives.

>>40478 the VMs are managed very neatly, theyre pretty much transparent to you, aside from the color of the window. I cant really notice any much of a penalty on my ryzen 2700. Qubes is great.

What do you guys think about crowdfunding a p2p messenger? I have few ideas how to make it simple, easily audible and without the offline-problem. I mean the problem when messages are not delivered if recipient was offline, then sender goes offline and then receiver goes online. It should be very cheap because it's p2p and we don't need huge servers that work perfectly on highload. /g made tox once so it's possible. Of couse I'll donate too and messenger concept can be changed if you have some better ideas.

why is intel such piece of garbage?

>>41061 Doesn't seem like a bad card for a Linux workstation to be honest

I had run Lynis, a system-hardening auditor. At its suggestion, I changed numerous permissions system-wide. I have also changed conf files that alter book-time permissions. The following problems have occured: 1) Upon reboot, my /dev/snd is in a state that makes ALSA fail to recognize the audio devices. My user is in audio. The only way to make ALSA recognize the /dev/snd devices is to add setguid, which resets upon boot 2) My /var/lib is bonked. I am unable to run clamscan because clamscan can not access the bytecode files. Again, I can fix it with chmod which changes on the reboot. I am unsure if there are other issues. I have not yet come accross them. I changed my umask back to default, thoug my understanding on umask is that it only affects the /home directory. My fault is not logging what Lynis told me to do, and what I did in response. I did not realize that hardening my system permissions would cause this. I previously entered the IRC under an anonymous nick to fix more problems caused not as a result of this, but as a result of attempting to fix this. Those problems have been fixed. More-or-less my system is now in a state as it was after the initial-run of Lynis. Some output: [03:09 se7en@lappy ~] > ls -ld /dev/snd drwxr-x--- 3 root root 260 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd [03:12 se7en@lappy ~] > ls -ld /dev/snd/* ls: cannot a=ccess '/dev/snd/*': Permission denied [03:12 root@lappy se7en] > ls -ld /dev/snd/* # NOTE: Changing /dev/snd/by-path to audio:audo is enough to fix the # ALSA problem but it resets on reboot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/by-path crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 9 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/controlC1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/hwC1D0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/hwC1D3 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/pcmC1D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/pcmC1D7p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/pcmC1D8p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 29 02:26 /dev/snd/timer [03:13 se7en@lappy ~] > ls -ld /var/lib drwxr-xr-x 72 root root 4.0K Jan 24 02:47 /var/lib [03:14 se7en@lappy ~] > ls -ld /var/lib/* | grep clamav drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4.0K Jan 29 02:27 /var/lib/clamav drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 3 2019 +/var/lib/clamav-unofficial-sigs [03:14 se7en@lappy ~] > ls -ld /var/lib/clamav/* -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 283K Jan 24 00:12 /var/lib/clamav/blurl.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 3.4K Oct 27 2019 +/var/lib/clamav/bofhland_cracked_URL.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 104K Apr 3 2019 +/var/lib/clamav/bofhland_malware_attach.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 610 Oct 26 2019 +/var/lib/clamav/bofhland_malware_URL.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 9.5K Oct 27 2019 +/var/lib/clamav/bofhland_phishing_URL.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 1.4M Sep 19 2019 /var/lib/clamav/bytecode.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 82 Jul 13 2016 /var/lib/clamav/crdfam.clamav.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 323M Jan 27 05:10 /var/lib/clamav/daily.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 65 Jul 26 2013 /var/lib/clamav/doppelstern.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 7.2M Jan 18 08:09 /var/lib/clamav/junk.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 1.4M Sep 19 2019 /var/lib/clamav/bytecode.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 82 Jul 13 2016 /var/lib/clamav/crdfam.clamav.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 323M Jan 27 05:10 /var/lib/clamav/daily.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 65 Jul 26 2013 /var/lib/clamav/doppelstern.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 7.2M Jan 18 08:09 /var/lib/clamav/junk.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 184K Jan 23 19:12 /var/lib/clamav/jurlbl.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 294M Nov 25 2019 /var/lib/clamav/main.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 256 Feb 10 2020 /var/lib/clamav/mirrors.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 4.0M Jan 19 08:11 /var/lib/clamav/phish.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 1.4M Jan 24 00:00 /var/lib/clamav/phishtank.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 620K Jan 24 00:00 /var/lib/clamav/porcupine.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 41K Jan 22 01:11 /var/lib/clamav/rogue.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 11K Oct 18 2016 /var/lib/clamav/sanesecurity.ftm -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 1.9M Jan 19 12:09 /var/lib/clamav/scam.ndb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 285 Jan 4 05:08 /var/lib/clamav/sigwhitelist.ign2 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 1.4K Apr 28 2017 /var/lib/clamav/spamattach.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 19K Nov 6 01:12 /var/lib/clamav/spamimg.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 Dec 13 00:54 /var/lib/clamav/whitelist-files.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 15K Jul 16 2018 +/var/lib/clamav/winnow.attachments.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 66 Mar 5 2018 /var/lib/clamav/winnow_bad_cw.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 16K Mar 5 2018 +/var/lib/clamav/winnow_extended_malware.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 18K Mar 5 2018 /var/lib/clamav/winnow_malware.hdb -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 15K Nov 26 2019 +/var/lib/clamav/winnow_malware_links.ndb [03:14 se7en@lappy ~] > alsamixer cannot open mixer: Permission denied [03:14 se7en@lappy ~] > aplay -l aplay: device_list:272: no soundcards found... [03:13 root@lappy se7en] > alsamixer cannot open mixer: No such file or directory [03:15 root@lappy se7en] > aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Why is my clock so low? When I use hwinfo --cpu i get Model: 6.15.6 "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz" but I also get this Clock: 997 MHz Why is my clock lower than the model name?u

>>41093 2 GHz is likely the highest speed the CPU can operate at. 997 MHz is your base clock speed at idle (it does this to save power?

Is this of any use to the average Joe? Been wanting to tinker with it on my LTSC install but I don't want to fuarrrk soykaf up

>>41102 Just pirate Home Edition and set up a VM that uses ReFS as the file system.

>>41054 I'd be more interested in pursuing something like Nym. I think mixnet adoption needs to be at the heart of next generation privacy tech.

Looking for good torrent/repo sites for tech cert practice exams. Any suggestions?

>>40137 Anything that runs KaiOS is a good choice. I own this and a few other KaiOS phones. https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-2720-flip

>>41122 Kaios is just another cloud botnet. There was Gerdaos which is the jailbroken version of that while also removing the blatant spyware they discovered although it's sad that their project website is hosted by the biggest anti privacy service with toxic tos.

>>41093 Either you are using a laptop with the following: >broken OR unofficial battery There are proprietary pins that check authenticity OR your battery broke and the laptop decides not to overcharge the cells for safety >broken OR unofficial power brick Either the wire or something in the brick broke or it was not official and the laptop detected it. Usually it's listed in the BIOS info. Sometimes chargers may emit proprietary signal or some workaround to identify authenticity (for example apple and samsung bumps up phone/tablet chargers to 5.1 volts so fake 5.0v chargers become slow or unable to power up devices)

>>40580 Hold the reset button and look up the default password for your model.

>>41085 There are also issues with mutt_dotlock which may or may not be related [22:49 root@lappy se7en] > ls -ld /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock -rwsrwsrwt 1 root mail 15K Nov 23 00:26 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock Errors mutt produces under Torify is "Operation not permitted" [22:50 root@lappy se7en] > ls -ld /home/se7en/Mail/* -rw-r--r-- 1 se7en mail 12K Nov 8 2018 /home/se7en/Mail/cat-v.mbox drwxr-xr-x 2 se7en mail 4.0K Apr 19 2019 /home/se7en/Mail/inbox -rw-r--r-- 1 se7en mail 0 Jan 26 03:00 /home/se7en/Mail/postponed drwxr-xr-x 2 se7en mail 4.0K Aug 24 2019 /home/se7en/Mail/procmail -rw-r--r-- 1 se7en mail 12M Mar 21 2019 /home/se7en/Mail/se7en -rw-r--r-- 1 se7en mail 81M Jan 29 03:16 /home/se7en/Mail/sent -rw-r--r-- 1 se7en mail 14M Apr 10 2020 /home/se7en/Mail/spool.old [22:50 root@lappy se7en] > ls -ld /var/mail/se7en -rwxrwx--- 1 se7en mail 33M Feb 2 22:40 /var/mail/se7en [22:51 root@lappy se7en] > ls -ld /usr/bin/torify /usr/bin/torsocks /usr/bin/tor -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.3M Nov 12 05:19 /usr/bin/tor -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.4K Jun 9 2020 /usr/bin/torify -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12K Apr 3 2019 /usr/bin/torsocks

How do I disable this in Chromium? It appears for every download. I enabled the "Ask where to save files before downloading" option, but that didn't help.

>>41292 https://superuser.com/a/1351857 That should work but maybe you should just switch to a better browser.

Where can I learn about Linux/Pulseaudio (or Linux+Pulseaudio) audio? I want to be able to do things like redirecting a an output of some application so that it's actually a virual input device and I want noise cancellation and soykaf. At the same time, I want to know what the fuarrrk I'm doing. What's "Monitor of"? The fuarrrk is a stream and the fuarrrk is device?

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>>40136 is it worth to switch from sudo to su or doas on personal machine?

>>41333 Sudo is dogshit for security in my humble opinion. Considering that doas isn't a big pain to configure and setup I'd say go for it.

>>41355 It is always best to elaborate on your opinion.... >>41333 It is worth it. sudo continues to be broken... doas is just a safe, simple sudo. Here is a list of CVEs from sudo https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=sudo An extra spon for you, here is a list of CVEs from doas https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=sudo

A couple of friends and I want to rent a VPS server together for a couple websites, and maybe an email server. What should I look for to make sure i'm getting a good deal? what should I be expected to pay?

>>41383 Average budget VPS start around $5/mo. I use ramnode and while their management tooling isn't as good as bigger providers like digitalocean, they're a better value and their support has been consistently excellent every time I've contacted them. If you want something in EU check out kimsufi (OVH budget subsidiary headquartered in France). If you're really looking for the best possible value you may want to see if you can find a reputable reseller on lowendtalk forums. Just keep in mind you're renting from some dude who's probably just flipping OVH dedicated servers as a side hustle, so ymmv in terms of reliability.

Trying to make a web archiver alias/script to archive for example https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html Wget has an option -p --page-requisites which is supposed to fetch all files so the page could be viewed offline, but when I try to open index.html in the browser it still connects to licensebuttons.net and creativecommons.org. Question: how to archive a page properly? Can't find a similar option for httrack, is there a way to archive a page that would make it completely viewable offline?

>>41390 wget -mkEpnp

lainons, any advice on getting a new OS? Windows 10 is all I have ever used, but I am growing paranoid about it violating my privacy. Linux seems daunting, though, and I play a lot of vidya that may not run well on Linux. Feel free to wage slave your favorite OS, any recommendations would be appreciated. Ideally there would be an open source or privacy conscious Windows 10 but I can't find one.

what's a good desktop for under $500?

Is it possible to adjust display backlight if my display is connected to GPU via DVI to HDMI adapter? All programs I have tried don't seem to detect my display as a backlight device (running Debian GNU/Linux). I simply want to set backlight lower than it is when using "0%" from my display's internal menu.

>>41358 Just linking to a list of CVEs, and especially comparing a popular program with a less widely used one that gets significantly less audits, is a very misled argument. Aside from the last 3 "sudoedit"-related CVEs that were fixed about as quickly as the feature was introduced, most of these CVEs are misconfigurations by programs that use sudo or things that only happen if you enable some non-default features. Just make sure you don't have sudo retain your password as that's a very common attack vector, and that's about everything you can do. Both sudo and su allow any local attacker to just brute force your password by spawning a bunch of processes to overcome the delay after a wrong password. Idk how doas works.

>>40136 I'm a doas user, but I might switch to plain old `su -c`. Any thoughts? Especially if I use the suckless version.

>>41518 >misconfigurations If it's easy to fuarrrk up, it's still no excuse imo.

could using a windows secure core laptop or apple m1 mac with verified boot be more secure than a foss os on un-secure hardware? What are some good linux options for finding a laptop with verified boot and other security features?

>>40137 Ideally anything you've paid cash for. If you really want security you're probably going to want to cycle through burner phones. As a daily driver you'd really want a smartphone that sends encrypted messages rather than unencrypted sms.

>>41521 Not being able to change the configuration == just staying with the defaults. Also please read the linked CVE list, lots of it was giving the wrong user permissions they shouldn't have.

>>41518 https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/8255ed69

I want to share my collection of movies and music. On Emule all I have to do is select a folder to share its contents, but I'd prefer to seed with qBittorrent. The problem is that the process of creating torrents individually and then uploading them to a website seems exhausting. What if someone wants to share 500 files? Does he have to create 500 torrents and then upload them one by one?

>>41572 You should've asked here >>40136 And secondly, qBittorrent's "Torrent Creator" has the option to create a torrent from an entire folder, and that folder can contain any number of files.

What do you guys think of the Mudita Pure now that they've gone open source? https://mudita.com/products/pure/muditaos/ https://forum.mudita.com/t/muditaos-goes-open-source-join-the-developer-preview/1748

>>41402 I've been very happy with Pop OS as a former Windows user. Made the full switch early last year after messing around with virtual machines and Gallium OS on a Chromebook the year before that. I know people say not to use extensions on GNOME, but installing Arc Menu and Dash to Panel made all the difference for me in terms of making it more approachable as a lifelong Windows user. My gaming experience has been quite good too with only some minor hiccups that were sorted. You don't have to dive in head first right away, but if you have a low end laptop, getting it to run well with Linux and using it as some sort of distraction-free productivity device is a great way to acclimate yourself for when you get to run it on a much more capable machine.

I have a .COM domain name and I'd like to associate it to a few email addresses for free. Suggestions on free email service providers that will allow me to do this. THANKS!!

postfix and dovecot

>>41598 Are you able to change your .com domains DNS MX record?

>>41358 doas will have the same if not more issues than sudo if you use it outside openbsd because when you do that it's basically sudo

>>41521 well how should i configure and use sudo?

Does anyone have any experience with lout? From a quick look it seems interesting and the functional programming aspect seems different.

What is the best way to get started with i2p? i2pd? normal i2p? What are some good eepsites? How to torrent with i2p?

Do you turn your computers off? In my country it's natural to turn it off after we are done with it and going to sleep but I heard that some keep theirs on for a long period of time. I need you to pill me on this, thanks.

>>41690 I turn mine off overnight unless a very rare time I'm doing an unstoppable intense operation that lasts many hours (like exporting hour-long videos or when large downloads used to take a day). I've got a small raspi on permanently though doing web crawling every few minutes so it needs to be on overnight. t. 5EYES

can my phone provider listen on conversations between me and my friend?

>>41692 Don't worry, we don't report plans to bomb competitors.

>>41692 Yes. Your ISP can also spy on you.

Ever heard of a neat little program called tar

>>41692 Use Signal.

What's a good free vpn? I tried riseup but it's way too slow.

>>41572 A single torrent can contain multiple files and directories >>41776 Please keep your political strawman cancer to 4chan thanks

As others have said, you can make a torrent of a whole directory. I suspect that you want to have a torrent for each file so that the downloader doesn't have too manually cancel all the files he doesn't want. This would be a good job for a python script IMO.

How can one become a computer networking expert, in practical and professional terms? I know this is a retarded question, but I would like to know all there is to know about networking (including structured cabling and all the physical soykaf that makes your hands dirty so few people wanna do), telecom, connection and stuff. I see that this particular section of computing is extremely valuable and kind of exclusive, at least in my country. Although I know nothing and I'm a tech trainee pleb, I want to become an expert in this subject. Can any lainon shed some light on this?

>>41804 >How can one become a computer networking expert, in practical and professional terms? I know this is a retarded question, but I would like to know all there is to know about networking (including structured cabling and all the physical soykaf that makes your hands dirty so few people wanna do), telecom, connection and stuff. I see that this particular section of computing is extremely valuable and kind of exclusive, at least in my country. Although I know nothing and I'm a tech trainee pleb, I want to become an expert in this subject. If you are at univ - get related classes if you can. If not - seek courses/training or whatever they are called in English that prepare you to famous network related certificates if you are rich enough. Why I mention them in that order? Because if you have no official Computer Science/computer Engineering degree they would serve you the best in proving you have skills in your 1st job. If you are on poor side or have a lot of time after classes and want to prepare yourself for internship and then a proper job - you can build fully software simulation of networks using Qemu and OS images of your choice - get any network devices you can put your hands on for cheap and use them to build networks connecting each others with end points made out of old thinkpads or Raspberry Pi computers etc. - read a truck full of books on networking, tutorials u can find online, network devices manuals you can find online - IPv4, routing and vlans and firewalls are more or less main area you would want to focus at this point, if you live in country when IPv6 is used learn it as well - have some knowledge about most common attacks and dangers Then try getging internship related to networking and then a proper employment. Even if that 1st job kinda suck after few months you would have some experience to prove you have at least basic skills in the field. At this point you may try convince your employer (or your next empoyer) to send you to course ending with certification.

what other /tech/, /g/ boards do you like?

Is there a lainchan rss feed?

DDG vs SearX (if yes, then what instance) vs any other alternative? Just found out about SearX and idk where to start.

XTerm doesn't render Fira Code properly. My .Xresources: ! Set font xterm*faceName: Fira Code ! Set font size xterm*faceSize: 9 ! Set screen size xterm*geometry: 72x17 ! Special *.foreground: #d4c597 *.background: #191916 *.cursorColor: #d4c597 ! black *.color0: #25251f *.color8: #5c5045 ! red *.color1: #9b291c *.color9: #ab462f ! green *.color2: #636232 *.color10: #969450 ! yellow *.color3: #c36e28 *.color11: #cf8548 ! blue *.color4: #515c5d *.color12: #6e7576 ! magenta *.color5: #9b303b *.color13: #90434a ! cyan *.color6: #72aa77 *.color14: #8acd8f ! white *.color7: #d4c597 *.color15: #e0d1a8 ! Copy and paste work properly xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \ Ctrl Shift <Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\ Ctrl Shift <Key>C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD)

>>41945 check this out, this guy had a similar problem https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2019-05-26-xterm-letter-pi-bug/

Whats are consensus on eurodk and their mikrotik subbrand specifically? For reliable and somewhat more secure home usage than offtheshelf trash. Preferably with LTE support to share the load with the atrocious ground lines. Anyone with experience or suggestions?

Whats the best AIO under $800? >inb4 aio's are soykaf The person I'm getting this for is against a desktop or laptop (they don't "look nice" & they "take too much space") New is preferred, but I could theoretically convince them to get used. All it's gonna do is basic ungoogled chromium and office 2016, most intensive is project64 2.3. OS is (unfortunately) wangblows, most likely 10 enterprise, although 8.1 is fine.

I'm looking for a cheap, /lain/ approved mp3 player, any suggestions? I've got some obscure downloaded music I'd like to listen to outside of my desktop but I'm not sure what I should be looking for when it comes to players as I've never owned one.

>>40478 Qubes is fantastic. It worked well enough for me on a Thinkpad X230 with an SSD and 16GB RAM. It's a great choice, just remember to back up your VMs, and install newer templates as they arrive.

>>42033 fiio m3k is good. Not super cheap but not expensive either. you need an sd card but it has great battery life.

How can I learn to understand Asian accents?

>>41690 I tend to leave my computer on, both as a wireless hotspot for my other devices and a torrent seed. I also tend to keep a lot of programs open on different workspaces depending on what I was doing. I realize it's better to turn it off but I don't really see a reason to, either. At best I'd put it into sleep mode.

>>41772 Mullvad, proton

How can i learn Linux more in deph without installing Gentoo?

>>42067 Install Slackware

I need some recommendations on a new laptop that has a dedicated GPU, upgradable storage and RAM, and I can shove Void on with absolutely no issues for 900 USD or less (preferably AMD GPU or CPU but I'll take what I can get)

What is a decent Jitsi instance or a good alternative to use in a professional setting with 5-10 people? I'm too much of a noob to set up my own instance.

>>42067 Installing gentoo to "learn linux" is the dumbest meme. Gentoo has about as much distro-specific soykaf to make things easier as Debian and holds your hand in nearly everything. Unironically Arch is a better learning platform if it weren't for systemd abstracting everything away too. In any case, it really depends on what you want to learn. You can learn anything on any distro, the only difference it'll make is in how easy it makes it for you to see what's going on under the hood and change it up. For this, Slackware is pretty stellar, as all the distro consists of is a set of relatively small and readable bash scripts, and largely unmodified software. But again, you won't learn anything by just installing and using it, unless you dig deeper by yourself.

>>42084 What's wrong with just using meet.jit.si?

>>42105 meet.jit.si has performance issues if you are more than three

i don't have kde desktop but wanted to change the window size of kdefiledialog. i know i can edit the ~/.config/kdeglobals file, but i just can't find the key responsible for the window width/height. any help?

>>42058 Eastern accents tend to sound more "Strict" like for example the chinese is much more harder and fluid in words that end on y and i while the japanese gets confused on english words with "the" and "wh[Insert word here] however the koreans can sound a bit too sharp on their nasal passages.

Retard here I don't know how to use foobar is there a tutorial for it?

I have a 32GB USB3.0 flash drive, and I was thinking of putting several linux distros on it, just in case. What distributions do you think would come in handy for this? I was thinking that maybe debian offline ISO could be good, but it probably comes with tons of baggage, like desktop environments and such. I'd like a distribution (or a complimenting combination of distributions) ISO/s that would give me the biggest variety of useful command line tools for administration, encryption, networking and so on, kind of like a swiss army knife suited for variety of situations (preferably running without TUI/GUI). Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

How would I go about generating thumbnails for viewing in <file manager name> (pcmanfm-qt is my fm) for locally saved internet pages in html?

>>42230 do you want a thumbnail of fully rendered webpage? write a thumbnailer file and put it in /usr/share/thumbnailers i don't know what tools can make thumbnails directly from html, naive approach would be to convert html into pdf and generate thumbnail of that, but it would probably be slow (especially for large pages)

>>40136 Just got my hands in a Acer Aspire 1410, the screen is like 80% dead so I can't use it as a ultra portable device. I'm thinking of setting it up as a server but I don't know for what. What can I do with it?

>>42252 Did you try searching ebay/aliexpress for compatible displays from chinese sellers?

>>42264 I'm from Brazil, the shipping cost is absurd. The display is R$180,00 (BRL) and the shipping is R$350,00 (BRL). I had no luck looking in local sales websites (Mercado Libre, OLX, etc), the prices of other displays are fine but this model is too expensive for me. I'm going to install Debian on it today, maybe use it as an email server.

What would be the easiest way to change username without logging out? Is that even possible?

>>42281 Knowing what you're doing before actually doing it DOES feel good. You WILL read this. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_permissions_and_attributes https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/users_and_groups

>>42307 Too late, I already went ahead and tried few approaches. The most interesting one was cloning the user by modifying the /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow. It did in fact change my username in the shell, but $0 in the shell scripts for example still would show my real user (until I logged out and logged back in). After reading the articles you linked, I don't understand how they're relevant - the usermod -l old new requires the user to not be logged in, therefore defeating the purpose. Or did you intend to show that it's not possible? Sorry, but I can't read.

What's my filechooser?

>>41310 from here https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice : Further reading: Useful detailed info about PulseAudio logic toadjaune/pulseaudio-config. The thread which helped me with how to post-process mic output and make it available to applications.

>>40136 Hi Lainons, is it normal that Virtualbox can't boot a Void Linux live cd with UEFI enabled?

>>42395 I don't know. I only used Void Linux in virtualbox in legacy bios.

How do I break in wifi, if I completely forgot my passwords and stuff? Is brootforce is still an option?

>>42494 >I completely forgot my passwords and stuff Just know that if no one does, at least I believe you.

>>42494 Press the reset button on the router, if it's really yours.

>>42494 >>42547 I've forgotten passphrases to more keys than I can count. -__- You're not alone.

My Toshiba drive has very high load cycle count than my WD drive (about 100k vs 1k). My WD is fine and I've tried using linux/idle3ctl on the Toshiba drive and it does not detect intellipark. Is there another way to force the drive (Toshiba) to disable parking/idling?

Does anyone have a recommendation for a UPS that will support a ~500W computer for 1 - 2 hours? I want to have enough to run my computer for work for about 6 - 8 hours at a time, if not longer. I think I had read something about buying extra battery packs for a UPS, but I don't know how that works, or if you can hot swap them.

is it possible to have multiple VMs use the same X11 server, sort of like X11 forwarding over ssh but without the performance cost? is there a reason people tend to use VNC to access their guest VMs instead of doing this?

>>42630 There's business laptops that have docks and can do hot-swapping of batteries. You would need a UPS that has about 1kVA-2kVA capacity and at least a good power factor to meet the target 1kWh. I suggest getting something higher in case the battery wears out at some point. Or if you're worried about battery wear, but not the noise, just use a gasoline generator. >>42395 Try pressing return key if you see the blinking "_" >>42494 >break in Freudian slip? Use "not-wifi" and change the password the same way you changed it through "wifi", if you can't it means you don't own it.

Anybody know some software like this as alternative? pimeyes dot com I don't care if it's FOSS or Paid Proprietary I just need something that could reverse image search faces very well. Also use this if you want to obscure pictures of yourself. sandlab dot cs dot uchicago dot edu slash fawkes

>https://man.openbsd.org/ntpd.conf >google quad9 cf Wtfrick just happened to this project. Few months ago I'm able to set my ntp easily Now it does try to check with google or quad9 to avoid LAN NTP server spoofing (when a router or server fakes the time). What's worse is [xxxx@lain ~]$ sudo ntpd -dv ntp engine ready constraint reply from 9.9.9.9: offset 29.73XXXX (<--quad 9) constraint reply from 172.217.xxx.xxx: offset 29.65XXXX (<--google) cancel settime because offset is negative or close enough (<--decided not to update clock wtf) It doesn't even try to update my time because the "offset" is close enough wtf openbsd? What does lain use to update NTP/clock? (now that openntpd is fuarkked) (preferably manually)

>>40136 Need to buy monero. Quickest platform that doesn't charge large fees? NYC laws requiring bank account, multiple face photos, bank statements, passport, address and other verifications are too much of a wait.

>>42805 localmonero.co if you dont have any other cryptos >want no fee, no KYC, fast you cant prioritise everything

Do you guys think linux with high-end gpu is useless for me? I'm not developer, i'm just using linux normally; do web surfing or youtube etc. Gonna sell my graphics card will be a wise choice?

>>42878 Right now is probably one of the best times to sell your GPU if it's just sitting there unused. Either that or start mining crypto on it.

>>42878 Maybe if your work involves rendering videos, graphics/CAD, paint software, and gamedev. Ask yourself: Do I learn or benefit from it? Do I have gaming buddies that I can't let go? If both no you can ditch the GPU but then reconsider the fact you can use it as eGPU for a laptop or as a dedicated mining rig (no gaming). Desktops are dumb, bulky, and take too much space if you're not an avid developer then having a laptop would suffice better and you can take it with you and sokafpost on the bed.

Will this cord fast charge an iPhone? Lightning to usbc adapter on a 61w charger. Does it work the same as a lightning usbc cable?

Can i use my gpu for compiling in linux? or is this a idiot idea? My gpu is really easygoing these days, so i want to make it more useful.

Is windows 10 really suck? I like and use linux distros nowadays. But i think win 10 is better to use wihout any concern or agony on linux.

>>43024 I have never used windows 10 because it was just a more stable Plasma 5 try-hard clone. The last windows I'd used was 8.1 and it got to the point that I had it set up perfectly, no telemetry, firewalls, nothing (at least on the surface level) but then it still creeps me out and I can't live without that "peace of mind" so I just settled for linux distros mainly while I only just see windows as a way for me to use its exclusive tools and programs.

>>40477 That is literally material design. >>40464 Almost all of the old outdated mp3/music player apps look good. What I genuinely use is Maple which has more features than all of paid music players I've used. It has a tempo/pitch shift and an equalizer that doesn't sound terrible.

In vim if you ran a command a certain number of times is there a way to change the number of times it ran. For example if you type 5in<Esc> it will type nnnnn. Is there a way to change it from having run 5 times to 3?

You guys have LG's smartphone? I have G6 which i don't use now. I think LG smartphone's quad dac is not bad so i wanna use it as a dac connect to pc. Is there any way to use connect this like PC-Mobile-Receiver? What i want to say is can i use mobile as a dac for pc.

lainon thoughts about minix https://www.minix3.org/

>>41809 Took too long to answer but nevertheless, thank you very much for the info, lainon.

>>43198 >MINIX An operating system most commonly run on Intel CPUs.

>>42395 Your host OS must be booting from UEFI firmware and not BIOS, or Virtualbox won't be able to boot UEFI OSes. I tried this with a Windows 7 host that boots from BIOS firmware and a Linux Mint CD for the VM a long time ago.

>>42189 First problem is that these 3.0 drives are formatted as Exfat out of the box so to benefit with 3.0 speeds (that rely on the partition format). To get universal bootability you will require to use FAT and even windows OS so you can defragment the image files (linux implementation isn't as great). FAT file system can only support files <4GB although you could still compress or split the image files. You can probably still make a bootable Exfat however you may get booting issues. https://www.easy2boot.com/ is recommended if you want an easy way to boot any distro or even non-linux OSes over faulty or normal BIOS/EFI. I've encountered laptops that had officially bugged BIOS and won't boot any bootable USB but e2b was an exception.

(Might start a proper thread on home IOT/assistant devices tomorrow) Any thoughts on Mycroft? Their Mark II Dev kits came out recently. Once they're consoomer-ready, I might buy one and pipe the text output through fifteen.ai API or another voice generator for lulz.

>install new RAM sticks >16 gigs of DDR4 >first thing I do after installing them, run memtest >no problems found, detects 16 gigs just fine >try to boot into linux >booting fails, some kind of infinite error message about the BIOS >when I try to reboot, BIOS doesn't come up >BIOS doesn't even come up if I turn off the power for 5 minutes and come back >no beeps, just a running computer with no output what the fuarrrk is up with my computer lains? Does my chipset just not know how to deal with this much memory? I'm using a 1st-gen Ryzen processor, 5200 I believe, but I can check. I re-seated the memory multiple times, one time when apparently one of them was seated incorrectly I could boot and everything worked but I only had 8 gigs of memory.

>>43410 more info: CPU is a Ryzen 5 1500X, memory is 2x8 GB crucial DDR4 auto-clocked to 2666 Mhz (which is recommended), I can boot everything if I use only one stick in the DIMM B slot. Motherboard is a Asus B350M-E. It's had some problems before but never with this frequency or severity

>>43411 After a little more testing, I narrowed it down to a single RAM stick that is broken. Weird, since I got memtest to verify both at the same time twice. I guess there was some kind of defect with the chip that meant it broke after just a few dozen reads/writes? It could also be some kind of ESD but I think that's unlikely considering that the stick worked at least once, and I discharged my hand by touching the PSU before touching the component. In any case, I will just send back the stick and claim it was DOA.

>>40136 Using the free partition wizard windows application is it possible to clone an sd that would have hidden unix partitions on it? I never use linux. I recently gave up on making a pi work as a 'non-android pda' and the pocketgo seemed 'okay for books and retro gaming as it has a text reading ability it seems (it's in the mail)' but no links to download it's firmware work so far. I have tried three, mega's is dead, google drive has a download limit blocking me and a third option keeps taking five hours but the download locks up if I keep 'retrying' when it fails, as that is too long apparently with the modern Internet to wait. Ergo sometimes it ends up saying '13 days' and such. it won't work. I think the pw program might work to install it but not clone it once it gets here, so I don't like the idea of even using a device that relies on a very breakable sd without backups basically. Archive.org had no links I could find and there were nor torrents either for pocketgo's cfw 1.3etc firmware. I even tried google's other links for older than 1.3.3 and they had the limit on as well. I loaded up tor to see if it's my area but I guess not, someone must just be downloading it too often, or 'viewing it'. Of which is silly. Just viewing it to see how big it is could be triggering the download limit. Google is so bad, but anyway, my only link is https://rs97.bitgala.xyz/Miyoo%20Devices/Pocketgo%20cfw/Pocketgo_CFW_v1.3.3_04_19_20.img.7z but it keeps failing to download and I've tried for about 5 hours. My question thus is CAN I use that pw wizard to clone all four, if I recall it was four, unix partitions of the pocketgo? I just want a portable non-android computer that can play games and read text files and after having far too much pain over raspberry pi I alternated to this sort of thing and were on a budget.

>>40137 KaiOS is what you want, Nokia makes a flip phone with KaiOS

>>43466 KaiOS collects a lot of user information. If you decide to get Nokia 8110 4G, flash it with GerdaOS.

Is there any way I can write a script that empties my gmail bin once every hour (or another time interval) ?

>>43537 Yes. Just use the API.

>>43550 Thank you anon 11

What is a linux distribution with the largest amount of packages that are up to date, and such that it won't break if I don't update regularly? I was thinking of maybe giving bedrock linux a try, but not sure.

Is there a tiling window manager with a simple config file similar to i3's that would support windowmaker dockapps? Essentially I really like i3's default keybinds and config file. But I also love the vertical dock I havei n window maker. And I want to mix them together. So what window manager should I look in to that lets me do this as simply as possible?

>>43024 It's possible to remove a lot of bloat and telemetry from Win10. Personally I've installed the Education edition which has less to begin with and disabled a tremendous amount of 'services' to accomplish this. The friendly windows thread on /g/ is what guided me in this. https://rentry.co/fwt#windows-10-enterprise-ltsc-2019 I recommend it

What are your thoughts on the state of cert authorities? I'd like a distrust list for these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar Apparently it had been bankrupt since 2011. As you can see on the bottom part* It has made its way into my "added" certificate servers and you cannot add a custom CA with a Server:* wildcard by allowing an exception. You might as well check your browser certificates. On chrome, it was distrusted. I believe pale moon might have been compromised by either the packer (chaotic AUR, arch AUR) or some clever web/local malware that I had stumbled upon which infected my browser profile at some point. Although Pale moon explicitly distrusts the certificate as seen on the first row, it's still a mystery as to how an exception was added into without my knowledge.

how should i make my kindle comfy and drm free? any cool software or modifications i can install?

>>43744 You'll probably need to install a custom ROM if that's a thing on Kindles. Pretty sure it is on the Kindle 5 or lower, but you're out of luck on newer models (paperwhite and newer I believe).

>>43761 i have a kindle keyboard, which is 3rd gen i think? where do i find custom roms

I didn't find thread for mpv or ffmpeg, so I decided to post here. I adapted ffmpeg command for music webm (vp8) to mp4 (h264) and it worked great everywhere but in mpv, for some reason .mp4 version makes mpv crash if I try skipping 5 seconds with arrow keys. Any ideas why? Original command. (attached file) ffmpeg -i audio -r 1 -loop 1 -i /tmp/cover_0.jpg -c:v libvpx -crf 20 -b:v 0 -g 9999 -sn -c:a libopus -b:a 96k -ac 2 -metadata title="6Q2Pb3hoxlY" -shortest -auto-alt-ref 0 -f webm out.webm Adapted one. (this board doesn't support mp4 https://files.catbox.moe/jwluyt.mp4) ffmpeg -ss 0 -i audio -r 1 -loop 1 -i /tmp/cover_0.jpg -crf 20 -b:v 0 -g 9999 -sn -t 3:08 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a libopus -b:a 96k -ac 2 -metadata title="6Q2Pb3hoxlY" -shortest -auto-alt-ref 0 -f mp4 out.mp4

Hi, i want to move to windows 8.1 embedded from void linux. I really love linux distros because it's really fun and interesting to use. You guys think it's bad idea? I'm gonna wait until yours answer.

>>43825 what's the context? what do you want to use your computer for?

My thinkpad keyboard is nice, but has a slight greasy feeling on some of the keys. The thinklight shows the grime. How would I go about cleaning it off, if possible, without taking the letters off the keys? If it's not possible to clean it off, could I get a new/renewed keyboard? Using a T420s.

This question may be best reserved for interactive media but it is tech so I'll ask here: Would Steamplay also help play games from GOG and games for Win10 on Linux Mint? I have been giving serious thought to taking the Linux Mint pill due to MS going off the deepend with Win10 updates that make certain application nonfunctional. Or is Win10 not as bad as they say? Any programs to help remove bloat if I go with Win10 for my next PC?

>>43885 Proton is good for steam games, but is a bit of a bitch to run on external games, though it can be done with some fuarrrking around.

>>43886 Lutris and wine runners. You just need to symlink proton's dist directory which you'll find at /.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/$SOME_PROTON_VERSION/dist to whatever name you want in ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine . Just like that it works. Then you just have to modify the game's properties to use that runner version.

>>43900 I accidentally'd ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/$SOME_PROTON_VERSION/dist and a few spaces.

>>43852 just wipe it with a microfibre cloth made damp with a tiny bit of alcohol >>43885 proton has worked for every game i've thrown at it, sometimes you need to use an older version of proton for some games. i've not tried anything non-steam though

>>43412 If you had a carpet on the floor, that could kill whatever you're holding. I just usually touch concrete floors/walls with my feet and the hands that I will be using for assembly. Touching the psu while holding the ram could give it ESD. since there is a possibility that your psu case isn't actually earthed or whatever is connected into it that uses 2-pin AC like monitor without ground could make your setup unearthed even when the display cable is connected (even when it is turned off).

>>43942 That spoilered info is actually pretty important. Grounding is a priority, and building codes around the world are starting to mandate it everywhere anyway.

So, are you a still a hard drive hobo, or a glorious member of the solid state society? I only use hard drives in my desktop now, SSDs are the only viable choice for boot drives and laptops

>>43983 Hard drives are absolutely worth it if you combine them with something like Optane.

I'm using void linux now. And i want to change other linux distro. I think Nix or Qubes. Would you tell me any good idea? I'd used funtoo and arch/artix short time.

I know Radeon's graphic driver is opened. But almost error when i install linux is occured by this one. I'm using rx5700 now. And when i try to debian or debian based distros, after installing, black screen is came to me (but kali, parrot, ubuntu etc which are excessive customized were okay.) also Redhat based distros show me failed to start load kernal modules after installing. The last one is Artix. I dunnno why, but after installing, and try to update with pacman -Su gives to me black screen likes debian's. I searched all those errors on google, and i got almost of that situation was came from radeon. Why radeon's driver is such bad at compatibility even though it's opened? I know older amdgpus are more compatibility maybe.

What would be the best applications or methods for debloating Win10 or blocking intrusive and harmful official updates?

>>44234 use LTSC and go from there

I'm trying to make a new software license because I don't like any of the ones that exist now. I want it to be curt, have some form of copyleft, and not require any attribution. Is this actually legally sound? Would it have any real, practical use? I don't know legal soykaf. LAIN PUBLIC LICENSE Copyright <YEAR> <ORIGINAL SITE OF NON-MODIFIED DISTRIBUTION> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code, with or without modification, must retain the entirety of this license. 2. Redistributions in binary form, with or without modification, must reproduce the entirety of this license in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

>>44248 >I don't know legal soykaf Then discuss it with a lawyer instead of asking random people on the Internet.

>>44260 One of those random people might know something about it, and they don't ask for 50$ per minute of their time.

>>43942 Don't forget the ethernet cable. Most routers from internet provider might not have a proper ground coming in from the WAN/ISP side or even the AC/home side since they usually design routers to not have grounding (maybe it messes with the wireless output if you earth a signal emitter). Ethernet cable or any cable must be plugged off before touching components. >>43852 I don't think the letters could come off that easily. The problem would be when the keys start to get shiny and smooth which means it's been pressed for quite a lot of time and it gives a permanent greasy feel. There are plenty of Chinese factory components available for Thinkpad like on Aliexpress but you might have to clean the pin strips of the new keyboard assuming it had some corrosion going on.

>>44265 there is a lot of free legal advice services out there

>The AGM is set for April 20th at 00:00 UTC in mumble What did they mean by this? Sorry if I am too new to understand but what is the AGM? It doesn't appear in the >>>/calender/ either

>>44248 Why not just leverage an already existing license? I can almost guarantee that you're not the first person looking to do the same thing. https://choosealicense.com/appendix/

what happened to the gemini thread? if it was deleted for logical reason can someone please link me the archives?thanks

how do I change this to a cross (x) and directly click it to dismiss/delete the notification instead of just putting them all in the sidebar like how it is right now?

which dns would lain recommend for casual browsing? I'd like to avoid cf dns or ad company dns but keep the "sheep's clothing" and be in the herd. something that isn't off the charts or all over the radar (like DOT/DOH/libre alts/known and filtered for unique activity on IP/ports) and something that isn't blatantly collecting or connected to the eyes (like q9 I think).

After migrating from Palehoon before librewolf, I can't save pages... Nothing looks like scrapbook x... WebScrapbook is soykaf, SingleFile soykaf Is to. The newest Firefox versions have good additions to archive pages?

>>44537 What's stopping you from using both? You mean librewolf can't save pages? Same as all Firefox/forks. I think it's a problem with all modern firefox. They deleted all legacy add-ons like the idiots they are and the devs no longer bothered on remaking 'webextension' versions after the add-ons annihilation. Just use Basilisk. Don't even bother with Waterfox (owned by ad company?)

>>44595 >What's stopping you from using both? Not very comfortable. >You mean librewolf can't save pages? Of course it can, but scrapbook x does it much better and much more than just saves. https://github.com/danny0838/firefox-scrapbook >Just use Basilisk. Maybe I'll try. Thanks.

What do I need to do to get a sub-10-second (post-firmware) boot time on a kinda old laptop that doesn't support latest Intel OptiPeePee Proprietary Resume Technology or whatever? I'm running Fedora right now, but am not particularly wedded to any particular distro; I just want something capable of not choking and stalling and pondering for a while during boot. Laptop's an HP ELiteBook 8470p, i5-3230M, 8GB RAM, and I got an SSD off AliExpress recently

>>44595 >librewolf can't save pages? Same as all Firefox/forks Whaat? No; that's not the case on Firefox 85.0.1 (from the Fedora repos, but I've never ever heard anything about that feature disappearing, outside of this thread)

>>44685 *sorry, attached the wrong file

Any good alternatives to youtube? I'm working on making a video, but I don't want to post it on youtube.

>>44862 PeerTube https://joinpeertube.org/

>>41945 how did you get the status bar to only show open tags? (the default is show 1-9, and just highlight the ones you have stuff open on)

What is the cleanest way to backup Debian packages with all of their dependencies? I want to make a local database of Linux software so that I can use my computer entirely offline Also, is it better to backup packages from Ubuntu, or Debian? I think, Debian packages are compatible with Ubuntu, but not vise versa, is that correct? >>44862 alternativeto.com may have the answer

>>44870 Just apply this patch https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/hide_vacant_tags/

>>44869 Damn, there's so many instances! Which one could you recommend? No NSFW content, please.

>>44862 BitChute is by and far the best alternative, LBRY/ODYSEE is second IMHO

>>44862 >>44869 seconding peertube, they've put in a lot of effort to make it better and are implementing all kinds of features, but really the thing that makes it novel is their federation feature, which I hope improves >>44890 wasn't there some controversy around bitchute because it wasn't actually decentralized?

i recently repasted an old laptop i had ( toshiba l355 ) and its cpu is an athlon ql-60 ( socket s1 ). what is the best upgrade i can get for this laptop cpu wise? i was thinking a phenom II mobile cpu or sempron

N4020 is bad to use? I don't play games. also I don't watch high-resolution videos. I just use pc for youtube, lainchan and studying. I have a chance to choose n4020 or 6405u.

>>44890 >>44892 >BitChute >suffers same problems as youtube >already censored vids and channels >site is registered near to british intelligence Site registered 29th May 2014. 6 months later British intelligence psyop 77th brigade begin operations and BitChute is s.hilled heavily everywhere. Pure 'coincidence'. Bitchute glows. Only qlarpers use it seriously

>>44890 >BitChute is by and far the best alternative This is a joke isn't it?

>>44941 Yeah I agree, there are so many videos and channels too on BItchute that are not available. I think that LBRY or PeerTube are the two best alternatives to YouTube.

I am trying to install my first linux distro (debian) on my old macbook air, but it doesnt recognize my networkcard or driver (Broadband BCM43xx) Already tried to look up online but it doesnt help or it requires internet to fix. Anyway to fix this bros ;(

I am trying to install my first linux distro (debian) on my old macbook air, but it doesnt recognize my networkcard or driver (Broadband BCM43xx) Already tried to look up online but it doesnt help or it requires internet to fix. Anyway to fix this bros ;(

>>44949 Posted twice my bad

How do i configure dnscrypt-proxy on windows(yes i know). Do i need to add inbound and outbound rules? I have it somewhat configured but when i try reaching a site it doesn't work.

>>44949 Get the nonfree wifi firmware for the respective card and put it on the root of a usb drive. Then during the netinstall it should recognize the firmware when u plug it in. (for my intel wifi card it did anyways) https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook/Wireless this should help.

>>44948 I agree with what >>44982 said, but Debian also offers a nonfree ISO if you get stuck.

anything I can read/watch on the subject?

Hi tech, I am looking forward to buy an Inspiron 9400 just to edit some docs and watch stuff. Is it good for that? Also are they durable? I don't want to repair stuff constantly.

Okay so I have this usb with linux burned to it and i wanna transfer the os and data from the usb to the computer to run linux without the drive and keep my info. How tf do i do that?

who created the mbr and gpt standards? are they open standards?

>>44948 Its been blacklisted due to the issues with broadcom itself. There was an exploit called broadpwn which is pretty bad. Either you just replace the wifi card if its possible or just have it disabled for security reasons.

>>44684 Does hibernation work well with your setup? You can use ssd for swap/hibernstion partition.If you used encryption you can lower the iteration time I think to save a few seconds.

>>45013 Install the OS then rsync the files you want to keep?

can someone give me a good matrix client i can use? i dont really like element that much. i only really need to be able to add and talk to other people i dont need voice calls.

>>45156 Less voice and more about the E2E encryption. Hard to avoid element at the moment but the GTK one is getting pretty mature.

Anybody know if there's chans operating over Gopher/Gemini protocols? Thought making a simple one might be a cool little project to fuarrrk around with

wanna start building a cyberdeck soon but i dont have a 3d printer so, what's a good (but affordable) 3d resin printer? i also dont have the money to pay some company to print it for me, but its not ENTIRELY off the table

I remember somebody posted about a discord-like program with forum functionality, does anybody know what was it called? I forgot.

Two questions about dwm. The first is, what is the symbol at the end of the tags? On my setup it is two brackets with a backslash [\] I notice on some other peoples setups, it is like two brackets and an equal sign []= ? Also my other question is, why would someone have ssh-agent dwm instead of exec dwm in their xinitrc? (https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/blob/master/.config/x11/xinitrc)

>>45556 >what is the symbol at the end of the tags? oh, I think I see. It tells you what layout mode you're in.

>>45556 Besides the ssh-agent question, one other question I have is what patch do I need for pseudo-tiling?

why are tiling window managers better? genuinely asking here - i dont personally see any way that they're BETTER, but maybe im missing something

>>40794 it pings to the nasa, no joke.

>>45580 Points: >light on system resources (My dwm build uses 0.1% cpu, and 0.1% memory) >utilizes space on your screen more efficiently >nice to be able to use the keyboard for mostly everything (especially on laptops) >extreme customization, can setup tailored exactly for your workflow >multiple workspaces/tags to easily have multiple "virtual desktops" and move stuff between them (DE's have this, but WM's implement it better imo) >does require a bit more setup, and a bit of time to learn and understand, but in the long run can save you lots of time and make you more productive and comfortable >can be duplicated in seconds to another machine >security, depending on your wm and setup of it. >Efficiency Once you get it setup how you like it, it's nice rarely needing to use the mouse. I feel so uncomfortable and inefficient using DE's now. It does take a little time to learn, and configure, but once you have it setup for you, it's worth it in the long run.. You have multiple work-spaces, you can keep them all dedicated to nothing and move stuff at your will, or you can dedicate them to certain types of programs. Like workspace 6 for videos, workspace 1 for web browser, 2 for music and audio control, 3 for chat stuff like XMPP and IRC, etc. It also is heavily keyboard focused (although some wm's offer lots of mouse functionality, it's generally keyboard focused. This is great on laptops, although still amazing on desktops too. This allows you to keep your hands on the keyboard, quickly do tasks, switch stuff, etc. Instead of constantly going back and forth between a mouse. On Thinkpads, this is only increased because there are occasions where programs do need the mouse, but with the Trackpoint you can still keep your hands on the keyboard. >Replication It's extremely easy to copy your entire config to another machine, you basically install the program on machine two, and then copy your .configs over and you have your WM replicated on the second machine essentially. >Lightweight In comparison to the large marjority of DE's, WMs are generally EXTREMELY lightweight, use significantly less resources, and can be more secure due to less code. If you go the dwm route, it comes bare minimum, you apply some patches then you have only what you need, no extra stuff. >Security Depending on your setup, and what WM you use, this can vary. But using DWM for example, because DWM works on a DWM comes with no features, then you apply the patches manually (which is easier than most people make it out to be), you ONLY have features you need in it. No extra features, or junk, and small code-base. >My WM Suggestions For beginners, I'd suggest bspwm. The config syntax is easier than i3, the config can be done in like less than 50 lines, and it separates key-binds to a separate program (sxhkd) which is nicer than having it all in one config like i3 imo.. When you get more comfortable if you want to switch/"upgrade" I'd suggest dwm personally. Also remember you can always have it setup so you can swap between the WM and DE if you need too, or want to while working on configuring your WM slowly or something breaks you have a fallback that isn't the TTY. Personally I don't even have a DE installed anymore, just the WM. It's very /comfy/ indeed. https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm https://dwm.suckless.org/

>>45589 Openbsd's openntpd took a drastic turn and instead now verifies the current time with google's up-to-date certs, through cloudflare and quad9 dns which in itself may be considered overkill for security since outdated system may cause it to trigger and use bad certificate and cause your system to get pwned through some kind of dns-related attack https:// www.zdnet.com/article/isc-urges-updates-of-dns-servers-to-wipe-out-new-bind-vulnerabilities/ although at the sacrifice of your privacy by using said companies as "default" it used to be that you just run a single command and your time gets updated, now it needs to use dns, check a trustable website which spits out the current time, set your time from that reference and after all that work then finally check the ntp servers.

>>45527 i remembered wasn't worth it

>>45527 There was one that got taken down after it became known that it was a botnet.

>>45607 Not op, my config shows constraint from google. I read the documents on what constraint means, but I don't really understand it-What would one need to change it to not go through google.. And are there any suggestions for what to use instead of google, for security and privacy?

why do people tout KDE as the most customizable DE if i still have to edit 15 different svg files, and even then it doesn't make the changes i made as if i never touched the files in the first place? seriously all i fuarrrking want to do is change the colour of the taskbar that is genuinely all i want to do but i cant i have opened every fuarrrking SVG in the theme im using, hue shifted ALL of them, saved them, switched to another theme and back, rebooted, everything BUT ITS STILL fuarrrkING WHITE

>>45679 really? is there anyone who still use it

iphone without apple id is okay to use as a daily driver? I know IOS is good at security, but I don't know that's good at privacy. Which do you prefer? IOS without Apple ID or a custom rom(in my case, lineage os) without gapps?

A really strange message appeared in a conversation with my mom on Signal. While it says it was sent from her, she wasn't on her phone and got a notification about it, as did I. It's about something with a cabin. I'll try to translate the incoherent mess "in yes I am so much to learn about the most used that that a cabin trip and I". Our conversations are always in Norwegian, which makes this so much weirder. There's a bunch of random characters in there so it must be a glitch of some sort. But was it sent from her phone? A server problem?

This isn't worthy of its own thread, but just so you know Djvu is god's format. PDFs can store arbitrary executables and compromise your system, not to mention they have much worse compression for scanned documents. The advantage of PDFs is in embedded fonts which save space for non-scanned documents, but Djvu even in these cases is able to produce a reasonable sized file at high resolution.

>>45780 >PDFs can store arbitrary executables and compromise your system Do you have any suggestions for CLI tools on cleaning PDFs?

>>45781 >Do you have any suggestions for CLI tools on cleaning PDFs? I saw one that was particularly popular on github the other day called peepdf, but I don't plan on using this personally. My plan is just to convert random PDFs to Djvu and then transfer via USB to my air-gapped machine for reading.

>>45772 Server problems are common, I've had conversations sent to the different people in some popular message service though everyone knew about the glitch. All I can think of with that is its either some kind of speech to text or maybe the phone was compromised. Could just be another case of "leaving your phone in your pocket with screen turned on" which happened with me before although it was a lot more incoherent like random letters numbers and symbols (since I use hacker's keyboard).

>>45690 Maybe learn2SVG moar (which I plan on doing) or it's likely that you're editing the wrong file. Don't use the editor that they provide, it is like kicking dead whales down the beach. I remember kde keeps copies of window themes, color schemes, and aurorae themes somewhere in /home/.. and editing those sometimes do nothing since it would still read the files inside /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/.. Even if you did manage to duplicate and edit that duplicate, you'd still have to edit the metadata so there's no Name collisions. I only use the default breeze theme so the taskbar colors follow my window color schemes. Also, don't forget svg/svgz can be opened as a text file.

I need a pdf viewer for android that have text selection and dark theme. Any recommendations? Document viewer is good but no text selection.

I'm so frustrated. Ever since I uninstalled flash like an idiot only about half of swf files work on all my browsers. I really like 4chan.org/f and now not only do only half of them give me a black/white screen (audio works), but there's like a 30 second wait per swf file whereas it used to be instant. Please help.

>>45853 you can use a standalone flash player. i use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flashplayer-standalone/

>>40668 https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

>>45834 Moon+ Reader Pro

>>44234 https://wpd.app/ >>43558 NixOS. >>42911 "No, you cannot compile using GPUs. Nearly all compiled languages that provide binaries (basically C or C++) are made to run code on the CPU, not the GPU." >>42067 Use it and experiment. >>41862 */index.rss

>>45857 oh I'm using a mac. lol

Posting here since the browser thread had reached the limit. >>45374 >install chromium >see >>40802 >"privacy" The only ones you deal with privacy is companies that want your data and most of the time these companies run these browsers or have some form of agreement with another. >connect to a VPN. In theory this is correct but in practice your browser actually now store your previous IP/country/location/timezone into the browser itself (on mozilla you can see it on about:config) which websites have special API to get the previous data. Lets say you used a VPN now but way before that you have used your own IP which would mean your browser has your last real IP/country/location/timezone to share which exactly defeats the purpose of your VPN. This is why you could see posts online claiming they had used VPN but then some modern website still knows their real location (most commonly through location services and other API soykaf they do to defeat VPN). You have to give up privacy for security unless you're smart enough to just firewall and do IP whitelisting on all of your connections and program applications.

>>40668 GrapheneOS supports multiple user profiles with their own completely separate encrypted storage.

>>45876 I think VLC can play .swf files if I remember rightly.

>>46017 Ok I enabled VLC for the web but my flash files are still not working, even if VLC is open. I also tried add interface>web. To b clear, I don't want to have to download SWF files to play them.

>>46017 nevermind my friend helped me, it works on firefox 64-bit

Question on recent hardware revisions of the Pinebook Pro. I'm debating getting one to replace an aging/failing laptop. Anyone have experience with a recent model? All the reviews I've found indicate some Q&A issues, but those reviews were from a year ago. Anything change since then?

>>40136 Good online courses about networks and infrastructure in general?

My win10 laptop has been saying its OS version is EndOfService and needs to install a new one, but I can't find any information anywhere if this is like a total reinstall of the system where I need to backup my files and make sure I dont get locked out of my currently logged in accounts and all that, or if it'll leave all that alone and just touch the system, not anything else. Would ask microsoft themselves but dont want to make an account with them just to ask a single ass question.

>>46206 1. You should always have a backup. 2. Assume the Windows update will fail, and plan accordingly.

Why don't more feed items than 10 appear in my QuiteRSS? I've double-checked and the original pages have well above that number, it seems to be a cap I can't find and change the settings of. Anyone here have experience with ==QuiteRSS== specifically?

Can somebody explain SOCs and Backplanes to me? Can I take any soc and put it in to any backplane as I desire?

What about netbsd? I'm using fedora now. But I want to move to bsd. Which bsd is good for newcomer? I'm considering between open and net

privacy as much as possible

How make find not follow symlinks? I believe find follows a symbolic link recursively because it links to a directory above itself.