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Bitrot, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What are the best e-readers on the market?

It is not compatible with Kindle unless you remove the drm and convert it, but it can be done. It is compatible with Adobe Digital Editions which is pretty much what every store except Amazon uses.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to linux in Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

It’s reminiscent of boot sector viruses in the DOS days.

Bitrot, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to linux in Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

It can outlast those too.

In many of these cases, however, it’s still possible to run a software tool freely available from the IBV or device vendor website that reflashes the firmware from the OS. To pass security checks, the tool installs the same cryptographically signed UEFI firmware already in use, with only the logo image, which doesn’t require a valid digital signature, changed.

Bitrot, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to privacyguides in Governments spying on Apple and Google users through phone notifications, U.S. senator says

Curious about this too. From what I could find, for those it seems like the push is being used to wake up the app and tell it to connect to the server where it grabs the data and then creates the notification locally. Even if a bare minimum is used there is room for traffic analysis, and I imagine Google can easily tell the app being targeted for the push, but it shouldn’t mean the contents of the displayed notification are necessarily what was sent through the server. It’s hard to find info without digging because consumer-facing stuff just calls every notification a push notification.

The alternative is an app keeping a constant connection open to the server, which understandably mobile OSs don’t like. With push only the one service needs to keep an open connection to provide updates for all the apps.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to asklemmy in Anyone else no longer remember snoozing their alarm?

Some are integrated in smoke detectors. Down low is a myth based on many detectors using an outlet. CO is lighter than air but widely disperses in a room.

Bitrot, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to asklemmy in Which items/products were you once able to get from local shops on a whim that you now more or less have to order online?

A surprising number of those things have ended up being at my local Best Buy (including both of your examples), but lower level components like resistors are impossible to find. Even at hobby shops there are only components specifically related to rc vehicles, nothing miscellaneous.

Edit: I guess this was a common opinion. You’d think interest had picked up with so many electronics “maker” things popping up with Arduino or the Pi.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to linux in [Q] Removing/deep cleanup of installed package doesn't work as expected. (remove, purge, autoremove)

If something else depends on it then it shouldn’t be removed, it’s only removing things that are not used elsewhere.

Usually just reading through the packages it’s listing and double check what it’s doing is enough. If something is removing a ton of gnome and you’re not trying to remove gnome, that would be an issue. If something is trying to remove the kernel (unless it’s an old kernel) or grub that’s also worth digging into. I’ve never run into problems with it, I don’t think it’s common these days.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to linux in What's the best way to remote into a linux machine?

It also doesn’t require a session to be logged in at the local console.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to linux in What's the best way to remote into a linux machine?

RustDesk Has worked pretty well for me on the rare occasions I need it.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to asklemmy in Customs Officers: Have you ever laughed out loud when someone gave you their passport and they had an… unusual name?

There are people with the last name Null and they tend to have issues with poorly written applications too.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to asklemmy in Customs Officers: Have you ever laughed out loud when someone gave you their passport and they had an… unusual name?

Heaven forbid we know a common name.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to upliftingnews in Henry Kissinger, America’s Most Notorious War Criminal, Dies At 100

(It’s from the movie The Naked Gun)

Bitrot, 1 year ago to linux in Laptop not working after installing nimdow

What greeter are you using? GDM? You can disable auto login from the command line.

Assuming gdm, as root edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and set AutomaticLoginEnable=False.

Bitrot, 1 year ago to linux in Ipod problems

Think this model predates apps on the iPod.

Bitrot, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to linux in [Q] Removing/deep cleanup of installed package doesn't work as expected. (remove, purge, autoremove)

Ah, I can duplicate this behavior too. I think it is probably related to emacs being a metapackage. It does not include emacs itself but forces the install of emacs-gtk. In my mind removing the metapackage should allow you to autoremove dependencies, but people have broken their systems badly with this behavior so it may have been changed or it’s stuck behind some configuration option.

Removing emacs-gtk itself will work as you expect. You can also install emacs-nox for a cli-only one that is smaller.

Edit: there is a setting called APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections that by default includes meta packages and I think is the cause of this.