Bitrot

Bitrot, 9 months ago

Still possible to break your bootloader.

Bitrot, 9 months ago

Your instance hasn’t updated so it is not an option yet. When they do update it will be on the same page underneath the community block option.

Bitrot, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I just get ads in multiple languages, even in podcasts.

Bitrot, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

fwupd can install from exe using the Dell script in github.com/fwupd/fwupd/tree/…/firmware_packager

However that model is supported natively too: fwupd.org/lvfs/…/com.dell.uefi3b49e316.firmware

IE: install gnome-firmware from flatpak or native package manager and it can do the whole thing, no need to download some exe.

Bitrot, 9 months ago

Starting December 4th free users are limited to 50 notes and one notebook.

Bitrot, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

If you use Obsidian for work you generally need to pay for the commercial license, with some exceptions. I like to mention it because people grab it from flathub without reading the license terms. This is not including the sync fee.

Bitrot, 9 months ago

They announced it in late November: evernote.com/blog/evernote-free-note-limits

Bitrot, 9 months ago

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, 9 months ago

Yeah Boox seems nice but I won’t support a comany that violates open source software licenses.

Bitrot, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

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, 9 months ago

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

Bitrot, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

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, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

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, 9 months ago

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, 10 months ago

(It’s from the movie The Naked Gun)

Bitrot, 10 months ago

Heaven forbid we know a common name.

Bitrot, 10 months ago

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

Bitrot, 10 months ago

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, 10 months ago

It is a very typical way of doing things, you just have to read the output and make sure no important packages are in the list.

Your command should be working. It won’t remove manually installed dependencies but should take care of automatic ones. You can check an individual package with apt show and look at the APT-Manual-Installed field.

Bitrot, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

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.

Bitrot, 9 months ago

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, 10 months ago

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

Bitrot, 10 months ago

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

Bitrot, 10 months ago

Currently Gnome will only allow you to connect to a logged in session. It is more like screen sharing than RDP usually is.

Bitrot, 10 months ago

Think this model predates apps on the iPod.