drwho

@drwho@beehaw.org

Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

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drwho,

Hmm.

We’ll see.

drwho,

Yeah, that should be fine.

Anything in the kernel message buffer? dmesg -T | less

drwho,

I’m not seeing anything relevant to lockups or crashes in there. Pretty boring logs.

drwho,

I don’t use Bluetooth a whole lot on my Linux box (Arch Linux 20231128, MATE Desktop Environment, bluetoothd, pulseaudio). That said, I have blueman-manager in my system tray all the time, and it seems to do a decent job of managing two pairs of headphones (they’re there, and I use them occasionally, just not often). The thing that seems to work for me is to use pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control) to set the parameters of the Bluetooth headphones while they’re active and associated, and those settings are stored for later. That way, when I’m wearing a pair of those headphones my laptop’s speakers are automatically muted, the Bluetooth headphones go back to where I had them before, and whatever I happen to be playing back through (Firefox, vlc, whatever) automatically cut over to them and away from the (now muted) speakers).

I guess I just did it one step at a time - get bluetooth turned on, get a pair of headphones associated with them, then turn off speakers, then… I iterated on it until I had something that worked.

drwho,

As long as you follow the instructions you should be okay.

drwho,

Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.

drwho,

eBay.

drwho,

Does the number have to accept an SMS for verification, or can it be, say, a phone call?

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration (www.phoronix.com)

The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

drwho,

I know, that wasn’t the question I asked.

drwho,

And how many respins of Ubuntu are out there that just have their own repos? Quite a few, as I recall.

drwho,

Minimal risk for them. The state of monitoring as a whole is such that they can use such an 0-day for a couple of years before anybody notices it. It’s far more likely that the vulnerability is noticed and patched without anyone even realizing that it’s been actively exploited.

drwho,

About as much as having a single functional eye in a country where everybody is blind makes you king.

drwho,

Have you ever tried programming in straight x86 assembly? :P

drwho,

Could also have to do with running a gauntlet of lawyers to be allowed to open some code you wrote.

drwho,

Very much so.

drwho,

I’ve been trying to rewrite asciiquarium in Python off and on for a while. As it turns out, I suck at ASCII graphics just as much as high res.

drwho,

apk isn’t any more or less than using dpkg by itself, or opkg. As for what I use, I use Arch at home and Ubuntu on my virtual machines (because they’re officially supported by my hosting provider). They work for me. I like them.

drwho,

That’s understandable. However, pf (OpenBSD’s firewall system) is incredibly logical and easy to use. I never expected to write a fully operational (bloody thing worked the first time I tried it!) firewall ruleset on a two hour flight from scratch.

drwho,

No, I don’t. My best informed guess is that the wifi connection’s state machine gets stuck once in a while, it misses a couple of packets, and then sits there doing nothing. So, by kicking it a little it doesn’t get a chance to freeze up.

drwho,

It's probably between 60 and 140 pF. Those are the ones that you'll normally find in crystal radios for tuning.

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