Anyone know of a good way I can have some #selfhosted service set as an #ethernet#networking gateway which I can then toggle on/off - killing all traffic I route that way?
Yes, I am looking for an easier way of manually cutting teenager internet access.
Cool. It's sometimes hard to remember, but virtually anything you do manually in the shell (e.g. tweaking routes in iptables or whatever) can pretty much be dumped in a file and run as a script.
The secret sauce of a Unix/Linux admin - if you find yourself typing the same thing, drop it in a script.
The average time from my needing to do something to having it in git versioned nix modules across my different hosts is short to perhaps a silly degree.
@AngryAnt Right. :p It's the classic mansplaining: "let me tell you what I heard about the thing you've been dealing with daily for 10 years" sort of thing. >_<
@slembcke But it is even worse than that, given that it is a personalization choice. We are borderline "but why do you like the colour green when I don't?" here.
The number of fucks anyone should give are so very deep into the error margin.
Ok all this drama aside, super excite for by my #fairphone 5 shipping notification listing expected arrival as Monday - so I'll be able to pick it up Tuesday :)
That gives me this weekend to rig a #NextCloud#NixOS install so I can dump all my #iCloud photos to it. Excite :)
Thankfully I didn’t have to take the battle with UPS. Fairphone did that in stead and express-delivered a replacement unit - plus a refund of all shipping costs.
@AngryAnt@Erik_W_B are you looking at the used market? I'm US based, so my view of used IT gear is likely skewed, but I'm seeing prices under $1k for LTO6 drives. It's on my list, as I'm also sitting on a few dozen TB of data I don't have a good plan for backing up.
Oh, I have yet to settle on a good RSS client, meaning:
No ads.
Support for feed groups/folders.
Fairly minimalist feed overview.
A "today" view.
Per-feed settings of "always show the reader-view-site for a post - not the feed content".
I guess more or less "feedly, but no ads or SASS".
"Read You" is what I'm currently running - which doesn't do the per-feed reader view setting and worse opens post links in the system browser. Otherwise it is really nice.
@MouseByTheSea So when I build a patch like the above I first rummage through their reference source to locate where I want to operate and then load the assemblies up in ILSpy to pinpoint my edit points.
@AngryAnt They could include said middleware as binary libs?
Unless the engine source is a big % of middleware, in which case there won't be much gain.
My resource for preferring "source open" is partly since I can debug down the stack to better understand what the engine is doing, and partly to know I can patch something nasty if I need too (with all the risk and caveats patching an engine entails of course).
Most of the 23rd was spent on holiday celebration stuff, but I did find a little time in the morning to upcycle a 2015 MacBook pro to running latest NixOS, full GPU w. Vulkan & Wayland support too.
The minion greatly appreciates the upgraded Roblox experience.
Next upcycle projects are replacing worn microswitches on otherwise excellent mice, and investigating a reverse-engineering project to auto-boot an old iMac with a nice display into target display mode.
@AngryAnt Apologies for the late reply and thank you for all the details! I'll definitely give this a go :) Have you noticed any differences in battery life? Does sleep/resume work when you close the lid?
@theWarhelm Battery life is not likely to be exactly as good, given that macOS does a good amount of device-sepcific driving.
That said, modern day Linux is a whole lot better on laptops than was previously the case. You should not see a dramatic change. I would expect better than with Windows though.
When configured for it, I haven't had issues with sleep/resume on any of the macbooks. The one troublesome install I have on that front is a Surface Go 2 tablet.
@chrism Hey Chris I came across one of your Nix videos (thankyou for spreading the good word!) and noticed a Keybase icon in your dock.
In case you had not come across it, I figured I would toss a http://keyoxide.org recommendation - nicely handling the identity side of the Keybase equation.
I established myself there before someone at Zoom HQ trips over a cable, not bothering to plug it back in.
@delegatevoid@chrism What is interesting with Keyoxide, aside from its not-dead-ness, is its open source and distributed nature.
The project was started in direct response to the Zoom acquisition, with the explicit goal of wanting something which does not run the same service risk.
@AngryAnt@chrism so it's all about identify verification, then I will take a look at it.
I was using Keybase primarily for it's chat and git features. I've never used zoom and things like Signal, Matrix, etc... just don't work here. I remember identity verification in the 90's with PGP public key servers.
Before Keybase I was using/worked on BItmessage for a while, and now I've resorted to using Delta.Chat.
@emmahunneyball Similar experience here. We got handily beat by the minion in our first game.
The goal of getting this and Uluk was to serve as good intros for more advanced mechanisms & planning. Haven’t had the chance to introduce Uluk yet, but Lil Everdell certainly worked :)
@AngryAnt Yeah I can get behind that. With B5 its another story (pun intended). Big story arcs and whatnot. And while the airing-order (after which the DVDs are sorted - so when you use menus, everything is fine) isn't really correct either, those swaps are just making things worse.
With my trusty iPhone 7 starting to really fall apart this year (not just software and a potentially replaceable battery), I actually found myself downright giddy preordering the #fairphone 5 the other day.
It’s basically what I’ve been wanting my iPhone longevity to be (prior to the 7 I had a 3GS), with a dash of more software control.
Would have been nice if they had also countered the madness of modern want for large displays, but only so much target group downscaling can be done I guess ;)
@AngryAnt Just two days ago I golfed my iPhone SE (6th gen) into 4 feet of water with a kayak paddle… It was pretty impressive for a complete accident. Seems fine after some surgery and a day of drying. Researching options myself now as I no longer trust its longevity. It will be losing updates soon anyway I suppose.
@slembcke I once managed to drown an iBook by biking a long route in heavy rain with the laptop powered on in a nice watertight bag… which was left open…
At that time it was still easy to take Apple laptops apart into lots of small pieces with screws. I left them out to dry over night and it successfully booted for years after.
It had unfortunately developed a tiny stain of rust near the GPU, which meant that every once in a while video/gaming would induce a kernel panic.
So I’ve tried a number of different #ebook & #comic readers over the years, but I just uninstalled my remaining alternatives.
Somehow I had entirely missed KOReader and it really renders everything else I tried pointless. The chosen domain is apt. KOReader does rock: http://koreader.rocks/
Excellent rendering & input, super customisable, great format support, integrates with #Wallabag, well supported & developed.
@AngryAnt fair! Big fan of my Kindle over my general use tablet when I can get away with it, but can see the e-waste argument. At least the Kindles have been sturdy devices. I was just curious if there were good quality eink devices that are less locked down, since the app you linked talked about various platforms. :)
@jorgenpt I’ve come across such devices before. Good candidates. I just always returned to the same conclusion, so I didn’t give them a super detailed dive and don’t remember names :-/
@biphenyl Right? It has been one of those forever-delayed tasks I just finally decided to make time for :P
I have a chained task for an advanced version which digs into the YAML for the GUID and scans git for where the script went, but this is plenty for now and I would really like to figure out a way to nab the GUID without parsing YAML.