krnl386

krnl386, 9 months ago

Ok, just updated to 1.11.0 (latest app store release at the time of writing) and it behaves exactly the same. The icon changed after updating, however, subsequent attempts to change it are ineffective as before, even if the app is swiped up from the task selector to “kill” it. It seems like swiping up doesn’t really kill the app, however, installing/reinstalling/updating from the app store does.

To test this, I’ll try offloading the app (delete app but not app data) and reinstalling to see if my hypothesis about updating/reinstalling is correct.

krnl386, 9 months ago

“I wanted to see shit blow up!” 😂 I hear ya.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Just add bike lanes on both sides. :P /s

krnl386, 9 months ago

WTF did I just listen to??

krnl386, 9 months ago

Technically they won’t. They won’t host OpenNIC TLDs, for example. However, you can have your domain registered with any registrar, and as long as you specify Cloudflare’s assigned DNS servers for your domain (DNSSEC records can be set too), you should be OK.

krnl386, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

WHOIS privacy? Porkbun does that for free for all TLDs that support it.

I don’t think I fully understand how what they offer isn’t “ownership by proxy”. I suppose they promise not to release your info if police ask for it? On the other hand, they technically own the domains you register through them, so if they get repossessed (e.g. through legal bankruptcy proceedings), whoever their new owner is, will presumably also own your domains…

I’m probably not seeing something here, but this all sounds sketchy to me.

krnl386, 9 months ago

this might help with secureboot. By the way, Googling your problem concisely (e.g. ventoy secureboot acer laptop) can help find solutions, or at least give you ideas to try before asking here.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Love the gentleman XDAs. I use them myself.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Devs aren’t the brightest when it comes to sharing their code. There was a open source router firmware dev that for some ungodly reason, distributed the binaries to his router firmware builds through OneDrive. Why, I still wonder to this day… especially since his source code was on Github. At least use releases, if you’re that lazy? Still far from ideal, but at least it’s marginally better and more convenient that %#€$& OneDrive. 🤦🏻‍♂️

krnl386, 9 months ago

No worries!

krnl386, 9 months ago

What does this have to do with the dark web?

krnl386, 9 months ago

Yikes, that’s terrible!

krnl386, 9 months ago

Ditto here. On the other hand their built-in adblock seems airtight. I’d like to see how it fares against Google’s/Youtube’s anti-adblock measures.

I’m in Canada and haven’t been hit with those yet… either that or my adblocks are working really well. 😉

krnl386, 9 months ago

Heh, good point. Also piracy = free advertising of their game and brand.

I was hoping they are OK with piracy also given the game genre… basically f*ck the system/anarchy, no?

krnl386, 9 months ago

Fancy-ass front-end to their OpenAI API? Meh…

krnl386, 9 months ago

Good to know. I had no idea it needs a Windows store client…

krnl386, 9 months ago

I think you got the right idea: certs are 70-90% marketing, and if you’re lucky, 10-30% actual knowledge and training. :)

krnl386, 9 months ago

Good point. I personally found VMware training to be a nice “cherry on top” of my existing VM/hypervisor knowledge back in the early 2000’s. Having said this, my colleagues who had zero VM experience/exposure were definitely lost… cert training is by no means exhaustive nor is it comprehensive.

krnl386, 9 months ago

If you want to understand Linux server “guts” well, I suggest a book like “Linux Network Servers” by Craig Hunt. Unfortunately, it’s pretty dated now, but it does an amazing job explaining the basics and internals that most modern books, IMHO, just gloss over in the best-case scenario. The coolest part about this book is that you can follow it like a how-to and set up everything in it in your home lab. You’ll learn basic networking, how to manage your network, how to monitor it, and how to set up low-level services like DHCP, DNS, etc. This knowledge could help you jump-start a network admin/engineer career. The book also covers things like Apache web server, and basic web scripting (trust me, understanding how CGI scripts work will help you as a DevOps engineer!). I think it’s good reading overall. It will give you a solid foundation to build on.

My biggest beef with study guides targeted to specific certs is that they only teach you how to pass the cert test, basically. Very rarely do they actually teach you WTF if going on, and to be a decent professional, I think it’s critical to understand how things work. I’ve seen so many RHCE/RHCA people who get completely lost with basic tasks like changing firewall rules or network adapter configs on an Ubuntu, Debian (or anything other than Fedora/RedHat/CentOS/Alma/Rocky/Oracle Linux Server), because they literally only memorized/practiced how to do these things on a RedHat box and are incapable of extending their knowledge to any other OS. There’s zero understanding of underlying principles. Don’t be these people!

OK, I’m done ranting now. Good luck with your studies. Oh, and if you want a copy of the book, shoot me a DM.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Depending on your needs, a static file CMS may be a good fit. We’ve been using Grav CMS with great success to retire a bunch of Drupal and Wordpress sites. For simple sites, it was a no brainer.

krnl386, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I like choice. I use Librewolf with Adnauseam for sites that are in the super sketchy category, and Brave for everything else.

Using Noscript is safe, sure, but I’m not into 1992 web browsing, except at nerdout parties where we try using an old 486 laptop running Windows 95 and Netscape 4.01 to browse today’s web.

My point is that there are reasonable steps and compromises one can take to protect their privacy somewhat. Achieving Snowden level protection is cool, but not my cup of tea; too much of a compromise and loss of functionality, sorry. Sure, you can drop a nuke (like NoScript) in retaliation, but that’s overkill and will break most modern sites out there.

Brave, on the other hand, is based on uBlock Origin with actively maintained filters. It’s also 100% compatible with custom filters too. It’s also nicely deGoogled out of the box, so that’s definitely a bonus.

krnl386, 9 months ago

Fair enough. Are there extensions for Chromium/Firefox that do multi-device sync properly (e.g. strictly peer to peer)?

krnl386, 10 months ago

I’m curious if this is caused by the fact that wine/proton is an API emulation layer. Whatever API calls this app uses for benchmarking may be less efficient, or maybe emulated, rather than talking directly to hardware. It should also be noted that these benchmark numbers are probably not indicative of actual game performance, as games likely use different API calls that are well or better optimized.

krnl386, 10 months ago

This. It’s likely it’s a session problem (expired session).

krnl386, 10 months ago

Mindblowing! So much for advancing and protecting the interests of the field. It’s scary that some of these associations are also regulators!