TCB13

TCB13, 1 day ago

Try to cycle it once every two weeks or something. Unfortunately there isn’t much of a right answer to your question, there are advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. This is a good read on the subject: batterycare.net/en/guide.html

TCB13, 2 days ago

Too bad he didn’t touch the real issue with Linux for most people: lack of their industry favorite proprietary software.

TCB13, 1 day ago

unless youre using Photoshop or Adobe as a senior youre just barking at tree.

That’s the point. The problem is that it doesn’t require the user to be senior to run into issues, it just requires them to be a professional user who has to collaborate within an industry that is standardized around some specific propriety software and people expect formats from that specific software.

TCB13, 1 day ago

You know its not only Adobe apps… it’s Autodesk, MS Office (because advanced features aren’t available on the web version), Circuit Design Suite (Multisim and Ultiboard) and every other field specific application that isn’t available under Linux or that has alternatives that while viable for an amateur user won’t just cut it if you spend 8h/day within those applications and you’re expected to collaborate with others who also do it.

TCB13, 1 day ago

That’s the keyword “most”. Someone who spends 8h/day inside an app (or group of apps) wants it to work 100% of the time at the maximum performance / with the least amount of small glitches, delays and annoyances.

TCB13, 1 day ago

I’m not saying they don’t, I’m just saying there’s a LOT of people who would love to move to Linux full time but they can’t do to the lack of field-specific software and/or poor results when it comes to Wine or generic virtualization.

TCB13, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

macOS just refuses to mount my USB 3 drives. I have a 1T seagate ssd and a 3T WD hdd (both exFat) and it just flat out refuses to see them.

I have to re-boot to actually use the extension. I reboot, and it throws the enable extension warning again. Fucking infuriating.

However today was the last straw as a task that should have taken me maybe 15 minutes took two hours of fighting with macOS.

I used to love macOS. It felt so intuitive and while it was never flawless, it mostly just got the fuck out of my way so I could do the things I wanted and needed to do

Although I do agree that macOS has seen better days the things you describe look a lot like general hardware failure because macOS still doesn’t get in the way, at least not as much as Windows, and gets the job done.

Before you say that it all now runs fine under Linux so no hardware issues, consider that Linux is way more permissive with hardware failure than macOS is, you better have a look at dmesg while connecting / using the drives to see if there’s something potentially wrong there. Same goes for a log of the system boot.

Either way I don’t feel like Asahi is a viable production thing yet, it’s a great effort but USB/Thunderbolt/Displays, Microphone and in some cases speakers are still not supported. I would rather see this gaining support for those before using it.

TCB13, 4 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Well, nothing is reliable over USB type A. If you don’t want to DIY you can get a USB JBOD with type-c like this one or that one or this cheaper one. They’ll get the job done for a price. :)

However, there are easy ways to get reliable SATA ports from m2 slots that your framework has. NVME to 6 SATA ports: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004263885851.html

To power the disks you can use ANY standard ATX power supply (get something brand-gold second hand for 20$). To make sure the PSU stays ON, just plug a wire between the green and any black wire.

Another option for power is to get a cheap 12V power supply and a step down DC/DC to provide 5V. If you don’t have it a SATA cable like this is helpful. Simply cut the white plug and attach the red cable (5v) to the output of the DC/DC and the yellow one (12V) directly to the power supply.

There’s also these dual output power supplies that you can regulate to 12v+5v but frankly I would just go for the option above as it will be safer.

Make sure you check every voltage and polarity before plugging anything into your power supply!!

TCB13, 14 days ago

Let me correct you: this is another sign that Europe was dragged into a war because the US needed to jack up their economy with a manufactured war that, besides Ukraine, hurts Europe the most.

TCB13, 14 days ago

How delusion one must be to think that the US isn’t profiting from this war? C’mon, the US just loves to sell all kinds of militar equipment. Russia has been a problem since ever but a bigger problem is the US that poke around the entire globe for wars and don’t really care about the impact because for them it’s all profits. Unfortunately for me, this time, they decided to poke around Ukraine and Russia.

TCB13, 14 days ago

Clearly you don’t live in Europe, you aren’t paying the electrical, gas and whatnot bill that this war caused. Get over yourself, your American lifestyle is only possible because a large chunk of your economy is only possible due to wars somewhere else.

TCB13, 14 days ago

Of course I place blame, and a lot, on Russia. After all they were the ones to react. But frankly Ukraine has a ton of as well.

TCB13, 14 days ago

Okay great, so you’re in denial about what’s going on around you. There’s a bigger picture than what you’re painting, I’m not saying Russia acted correctly nor that we shouldn’t blame it but Ukraine and the US aren’t saints either and profits are being made.

TCB13, 14 days ago

Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla

As well as profits and corporate interests.

People speak very good thing about Firefox but they like to hide and avoid the shady stuff. Let me give you the un-cesored version of what Firefox really is. Firefox is better than most, no double there, but at the same time they do have some shady finances and they also do stuff like adding unique IDs to each installation.

Firefox does is a LOT of calling home. Just fire Wireshark alongside it and see how much calling home and even calling 3rd parties it does. From basic ocsp requests to calling Firefox servers and a 3rd party company that does analytics they do it all, even after disabling most stuff in Settings and config like the OP did.

I know other browsers do it as well, except for Ungoogled and because of that I’m sticking with it. I would like to avoid programs that need no snitch whenever I open them. ungoogled-chromium + ublock origin + decentraleyes + clearurls and a few others.

Now you’re free to go ahead and downvote this post as much as you would like. I’m sorry for the trouble and mental break down I may have caused by the sudden realization that Firefox isn’t as good and private after all.

TCB13, 14 days ago

Interesting… I wasn’t aware of ClearURLs for uBo. How good is that? Does it really filer all tracking elements like clear URLs does?

TCB13, 14 days ago

I’ll have to test it. Better to have one less extension.

TCB13, 14 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Yes, yet telegram isn’t a piece of shit of an app that runs slowly on every device, can’t sync messages because “something went wrong” and doesn’t depend on electron to run. Also, not funded by the CIA.

TCB13, 14 days ago

Okay that’s fair, even if remove that and assume they hold zero influence / there are no cleaver backdoors Signal is still not good when it comes to performance and reliability.

TCB13, 14 days ago

Window XP, is that you?

TCB13, 15 days ago

And here I was under the impression that using USB storage for anything else than installing operating systems was a thing of the past.

TCB13, 15 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

SMB (NAS), Syncthing, FileBrowser, snapdrop.net, email and sometimes public cloud services…

TCB13, 15 days ago

And rEFInd, GParted Live… SystemRescueCd.

TCB13, 15 days ago

Yes, that’s true but I’m no longer doing that. Everything sync to the NAS using Syncthing that in turn is set with file versioning and weekly snapshots.

TCB13, 16 days ago

If you require KYC for buying and changing cards then SIM swapping becomes impossible as nobody can get a new SIM card with your phone number by social engineering the carrier.

TCB13, 16 days ago

Yes, but those things need to have procedures and employee authentication. If someone employee is found to be accepting bribes for SIM swaps then it should be fired on the spot and hold legally liable for all the damages - you can easily add this into a work contract. If a carrier doesn’t do this and doesn’t log those kinds operations then it’s just poor management and people shouldn’t buy services from it.