Printers are always horrible to administer. Brother are typically the best on Linux. I wrote a massive instructional blog a few weeks ago because it took so much work to get my HL-3150CDN working over USB. I had to repackage a Frankenstein’s monster of a driver because my printer never got 64-bit CUPS filters.

This group’s activism is so tone-deaf that I’m starting to think this is actually the oil companies pretending to be terrible activists.

What’s the lesson here? Clean your bongs?

Imagine facing 30 years for not emptying out an old coffee cup.

The longest outage I’ve had in a decade is when my primary SSD died a 2 months ago and I had to reinstall using config backups. It was down for around a day.

I’ve thrown a UPS on it and flown overseas for a week or two. It’s basically just email for me and the kids.

I’ve had longer outages on hosted services, TBH.

I host my own mail. When it’s down, the mail just gets delivered after I get online again. Almost all mail servers are configured to retry over a period of several days before giving up.

Once my health insurer sent me mail by post to tell me that my mail server was down. That was kinda funny.

TightVNC. Use TightVNC.

Poke a pinhole and squeeze the juice into your mouth.

do not choose something copyrighted.

Is that with a “nudge, nudge, wink, wink”? It would be such a shame if the whole project were jeopardised by such things.

Protip: use frinkiac.com to generate Simpsons memes effortlessly.

I did have LUKS and a USB flash drive with a key to be inserted on boot. It was definitely difficult and caused performance issues. It was particularly difficult to add/remove drives from the array. These days I only encrypt my off-site backups that sit at the office where my coworkers potentially have physical access.

There have been recent advancements in TPM so disk encryption is easier to maintain and doesn’t affect performance. I’ll need to investigate this one day. My server/NAS is a 4th-gen i5, so it may not support the functions I would need. Full disk encryption will land in Ubuntu soon. I’m hanging out for that.

There’s a Mulligrubs vibe to this.

Yeah, and I have to practice mental arithmetic because I won’t always have a calculator in my pocket.

Not sure of trolling… or just very stupid.

Interesting. I have a Pixel and it’s not in my settings as described. I’m running GrapheneOS, but I find it odd to omit such a useful privacy feature.

Edit: The feature is part of Google Play Services, not Android.

Just out of curiosity, I installed AirGuard on my phone so I’ll get notified if a tag is following me.

At this point, I suspect a colleague catches the same train to the office from time to time.

I personally would flick through the OpenWRT supported devices and pick the best supported device with 802.11ax.

> 176 shots returned.

Everything exposed except NFS, CUPS and Samba. They absolutely cannot be exposed.

Like, even my DNS server is public because I use DoT for AdBlock on my phone.

Nextcloud, IMAP, SMTP, Plex, SSH, NTP, WordPress, ZoneMinder are all public facing (and mostly passworded).

A fun note: All of it is dual-stacked except SSH. Fail2Ban comparatively picks up almost zero activity on IPv6.

When you’re married to someone, your finances may as well be your spouse’s. Who would seriously buy that much in shares and not keep your own wife in the loop?

The article says it’s a national problem. It’s worse than that. Pharmacies in Australia have a huge shortage of Vyvanse right now because it’s imported from the US.