“I’m not boycotting Israeli companies, but their offerings just don’t fit our business requirements at the moment.”

You know, like how employers legally reject you based on ethnicity/gender/etc without saying so. Use that right back at them.

Love how mainstream media is trying to make us think that guy deserves our sympathy for almost dying yet any of his civilian victims who did die are “colleratoral damage” at best and “preventative anti-terrorism” at worst.

Dude’s stationed near the Red Sea, gives you an idea of the kinds of missions he almost certainly did.

“I saw my life flash before my eyes” shut the fuck up war criminal. If you had a shred of morality you’d have died from shame alone after seeing your shitty life and monstrous actions before your eyes.

The people who authorized and committed this war crime deserve the Jesus Christ treatment by the Romans

No. Correct wording is woke. And beta. And communist.

KDE is second-class to GNOME on Fedora.

It is? I ask because I’ve always used Fedora KDE and honesty it’s been the best KDE experience I’ve had. Now I’m curious how much better the Fedora GNOME experience might be if it’s prioritized so much more, but I’ve never seriously used GNOME so I don’t think I can make a fair assessment. In what ways is KDE deprioritized?

The second option.

It’s in the water. No food compatible with Earth lifeforms are made without water.

What’s the appeal of Bazzite over regular Fedora immutable version? I’ve personally never had an issue running Steam on Fedora, then again I wouldn’t consider myself a “gamer,” certainly not my biggest requirement as far as computing is concerned.

Mostly paraphrased, I don’t remember exactly how it was worded. Also the non-quote responses were made up after the fact for this post, this wasn’t a single conversation in this order:

“You’ll miss out on so many events and social opportunities because you don’t have any ‘real’ social media.”

As an introvert, I don’t care.

“You’re selfish for putting your silly notions of ‘privacy’ over being in the loop with what your friends are doing. One day you’ll realize that being there when your friends post about their life events is more important.”

Said by someone who I never considered my friend in the first place. My actual friends have ways of reaching me other than Facebook or WhatsApp.

“Most people aren’t going to bother figuring out which obsecure ‘privacy oriented’ service you decide to use, they’re just not going to talk to you if you’re not on mainstream apps. Normal people value their time more than they value privacy.”

Please stop talking to me then, so I stop wasting your time.

“This isn’t the 1950s anymore. You need to get with the times and embrace the information age.”

I know how to program, you don’t. I know how the protocols that power the internet work, you think it’s a literal magic cloud. I run my own server at home with hardware I bought, you have to pay for Google Drive every month. I’m the one embracing the information age, you’re just blindly using it.

“Geez, you’re like an Amish person! Don’t you see you’ve fallen into a cult? Just instead of not using electricity you don’t use social media.”

No I’m not. See above, I fully embrace technology. In fact, I embrace it so much I’ve spent most of my life figuring out how it works and only use things I understand and control, and I choose not to use certain conveniences because I know how they work. Also, I’m not an antivaxxer or against modern medicine. I also think raising horses in captivity to be your slave is cruel and barbaric. Finally, I don’t believe in God and don’t try to live my life according to a 2000+ year old book. Privacy isn’t a cult, if anything, your blind faith in trillion dollar tech companies is more like the Amish’s blind faith to their God.

Is opnsense more secure?

Thank you!

Wouldn’t the old firmware still have to respond to and perform the flashing request? For example reading from a USB drive? Is it more likely to overwrite potentially malicious code compared to the reset button or automatic updates from the web admin panel?

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Since all connections go through the ISP router anyway you won’t really gain that much privacy unless you directly put a VPN on your router.

I’m more concerned about local network traffic to and from my home server, especially over Wi-Fi. Most of it is SSH but there are still some unencrypted HTTP (and proxy) traffic.

Thank you for the in depth explanation of hard drive noises. I have everything I care about backed up and will keep listening for changes.

I tried using smartctl but it doesn’t seem to like the fact that it’s in a USB enclosure and says “unknown USB bridge”. Trying smartctl -d sat does give some SMART information and says that the “overall-health self-assessment test result” is passed for both based on “Attribute checks”, but I’m not sure if it’s actually passed or it just can’t see the actual failing information. It also says “SMART status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers are missing” above the passed result which seems to indicate that it’s missing the information it needs for a full assessment.

One drive is a fairly new Seagate IronWolf Pro, but the other is a refurbished server hard drive so if one is dying it’s probably that one, though the stuff I actually care about is copied on both drives and a third one that’s offline and unplugged.

The weird thing is that this only started happening when I reinstalled the OS, but like I said I reinstalled with newer version so that might be the cause? Maybe some disk/fs implementation changed and now does things automatically when the drives are idle that 42 didn’t do? But I feel like that would still trigger the indicators.

My next step is probably to use inotify to look at file accesses, experiment with only mounting one drive at a time to see which one clicks or if they all do, maybe even connect the drives to another computer over SATA to do a full SMART check.

Thank you!

Yeah, imagine posting an article from the Soviet propaganda outlet checks notes Atlantic Council. Smh these tankies and their bullshit.

Oh look the “Western free world” doing yet another atrocity they’ve historically accused socialist countries of doing.

Probably a sign of just how much Zionist propaganda is out there, especially in English. “AI” doesn’t know what it’s actually saying and can only make statistical predictions of what’s been said before.

I need to be able to “RDP” into remote machines. I think that one is probably easy and built-in from decades ago.

KDE has a built in RDP server you can enable!

If you’re using X server and not Wayland, xrdp is also good.

Remmina is a good RDP client.

I also need to be able to setup a Hyper-V equivalent, to run other machines from my main laptop- haven’t figured that one out yet.

GNOME Boxes might be what you’re looking for? KVM if you need a full blown hypervisor.

Is there a good resource for determining how “effective” your donation to any given open source org is? As in how much of it is going to be paid to the actual devs, QA, and other related workers vs higher management?

IIRC that’s a major complaint with Mozilla and a lot of other large open source orgs.