PiHole and Cookie Warnings
I'm trying to figure out how to stop having to unblock the pihole, in order to bypass cookie consent alerts. I think this is a devious new attempt by the advertising brigade to ensure that adverts are played, but more and more cookie consent blockers are not working properly if you've got an adblocker, and as I've got one at the...
Does anyone know of a good client portal?
I run my own small software development company and I’d like somewhere my clients can login and get access to things like:...
Plex and Mullvad now that port forwarding is gone
Hi! I used to run Plex and forward a port through my vpn so I could access the service outside my network, like on vacation. This meant I could keep my vpn on and still access my content. I use Cloudflared to access other services in this way....
Good tech podcasts
What are some good tech related podcasts you can recommend? I’ve listened a lot to Darknet Diaries but lately, I’ve found it to become less and less interesting as he mostly just interviews some pentesters....
Nothing phone (2) MEGATHREAD
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Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages?
I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid....
I feel sorry for me for feeling sorry about myself
Documenting commands # or $ before sudo?
This might be a stupid question, but hear me out....
Any good online multiplayer that are discountes on steam?
Hello! I already have some games that I’ll buy form the steam sale but I want to also buy some kind of online game. Any recommendations? For genres, I mainly prefer FPS’s but I am ok with everything.
would you recommend debian testing for a daily driver?
Hello! I’m thinking about switching from my beloved fedora to a rolling release distro, because it really intrigues me, but I’m a bit scared of Arch, it’s still too soon for me to go down this rabbit hole XD...
Is there a way to change an SSD encryption key without deleting data?
Hey! I appreciate any comments, I would like to encrypt my data using SSD native on disk encryption, change the key to a “dummy” key leaving the data hidden at rest, then later swap in the “correct” key and begin using the data again. I have taken a look at sedutil-cli and nvme-cli but I can’t see a way to change the...
People born in the year 2000 don't have to try and calculate how old they are when people ask them their age
I was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.
Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder
How safe is it to eat raw eggs?
I wanted to try a japanese dish called tamago kake gohan, it’s basically raw eggs mixed with rice. The problem is that I’m scared to get salmonella from it. Do you guys think it’s safe to eat them? I’m currently living in Brazil. Also, I saw this article telling that the brand I buy my eggs from is exporting to Japan,...
a connect screen shot is not a meme
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2a95b573-9edf-481e-aee5-a625a5c5feb2.jpeg
What's a good way to prank your coworker?
I got pranked with this website: updatefaker.com...
Automatic parking disc gave me a parking ticket
I was reminded of this when I read a “Shower thoughts” post about clocks....
Can any music experts explain to me why the TNG theme is so good?
There’s something about the TNG theme (played during the opening credits) that seems unique and special to my ear. But I don’t know about music and orchestral production to make sense of it....
What is your GUI of choice for yt-dlp ?
I was planning on using either the one by kannagi0303 from github or stacher....
ZFS says drive is faulted, does that always mean it needs replacing?
My weekly zpool scrub came back with this:...
Fallout mods
So while we wait til the mid 2030s for the next Fallout game… does anyone have any good mod recommendations until then? (For any of the games)...
What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?
For me it was Event Horizon, that was scary as hell when I was a kid, I had nightmares for months.
plex or Jellyfin?
I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?
Is it possible to safely check for certain characters in a password?
Basic cyber security says that passwords should be encrypted and hashed, so that even the company storing them doesn’t know what the password is. (When you log in, the site performs the same encrypting and hashing steps and compares the results) Otherwise if they are hacked, the attackers get access to all the passwords....