Agility0971

Agility0971 OP , 17 hours ago

I did not ask for a backup solution, but for a deduplication tool

Agility0971 OP , 17 hours ago

I had multiple systems which at some point were syncing with syncthing but over time I stopped using my desktop computer and syncthing service got unmaintained. I’ve had to remove the ssd of the old desktop so I yoinked the home directory and saved it into my laptop. As you can probably tell, a lot of stuff got duplicated and a lot of stuff got diverged over time. My idea is that I would merge everything into my laptops home directory, and rather then look at the diverged files manually as it would be less work. I don’t think doing a backup with all my redundant files will be a good idea as the initial backup will include other backups and a lot of duplicated files.

Agility0971 OP , 17 hours ago

This will indeed save space but I don’t want links either. I unique files

Agility0971 , 24 days ago

The exiting part will be if they launch a passive cooled arm based laptop.

Agility0971 , 25 days ago

If you can get a metal body laptop, I would suggest you do. Metal chassis with Linux will last a long while. Programming will not take much resources (and if it does, rewrite your code). Since you’re into light programming like python any distro would be fine. It feels like the community has somewhat agreed to suggest Linux Mint to new users so I’ll support that.

Agility0971 , 1 month ago

How is it that one cannot purchase a bunch of flat rectangular batteries and just put them inside the laptop (wherever they fit) and connect them manually to some custom charge controller? We do it all the time on other devices like drones and shit. We have generic round cylindrical batteries, why isn’t there flat generic Li batteries?

Agility0971 , 1 month ago

I’ve not worked with batteries but I would assume there are two pins for voltage and ground, one temperature probe pin and or two pins for serial communication (probably I²C). If batteries would have had some sort complex handshake then it would have needed a corresponding UEFI patch so that system is able to refuse booting if the power level is too low. That’s why I assume there would be no handshake (unless it’s apple ofc).

Agility0971 OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I usually try to avoid bad habits like this but this time it was justified.

The Ubuntu laptop had to connect to company vpn. It were using openconnect-network-manager-gnome thingy to do that. Recently the company upgraded their vpn software which is sorta incompatible with openconnect and requires a modified user agent string for it to prompt for 2FA keys. package in ubuntu 22.04 is too old to modify that in the gui. I tried in the terminal manually, editing the config manually with vim and even dumping the config from my personal Arch laptop. We also tried proprietary Cisco AnyConnect but there is probably a server misconfiguration which causes the connection to drop and reconnect once a minute. In Ubuntu 24.04 it works given the user agent modification, and even though it was released a couple of weeks ago, LTS users don’t get the update before mid August. So the easiest solution was to take the software compile it in the VM and use it there. It’s a temporary solution but we had to have something working by the next morning. With such setup it’s an annoyance to have password prompts show up. On top of that the keyboard is kinda fucked and some characters register multiple times making the situation with passwords even worse.

If you have a good idea what I could have tried let me know, love to hear new ideas.

Agility0971 OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

hahaha It actually did, I found out shortly after initially posting this. I’m constantly reminded that I haven’t learned reading yet (documentation, datasheets, terminal output etc…)

Agility0971 OP , 1 month ago

Yeah true, though it’s dealt with already. Time to put the lid back on that can.

Agility0971 OP , 1 month ago

thx

Agility0971 , 1 month ago

what? shouldn’t blocked domains be routed to 0.0.0.0 instead of loopback? This might cause the system generally to wait for a response instead of instantly realizing those domains don’t exists

Agility0971 , 1 month ago

If you want yet another promotion you know what to do next

Agility0971 , 1 month ago

This sounds interesting. What the hell is RevOS? What kind of label maker is that? Does it have a name? Do you know what kind of cable it’s using to communicate with the pc?

Agility0971 , 1 month ago

This is what I think one need to do to test if that would work

• get latest ubuntu live cd
• install bottles
• run label printer installer for windows in bottles
• check if the program runs at all

If the device is a COM device in windows then I think it should just work out of the box. If not, then the entire device needs to be forwarded using udev rules to wine. Let me know if you want to attempt this :)

Agility0971 , 2 months ago

my users are not allowed to be mononym

Agility0971 , 2 months ago

Personally I’ve had more issues tweaking Debian to just work as needed then Arch

Agility0971 , 2 months ago

sand accelerated on a glitter bomb like spinner so you cover all angles

Agility0971 , 2 months ago

… most people don’t get it …

Agility0971 , 2 months ago

installing more than base, linux, and linux-firmware is bloat.

Agility0971 , 2 months ago

I like this. Maybe it needs some words on bloatware that is enforced on users agains their interests?

Agility0971 , 2 months ago

It’s not always about storage. It can also be more processes that drains battery, more attack vectors etc.

Agility0971 , 2 months ago

At some point I’ve installed rust implementation of the coreutils from the AUR, they worked for a long while until some ssl vulnerability were discovered and everyone had to update the library. As you can imagine, without working coreutils system were hard to use. troubleshooting were also a pain in the ass because who could blame coreutils of all things? :P

Agility0971 , 3 months ago

Better would be to delete without confirmation but being able to quickly reverse it with Ctrl+Z

Agility0971 , 3 months ago

Ok, this depends.

I had some trouble providing support for a friend after I’ve recommended Vanilla OS. I believe it will be a good OS in the future but not now.

Agility0971 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I tried with emojiea and it worked. what would break it though?

edit: nvm something broke after a reboot. neofetch reports the hostname as ‘archlinux’ instead of whatever is inside /etc/hostname. matlab drive connector reset and initializer dialog poped up which it did not do before.

Agility0971 , 4 months ago

*stirr untill fully evaporated

Agility0971 , 5 months ago

Meh, screen angle is constant. Not impressed until it supports screens with a constant angular velocity.

Agility0971 , 6 months ago

true heroes

Agility0971 , 7 months ago

It says it’s scraped and not leaked

Agility0971 OP , 8 months ago

that might be it, I could start joining a server but it would then hang forever in the loading screen and eventualy crash.

Agility0971 OP , 8 months ago

I just updated the game and it would hang when joining matches. And eventually crash. so for me it just did not run at all, but I’ll have a go at it again next weekend

Agility0971 , 9 months ago

deploy the forein baguettes

Agility0971 , 9 months ago

I know which NOT to buy

Agility0971 , 9 months ago

Well, if they would not nerf it maybe it woyld not go so much down

Agility0971 , 10 months ago

curl cheat.sh/command is more useful because it just spits out common examples. man is only useful if you need complete documentation or need to build a complex oneliner.

I never remember hot to extract tar files. Would you dive into the documentation for that or look up a cheatsheet?

Agility0971 , 10 months ago

well, a computer contains sensitive information so it should always be encrypted. Even if you think you have nothing to hide

Agility0971 , 10 months ago

There are only two distros in the world. Those that people hate and those that no one uses

Agility0971 , 10 months ago

more photos of the components would be great. maybe even get shell access 😈?

Agility0971 , 10 months ago

That is a classical windows mentality. “gnome is cheap macos clone”. Gnome tries just to create a minimal and distraction free and polished DE. KDE tries to bulldose as many features as possible and that sacrifices stability and UX. Analogy would be similar to having a leaky water pipe in the roof. Gnome would fix the leaking pipe meanwhile KDE would give you a bucket and a few towels to clean that up in different ways.

Agility0971 , 10 months ago

Just using duckduckgo. I’m not happy with my search results as they heavily prioritize clickbait CEO blogs instead of showing official documentation / sources.

Agility0971 OP , 10 months ago

<span style="color:#323232;">root@archiso /mnt/arch # btrfs fi us .
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Overall:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Device size:		 931.01GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Device allocated:		 526.02GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Device unallocated:		 404.99GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Device missing:		     0.00B
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Device slack:		     0.00B
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Used:			 480.21GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Free (estimated):		 447.51GiB	(min: 245.02GiB)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Free (statfs, df):		 447.51GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Data ratio:			      1.00
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Metadata ratio:		      2.00
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Global reserve:		 512.00MiB	(used: 0.00B)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Multiple profiles:		        no
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Data,single: Size:520.01GiB, Used:477.49GiB (91.82%)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   /dev/nvme0n1p2	 520.01GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Metadata,DUP: Size:3.00GiB, Used:1.36GiB (45.45%)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   /dev/nvme0n1p2	   6.00GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">System,DUP: Size:8.00MiB, Used:80.00KiB (0.98%)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   /dev/nvme0n1p2	  16.00MiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Unallocated:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   /dev/nvme0n1p2	 404.99GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">root@archiso /mnt/arch # btrfs device stats .
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[/dev/nvme0n1p2].write_io_errs    0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[/dev/nvme0n1p2].read_io_errs     0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[/dev/nvme0n1p2].flush_io_errs    0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[/dev/nvme0n1p2].corruption_errs  19317
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[/dev/nvme0n1p2].generation_errs  0
</span>

Agility0971 OP , 10 months ago

Well I never set up any raid on my systems

<span style="color:#323232;">root@archiso /mnt/arch # btrfs device usage .
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/dev/nvme0n1p2, ID: 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   Device size:           931.01GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   Device slack:              0.00B
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   Data,single:           520.01GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   Metadata,DUP:            6.00GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   System,DUP:             16.00MiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   Unallocated:           404.99GiB
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

Agility0971 OP , 10 months ago

It’s a KINGSTON SA2000M81000G. Here is a “datasheet”.

I’ve looked up some of the inode numbers in the logs and they point to some application state data in /var so reinstalling application could bring those files back.

I’ve never touched SMART before since I’ve assumed it’s an HDD thing. Anyway. I’ve installed smartmontools. nvme ssds don’t report smart stats like for hdds so this answer suggested looking for Percentage used in stead.

<span style="color:#323232;">root@archiso ~ # smartctl -a --test=long /dev/nvme0n1 | grep "Used"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Percentage Used:                    2%
</span>

It could be true that the firmware is not optimal but I could not find any news about that like you have for the 980. gnome software should keep firmware up to date in the background but just for good measure I ran it in live environment as well. I will probably get a new ssd at some point in the future and maybe use this old one for non critical storage in the future.

Agility0971 , 9 months ago

Do anyone know if its open source by any chance?