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lemann

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Hey 👋 I’m Lemann: mark II

I like tech, bicycles, and nature.

Otherwise known as; @lemann and @lemann

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lemann ,

Not exactly IMO, as containers themselves can simultaneously access devices and filesystems from the host system natively (such as VAAPI devices used for hardware encoding & decoding) or even the docker socket to control the host system’s Docker daemon.

They also can launch directly into a program you specify, bypassing any kind of init system requirement.

OC’s suggestion of a chroot jail is the closest explanation I can think of too, if things were to be simplified

lemann ,

I use certbot on only a single one of my oldest projects that has been going for almost a decade.

For everything else I use acme.sh because it works so well and integrates with a ton of DNS providers. The one time I had an issue, it was already fixed in a PR, so I just checked out that fixed version and used it for renewals until it was merged in.

lemann ,

Themes and DEs inspired by Mac tend to have a very clear and consistent design language IME

Gnome also falls into the clear and consistent camp too.

I value consistency a lot

lemann ,

That spoiler made me chuckle lol

lemann ,

Just checked the whois history on that and wow… purchased for $6000. That is a lot of money for a domain!

It was $500 prior to Reddit’s API changes, looks like another domain parking company purchased it around that time and hiked it up to $6000. Greed is one hell of a drug.

Quite curious about the current owner though, since it’s been registered privately via a proxy company.

Can't reach my Android device from Linux Mint

I am trying to set up KDE Connect between a machine running Linux Mint and my Android-device. It does not show up, and it turns out I don’t receive any response if I ping it, and I have the same issue trying to ping the machine from my Android device (from Termux). I’ve tried two different Android devices, but no luck....

lemann ,

Install iptraf on the machine that’s being troublesome, to see if the ping traffic even registers on the interface

lemann ,

I’d never imagine that the first time I’d encounter an in app purchase that outrageously expensive, would be on a wheelchair app.

F me, why do companies have to extort people like this! Glad you got it cracked in the end.

lemann ,

Instance rules, and other instances have defederated us in the past

lemann ,

I honestly wonder why the Claw looks so much like an Ally, down to the screen type, logo placement, and button placement.

Some of the edges and angles are completely different, but hold these at a distance and you could probably mistake it for a black Ally

lemann ,

Nice. I’ve personally been using Linux on a Mid 2012, and the touchpad responsiveness + gesture support has been one of my favorite things about the experience.

Really nice to see gestures in general getting more support in the wider Linux dev community 👍

lemann ,

Performance will be interesting to look at, haven’t really heard of any devices featuring mediatek’s Dimensity chips and aimed at western markets

lemann ,

To quote a certain video creator: Skull and bones is literally skull and bones, there is nothing there.

Personally not surprised seeing as its an Ubi live service title

lemann ,

Fighting in court probably wouldn’t have got them very far, Nintendo would likely just keep going until Yuzu’s LLC ran out of money. Even with $30k/mo in patreon donations, totalling around $2.5m since the switch release (assuming Yuzu devs didn’t eat or pay bills), it’s miniscule compared to Nintendo’s $15B value and lawyer army on standby.

They probably also saw what Nintendo did to Gary Bowser (he’s practically Nintendo’s property now) and decided this is the safest way out without having their lives destroyed, while they still have some protection under the LLC

lemann ,

Flathub’s build is now 1734 (the latest) - just updated it

lemann ,

And just like that, Nintendo have guaranteed to never get a dime of my money again 🏴‍☠️

What a greedy corpo. I’ll be waiting on the MVG video covering all the legal details whenever that drops

lemann ,

If it’s just the build you’re after, you could pull the latest from Flathub. Downside being that once it’s removed from Flathub it can’t be installed anywhere else unless you rebuild from source…

opensuse and KDE wallet

So I just installed opensuse KDE for the first time and when I was typing password for my WiFi, instead of connecting me, some window appeared asking for creating encrypted wallet. I don’t need that so I turned it off in the system settings, but then my PC always forgets my WiFi pasword after shutdown. So I turned on and...

lemann ,

If you’re set to log in automatically, most distros will ask you for a wallet password when you log in, since it is used to unlock some encrypted storage that some apps store your user data inside.

The wallet would otherwise be unlocked when you enter your password in the greeter

lemann , (edited )

I’m not planning to move anywhere tbh.

Mozilla is almost 100% financially dependent on Google right now, if that funding goes away then so will Firefox, the Gecko engine, and likely all the forks. With all the layoffs happening in the industry, we can’t rule out Google shareholders looking elsewhere to cut costs too, such as the massive subsidization of Mozilla. The little we can do is allow Mozilla to find other sources of funding that are optional for users IMO

Yes, stuff like pocket is garbage. But at least Mozilla allow you to turn it off, which is more than can be said for Google: on Android devices manufacturers have to pay a hefty “fee” just to allow users to remove the Google search bar from the launcher. As a user you can get around this by installing a custom launcher, but as a manufacturer, you will not get Google certification: no SafetyNet (Play Integrity DRM, required by Banking apps), no Widevine, and Google will block GMS & their other apps on your product.

Regarding AI, mozilla’s memorycache is completely local (runs on the user’s machine) and does not call out to any servers. The new translation feature is the same. The only exception to this that I’m aware of is the AI helper on MDN, but the target audience of that site is already in a position to determine whether that is a useful feature or not.

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    lemann ,

    No idea what this is, but it’s crashing my Lemmy client 🤷‍♂️

    lemann ,

    On older Android devices vulnerable to Stagefright, malicious code will auto-run as soon as the MMS picture preview is loaded by the system notification shade, if I’m not mistaken

    lemann ,

    Was always possible to compile+run C# on Linux using the Mono project. Until Microsoft “bought them out” and created .NET Core, a cross platform version of .NET that MS now encourages people to use instead…

    Microsoft’s new linux compile tools rub me the wrong way slightly, with the telemetry that’s opt-in by default.

    Mono is still extremely valuable for older .NET Framework apps under WINE though, way easier to setup compared to the official installers from what i’ve experienced.

    No idea how compiled C# compares to C…

    lemann ,

    Steam Discussions is the only one coming to mind, besides emailing the studio

    lemann ,

    About 150w total, trying to bring it down since electricity here is pretty expensive.

    4 machines: two 4th gen i5, one 6th gen Nuc (Have two more but not set them up yet), and one HP thin client. Also two UPSes, and 3 cameras (previously four, but one was accidentally damaged).

    Hosting Home Assistant, Zabbix, Palworld, SMB, Transmission, Plex and a bunch of other misc stuff.

    Kind of contemplating moving everything to a 10th gen Nuc, but thinking a Ryzen based mini pc might be a better option

    lemann ,

    Would be a shame if a little “OVH incident” happened inside the servers hosting Piracy Shield.

    Great job blocking your own schools and remote learning systems too, definitely setting a good example of what piracy prevention is all about.

    (/s if it wasn’t painfully obvious)

    🏴‍☠️

    lemann ,

    Relay attacks don’t need the key to be in close proximity, they can be read from almost anywhere in the house if they aren’t in a faraday pouch or microwave. Have you seen the size of the antennas these attacks use?

    lemann ,

    They struck gold in the most horrible way possible: People dependent on their cars + their car keeps getting stolen = infinite money printing machine

    lemann ,

    The more recent ones I’ve seen are pretty funny. It’s usually two people with a relay kit: one carrying a massive flexible loop antenna, posing like a starfish walking around the front of the property, and the other beside the vehicle with a wireless keyfob emulator.

    Sadly not so funny for the car owners though, AFAIK the vehicles usually end up being broken down into parts. In Canada it’s a little different, they seem to be immediately driven to a port and loaded onto a ship for export.

    I don’t believe this is possible on older cars though, just ones with keyless start. Except if you have a US-spec Kia… where you literally just rip out the lock cylinder and use a USB cable to turn the engine start switch, although I believe they’ve fitted immobilizers to those now

    lemann ,

    Might be worth reposting to !steamdeck

    I’m not sure if it’s on topic for this community though, since mostly tech journalism articles are posted here

    lemann ,

    Soundtrack started playing in my head as soon as I saw that picture 😂 miss playing this on my old Trinitron.

    Favourite game on PS2, hands down

    lemann ,

    Warehouse job maybe? Needed some cash to hold me over a few years ago while studying. The “interview” was not much more than just completing some employment forms…

    It’s quite intensive though, you’re on your feet for the entire shift. Wear garden gloves, or something protective on your hands, because the repeated handling of the boxes & rolling shrink wrap does cause injury.

    lemann ,

    I carry my bicycle into buildings wherever permitted, and make full use of the free staffed bicycle parking & free bus whenever possible. I also have 24/7 keyfob access to secure basement parking at my local train station (did require proof of address + one time fee to sign up). See if you can contact your local municipality as they may have something similar in operation.

    Before that, I experienced one attempted theft. At the time my bicycle was locked with just an Axa wheel plug-in chain combo lock (very rare in this country) which is built in to the frame.

    Came back to see it on the floor with the electronics gutted: no camera, lights, or bike computer. It was dark and luckily I had emergency lights in my backpack to ride home safely. Reported to police, I tracked down some of the stolen stuff online, and even the shop they were sold to (called to verify), provided serial numbers, police did nothing.

    Since the attempted theft I use two D-locks in addition to the built-in one, and have quick release mounts on all my bicycle electronics. I miss when I was studying at university and could leave my bicycle outside the library all night with just a cable lock, with no worries

    lemann ,

    Mine was fine with me using a rooted Android after an in person meeting - they just provided me a hardware 2FA device to use instead.

    As long as your bank is as understanding, you could use Waydroid or their PWA on a GNU/Linux device

    lemann ,

    That reminded me about those long, unskippable previews on DVDs… extremely annoying. VLC at least could skip straight to the disc menu though, pretty much ditched Windows Media Player and PowerDVD after that.

    Now here I am on the high seas, with all my media consumption devices running some flavor of Linux. Have not had a single annoyance since.

    lemann ,

    Steam Input integration with the touchpads is so underrated, mode shifting between a keypad and game commands is something that literally nothing else can replicate. Not to mention the dual haptic feedback, and accurate pressure sensing. Really opens up a world of possibilities

    Wish Valve considers a Steam Controller 2 with the game guts as the controller in the Deck. Despite the Deck taking heavy inspiration from the OG controller, the difference in experience is night and day

    lemann ,

    What install method did you use? Aur/Flatpak/Binary (DDL)?

    lemann , (edited )

    Not the commenter you replied to, but these kinds of systems are usually “fail open”: if there is unexpected loss of power (including the locking mechanism connection to the controller being interrupted), the door is released/unlocked, and can be opened manually by users.

    Some more complex systems will have specific doors automatically shut in the event of a fire to try and keep it contained, depending on local regulations. These doors can still be manually re-opened, but they will not “catch” or latch open until the system fault is resolved

    Edit: add clarity

    lemann ,

    Seems to do so on stock Android (FP3)

    Mute and vibration sound profiles are independent: I can enable DnD on my device and set it to loud, and it’ll still make noise on incoming calls and notifications. DnD just allows fine tuning of a lot of things related to those sound profiles, e.g. exempted apps, hiding notifications, illumimating the notification LED, toggling DnD on a schedule, emergency call bypass for certain contacts, what system sounds are permitted etc.

    Persistent notifcation behavior is a bit different, but FB Messenger shouldn’t be using those… so I’m making the assumption that OP’s issue is due to the manufacturer modifying the DnD behavior on that android rom

    Maybe iOS is different in this way

    lemann , (edited )

    All BMSs I’ve come across have this disabled by default sadly, manufacturers seem to target longest device runtime, rather than extended battery longevity

    On my FP3 it needs to be enabled in a terminal, while rooted (newer devices have it in the settings).

    On my Steam Deck it also needs to be enabled in a terminal, the exact command differs depending on the model of steam deck. An embedded developer or tinkerer will find it very quickly in the kernel sysfs though.

    Edit: Apple and Lenovo are the only companies I’m aware of, who have historically cared for the internal batteries in certain models of their laptops. Macbook Pros in particular used to behave differently when they reach 90%, some will stop charging and others will wait a few hours then resume charging to 100% depending on how the machine is used. I assume this is the only reason why my 2012 MBP still is going great on its original battery, running Linux of course.

    Lenovo used to let you configure the charge preferences in the BIOS of their ThinkPad line

    This was a decade ago though, can’t vouch for whether this applies to the modern stuff too

    lemann ,

    Literally. It even extends to other Lithium based chemistries too, like LiFePo4.

    It’s not like this information is hiding either - ask a battery manufacturer/distributor for a Li-ion cell’s charge cycle data, what you’ll find is most manufacturers only guarantee 300-500 cycles before the battery has lost 80% of its usable capacity at 100% DoD and charging to the 100% SoC voltage. Decreasing just the maximum SoC to 90% brings massive battery longevity gains, where estimated cycles increase to 1000 (and beyond in some cases), while still retaining over 80% of the battery’s usable capacity.

    All my personal devices that I’ve checked sadly target 100% SoC voltage and charge rate, without regard for the longevity of the battery. Just seems almost like they’ve just punched in the numbers from the “ABSOLUTE MAX RATINGS” part of the datasheet and called it a day.

    It’s a little disappointing that a lot of people are under the belief that their product has been designed to last as long as it can, when in most cases this intentionally or accidentally isn’t the case right now, in industries outside of backup power and EVs

    lemann ,

    Annoyingly well. If you turn on your Xbox controller accidentally, it’ll power on the Steam Deck (same behavior as the discontinued Steam Link). Very handy for a lounge/bedroom setup though if you use your deck docked.

    You can also hold down the Xbox button to see the shortcuts for things like the main menu, the QAM, taking screenshots

    lemann ,

    I would lean towards either a DS, or switch emulation (using a device such as the Steam Deck, so games that require gyro input such as Super Mario 3D World - can still be played fine)

    The DS is really affordable second-hand, and the usual third party SD card carts work just as well. People seem to really like the XL models, so may be worth considering one of those

    As for the Switch, you’ll likely be able to play your existing physical carts in 20 years time. It’s still Nintendo’s latest console though, so there’s no telling what they may decide to do in future. I think if you have a jailbroken switch you could be in for a difficult time if newer carts use different hardware encryption keys that require a newer firmware…

    With emulation though you get to actually own the games and play them on whatever device you want, at any time. The Mii maker and gyro setup does require following some guides to get going, but this stuff is well supported for the Deck (probably similar story for the alternative Windows handhelds but haven’t checked). Yuzu’s early access Android app already has gyro configured, using the sensors built into your phone. Lastly you can do multiplayer with other Yuzu players over the internet, completely independent of Nintendo’s online functionality

    lemann ,

    You still kinda need to be online to play Steam games

    It depends really, I’ve personally never been prevented from opening a Steam game with or without a connection.

    Some other games are less clear - I’ll use Palworld as an example: this can be played offline, on a dedicated server on the same network, but it needs to fetch your username from Steam first, and perform some checks using Epic Online Services. As long as it’s started by the Steam client it’s OK, and the errors regarding EOS servers can be dismissed.

    Some people have managed to join official online multiplayer servers using pirated Palworld copies, so I would not expect the current graceful network error handling to be so lenient in future updates.

    you can only launch said game with Steam.

    Pirated steam games can be started using an open source steam emulator - protection is basically non existent compared to intrusive DRM like Denuvo. Although I do get where you’re coming from in regards to the platform & accompanying client software being a closed ecosystem.

    Steam’s hardware on the other hand, that’s open all day long 👌

    DRM free option would be GOG games, which doesn’t require online and the GOG launcher to play games afaik.

    I fully agree.

    I’m going to be controversial here with the launcher requirement though: I use Steam because it is a launcher, games store, save file sync client, online social platform, modding client (Workshop) and games library all in one. Any device I pick up - my deck, linux laptop, or windows desktop - will continue from where I left off, without fail.

    For that reason the only DRM I’ll turn a blind eye to is Steam’s own: it never gets in the way of me accessing what I purchased. With Proton/SteamPlay, games originally targeted for Windows work seamlessly on my preferred platform, Linux. If a game is unsupported, it will still set up the compatibility layer for you at your choice, for further investigation at your leisure.

    Their policies also prevent developers from revoking games from users’ libraries, unless it’s a Free To Play title (most of these will have an EULA orange warning box stating such).

    DRM should not have to exist at all to be honest, but in the current reality where publishers want some “protection” on their games, I’ll either accept the single, most unrestricted one, or head to the open seas 🏴‍☠️

    lemann ,

    It is scary to think that people with this much money and influence can be so unhinged - inciting others to make death threats to your city leaders, then proudly tweeting afterwards “I don’t care”.

    Claiming to be interested in funding schemes to solve homelessness, drug use and crime, in addition to additional police, seems kind of nefarious. What essentially boils down to arresting and manhandling individuals that have no money to their name doesn’t surprise me coming from a CEO

    I pretty much agree with the article writer here:

    Tech bros like Tan think they are reinventing whole systems, conjuring terms like “effective accelerationism” to describe their philosophy. But the ancient Greeks already put a name to their core ideas over 2,000 years ago. For example, there’s plutocracy, or rule by the wealthy, and autocracy, rule by dictatorship.

    CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money

    lemann ,

    My poor Athlon II x64 6400 isn’t that old 😭

    I am actually surprised my nostalgia build still works TBH

    lemann ,

    Having less personal time and rising electricity costs has made the Deck my primary gaming machine lol.

    I don’t support games with DRM, so pretty much everything I play works flawlessly on it (as well as “unsupported” titles via Proton GE)

    lemann ,

    Freetrack in my simulation games is why I still have Windows on my old gaming desktop - the tracking protocol that those sims use isn’t supported under Linux 😔 as well as another that specifically looks for the Logitech G hub to interface with the wheel.

    Aside from the simulators, I’ve been gaming on Linux on my deck and haven’t run into any issues at all, especially with Proton-GE handy to run “unsupported” titles

    lemann ,

    Pocket was really useful a ~decade ago, when it was still an add-on that did its one job: saving webpages in a “reader mode” to read offline. Now it’s just sponsored spam IMO

    lemann ,

    This just screams greed IMO.

    Sony (Aniplex), the owner of Funimation (and new owner of Crunchyroll), who actually produced and holds the rights to most of Funimation’s library via their partnership with a Japan-based subsidiary, are choosing to revoke your access to your media.

    Funny thing is they merged in 2021, not sure why it was an issue running the two separate sites until now.

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