SteveTech

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[–] SteveTech 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's part of GNU Gzip, and zcat is basically just a shell script that runs exec gzip -cd "$@" meaning you can actually just do cat /usr/bin/zcat to get the source.

[–] SteveTech 1 points 1 week ago

The options that start with HAVE_ usually depend on the arch or compiler. I don't believe it's possible to enable manually without modifying the source itself.

[–] SteveTech 3 points 1 week ago

firmware drivers

This sounds like you're talking about firmware blobs that the kernel drivers load, which are usually in a package called linux-firmware. It should be updated automatically, but I'll check in the morning with Fedora Silverblue.

Otherwise if you're talking about device firmware, than that's all fwupd, rpm-ostree has nothing to do with that.

[–] SteveTech 7 points 1 week ago

Idk about the UK, but in Australia if you're only sending a small amount of data, some carriers offer IoT plans starting at ~$1/month. So maybe some carriers do the same in the UK?

[–] SteveTech 11 points 1 week ago

If you're wondering what this is:

  • Add a power quirk for Framework systems

It's to do with the fact that Framework laptops report themselves as discharging when they're actually fully charged, and BIOS updates aren't allowed when discharging.

But to answer your question, I've been using it with my Framework 13 AMD, and haven't had any issues. Fwupd is officially supported by Framework themselves, and is mentioned on the BIOS upgrade guides.

[–] SteveTech 3 points 2 weeks ago

I've got one of the official Home Assistant SkyConnect dongles, and I just stick to the IKEA ZigBee stuff, most other ZigBee devices should work too though.

[–] SteveTech 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty useless unless you use KDE, but I really like KDE's widgets.

[–] SteveTech 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Running Windows is officially supported by Apple, yes most guides use bootcamp to set it up, but you should be able to create an install drive like a normal PC and boot from it by holding Option/Alt as you press the power button. Mac's usually just use EFI like any modern PC under the hood.

[–] SteveTech 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, bootcamp assistant is Apple's dual boot setup tool, it is a native install, but it has to be started from MacOS.

[–] SteveTech 59 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

ghost is just GitHub's way of saying deleted user.

[–] SteveTech 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not to defend them, but he did follow up with this:

This is referring to the technology we just released into BETA for premium subscribers, which delivers one of the lowest latencies for livestreaming (significantly better than YouTube's latency).

This does not refer to encoding

https://xcancel.com/chrispavlovski/status/1856090182275215803

Although quality != latency, so idk.

[–] SteveTech 18 points 1 month ago

TCP and UDP can listen on the same port, DNS is a great example of such. You’d generally need it to be part of the same process as ports are generally bound to the same process

They don't even need to be the same process. I'm pretty sure that's just a common practice if something needs both protocols, but there's nothing stopping you from having a web server on TCP 443 and a VPN server on UDP 443. Ports are an abstraction brought by each protocol, they aren't in anyway related.

 

I was basically thinking of a simple browser app for Android that automatically makes its requests over a Wireguard tunnel.

I don't publicly expose a lot of my self hosted services, most are only available over a Wireguard VPN. I don't think my family could work that out, and I also don't usually keep it enabled all the time on my phone.

It doesn't have to be a fully featured browser, I'm fine for it to be the built in Android WebView or something, and just have a configurable menu of pages that can be easily visited.

I have some Android app experience from Uni, so I could maybe help out somewhat, but I feel I'm going to be in way over my head to do this alone. I'm happy to donate a little anyway.

 

This is more of a public note to self, but if anyone else had screwed up fonts, default cursors, and missing minimise/maximise buttons in flatpaks on KDE Wayland, put this in your /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/kde-portals.conf:

[preferred]
default=kde;gtk;
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Settings=kde;gtk;

Then restart xdg-desktop-portal.

Source: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474746#c12

Apparently this will be fixed in 5.27.9 releasing on the 24th anyway, but I've tried so many different 'solutions' and this had been annoying me for weeks.

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I'm not usually one to share links, but my old school's Headmaster (Dr Paul Browning at St Paul's School) is in a little bit of trouble with the Anglican church for compensating child sexual abuse victims from incidents in the 80s/90s. As he started in 2008, those victims technically weren't his problem but he refunded their tuition fees anyway because it's the right thing to do. However the Anglican church doesn't see it that way and sacked him.

I graduated in 2021, but he was truly an amazing person, somehow remembers everyone's names, greeting them whenever and while I never had him as a teacher, I've heard he was really an amazing & energetic teacher when in the classroom. I was even at the school earlier this year and was asking how I was doing with uni and stuff. I genuinely believe he doesn't deserve this.

Please share this as much as you can, there is a change.org petition, but I feel raising awareness and maybe writing to Bishop Greaves and the Anglican Schools Commission are probably the best ways that you can help!

Thanks for Reading!

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