Agility0971 @ Agility0971 @lemmy.world

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

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?

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...)

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.

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

my users are not allowed to be mononym

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

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

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

... most people don't get it ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

*stirr untill fully evaporated

Hmm... I cannot see it anymore either. They appeared under each search entry as hyperlink.

In duckduckgo search results there is a link to block this domain. I always block shitty domains that farm clicks

Always to remember to vacum the floor after a pc build to get rid of excessive screws