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Just in case it’s not clear from the replies - you can edit pdfs in libre office draw. Text, images, arangements, whatever. It’s all editable.

You’d be surprised. I’ve got a mid-tier i7 laptop from 2017 and it munches through most productivity tasks.

It’s my i9 desktop that suffers when I’m running everything I want to have up. Between containers and compilers, VMs and videos, tabs and terminals, you can really put the hurt on a machine. I likely won’t be swapping until everyhing has adopted 45, or until I figure out how to make hyprland work the way I want it to

I don’t have a particular problem with their security, I just don’t have a clear picture of what they’re about yet - and I don’t want to give the impression that I’ve investigated it and found everything’s in order.

Gnome’s mouse thing is about running the human input devices in a separate thread, prioritized over the rest of its spawned processes. The practical upshot is, if your system is chugging under the weight of too many programs, your input won’t be laggy

I’m not a a current user of immutable distros, but I’m in the same boat as you. Interested in immutable os’s, running fedora workstation, getting bored.

I’ve been working on independent setups to see how I’d get customization working on an immutable distro. Some combination of containers seems like how I’d go. See this explanation.

For example, I’m running a wayland system, and RemoteApp/Rails on freerdp only works with X. Xwayland is currently broken on my system (installed as fedora 39 *beta). I require this for work. I installed distrobox with debian 12 bookworm, installed the required packages and it works like a charm.

On immutable OS’sI have been watching Vanilla OS for a while. I really like what I see. I’m just not sure what the security posture of it is.

The biggest thing holding me back is Gnome 45. It’s so good. Having an independent prioritized thread for mouse/keys makes it feel so smooth.

I’ve built hyprland and begun adding all the essential pieces to make it a viable replacement for Gnome. I’m not there yet, but once I figure out ad-hoc multi-monitor support with docks, I will be.

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When opening from the liftoff client on iOS, it doesn’t work for me:

Lining up the wires, ensuring they’re straight and making sure they’re trimmed to the same length will help avoid crossover too.

You can help straighten them on the square edge of a table, just press them between your finger and the table at the part that’s stripped from the insulation, then pull them over the edge applying pressure the whole time.

You can also look for the newer cat 6 connectors. Lots of brands have an insert that you can slot the wires in to before putting them in the housing, which helps a lot.

Example here: https://www.amazon.com/W-NECTOUN-100-PACK-Connectors-Ethernet-Connector/dp/B0B1DHQCP7/

Honestly, though it may be overkill, go get kismet.

It’s going to require some minor configuration, and there is no iOS support for sure - but if you’re going through the effort of investigating and need data - this will serve you, and set you up with skills for future investigations.

You may require a usb wifi dongle, depending on what support for your mac’s wifi card is like. Look for one that is known to work. Hoping it’s a macbook!

I have personally used kismet to prove that a device was too far away from an AP because it shows which packets were retransmissions, and can correlate that with signal strength of both device and AP over time.

Also, I was able to prove that a bank’s CFO was getting dropped zoom calls because he’d joined two separate SSIDs on different and very locked down networks (broadcast from the same APs, and kept roaming between both of them every time he went for a coffee or to the meeting room

It’ll definitely do what you need, and I’m happy to assist if needed - though my mac skills stop in 2019.

Ps. Most of the iOS options suck, because of how locked down the wifi stack is. Basically everything is a worse, subscription-model, glorified version of speedtest.net

Pps. Kismet is designed to be both client and server - i.e. it’s capable of being a wireless probe and a data collection point for other probes. You can just use it stand alone and display the data you captured locally.

If you need simultanious data capture from multiple points for correlation, I’d suggest another laptop or raspberry pi - but because it takes over the interface in monitor mode when it’s running, you can’t also use it to be your network link.

Try forge, I’ve had some minor difficulties on gnome 45, but it seems like a competent tiling extension otherwise

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5571/focus-window/

Something like this would do it. Looks unmaintained as of Gnome 41. It may or may not work with higher versions

This will definitely be a problem if you upgrade to 45, as all plugins will need to be updated to work.

That’s a real shame, because your question reignited my own search for the same thing

There’s a great talk on the same topic he gave at the Long Now Foundation back in 2012, the Q and A adds a bit to the users vs owners chat

Just to check I’m interpreting this correctly, Chrome on android works, on the same device? (This would verify that all your networking is fine, and that your dns entries are correct for your new network)

Can you see if the firefox local requests are making it to the pihole request log? If they’re not making it there, then we know that it’s got to be an in-app issue.

Could be an issue with dns prefetch caching or something else, narrowing down the scope of checks will focus the troubleshooting more effectively.

No, I’m saying that the LLMs are good for one thing - finding the next most likely word. They can’t generalise, they can’t pick up special cases, and they really, really struggle with logically corollary. There’s no brain in there.

Teaching a model that x = y won’t teach it the y = x. Even for discovery, that’s going to miss a lot.

“It [AFP] noted that AI tools – including large language models (LLMs) – gave the AFP an opportunity to find useful information in large, lawfully collected datasets.”

Literally everyone knows you can’t trust the output of these things. You can’t even get it to solve math problems with any degree of consistency without specifically training a math module. Who trained the AI module that finds connections in homocide cases?

One only has to remember all the ‘keywords’ under a youtube video back in the day, it was a nightmare to whittle things down to what you wanted

Short answer, the answer is no.

The deco’s are a mesh because of how they forward packets to eachother directly. Meshing is to do with how the APs talk to eachother to forward ethernet frame data.

I think you’re confusing the mesh topology of backbone communications between access points with ‘Internal Roaming’, which is how the wireless client devices jump from one ssid to another.

All the decisions of internal roaming are handled by the client, not the AP, and it’s not really that smart.

Not all devices roam exactly the same, but Apple has a clear ruleset they follow how for iOS devices roam. They also details some info about supporting technologies that the APs can provide, 802.11k and v.

802.11r is not required unless you’re doing EAP, 802.1X radius authentication for each client on your network.

So. If you connect the deco’s via ethernet to the same network, they’re technically not a mesh anymore - but they will make for a decent roaming domain. Same goes for your old wifi access points.

They’re only a mesh if they communicate directly.

Thank god

Sweet! Yeah, I’m guessing that the iptables-mangle and landing page link setup relies on getting that IP before populating the page, and that it’s not reactive to changing IP address. It might have worked if you were disconnecting networking all together, and joining a different network, but with the wonky way wifi roaming actually works, the mediabox management scripts probably never noticed there was a need to re-trigger.

You’re looking for mdns! Depends on which distro you’re on. For apt based stuff like mint, look for mdns (used to be libnss-mdns on raspberry pis, guessing it’s the same for mint? It’ll install avahi zeroconf stuff if it’s not there already. Check the service is running, then ping $HOSTNAME.local - replace with whatever your host name is.

If you’re starting the mediabox setup on the isp network, it’s doing local natting with iptables, based on the IP that it resolves from the hostname. Probably would need to shut down and re-up to walk between the deco’s and the isp wifi domains.

I agree with the other comments, looks like you might be in a double NAT scenario - fortunately for you, I think I know how to fix it, seeing as we’re both running deco’s!

You want to go into the smartphone app, go to ‘More’ at the bottom right, (as opposed to ‘Network’), Advanced > Operation Mode > Access point.

Be aware this will cause a disruption, and anything connected to them will need to be reconnected so it gets dhcp/ip addressing from the isp router rather than the deco.

The other alternative is, if they’re already in AP mode, it might be recognizing the deco SSID as a separate network to your ISP’s router, and randomizing your mac address (for anonymity across airports and hotels and such). Then, with your original mac address holding the first IP in lease, your ‘new’ mac address gets a different one. Check your mac with ip link too when connected to the two different networks, and see if you can find an option to set it manually for both networks, or just use your default one for those networks.

I’d love to hear how you get on, I’ve been putting off building this exact solution (mediabox) from scratch, had no idea there was a project set up to run it all

I have, I think the one time I tried it (5 years ago, on a different machine, os and X11), it wasn’t snappy enough. Probably time to go back and check it out!

Guake has this annoying bug on wayland gnome where the interface complains that ‘keybindings can’t be set’, so you control it through custom keybindings that run terminal commands to show and hide the terminal.

And we shall watch its development with great interest.

Thanks!