KiranWells

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[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Just going to ask this just in case: have you tried doing a full update and reboot? If you updated and have not rebooted, sometimes drivers get messed up.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you had any luck with hibernation with a BTRFS swapfile? My computer still does not start from hibernation, and I am not sure why, even though I followed the Arch wiki to set it up.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My computer was taking too long to start up, which I interpreted as failing to boot, but in hindsight was probably just my hard drive being slow. So, I booted into recovery mode, and ran an update. At one point, apt said "there are unnecessary packages" and would I like to remove them? I figured that apt knew better than I did (after all, maybe a package dropped a dependency), so I said yes.

It was after I noticed the very large number of packages that I suspected I messed up. Turns out, apt uninstalled the entire desktop environment, and network manager, so I had to boot into a USB drive with Network Manager installed, chroot into my main drive, and reinstall plasma. As a bonus, I think I missed the main group for the plasma desktop and only installed only most of it, so some of my extensions just didn't work anymore.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

The link they use is working for me; what is the code you are using to fetch the data?

Also, dbg!() is a very useful macro for inspecting state. Might help see what is going on.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

That link seems broken (the date is wrong). This worked for me:

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2023/11/08/this-week-in-rust-520/

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

I haven't taken it myself, but "The Last Algorithms Course You'll Need" is free and is written by The Primeagen. He works at Netflix and runs a programming-focused YouTube channel, and as far as I can tell is very knowledgeable and level-headed.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not all ad blockers remove elements from web pages, and if they acted that predictably you could detect the ad blocker by detecting whether an expected element is hidden.

I have not looked through an ad blocker's code, but I don't believe it is that simple.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 54 points 11 months ago (10 children)

This already exists - @soatok@furry.engineer's blog already has a popup about not having an adblocker, although it is easy to dismiss. It's probably a bad idea to block content based on not having one, as detecting ad blockers is a losing battle (as YouTube is learning).

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely seems like an AI generated article. I can't imagine a human actually writing "the sound of legends being printed."

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Just listing some things that I needed to do for working remotely on a personal device: have an antivirus installed, make sure Windows firewall is enabled, enable automatic updates, screensaver or lockscreen configured for 15 minutes of inactivity, and use a strong password (and a good password manager).

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

However, you can configure GRUB to use an encrypted boot partition, and even have detached encryption headers. It does take a bit more work, and you should make sure you know what you are doing. (e.g. losing a detached header basically means your data is all lost)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#Encrypted_boot_partition_(GRUB)

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

It is working for me on pawb.social. I am running the latest f-droid version

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