I’ve had Windows kill itself by doing a BIOS update and deleting the bitlocker keys in the process, on a computer where bitlocker was automatically enabled by the OS without the user knowing, and of course, without any backups of the keys except on a Microsoft account that was only logged in on that computer (the user didn’t know the password for the account either).

I know there’s user error in there, but for an OS that caters to people who barely know how to use a computer, it seems like a terrible choice to do all that.

The theory is that the site just hosts a small JS snippet that locally decodes and shows you your logs.

But yeah, now that you mention it, it would be trivial for the site to get and store the logs, and you wouldn’t even notice.

The QR code contains the panic stack trace text, directly encoded into a URL and a parameter. When you scan it, it goes to the website, which takes the parameter, decodes it and displays it as plain text.

Personally, I think it’s a terrible idea compared to just showing the logs, because now you need internet and a phone with a camera to read a kernel panic log.

Edit: yes, it was Systemd who implemented it.

Cloudflare tunnels need logins, depend on cloudflare, and allow cloudflare to sniff all your traffic.

They’re easy, but we should stop recommending them. They’re a terrible solution, both for the internet as a whole and for your personal privacy.

It has a headphone jack!

I already like this phone.

OpenVPN in TCP mode wrapped around Stunnel. That’s the thing that works.

I have it set up to bypass VPN restrictions in some networks, but it also serves to bypass a lot more stuff if you know what you’re doing.

DPI will only see TLS traffic, and assume it’s HTTP. You can even try to fool it by modifying the packet headers, so dumb enough DPI will think you’re connecting to the site you choose.

Some lists will blanket flag all DDNS providers. It’s not malicious per se, there are reasons to block them.

They’re free, they allow registration with just a mail and a password, and they also allow hosting sites from residential addresses. So some scammers abuse the service for scamming.

It’s not super common, and normally all these services try to take down malicious users and scammers, but it’s the reason why these domains can be in anti-scam and anti-spam lists.

For normal media server or website hosting, it’s usually not a problem (unless you have one of those special uBlock lists, but by default I can tell you duckdns isn’t blocked, and I don’t think NoIP is either).

If you want to host something that requires federation, you may start getting into issues with some instances, if they have some of those filter lists. But at that point, getting a static IP or a VPS and a real domain pointed to it is the best choice.

I also had a machine that would randomly crash on Windows, but not on Linux.

I’m pretty sure it was some sort of hardware failure, as it also sometimes failed to boot Linux. But if it booted Linux, it would be stable until I shut it down.

This is why most tech companies (including Adobe) are so hell bent on having schools teach just their software and their way of doing things. An entire generation of clients guaranteed for life.

Funnily enough, back when it was floating by default, I always looked for the toggle to make it one window. But when they made it a single window by default, I found myself toggling it back to floating.

I kinda like having both options. Floating could still make some sense, and it can do cool things that a single window can’t.

Everyone knows it by that name, even in non english speaking countries.

They themselves gave a good explanation. They’d lose brand recognition, they’d expose the name to scammers using it to sell or distribute their own software, and years of tutorials, guides and books would instantly be harder to find and outdated.

It makes no sense to give up all that, and to force such a change on the whole world, just because some speakers of a single language don’t like it.

So in order to make it less awkward for ~500M people, we should make it more awkward for the rest of the 7.8B people.

Take a look at Caddy if nginx seems too complicated.

Caddy is designed primarily to act as a reverse proxy, and it can automatically set up your certificates with Let’s Encrypt (as long as you have it listening on ports 80 and 443).

You’d only need to set up a domain pointing to your IP, but you can do that for free and without a permanent IP by using a DDNS (like duckdns)

The jellyfin website has instructions on how to set it up with Caddy. I recommend using the Caddyfile.

Organic Maps was forked and is now CoMaps

Audio jacks are easy and cheap to waterproof, way easier to clean than usb-c ports and way sturdier than usb-c ports (in fact, it’s easier to break a usb-c port due to daily headphone use, while I’ve never broken an audio jack, despite abusing some).

They take up space, but many other brands have easily figured it out even in smaller phones. Hell, samsung can fit a whole pen in their phones.

It does not affect people who won’t use it, and I know a lot of people that would benefit from one (including myself). More importantly, it follows fairphone’s supposed ideals of reducing e-waste.

And no, a 7€ dongle is not a good experience, and not a premium thing. For that price, it’s also probably an analog dongle, which already requires the phone to have the extra hardware for the audio jack inside, just without the convenience of the audio jack.

You can! qbittorrent can manage both private and public torrents at the same time. You can also cross seed with it, but it’s more involved than checking a box or clicking a button.

The main issue with private trackers is getting in. Most of them need an invite from a user that is already inside, and you can’t ask for invites or ask them for an account.

Some trackers have open signup days, and some others require you to go through an interview process to get in. After you’re accepted to those, you can gather reputation and user level, and eventually, access to invite forums. In there, you can be “recruited” to more exclusive trackers.

It’s a really interesting concept, and despite its closedness (or thanks to it), it really is night and day with public trackers. You can find a lot more stuff, torrents rarely die, you can request new stuff, you get fast download speeds, and everything is way better tagged and organized than on public trackers.

If you’re curious about music trackers, REDACTED (RED) and Orpheus (OPS) both usually have interviews open. You can read more about the process and the interview material here for RED and here for OPS.

Additionally, I’ve heard MyAnonaMouse (MAM) has a really friendly community for starters. It’s mainly a book tracker, but it also has some music. It regularly opens registrations, info here.

There are also some general content trackers around that sometimes have open registrations, but the registration windows are short and random. You can subscribe to !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com , where people post open registration windows for trackers.

You now need 2 dongles (or a bigger, more expensive dongle) to do something you could previously do with no dongles. Not only you need to buy the dongles, but you also have to remember to take them with you and not lose them. It’s a worse experience.

What they did with the wireless earbuds is amazing. User replaceable batteries on an earbud is something I hadn’t seen before. And definitely kudos to them for doing that.

But skipping on the audio jack, which could have saved so much e waste too, was such a bad take.

They did the earbuds because they can charge you 100€ for them, and then you’re essentially locked to their battery subscription for when the batteries eventually fail every year. It was just a coincidence that they had just removed the audio jack before releasing them.

Noted, thanks for the recommendation. I’ll take what I can get. I want a phone that can run pmos well enough for daily driving, so I’m currently waiting to see what gets done with this new (much needed) push for mainline linux on phones. I’ll definitely keep an eye on sony’s phones, I’ve heard many good things about them.

Most standard DACs in motherboards are already 24/192. Even the cheapest phone or laptop will do that. Not with high fidelity, mind you, but a $20 dongle won’t do a better job.

On top of that, DACs have lower fidelity the higher the bit depth and sample rate go. On a $20 dongle, the difference may even be big. If you want a DAC that will faithfully output those rates, you’re gonna have to spend $200+, not $20.

Having an audio jack also doesn’t stop you from connecting your own dongle or external DAC to the USB port, so it doesn’t really change anything.

The real reason for audio jacks isn’t fidelity and audio quality (even though they will have higher audio quality than any bluetooth earpod). The real reason for audio jacks is convenience. Not having to carry around a DAC or a dongle, being able to use old wired headphones, not having to charge your headphone battery, etc.