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“Have taken up farming.”

Oh, it’s gonna use polkit. Sudo bloat is a grain of sand compared to polkit.

Why people want to replace sudo with polkit? Visudo is no near as obscure as configuring polkit.

I hope distro maintainers don’t follow this.

Parallel Desktop

There are several FOSS alternatives. All of them are more popular that Parallels.

Nobody likes Adobe, nobody wants to work with Adobe. Nobody can avoid Photoshop. That’s just the world we live in and I don’t like it.

This sounds like Stockholm syndrome. You are just too familiar with Photoshop, so using anything else is hard and less efficient.

In photography there is this mantra about “the most important part is right behind the camera”. A good photographer is not a good Nikon user, or good Canon user. A good photographer can deliver decent pictures with a potato camera if needed.

Sure, a potato camera is less efficient for any work that an actual good one. So it’s good to invest in a good brand. But the point is: if you are not capable to make average results with a potato software, the problem is not in the software.

They apparently bribed some of the ActivityPub protocol developers and fediadmins into signing NDAs contracts with Meta.

Now FediDB is showing Meta as “just another fediverse” instance. Pixelfed is very happy to work shoulder to shoulder with Meta devs.

You are not gonna block the most popular man in the Fediverse, are you?

Of course it’s a lemmy.ml user.

If you’re concerned about security, consider GPG signing your kernel with Libreboot GRUB for an additional layer of verification at boot.

Hey! I had no idea that was possible. I usually encrypt everything but /boot, because it’s easy that way.

I don’t have a “threat model” of someone puting malware in /boot while I’m away of the computer. But it would be nice to know how to prevent that.

Do you have a link of a guide or tutorial for that?

Hey, ChatGPT, my uncle says new Macbooks are just glorified Raspberry Pis.

How many MB/s are in a Raspberry Pi?

It’s in the archwiki 😤😤😤

Keys and tokens will be shared securely via singaporean hotels wifi.

I used a hand dust blower intended for photography gear. I opened the laptop, blew the dust, disconnected the SSD and blew the socket and it’s surroundings.

Now I will monitor the logs and see if it helps.

Thanks.

I opened it. All cables were looking good. I used a hand blower to clean the dust. Taked out the SSD and blew the socket and everything around.

Now I’m going to monitor if it keeps happening.

$ journalctl --since yesterday  | grep -c "nvme 0000:02:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical"
16

sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0

$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0
[sudo] password for ****:
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.7.6-arch1-2] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       INTEL HBRPEKNX0202A
Serial Number:                      BTTE95101RQM512B-1
Firmware Version:                   G002
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x8086
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x5cd2e4
Controller ID:                      1
NVMe Version:                       1.3
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          512,110,190,592 [512 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Local Time is:                      Fri Mar  8 12:09:53 2024 CET
Firmware Updates (0x14):            2 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0016):   Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
Optional NVM Commands (0x005f):     Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
Log Page Attributes (0x0f):         S/H_per_NS Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         32 Pages
Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     77 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     80 Celsius

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     3.50W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 1 +     2.70W       -        -    1  1  1  1        0       0
 2 +     2.00W       -        -    2  2  2  2        0       0
 3 -   0.0250W       -        -    3  3  3  3     2000    5000
 4 -   0.0040W       -        -    4  4  4  4     5000    9000

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         0

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        30 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    32%
Data Units Read:                    6,877,173 [3.52 TB]
Data Units Written:                 9,397,485 [4.81 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 54,359,124
Host Write Commands:                239,213,047
Controller Busy Time:               2,412
Power Cycles:                       536
Power On Hours:                     6,350
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   62
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      0
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries)
No Errors Logged

Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06)
Self-test status: No self-test in progress
Num  Test_Description  Status                       Power_on_Hours  Failing_LBA  NSID Seg SCT Code
 0   Extended          Completed without error                6334            -     -   -   -    -
 1   Short             Completed without error                6334            -     -   -   -    -

OK. I’ll use a dust blower for photography gear. Thanks. Let’s see if it works.

I did a short and a long test. It looks good

$ sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/nvme0
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.7.6-arch1-2] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06)
Self-test status: No self-test in progress
Num  Test_Description  Status                       Power_on_Hours  Failing_LBA  NSID Seg SCT Code
 0   Extended          Completed without error                6334            -     -   -   -    -
 1   Short             Completed without error                6334            -     -   -   -    -

[…] by replacing the motherboard, by replacing the processor, by reseating the NVME drive in its slot, by verifying that your power supply is reliable…

I will start with the cheapest option 😅

I assume the power supply is reliable. Having a battery should make it more stable I guess.

If your comments have been federated to other instances, they will be there until they are deleted locally. If someone clicks on your user profile, they will get a DNS error if the domain is no longer there. Images in the comments pointing to you instance will be broken too. Nothing terrible actually happens.

Migrating accounts a la Mastodon is not happening soon in Lemmy.

My advice is: Go on and save some money.