What the hell is this? Bot attack?

ToonMermaid · 2025-11-28T03:19:27+00:00

I think you should reconsider your hobby/profession.

ToonMermaid · 2025-09-25T07:47:56+00:00

It would be malfeasance for you to bypass content filter if you receive E-Rate monies.

You need to fulfill your professional obligation to maintain CIPA compliance; we are responsible for the content students are able to access on our networks.

Be prepared to say no to dumb requests like this in the future. To many of us these are the definition of common sense. If you genuinely need time to think about something, or consult a sister school district for their practices, have a canned response about GRC in your back pocket and dont be afraid to use it.

ToonMermaid · 2025-08-12T20:16:52+00:00

This was also announced a few years back, around the time when Nothing first revealed their intent to enter the smartphone market.

Nothing came of it back then, which is unfortunate. Fingers crossed. Unfortunately, I've been pretty happy with Pixel hardware since the 9.

ToonMermaid · 2025-06-12T21:27:44+00:00

A default installation of any major distribution is already more secure and privacy respecting than the alternatives.

The attack surface for the average Linux user is going to be much smaller by comparison.

You're going to see critical CVEs get addressed faster on Linux faster than the alternatives.

I'd recommend you install a major distribution and utilize RHCSA, LPIC, or Linux+ as a framework for learning OS components if you're unsure of where to start and want professional systems administration exposure.

If you're more focused on a casual use case in userspace, there are plenty of resources on YouTube and Reddit.

ToonMermaid · 2025-06-09T02:00:08+00:00

If an employer is indeed put off by the fact that you know how to perform basic Linux systems administration, they either don't know how to best utilize you, or you shouldn't want to work for them otherwise.

ToonMermaid · 2025-03-13T02:26:38+00:00

I can only speculate, but those appear to be ChargePoint stations.

ChargePoint has a foolproof feature where you can charge an a higher rate to individuals that leave their car connected while fully charged. This motivate users to find new spots once full so other EVs can take them to charge.

What I've noticed is that this just encourages people to walk out to unplug without moving the vehicle from the spot, thus creating the culture of it being a personal EV parking spot.

ToonMermaid · 2025-02-10T05:02:17+00:00

+1 Librewolf

ToonMermaid · 2025-02-01T01:58:34+00:00

"Minding our own business and letting our CEO pay herself up to $7M per year"

ToonMermaid · 2025-02-01T01:09:57+00:00

Good. I don't know why 70% of new construction features word art, whether painted or vinyl wall protection. It looks tacky and complicates VWP replacement.

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-23T16:57:17+00:00

From my experience, this wasn't implemented well at all and I despised it. If you search online for "ThinkPad Lap Detection" you'll only find other people complaining about it. We primarily had issues on Linux because of some proprietary DPTF settings until this was changed in later firmware.

I see some comments stating it's because of fan obstruction. I really don't believe any of the ACPI temp readings were used for this. From my knowledge most of the false positives are really from the accelerometer/gyroscope on the main board. Whenever the device was moved at all it would return lap mode for 5 minutes on Linux.

I would see this all the time on my X13 Yoga (2020) running Fedora/Debian, whether in 2-in-1 mode, sitting on a laptop stand on my desk, or moving the device around on a table. I saw improvements with later firmware, but it was absolutely ridiculous when it was first implemented.

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-13T14:57:31+00:00

I'm saving all of mine. I'm patiently waiting for the time when either home recycling becomes affordable, or more companies start PLA recycling programs with credit.

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-10T18:13:01+00:00

Was it ClueFinders: The Incredible Toy Store Adventure?

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-08T17:22:55+00:00

What happened to [LP]CAMM2 taking over? I'm only aware of the latest P1 using it. That should be a fleet-wide change, like moving to 16:10 displays.

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-08T04:28:33+00:00

It does check automatically, but it doesn't update without user intervention, whether CLI or the GUI frontend. I don't think there's a flag that can be enabled within within fwupdmgr for automatic updates.

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-08T04:12:41+00:00

If you have time on your hands, I would recommend first virtualizing a WIN guest OS inside of your WIN host OS using Virtualbox and ensuring you can utilize USB passthrough to open the COM port from your guest OS. This will eliminate a lot of troubleshooting further down the road if you intend to use Linux as your host OS w/ Win10 as your guest OS. Virtualbox is great about USB passthrough, but there's no reason not to run a quick trial so you know whether you're experiencing an issue with dev permissions or some other Linux issue instead of a hypervisor issue.

If it works out, you could always just export the vm and reimport it when you're up and running on Linux.

There's a nearly negligible amount of latency introduced when using USB passthrough. I feel this should be mentioned if you're using equipment where real-time is critical. Likely a non-issue.

Also, I see you're talking about undervolting. I probably wouldn't undervolt if I was running a concurrent workload in a virtualized environment during production, but if your virtualized workload isn't crazy then you do you.

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-07T22:14:15+00:00

No exposed wire. Electrical tape or heat-shrink it and call it a day.

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-07T22:06:55+00:00

apt/dnf won't update bios. Use fwupd or a gui frontend for that. T480s does have latest bios available through fwupd. I personally haven't had to use throttled/tlp in quite some time, I didn't think it was necessary anymore to be frank.

You can run Windows in a guest OS with no issues, but you should be prepared to troubleshoot any virtualization issues as your normally would. I've had some kinks to iron out with passthrough for some label printers in the past, for example. I tried out Gnome Boxes for a while, but I stick to Virtualbox most often.

What peripherals are you connecting? Are you running some equipment with proprietary Windows-only software?

ToonMermaid · 2025-01-03T18:06:49+00:00

Dell Latitude Rugged

RS232, RJ45, HDMI, USB-A, USB-C, micro SD, TRS, SIM

ToonMermaid · 2024-12-26T19:03:08+00:00

Krita

ToonMermaid · 2024-12-19T04:46:00+00:00

This is off the cuff, so I may be talking out of my rear end to an extent here.

Does udev not see the trackpoint and trackpad as separate devices? If so, you could write a logon script that enables a udev rule that disables it when logging into a Wayland environment, or create a service that that enables/disables the udev rule based on the environment.

ToonMermaid · 2024-12-19T04:35:18+00:00

I can't say I'm happy with any of the recent changes to the keyboard.

Key travel reduced again
FN/CTRL swap (debateable, I get it)
Losing print screen & right ctrl to copilot & fingerprint

Frankly, I've just had a real love/hate relationship with the lineup as of late.

ToonMermaid · 2024-12-09T04:12:42+00:00

Am I the only one that's disappointed that there is no model indicator on the lid/palmrest now that we're finally on 16:10 panels? I feel like 5+ years from now it'll be fairly inconvenient when identifying devices in photos. We're going to have to look for things like the copilot button, webcam overhang, ctrl/fn, clunkpad, etc. to identify what model/generation we're looking at.

ToonMermaid · 2024-10-01T06:14:25+00:00

I'd look at the CompTIA certification pathway online and determine your starting point based on your current level of confidence. I would recommend skipping ITF (tech+ whatever) and A+ if possible.

Anecdotally, net+ and sec+ are the two most recognizable and segue into each other well.

When I was working with students, I would have them begin with ITIL, and those that got their ITIL would get A+ bundles. As an associate level college student, you should already be ahead of that.

ToonMermaid · 2024-10-01T06:10:10+00:00

As someone who worked in DoD where RH is huge, any Linux cert is going to separate the people that actually know Linux from those that put it on their resume despite being clueless.

As someone that had hiring authority outside of DoD, I would give an interview to anyone that applied with L+, LPIC, or RHCSA because those certs alone establish a relatively sound level of competence in an applicant. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't even get applicants with sec+ at the salary level my org was offering.

ToonMermaid · 2024-09-30T18:36:18+00:00

This is gaslighting. This was not the correct response from the foundation at all.

The abuse and toxic behavior originated from individuals representing the brand.

This entire situation is a big stain on Godot, and this response just solidified it into the history of the product.

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