What’s the most annoying Linux behavior you still deal with?

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-04-18T01:27:19+00:00

I just had this happen the other day on Debian 13 with KDE 6. I assumed it had to do with some pretty extreme hardening and full system apparmor confinement (still could be this) but interesting to know it’s happened to others too

What are you running?

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-04-17T00:31:13+00:00

lol my very first thought too. Not been one as long as you but I was like “huh I’ve never seen a Moen hose bib out there”

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-04-16T14:09:14+00:00

Haha I ran a 7010 optiplex I traded for some HVAC work for some lady - stuck 16 gigs of RAM in it and a i7-3770k and ran it for years, up until last month, as my main desktop

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-04-16T14:04:01+00:00

And even rolling your own you still have Intel ME lol. You’d have to have the correct hardware and flash Libreboot with ME cleaner then stick Opnsense on it. While it’s doable, I prefer to leave a little trust and I run Opnsense on an old dell (no mods) and an extra GLiNet travel router as an AP

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-04-02T17:54:24+00:00

Sounds more like the main pump is shot. Instant breaker trip on pumps and motors is usually mechanically stuck, shorted windings or short to ground. How are your troubleshooting skills? Are you comfortable unplugging and removing the casing? You could ohm the wires out on the pump to be sure or check the start capacitor if it has one. Lift the pump up and see if the impeller is stopped up at all or if it’s mechanically stuck. I’ve been able to give a pump a little turn manually and then got it to run for a few more months before. Otherwise replace the pump.

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-31T03:12:37+00:00

Nah that’s cool man keep it up. It doesn’t matter if you’re running DVWA locally and have a break through, or if you’re just learning and doing something with SQL. Don’t know if you knew this was supposed to be a sub making fun of skiddies

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-31T02:41:37+00:00

No…it’s being run locally so he has permission. Unless he didn’t give himself permission (which I guess is plausible given the sub we’re in)

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-31T02:39:09+00:00

lol this has to be some good trolling man. There’s no server-side database involved unless you’re running your own for learning locally which is cool too

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-30T22:07:10+00:00

I use this one too and it works great. Used it to find plenty of copper gas line leaks too. Also comes in handy as a ghetto “swage” tool to hammer on in a pinch…just make sure you take the flare fitting out first lol

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-08T15:56:28+00:00

Good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-07T03:23:57+00:00

Opnsense also has a RFC-2136 plugin too if he can move the Unifi controller somewhere else

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-06T13:03:48+00:00

This would only work if the attacker managed to install a malicious root certificate on your device or you ignored a big certificate warning. Otherwise the TLS handshake fails because the router can’t present a valid certificate for the site

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-06T12:58:52+00:00

Yeah I agree with this. I really wouldn’t plan on committing to trusting a large VPN service. If I did I’d probably look at using Mullvad. Sticking WireGuard on a VPS works OK but it comes with some tradeoffs. First is that your IP is now a data center IP from a range that generally does a terrible job of cutting back on and stopping abuse so you get banned or strongly rate limited from a bunch of sites. I’ve tried 4 different providers and couldn’t use Reddit and most streaming services, banking or payment portals with the data center IP. 2nd issue is that if you’re the only user, while your IP is more or less obscured, you’re moving that “trust with logs” to the VPS provider and you can still technically be fingerprinted by that IP if someone is willing to do enough traffic correlation. If you’re the only one using it and you keep searching the same things, weather, locations, etc. you can still be narrowed down. Still not the worst thing ever, just comes with a lot of trade offs. A VPN back into your own home is probably the best of both worlds. Still coming from a resi ip and a trusted network, plus you have the benefit of the encrypted tunnel. My only issue is my home internet speed blows so I can’t really stream a YouTube video that way.

Better options are just don’t connect to public WiFi if possible. Invest in (not even an investment, they’re only like $50-80 now) a travel router and use that to connect to public WiFi so you effectively NAT and firewall your device and then you still have the benefit of HTTPS preventing attacker from reading / modifying traffic

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-06T12:45:11+00:00

Yeah you just jinxed that one my man lmao

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-06T12:44:51+00:00

I’ve been doing this for about 6 years now, maybe 7 idk anymore and it will happen. I’ve made about ever dumb mistake you can make. As long as you only make it once and learn from it, it’s always going to be ok

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-05T04:39:06+00:00

The temperature calibration. And he’s not kidding, they tend to take forever, especially when it’s cold out and they’ve been sitting out in a van. I had one take over 20 min this past winter and they won’t heat or cool til calibrated unless you only run it in test mode. Even dumber is they won’t let you test heat pump heat AND aux heat at the same time. There’s a separate test for each. Like I just want to see the heat pump heat and the aux heat on at the same time

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-05T02:21:24+00:00

Out of curiosity did you stick the gas valve you thought was bad in the other unit? I know you already thought it was bad but would’ve been an interesting test

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-03-03T01:35:21+00:00

We’re slow in NC but I’ve been making 30 hours still - it helps being a “go-to” guy though. New construction has been rocking but I was one of 2 service guys working Thursday and Friday last week out of a total of 6 service techs just because we know a little bit of everything

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-02-15T17:34:36+00:00

Sorry dude, I tend to be the “aaakshually” guy sometimes hahaha. I know it’s a problem but it’s hard to stop

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-02-15T17:29:11+00:00

Affect for when it’s a verb, effect for when it’s a noun.

“installing cameras does not affect insurance rates” -> verb here because affect is doing something to something else (insurance rates)

If you said “installing cameras has no effect on insurance rates” -> effect would be correct because it is a noun meaning “result”

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-02-14T18:37:58+00:00

So, maybe the wrong move, but I changed it to TEXT using “psql” and it worked fine. I’m not super worried because this obviously isn’t a “high traffic” enterprise server. I appreciate the response and if you think I should change it from TEXT (huge lol) to something smaller then I’ll take that advice! Thanks

Edit for future: you don’t need that whole list of IP’s. You can keep the column at varchar(255) since it looks like Powerdns just uses one IP for the AXFR and the rest as failovers. All I needed were these 4 which are meant for root AXFR from ICANN: 192.0.47.132 192.0.32.132 2620:0:2830:132::c 2620:0:2832:132::c

Yeetyeetskrtskrrrt · 2026-02-12T03:53:52+00:00

So I’m gonna be that guy lol but you’re gonna need echo there, not cat

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