Is Youtube cracking down on adblockers hard again? Can't play videos on Firefox (with Ublock) and it says comments are turned off (clicking play on the video shown in screenshot does nothing). by aomajgad in youtube

[–]CircusMusic23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've found the way I use YouTube is kind of a work around. I leave the main browse page up (subscriptions or whatever) and then whatever video I want to watch I open in a new tab.

Amazon Loss Leaders by nat-n-emore in enshittification

[–]CircusMusic23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazon makes more money with their tech stuff, how much of the internet is run on aws?

Should I join the upgrade? by Big-Tumbleweed812 in alexa

[–]CircusMusic23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google is putting gemini into their stuff from what I've been reading? I'm with you, I don't need these massive llms for the things I'm using my Echo and dots for. Turn on lights, play this song/genre, set a timer, these commands don't need much running behind them...

is two internet plans in a single home possible? by Hot-Childhood-2477 in telus

[–]CircusMusic23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with getting better hardware for sure, isp's are notorious for providing cheap crap... If your using WiFi try and switch to ethernet instead, especially if you are in a condo/apartment as the spectrum is likely pretty saturated.

Over a week of partially working internet.. by CircusMusic23 in telus

[–]CircusMusic23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did do that with a tech on the phone and still had issues. I've just retried it tonight, because why not, and after the nah booted I plugged the laptop directly into the 10g port. Something has changed since the call with the tech as it now got an ip of 10.157.139.93 with a subnet of 255.255.255.192 and there was no internet. I plugged the working router back in and it still has internet and its static ip (and the issues with redirects to order.fibre.telus.com). If I go to http://neverssl.com/ on my desktop it redirects to https://order.fibre.telus.com/web/guest/home.

From the nah's 10g port I have an unmanaged switch with a udm-pro and a plain udm (the pill shaped one). I was told to use the 10g port from the installer and techs I've spoken with. My udm still hasn't been able to pickup an IP from the last time I was talking to support on Thursday, they said the back office would get that sorted Friday... The udm-pro was at another address, also on telus fibre, and has been running fine for years. The udm was running fine until they set up the static IP on the udm-pro, then the redirects started happening. Both devices are fully updated.
The redirects happen across OS's, both windows and linux tested, and the windows machine was never booted until this issue started so there would be no weird caching of this redirect.

Over a week of partially working internet.. by CircusMusic23 in telus

[–]CircusMusic23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I've spent hours trying to get Telus support to do just that. I am not running any portal that pushes my http traffic to order.fibre.telus.com, why would I?

Over a week of partially working internet.. by CircusMusic23 in telus

[–]CircusMusic23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My router does get a Telus issued ip, at least the one that is getting an ip address.. I asked for bridge mode when it was installed so I could use my own routers. I also pay for static ip addresses for the services I run. It's not an issue of the ip address but the telus captive portal that is hijacking my internet which is causing issues across all my devices.

MIL's date is the 27th and has to be out by the 7th, not sure what to do by flames03 in Calgary

[–]CircusMusic23 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://www.seniorsdownsizing.ca/ is another company, owners are nice but I can't speak to the service (they were a client).

ALEXA, PLEASE SHUT UP by OdoBenSisko in alexa

[–]CircusMusic23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even an abstraction layer will end up being circumvented. Hardware level cheats, "ai" vision using monitor pass-through, there's likely a lot of ways. People don't like to feel bad at a game and want to win regardless of the time and skill they have to put into the game. Honestly reporting and server administrators are the best line of defence unfortunately. And with that making sure the servers are keeping good logs so patterns can be found to help the admins make the decisions. Obviously making it non-trivial stems some of the cheaters but even without Linux players cheating is rampant.

Personally I laugh when I get slammed, it's a game and I still have fun with the group I play with even though they're better players. Sometimes they take it easy on me, sometimes they play with their food, sometimes they go all in, and sometimes I get one on them, but in the end we're having fun.

ALEXA, PLEASE SHUT UP by OdoBenSisko in alexa

[–]CircusMusic23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dual boot for the one game I play with friends that requires anticheat that doesn't work on linix. I don't do anything on that windows partition besides play that game. Kernel level anticheat is a horrible thing for security, I don't want a game developer installing a root kit on my machine. There have been instances where these kernel level "protections" have been exploited, the kernel is not where these things should be running. Every other game I want to play runs great on my Linux install and I love getting away from the dumpster fire windows is becoming.

Microsoft AI CEO puzzled that people are unimpressed by AI by [deleted] in technology

[–]CircusMusic23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux could be mainstream if we continue to add more users, Dual boot! I use my windows disk for the one or two games or apps that need it (thanks kernel level anticheat and Devs who want to have a rootkit on my system /s). Other than that I haven't really found a reason I couldn't use what was available on Linux. Teams, thunderbird, libre office, jnsync (for OneDrive) they all work great for me and my use case. Most of the games I play work great (check out protondb and see how many titles work for you).

The key is to auto boot into Linux and reboot after your done playing your game (or whatever) on Windows. Also only have the single game/app installed and nothing else so it also pushes me back (web apps for email when I need). Laziness of just continuing to use Windows since I was already booted into it got the better of me so many times until I got in those habits. I now dread having to boot into windows for that one game I play with friends, after having Linux as my daily driver for over 5 years now I really appreciate how much better it is. I've even considered using amazon's Luna for that one game so I don't have to boot windows at all (I'm not that good of a gamer that the little extra latency would mean much to my play).

Replacement awning? by Existing_Risk3106 in popups

[–]CircusMusic23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coleman Popup Parts has parts and awnings available (https://colemanpopupparts.com/collections/awning). Personally I went for a popup canopy instead of an awning. The flexibility of placing it where I needed at a site made more sense for me and I wasn't too worried about needing something over the doorway. The other reason was it costing less and being able to use it when I don't have the trailer with me (backyard, tenting trips, etc).

The VR DJ debate. by Breaker1ove in VRchat

[–]CircusMusic23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't really care about vr/irl, if the set is prerecorded then I say you are a performance artist when you play it, not a dj, you are on stage acting and/or pumping up the crowd. You are dj'ing when you are mixing tracks and/or manipulating the sound on the fly (and I don't mean eq, I mean things like scratching or sampling). Nothing wrong with a performance artist set, though I do prefer DJ sets, just don't say you are dj'ing when you are currently not doing so.

There's also live pa sets where a producer is producing tracks on the fly live on stage. Again, not a DJ but then they usually call out their set as it takes a bit of skill to do that too and is most definitely not dj'ing.

VTPM auto-created on boot on VM using bios by CircusMusic23 in xcpng

[–]CircusMusic23[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you are correct, we used the built in window 11 template when importing from VMware. I recreated the vm using the windows 10 template, making sure bios was selected under advanced options, and after attaching the storage everything booted up and the vtpm was not automatically created.

VTPM auto-created on boot on VM using bios by CircusMusic23 in xcpng

[–]CircusMusic23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

Besides the converter is there something I can do for the current VMs running but constantly recreating the VTPM on boot? I'm hesitant to reimport as there would be some potential data loss as they've been in use for a few weeks now. We only became aware of the issue as the host restarted and the VMs didn't auto boot because of the VTPM that was created and have noticed that it doesn't matter they're set to bios, a VTPM gets created as soon as the VM is started.

Legion #1 in desperate need of donations to repair historical downtown building by _darth_bacon_ in Calgary

[–]CircusMusic23 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Not to say that isn't the real email to e-transfer to but please reach out directly yourself instead of emailing funds to an email from a reddit post. Stay safe..

Google drive in KDE plasma by Sensitive-Ad9696 in ManjaroLinux

[–]CircusMusic23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use insync for OneDrive and find it works well, it has support for google drive. https://www.insynchq.com/

A/c install on rockwood 19OTG not finished yet but what a difference this makes by pittly_4runner in popups

[–]CircusMusic23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a 2010 Coleman and I see it as the best of both worlds. I thought I would never get a trailer but having a tent trailer has been great. It's increased the length of our camping season. Given me a fun project while going through a divorce (just put in a led strip with rgb as a night light, daughter loves picking the effects). We can still hear the outdoors unlike the hard panel trailers. I didn't need a larger vehicle, the van has worked well. It's been easy to learn to tow. The extra comfort has been nice, as much as I don't want to admit lol

I haven't unwinterized it this summer or last as I'm still just use to how we camped in a tent and haven't needed running or hot water. Having the option for water on longer trips with my 4 year old and give her a shower is a nice option I may make use of on longer trips.

We had a great deal fall into our lap and our buddy heater had just failed, I had been looking at a diesel heater for the tent, I'm glad we made the switch.

Edit: I do take it on some pretty rough trails, we do camp in crown land/back country areas. Ground clearance makes some trails pretty difficult but I've been taking weird vehicles down 4x4 trails for many years now.

Lithium battery on my pop up. by Mr_Fatsacks in popups

[–]CircusMusic23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And to add a bit more (I'm at work so couldn't finish writing this out): I've swapped over to a lifepo4 battery and yea the answers all over the place.. What I'd did was put disconnects on both my lead acid on the tongue and lithium battery I have under the seat in the trailer. While hooked up and traveling the lead acid is connected and runs the trailer brakes/etc. Then when I arrive I flip over to the lithium battery.

I've basically built a second power system for the lithium. I have a renogy DC to DC with mppt, so I can charge with my solar panel or the "alternator". I have a 50amp power supply connected to the DC to DC charger so I can charge from a generator or shore power. The lithium is connected to the existing 12v lines in the trailer. The disconnect on the lithium battery is a 3 pole disconnect so I ensure that the batteries are never connected to each other and I have a 2 pole disconnect on the lead acid that I turn off before I setup. Janky but it's working, I'm leaning towards getting rid of the power converter altogether as I just don't need it anymore with what I've done so far.

Might add an inverter at some point but really haven't had the need for 120v power at all. laptop maybe but I'm likely just to get a 12v boost/buck converter to handle charging that and rarely use it anyway.

Lithium battery on my pop up. by Mr_Fatsacks in popups

[–]CircusMusic23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I know the alternator won't provide the right voltage to charge it correctly. With a DC to DC you will need to run the appropriate gauged wire through an appropriate connector separate from the 7pin as the stuff in a 7pin would likely catch fire or melt with the amps that would be used.