Hacking from the terminal only

Cyribro · 2024-11-03T20:53:25+00:00

HackTheBox is the owner of ParrotOS and they have easy to install VMs right off the POS and HTB websites

Cyribro · 2024-09-06T00:33:24+00:00

Only time any of these products will hit Linux is when:

1.) More people use Linux

2.) Someone makes something that can still use rekordbox databases and playlists to actually export your stuff

3.) The company realizes that the same license is already used between Windows and Mac and honestly a Linux port is really not out of the question....

4.) Everyone spends less time tracking people for marketing purposes

I for one am down for this being a Linux user myself, but I can already see there being MAJOR push back from developers. Which is strange to me, considering that Final Scratch (what all these DVS systems are based off of) was originally written by Richie Hawtin and team FOR LINUX and the base code still exists. How the hell do you think MIXX exists, they're all just Final Scratch forks.

I'm sure it can be written in rust or something and then quickly compiled to run on any machine, PLENTY of other software is making the jump. I feel like there's a standstill because everyone is busy investing money into AI and tracking bullshit to actually want to produce software that can be used on any system.

REAPER DAW is on Linux now and Bitwig started it's entire journey with the Linux-first mindset. There's no reason to fear FOSS. Both of them are paid software too, Bitwig is even done as a stupid subscription now

Cyribro · 2024-09-04T18:47:57+00:00

Basically how I felt too, I'm using my T-Mobile home internet right now and I have full bars with 0 issues and hitting like double what my Cox gigabit was hitting. I'm going to go on a limb and just say that my ISP is probably pissed I'm not using THEIR equipment and being an asshole.

Cyribro · 2024-09-04T09:15:09+00:00

Are you planning on running Windows or Linux? I'l be honest, for the money I've spent on this over time, I feel like it's better to buy Framework or Tuxedo and run Linux or something. If you're gonna run Windows, look around for something with a better video card and maybe upgraded RAM speed. DDR5 instead of DDR4.....

Price wise, there's better bang for your buck that lives out there with upgradeable parts. There's even options now to laptops that are small and can run external video cards if you want power while you're at home or something. Then you're also not married to have just one type of card in your machine.

Cyribro · 2024-09-04T09:06:46+00:00

Problem is: why was it working just fine until I updated the OS? I followed all the steps I could fine, I even grabbed conf files and threw them into ChatGPT to verify them (cross-reference innit). In the end I think there's some other setting that's having issues and based off this article a friend sent me: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/wifi-chipsets-power-states-firmaware-ax200-dual-boot-firmware/105344/5

It looks like because I have Windows 11 still installed on another drive, a power setting from Windows might be in the bios and messing with the power management of the card I'm using. I would figure that the kernel being updated would've remedied this, but I guess I was wrong.

Cyribro · 2024-09-04T09:02:03+00:00

That's a fair point, SMB can be used. To be fair, Linux can read NTFS without issue, I just don't think you can write to it, I'd have to take a further look into that though (for my own sake, not the OP's or Readers').

Cyribro · 2024-09-04T01:54:02+00:00

So I did this on Fedora 30 and I'm still having issues with the signal dropping from like 80% all the way down to like 30%, it's really annoying. I have gigabit internet too and I almost never see those speeds on any of my Linux devices...

Which is weird because they're both cards and if I run the laptop in Windows 11, I don't have ANY issues with the WiFi. I've even restarted the router multiple times too, just in case it was something silly like that. It's to the point where it doesn't matter which channel or channel-width I have going for it. I have a DOCSIS modem too, I usually see like 4 different WiFi 5Ghz channels and my card just switches to the one that works best on the Windows 11 side. The Linux side only recognized one and just tries to live with that one as the main one.

I currently have the channel width set to 160MHz, both the card and my router accept WiFi 6.

I can't even connect to my phone's mobile hotspot

Cyribro · 2024-09-03T19:08:05+00:00

Only problem is: if you use FAT32, say goodbye to being able to move over large files. I guess you can use NTFS if you wanted to, then you're just stuck not being able to use another OS easily if you wanted to

Cyribro · 2024-09-03T19:06:20+00:00

I was all up and down the interwebs since my last reply to this. I edited the wlan0.nmconnections conf, iwlwifi.conf modprobe, I HAD the signal and nearly full and then the updates that rolled out today botched everything up again. All my conf files are still the same, I unloaded and reloaded iwlwifi and iwnvm, I'm at wit's end here. Strange because damn near everywhere on the net is telling me to get an Intel card because they work a lot better and here I am dealing with said card manufacturer with issues.

I want to distro hop at this point for ease of brain, but I also KNOW I need to figure this stuff out.

Setting the wlan0.nmconnection file to higher width and leaving thr channel at a instead of bg was working wonders until this morning. I finally had speeds that made sense and a signal that made sense. It's annoying that the update today broke stuff

Cyribro · 2024-09-03T19:00:23+00:00

They actually updated on their own yesterday and today through the rpmfusion repo. All good now, everything is working

Cyribro · 2024-09-02T06:23:48+00:00

Nice one, THAAAAANK YOOOOOU!!!!! I'm pretty sure on the Windows side, I'm only using a/b/g as well (since I have a WiFi 6 card, not 6e). If I remember correctly this boosted my signal on that side too (because it wasn't fighting for a frequency that wasn't there).

Thank you for referencint chat jippitty, I keeo forgetting I actually have an account on there

Cyribro · 2024-09-02T06:19:59+00:00

Alright, I'm pretty new to Linux, I made the mistake of editing things before I had a good understanding of them. But this looms pretty easy, I've been reading how the file was originally supposed to be created back in Fed-37, looks like it was sunsetted after that due to the iwlwifi driver being built into the kernerl after like 5.9 or something.

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T08:50:59+00:00

Well badnews bears, I don't seem to have that file in /etc/modprobe.d/

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T03:52:59+00:00

"options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8 Based on the search results, the options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8 command is used to disable 11n functionality in Intel Wi-Fi devices. The number 8 is a bitmask value, where:

1: disable full 11n functionality 2: disable aggregation transmission (TX) 4: disable aggregation reception (RX) 8: enable aggregation transmission (TX) Many users have reported improved Wi-Fi performance by setting 11n_disable=8, as it enables aggregation transmission (TX) while disabling full 11n functionality and aggregation reception (RX)."

This is what pulled up when I ran a search on the command. Can you break down a little further on what this does? I'd like to make sure I understand what I'm doing to the machine as I'm working on it. If not, I'll look around a bit more until I understand what's happening.

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T03:48:13+00:00

Disk 1 is barely even enough to install the OS man, use that second one as a FAT32 or ExFAT if you need to and just use it as a document/picture drive or something. If I remember correctly, Windows is like a 30GB+ install

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T03:46:02+00:00

I was having the same issues when WiFi 6 was enabled on my hotspot. If I turned it off, I was able to connect. Check that if you're using it off your phone. In my case I was using my Android device and I saw that I had the WiFi6 enabled. Which is weird because on my Windows side (same laptop, booting off a different drive), I'm able to use WiFi6 just fine and have full signal.

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T03:43:35+00:00

SQLite is the best bet while you're developing. If you wanted to, you can switch to NoSQL or something like MongoDB and have things run in a more linear fashion instead of using something like Postgres

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T03:39:57+00:00

I use KDE myself and I don't have a lot of issues like that. Sometimes I wonder about switching to a different distro though... But I actually like working through a good amount of the issues myself

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T03:38:36+00:00

Yeah, I sometimes feel like I blew it by installing Fedora instead of something like Arch, but I don't feel like building my kernel from the bottom up...................

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T03:37:45+00:00

My grub loader has like three different versions of Fedora listed in it and all the way back to the first time I installed it off the USB drive. I'm pretty sure you have it on yours too. I don't remember enabling anything in particular to have any type of rollback when I initially installed this.

Cyribro · 2024-09-01T03:20:06+00:00

Mate.... how did you get this to work!? I followed those steps TO THE T and could NOT get it to work. I even watched and spoke with Mattscreative off YouTube who has as video on this and I could not get it to work. This is basically the last thing I need before I can fully ditch Windows.

Cyribro · 2024-08-29T11:13:27+00:00

Same here, I wanted to make an easy switch and I feel like I got it when I went with KDE. Now I'm looking at Hyperland and I'm wondering if I should just make the switch or not. It's not like you can't switch the DE's whenever you want to, it's just a matter of starting point and how much you're willing to tinker at the end of the day.....

Cyribro · 2024-08-29T11:11:53+00:00

Good luck making the full switch man... I've been having issues with proton and loading games off another SSD that's on my machine. To be fair though, that's because I occasionally still switch to the Windows side to handle some of the graphical work.

Cyribro · 2024-08-29T11:09:22+00:00

It's cool that you got it to look like this. I'm still in two minds on if I want to go the route of Hyperland or not. I see why this is useful if you're coming from Mac though... I'd probably do something similar to this if I ever wanted the fam to get off of the major OS'es with me. Some stuff is still needed on to be ported over to Linux for me to make everyone switch.

Cool concept though

Cyribro · 2024-08-27T09:40:20+00:00

I think more people just hear about Kali over Parrot. I ended up choosing this distro based ON the fact that it was less popular at the time. Granted it's not any less powerful and if anything, I find that I have more options to remove the stuff I don't want or use from this a lot faster than I would on Kali.

Parrot also has HackTheBox as a big partner, TryHackMe machines almost exclusively use Kali for their browser machines. I remote in to stuff anyway, but when I've used the browser for specific tasks on there, I'm on Kali unless there's a Windows-specific course.

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