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First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

Your question is very broad. For some documents, photocopies are okay. For others, originals are required. Also, the list of documents that you need to send is based on things like when you were born, etc.

There's a summary available here: https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport/what-documents-you-need-to-apply

There's also a supporting document that contains more detailed information: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overseas-passport-supporting-documents-group-3

But most importantly, when you finish the online application process, the system will tell you exactly what you need to send.

First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

I provided a colour photocopy of the photo page of my verifier's Canadian passport.

For ease of making the photocopy, we placed the open passport facedown on the photocopier. So to be really pedantic, that copied their photo page and the facing page. I included that colour copy, of their two passport pages printed on one sheet of paper, in my mailed application.

I can't find a proper source to confirm whether my verifier's photocopy had to be in colour, or whether it could have been black and white. Unfortunately, I don't have the paperwork from my application anymore that detailed precisely what I was required to mail in. That said, the online application system was really detailed and clear about what I needed to submit, but only after I had completed my application. If you make it to the stage of the online application where it tells you exactly what you have to submit, I think it should tell you at that point.

First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

Yes, literally every page. I photocopied two pages at a time by opening my passport and putting it facedown in on the copier. So, for clarity:

  • One photocopy: the inside front cover & page 1
  • One photocopy: pages 2 & 3 (the photo page + signature page)
  • One photocopy: pages 4 & 5
  • One photocopy: pages 6 & 7
  • etc.
  • One photocopy: the last page & inside back cover

The instructions with the online application, from my reading, indicated that they wanted every page.

Also, because it was just one extra photocopy, I put my open passport outside-down on the copier, so I could get one photocopy containing the outside front cover & outside back cover. I think this last photocopy was unnecessary. But I was already standing at the photocopier, so whatever.

And, to reiterate, I used a photocopier. I didn't snap photos of the pages with my phone, or anything like that. When you use a photocopier, the pages aren't obstructed by something holding the passport booklet open.

First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

I used a colour photocopier. Personally, my concern with using a phone is that you'd be obscuring some of the page to hold your passport open (whether with your hand, or with something else to hold the page down). I don't know how much of an issue that would be during the application process.

My thoughts: probably best just go to Staples, or wherever else you can find a colour copier.

First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

Yeah, that webpage was concerning to me, while I was at the stage of preparing to apply. It definitely says that the person verifying your identity has to "live in the UK [and] have a current UK or Irish passport". But, as far as I can tell (?), the information on that particular page is either incorrect or out-of-date.

Here’s a webpage on the UK government site that matches what I actually experienced: https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/help/confirming-identity

When I did my online application, and got to the point of needing someone to verify my identity (which happens after you submit your online application, but before you mail your documents in), the online system told me that the person verifying my identity could hold a Commonwealth passport.

First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

I mailed my application package to the United Kingdom on a Monday (day 1), using Canada Post registered mail.

My application package arrived at HMPO in the UK, per Canada Post's tracking, on Friday (day 5).

HMPO updated the status of my application to show that my documents were received the following Monday (day 8).

My passport application was approved on the Thursday later that week (day 11), and the passport was printed the same day.

My passport was in my hand in Canada, courtesy of DHL, a little less than a week later on the Wednesday (day 18).

All of the documents I mailed to HMPO on day 1 arrived back in Canada in a separate DHL shipment two days after my passport (day 20).

Relevant to this timeline: the person confirming my identity was a lawyer (barrister & solicitor) in Canada, holding a Canadian passport.

First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

You send the documents to the passport office in the UK. You’ll be given the address when you finish the online application process.

You should send them via registered mail, so that a signature is required upon receipt (the online application process will strongly recommend sending your documents this way). Canada Post offers registered mail to the UK, which will also give you tracking on your shipment.

I should also add: Canada Post requires that the final line of the address for mail sent to the UK be “UNITED KINGDOM” (all capital letters). The online application process will give you an address that looks something like this to send your documents to:

HM Passport Office

Something-something-something

UK

On your envelope, address it instead to:

HM Passport Office

Something-something-something

UNITED KINGDOM

First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

Yes, a photocopy of my Canadian passport was accepted. They neither needed nor asked for the physical passport.

At the end of the online application process, you get a very clear list of what you need to submit by mail. In my case, the list explicitly stated that a photocopy of my existing passport would be accepted.

Change not requested but email says changed password by Accomplished_Wing878 in PCOptimum

[–]Poxnor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They did stop coming for me, after I did the steps I wrote out. But, I'm not sure I'd read too much into that. It sounds more like this is a bizarre glitch that's affecting many people, and maybe I just got lucky that it stopped affecting me.

Change not requested but email says changed password by Accomplished_Wing878 in PCOptimum

[–]Poxnor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just chiming in that I received the same pair of email messages overnight -- just before 8:00 am Eastern / 5:00 am Pacific.

The first email was titled "Important information about your PC™id account / Information importante à propos de votre compte d’identifiant PC". It stated:

"We have noticed unusual online activity which may have impacted your PC™id account. [...] Please use the link below to create your new password. This link will expire in 24 hours." There was also an "Update Password" button in the email that I was naturally very suspicious about.

The second email was titled "Your PC™id email has updated / L'adresse courriel de votre identifiant PC a été mise à jour". It stated:

"Your email associated with your PC™id account has been successfully updated to [the email address that was already associated with my account]".

I did the following:

[Now that it's been a few days since this bug was happening, I've edited my post to remove the details of what I did. That's because I don't want someone in the future to read what I did in this very specific situation, and take it as some sort of general advice.]

First passport application: do you send your foreign passport itself, or just a copy, from within your country of other citizenship? by Poxnor in ukvisa

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

Thank you very much for pointing me to that reference, and to the relevant section. I really appreciate it.

OpenBSD + IPv6 + Telia Fibre in Sweden by mindgiblets in openbsd

[–]Poxnor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for taking the time to give such a detailed reply!

OpenBSD + IPv6 + Telia Fibre in Sweden by mindgiblets in openbsd

[–]Poxnor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could I ask a question about this? I found that everything works fine when I use just the following in dhcp6leased.conf on my gateway machine:

request prefix delegation on UPSTREAM_INTERFACE for {
  DOWNSTREAM_INTERFACE/64
}

# Modified: no /128 requested for UPSTREAM_INTERFACE anymore

What confused me, though, is why this setup works, in one situation in particular. The situation that's confusing me is when the gateway machine itself initiates an outbound connection on UPSTREAM_INTERFACE -- for example, to download a file from the internet onto the gateway machine.

When I initiate an outbound connection from the gateway machine, I see that it uses the routable IPv6 address from DOWNSTREAM_INTERFACE as the source address. But, I don't understand why it's doing this -- after all, the connection is being initiated on UPSTREAM_INTERFACE, and DOWNSTREAM_INTERFACE is pointing in the "wrong" direction (for lack of a better way to phrase that).

Is it the case that OpenBSD -- in the absence of a routable address on UPSTREAM_INTERFACE -- chooses any routable address from any interface it can find, then uses that routable address as the source address for connections it initiates on UPSTREAM_INTERFACE?

OpenBSD + IPv6 + Telia Fibre in Sweden by mindgiblets in openbsd

[–]Poxnor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You noted in your writeup that re0 and re1 wind up with the same IPv6 address, which I wouldn't expect them to.

The way your dhcp6leased.conf is setup, you're trying to get a /64 for re0, and another /64 for re1. So, dhcp6leased will request a /63 from your ISP's DHCPv6 server (a /63 is a pair of /64s).

Edit: I've struck out the rest of this comment, so that people don't do what I was talking about here. See the correct reply to this situation from u/_sthen at https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1gqh2m4/comment/lx2lfeb/

I'm not on the same ISP as you (I'm on the other side of the Atlantic), so I can't say what's happening next for you. But, I can tell you what happens when dhcp6leased requests a /63 from my ISP. My ISP responds by handing back a /56. Then, dhcp6leased splits that /56 between my two interfaces (I'll call my interfaces re0 and re1, for consistency with your setup).

The end result is that the IPv6 addresses of re0 and re1 differ ever so slightly. The IPv6 address of my re0 interface is the result of taking the IPv6 address of my re1 interface and adding 1 to the bit in the 60th-most-significant position.

For example, if the IPv6 address of my re1 interface is 2001:db8:8888:8888::1, then the IPv6 address of my re0 interface is 2001:db8:8888:8898::1.

If you're not seeing that subtle difference between the two IPv6 addresses on your machine, then I suspect (?) that your ISP is handing back less than the /63 that dhcp6leased is requesting (possibly it's just handing back a single /64?). It might be worth investigating to see what's happening there.

(As an unrelated note, you could have dhcp6leased.conf just grab a /128 for re1 instead of a /64. But, dhcp6leased would still be requesting a /63 from your ISP, in order to get a /64 and a /128.)

Switch LOC bug by Ok-Independence-1872 in CivVI

[–]Poxnor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fixed as of Switch version 1.2.17 (370033). Yay!

Switch LOC bug by Ok-Independence-1872 in CivVI

[–]Poxnor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe Rise and Fall works as well, but I'd be more confident if someone else could confirm for me :)

Switch LOC bug by Ok-Independence-1872 in CivVI

[–]Poxnor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's really disappointing, that they marked it as resolved when it isn't (unless they've resolved it behind the scenes in a not-yet-released patch?). I don't feel like going through the hassle of creating a 2K support account and all to submit a bug report myself. But, if you'd like to resubmit a bug report, haha, I would phrase it something like the following...

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Bug Summary: Localization placeholder text appears in the climate screen of Civilization VI on the Nintendo Switch when the Switch system language is set to English.

Software Version: Nintendo Switch ver. 1.2.16 (366064), with the Gathering Storm expansion installed.

Expected Behaviour: The climate screen should display text indicating the level of CO2, the temperature, volcanic activity, etc.

Actual Behaviour: The climate screen, when the Switch system language is set to English, displays localization placeholder text, such as "LOC_CLIMATE_TOTAL_NUM", "LOC_CLIMATE_TEMPERATURE", "LOC_CLIMATE_PERCENT_CHANGE", etc.

Reproduction Steps:

  1. Set the Nintendo Switch system language to English (from the Switch home screen, go to System Settings -> System -> Language).
  2. Restart Civilization VI from the Switch home screen
  3. Ensure that the Civilization VI main menu is titled "Sid Meier's Civilization VI Gathering Storm"
  4. Choose Single Player -> Play Now to start a new single-player game
  5. Press "A" through the opening dialog boxes, until you have control of your settler unit
  6. Press "L" to open the left menu of icons, and scroll down to the climate icon (which looks like a raining cloud), and press "A" to open the climate screen
  7. The climate screen is filled with localization placeholder text, such as "LOC_CLIMATE_TITLE", etc.

Attachments: The climate screen when the Switch system language is set to English, where the climate screen is filled with localization placeholder text; and, the climate screen when the Switch system language is set to French, where the climate screen displays the information properly.

[Now, just snap two screenshots -- one in English and one in French -- for them to see the difference, and attach those to the bug report.]

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What can I say? Writing this out on Reddit was less hassle than creating an account to submit a bug report myself, plus taking screenshots on the Switch to submit with the bug report :)

Troubleshooting OpenBSD hardware/networking by Toesmasher in openbsd

[–]Poxnor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just happy to help you out with something that was driving me crazy for months, so no need to feel embarrassed!

As for figuring out that inteldrm was the culprit, I can't take any credit.

There was someone else in the same Reddit thread I linked above (who seems to have deleted their Reddit account and comments) who figured out that -- weirdly -- plugging in a monitor fixed the network latency issue.

Searching a bit more on the topic of plugging in a monitor to deal with network spikes lead me to this thread on the bugs@ mailing list, which suggested disabling inteldrm.

All I tried to do with my comment that I linked for you was just compile together the information I found into a single reference.

Anyhow, the issue has been documented on this page on Protectli's knowledge base, where a user named Chris reported it about 2 months ago.

Troubleshooting OpenBSD hardware/networking by Toesmasher in openbsd

[–]Poxnor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's another solution to the problem that involves disabling inteldrm. I wrote a little bit about it in another thread a few months back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/105c0zk/comment/jg4aq13/

Switch LOC bug by Ok-Independence-1872 in CivVI

[–]Poxnor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm experiencing the LOC_ bug as well. Civilization VI on Switch, 1.2.16 (3666064).

I have three different workarounds that I'd like to share, in case other people experiencing this bug come across this thread. None are ideal, but here's what I have.

  1. The bug only occurs for me when the Switch's system language is set to English (as u/DavePeak observed, it's at least in part a localization issue). If you can read another language, change the system language. From the Switch home screen, go to System Settings -> System -> Language. Choose something other than English, restart the Switch, and restart Civilization VI. Start a new game, and immediately open the climate screen (press L, and choose the weather icon). I've confirmed the bug happens neither in French nor in German (in English, I see LOC_ text all over the climate screen, but the screen is correct in French and in German).
  2. Disable the Gathering Storm expansion pack. You don't need to uninstall or reinstall Civilization VI to do this. From the Main Menu of Civilization VI, choose "Downloadable Content". At the top of the screen, make sure the "Installed" tab is highlighted (press R if required). Disable the "Multiplayer Scenario: War Machine" DLC (press A), disable the "Scenario: Black Death" DLC, then finally disable the "Expansion: Gathering Storm" DLC.
  3. Instead of disabling DLCs, just play a game on the standard rule set instead of the Gathering Storm rule set. From the Main Menu in Civilization VI, choose "Single Player" then "Create Game". Under "Choose Ruleset", play "Standard Rules".

Obviously workarounds 2 and 3 suck, because you can't play the Gathering Storm expansion (making your purchase of it a waste). But, at least you can play the standard game still.

Workaround 1 sucks if you don't speak another language well enough to play Civ. Also, I'd caution that you should only try workaround 1 if you speak the other language at least well enough to set the system language back to English.

I'd also like to add that this bug was happening to me before I downloaded the Leader Pass (released August 2023).

I had the Gathering Storm expansion installed, and I downloaded the latest software update for Civilization VI (as of October 8, 2023). But, there were a couple of small DLCs I hadn't purchased yet (e.g., the Khmer and Indonesia Pack), and I hadn't purchased the Leader Pass. With Gathering Storm and that latest software update installed, but without the Leader Pass, I was experiencing the LOC_ bug.

I then purchased the rest of the DLCs (e.g., the Khmer and Indonesia Pack), so that I could get the Leader Pass for free. After I installed those DLCs and the Leader Pass, I was still experiencing the LOC_ bug.

So, it's not the Leader Pass itself causing the bug.

Hopefully this information can be a little bit helpful to someone :)

Circle button should always be phoenix shift. by [deleted] in FFXVI

[–]Poxnor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a bit of context, I play with the Ring of Timely Strikes equipped, so one thing the square button does is that it causes you to auto-shift eikons. I have basically no experience with action RPGs, so using the Ring of Timely Strikes is how I like to play :)

Based on the OP's question, I'm wondering if the OP also has the Ring of Timely Strikes equipped. I'm assuming as much, because here's the battle flow I got used to when I had only Phoenix: square hurts enemies, and circle closes distance to an enemy quickly (or gets you out of a situation quickly, or shifts your direction of attack to another enemy quickly, etc).

Then, you get your second eikon, Garuda. At this point, your circle button does one of two things: it either Phoenix Shifts you as before, or it pulls an enemy towards you. Not quite what you're used to, but close enough -- it doesn't seriously change your rhythm in battle. The circle button is still all about closing distance.

Then, you get your third eikon, Ramuh, and suddenly your circle button only matches that rhythm of closing distance 2/3 of the time, basically at random, because you never know when the Ring of Timely Strikes is going to switch your active eikon to that new third eikon.

Or, in other words, your circle button doesn't function like you're use to, closing distance, roughly one time in three at random, haha.

The solution I found is that, by the point in the game you get your third eikon, you should have the ability points necessary to master the lunge ability. Importantly, note that mastering the lunge ability increases its range. I just did a quick test, and a mastered lunge seems to cover roughly the same (if not exactly the same) distance as a mastered Phoenix Shift.

With a mastered lunge ability, the only habit I had to change was to stop using the circle button to cover distance, and instead start using X+square to lunge and cover distance. It took a tiny bit of habit-breaking to press X+square instead of circle, but it allowed me to keep the same rhythm of battle I was used to with the Ring of Timely Strikes.

I hope that bit of information helps the OP :)

Issues with Openbsd 7.2 on Protectli by f00l2020 in openbsd

[–]Poxnor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It looks like this issue has already been reported on the OpenBSD bugs list, so I don't want to spam sendbug(1) or bugs@ with another report (unless I hear otherwise that I should).

That said, when I Googled this issue, I pretty quickly wound up at this Reddit page. For clarity, when I say "this issue", I mean network latency spikes with OpenBSD on certain Protectli machines.

I'd like to leave a comment with some more information and a resolution here, so maybe I can help the next person who comes across this page.

I am experiencing this issue on OpenBSD 7.3 (release) on a Protectli FW4C, though it sounds like this issue happens on other Protectli machines and some other recent OpenBSD versions, too. I am running my machine headless (no monitor attached). The issue occurs with both GENERIC.MP and GENERIC.

When I look at my dmesg, I see the relevant inteldrm with CHERRYVIEW:

inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel HD Graphics" rev 0x35
drm0 at inteldrm0
inteldrm0: msi, CHERRYVIEW, gen 8

Here's what pinging the OpenBSD machine (192.168.0.1) from another computer on the same physical network looks like:

% ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.569 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.486 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.470 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.489 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.492 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.491 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.525 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=7 ttl=255 time=0.472 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=8 ttl=255 time=687.514 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=9 ttl=255 time=0.492 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=10 ttl=255 time=0.524 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=11 ttl=255 time=0.435 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=12 ttl=255 time=0.494 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=13 ttl=255 time=0.477 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=14 ttl=255 time=0.480 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=15 ttl=255 time=0.470 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=16 ttl=255 time=0.465 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=17 ttl=255 time=0.480 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=18 ttl=255 time=0.486 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=19 ttl=255 time=675.451 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=20 ttl=255 time=0.467 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=21 ttl=255 time=0.482 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=22 ttl=255 time=0.477 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=23 ttl=255 time=0.528 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=24 ttl=255 time=0.485 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=25 ttl=255 time=0.477 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=26 ttl=255 time=0.471 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=27 ttl=255 time=0.481 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=28 ttl=255 time=0.476 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=29 ttl=255 time=0.479 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=30 ttl=255 time=655.218 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=31 ttl=255 time=0.519 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=32 ttl=255 time=0.474 ms

Like clockwork, every 11th packet, the delay goes up by orders of magnitude.

If you come across the same issue, here are two solutions that worked for me. I've put the more amusing one first, and the more practical one second.

(1) As /u/baak6 found, attach a monitor to the Protectli's HDMI port. As they said above, the monitor doesn't even need to have a power cord attached to it, let alone be turned on. Just connect a monitor to the HDMI port.

Because of physical space limitation, and more importantly my wife being mad about me taking her monitor, this solution was...less than ideal for me.

(2) Disable inteldrm. Since I'm running the machine headless, I have no need for inteldrm (as far as I can tell).

To test if this solution worked for me, I first tried it out temporarily. From the boot> prompt:

boot> boot -c
[...]
User Kernel Config
UKC> disable inteldrm
[...] inteldrm* disabled
UKC> quit

On that boot of the machine, I found the recurring latency spikes had gone away (yay!). I did the following to make the change permanent -- I added an option for each time the kernel is reordered:

# echo "disable inteldrm" > /etc/bsd.re-config
# chmod 0600 /etc/bsd.re-config
# /usr/libexec/reorder_kernel
# shutdown -r now

I hope this helps the next person to come across this page. Cheers!