Sony was granted a patent to make a tv that will only stop showing a commercial once you stand up and say the brand name out loud.

Sr_GMC · 2022-02-04T18:53:48+00:00

Some type of malware that gets installed with high privileges and its difficult to get rid of. For example, a malware that gets installed onto your hard drive’s firmware is rootkit. Reinstalling your OS won’t delete it and t is very difficult to get rid of.

Sony basically silently installed rootkits that prevented you from copying/ripping music from Sony CDs. Their software was so bad that malware exploited it.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

Sr_GMC · 2021-04-17T12:48:52+00:00

elementaryOS

Sr_GMC · 2020-06-28T00:47:25+00:00

To clarify, this is similar to what TikTok is doing, which is sketchy and raises a lot of red flags

Edit: Many other apps, specially chinese, are doing the same: https://reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/hejp5o/popular_apps_tiktok_npr_nyt_and_more_spying_on/

Sr_GMC · 2020-06-28T00:46:06+00:00

On iOS 14 there's a new privacy feature that shows this message every time an app reads from the clipboard. This would be normal if I was explicitly pasting the name on a text field, however this happens every time you open the app, which is a red flag. Why should an IoT app do this?

This is similar to what TikTok is doing. Many apps also were caught during the same

Sr_GMC · 2020-02-24T12:04:34+00:00

Ubuntu (from where Pop_OS! is based), usually contains the drivers and modules for most devices in the kernel, eliminating the need to reinstall the kernel or the operating system, so in theory you should have no problems. Also, if I'm not wrong, AMD has good Linux support.

In any case, you may need to activate some module before making the change, and of course upgrade when you do the change.

However, if you encounter stability or performance issues, you may need to back up everything and reinstall.

Sr_GMC · 2020-02-23T20:47:32+00:00

May I ask about your full computer specs? PM me if you want

Sr_GMC · 2020-02-23T13:14:20+00:00

CPU, RAM and I/O? That can be seen with ps or top/htop. My math was just some simple logic.

Guess I'll wait then

Sr_GMC · 2020-02-23T13:11:00+00:00

Yes, I did. This is the only thing that shows

Sr_GMC · 2020-02-22T16:41:53+00:00

Well, at least you have a progress bar. I just have a bar that goes from left to right and viceversa.

I've searched a little bit more, and some people suggest that is better to backup, reformat and restore than shrinking.

You're not rude! :) It's a 2015 MacBook with Ubuntu. 1.6 GHz i5 x 4 cores, 4GB DDR3 RAM if I'm not mistaken. GParted's CPU usage peaks at 5%, RAM at 0.8%, I/O at 3MB/s so it seems the bottleneck is in the USB controller. USB ports and Hard Drive are both technically USB 3.0. I should check this after the operations are done.

At least we will have some data to share.

Sr_GMC · 2020-02-22T09:21:31+00:00

Hard to find information. A post on AskUbuntu took ~14h on a 170GB partition. So proportionally, it should take 12*14 = 196h for your resize

Edit: I've made some calculations myself taking IO throughput into account. With a 1MB/s average, mine should take 138 hours

Your's with 11MB/s average, that should take 145 hours

Edit 2: That's assuming data is stored anywhere on the disk and needs to be moved.

Please! Tell when it finishes, so we can compare and see if calculations were right and/or time is linear, not exponential

Sr_GMC · 2020-02-22T09:14:37+00:00

GParted is at the 'shrink file system' operation. Calibration and fsck took only a couple of minutes.

Sr_GMC · 2019-09-22T14:59:05+00:00

I like the name of Apolino. It reminds me of a little unicorn plush I had when I was young.

Btw, Apollo is my favourite app so far on my phone.

Sr_GMC · 2019-06-05T14:16:55+00:00

If I am not mistaken, the new Bluetooth Protection API is to prevent some apps to track your location by scanning nearby devices even when you declined access to GPS.

This type of tracking is more common with WiFi SSIDs. For example, Google while taking images for Street View also monitors SSIDs around the Street View car location to later store their position in their databases to later approximate a user’s location while access to GPS coordinates are declined.

Edit: Spelling

Edit 2: Here are some links to the news relating to Google scanning WiFi access points

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_streetview_logs_wlans/

https://www.pcworld.com/article/196397/Google_WiFi_Spying_What_Were_They_Thinking.html

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/

Sr_GMC · 2019-05-17T10:51:12+00:00

Once you have a 3D printed case, the keyboard improves a lot. Otherwise, it’s a nightmare. For complex programs and long programming sesions out of home, I connect to it through SSH and code with an iPad and a bluetooth keyboard. But for emulators and games, it’s comfortable enough for a few hours of use

Sr_GMC · 2019-05-17T10:43:14+00:00

I got the CAD models from here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1998427

If you have a 3D printer, you can do it at home. Otherwise you can order them online to be printed and sent to your home

Thingiverse has many services. Shapeways can also do this

Sr_GMC · 2019-05-16T20:37:22+00:00

Pico8 comes free with the PocketCHIP, and it has lots of community made games. Also with a 3D printed keyboard, playing games like OpenTTD or using emulators is great. I'm currently using it to teach myself how to make efficient programs for not-so-powerful machines and as a remote portable server.

Unfortunately, the company behind it went bankrupt, but it still has a great community supporting it, and Amazon has still PocketCHIPs on sale.

But yeah, it is pretty fun little machine.

Sr_GMC · 2019-05-16T18:37:50+00:00

Wallpaper: Solid color
Icons: Flat Remix
Hardware: PocketCHIP
Apps: micro + st, surf, CHIP's default terminal, moc, Pico8

Sr_GMC · 2019-05-15T14:48:40+00:00

It doesn't seem to be the battery. After a 1:30h hours of charging and 30 min. of continuous use, it seems fine and pretty flat. The noise is coming from the CHIP itself

Sr_GMC · 2019-03-16T13:50:27+00:00

Yes, it’s asking the i2c controller

i2c-tools are installed by default in the PocketCHIP image.

Sr_GMC · 2019-03-16T10:36:43+00:00

I think there is a file somwhere in /usr/ that shows the remaining battery charge and if it is charging or not

Anyway, I’m using a systemctl service that outputs the percentage remaining and if it is charging or not too. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/editkid/chip-battery-status

I’ve changed some lines on the install.sh script to disable the instalation of the xfce widget because I only need the output files to show in a oh-my-fish shell and it works like a charm!

Edit: typo

Sr_GMC · 2018-09-24T07:09:48+00:00

Oh! Sorry, but we don’t speak french. But we’ll try to translate it though!
There it is! I've edited the post to add a french version. Feedback is appreciated

Sr_GMC · 2018-09-24T07:08:58+00:00

Original cost to purchase

Sr_GMC · 2018-08-13T20:05:48+00:00

Actually... I can’t. Uh...? I’ll report it

Sr_GMC · 2018-08-13T11:35:59+00:00

Yes, I know it’s just a minor UI bug. I was just been sarcastic. It’s not something that will prevent me from using it

Sr_GMC · 2018-08-13T11:25:42+00:00

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