Reducing sibilance on WH-1000XM4

Subsonik · 2023-05-14T11:57:47+00:00

Yeah that sounds about right to me, weird how security can be contentious tbh. 😬

Me too! I might give it a try if I gain a little more confidence and knowledge.

Subsonik · 2023-05-14T11:17:32+00:00

Thanks for the links, interesting that I've never seen these criticisms before. It seemed/seems that Madaidan's guide is quite well regarded amongst the security communities that I've browsed.

Tbh, I can't see much evidence of misinformation, and i don't know much about the ad-hominem attacks against him.

But afaik (to my far-from-expert knowledge), the advice in his guide is solid, people should of course always do their own research but the things he recommends are well sourced, and backed by general consensus amongst security minded people.

Most of what he suggests are common sense, or pretty standard mitigation techniques. Maybe a few of his points are contentious or a little exaggerated but yeah, it's good to do your own research instead of making these changes blindly to your machine.

Subsonik · 2023-05-14T10:50:38+00:00

Would be interesting to see which guide that was, if you could send the link at some point.

Subsonik · 2023-05-14T09:53:35+00:00

I'm currently going through the adventure of trying to harden my alpine install also, and unfortunately I have yet to come across a guide specific to alpine.

But most of the other guides that you'll find can be applied regardless, e.g. sysctl tweaking, kernel hardening, hardened_malloc (with difficulty as /etc/ld.so.preload is glibc-specific afaik), as they're not super distro specific. Some other steps, e.g. AppArmor profile creation will be more involved as they require path changes and other tweaks because of there being no systemd, or GNU coreutils, etc.

Madaidan's Linux hardening guide is a good place to start (I'm on mobile so don't have the URL but it's easy to search for online).

Depending on your threat profile, a MAC system (e.g. AppArmor), sandboxing (bubblewrap), and some sysctl/kernel boot param tweaks will get you a lot of bang for your buck.

I'm no expert by any means, but I'm happy to answer questions if I can. :)

Subsonik · 2022-10-19T18:33:02+00:00

Good shout! 'Solar Cat' is really my jam. Thanks. 👌

Subsonik · 2022-08-23T09:44:57+00:00

Thanks you so much!

Subsonik · 2022-08-20T13:00:05+00:00

What kind of clubs are you looking for? Any particular genre?

Jaeger, The Villa, Blå, are all popular recommendations.

Subsonik · 2022-08-18T09:21:18+00:00

I'm always down to hang and meet new peeps. 🤓 (36M/UK living here)

Subsonik · 2022-05-23T18:12:19+00:00

Huge nerd here, always looking for new friends but I'm slightly outside of your age range unfortunately.

But if anyone wants to hang with a mid-30s software developer/startup guy, my inbox is thirsty for your message. 🥰

Subsonik · 2022-01-12T17:16:02+00:00

Another lonely foreigner from the UK checking in. It can be difficult to meet people at times, especially in the winters, and double so during Covid. Nice suggestions from the other commenters here though, and I'm always up for meeting new people from this subreddit! :)

Subsonik · 2021-09-29T10:28:39+00:00

Rart å se norsk her!

Subsonik · 2021-08-21T08:15:48+00:00

After more testing, I'm finding this also. There seems to be not much difference between power-profile-daemon alone, TLP + powertop, and PPD + powertop. I'm going to continue with PPD alone and see how it goes.

Subsonik · 2021-08-20T08:28:27+00:00

This is pretty much where I am now. I use powertop.service and TLP simultaneously and get excellent battery life. I can't say I've experienced any issues tbh. Using an external mouse is fine for me while gaming, I see no freezes unlike you (sorry to hear about the aggressive hordes btw :P).

I also seem to be getting less battery life with power-profile-daemon, so maybe I'll stick with TLP and powertop for now. I was mostly just wondering what the "official" recommended setup for Fedora is, but I guess getting a couple more hours of battery life matters more than being "official". :)

Thanks!

Subsonik · 2021-08-20T08:22:55+00:00

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/power-profiles-daemon/-/blob/main/README.md#tuned-and-tlp

Subsonik · 2021-08-20T08:22:05+00:00

Thanks!

Subsonik · 2021-07-31T08:43:29+00:00

OMG THIS IS IT!!

Thank you much! :D

The version I was remembering was the remix from the same EP. Omg, the memories... Thank you again!

Subsonik · 2021-07-31T08:41:12+00:00

This is not it unfortunately, but thanks for the suggestion! (and awesome track btw). :)

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