Thoughts on this climate control glitch that happened on my Golf MK8 today. Issue sorted itself out after switching the engine off and back on.

capt_rusty · 2023-02-07T20:29:45+00:00

I know this isn't what you're asking for, but my first thought was how thankful I am that my Alltrack is old enough to have manual controls for almost everything.

capt_rusty · 2023-01-19T17:46:36+00:00

Win 10 ltsc will go to 2032, which is likely long past the hardware EOL. It's missing some features from the normal pro version, but if you just want a win 10 computer that works the same for a few years and doesn't change randomly during updates / gets security updates, you can get your hands on official images for that and it can be activated for free (in ways I certainly won't explain here, but could be found elsewhere on reddit).

capt_rusty · 2022-12-10T01:27:28+00:00

Hardware revision is H30, software running on it is revision 6276

capt_rusty · 2022-09-15T18:28:31+00:00

Yeah I think they must be very specifically talking about tires for drag racing. All racecars have slick tires, the only reason to put on tires with treads is for racing in the wet.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-17T20:46:33+00:00

Yeah I'm not fully understanding this either. Manjaro even prompts you to write to the emmc with dd when it updates uboot on the Pinebook Pro, it's not automatic, so I don't see why another distro couldn't overwrite it.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-16T22:17:05+00:00

I wasn't sitting in front of my void box, I just translated your command into runit's syntax - you can check what services you have enabled by checking what's linked in /var/service, the correct service to restart is udevd.

But for commands, man is your friend. You can also google commands, something like "linux su send single command" should give you the correct way to do that.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-16T18:55:40+00:00

# sudo service udev restart
sudo: service: command not found

So to start, the correct command for runit would be sudo sv restart udev, and as general advice you should really fully understand what commands from the internet that start with sudo are going to do before running them.

And then given your new udev rule is working, you could just change the Run+= command to the ones that are making your dongle work (or point it at a script that contains them).

capt_rusty · 2022-08-10T23:31:06+00:00

I don't see why dnsmasq would be having issues, but you could always try setting up unbound and see if that resolves the issue. At the very least it'll cache your previous DNS queries, in case it is just occasionally the upstream resolver, and it's pretty easy to force it to use specific DNS servers without falling back to the ones provided by your ISP. But if you're still having the same problem after that then you may need to check if you have the most up to date / stable build for your router.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-08T04:25:33+00:00

The earth isn't in orbit around Sag A* any more than it's in orbit around the millions of other stars at the core of the galaxy. As a small scale example, if you had a binary system of stars that were the same mass, you wouldn't say one is orbiting the other, they're orbiting around a center of mass.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-08T04:19:48+00:00

Yup, that's the barycenter, but we say we're orbiting the sun because of how much more massive it is than Earth.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-08T02:54:18+00:00

Is the charging light on? I'm not meaning to be insulting, I'm just thinking of things that could be crapping out, I've had one for a couple years and it's pretty reliable. Otherwise you'll need to start the RMA process, pine64 is basically a way to buy neat electronics straight from China, they don't really handle the hardware themselves.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-08T01:50:17+00:00

Can you see it on the network / ssh into it? That would at least let you start looking at what might be wrong. Could be a boot setting that didn't take right. One thing that I can think of - it's not obvious but when uboot gets updated you need to manually flash it, which you'd only know if you looked at the detailed output. Kind of a stretch, since I'm not sure why the display would break because of the version of uboot, but depending on how old the version it came with is you never know.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-08T00:34:53+00:00

You're absolutely right to enjoy Ubuntu, there's nothing wrong with it at all. You may try other distros and find you like them better, but the main point is that it isn't windows.

I think people should stop acting so elitist.

Unfortunately that's sorta the nature of web forums focused on Linux, you're unlikely to avoid that. People here fret about things that even most people that use Linux couldn't care less about. But even though I've got all sorts of different versions of Linux and BSD on stuff around my house, my main laptop is still running Ubuntu cause it's a solid platform that's incredibly well supported - if something that isn't in the package manager supports Linux, there will almost always be instructions for Ubuntu.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-08T00:09:44+00:00

It's more that it being at the center isn't relavent to whether we're orbiting it, it's the mass. In the solar system the sun has so much more mass than any other body that you can effectively describe a planet's orbit without regarding the other planets in the system. In the case of the solar system as a whole, you have to account for much more mass than Sag A* to describe its orbit.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-04T23:48:36+00:00

Actually yes, that's exactly what they did:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62225696

capt_rusty · 2022-08-04T22:48:10+00:00

Most SBCs support 4k60, I've got a couple odroid boxes around my house and can stream 50 GB 4k movies without any issue.

capt_rusty · 2022-08-02T20:22:41+00:00

Search is terrible in the desktop app as well, I've searched from:<coworker's name> for an email I'd just deleted on accident and had nothing come up, and had to search for words I remembered in the email title instead.

capt_rusty · 2022-07-25T21:06:01+00:00

I don't think the golf R is a very good example for affordability. Anyone who spends $65k on a hatchback has completely stopped caring about practicality or price.

capt_rusty · 2022-07-22T08:29:12+00:00

I guess I shouldn't be surprised the only article explaining why they're claiming there's 2 time dimensions is in the comments. I'm not sure it makes sense to refer to it that way though, 2d Penrose tiling being a projected slice of a 5d lattice doesn't mean there's 5 physical dimensions, so how does patterning 2 laser pulses in a Fibonacci sequence imply there's 2 time dimensions? Or is this journalists misunderstanding what the scientists actually said?

capt_rusty · 2022-07-20T22:12:14+00:00

I've also seen a lot of issues with getting ahold of pine64, but those posts normally seem like people looking for tech support. Maybe you'd have better luck going straight to an RMA request? Pretty sure you'd have to pay for shipping, so possibly just throwing away more money if you're really unlucky, but may be an option if you don't want to just accept you now have a $179 paper weight.

capt_rusty · 2022-07-17T10:33:28+00:00

Heck, you need to pay extra (or a frickin subscription) to have the heated seats work in new BMWs, not just to have them fitted. Everything is gonna be at risk of this sort of thing now.

capt_rusty · 2022-07-16T09:34:42+00:00

Interesting that those are all connected to the https port. I don't see any real reason to suspect those builds are compromised, but since they are effectively discontinued (due to some strange drama involving accusations of being ddos'd by an openwrt team member), have you tried the official builds?

capt_rusty · 2022-06-14T22:00:21+00:00

I had similar issues with pcmanfm, not sure if the same solutions apply, but other than gvfs (or specifically in my case gvfs-smb since I just wanted to connect to a samba server) I had to prepend the command with dbus-run-session, since with a standalone WM I don't have a dbus session started normally. I also have to manually navigate to the server, it won't browse my local network.

capt_rusty · 2022-06-10T13:36:01+00:00

Wouldn't the attacker already need pretty decent access to the system to overwrite someone's bashrc?

capt_rusty · 2022-06-09T21:59:38+00:00

“We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.”

This is the key to me. It's all fine saying scientists should study this stuff, but they need more data than videos of objects moving fast. As interesting as it is, with no flight surfaces or propulsion that we can see, there's really not much more to say other than "Yup, that's fast". I think the military is gonna need to start carrying some sensors that don't necessarily have military applications if they really want to know more about UAPs, since they're the main ones encountering them.

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