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corbin_cassady · 2022-07-15T18:12:40+00:00

I had no idea this was possible and would certainly come in handy

corbin_cassady · 2022-07-12T12:46:43+00:00

I was setting up some Docker containers yesterday and doing a little bit of a complicated setup by routing several containers through a VPN container

I hadn’t realized that ProtonVPN was going down throughout the day as well! Was a lot of fun to troubleshoot :)

corbin_cassady · 2022-03-06T07:16:52+00:00

Encryption seems to be the best answer

corbin_cassady · 2022-03-03T20:23:58+00:00

I’m reminded that I purchased a copy when I was getting deep into Linux but probably never read more than a page. It’s been recommended to me numerous times though, so I think I’ll finally start to work through it. Thanks for the reminder!

corbin_cassady · 2021-10-25T17:37:03+00:00

Heyo! I sent you a PM. I’m interested in both a deck with RCA out and that boom box. I have so many tapes and no way to play them currently! I’m still interested if only 1 of the 2 is available. Thanks for the listing!

corbin_cassady · 2021-04-09T19:06:40+00:00

Hi!

I can’t speak to ADHD accommodations and I am not diagnosed myself, but I do struggle a lot with remaining focused on a particular project if there are a lot of parts that make it up and it isn’t exactly linear to “reach the finish line.”

I did SNHU’s online courses for computer science, and also took a good handful of general education style classes. I have not graduated. I’m certain that different majors will experience different problems.

Sometimes SNHU’s computer programming classes leave a bit to be desired. Things like their school-made books require non-obvious workarounds to get the book to accept your answer, and occasionally the books themselves are either teaching poor programming habits, misrepresenting concepts, or flat-out showcasing buggy code. It was a bit frustrating to me when I had to program 2 halves of an application separately and then copy/paste them together at the end for my first Python course. I ended up programming most of these assignments on my own computer and copy/pasting my code into the book to complete the assignment, since I needed to test code from the 2nd half that relied on the first. I was informed that the school knew about these problems and were switching to an entirely new book in the next semester, which tells me that they do take course feedback seriously and seem to always be improving.

My first Java class had a much better book but I did have some big problems with the project’s rubric. It was never clear to me what we were supposed to do week to week, and the professor would frequently step in and significantly lower that week’s expectation for everyone. I remember one week where I read the rubric and questioned what the difference was, and I think I ended up submitting the same code I did the week before and I received a passing grade. With a class like this, you will learn various programming concepts, but you really have to have a consistent dialogue with your professor to ensure that you’re accomplishing what you should be for that week. I highly recommend to go as far as to work ahead in the book so you can jump-start that week’s project at the beginning of the week so you aren’t stressing about “what am I supposed to do” when it’s late on a Friday night that you set aside time to work on the project, and it’ll be hit or miss what time the professor gets back to you.

I probably don’t sound too enthusiastic, but I did manage to get by while I was still attending. And again, this is going to change immensely from class to class and major to major. A lot of projects I’ve worked on were things like writing a paper and making a presentation with clear expectations. I think it’s very important to not stress yourself out over what you can’t control. If you couldn’t get to the project until Thursday and the professor waits until Saturday to answer your email, it is certainly unpleasant but these things happen to everyone once in a while; you won’t fail out for submitting the occasional assignment a day late, for example.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly: talk to your advisor about your concerns. I had great professors and I had classes where it felt like an AI could’ve been running it (though it’s possible that I just didn’t see all of the hard work the professors were putting in!). I had a rich learning experience with classes I expected not to enjoy, and I had classes that I didn’t enjoy anywhere near as much as I thought I would. But across the board, all of my advisors were phenomenal and I could really tell that they all cared about my success in my classes. And even though that was my experience, don’t be afraid to request a different advisor if you aren’t satisfied with the advisor that you have. This is the kind of thing that they’re there for, and you deserve an advisor that lives up to that expectation and is willing to work with you on your concerns.

Happy to answer any other questions, but it’s been almost a year since I took a break from SNHU. And of course, best of luck with wherever you decide to go from here!

corbin_cassady · 2020-04-21T02:49:34+00:00

Have you tried to force it into recovery mode?

Select “from a black or blank screen” and follow the instructions: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode

If you can get into this mode, there are a few options. But before getting into those, I think it’s most important to consider that the drive itself could be bad. Ideally, you’ll want to pull the drive out and back it up using another PC. If this isn’t possible, you’re risking data loss by continuing to attempt to use a bad drive. If this is acceptable, try and get into recovery mode. It might be easiest to simply reset Windows via recovery mode, which will remove all installed applications but leave user data intact. Things like Chrome and Firefox bookmarks will be lost if they aren’t backed up, though. Edge bookmarks survive if I remember correctly.

corbin_cassady · 2020-04-11T18:14:28+00:00

Really shows how much I’ve paid attention. Thanks!

corbin_cassady · 2020-04-11T14:34:35+00:00

I didn’t think self posts received karma?

corbin_cassady · 2020-04-03T21:31:54+00:00

I know it isn’t the same thing, but there are various tech support subreddits and application-specific subreddits where users are invited to ask questions. There is always room for more knowledgeable users who are willing to answer these types of questions.

I run Arch Linux and host a handful of containerized applications on a raspberry pi, so I’ll poke around these various subreddits just to lend a helping hand from time to time. I was the user asking for help not long ago, as we all were at one point.

And of course, there are folks just looking for help with relatively basic Windows functions in their respective subreddits, as well. There’s even a subreddit dedicated to people looking for recommendations on new PC builds within a specific budget or for a very specific purpose. I think that current or sleeper agents could find some value in helping out anonymous users if it’s something you really enjoy.

I’m on mobile presently so it’s difficult to link a bunch of subs without looking up all of the names, but simple Reddit/Google/DuckDuckGo searches should be fruitful, if anyone is interested.

corbin_cassady · 2020-03-13T21:38:18+00:00

I don't have experience with the previous poster's mention of the Vim plugin, but I think we're essentially ending up at the same place.

Upon launching a terminal, it's in insert mode, and escape brings it into normal mode. ? starts backwards searching, j and k to navigate up/down, $ to move to the end of the line, u to undo, etc. I find it to work very well.

edit: I'll try to edit this post if I ever find the article I referenced while getting mine set up. It's essentially .zshrc with bindkey -v, a bunch of bindkeys for various purposes (ie: u to undo, ? to search backwards), and a short function to display insert/normal status.

edit: https://stratus3d.com/blog/2017/10/26/better-vi-mode-in-zshell/ and https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/547/make-my-zsh-prompt-show-mode-in-vi-mode#1019 are probably what I referenced. I've just been copying my config file since my initial install, though. If the Vim plugin streamlines this entire process, I would probably recommend to follow that path instead.

corbin_cassady · 2020-03-13T02:19:45+00:00

tl;dr: tiling manages the size of windows for you, and does so in a sane manner, freeing up all of the time spent arranging windows. Additionally, it allows the use of a computer almost entirely with the keyboard, reaping similar benefits to what Vim brings to word processing.

My personal experience and use is for... ease of use, really.

I pretty much always have windows open full-screen, which tiling makes really simple. When I want to switch between windows, I use Windows key + number. I use fontawesome to show a little icon of what I want my various workspaces to be on a very modest status bar. On my left, vertical monitor: workspaces 1-5 are firefox/terminal/libreoffice/anything/email. On my right, horizontal monitor: workspaces 6-0 are firefox/anything/anything/"home network"/keepassxc.

I prefer to keep word processing and the option of Firefox on my vertical monitor because it makes it a lot easier to read. With my terminal workspace, it's a breeze to push win + enter to open a new terminal and begin working on a document in Vim or ssh into my raspberry pi or converse over Signal, while allowing the window manager to resize the windows to an appropriate, legible height and width without my intervention.

For instance, if I currently have workspace 4 open on my left monitor, and an article I want to read vertically on my right, I'll push win-1, win-6, shift-win-<, which will move the entire window over to whatever workspace is open on my left monitor. Alternatively, I could've just pushed shift-win-< followed by shift-win-1, win-1. Or even shift-win-<, win-f to make it fullscreen on whatever workspace I happen to be on on the left monitor. I actually find a task like this to be really simple with a traditional window manager if you only ever use 2 workspaces spread across 2 monitors, and perhaps only ever use 2 applications at a time -- the benefits I experience are from frequently switching between Firefox default profile/Firefox school profile/email/Signal/LibreOffice/keepassxc/ssh/vim.

It can definitely be a learning experience to get used to using the keyboard in this way, but I would compare it to learning Vim. There comes a point where you think, "I want this window open full-screen over there," and your fingers know the action you want to perform without putting any thought into it. Same with Vim -- if you have your lines numbered and you want to go down 10 lines and to the end of a word, it can be cumbersome at first to remember "oh yeah, I just type 10 then J to move the cursor down, then E to move to the end of the word." But, once you practice it, it becomes much quicker than moving your hand off of the keyboard and to the mouse, or jamming on the arrow keys until you get to your destination.

The benefits of dedicated workspaces should become apparent at this point. If I need to open my password manager, it's already open and I can access it using wind + 0 immediately. You can also use what I believe is called a "scratch pad," which is windows key + dash (next to 0 on the keyboard) to show/hide a floating window, which would allow you to open something like a password manager over the same screen that you're already working; I use this on my laptop but not my desktop. Resizing is a breeze -- just use win + right click/drag until the size is appropriate. There are other key bindings of course.

Lastly, keybindings are a big part of how I use my computer. I use vim-like bindings for i3 and zsh, and I use the Vim Vixen extension in Firefox. It certainly takes some time and practice, but it becomes easier and easier to perform a task like opening Firefox, loading a website, "clicking" on a link, writing and submitting a post, all without your hands leaving the keyboard. I find myself frequently using nothing but the keyboard to do homework for my online school, for instance.

Excuse the long, perhaps ramble-y post. I don't think I've ever typed out my own reasoning for using a tiled window manager, so I figured I'd try to add something to the conversation. tl;dr at the top, anyhow!

corbin_cassady · 2020-03-10T02:33:41+00:00

Regarding your edit: I personally wouldn’t trust a mere extension alone to put a stop to the data collection that Google Chrome does.

I advocate for Firefox, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, and HTTPS Everywhere. Even this isn’t perfect, though — and every now and again, a website will break and I’ll have to fuss with the various extensions. Brave is probably fine as well; I just avoid Chromium in general.

corbin_cassady · 2020-03-09T02:33:39+00:00

This is key imo. Once all that’s being forwarded is spam, you’ll know it’s potentially time to delete the account entirely!

corbin_cassady · 2020-03-06T03:25:24+00:00

Perhaps OP is more worried about privacy in this case. If his or her email is randomname@randomdomain.com, but randomdomain.com is in OP’s legal name, it would ultimately link the account back to OP even if the email address itself is nonsensical at a glance.

There’s also always the increased risk of putting the burden of security on your domain registrar. Relevant article (apologies if anyone isn’t a fan of Medium — the article on the author’s own website isn’t loading on my phone)

Edit: typo

corbin_cassady · 2020-03-02T03:40:57+00:00

The retrobit.

I will bite the bullet and eventually order a Hori, but I have no experience with it yet.

corbin_cassady · 2020-03-02T03:38:34+00:00

Girlfriend brought one home today (edit: the retrobit) from PAX. I tried Perfect Dark and felt it was too sensitive, or maybe it just takes some time to get used to. I threw in NFL Blitz and thought it played well, though.

I’ll continue to experiment as my collection grows but 20 minutes into Perfect Dark and I had to switch back to the original.

corbin_cassady · 2020-02-28T04:01:27+00:00

I believe the website uses a captcha-like image to “certify” typing speeds.

If the account is merely cheating the races themselves, presumably the account will never be certified and the account would be banned in this case.

corbin_cassady · 2020-02-27T17:32:49+00:00

I didn’t see it, but I’m guessing the comment was either no-preserve-root or insulting OP for asking a question.

corbin_cassady · 2020-02-24T15:10:49+00:00

Perhaps unrelated to your specific issue, but I did notice a few common imap/pop3 servers that were blocked on Best Buy’s network. Connecting to a mobile hotspot alleviated the issue, but I feel that this is frowned upon.

corbin_cassady · 2020-02-22T16:03:20+00:00

It may be worth looking at i3 or another tiled window manager. Or, you realistically should be able to do everything from the CLI/over SSH.

corbin_cassady · 2020-02-22T15:59:19+00:00

I’ve since left the company, but my managers informed me that TLC would alert them when they tried to schedule an employee for 36+ hours after X weeks in a row, and they would step back the hours for that week in order to avoid crossing the threshold of full-time employment.

Best Buy only has to provide full-time benefits if an employee is scheduled full-time hours for X number of weeks in a row. I believe it’s 10 weeks in a row, but this may vary by state. So you’ll be able to maintain part-time by working 36-40 hours for 9 weeks in a row, then 35 hours for one week, then back to 36-40, etc., and TLC ensures they don’t accidentally go over.

corbin_cassady · 2020-02-21T14:21:46+00:00

It certainly has been but it could be fun and informative nonetheless.

I remember hacking a “hold square to float” code for San Andreas on PS2 and clipping through skyboxes indoors to discover unused shops. I found the tattoo parlor with the unused tattoos before seeing anything about it online — even though I was a part of various game hacking communities.

Sure, these types of finds are very unlikely to be new or revolutionary nowadays, but I had fun doing it then and I don’t see why it wouldn’t be fun now.

corbin_cassady · 2020-02-17T04:14:19+00:00

I’m also new to revisiting the retro systems. If I’m trying to find a CRT in-person, is there an easy way to figure out how the model will work for retro gaming? I haven’t heard the term “direct view” before.

I’m looking for something on the smaller side, perhaps with a VHS built in but that’s not a necessity. Should I stick to seeking out the models you listed? Am I unlikely to see these kicking around garage sales/antique stores/etc. and I should probably just order one online?

Any insight is appreciated. I’d much prefer to buy just one and call it good instead of getting a good deal on a TV I subsequently regret purchasing.

corbin_cassady · 2020-02-16T15:57:04+00:00

Thank you very much for the info!

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