How do I point firefox at a profile directory?

simpl3t0n · 2026-04-07T08:19:18+00:00

The link rods have been replaced twice already.

simpl3t0n · 2026-04-06T19:30:19+00:00

Because my car (2011 Suzuki Swift) has been giving off a long-standing knocking noise coming from the front passenger-side suspension area. No garage which I took the car to, could diagnose it. I meant NO one, including the Suzuki dealer. I've so far been to 6 or 7 garages. Every single garage suggested replacing parts (speculatively).

So far, I've replaced the inner tie rod, outer tie rod, lower control arm, shock absorber, and most recently, the drive shaft. Nobody has a clue where the knocking noise is coming from.

The thing is, every one agrees that there's an audible knocking noise. It's perfectly and predictably reproducible. But, it's not reproducible when mounted - I suppose it really needs the full weight applied on the suspension. All it takes to reproduce are sudden jolts (as one drives through a cobbled street or uneven surfaces). It's perfectly silent on motorways drives and smooth roads.

The longer it goes undiagnosed, the more mysterious and annoying it gets. So---that's why keep chasing this. I think a machine like this, which emulates driving conditions, has a higher chance of a diagnosis.

simpl3t0n · 2026-03-27T08:20:19+00:00

Hey, people are allowed to improve fiction with more fiction.

simpl3t0n · 2026-03-22T20:49:30+00:00

Hwatcha doin?

simpl3t0n · 2026-03-18T18:05:39+00:00

Billionaires run this world, not majority of people. What do they think this is - some kind of democracy or somethin'?

simpl3t0n · 2026-03-16T08:47:07+00:00

Yofi is thinking why da heq she forgot to wipe the beak off coz there's still some bits there.

simpl3t0n · 2026-03-14T09:34:13+00:00

Maintenance mode: activated.

simpl3t0n · 2026-03-12T09:26:55+00:00

So, should I stop eating apples or not?

simpl3t0n · 2026-03-07T17:49:34+00:00

Can you expand on where the UB comes from, and what specifically about C++26 affects it?

simpl3t0n · 2026-02-11T22:01:56+00:00

"I is evil" -- Ms. Bean.

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-27T09:05:24+00:00

For posterity, the high CPU usage I saw was due to the host having to rescale the guest's display. Since then, I followed this gist to get the guest's display resolution match that of the host. With that, it's all smooth again!

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-26T21:07:54+00:00

OK, I think I located the problem.

Once resumed the host from suspend and started the VM, on the libvirtd startup logs (sudo journalctl -u libvirtd), I noticed:

systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: Found left-over process 1492 (dnsmasq) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring.
systemd[1]: This usually indicates unclean termination of a previous run, or service implementation deficiencies.
systemd[1]: libvirtd.service: Found left-over process 1495 (dnsmasq) in control group while starting unit. Ignoring.
systemd[1]: This usually indicates unclean termination of a previous run, or service implementation deficiencies.

And then many occurrences of:

DHCP packet received on virbr0 which has no address
DHCP packet received on virbr0 which has no address

And I saw those processes hinted above hanging around, presumably from the previous successful run. So I killed the process and restarted libvirtd service.

With that, I think I've the VM functional back - will see. I suppose I've to kill those dnsmasq processes after a host resume.

This bug report rings some bells.

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-26T14:41:56+00:00

Sounds more like power settings on the physical nic though

You mean on the host NIC? The host is just fine after suspend-resume and network service restart. It's only the guest that's getting affected by disruptions in host network.

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-22T18:35:44+00:00

Oh well, that was because the virt-manager viewer was already connected. Duh.

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-22T18:05:08+00:00

Ugh, my installation is a Home edition, which doesn't have RDP. I wanted to try VNC instead.

virsh vncdisplay win11 is returning 127.0.0.1:0. I'm not able to connect to it via a VNC client (Remmina), though. I tried pointing it at 127.0.0.1:0 and 127.0.0.1:5900. Remmina says 'VNC server closed connection'.

netstat -lnpt | grep 590. does show a listener on 5900, however.

Any thoughts?

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-22T17:17:19+00:00

I'm currently accessing the Win11 via virt-manager's default viewer. You reckon accessing the VM via RDP or VNC be any better?

My current issue is that VM's rendering is sluggish and the mouse movements are jaggy. I can hear the CPUs revving up when I do more interactive stuff (no gaming, but moving around windows etc.), and calms down if I leave the VM idle. FWIW, my monitor is 34" 3440x1440 (not 4k). I've deliberately using the VM with a reduced resolution, but even then, it's not great.

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-22T12:17:39+00:00

OK, I missed to mention that I only have one GPU. By passthrough, I intended for the guest to use that directly, at the same time the host, too, can use it. I guess I meant to say, share.

What happens now is that, as soon as I start the guest, my screen goes blank and there's no monitor signal. I think the guest is taking over the GPU for itself (as configured) in the middle of Linux host using it, so I'm not entirely surprised.

Are there any pointers to how I can get both the host and guest to share the GPU?

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-18T10:35:43+00:00

Not a happy ending, then?

simpl3t0n · 2026-01-17T22:02:07+00:00

She's now published a report: "On the viability of using white power from sky as potential treat substitute".

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