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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Debian. For the sweet, sweet, rock stable-ness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's funny you should say that, because that's EXACTLY what I did due to the above issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's one of the three days I work from home per week. Having gone from a shift work job where I had no idea the hours I'd be working (on a 24 hour schedule, so often over-nights) without knowing what days I would be working until about a week ahead, to only needing to go into an office 2 times per week and knowing for certain I have every weekend off has been really nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Haha, I have an ok amount of data tucked away on disks as well, but I have a huge appreciation for people who do collect data as a hobby. In the contemporary, I fully believe that having people who take it upon themselves to do this is more important than ever, even thought it is often a thankless thing to do.

So in this case, I would throw a thank you your way for doing that!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, I have no argument to the contrary on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

You are very welcome.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Don't trust uncited information. I am sure we do not have nukes. Look up the nuclear nonproliferation treaty for Canada, we not only don't have any, but haven't stored them for any other country since 1984.

You can begin here as a starting point:

https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/peace_security-paix_securite/nuclear_radiological-nucleaire_radiologique.aspx?lang=eng

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I am certain we do not. Do you have a citation?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We don't, I don't know where the guy above got his info, but we ratified the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in 1969 and then completed deconstructing/removing them in 1984.

Someone can post citation otherwise, but I have lived here my entire life and remembered the articles from when they were all decommissioned.

As far as I know, we haven't even stored nuclear weapons or relevant systems for other countries since we had some belonging to the US at CFB Goose Bay in Labrador. We had them removed as part of our stance against nuclear arms in 1984 as well.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They will pick whatever group they think will suddenly put as many idiots as possible under their control when they say "GROUP A IS BAD".

Most of them don't care they are trans, they only care that they can take advantage of the oppression of a minority group in order to consolidate control over people so that they can oppress more people.

When everyone alive and dead is either oppressed or under your control, you become god. This is the goal, but they don't care about the process to get there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I can't share it all here for reasons I can't detail.

I may do a second write up at some point for public distribution and if so, I will share it with you here.

 
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I purchased a Tp-Link Archer C7 router at a thrift store for 5 dollars. Brought it home and flashed a specific revision of open-wrt to its firmware, and then ran an update file on top of that firmware revision to turn it into a pineapple router.

Had no idea if it would work when I was doing this.

Works great, the 5 bucks was totally worth it, and now I can use it to test hardening on my mobile devices.

 

I thought I would link this in case anyone was not aware that such a community has already existed for some time, and now will likely be more useful than ever.

If anyone has suggestions for Canadian made goods, please head over and support one another.

[email protected]

I have also added a link to this community in the sidebar.

 

Hey everyone, I hope you are well.

I recently purchased a TP-Link Archer C7 from a thrift store for 4 dollars and converted it into a pineapple router using a firmware build that someone made based on Open-WRT for testing and educational purposes, and it it has raised a few other thoughts and interests.

I have two questions.

  1. Is anyone aware of a software available through F-Droid or otherwise which can be used to turn a phone into a temporary access point serving FTP for file sharing purposes? I think it would be handy to be able to share files to several people in proximity and I would imagine turning a phone into a mobile FTP AP would be something that has been done. If anyone is aware of any such project, I would be highly interested.

  2. For running such a thing whether it be through a phone or a router, is anyone aware of a mobile power source which can fit in a backpack easily and power a 12 volt 1.5 amp router for ~10 hours?

I would love to be able to have the ability to basically have a backpack that acts as a mobile NAS that serves FTP/SFTP.

Thanks.

 

For me it would be a full copy of wikipedia, an offline copy of some maps of where I live, some linux ISO's, and a lot of entertainment media.

 

Hi Everyone!

I noticed that the previous mod had deleted their account, so I reached out to /u/dessalines to let him know I would be glad to take over and look after the community as there were no other moderators here.

I intend to leave the rules as is, but will gladly enact changes on behalf of what most people here want if it is felt it is needed.

If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, please feel free to let me know.

Thank you!

 
 
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Today I am moving not only myself, but my parents to Linux!

For me this is a long time coming. I discovered and started dabbling with Linux when I was 13 or so and somehow got an image of Backtrack 5 running on a Macbook Pro without virtualization (I'm still not entirely certain how I managed it) as I was always interested in IT/Security.

Eventually I went to school for IT and I've been working in tangents of the industry ever since, though few of my workplaces have made use of Linux unfortunately.

I have been running Debian on my personal laptop for a couple years now and I have had very few problems outside of breaking my sources.list the other day when I echo'd into it with > instead of >>.

I have a friend who recently fully switched over to Arch as well, and now more than ever I have found that all my friends, including those who are non-technical, are interested in learning about or moving to Linux, so I have decided now would be a good time to be an example for them.

I have made my parents aware of the ongoing and worsening problems with Windows and that their version of the OS will be out of support soon and today I'll be putting them on Mint. I don't expect any problems as I already had them using Open Office and other such applications since they didn't want to buy licensing for MS Office years ago. Furthermore their computer has no special hardware/software otherwise, it's basically just a Micro-ITX email machine that they sometimes use for printing.

I have enjoyed using Debian on my laptop so I intend to install Debian 12 to my desktop system, though I expect some complications as it has some hardware I have not had to configure on Linux before. Specifically It has an NVIDIA EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA and an NZXT Kraken Liquid CPU cooler.

I am aware that Debian has full documentation on how to go about installing and setting up the drivers for an RTX card, but if anyone has done this, I would certainly appreciate any anecdotal advice regarding the matter as well as anything I might want to know about making sure the cooler is functioning.

If anyone wants to offer advice but needs to know more about the hardware, I have the following specifically:

  • PSU - Cooler Master V750 Gold V2, 750 Watt, White
  • Motherboard - ATX ASUS PRIME z390-A
  • Case - White NZXT H510 Elite for ATX form factor, Tempered Glass, Integrated RGB lighting
  • CPU Cooling - NZXT Kraken X53 240mm AIO RGB CPU Liquid cooler, Rotating infinity mirror design, improved pump
  • GPU - EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA
  • RAM - Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 32 GB (2x16GB) DDR4, White
  • Storage - Two 2 TB Seagate Firecuda M.2 NVME's
  • Peripherals include a focusrite Scarlett audio interface, Wired Logitech mouse and keyboard, Logitech C920 HD Pro Camera

Thanks for any advice, and I just wanted to offer a thanks to this community at large as I have read and learned some very neat things since I joined Lemmy.

EDIT:

I have successfully installed Mint for the parents! It went off mostly without a hitch. I found that Brother provides Linux drivers/utility scripts for their printers on a per-model basis so I was glad to see they really were at my side haha. Unfortunately, while the printer is detected and prints, even after installing the scanner driver for the model, I can't seem to get the device to be detected as a scanner in either the simple scan utility or in xsane, so I will be troubleshooting that in the coming days. Otherwise I am very pleased with it.

EDIT 2:

I return to you all from my fresh Debian system!

The system, applications, and most configs have all been set now, it is mainly my files remaining for transfer.

So far this has been the smoothest installation of a Linux OS I have ever done. After adding the repo's the Nvidia drivers installed like a dream. As I have 3 displays there was a little bit of fun in setting the proper display configuration for pre-login positioning, but those fixes were really quite straightforward.

It is about 5 AM so I am going to bed and continue onward into a brighter future tomorrow, but I wanted to thank you all again and provide the somewhat obligatory neofetch screenshot before I left.

https://files.catbox.moe/v8j8we.png

EDIT 3:

A final edit to this, but the parents like Mint so much that they also had me install it to their laptop haha.

So glad to see that the state of Linux as a technology is now such that people in their very late 60's who are almost entirely non-technical can not only use a Linux system as a daily driver on more than one computer, but enjoy using it :)

 

Seems like a terrible idea to me.

You make one mistake one time and bingo, you cost yourself a few grand to have it sanded, leveled, varnished, and polished.

 
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