Looking forward to Discord’s enshittification. I’m annoyed at how many people expect you to use this insecure platform.

ltsc iot is on my gaming pc that I spin up once biweekly. Got the os from massgrave and most of the games from fitgirl.

If it’s a competition of getting work done, Linux is clearly superior. Windows has always just gotten in my way when I’m trying to do something with the OS.

There’s no denying though that you gotta use the right tool for the job. I ain’t forkin my time over to get Linux to work with triple-A pirated games and all that VM and wine shit. I’m just going to install ltsc and forget about it. Just as how I’m not wasting my time on Windows to install software packages, libraries, or whatever the fuck Subsystem is.

Couldn't end up getting this to work for Discord (everything else works). Turns out, my IPv4 traffic leaving through wlp3s0 has a MTU of 1460. And I measured a MTU of 1407 for traffic going through the AirVPN tun (implying 53 bytes of overhead, or 25 bytes of OpenVPN overhead). I ended up just saying the VPN overhead was 40 bytes. Here's my napkin math:

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1460 <- ISP MTU
- 28 cost of IP/UDP <- ISP MSS
- 40 cost of OpenVPN <- AirVPN MTU
1392
- 28 cost of IP/UDP <- AirVPN MSS
1364
- 40 cost of 2nd OpenVPN <- Home VPN MTU
1339
- 40 cost of IP/TCP
1299 <- Home VPN MSS

  

For Home and AirVPN I set those in the configs (tun-mtu and mssfix), then mirrored it on the client.

These are small potatoes to the real problems.

I worked at Dollar Tree a year ago and got a letter saying my SSN and birthday was breached by Lockton. This is the second time this has happened and it’s ridiculous they’re still holding on to my data even though I never consented.

If simply functioning in society is going to require me to buy lifetime identity threat protection then I don’t know how privacy isn’t a luxury.

I assumed there was some overhead so I made the second VPN mtu much lower.

Alternate Caption: "I'll finish it now instead of in the morning"

Kids these days should be taught the anarchist’s cookbook so they can mail their local representative a mace bomb.

Putting all my clothes into my dresser from my move 2 weeks ago

min-maxxing my sticks

This is something I don’t like about guys, as a guy.

It seems like I woke it up from a decade-long hibernation and is unable to boot. However, the disk reads fine in an enclosure.

Publisher matters. Some random website advertising a disk cleaning utility could be malware while a Fitgirl repack most definitely isn’t. Installing something from an official Ubuntu software repository is also pretty safe, while something from a 3rd party repository or community development library could be malware. I also generally trust PDFs from Anna’s Archive and Libgen or Internet Archive, because of the reputation loss to them if it were. You can minimize your risk to a tolerable level this way.

I’ve got news for you, that’s slime not mint.

Mac OS X was installed in 2010/2011. Back when people didn’t hate Apple.

My dad did in 2011. Wikipedia says this is a popular model to Hackintosh.

One thing I will agree with is to stop using SCP.

https://www.brightblack.net/blog/2024-02-09-scp-was-deprecated/

It was deprecated a while back and older, but more experienced Unix wizards still suggest it. SFTP is an alternative, but rsync also works.

Thank you so much, made my morning

Thank you so much, made my morning