My ecotank died just like all the other inkjets. It went few weeks without printing and blue nozzle dried completely up and on the pipes I can see dried up ink on other colors as well. So I had to dig up old Brother HL3040 back to the duty which I retired after print quality started to drop (it needs new fuse unit or something similar, so not that big of a deal) and I thought having an option to print nice color pictures would be nice.

So, if you plan to run ecotank (which does have pretty good printing quality when it works) set up a scheduled task on your computer to print something, in color, quite frequently even if it wastes some ink and paper. I think the main issue with mine was that even if I print stuff somewhat often there was a period where I only needed b&w documents so color nozzles went unused for a while.

I might get a new set of nozzles and ink tanks for my unit as it's a ton cheaper than a whole new printer, but if you're looking for a printer this is something to take into consideration, regardless of their marketing material.

Edit: Mine is Epson, didn't know that ecotank term is used by other manufacturers.

You can run clonezilla on your shell session, just apt install conezilla (or whatever variant you're using) and it can do the trick. Dd will almost surely work too, but that leaves a ton of responsibility to you instead of making any sanity checks on the way. That makes dd very powerful tool and it has saved my ass a multiple times, but if you already have a working partitioning schema clonezilla has a ton of options to make your life a lot simpler and a likely a bit faster than dd.

https://xkcd.com/2347/

I don't know what to pick, but something else than PDF for the task of transferring documents between multiple systems. And yes, I know, PDF has it's strengths and there's a reason why it's so widely used, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.

Additionally all proprietary formats, specially ones who have gained enough users so that they're treated like a standard or requirement if you want to work with X.

DNS is a quite well matured technology and it's just as complex as it needs to be and not a bit more. It's a very robust system which has been a big part of the backbone of the internet as we know it today for decades and it's responsible for quite a large chunk of stuff working as intended globally for millions and billions of people all day every day.

It's not hard to learn per se (it's something you can explain on a basic level to every layman in 15 minutes or so), it's just a complex system and understanding complex systems isn't always easy nor fast. Running your own DNS-server/forwarder for a /24 private subnet is rather trivial thing to do, but doing it well requires that you understand at least some of the underlying tehcnology.

You really need to learn how to walk at first and build on that to run. It's just a fundamental piece of technology and there's no shortcuts with it due to nature of DNS services. You can throw whatever running on a container by following step-by-step instructinos and call it a day, but that alone doesn't give you the knowledge to understand what's going on under the hood. That's just how the things are and should I have my way with things, that same principle should apply to everything, specially if it's going to face the public internet.

Medvedev found keys for the booze cabinet again? They seem to happily forget the fact that Moscow is well within reach of multiple Nato countries by now. Obviously a ton of things need to change before anyone with a gun is standing on a red square, but Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Poland (among others) are quite capable of hitting the Kreml (in theory, and in practise if needed) with fighter jets in less than 30 minutes. Additionally their ports opening to gulf of Finland are in reach of both Finns and Estonians with traditional artillely, and at least we in Finland are pretty capable and accurate with our hardware.

So, even if they find some old soviet relic still functional, Nato has multiple options to level multiple cities at Russia before their missile hits the ground. Nuclear attack against Ukraine would of course be a humongous tragedy with terrible price on civil casualties, but I'm pretty confident that it would be the last thing the Russia we currently know would do as a country.

Dd. It writes on disk at a block level and doesn't care if there's any kind of filesystem or raid configuration in place, it just writes zeroes (or whatever you ask it to write) to drive and that's it. Depending on how tight your tin foil hat is, you might want to write couple of runs from /dev/zero and from /dev/urandom to the disk before handing them over, but in general a single full run from /dev/zero to the device makes it pretty much impossible for any Joe Average to get anything out of it.

And if you're concerned that some three-letter agency is interested of your data you can use DBAN which does pretty much the same than dd, but automates the process and (afaik) does some extra magic to completely erase all the data, but in general if you're worried enough about that scenario then I'd suggest using an arc furnace and literally melting the drives into a exciting new alloy.

Bare feet are a bit clickbaity on the headline. That alone doesn't mean much, but when it happens on a area where you should have full protective gear at the (supposed to be) sterile part of the manufacturing it's of course a big deal. But it would be equally big deal if you just stroll there in your jeans and t-shirt with boots you stepped on a dog shit on your way to work. And even then it's not even close of being the biggest issue on manufacturing where they constantly ignored all of the safety protocols, including ignoring test results which told them that the product is faulty.

Yep. I'm running 1/1Gbps wan connection over cat5e just fine. Even on very noisy environment at work with a longish run (70+ meters) we ran pretty damn stable 1/1Gbps over good quality cat7.

I ran one for a while. In Finland legislation is a bit different, so I wasn't worried about breaking the law or getting sued, but my ISP got in touch pretty quickly. They were professionals and understood the situation when I explained why my traffic might look "a bit" suspicious and I attempted to clean up bad actors from the traffic with filtering and whatnot, but eventually ISP got enough complaints and they were pretty much forced to tell me that either I shut the exit node down or they'll cut my line.

As I said, they were very professional about it, and managed the whole experiment as good as I ever could have hoped, but my agreement with them has an option that if I'm letting malware and bad actors leave the network even after warnings they can shut the connection down. And that's understandable, I suppose they have similar agreements with other providers and they received all the abuse mail my exit node was causing, so I'm still a happy customer with them even if they eventually took the hard way.

I'm still pretty sure it would be possible to run filtered exit node, but it would require far more time and other resources that I'm willing to spend on a project like that and I'm not sure if a single person is enough for it anyways.

So, yes, do your homework and be careful. Legislation plays a significant part (depending on where you live), but your ISP most likely won't like it either.

Which is a lot more difficult in every aspect than just throwing a single line on crontab and calling it a day.

Is there way to use a usb wifi card(tp-link) as the reciever and make it work?

No. The mouse is not a wifi device, and as it's a old one I doubt it'll support bluetooth either. So you really need the original dongle.

I'd say that single core performance and amount of RAM you have are the biggest issues with running anything on old hardware. Apparently, in theory, you could run even modern kernel with just 4MB of RAM (or even less, good luck finding an 32bit system with less than 4MB). I don't think you could fit any kind of graphical environment on top of that, but for an SSH terminal or something else lightweight it would be enough.

However a modern browser will easily consume couple gigabytes of RAM and even a 'lightweight' desktop environment like XFCE will consume couple hundred MB's without much going on. So it depends heavily on what you consider to be 'old'.

The computer at garage (which I'm writing this with) is Thinkstation S20 I got for free from the office years ago is from 2011. 12GB of RAM, 4 core Xeon CPU and aftermarket SSD on SATA-bus and this thing can easily do everything I need for it in this use case. Browsing the web on how to fix whatever I'm working with at the garage, listen music from spotify, occasional youtube-video, signal and things lke that. Granted this was on a higher end when it was new, but maybe it gives some perspective on things.

Mullvad (apparenlty, first time I've heard from the service) uses DNS over TLS and I don't think that the current GUI version has the option to enable it. Here's a quickly googled howto from Fedora on how to enable it on your system. If that doesn't help search for 'NetworkManager DOT' or 'DNS over TLS'.

As a rule of thumb, if you pay more money you get a better product. With spinning drives that almost always means that more expensive drives (in average) run longer than cheaper ones. Performance is another metric, but balancing those is where the smoke and mirrors come into play. You can get a pretty darn fast drive for a premium price which will fail in 3-4 years or for a similar price you can get a bit slower drive which will last you a decade. And that's in average. You might get a 'cheap' brand high-performance drive to run without any issues for a long long time and you might also get a brand name NAS drive which will fail in 2 years. Those averages start to play a role if you buy drives by a dozen.

Backblaze (among others) publish their very real world statistics on which drives to choose (again, on average), but for home gamer that's not usually an option to run enough drives to get any benefits from statistical point of view. Obviously something from HGST or WD will most likely outperform any no-name brand from aliexpress and personally I'd only get something rated for 24/7 use, like WD RED, but it's not a guarantee that those will actually run any longer as there's always deviations from their gold standard.

So, long story short, you will most likely get a significantly different results depending on which brand/product line you choose, but it's not guaranteed, so you need to work around that with backups, different raid scenarios (likely raid 5 or 6 for home gamer) and acceptable time for downtime (how fast you can get a replacement, how long it'll take to pull data back from backups and so on). I'll soon migrate my setup from somewhat professional setting to more hobbyist one and with my pretty decent internet connectivity I most likely go with 2-1-1 setup instead of the 'industry standard' 3-2-1 (for serious setup you should probably learn what those really mean, but in short: number of copies existing - number of different storage media - number of offsite copies),

On what you really should use, that depends heavily on your usage. For a media library a 5400rpm bigger drive might be better than a bit smaller 7200rpm drive and then there's all kinds of edge cases plus potential options for ssd-caching and a ton of other stuff, so, unfortunately, the actual answer has quite a few of variables, starting from your wallet.

You do realize that man pages don't live on the internet? The kernel.org one is the offical project website, as far as I know, but the project itself is very much not for the web presense, but for the vastly useful documentation included on your distribution.

I wonder what was the situation here. Looks like they placed two explosives on the camera-unit and took their sweet time to take that down. Isn't there operators around with shotguns to drop drones or any other kind of personnel on site? Additionally that Murom-M seems to be commercial system meant for building and area surveillance, not military use. That of course doesn't mean much, it can still be quite useful hardware.

Still, that scene with a bit better camera and action music could be a part of a movie, not something I'd expect from a war zone.

127.0.0.1 / 255.0.0.0

I'm pretty sure the cameras around here don't use OCR at all or even if it does it only recognizes the format for plates from a thing shaped like a plate. So if you're driving like an ass with the drop tables-"plate" that is pretty relevant.

The Bobby Tables one I'm quite sure would work at least on some systems if they let you input your kids name by yourself to some sort of digital form. Or at least I would be pretty surprised if every school system on earth would be patched against simple sql injections.

EU attempted to get smartphone manufacturers to agree on a standard so that law wouldn't be necessary to avoid this scenario. Guess which company didn't want to play with the others?

GNU

Which stands for 'GNU is not Unix'. Also 'less' (which is more). Pine is(was) Program for Internet News and Email and the FOSS fork is 'Alpine' or 'Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email'. And there's a ton more of wordplays and other more or less fun stuff on how/why things are named like they are.

Generic answer for this is to get a refurbished corporate laptop. At least in here we have several companies which buy previously leased computers and give them a refurb (new hard drive, good cleaning, things like that) and sell them for pretty good price.

W, T or X series Thinkpads are pretty safe options, my T495 was 300€(ish) on sale. L and carbon are something I'd avoid, L (at least few years back) weren't built as well as T-series and X1 carbon doesn't have options to expand/swap out ram.

And here I am avoiding even special characters because I worry about having to enter them on a French keyboard at some point.

I use only special characters that are on the same places with most layouts (at least english and finnish). I suppose passwords with ä or ö might be a bit more resistant to brute-force attacks, but it causes far more problems than it might theoretically solve.

It wasn't even original display. Original display wasn't "pixel based", it just had couple of segments on a LCD which display pregnant/non pregnant texts and some other info. So it was (is) just a doom on a microcontroller+OLED in a pregnancy test case.

Work computers are for work, and pretty much every employer monitors what you do on it.

Depends heavily on where you work. My employer don't track what we use the computers for (of course there's a 'TOS' of sorts which says that it's company property and should only be used for company stuff) but as long as you are at least somewhat reasonable on what you use the system for it's fair play. Things like checking your personal email and occasional visit to lemmy/whatever your social media poison is doesn't raise any flags as long as you get the job done and that's it. Of course you can't install anything on the system but as long as a browser session on incognito mode is enough and it doesn't harm your duties, while technically forbidden, no one really cares.

And yes, I know this for sure, as I'm one of the guys who enforces the policies for our gear. YMMV.

At the top of the screen you can see errors from LVM setup where it's searching for a volume group that's not there. I have absolutely zero experience with gnuinos, so no idea how that could've happened, but at some configuration file (I'd look from fstab first) there's a mention of gnuios-vg and the actual device name is something different.

Is French just the most commonly spoken common language, even in Germany and Czechia?

Not at the slightest. I suppose it's just a marketing thing where french sounding names are supposed to be more appealing or tell something about the food or atmosphere at the hotel. And based on a very quick visit at booking.com I don't see any french sounding hotels at Berlin, so I don't know how many there actually are. I'm sure there's some around like everywhere in the world, but I think majority is something else.

And there's a lot of shared history between countries, so that can mix things up in various ways.

Not spesifically a tool to put on a USB stick, but Ventoy is worth checking. I've had a bit mixed results with it on older hardware but when it works it's pretty easy to manage your carry-on-tools.

The only real solution is to make this an extended maintenance task.

This is the correct answer. No matter how reliable your power feed is you still need to reboot the server at some point for whatever reason and if CMOS battery is dead by then you'll have the very same issue and you'll need monitor and keyboard again. And even if you don't mind about the RTC on board you'll still lose the settings.

I wonder why manufacturers haven't switched over to supercapacitors or something else than a coin cell battery, but perhaps there's a valid reason for it. I think that supercaps can't hold charge as long as a coin cell, but if your board is completely cold for a year or so maybe losing bios settings isn't that big of a deal.

That's really not any kind of problem for Russia. They can just announce that due to his failure on preventing missile strikes against Black Sea fleet Sokolov resigned in shame and retired to become a sheep herder in southern siberia or something.

why many europeans will not fight for their countries aswell, there isnt a rich paycheck waiting you

I'm not many europeans, and I'm afraid you're partly correct, but should the need rise I will fight for my country and any amount of money isn't in the equation. I want my kids to grow up in a free country like I did and fight for it, like my grandparents did. I really hope things don't escalate to that, but I'll do it if necessary and I'm pretty happy I don't need to go by myself.

From my current location you could reach Russian border in 3-5 hours by car (as it always has been) and I'm somewhat far away from the eastern border by our standards. Ukrainians are witnessing what our eastern neighbor is capable of all day every day and if I have anything to say for it it's not going to happen here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66711845

Now, she reflects that she never dreamt of her husband becoming the "historical figure" he is today, saying she has missed him and needed him to stand by her side as her husband.

Despite what she said may be a "selfish" longing, Olena Zelenska said the president "really does have the energy, the will power, inspiration, and stubbornness to go through this war".

It's a bit out of context and BBC's story isn't word-per-word on what she said (there's video interview as well) but the main idea is that she would rather live life where her husband was around instead of being historical figure leading a country in war. And I can absolutely understand that, I hope both of them (and all of the Ukraine) can soon return to normal and boring everyday life instead of air raids, active battlezones, mines and other explosives around cities and so on.

It indeed is. According to minusrus site Russia had ~5700 artillery units when war started and I highly doubt that they can manufacture new ones faster than they're losing units, not to even mention ammunition shortage and logistics issues.

They're not completely depleted yet, and most likely never will be as new units are pushed out every day, but advances at Crimea (among others) suggests that their capabilities are dropping, so once mine fields and fortifications on the lines fall there might not be that much in the way before Ukraine reaches 1991 borders.

It's still going to take time and monumental amounts of effort, equipment and (unfortunately) Ukrainian lifes before Russia is forced out of their country, but I strongly believe that it will happen. The west, and Europe spesifically, just need to keep up with demands from the field. Letting Ukraine fall would be catastrophic for stability in whole Europe and even globally.

I wiped that drive clean and switched to Fedora.

I might need to switch over as well, but I really don't like rpm (or whatever that's called on fedora, zypper or something? or was that suse?). I've been a Debian user since woody was a new thing and then at some point I gradually moved to ubuntu due to better desktop experience and more up to date packages (back then Debian stable really wasn't anywhere close of bleeding edge) and PPA support was great for my needs. Now I have ubuntu installations which have gone trough upgrades for years and installations I have doesn't seem to work like I want them to. Some of the issues will most likely stay (as RMS said, nvidia rapes babies or something like that) but in general I don't like my browser, signal client and whatnot to notify me that I need to shut them down NOW since they'll upgrade at some point in next 3-6 months. Simple apt dist-upgrade isn't enough anymore and the systems require more and more TLC than I'm willing to give to them. Snapd is at least related to the issues I have 8 times out of 10.

Ubuntu just doesn't have the feel it used to and it's getting annoying enough that the simpler way would be just to reinstall everything and switch to something else, even if it takes some time and effort to migrate 5+ year old installations to new system.

This one exists. SEPA or ISO20022. Encryption/signing isn't included in the format, it's managed on transfer layer, but that's pretty much the standard every business around here works and many don't even accept PDFs or other human-readable documents anymore if you want to get your money.

I think you’d encounter issues in other operating systems too?! I think people underestimate how hard it is to do stuff in Windows for example, because they never try doing more complex stuff in it - getting an obscure error that could mean anything.

You put that into words better than I ever could. I've been a linux sysadmin longer than I care to admit and sure, it throws obscure errors every now and then which are tricky or difficult to solve at best, but rarely impossible. On the current job I need to maintain windows servers as well and it's a total shitshow on error messages and tracking them down. No clear logfiles with (somewhat, ymmv) error messages to throw on your preferred search engine, just some obscure 0x04whattefuck -code which leads to microsoft forums where some (apparently) paid technican says that you need to restart your server and/or reinstall a part of it. It's a bit different thing when rebooting a machine takes 15-20 minutes and several thousand people across the globe can't do their job while it's happening.

With linux I at least have a bit more control on what I'm doing, a bit more reasonable error messages to work with and, since I've worked with it long enough, I have some understanding what I'm dealing with and what kind of cause-and-effect chains I'm running. With windows I've seen properly seasoned veterans who ought to know their environment in and out (much like I'm working with linux) they're just lost and throwing those 0x0FUBAR codes on the google just like me.

At this week I had to deal with a email bomb (sort of, a dev made a slight change on something and it generated couple of millions of emails in a few hours). With linux I could build something up with grep, awk, xargs and whatnot to mitigate the problem AND monitor how my single line of commands is doing. But as I was on a Windows server all I could (with my current knowledge) was to search some powershell commands and run them & hope for the best.

Complicated stuff is complicated for a reason, but with linux I at least have the tools to see what's going on and verify if my actions actually make an effect. With windows I feel like my hands are tied and all I have available is to hit enter and go grab a coffee, because maybe after that something happened which I can measure.

I (very much personally) think that should any of the issues OP had happen on windows there would be very little to do about them. With linux there's at least an option to try something different.

Maybe he's referring that Ukraine only attacks military targets and that they're pretty accurate too, so there's no danger as long as you stay away from military bases. Who knows. Seems like a nice place for a vacation tho, but I'll wait a bit before booking tickets.

I can confirm this with personal experience. Wife has T470 (if memory serves, something around that) for 100€. That was from previous work and they offered my old laptop for cheap, so it doesn't really count as average, but not uncommon either at least around here. I got myself T495 a while ago for 299€ from "public" market and have been purchasing couple years old thinkpads for decades now. There's plenty of those available, they work just fine for the workload we have for laptops (I got a separate desktop for more power hungry applications) and they've proven to be pretty reliable workhorses since the brand was owned by IBM.

Framework specially is really interesting approach and I'd love to test to their hardware, but they don't have Finnish keyboard available just yet and I can get several used thinkpads for the price of one framework, so as long as I'm using my own hard earned money I rather spend it on a known brand where I already know what I'm getting into and spend considerably less money while doing so.

Also with linux thinkpads tend to work just fine or at least there's documentation and howtos to get everything working.