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  • You can use the fedora direct sources to search their discourse forum. Google and Microsoft are likely warping your search results intentionally to drive you back onto Windows. Search is not deterministic any more. It is individually targeted.

    I have never used KDE much, so I have no idea. You are probably looking for KDE settings. These would likely be part of gsettings in GNOME. That is not really a fedora thing. You need to look in the KDE documentation. This is the kind of thing that gets easier with time but can be frustrating at first.

    Sorry I’m not more helpful than this. It is 2am in California and I didn’t want to leave you with no replies at all.



  • One thing I’ve liked about riding a bicycle everywhere is that I can point my light at someone specifically. I ride on the lowest setting and pointed as discretely as possibly for someone that is traveling 20+ MPH on a parallel dedicated set of bike lanes, where I regularly encounter people with nothing reflective and no lights after dark. I ride with a light that is MUCH brighter than any car when on the high-boost setting and I will absolutely use that on anyone that flashes or drives with brights on.

    Back in the day with my 1971 FJ40, I had A-pillar spotlights for classic off-road, and would do the same with them. People that drive around with brights on carelessly deserve fully blackened and burned retinas.




  • Freedom can result in unexpected or maybe inconvenient initiations with a partner, but they are rare. Washing sheets more often is important. At least with me, I need the freedom of mobility to sleep. After my broken neck and back, I sleep like I’m special forces on a mission. If the fitted sheet is not totally secure, it will end up dead in a pile on the other side of the room by sunrise. Physical disability can be like that. The parts of me that died come back to haunt the living world when I fall asleep.






  • You generally want to use a trusted protection module (TPM) chip like what is on most current computers and Pixel phones. The thing to understand about the TPM chips is that they have a set of unique internal keys that cannot be accessed at all. These keys are used to hash against and create other keys. The inaccessibility of this unique keyset is the critical factor. If you store keys in any regular memory, you are taking a chance.

    Maybe check out Joe Grand’s YT stuff. He has posted about hacking legit keys to recover large crypto amounts. Joe is behind the JTAGulator, if you have ever seen that one, and was a famous child hacker going by “Kingpin.”

    I recall reading somewhere about a software implementation of TPM for secure boot, but I didn’t look into it very deeply and do not recall where I read about it. Probably on Gentoo, Arch, or maybe in the book Beyond Bios (terrible)

    Andrew Huang used to have stuff up on YT that would be relevant to real security of such a device, but you usually need to know where he wrote articles to find links because most of his stuff isn’t publicly listed on YT. He has also removed a good bit over the years when certain exploits are unfixable like accessing the 8051 microcontroller built into most SD cards and running transparently. Andrew is the author of Hacking the Xbox which involved basically a man in the middle attack on a high speed PCIE (IIRC) connection.

    It would be a ton of work to try to reverse engineer what you have created and implemented in such a device. Unless you’re storing millions, it is probably not something anyone is going to mess with.





  • A ragtag group told a story in the diaspora about a guy that fit the hooks embedded in the now dissolved former religion’s texts. Half of the group did not care to even write or bother with the little reuse, but a few of these foreigners managed to scrape by selling a new religion to the more successful among the diaspora. They really weren’t very successful and most died as criminals and scammers. A few hundred years later, the whole thing really got started. It is quite likely that no Jesus ever existed. The mechanism that created him was simply a religious contingency plan for an insignificant minor cultural group.

    So indeed, Jesus was used to try to convince the diaspora they were the children of god, but heaven was just another homeopathic as-seen-on-TV level product a few desperate people used to eat and gain shelter amongst their country persons. Most of these outstayed their welcome as one would expect under these circumstances. Paul was on sinking ships in tumultuous seas for a reason. People back then lived in the weather and knew the patterns well. The communities got together and bought Paul and others a one way ticket to heaven. Normal people don’t go jumping on the most dangerous form of transit in the worst season, or pay for passage on a vessel when they could spread the same message by commuting on foot. These were wanted men and scammers escaping to scam somewhere new.



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    8 days ago

    This got me looking at the historule. lol

    I missed the drama, but I don’t care. Mods are janitors. Communities can’t be owned unless only 1 person has posted within them. I am a janitor for 3d printing at LW. I have every right to attempt to start a 3d printing community elsewhere but never to lock, move, or hold the community hostage.

    I also think the internet in general tends to fail at acknowledging mistakes, and how we are all capable of growth, flux, or regression.

    You can’t change the past. So worrying about it does no good. Words and intentions are worthless, actions are what matter. So be the best version of yourself now and in the future.




  • I tried to relate the limited niche where having closer together gearing makes a noticeable difference. Unless you are operating in a very small margin, you will never notice having close together gearing. I only ever noticed the difference with racing where I’m on the edge of blowing up throughout the entire race and happen to feel like I’m on a knife’s edge and spinning a little too fast or slow to hang on for more than a few minutes, and comparing times on a given route and pulling a few minutes out of an hours long route. In all other instances, having more range has been better for me. So I prefer to have as wide as my drivetrain supports. If I have any choice, I prefer a tighter set of low gears and a bailout final cassette cog.

    Sorry if the abstraction is hard to ground in your understanding. Broadly speaking, this is how I setup any bike. I wouldn’t worry about the total, and would start with the widest cassette that will work with your current setup. Then I would only change the front chainring if you still feel a lack of top speed. In my experience, only the standard combinations and matched group sets shift really well at a racing or top performance level. The more unconventional setups can be made to work reliably but shift speed and shifting under load become lower quality in ways that are not worth the compromise. There are subtle elements like how the front derailleur cable is routed that are designed for a specific combination. While it may seem trivial, in practice I have seen issues from moving a derailleur up or down significantly beyond normalcy, or changing a chain line, or even tooth profiles between models of chainrings.

    Back in the days before indexed shifting, people often played a lot more with gearing, but the issues are different with friction shifting, as are the shifting performance and expectations. This is why people do not generally alter gearing in the same way any more.


  • I have too many lithium polymer batteries in my spares drawer to justify buying. I think they are easier to design into 3d prints and make more sleek projects with. The cylindrical cell and holder creates a size constraint for your projects. That constraint is not super convenient when used with circuit boards. If you get something like an ESP32 board that includes a batman chip, it is quite easy to find a lipo that fits in the same form factor and is very compact in my experience. I tend to make things over engineered to the point I don’t finish a lot of them though, so perhaps a cylindrical cell in a larger enclosure would get more projects completed.