harry315

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Booting Linux off of Google Drive in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] harry315@feddit.de 106 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ladies, gentlemen, none of the above. We have come full circle. The mainframe + Terminal combination is back

Grande Panda: Fiat presents its entry-level electric car in c/automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
[–] harry315@feddit.de 1 points 3 months ago

rumor has it, they'll be available for around 23k €

Maybe we can get good IPv6 support now in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] harry315@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who could've thought in 1981 that more than a few thosand universities would ever like to connect to the then 250 machines big ARPANET. With 4 billion addresses, there was plenty of headroom at the time.

In 50 years, when the last ISP finally switches to IPv6, we'll be wondering how short sighted we were as now every pencil has an IP address in the interplanetary compu-global-hyper-meganet.

How does one create an app? in c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
Wireguard self hosting - Some tricks I don't see mentioned in too many tutorials in c/linux@lemmy.ml
Lithuanian, German and Japanese Ministers of Transport in Berlin agree to promote development and use of e-fuels in transport in c/automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
[–] harry315@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago

e-fuels aka ehh-rather-not-fuels aka e-conomically-unviable-fuels

I'll be more than happy to be proven wrong, though.

wondering why Biomethane isn't considered as an e-fuel. Can be produced purely from renewable ressources, and the existing gasoline technology is about 90 % compatible with using Methane. In fact, you could even retrofit a gasoline car with Methane kits.

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British people be like (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16081058

British people be like

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Wireguard self hosting - Some tricks I don't see mentioned in too many tutorials (feddit.de)
 

I just finished setting up my Wireguard VPN "server". In this post I want to spread some information, I could've found useful but which didn't come up in most of the Wireguard tutorials.

If you aren't interested in VPN or self hosting, this post is not for you. If you haven't gotten around yet to try it out, I can only recommend doing it. Feels great being able to "phone home" from all over the world.

Alright, tricks and tips:

tcpdump

Wireguard will definitely not work first try. As Wireguard is a silent protocol, you won't see too many error messages. Dropped packets are how you know that something's off. tcpdump is a great command line tool, that, despite it's name, can also dump the precious UDP Wireguard packets. The tool will make you see how far your wireguard connection gets before the packets are dropped. Great for running on "server" and on clients.

ping

A classic tool. Helped me debugging some issues with DNS and Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) size.

AllowedIPs

In a classic server-client situation, your clients should have AllowedIPs set to 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0 in their repecive configuration file. I found this pretty counterintuitive, but that seemingly is how it works.

IP Forwarding in sysctl

This one was by far the nastiest one to find out. Mainly because I'm not a linux or Debian expert. You need to tell sysctl to forward IP traffic, which ususally tutorials around the web will tell you to do like this: sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1; sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1. What I foolishly assumed, that this write operation was permanent. It's not. You need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf for making it permanent. Else, after a reboot you won't be able to connect to the internet. This took me a good amount of reconfigurations from scratch before I eventually found out these vars will reset on boot.

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Maybe this helps some of you fellow Lemmings. If I stumble across further tips and tricks, I might update this post in the future. For now though, I think I'm done with my setup (philosophical question: are you ever done with setting up things?).

Stop! And proceed... in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] harry315@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lately I've been enjoying !shittyfoodporn@lemmy.ca and !okmatewanker@feddit.uk

Small phone lovers... our era is not over. Yesterday I discovered the Unihertz Jelly Star. I fell in love. I will be reporting back. in c/android@lemmy.world
[–] harry315@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

Such a fun phone, I absolutely love it. It does everything a modern mid to lower mid range phone does. But typing is heavy. I put a custom Thumbkey fork on it, and now it's... okay :D

The truth about linux having 15% market share in India. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] harry315@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess, the browser is kind of the replacement for the OS in OP's case, which is again, a nonfree OS/browser.

What's the best way to install a linux based OS alongside os x (mac)? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] harry315@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

AFAIK macOS doesn't care if you add another partition in diskutil and install Linux on that through the usual live ISO's. But please make sure you:

  • Don't delete your main OS (make a Backup!)
  • Install Linux with (U)EFI compatibility
  • Don't touch any recovery partitions
    • Don't mess with the Mac's EFI/ESP partition
software experiences with Kenwood, Kitchenaid and other cooking machines in c/food@beehaw.org
[–] harry315@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I'd rather not. Just stir the damn thing.

If their quality doesn't go to shit, I'll be a lifetime Kitchen Aid dumb stand mixer customer.

LocalSend - Share files to nearby devices in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] harry315@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Answering the question you meant to ask, blueray is a physica... just kidding.

LocalSend is basically like bluetooth file sharing over WiFi. Bluetooth, especially the fallback 2.0 is notoriously slow and short ranged. The situation got better with BLE, 5.0 and Long Range. Still, both devices need to speak BT. Ap*le's iOS is well known to ignore BT file sharing capabilities while implementing own proprietary solutions. On desktop, the situation is still bad. I once tried to send a file between two Windows machines via BT, and it was a horrible user experience. LocalSend (and similar) fix this by implementing cross platform apps and using readily available API's to share files with few clicks and reasonably high speed between a plethora of devices. I guess, if you don't have the aforementioned problems, you won't need LocalSend et al.

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I need weird advice for soft keyboards (feddit.de)
 

Hi everyone. I'm close to buying a Unihertz Jelly Star (this nugget here). One of the last things keeping me away from ordering is my concern with typing quality. ("Say what, on a three inch screen??")

Normal qwery-keyboards won't cut it, and thus I'm looking for recommendations on software keyboards for either tiny screens or super fat fingers. As I don't love auto correct, are there any T9-like keyboards for Android (9 keys is quite few, but how about like half of the keys of a full size keyboard)? Also, is there a way to install WearOS (or whatever Google calls it this week) keyboards on a normal Android phone?

If you've got either very fat fingers or a tiny screen, hit me with the keyboard apps you're using. Thanks a lot!

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