my employer gave us macbook pros’ to work on and it so much spyware/malware that it made my router go off like xmas lights; so i setup a linux vm using kvm/qemu on my own hardware and retired the macbook.
i now fully expect my employer to somehow force a return to the macbook; but i’ve already returned it to the company so they’re going to have to buy me a new one when they do so.
the windows driver allows for full wifi-6/7 speeds in ap mode and is the only way, afaik, to get it with intel cards
there are other efforts to backwards engineer or hack the changes that disables higher speeds in ap mode for linux; but none worked when i tried about 10-ish months ago. i tired these ones:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/wifi-6-gets-134-gbps-on-raspberry-pi-cm4 https://gist.github.com/iffa/290b1b83b17f51355c63a97df7c1cc60 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1163145/intel-wireless-iwlwifi-ubuntu-19-04-slow-upload-speed-but-only-on-certain-wi/1163146#1163146
and if you don’t have a windows key like me, do yourself a favor and create a windows image instead of a vm and keep re-using it to get around the windows validation setup timeout after 30 days. (i didn’t realize this until after the fact so i had to create a work around with ansible to stop/copy/paste/launch the vm every 30 days)
i have a single box i use for data storage; backup; wifi; router; and switch.
it runs ubuntu on the bare iron with
topographically, it looks like this, but in reality it’s all one box:
┌────┐ ┌─────────────┐
┌───────────────────┤vpn │ ┌──────────────────┤windows (wifi│
▼ └────┘ │ └─────────────┘
┌──────────┐ │
│ internet │ │
└──────────┘ ▼ ┌───────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌───────────┐
▲ ┌─────────┐ │ubuntu │◄───────┤switch│◄─────┤ backups │
└────────────────┤ pfsense │◄─────────────────┴───────┘ └──────┘ └───────────┘
└─────────┘
i doubt it matters since huffman already got his money.
i wonder if any moderators regret making him rich at the expense of their own time and effort; with nothing to show for it
intellectual pursuits combined with recent-ish DNA test revealed to me that i’m from a very recently dead culture (american yaqui & tarahumara) whose very few aware decedents have been fighting tooth-and-nail to re-cultivate it by patterning themselves after their nearest cousins (mexican yaqui & tarahumara) along with a recent recognition from the american government for the pascua reservation in arizona.
they were literally wiped out by the pogroms carried out by colonial settlers in the american southwestern united states during the 19th and early 20th centuries and it was merely the imaginary line on the map called the mexican border that allowed anything from the culture to survive at all.
if it weren’t for people who rejected colonialist narrative of indigenous people happily becoming mestizos (or americans with Cherokee princess great grandma’s); there would be nothing but a fringe belief and, if it weren’t for DNA tests that heavily bolsters it, that fringe belief would continue to wane into nothingness.
you’d think that 2/3rds of your DNA being tied to a group of people and their genocide occurring less than 2 generations ago would ensure that something of that cultural inheritance would survive, but I’m living & breathing proof that the colonial narrative is MUCH more powerful than any heritage as the older generations of my family continue to strenuously reject both the science and the lore of their true roots.
like kissinger, i’m sure he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the damage he’s done
i’ll chose it because reddit is a cesspit and the fediverse has very little content.
both the basque and the catalonians have sought independence and were brutally pushed down by the conservative governments of the very recent past. the current left leaning government has made concessions to keep them on board; but the voting trends for the last 15 years makes it crystal clear that the conservatives will be in power again and both the catalonians and basque are well aware that the the peace will expire in the next election.
most catalonians and basque don’t think so
it gives me so much pleasure to know that yours is a minority viewpoint on the fediverse; perhaps you should go back to reddit, or facebook, or whatever group think hole you crawled out from.
it depends on what you mean by “corporate space”
end users of any type don’t use linux because of a mixture because that’s what they’re used to using; but end users can’t do shit w/o the service backbones which are dominated by linux and depended upon by end users.
At least it’s not the trail of tears pt2
i bet whatever form california and texas (and maybe new york or florida) end up as would gobble up their significantly weaker/poorer neighbors and both would end up warring with each other at some point.
i’m REALLY feeling like this rn; this 4 quarter project is going to extend into at least 5 at the end of this year.
fwiw: you do get to hear a little bit of ferengi in this episode, before they get their translators fixed
You weren’t hoping that Secure Boot saves your ass, were you?
i wonder if containerized firefox (eg snap/flatpak) will
they’ll just blame Black people for not voting
and also not bother to do shit to help people who are blocked from voting
i want them candied lol
either that or damn small linux
i like that contemporary a & b list actors are joining star trek in the last few years whereas before it was really uncommon.
is it just my memory playing tricks on me?