Thanks, the vinyl is a little fiddly to work with but it’s worth the work for one off pieces.

Oof, so the price has gone up but this is what I am using: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B001CJIHFI

Along with this grit: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08KHLW2DJ

Does an old work sock count as a filter? I could use the gasoline though…

Oops, replied to the wrong comment, in actual answer to your question:

I’m using a Cricut vinyl cutter but would never recommend one to anyone, their locked down cloud app is terrible. After I get a stencil cut I stick it down and then mask off the entire rest of the glass with tape. For a blaster I am using a tiny one that looks like an airbrush, it was ~$100CAD on Amazon. I use a pair of old socks as gloves in the side of a big clear plastic tub they keep the grit inside and let the air out! And that’s about it, I just blast all the exposed glass until it is frosted, I don’t think you can ever blow right through but if I hit one spot for too long there is a step in the glass at the edge of the pattern.

That’s a good point, probably made of cadnium glass.

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I took this approach as well but I let Grub add Windows as a boot option. No mashing keys at post and Windows doesn’t get to touch Grub or Debian.

Makes me wonder if there are any cyphers that are easy enough that human meat could implement it but hard enough that it would take some serious GPU time to crack?

Around 2007 I had a Windows laptop die on me and drove me to device agnosticism. Maybe I learned the wrong lesson but now I keep my OS and data separate enough that a b0rked OS is an hour’s inconvenience instead of a day’s recovery.

Still, it’s pretty awesome that you can just shuck a drive into a totally new machine and only have to adjust network settings.

Computers are hard, can everyone go back to unobfuscated telephone calls and handwritten letters?

• Cops everywhere

doesn’t get sick

Oh machines get sick and then the real costs appear. (Am an electrician, I play doctor on automated machines, sometimes a human is cheaper when the whole plant stops for a $200 part that is not in stock)

I know it is kinda frowned on but I like to use new directories at root to cut down on confusion as to where things are. Video storage for the NVR goes in /video, user data for Nextcloud goes in /data, etc. But I also keep everything in it’s own LXC so I don’t have one machine with 30 extra directories cluttering up the root.

I have given in to GNOME. Set dark mode, install the extension “Tactile” and never touch the setting again.

There was a Defcon talk a few years ago (oh god it was 8 years ago) where someone found a way mess with Chryslers because they were all on the Sprint wireless network. Things like lock out the physical controls on the radio then max out the volume, or turn it into a GPS tracker, or disable the brakes! The cars had some service listening on port 6667, there was no way to stop them from accepting malicious connections so Sprint just blocked all traffic on that port on their network at the request of Chrysler. The speaker mentioned they were sorry if you were unable to use IRC any more on Sprint wireless.

DEF CON 23 - Charlie Miller & Chris Valasek - Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle

I have a 30km commute of mostly 50-70km/h roads.

edit: 7.8L/100km on the last fill

I have one of those 2 seater pickups from 2010. Best vehicle ever, 7-8L/100km and the same size box as the whale behind it.

“File Browser” or “Sharry” allow you to make public links to share files with others BUT you need to run them on a server that is accessible to both parties.

I’ve been using Linux as a desktop and server since 2015, before that I was Windows only from 1995. Regedit scares me.

limiting bitrates with the rsync command

/cries in USB2 HDD caddy

In the past 5 years stability has improved significantly, like I haven’t had a crash in the past year of casual use. ymmv but I would recommend it to new users at this point.