Buster's slightly concerned he's about to be replaced with bookworm

“We’re trying to reach you about your extended warranty”

“Hide yo kids, hide yo wife”

Ubuntu GUI/apt fail

Back when I used ubuntu, Unity was stuck with old gnome packages. This meant that the version gnome-terminal packaged with ubuntu (up to at least 18.04) didn't have text reflow on window size changes.

You could add the upstream sources, upgrade the specific text reflow package only, and then disable the sources.

I forgot to disable the sources, or typed dist-upgrade (this happened multiple times...). Broke the whole desktop/lightdm setup with half upgraded packages, and half removed packages (for preparation to install new versions). Way easier to reinstall the os than to disentangle. Unity was a mess then anyway.

Moral: Actually read the package change summaries when doing updates/removes/installs, and [ y/N ] means actually check what the fuck you think you're agreeing to.

BtrFS snapshots for idiots

I've also run automated snapshots on my btrfs partition, then run out of space doing multi-hop system upgrade on fedora (dnf has a plugin that creates a snapshot every time it kicks in.

You can imagine there were many changes happenning per snapshot, and I effectively could have rolled back 4 major fedora versions... Til I ran out of space.

I couldn't get a replacement drive in time, and I had an hour to rebuild my laptop before needing to be on a customer site, so sadly I couldn't preserve my drive for later investigation. My best guess is the high-water-mark was configured incorrectly, and somehow it was able to 'write' data past the extents of the filesystem.

Rollback did work for my home partition, but I had to mount it from another OS to get it to work - so no data loss!

By that time I'd already reinstalled the os to the root partition/subvolume however, so I couldn't determine the exact cause of failure :(

Moral: Snapshots are not backups, and 'working' is not 'tested'

You might check your BIOS clock time too, if the certs are ‘expired’, it might be the future, or more likely, the past. Certs have validity timers that specify start and end.

It’s more likely that your BIOS is just old, and you’ll have to keep secure boot disabled from now on.

Same. There is also a handicap rail through my sternum.

When opening from the liftoff client on iOS, it doesn’t work for me:

Lining up the wires, ensuring they’re straight and making sure they’re trimmed to the same length will help avoid crossover too.

You can help straighten them on the square edge of a table, just press them between your finger and the table at the part that’s stripped from the insulation, then pull them over the edge applying pressure the whole time.

You can also look for the newer cat 6 connectors. Lots of brands have an insert that you can slot the wires in to before putting them in the housing, which helps a lot.

Example here: https://www.amazon.com/W-NECTOUN-100-PACK-Connectors-Ethernet-Connector/dp/B0B1DHQCP7/

Short answer, the answer is no.

The deco’s are a mesh because of how they forward packets to eachother directly. Meshing is to do with how the APs talk to eachother to forward ethernet frame data.

I think you’re confusing the mesh topology of backbone communications between access points with ‘Internal Roaming’, which is how the wireless client devices jump from one ssid to another.

All the decisions of internal roaming are handled by the client, not the AP, and it’s not really that smart.

Not all devices roam exactly the same, but Apple has a clear ruleset they follow how for iOS devices roam. They also details some info about supporting technologies that the APs can provide, 802.11k and v.

802.11r is not required unless you’re doing EAP, 802.1X radius authentication for each client on your network.

So. If you connect the deco’s via ethernet to the same network, they’re technically not a mesh anymore - but they will make for a decent roaming domain. Same goes for your old wifi access points.

They’re only a mesh if they communicate directly.

Sure, but you always download the latest bugs.

-known issue: audio skips every 10s

Clarissa, you sunk my battle shit!

You’re welcome.

I found out the other day that LibreOffice Draw has a full pdf editor built in.

I know adobe makes many more products, but boy do I like telling people they don’t have to pay for Acrobat!