I got through University running Debian testing. It was mostly fine, some Linux based subjects were way easier without dealing with a VM (they recommended against WSL for some reason).

However there were a couple units that absolutely required you to use Visual Studio (non-code), I occasionally used a VM, the Uni IT also provided me with a remote VM (there’s a form to fill and and it’s all automated). But I mostly used Rider, which for one unit it confused their CI and I got marked down for (otherwise got top marks so it’s fine).

For office, it didn’t matter. Group projects mostly used Google Docs, occasionally Microsoft Office where the online version worked fine. All my units wanted PDFs at the end anyway, so it does not matter that you used LibreOffice or whatever. Some units provided you with DOCX templates, I had no issues opening them with LibreOffice.

Edit: People are mentioning online exams, my Uni did ‘online quizzes’ which worked fine, and some had to be done in class on their PCs anyway. Final exams where always done on paper.

Ahh sorry, I thought you meant you plugged it into the input side. If that’s the case then are you running anything that measures CPU usage? I run the TIG stack, it might be able to give you some hits. Also back to my original point which is already unlikely, if it’s a modified sinewave UPS, it can confuse some measuring devices while it’s on battery.

It’s weird to do this daily, but it’s possible that the UPS is doing a self test, which would drain the battery a little and the load is from charging it back up.

It’s not immediately a DNS issue. Usually if there’s no response within less then a second, then a browser will skip IPv6 and use IPv4 (Happy Eyeballs). But in this case the server responds with an SSL error over IPv6.

curl -v -6 "https://rebeltechalliance.org/"
* Host rebeltechalliance.org:443 was resolved.
* IPv6: 2a10:e000:1::10
* IPv4: (none)
*   Trying [2a10:e000:1::10]:443...
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
*  CAfile: /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/tls/cert.pem
*  CApath: /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/tls/certs
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLS connect error: error:00000000:lib(0)::reason(0)
* OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to rebeltechalliance.org:443
* closing connection #0
curl: (35) TLS connect error: error:00000000:lib(0)::reason(0)

The symbol they defined out is not the equals symbol but rather U+2550, so the for loop is fine.

Surely this wasn’t the same report that failed to find any EV maker that actually uses ‘dirty nickel’, but concluded they were anyway.

It can, but it requires creating your own signing key, registering it with secure boot, and signing your nvidia driver.

There’s a guide here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1049479

But if you’re running any out of tree drivers (e.g. the nvidia driver), I’d recommend just leaving secure boot off.

Before other people start commenting ‘yeah obviously’, it’s their April Fools video, it’s pretty funny.

What motherboard do you have?

If it’s related to memory context restore, I also had to toggle ‘power down enable’ on my setup.

I never mentioned vulnerabilities, I just wanted to point out that, RDP doesn’t really work without a graphical session, Windows Server Core gets around this by being a graphical session (although very basic).

Also I’m not sure, but I don’t think Windows handles RDP on the kernel level, it’s just nicely tied in with DWM and doesn’t have to deal with the multitude of window managers on Linux.

Handling RDP on the kernel level does sound like a bad idea security wise, but there should be a better way.

Windows Server Core still has a window manager, just all it does show a command prompt very similar to the one in the usual Windows recovery environment.

I wonder if this made it into the android kernel: https://www.androidpolice.com/pixel-stutter-bug-addressed-by-third-party-dev/

Or if it is just general updates.

I thought Discord gave you the option to send a message as a file now, or maybe that was desktop.

You have to be on the March update, then go to Developer options -> Linux environment, and enable it. Then ‘Terminal’ will appear in your apps drawer.

I hadn’t restarted my serial logger after I rebooted my laptop, leaving me with no clue about what caused the crash.

Probably way too late now, but if it was a proper kernel panic, it should’ve saved the dmesg in the kernel’s pstore which saves to either ACPI or EFI storage (depending on BIOS or UEFI), which systemd then extracts to /var/lib/systemd/pstore/ on next reboot.

Oh damn, phoronix comments are usually bad, but they really got off the rails this time!

I noticed it the other day too. The flatpak version let me add one SSH key, but another with password protection would only error.

I’ve never tried it, but there’s Waypipe.

Unless you are moving gigabits of data, you won’t notice the difference the smaller header payload of ipv6 offers.

IPv6 headers are usually bigger anyway¹, so the only advantage is more efficient routing (so infinitesimally better latency), but in my experience most routers only support IPv4 hw offload and not IPv6, so it’s only more efficient in theory.

I just like IPv6 because I get a whole /56 prefix to play with, and devices often randomise their host portion through the privacy extensions, meaning they use a new address each day or so.

¹ IPv4 is usually ~20 bytes, but it can be up to 60 bytes if you stack a lot of options, IPv6 is only 40 bytes AFAIK.

You might be able to manually enable IPv6 in Optus’ APN.

My Telstra eSIM didn’t automatically enable IPv6, when my physical SIM did, but enabling it in the telstra.wap APN fixed it.