Also:

https://0patch.com/Win10.html

Yeah, but SteamPay is the future

I believe thats how Android works. As I recall, it uses fscrypt.

If this is upendable, im sure the next distro will be fun for this user.

IMO, its not a brand issue. Its a seller/batch/brand issue. Hard drives are sensitive to vibration, and if you buy multiple drives from the same place, at the same time, and all the same brand and model, you might be setting yourself up for a bad experience if someone accidentally slammed those boxes around earlier in their life.

I highly recommend everyone buy their drives from different sellers, at different times, spread out over various models from different brands. This helps eliminate the bad batch issue.

And linux distros

Yes, each eSIM has its own unique IMEI. Some phones have multiple eSIMs, so they could technically have multiple carriers/phone numbers assigned to it.

Radio is referring to the proprietary piece of hardware that is in every cell phone that handles the physical portion of transmitting radio waves for wireless connectivity. This piece of hardware generally handles LTE/5G, wifi, and bluetooth.

Your IMEI is the identifier that is burned into that hardware, which uniquely lets the carriers determine if your device can authenticate on their networks.

You can turn off the radio by disabling your cellular network or turning on airplane mode on your phone. You will temporarily lose access to your cellular network until you turn it back on.

Newer devices don’t require SIM cards to connect. They have eSIM cards that can be used. You still need one or the other to connect to a cellular network.

I changed my mkinitcpio hook from the busybox initencrypt to systemd init sd-encrypt to help with this, as it presents a different way to unlock a LUKS partition. Be sure to read the notes about sd-vconsole if you use this hook. Your mileage may vary since im not sure which OS you’re on.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio#Common_hooks

I can think of some commercial audio processors that can help with that, but they are super pricey.

I can’t think of a linux application that has this capability. If there is something out there that offers AEC (acoustic echo cancellation) on linux with two mic inputs, id also be interested.

One way to help with this as far as inexpensive hardware is to make sure you’re using cardioid dynamic microphones, and not omnidirectional condenser microphones. Cardioid dynamic mics generally pick up audio directionally, like from the “front”. You have to be right up on the mic in order to have it record any type of audio. They generally wont pick up environmental sound from anything more than a few feet away. You can just point them away from noise you don’t want to pick up.

I mean, thats a direct result of Mario punching Yoshi in the back of the head. Thats just the sound of pain.

https://youtu.be/HJCVc6c8QwU

I always think of this extended BOW

Better than psswords, but its super unfortunate that passkeys are walled to their password management garden. Hopefully everyone is using a crossplatform manager.

TPM has solved this now for decades.

Verified boot + TPM encryption key storage is a huge layer of protection for the boot process.

Check out the Arch wiki for TPM. It has some good reading.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module

Its one or the other. Either Google Play Services will push notifications, or the apps have to have the ability to handle push notifications on their own (which isn’t common).

Google Play Services can be sandboxed in GrapheneOS, but there isn’t an open source Google Play Services since its not included in AOSP. It is very much a proprietary blob.

During those rare times that you boot into Windows 11, go ahead and update it.

I wouldn’t go out of your way and boot into it for the sole purpose of keeping it updated tho.

You need VLANs if you want separate networks on the SAME router. But if you have separate routers, then you don’t need VLANs.

You will need two wireless access points. If the router you mentioned has two wireless access points built in, then just set one to connect to the shared network, and the other will act as an AP for your private network. Then the router can be configured to send WAN traffic out of the shared network AP.

If you use a router that only has a single AP built in, then you will need to purchase and additional AP to plug into one of your router’s LAN ports so that it has two total.

Some routers might have the ability to create multiple wireless networks on one router, but be sure the hardware can handle the load. I know my ubiquity UDR can create up to 5 wireless networks on that single device before you run into performance issues.

Honestly, if you’re using your own router, you won’t need to worry about VLANs as long as your router separates your private network from the shared one.

For example, if the shared network is 192.168.0.0/24, you can make your private network 192.168.5.0/24 and have your router’s firewall block incoming traffic from 192.168.0.0/24. Only allow WAN traffic out, and allow return traffic.

Then have your router or connected server act as the authoritative DNS and DHCP servers for the 192.168.5.0/24 private network.

One wireless AP will be used in client mode to connect to the 192.168.0.0/24 shared network. The other wireless AP will be used as an access point for other devices to connect to the 192.168.5.0/24 private network.

The changelog for 2.31 is here:

https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-announce/2020/msg00001.html

Latest version of glibc is 2.41, released 2025-01-30. That puts 2.31 at least 10 releases behind. That version is quite outdated. There are numerous security and bug fixes in 2.31 alone, with each newer release also fixing some as well.

Just get an OS that doesn’t have versions. Ezpz fix.