This is all I’ve run across on reverse engineering, so far but it is quite interesting.

https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b

Well maybe they aren’t experienced info security professionals :)

I get where you’re coming from but is he managing his risk or not?

Does he understand the risk? If yes, good. No? Bad.

Is he ignoring the risk? If yes, bad. No? Good.

Is he weighing the risks against the benefits he receives of using these apps and taking appropriate steps to mitigate those risks? If yes, then good. No? Bad.

Cyber security isn’t “lock everything down at all costs”. Otherwise I would insist you throw your phone in an incinerator along with all your computers, live in a bunker reinforced against nuclear attack with a small army to guard you, never leave it, never talk to anyone… Etc.

It is enabling one to achieve their goals with a tolerable amount of risk. That level of tolerable risk is different for everyone.

Very cool. Easily my favorite use for 3d printing.

Related, I think there are several sets of files for various RC cars I have run across. Would be kind of fun to download a whole (RC) car :)

Hopefully people with more of a clue than me will chime in… Meanwhile, my best swag is the filesystem had issues and had to do an fsck? If that’s the case it would boot quickly next time assuming a clean shutdown.

Were there any errors during boot?

Fastboot enabled in BIOS or no? (Not sure if this has anything to do with anything I’m just trying to look useful)

PS: the weird active time could maybe somehow be related to the filesystem being borked needing fsck? I’m not sure.

Not op. I installed windows 10 on my custom built desktop and my kids custom built desktop, on VM, etc. Have not had a problem and it was pretty simple overall. I’m sure some folks do have issues, though. removed happens. Is windows 11 removedtier for install? I’ve never had the desire to try :)

I’ve also installed various Linux distros on the above and a few other computers (Mint, Nobara, Fedora). Aside from Mint not working with my AMD RX 6600, no problems there either, really. And these distros installed easily.

Again, ymmv. I knew Mint would probably fail because the 5.19 kernel does not seem to like my GPU. That’s why I switched to Nobara in the first place (iirc the 6.x kernel wasn’t available at the time)

What a great use of my tax dollars.

I’m just finding out about this now lol. Imagine Kickstarter but with a 24h window…

Well, you’re not wrong. I was away from my desktop when I commented and forgot btop looked so fancy.

For now I still prefer htop because I can see at a glance the stuff I’m most interested in (mem & cpu and process sort).

I’ll have to play with some of the other suggestions in the post…

I also am starting to play around with cockpit a little more for remote monitoring.

htop because pretty colors and graphs.

Or top because it’s like muscle memory now.

Or use the id command.

FWIW it is doable :) since I have Fedora (37) and a separate /home and / device. Btrfs in my case.

How did you deal with the home sub volume?

I will edit this with hopefully useful info about my fstab etc. in a few min…

— okey dokey —

Here’s my fstab. I had to comment out the home subvol and mount /home

UUID=02b32afc-3e05-412b-8781-xxx /                       btrfs   subvol=root,compress=zstd:1 0 0
UUID=e82e80a8-b169-4127-90ad-xxx /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=D358-0ADF          /boot/efi               vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
#UUID=02b32afc-3e05-412b-8781-xxx /home                   btrfs   subvol=home,compress=zstd:1 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/7b194608-a407-4c2c-a0d8-xxx /home auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

Permissions on /home mount point (before mounting device to mountpoint):

$ ls -la /home
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   0 Jan  5 20:47 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 166 Feb 27 18:36 ..

$ sudo getfacl home
# file: home
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

Relevant output from df

$ df
Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3       998540288   5447260 991484436   1% /
/dev/nvme0n1p6 1248619684 932769256 258218276  79% /home

Home dir permissions

$ ls -ldZ /home/mes
drwxr-xr-x. 196 mes mes system_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 12288 Feb 27 19:13 /home/mes

$ sudo getfacl /home/mes
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/mes
# owner: mes
# group: mes
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

Let me know if I can give any additional info.

I suppose a cross compiler for 6502. What I’m not sure of is what kind of timer interrupts the 6502 supports.

Unix like OS in 6502 assembly? Dang. I’m impressed. That’s seriously cool.

Gotcha. The difficulty in upgrading OS versions was my major gripe. Not that this is unique to Mint I’m guessing.

Second was unavailability of newer versions (or any versions) of some software. At the time, one example was FreeCAD being a couple years behind the current version.

And in fact this second issue made the first issue worse. I could’ve run an LTS longer. But from day one certain packages were pretty far behind and those packages didn’t get major version upgrades until I switched to the next Mint release.

Or else I would have to point to another repo. So at one point I had a bunch of different repos. Then one might go down and break the update and upgrade process.

And if not that approach I would have to find some other way to install but I still want to keep it updated semi automatically which isn’t possible in some cases.

Idk. I may switch to a rolling release distro at some point. But for now Fedora runs newer versions of the kernel and presumably(?) other software, or at least it hasn’t been an issue, thus far.

What is broken with Mint? My kid has been using it since she was like 10.

Like with any unfamiliar tech I find it is probably smoother to start small and work your way up.

So find a laptop that people have no issues running Linux on. Get one and then install just Linux on that and play with it.

The thing is, Linux has a small user base and so it probably isn’t realistic to expect it to support every conceivable hardware configuration on top of dual booting on every one with Windows. It’s way better than it used to be but sometimes people run into problems. Like me trying to get 5.19 kernel to work properly with my specific newer AMD GPU (any 6.x kernel is fine so like Fedora? No prob).

One of the things I try to do is research what network card chipsets, sound chipsets, and video card models work easily because some just don’t.

It sucks I know. Linux doesn’t have a gazillion dollar market behind it providing significant incentive for vendors to get their removed straight. Even so Linux does pretty well.

Anyway. When you’re fighting with several things at once it is easy to get overwhelmed and frustrated. Dual boot with windows, alone, can be iffy in my recent experience. Then add Nvidia, more headache. Then add some less common use cases like rdp… Etc.

Best of luck if you try again.

“Didn’t the dev drop that project”

My brain is melty right now but I think that’s right.

(How many of us have ADHD on here anyway??)

We are in the hype cycle so everyone is going bananas and there’s money to be made prior to the trough of disillusionment.

Yeah that is seriously terrible application behavior.