By the way, with some not so ancient devices you can search for the firmware here: https://software.cisco.com/download/home and at least get MD5 and SHA-512 hashes to verify the files you downloaded.

Not the case with this AP though.

Edit: Oh, I almost forgot. Also the exact filename. Makes it easy finding it online.

I am not sure I understand your comment.

Blocking outgoing traffic blocks all outgoing traffic, thus including traffic outside of VPN.
Allowing outgoing connections to the VPN server simply makes an exception in that blocking, otherwise you couldn’t even connect to a VPN.

Oof, sorry. This will depend on OS and the software you use for FW configs. I am too dumb.

For example, I use UFW on Linux. So for me it’s

# Deny all incoming and outgoing traffic by default
ufw default deny outgoing
ufw default deny incoming

# Allow connection to VPN server
ufw allow out to <VPN server IP address> [port] <VPN server port number> [proto] <tcp|udp>

# Allow connection via VPN interface
ufw allow out on <interface name> from any to any

# Enable UFW
ufw enable

That’s just one simple way.

I’ve heard they monitor the torrents and try downloading from the peers as evidence of them distributing the content.

Anyway, you could set up firewall rules to only allow connections via VPN interface (and out to the VPN server, of course).

Well, it works on my machine.

I am not a programmer, I just barely wrote one bash script in the past. But I’d say more comments are better than too few.

When I later wanted to edit it, I got completely lost. I wrote it with absolutely no comments.

OK-ish. I use Manjaro. It’s a pretty good idea to read Announcements before updating: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/

It may have instructions on how to update without borking your system. For example, the February update broke Plymouth, causing systems using it to be unbootable. Sort of. It would actually boot, just to a black screen. On one of the threads someone reported being able to SSH into his PC just fine.

Or the May update bringing Plasma 6 to stable. The recommendation was to reset Plasma to defaults, log out, stop SDDM and update from TTY. I tested doing exact opposite of that in VM, and it still went fine, except for missing icons, but still a good idea just to be safe.

But I had some other problems too.

February update: Booting to black screen. I found threads mentioning the same stuff for this update. Cool. “Remove Plymouth or just don’t use splash”. I… already disabled splash (and quiet to make boot-up cooler).
Fix: Updating Linux 5.15 LTS to 6.6 LTS. Something changed in 5.15 making it break on my laptop, I guess. I couldn’t even get to TTY without nomodeset.
Furthermore, the animations became choppy after resuming from sleep.

May update: Turning on Bluetooth may cause system crash. It would show as “ON”, but actually be inactive while shoving already paired devices. This couldn’t be reversed. Logging out and back in would lead to only the welcome screen and yakuake showing up. Trying to reboot from both yakuake and plain TTY would stop mid-way. After issuing reboot, the system would be mostly dead, but still kinda running. Linux still responded to magic SysRq.
Fix: Upgrading Linux 6.6 LTS to 6.9.

So, I can deal with it, and it definitely taught me to use Timeshift. Oh, and the brightness buttons sometimes stop working.

However, some older programs may actually behave better in Wine than say on Windows 11.
Oh, it also supports ancient 16 bit programs which Windows doesn’t anymore.

Nah, screw that.
Time to distribute stuff as a VM image.

Onanovanie in Slovak.

Also worth noting, you should create file named .ventoyignore in the directories with other files. Otherwise Ventoy searches everything which slows it down.

This isn’t something I made.
I found it here: https://www.rentalgallery.us/exhibitions/kenny-schachter-retrospective

RTX On:

Definitely KDE Plasma.

spare your free time

But it’s not free time if you’re not free to waste it ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

NileRed? Is that you?

Yeah. How else is it supposed to do DNS queries?

That would show the edit icon.

You misread that. They did type “Waydroid”.

If you just woke up, good morning.

I hope Slackware 15 doesn’t still recommend ext2 for being “fast and stable” like Slackware 14 did, so at least until the start of 2022.