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I’ve never seen that before but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real. Perhaps it is a market area test thing but it could also be a custom route on the web version of Google Maps where you drag the line over. Just like that user tried to manufacture hate for G Maps a few days ago complaining about a ridiculous route to Burger King in another country but it was actually the Magic Earth Navigation & Maps application.

I’ve been looking into something like OsmAnd and OsmAnd+ (uses OpenStreets and Maps) because I want better feature sets, specifically features that are locked behind G Map’s having to set a destination. OsmAnd also has some pretty cool plugins like Parking Position, Mapillary (for Google Streets-like views) to bring it to closer parity with G Maps but also Weather to show weather forecasts along your route on-screen and External Sensors so you could put your Bicycle Fitness stuff (Ant+, etc) on-screen and record it on the recorded route.

I previously looked at TomTom AmiGo as a sort of trial for TomTom Go but I didn’t like the routing sometimes and with TomTom Go you need to pay a subscription for stuff that shouldn’t require one.

For example, features such as showing traffic congestion around you, accidents up ahead and showing the speed limit of the current road you are on only shows up when you put in a destination. This feature has been asked about for years on Google’s forums yet it still hasn’t happened. I believe Waze does this but I don’t like constant ads.

I’m definitely OK with paying for apps that are useful and prefer it.

Try distrobox out. Install those one-time use apps, then when done, remove the distrobox container. You can even specify its own home directory when creating one with --home (or -H). All cleaned up then.

Pretty much sounds exactly like I was thinking of doing for the DIY. miniATX/ATX for all the expansion potential + SATA ports + large case to handle it + a CPU with 6 to 8 cores at least. Case would probably be a rack form factor but it doesn’t really matter. Probably 32 GB of RAM + a Quadro GPU/Some cheap AMD GPU or something cheapish like that strictly for encoding + Proxmox + TrueNAS or perhaps just unraid. Probably no desktop environments unless something really needs it for some reason. Not sure if I’ll go with a motherboard with an ILO/IPMI with its own NIC + vlan or not.

I was going to mix SSD/NVME for performance (if I mix these two, it’d be two separate performance tiers) and HDDs for capacity. Probably two 1+ Gbps NICs bonded and maybe a LACP port channel down the line. VPN with killswitch of course.

I could def. go cheaper on the hardware if I just wanted to use docker/podman mostly but I want VMs too. I’ll probably manage updates and backups of what I really care about off network via ansible + rclone + restic repos. I might would use zram + lz4 for most of my VMs because why not.

I appreciate the advice! I am thinking of Synology or perhaps DIY with either TrueNAS (Scale likely) or Unraid. Synology would be cheap, small, easy on power and thermals too though and I’ve been looking at the latest and previous gen DS2XX lines.

Also I appreciate the Jellyfin mention. I’ve been using Plex so long and was thinking about something else like Jellyfin especially but I’ve never worked with it before.

This and the rising costs plus adding ads to ‘basic’ tiers and attempting to create limitations (resolutions, “screens”, offline downloads) is what might push me to build a nice, large NAS. We don’t want Cable again.

No Home Depot or similar near you? You could have got same day service.

I’m not trying to convince you to come back but as for the rpm/flatpak/compiling thing, I recommend people run and I run distrobox containers to solve that. So, I have an Arch and Ubuntu distrobox container. You don’t install them either, you just tell distrobox to download them and it runs them. You install the software with AUR/whatever and apt/whatever and then distrobox-export the app(s) from the container. Then it all runs like any other app from your launcher. You don’t really have to know anything about how docker/podman works and runs. It takes care of it.

You set your brush type in ASCII/ANSI characters, set your size and color and then you paint using something like PabloDraw.

Think of opening something like paint, selecting the brush tool and a color and then painting shapes. Well, they do the same but instead of a solid or gradient brush color, the do the same except the brush uses character sets that you can select.

I’m not so sure in California. There isn’t much but a letter from Lt. Gov. Kounalakis to California Sec. of State Weber asking her to look into all legal avenues to remove Trump while in response Gov. Newsome said that they should not remove him.

That’s Magic Earth Navigation & Maps and the results are that app’s fault.

You can tell from both the app icon and it’s the exact same Burger King logo it uses (Google Maps uses a different one).

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You can just install Arch in a distrobox if you want or a debian + children in a distrobox, install the app and it should launch from your launcher like any other app you use. Distrobox is fantastic.

When I need to install something from the AUR, I just enter my Arch distrobox and do it, same for Ubuntu and stuff.

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I forgot to mention that you’ll need to use the distrobox-export command to make it so you can launch an app like any other easily from your launcher.

Not really anymore for the ones with built-in batteries like the disposables. Similar to disposibles they are typical 20W or less. You can get many of them for under $30, including the UWELL Caliburn line which is a quality product line. The G Coil packs are between $10 and $20 depending and last a week or more per coil of which there are 5. If you chain them, you’re probably looking at between 2 and 3 days per coil.

The mods that require rechargeables like 18650 and other similar form factors sit between $50 and $70 for reputable brands, though for the ~200W mods it can be around $100 if you include their branded tanks.

I’d bet your mod is at least a 100W+, probably over 150W depending on when you bought them (they are cheaper now than a few years, which were cheaper than a 10 years before that).

The tanks are pretty cheap now too, even those multi-coil rebuildables. If you don’t rebuild your tank and use pre-built coils it is going to be a little more expensive. Those tanks for pre-builts tend to be a bit cheaper as well, like ~$30 for non-pods. Pod tanks tend to be around $10 - $15.

I remember 80W mods going for between $100 and $300 back in 2011 depending if it was considered a “clone” or not.

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Huntington Beach is swinging red hard in recent history. I’d call their current changes ‘questionable’.

They ignored COVID19 vaccine and mask mandates, sued California for trying to make them zone their share of more housing due to the lack of affordable housing crisis, dissolved the long-standing human relations committee (created essentially to ensure everyone is treated equal regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and disabilities), is trying to make IDs are voter polls mandatory even though it is against California law, have been removing books from the city’s libraries involving se LGBTQ+ themes as well as sex education ‘to protect the children!!’ and of course to withdraw from the Orange County Power Authority – a renewable-energy focused provider for some reason.

Moser (D), a council member, asked Van Der Mark ®, another council member if they were a holocaust denier and if she had any association with the Proud Boys. The Republican side of the council (the majority) censured Moser due to this.

The context of this was due to Van Der Mark’s publicly posted playlisted on YouTube titled “Holocaust Hoax?” and ‘accidentally’ posted it. Van Der Mark claims it was simply for research purposes. Also of note, there is a segment of Proud Boys and others that held a “White Lives Matter” protest in recent years at Huntington Beach and Van Der Mark was in a picture with Kyle Chapman, a leader of the Proud Boys, on a FB post. She also attended an anti-Islam event and was pictured standing just behind Johnn Benitez wearing a Proud Boys uniform and posed for pictures with other Proud Boys.

According to the ADL, she also referred to black people in YouTube comments as “colored people” as well as that they “dutifully did the bidding of Jews” at a white privilege workshop in Santa Minica.

Of note, she has said that she is not a holocaust denier but as far as I know hasn’t specifically said that she has no ties to the Proud Boys.

This is already too long but this could also include her predecessor, Tito Ortiz ®. Ortiz named her their successor after quitting due to ‘media pressure’ due to their support of the Jan 6 Capital Attack, boycott of a burger place that wanted him to wear a mask (and as I recall a really cringy video that he recorded during it) and same again at a library.

That’s not directly relevant to the above but just to be clear they are both (Van Der Mark and Ortiz) a shitshow.

Regardless of the issues above, Huntington Beach seems to be signaling that they are essentially a California MAGA stronghold in regards to how the GOP council members campaign and in their political agenda that they’ve been pushing forward.

Sure. States have authority over their own ballot process. Would it be a civil lawsuit violating a person’s Constitutional rights that are Constitutionally valid candidates? Could be.

But Dan Patrick is also “joking” for clout, otherwise, he’d just be disrespecting the US Constitution due to political agenda interference. Then again, the GOP is known to act as mere children in their politics and their followers are known to eat that shit right up to ‘own the libs’.

Since he doesn’t mention it in his ‘fantastic’ reporting, OpenSSH 9.6 was released Monday that will patch this attack. Also, since he doesn’t mention it, if on the Internet, the MITM would have to be installed at both end points (client side and server side) to be effective without the patch.

In my opinion Dan Goodin always reports as an alarmist and rarely gives mitigation much focus or in one case I recall, he didn’t even mention the vulnerable code never made it to the release branch since they found the vulnerability during testing, until the second to last paragraph (and pretended that paragraph didn’t exist in the last paragraph). I can’t say in that one case, it wasn’t strategic but it sure seemed that way.

For example, he failed to note that the openssh 9.6 patch was released Monday to fix this attack. It would have went perfectly in the section called “Risk assessment” or perhaps in “So what now?” mentioned that people should, I don’t know, apply the patch that fixes it.

Another example where he tries scare the reading stating that “researchers found that 77 percent of SSH servers exposed to the Internet support at least one of the vulnerable encryption modes, while 57 percent of them list a vulnerable encryption mode as the preferred choice.” which is fine to show how prevalent the algorithms are used but does not mention that the attack would have to be complicated and at both end points to be effective on the Internet or that the attack is defeated with a secure tunnel (IPSec or IKE for example) if still supporting the vulnerable key exchange methods.

He also seems to love to bash FOSS anything as hard as possible, in what to me, feels like a quest to prove proprietary software is more secure than FOSS. When I see his name as an author, I immediately take it with a grain of salt and look for another source of the same information.

Doesn’t matter. It’ll be just like the Panama Papers. There will be no accountability from anyone including the public.

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