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Trying to keep a Lab out of pretty much any body of water is just not gonna happen.

You might have too many old kernels installed. This would potentially fill up the /boot partition. One way to check this is:

df -h

Look for the line indicating space left for /boot.

You can then get a list of the installed kernels with:

dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | grep linux-image

If you need to remove old ones, use uname -a to identify the running kernel (should be the latest version if you’ve rebooted after the last kernel update) then remove all of the older kernel packages with:

sudo apt remove -y linux-image-amd64-xxxx

More generally speaking, I think that sudo apt autoremove should leave you with only the latest 2 kernel packages by default.

Except that Microsoft basically puts a gun to every users head to login with a Microsoft account which can/does backup the recovery keys.

BitLocker provides for a recovery key. This is to allow someone to regain access to an encrypted device in the event that they lose their PIN, any one of these scenarios happen, OR when suspects do not want to cooperate with LEOs.

Find your BitLocker recovery key

If the target device is part of an enterprise and managed with EntraId/Intune this is the option. Escrowed keys.

That’s weird. I was looking at this docs page and assumed that USB is how the update actually happened.

If all you need is basic paint-link functionality on Linux then you might like drawing. It is already in the Debian repositories too.

Evolution isn’t perfect but it works reasonably well. Has email, tasks, calendar, contacts and notes built-in. What else do you really need?

Dude … just install Debian(stable or testing) and then distro-surf using VMs in kvm/qemu. Just reading this all makes me tired for you.

Use a windows VM and then make sure that your hypervisor is properly passing thru the USB device/connection to the monitor to the windows guest vm. Not sure why you’d need a windows host OS for this.

Bloomberg can fuck off after what they did to Gamers Nexus recently. Zero credibility there.

Maybe it’s time to quit visiting places that don’t want you.

Agreed. Take the hint!

Reddit is an example of dead Internet theory, completely overrun with bots and Russian troll farms. Just move on.

I donate to Signal. I intend to increase my contributions to other open source (Linux) projects this year though. I expect them to need it more than ever soon.

Given that these same objecting companies have had tens of thousands of Indian developers, with source code access for iOS and Android, on their payrolls for decades now … I am not sure why they would suddenly be worried about this now.

Reddit is nothing but bots now and it’s way past time to just let it go.

Believe it or not but some of us old farts used to learn about things by reading, researching, and using libraries, etc. Wild! Right!?

Raspberry Pi’s are full of possibilities, even old ones. Here is what I’d do.

It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem.

Not sure what you mean here but there is no reason that any modem or WAN box ever really needs to involved with a pi-hole. You can set the IP to use for DNS lookups on each host by hand… OR you can turn off DHCP services on the modem run that off of the PI, which then sends the IP of the PI/PiHole for DNS as part of the DHCP lease to each client.

At any rate, ideas for it:

• PiHole with encrypted DNS service out to the internet and past your ISP’s snooping modem.
• a Wireguard VPN server. This would allow for things like your phone to tunnel home use your fancy pi-hole to block all ads on your phone, privately. You’d also then have access to anything else hosted on your home network like Music/Movies/etc. Setup a samba share for that stuff somewhere. This raspberry pi can also pass your VPN client traffic back out to the internet if you setup (ip forwarding)[https://rob-ferguson.me/how-to-use-your-rpi-as-a-router/]. It’s an old pi, so it won’t be faster than 100Mbps, but for a phone/tablet that is likely fine.
• as a motion-activated camera or some other temperature monitoring box. You can setup a cronjob to archive the videos or send the collected temp readings to some database backend and use Grafana for a visualization front-end.
• setup a netflow collector/forwarder for your LAN using fprobe. If you network is flat and I guessing that it is, as long as you have a single network switch for both your wired and wireless clients (and a single subnet aka 192.168.0.x for all) then you can monitor the whole broadcast domain with one box. You can send/forward the captured netflow to something like Security Onion and really start to understand what’s happening on your network. : )

There are so many more ideas like weather stations, news feeds, little web services for whatever.

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If you are using a VPN app it may be intercepting and proxying web traffic for you (whether you realize it or not). This would explain why it works when you ‘turn off the vpn’.

If your VPN provider requires an app, well, that sucks and you should consider using another provider that does not.

Well. Gentoo will let you have a direct say in every single aspect of the final system.