https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3MQQDYijqY

I also second (third?) this! And the possible variations are also fun to explore! Recently, I’m hooked on scones. 🤤

I went as far as scanning my passport for these @ssholes and they still banned me 😂 to this day I have no clue why

Dead serious question: I have only ever worked in the public sector (state level and local municipality) but often see or hear about these seemingly idiotic “interview questions” on television (and obviously memes).

Is this:

1. just a meme
2. just a joke
3. an actual phenomenon in the private sector

If 3, what on earth is its purpose and what could the interviewer possibly find out about the applicant by asking this?

I’m calm.

Windows 👉 Vibeos

How is this even a question? You have the right to do everything and anything to yourself.

On another note: I really appreciate your level of insight! The pills are obviously solving a problem or two for you - you can sleep and and you don’t feel like dying, if I understood you correctly.

And now some unsolicited opinion. Feel free to disregard!

Every step one wants to take away from addiction must start there, if you ask me: respect that the substance, the ritual, the behavior or whatever one is addicted to is in fact solving a problem for you. We are not that intelligent on the primal level to sort things out “logically” when we are in a fight or flight situation. Only after having accepted and defined what problems the addiction has been solving should one go to the next step: is this method of problem solving sustainable? What does it give me vs. what does it cost me? Depending on where you are in your journey, one might accept certain costs - for instance physical and financial health - in order to gain certain things - for instance mental stability, sleep, a sense of happiness etc.

Not with the front end iptables. Linux can filter packets based on their source and destination IP, port and MAC address. It can also filter packets based on their state, bring NEW,ESTABLISHED, RELATES,INVALID and UNTRACKED. You can check what processes are establishing connections with for instance ss or lsof -i and what commands or binaries/executables stand for those processes with for instance ps.

I know of no userland utility with which one could specify processes, command names or binaries/executables to block. Which might seem like a hassle from a Windows perspective, but the level of control that you achieve with Linux’s packet filtering is neat and it has taught loads about how networking and the Internet works. :)

😂🤮 I didn’t even look at them. Just quickly searched and copy-pasted shit for OP. 🤣

Thank you for sharing. I know how it feels to have people near and dear to you wanting to off themselves, whatever their reasons…

The first time it happened, I went all in. It was my responsibility to keep them alive. I acted like I was a court appointed guardian, like a therapist, a parent, a friend and I tried to act in many more capacities. I sacrificed school and work just to physically be with them. I had them sleep over at my place. And much more. And how did I act? I tried to guilt them into staying alive. As in, I could say things like “how could you do that to me/your loved ones/etc?” Whatever effect that “strategy” had or didn’t have on them, it absolutely destroyed me. I got burned out. I had to recuperate for months, which in turn - naturally - impacted my school and career.

The second time it happened, I had learned my lesson: it’s not okay to blame people for wanting to die. I am not them. I cannot understand what they are going through. Even though them wanting to end their life made me angry, I held it back and told them how sorry I am that they feel that way. And that I am here to listen. And that they are not alone. And that feelings come and go, and that tomorrow may very well be the best day of the rest of their lives. No more shaming somebody who is already at their lowest. No more taking on the responsibility of professional therapists and doctors.

Five years later, here I am, having for the first time in my life feelings of absolute worthlessness and - would you know - the thought of death being a way to end my suffering does cross my mind. I’m not willing to die yet, but the sense of helplessness makes me understand even more how bad it was to try to keep somebody alive through scorn.

You may disregard everything I’ve written. I don’t know where it came from.

You are not pathetic. If anything, you’re empathetic.

Dang it… Thanks for enlightening me!

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I have never even tried diagnosing network tied to my phone, but maybe some of these logs could help? Let us know!

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-take-logs-android/

Thank you sir and I wish you a very Merry Christmas! :)

Thank you! I will check out OpenStitch.

Thanks! That looks like a great way to learn what’s going on “under the hood”.

I finally understand your point. That’s true though with or without the use of a firewall. Not becoming infected by malware through ports that are otherwise used for common connections can preemptively only be achieved with good cyber hygiene. Once infected, I guess I’d need access control lists and/or software that blocks code execution based on signatures, but I’m not aware of such software for Linux.

Thanks for the valuable input! :)

I always encrypt all my drives - external or internal - because at the very least, I have nothing to loose with today’s computing power. The overhead isn’t noticeable for me once the drives are decrypted, which takes two seconds with my Ryzen 5800 x3d.

Regarding what you said specifically about the peace of mind that it gives me if and when I were to sell the drives: YES. encryption can even be used as a method of securely wiping scrambling content.

The purpose is to block any connections that I haven’t explicitly allowed, since I don’t have the skills to vet all my binaries. Linux packages are as we know not immune.

It’s a pretty static system and I imagine I could write a script that notifies me if and when iptables blockes something outgoing (or when the kernel complains thereof).

Nope, they are hooked up to my retired gaming rig xD retired because my physical health makes it hard to sit in front of the PC and game 😭 poor RTX 3080 just sitting there…

Anyway, here you go! There is room for five more 2.5 inch SSDs in the back. I’ve even seen somebody mod this chassi to hold 22 HDDs he he.

Oh, and the software part: 4 x 4TB drives made into one 16TB logical volume with LVM, on top off which there is a LUKS container for whenever my home is raided (not that encryption helps legally speaking, unless you have plausible deniability…). I figured I don’t need redundancy with SSDs and none of the data is really anything that I couldn’t just torrent again. Maybe I’ll do an offline backup of them down the road.

Wow! Thanks for all the great advice! :D

Now I just need to figure out:

1. shall I drill a hole in the bottom of the closet for the Ethernet and power cables?
2. can I power the HDDs with a “detached” PSU that was originally meant to have inside a chassi? But then, the Pi doesn’t have SATA connectors… But maybe I can find some extension card than goes on top of the GPIO pins? 🤔