DO NOT UPGRADE TO FORGEJO v13.0.0.

You prepare by fucking up a lot. You’re gonna have to repeat this shit experience enough times that you get numb to it.

If you want to fuck up again, but in a more controlled environment, maybe check out some mock interview service like interviewing.io or others.

But, that’s how it is. I just went through 7 months of getting punched in the balls before getting lucky.

(Also, leetcode and general prep does help a little too.)

currently attempting to tune the Ublacklist extension to remove most of the clickbait results

This is one of the killer features for me in Kagi. The ability to buff or debuff websites in the results. Whenever I encounter an AI slopsite, I immediately block it in Kagi and it’ll never show up again. Other websites are annoying, but occasionally return good results, so I’ll just debuff them in the search results.

Arch Linux forums? Guix mailing list? Max buff!

That being said, I do wish there was a more open source friendly alternative or a search engine that didn’t just rebrand Bing or Google results. Maybe SearXNG or Mojeek?

On Guix, I could bisect (like git bisecting) my OS. So usually what would happen is:

• I’m running in a good state
• I accidentally mess something up
• oh no
• guix system switch-generation $n, where n is the last known good state
• then binary search until I find the first bad generation
• look at the config changes I made
• fix them
• back to good state

Unfortunately, my laptop is too new so Guix isn’t fully compatible with all my hardware. (Yes, I was using nonguix)

But that was a pretty neat experience compared to debugging something on Arch.

My brother has the time and money to travel right now, but I’m having a hard time convincing him to go somewhere. He’s one of the people who think every country except the US is dangerous. Oh, and also, only the US has “safe” food. 🤦‍♂️

When is recently?

I checked my email just to be sure. So looks like I migrated my family in August 2024. Ah. Actually, further back than I thought.

So my mom, dad, wife, and me have been using Bitwarden for a little over a year without any issues.

My wife is a macOS user (for now…) and she’s totally fine with Bitwarden. She doesn’t care about password managers. It’s just some random app that saves passwords to her. She probably wouldn’t remember if she’s using 1Password or Bitwarden. My wife occasionally will add logins to Bitwarden.

My parents were macOS users—now they’re on Fedora Silverblue for 2 months!—but they’re even less technical than my wife. They don’t know what OS they’re running or what a password manager app is. They just know wolf icon = internet, shield icon = passwords. They don’t add or remove passwords. I added their 5 website logins and that’s all they need.

Yeah! CUPS is great. I just connected my Brother printer to it and everything Just Works.

Cool! Gonna wait for a Graphene Phone now!

Aaah, ok. I read the docs at https://librewolf.net/installation/macos/#homebrew but got scared when I saw “flagged as broken”. I’ll give it a shot anyway, thanks!

I never thought to read “floorp” as “floor” + “pee”, but now I can’t unsee that.

Has anyone figured out how to automate updates on macOS (ew I know, but it’s my wife’s computer)?

Ah, nice ok. Your post got me to look at dropbear a little more closely, but since I got a bunch of disks, I think USB unlock makes more sense in my setup. I’m using a keyfile on the USB to unlock a bunch of disks on boot. But if I only had one, then dropbear would be more doable for me.

Neat! Interesting post!

I recently moved my family from 1Password to Bitwarden. They’re not tech savvy at all and haven’t really noticed a difference aside from that “the password vault looks different”.

Again, they’re not tech savvy so they don’t really use any specific 1Password features. They’re also not constantly adding or removing logins, so Bitwarden has been pretty easy for them.

Ah, cool cool. Makes sense. Are you unlocking 1 disk or many disks with the dropbear setup?

Any guides you’d recommend to try this out?

🫡 Thank you for your service.

Same boat. I’m currently testing some unlock stuff out. I just got USB unlocks to work for Debian by following this: https://tqdev.com/2022-luks-with-usb-unlock

I load a USB with a keyfile, then read the keyfile during boot. If I don’t have the USB plugged in, I fallback to entering a passphrase. I have multiple LUKS encrypted disks and I don’t want to type out a long passphrase a bunch of times.

I briefly encountered dropbear during my research… but ended up following the USB path because it kinda seemed a little easier to setup. 🤷

Anyone have any thoughts on USB vs dropbear unlocks?

“OK guys. We gotta live together. As a compromise, how about we only deport half of your family?”

Oh who are we kidding. These guys don’t compromise.

With all due respect, I think you profoundly misunderstand the nature of my concern here.

This is not a “I do not like this distribution” kind of argument.

This is a “the people you are sending my money to want me and my friends dead or deported” kind of argument.

Aaah, ok. I think I’m slowly starting to get it. Also, this video helped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k_MwE0Z3CE