bad battery? - Lemmy.World
I opened my laptop for unrelated reasons and was greeted by a slightly bloated
battery. Idk if the picture makes it clear, but the individual segments of the
battery have slightly raised above the solid structure pieces in between. Laptop
is just over a year old. I have already contacted the manufacturer, but with the
holidays and everything I’m not sure when I’ll get an answer. Basically, I’m
worried about the potential danger. I use my laptop a lot (usually plugged in).
Since the battery seems to be screwed in and not glued, I could just take it
out, but idk if that would be better than just leaving it in until the
manufacturer sends me a new one or has me send it in for battery replacement.
Also, I hope that consumer hardware posts like this are accepted in this
community. The rules at least don’t state otherwise.
EFF call to action against government spying
https://lemmy.world/post/9525689
EFF call to action against government spying - Lemmy.World
“The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has introduced the
FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023–an absolutely awful bill that
ignores years of abuse and unconstitutional surveillance in order to renew a
mass surveillance law with no real changes, reforms, or new oversight. Section
702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire on December
31, 2023, and there is currently a race to see what bill will renew Big
Brother’s favorite surveillance law. Any reauthorizations must come with
significant reforms in order to protect the privacy of people’s communications.
To that end, the choice is clear - we urge all Members to vote NO on the
Intelligence Committee’s bill, H.R.6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act
of 2023.”
Warning: ubuntu tpm recovery key cannot unlock disk outside of boot
https://lemmy.world/post/7029429
WakeOnLAN on OpenSUSE Leap - Lemmy.world
Because my NAS isn’t used while I’m at work, I set up a systemd service that
reliably suspends the OS to memory at the same time every day (excluding
weekends), and uses rtcwake to then wake it up again just before I typically get
home from work. I also have an alias set up on my laptop to send a magic packet
to the NAS in case I get home earlier etc. The issue is, that while the nas
wakes up automatically, it does not wake up if I send a magic packet. In the
BIOS of my MSI motherboard, I can change who handles wake events from OS to BIOS
and doing so fixes my magic packet issues, but it also causes the systemd
service to no longer wake the nas. WakeOnLAN is enabled in the network card, the
network card is bridged ( I use the ‘real’ mac for WoL though). I got it to work
while my nas ran ubuntu on different hardware, but I’m a bit confused as to why
I can no longer make it work. any ideas?
firewalld - Lemmy.world
Hi everybody, I recently installed OpenSuse Leap, but I have trouble working
with firewalld. The goal is to accept incoming ssh and vnc connections from two
IPs exclusively, but it just does’nt work. I removed all interfaces from zone
public, set the internal zone up so that it has only the two IPs as sources and
only the ssh and vnc services, but I still get asked for password when I try to
ssh into the machine from an IP that is not listed. Any hints? # firewall-cmd
--get-active-zones
docker interfaces: docker0 internal sources: 192.168.0.3/24 192.168.0.2/24
wanted: opinions on opensuse leap
https://lemmy.world/post/6111232
wanted: opinions on opensuse leap - Lemmy.world
I currently have a personal nas running ubuntu server, but I’m considering
moving it to opensuse leap. I’ve dabbled a bit with leap inside of virtual
machines, but maybe someone more experienced with it can give me a more complete
opinion. Also, is btrfs worth getting into, or can I just use ext4 and loose out
on nothing (except snapshots)?
external monitor adjust brightness
https://lemmy.world/post/4688519
external monitor adjust brightness - Lemmy.world
I just learned that there are programs to control the brightness of external
monitors just like you can adjust your laptop’s integrated display. On windows,
the most well known one is monitorian (FOSS), on linux you can (on Gnome) even
use shell-extensions to have a brightness slider just like you do for the
integrated display. I might be out of touch, but is this well known?
