stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

Nah they’re right.

.mpreg uses a sophisticated algorithm to identify repeated sections of the compressed file and retain only one of each part with a list of pointers to where they go. The single repeated sections are stored inside the end of the file and during the decompression process they’re inflated and passed out of the end of the file (or removed from the file by cutting into the bitstream at their stored location where they’re inflating).

It’s a new technology that has made traditional file creation kind of obsolete. In about a decade there will probably only be mpreg.

Youre working at this from the wrong angle.

You dont know how to judge if something bad has happened. You dont know what to do if something bad had happened. You dont know how to recover from something bad that may have happened.

You do know that something has happened because the computer is exhibiting different behavior now.

You cant know what happened and it’s not worth the time for you to develop the skills and tools to understand or even be able to use systems like virustotal et.al. which might provide some insight.

Stop using that computer. Turn it off.

If you don’t know where your data is saved, figure it out. If you determine that you want to save data off that computer, pull the drive and order a usb to sata or m2 adapter, whatever the drive is. Plug the drive into the adapter and attach it to a different computer, copy only what you need.

Do you have a way to reinstall windows? If not, go to massgrave.dev and figure it out then reinstall windows.

Do you have some system for backing up your computers? Go ahead and test it out now. If you don’t have a system, decide on one. It could be as simple as an external drive you plug in once a week and as elaborate as you like.

Now you have recovered from whatever happened and you have a system and toolkit for dealing with it if it happens again.

It’s a real shame my people can’t accept and love themselves for who they are.

JavaScript is so bad its package management system has a self replicating info stealer worm currently circulating.

Atop, btop, htop, top.

If that’s not good enough sar.

If that’s not good enough, set up cacti.

When you realize none of that stuff is actually helping you, journalctl and grep.

I have both and I use both.

The big benefit from mullvad is that you can get anonymous much easier, it’s easier to ditch an account and it’s harder for you to screw it up. People get mad about proton turning over metadata to authorities or suspending account access but they’re required to do that by law if they can identify the accounts. The structure of what proton offers requires that they have some way of verifying who a user is, so if you’re okay with being able to be identified if someone really tries (or doesn’t really try that hard if you give them payment information or something) then proton is fine for you.

Air is a good cheap vpn for piracy. If you wanna take the maybe smarter route of using separate services for your own privacy and for piracy that’s what I’d do.

No, also the browser is the thing that gets breached. It would be like bricking up all your windows so no one could break them and get in your house but only having a screen door in front.

Yes technically the browser alone is a “reduced attack surface”, but it’s reduced by .001%.

Switch to 21h2 ltsc iot.

Ah

E: I assumed your fqdn was running on bazzite.

Now that’s what I call end to end encryption!

Out of curiosity, what has you hosting an internet facing service on bazzite?

What router?

Point Shodan or grey noise or something at your public ip. Find your public ip by disabling your computers vpn, asking google what your public ip is then comparing that to the address shown at your routers wan interface.

Another person said to just update it. Just update it. But before you do:

Look at freshtomato, openwrt, pfsense etc to see if any of the open firmwares support your hardware. You may like them better.

About the best you can do without opening it up, finding a uart and watching is to put a device you control between it and the isp device.

Don’t worry about swap, you’ll be fine unless you’re usually working with huge chunks of data like big 4k video files or something.

The firewall built into mint is the kernels included nftables the same one built into Debian and Ubuntu (I think, I don’t fw Ubuntu). It’s fine. Don’t touch it. When you need to mess with it you can figure out how to open ports or split routes or whatever really easy because there’s lots of documentation out there.

Putting everything in your home folder is fine. Programs will install automatically to /bin or /usr/bin or something like that and if you want them in your home directory you could make a ~/.bin/ directory and add it to your path and have your private programs there, but:

Stop using flatpaks or snaps unless it’s your only choice! You have a built in package manager with decades of testing and development behind it and a very capable team of maintainers who watch over the packages, use that instead! That’s why they say not to use the snap store, it’s a vector for using Joes Weird Program that no one has tried before and requires Joes Special Version of a normal system library.

Use your package manager.

You’re not at the point where you understand enough to do the stuff in the linux hardening guide without making decisions that unexpectedly cause you pain somehow. That’s not an insult, sometimes you just don’t recognize the “universal” symbols for engine oil as opposed to coolant and ruin your car by the side of the road because you just don’t know. You can learn that stuff later, but it’s best not to mess with it yet. Speaking of:

If you don’t have a backup solution setup and you haven’t recovered using it and aren’t periodically checking to make sure it’s still running right, turn off disk encryption. It’s much harder, sometimes impossible, to recover data off an encrypted disk. If you don’t have a backup and you don’t know how you’d access the files on the disk without booting the computer then turn disk encryption off.

See if you can reach a website by its ip address. If you can then you’ll know you have a dns problem.

Have you considered confirmation bias?

It’s rambutan season and you saw an ad for rambutans. You haven’t mentioned that seeing the ad was weird so I gotta assume you see other ads they’re just not related to something that you searched for recently or something you recognize as being related to something you searched for recently.

No. lemmy isn’t for changing our behaviors or our environments to prevent the problems we left other sites over, it’s for excluding the people we blame those problems on.

If the best option is starlink then the best option is starlink. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism so you don’t need to beat yourself up if you end up going that route.

If it uses the same networks it has the same coverage.

If you’re moving you get to break contract. Source: me, I’ve moved under contract into areas without a particular service multiple times and you just say you moved and you gotta cancel service. They’re gonna initially say you need to pay everything back or some dumb bullshit but that’s fake and unlawful and if you just stick to your guns they can’t do anything to you. Don’t tell them you think you might be moving when you set it under because they won’t set you up. They’re not looking too hard at anything because Uncle Sam is most likely covering the fiber rollout on the backend.

E: if you see yourself continuing to rely on internet access like you describe yourself doing, don’t worry about the deal aspect of things right now and just prioritize getting normal person internet access for a price you can afford per month. Relying on using a phone as hotspot isn’t a good choice and will cause you problems.

The mint is most likely better choice.

I used a phone as an uplink for a warehouse and it was pretty bad. The device itself constantly had problems with overheating and wasn’t getting the kind of plush treatment that phones do in comparison with a piece of industrial or commercial electronics.

Since both use the same t-mobile network its six of one and a half dozen of the other no matter where you end up going.

I’m sure you’ve already looked into it, but can you get starlink or fiber optic cable pulled out to your location? It sounds crazy but sometimes they’ll pull a wire for cheaper than you might think and from places closer than you know…

Everyone, the ops post has been edited and is clear.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Man, they out here spackin any old game nowadays.

The same 80 year old technology used in motors on seagoing vessels will be used.