truxnell
@truxnell@infosec.pub
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 1 week ago:
Interesting, ive been OK lugging my deck around but i mainly travel for work so it just goes in my daybag for train use/hotel use. And as i work from home mostly thats not daily - it gets most of its use around the house plugged into various chargers i have scattered by every casual seating spot…
Different strokes for different lifestyles i guess.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 1 week ago:
Interesting, i love the size of the steam deck - its a positive for me not a con. Im tempted to check out one of the smaller ones for fun if the price is right, but i also love the ‘all in one’ solution (so i dont have to sync game saves between devices etc) My 5yo daugher got heavily into Mario Odysee too! We have a switch so we let her on it, but had to wind back game time as she got a bit too obsessed. She went from being barely able to jump on boxes (as jump + move at the same time was hard) and like 3 weeks later she bet the basic game, and now is nearly 400 moons… She keeps asking me for help finding them and im like ‘kid, you surpassed my knowledge of the game a month back’
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 week ago:
And from my reading, helps secure against a situation where an police officer (AKA attacker in the US apparently…) coerces you to unlock the phone (or perhaps even just takes it off you in a locked, but active state), and stores it in a faraday bag with a charger. They do that to keep it ‘alive’ so their experts can break in - a dead-mans reboot can help circumvent even that (as it will just reboot and restore itself to an encrypted rest state, which is much harder to attack)
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 week ago:
Yeah, seems like its a move to follow apple after custom ROMS offering it as a security feature (Im on GrapheneOS and had it set for a while)
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 week ago:
Thanks for the clarification, I forgot that (somehow)
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 week ago:
After a reboot all the data is encrypted and needs a pin/fingerprint to unlock. So if it’s stolen (or feds get it) a planned reboot resets it to a highly secure state that is much more difficult to hack into than when it’s just locked from timeout.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 1 week ago:
Why would you go for these devices over a steam deck + emudeck? My steam deck is my powerhouse that plays all my Indies, sreams more demanding games from my gaming PC, has a massive retro library and works as a Plex media streamer for travel. It’s my dream all-in-one device. The only reason I could see to add this as well would be the form factor?
- Comment on Australian comedian ditches US trip due to concern she could be denied entry over Trump jokes 1 week ago:
I’d be a lot more worried about being sent to an El Salvador prison without cause, not just being denied entry
- Comment on Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service 2 weeks ago:
For the selfhosters, come jump into Immich - it’s google photos at home, full control of your data.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 4 weeks ago:
Ongoing case here in Australia with a lady accused of murdering her ex and ex-inlaws. Invites them to lunch of beef Wellington and death cap mushrooms.
3 died fairly awful deaths in the following days/weeks, 1 survived after intensive care.
Accused of trying to murder the ex 4 prior times too.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 4 weeks ago:
Read Anathema last year, really enjoyed it!
- Comment on GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet 1 month ago:
God I miss this time on the web
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
I may have to go back to IRC, hell even running my own fucking server
- Comment on How do people even function on a 9:00 to 5? 1 month ago:
I let my boss know I have to duck out on occasion, same courtesy when they have to duck out. No big as long as the job is done.
They know that they will get that time back in work travel/overtime and it will balance out
- Comment on Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader 2 months ago:
Great app, been using it for years
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 2 months ago:
Daily backups. Currently using restic on my NixOS servers. To avoid data corruption, I make a zfs snapshot at 2am, and after that restic does a backup of my mutable data dirs both to my local Nas and CloudFlare r3. The Nas backup folder is synced to backblaze nightly as well for a more cold store.
- Comment on What even is fire? 2 months ago:
I could go more science written like this
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 2 months ago:
Tbh I tore of society and it’s insurance of putting things in labelled boxes.
It means different things to different people based on their age and experiences growing up.
For me it’s PS2 backwards.
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 months ago:
Oh god I didn’t want to see this post. Been considering replacing my Ducky one ii and this sounds real sexy…
How does it feel and respond outside twitch FPS? I’ve had many years on CS source/overwatch/TF2, but I play plenty of chill games of late so I’m not always desperate for reducing latency. Still sounds amazing
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 2 months ago:
I’ve been using logseq with syncthing for sync, across laptop/desktop/Android. Works ok, app can be a little chunky though and sometimes the manualness of coding queries can. E annoying. I have used joplin, trillium, Zim and a few others in the past. Installed silver bullet as a try too but haven’t gotten far into playing with it
- Comment on 'Stupid, illogical' — Zelensky blasts Ukraine for relinquishing nuclear arms without strong security guarantees 2 months ago:
There’s some extensions that replace slams with wrestling moves. Still wouldn’t give em a click
Gonna go put some of these buzzwords alongside my US politics filter words
- Comment on US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year 4 months ago:
She was just playing a fun N64 Goldeneye game mode, leave her alone
- Comment on What's next after Half-Life? 4 months ago:
Very much free space 2 here. 99 was a fine year for games.
- Comment on What's next after Half-Life? 4 months ago:
Deus ex and system shock 2 should definitely be on a retro shooter/rpg list. Shock 1, you’d probably be better off playing night dives shock remake from last year… or perhaps a modified remaster of the OG. The controls from shock1 are outright painful
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 5 months ago:
I will do a day one purchase despite being too busy with factorio expansion to actually start it just yet.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% off for its 20th anniversary, plus a major update 5 months ago:
Ah yes, the game that made me get a Steam account, so looks like my steam account is days from it’s 20th anniversary.
God damn did I hate Valve for making me get steam back then, I was on dialup and getting Steam to launch was a utter nightmare, and I HAD to have it to play HL2? F you gaben!
Fast forward 20 years and I’m eagerly awaiting the AU launch of the steam deck and reminiscing of how good steam has been for me…
- Comment on Bill Bailey on ABC Classic plays a theme tune for the Australian Ibis 5 months ago:
Saw his show in Melb Tuesday, was a ripper. Except the part where he asked the crowd for those in love with someone to make some noise and my wife didn’t bat an eyelid. Of all the ways to find out…
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 5 months ago:
Really enjoyed it, only recently finished a run with expansion and some QOL mods. Excellent visuals (with RTX), and if your into the theme the story was fun and pretty good. Not perfect by any stretch but solid. Gameplay mechanics is fairly engaging after the 2.0 patch.
It is definitely sad it took so long to get to here though, it was broken on launch beyond bugs - the builds you could do pre 1.5 were plain broken.
That said, we should celebrate anyone making single player games these days seriously, it feels like they are getting very thin on the ground.
- Comment on Please be patient. 5 months ago:
Enjoy, it, Hyperion Cantos is far and away my all time favourite read (so far…)