Root Access

12:18 AM

@gparyani too broad. Also no answer without being a laptop vendor

@JourneymanGeek Could you please review the question proposal I linked? I've seen similar questions asked on SU in the past and they have been positively received; are those in fact off-topic and in the process of being closed?

Journeyman Geek

sigh

I hate it when people go "I've seen similar questions in the past ,,,, are those off topic?"

I'm saying "It is impossible to answer without being a laptop vendor"

so answers will likely be hypothetical

and as such its not a great question

gparyani

Hopefully someone with insider knowledge (i.e. an employee of a laptop vendor at the time) would answer the question.

Journeyman Geek

it could range from "there's better options" to "The factory was invaded by rabid badgers so there's no way we can buy a swipe sensor"

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek Again, as I said, I'm not concerned about potential answers here, but on fitness for the site. Just because answers to a question will likely be hypothetical doesn't necessarily mean that the question itself is too broad.

Journeyman Geek

12:25 AM

The fitness of a question is going to depend on the answers it gets.

A good question has a (or range of) definiate answers

gparyani

I asked a question on Travel that was deemed too broad despite having a definite answer.

Journeyman Geek

> there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”

@gparyani that's between travel and you

Michael Frank

"Where do I plug the internet cable in??"
"Kids pulled it out!"

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank I can imagine people asking that where I live....

especially since my network setup is slightly unusual

Michael Frank

Wife is messaging me that right now.

LOL

it was the cable that went into the PiHole.

gparyani

12:31 AM

Hehe, when I was a kid, one of my friends had the home Wi-Fi password changed as a punishment, and they got back in by going to their router and pressing the WPS button

Michael Frank

silly kids.

Journeyman Geek

can't do that with my router ;)

gparyani

Another friend with the same punishment found that their parents hadn't changed the router web UI password from the default, and logged in and changed the network key back

Journeyman Geek

Actually my router has no webui

Michael Frank

Are you not running PFSense?

Journeyman Geek

12:33 AM

for now, my wireless APs are app controlled but I'd love to swap up for openwrt once libprpl goes mainline

@MichaelFrank nope

ubuntu + firewalld

Michael Frank

cool

Journeyman Geek

in theory it gives me a lot more flexibility

gparyani

@MichaelFrank Doesn't PiHole limit your network connection speeds due to the fact that the Raspberry Pi only supports 10/100 Ethernet?

Journeyman Geek

basically arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/… updated with newer stuff (firewalld simplified management a lot)...

@MichaelFrank if the pihole is your only DNS server... things can break?

gparyani

The new 3+ model supports Gigabit, but it's limited to 300 Mbps since it uses the internal USB bus

Journeyman Geek

12:35 AM

I used mine as a secondary (and I need to fix it again)

Michael Frank

@gparyani It's not a router... it's only a DNS server.

Journeyman Geek

@gparyani you can seperate your DNS (and DHCP) from your main router actually

gparyani

I know. I thought your Internet connection had to be routed through PiHole

Journeyman Geek

nope

gparyani

I didn't know it was just a DNS server.

Michael Frank

12:37 AM

The poor thing would melt.

Journeyman Geek

snort

I have an original - it falls over if you look at it funny

gparyani

@JourneymanGeek The 1 Model B?

Journeyman Geek

I've been debating having it run its OS from NFS

@gparyani yup

gparyani

At one time I worked with a cluster of 16 of them

Journeyman Geek

But I have an older core i3 laptop chip in my router soooooo

rahuldottech

4:29 AM

MEPs accidentally vote wrong way on copyright law, article 11 and 13

HOLY GODDAMNED CRAP

Why do heck do ~~you~~ we elects these doofuses?

> 13 MEPs asked for their vote to be recorded differently: 10 said they meant to support it, two meant to oppose it, and one meant to not vote at all. If those were counted, the result would have gone the other way. Despite the updated record of votes, however, the initial result still stands.

.................

seriously?

rahuldottech

5:32 AM

TPLink Routers Are Vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Execution

(@JourneymanGeek)

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech I don't own any

that said I can run any arbitrary commands on my router. Its a feature not a bug

I currently have a few tenda mesh APs, but that's kinda a generation 1 "lets try the cheapest" deployment ;)

rahuldottech

Also...

Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent

Journeyman Geek

lol

@rahuldottech those seem to be semi consumer models.

I try to avoid any router I can't run openwrt or plain vanilla linux on ;)

rahuldottech

pbs.twimg.com/media/D2qCAdSWkAAsvMU?format=jpg&name=small

@JourneymanGeek smart. I should do that too.

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech I actually need to test getting openwrt on both my old routers

one runs tomato, one runs asus's stock firmware.

right now I run a plain linux main router.

actually pretty easy to Proof of Concept

rahuldottech

9:20 AM

TIL Alcohol is expensive in Singapore unless you're in an IKEA

Journeyman Geek

10:05 AM

Oo

djsmiley2k

11:12 AM

hmmm

djsmiley2k

2:01 PM

> PS H:\> Find-Module PowerNSX | Install-Module -scope CurrentUser
Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Test-Connection : The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or
because it has no enabled devices associated with it. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070422)
At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\1.0.0.1\PSModule.psm1:6146 char:22
+ ... connected = Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Test-Connection -Computer ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

wut? :/

allquixotic

House of Commons Speaker John Bercow announced the results, revealing that MPs had rejected:
Leaving the EU with no deal on 12 April
Unilaterally dropping the plan to leave the EU if no deal is reached by 12 April
A new referendum on any deal/s to leave the EU
Leaving the EU but staying in a customs union with the 27 EU states
Two variations on leaving the EU but staying in the European Economic Area (EEA) and rejoining the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
Negotiating changes to the Withdrawal Agreement more in line with the Labour Party's position

Wtf UK, why can’t you agree on anything? Stop being like us!

We suck, we are not a model to copy

If you gave me 8 options and I rejected them all I’d be called crazy by most people

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Burgi

@allquixotic they rejected the customs union and the 2nd referendum the least

so parliament is working on those options

djsmiley2k

> Leaving the EU with no deal on 12 April
Unilaterally dropping the plan to leave the EU if no deal is reached by 12 April

this bit makes me lol

we won't leave with no deal but we won't not leave with no deal.

I know it's not that simple, but comparisons are fun.

Burgi

i think we will crash out

allquixotic

2:24 PM

Why is it April 12 now? Did they extend it by 2 weeks?

Burgi

yeah

for "technical reasons"

djsmiley2k

3:04 PM

!!thisisfine

goverment right now ^^

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djsmiley2k

@ChatBotJohnCavil you've failed me.

bwDraco

4:04 PM

roar

Nick Alexeev

4:42 PM

Folks, would this be on-topic for SuperUser?
The question is useful. It's just off-topic for EE.SE . The poster is new and he didn't check what's on- anf off-topic, I suspect.
I'm inclined to migrate it to SuperUser.

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Q: Is it bad if a cable is higher current rating than a charger?

First time asking here, but Is there any potential harm in using a charging cable with a higher current rating than a charger it is connected to? It's a tablet (Asus P027) and its charger is 5V/2A only. I bought a 1-meter/3.3-foot USB-A to USB-C (3.1) cable rated for 3A, it has a 56K resistor...