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Rui F Ribeiro

2:24 AM

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy here there are not that many smokers nowadays

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@RuiFRibeiro Here as in the chat ?

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy here as in Portugal.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Oh, understood.

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Especially after indoors smoking was forbidden there was a sharp decline.

Had a red savina at lunch time...it went quite well, but now it hurts when I pee.

Tim

Good evening! Do any of you know where to get free flash drives (>= 4G)?
Are there companies sending out promotional flash drives for free, upon request?
I'd like to get some for file copying, backup, creating bootable live drive

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

2:27 AM

Indoor smoking is forbidden here as well, and regulations are something like 20 feet away from buildings. Vaping is also considered a form of smoking

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy In the phillipines, when I was in puerto princesa, in most part of the city it was forbidden

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Hmmm, I won a couple free flash drives at university events ( spin a wheel type of thing ) Maybe lost&found places could be an option, or something like that

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy With luck, maybe an USBkill ;-P

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@RuiFRibeiro I know, right ? Luckily never happened to me yet. And frankly nowadays I'd rather buy one. They're getting cheaper and plus there's peace of mind it's actually a new flash drive that will last hopefully longer than otherwise

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy yeah, a 64GB one is pretty cheap nowadays....

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

2:36 AM

I wonder about the USB life though. I had a crazy idea to make LVM setup, with 2 SSD drives and one USB drive, because I'm cheap.

But that probably won't last long.

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Have heard they last longer nowadays. Though I would prefer to do that with an M.2 rather than an USB.

Tim

formatting a flash rive upon receiving, will make it safe to use.

Maybe can turn a USBkill flash drive into a usable one.

Rui F Ribeiro

@Tim bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

Tim

dd /dev/zero /path/to/flashdrive/devicefile should make it safe

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Tim The thing is USBkill is not a flash drive at all. It's just a USB port with a capacitor , which is charged first and then fires back electrical current into the port

I'm electrical engineering student so um . . . kinda know what I'm talking about . . . sorta . . .

So before that dd command can even finish, the port will be physically fried

Rui F Ribeiro

2:45 AM

I can buy one USBkill if you want to format it :-P

Tim

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Q: How can I turn my old phone into a pure flash drive?

I have an old phone Verizon's Palm Pixi Plus (a very primitive "smart" phone) not under service and about 6GB, shown by df -h and parted -l: $ parted -l ... Model: Palm Pixi (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 6828MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Disk Flags: Number Start ...

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy If you are lucky only the port will be fried. Those kind of connections often provide (almost) a direct path to the CPU....

Tim

Does a phone work like a USBkill?

why can it bounce back every time I dd /dev/zero to it?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@RuiFRibeiro Or you could put a voltage regulator in between. There's some on amazon. One would think manufacturers have a protection circuitry in place there. At least when my servo motor fires back voltage it shuts down, but that's minor amount

by 'it shuts down' I mean my laptop

@Tim Nope, not really

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I would not risk finding it out.

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I made some stupid mistakes with my lamobo/banana pi, but luckly is bus is more protected than a raspberry pi....

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

2:52 AM

@Tim try running strace -f dd /dev/zero /dev/phone_device , and probably you'll find out something denies reads/writes

@RuiFRibeiro That's nice to know. I have Pi 2B and Zero, which I hoped to use for my senior project and that eventually didn't happen properly. And I did want to try Banana Pi someday, although for some reason Beagle is quite popular. Probably because extra GPIO pins mostly

@Tim Small question. Are there any things you wish Nautilus file manager did ?

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Banana pi is just an umbrella for several incompatible models made and bought by them by several unrelated brands.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@RuiFRibeiro Incompatible models ? Incompatible with what ? Raspberry ?

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I have a lamobo aka R1...which is a strange beast with an A20 Arm and 5 ethernet ports.

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy incompatible design between themselves. Actually I made stupid mistakes until realising my compatible rpi bus is rotated by 90º

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@RuiFRibeiro Looked up lamobo. Oh, wow. I'd love to put openWRT on that thing.

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Pity they always use shit wifi chipsets. cnx-software.com/2019/02/20/…

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Dont....their hacked OSes are shit....openwrt from them was really, REALLY bad.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

3:00 AM

I was talking about the official openWRT, but I'll keep that in mind

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy sinovoip is not really famous either from the quality of "their" hw design, and their software is really infamous.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

I feel like I've gotten into Linux, embedded devices and programming way to late. There's so many cool boards, many cool things people do with them. And yet here I am, with pretty much no portfolio of projects at all.

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy All is relative. Well, why not making a simple project about making history graphs of temperature and humidity? It is interesting and easy, and pretty cheap buying sensors for that.

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy bit.ly/2GYDJji

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

That's an interesting sensor

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Got a couple here....

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

3:10 AM

I've some sensors, servo, stepper motor. Bunch of stuff. It's just not been a priority lately.

Arduino, Pi 2B and Zero. Altera Cyclone FPGA board, microchip's board with two microcontollers.

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Cool

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

In short , I'm looking for a job right now, parents been a little terse (which is an understatement), with a possibility of having no home soon.

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I was a lot into Z80 and 8086 assembly coding into a distant past. Never got into FPGA

Tim

I haven't used Nautilus since I switched away from Gnome

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Here younger people is living with parents until 35, often with no job.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

3:13 AM

I actually was applying to one place that had zOS mainframe there, RHEL and something else. Got rejected, though, after interviewing and waiting like 2 weeks or so

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Heck, the mother of my child never worked in her life, lives with everything paid by the parents and is in her 40s

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

And actually got rejected even from Geeksquad

Tim

why rejected?

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Dont focus in one or other place....

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Tim No explanation. Standard phrase "We decided to move on in the process"

Rui F Ribeiro

3:15 AM

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy How old are you?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@RuiFRibeiro In the US there's a myth that young people leave at age 18, which may have been true in the past when economy was good. Nowadays, young people have to live with parents, and those who live on their own have 2 jobs that barely support the cost of living. Meanwhile the older generations complain about "millenials" being soft/weak , adding to psychological pressure. Suicidal tendencies, anxiety, depression, panic attacks are a norm, sort of.

I've had my share of anxiety and panic attacks over the past couple years. On the outside things aren't always what they seem.

@RuiFRibeiro I'm 28, born in 1990

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Have you considered online work plataforms? The pay rate is lower, I never bothered with them, because I have a very strong CV....but they are great to build experience and a portfolio of projects, and for paying bills.

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Yeah, in my generation it was easier to get gigs and jobs....

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@RuiFRibeiro I'm starting to consider that. Tech support can be a problem - the house walls are basically paper, so talking to customers on phone is no-go. But then with online platform I'll probably also have to do something about self-employment taxes or maybe get a form. There's no consistent law on that. In my state there's taxes on online products/services/blogs but I've no idea about details

Rui F Ribeiro

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I cannot really understand how you could not do tech phone support in your own home...yeah, the low rates and taxes put me off of doing online work plataforms when I was out of a job, but then I have home, savings, and a good cv....

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Going to bed way late here. Good luck on you job hunt.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@RuiFRibeiro That's the trick. It's technically not my home, in legal sense. The owner on paper is my mother. My father, despite not being the owner, has coarse personality and acts as if he owns everything. Even threatened to call police on me, which won't really work nicely for either of us anyway

@RuiFRibeiro Thanks. See you around.

Rui F Ribeiro

3:25 AM

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy That is family....my relationships with my parents was not that great when we lived together....but then I moved out when I was 20 or 21.

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy But parents will be parents.

Over and out.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

4:05 AM

That feeling when you focus on one idea and spend time writing a script, but apparently it can be done easier the other way

Tim

5:15 AM

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I remember Nautilus was slow and sometimes buggy (not responsive). I am satisfied with pcmanfm right now.

but I rarely use pmanfm. I only use command line, because it is less resource consuming

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