A common factor in most social engineering attacks like this or phishing emails, is a sense of urgency. What I tell people is that any sense of urgency should automatically make you suspicious. If someone is trying to get you to act immediately, they are attempting to short circuit your common sense. Nothing is so urgent that it can’t wait 5-10 minutes for you to verify the facts.

Thanks! Just started using this recently (been having problems with Substreamer), and so far, so good :)

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I always vote, but I also don’t think it really matters. I’ve stopped giving people shit for not voting, because I can’t blame them. Our elections will never result in the kind of changes we need.

Have been for awhile. Phone backgrounds too.

I saw one where a guy talked about getting free hotel rooms, and getting a mortgage for a homeless dude. Hacker shit.

How I learned the most was building a home server and figuring out all the problems along the way. LAN, WAN, VPN, iptables, DNS…

It’s a wallpaper not a goddamned “screensaver”!

Avoiding studying for exams in 2007.

Use Ventoy to put a few different distros on a USB drive. Boot them up and try them out! You just want something you vibe with. Most of the suggestions here will be fine.

Locked me out of my apartment. Stepped out onto the back patio to water some plants. I closed the door behind me so he wouldn’t get out. He (my cat) did a big stretch and pulled down the lock. I was about to go to work. No keys, no wallet, no phone, no shoes.

I do your second suggestion. I have a cheap ($5/mo) vps from digital ocean that proxies all the traffic to/from my home server via wireguard. There’s a few tutorials out there that explain how to configure iptables to forward traffic from one network interface to another on the vps.

Advice that older people give you is just them looking at their own regrets. You may not have the same ones, so take it with a grain of salt. You have your one life to live so do whatever you want.

After yoloing it for years, I finally deployed an offaite backup this month. I also host on Nextcloud (at my house). While I do have a local disk backing up my Nextcloud install, I didn’t have any backups of the external media hosting my photos.

Finally, I ordered a 10TB external drive and plugged it into a raspberry pi I had sitting around. Using wireguard and restic, I now have an offsite backup at a friend’s house!

I set mine up with Debian and Swizzin community edition.

When you run ipconfig in the windows terminal, it will give you a bunch of info. I can’t remember the exact name it will be, but it’s almost certainly going to be 192.168.something.something. The only other line that will look similar will be the ‘default gateway’, which will probably end with .1.

Go into the settings of that smb thingie on your iPhone, and change the address (192.168.etc) to match what the Windows machine says.

As for setting the static IP, I can help more if you tell me the make and model of your router.

Yes, you need to change the address on your iPhone. Beyond that, you should look at setting your router to give a static IP address to your Windows computer, so that it doesn’t ever change.

Take a look again. The 255.etc is probably the subnet mask. The actual IPv4 is probably 192.168.etc. Whatever that IP address is needs to match what you have set in your iPhone files location.

I’m so happy to be reminded that this dude is dead. He definitely deserved what he got, and the world is better off for it.