I have a `.gitignore` file with `*` in it to ignore all files, so I explicitly type `dotfiles add --force`.

Hardware still uses a single band WLAN. Unfortunately, I won't be able to use it because of this. The 2.4GHz band in my apartment complex is severely degraded due to the sheer amount of channel conflicts. My Netgear router can only handle 2-5Mbps.

I put an elevator flyer that simply had a cartoon router saying: "Is your wifi slow? We're all yelling over each other. Switch to channel 1,6, or 11! Email <me> if you want help."

And then in 12pt I explained it with a QR code for a web page.

Of the 30 or so SSIDs on random channels, we got half off them in about three months. Performance was significantly improved. Many were happy. Some couldn't tell. One was angry at me for apparently causing something completely unrelated.

If you want to meet the neighbours, do this.

I can see 120 SSIDs from my balcony. I gave up on trying to do this. The only solution is to run my choice of channels in the 5100 to 5250 range, which mostly blasts over the noise floor caused by my neighbors because 5.x GHz doesn't go through concrete floors/ceilings and walls very well.

And then I moved the 2.4 GHz into a 20 MHz wide channel, the cleanest I could find (it's all equally bad), narrower channel cuts through the noise slightly better than 40. Of course at the expense of throughput. But the only things that are 2.4 only here are like, a raspberry pi zero w.

At some point it probably makes sense to line each apt in rf blocking sheets and then have only your own wifi inside. Would cause problems with guests on 4g though.

It would also drain the battery of any phone you forget to switch to wifi-only. Most phones, when dealing with tenuous or absent xG signal, will try harder and harder to transmit.

I wonder if that's legal. Big apartment buildings that block cell signals and whatnot.

It's not illegal to have copper wallpaper or whatever, if you want to go full faraday cage. Passive signal blocking is legal. There might be a few situations (movie theatre?) where you would want to install a big obvious sign stating that wireless devices will not communicate outside the room. It's really no different than being in the third level sub-basement of a concrete parking garage.

Jammers are not legal, unless you're operating them in a shielded RF test chamber.

It’s illegal to jam signals but I can’t imagine it’s illegal to shield from them. Just concrete does it well enough.

It would make more sense to just have one fat pipe for the whole building and one wifi network with multiple APs.

Or just a municipal wifi that everyone in town could share.

But hey, capitalism, gotta have everyone paying $39.99/month to clog up the airwaves with redundant SSIDs.

Consumer routers shouldn't even make it an option to choose something other than 1,6,11 without entering a special code or something.

I use all 3 of 1,6 and 11 myself :')

However I have all my APs on very low power so that roaming works well within my apartment. In fact some of the neighbors' APs are stronger in my living room than my own ceiling mounted one!

I'm glad I don't need 2.4 much anymore for performance devices but most IoT gizmos don't do 5.

While I don't think there is anything exactly like that, I believe Geary and Mailspring come close. I personally use aerc, a CLI email client.

The RX 480 is far from ancient and is probably one of the best cards that I've used. When I RMA'd my RX 5700XT (which still crashes after RMA), this thing was a champ. This card is still king for 1080p gaming and can handle 1440p too.

It is almost 5 years old and several generations back. Perhaps not "ancient" but it's aging.

From the 480 there was the 580, Vega 56/64/VII, RX 5700 and now the 6800.

From a few random benchmark site checks online the 6800 is over three times faster than a 480.

Admittedly, to actually buy a 6800 series it is probably at least three times the price of a new 480.

The restarting issue also occurs for me on Windows 10. Although, it usually occurs 80% of the time rather than half for me. I suspect it might be due to me plugging in power to the headset after starting the system, but I've seen it occur without doing that as well, so I am unsure.

That's my thinking too. I have my VR hardware (2 tracker things+headset) on a power bar that I turn on separately after boot.

Probably my favorite feature with fish is the improved globs. I can do

  **.pdf

to recursively get all pdfs or

  *{.flac,.mp3}

to only get flac and mp3 files from a directory.

It's highly unlikely you are going to get banned on GTA even with cheats. The anti-cheat is a joke. The game is filled to the brim with cheaters. If me and my friends play, we play with cheats just to protect ourselves from other cheaters.

Game cheat dev here: Just to provide some context, the GTA Online client is woefully horrible at doing client-side validation on the packets it receives from other peers. (there isn't an authoritative server)

This means that anyone in your session can send you a weirdly-formed packet to crash your game. Most cheats have protections against this by just doing Rockstar's job and adding better validation around packet interpretation routines.

Using "cheats just to protect [your]selves" actually makes a lot of sense.

I don't browse it daily though. I browse it nightly ;).

I have yet to experience this. Granted XWayland makes any utilities not running in Wayland work perfectly for me. The only issues that I have ran into were because of screen-sharing not being supported by Electron. OBS works perfectly though. However, keep in mind that I use sway. I've heard horror stories from KDE and Gnome running on Wayland, but, as far as I know, this is because they apparently have terrible implementations. The benefits for me are the lack of screen tearing and Wayland just feels smoother.

The question is where to source alternatives. It is significantly harder to find products from alternative sources. For some products, the only solution is DIY.