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adjust memory allocated to Crostini? (lemmy.world)
 

Does Crostini hard-allocate RAM in the way VirtualBox or other VMs do? Is there any way to increase it?

When I'm using Crostini, I'm usually using only Crostini, so would prefer to allocate most of the RAM to it.

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enterprise wifi auth and 47-day TLS certs (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Has anybody heard if the upcoming 47-day maximum on TLS cert lifetime will apply to Enterprise wifi auth using private PKI (especally on IOS and Android)?

We have a campus CA that signs the TLS cert used by RADIUS when students connect to wifi using personal devices. Freshman need to accept the cert once (hopefully after checking the fingerprint), then usually one more time before graduation. Every 47 days would be difficult.

setting needle bar height in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Great! I'll look at my Wards and see if there are markings on the top of the needle bar.

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Private Space vs separate User (lemmy.world)
 

I have banking apps in a separate User profile. I was wondering if this was preferable (or worse) than putting those apps in Private Space.

Anybody have a "Separate User vs Private Space" comparison?

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I am using a Garmin watch when I need TTP. The companion app can be run in a separate profile (or even an old phone, or chromebook, or maybe Android Studio with bluetooth). I'm not sure how often the watch needs to sync to keep TTP working. I'm hoping that Garmin is a smaller fish in the data-broker economy (than Goog/Appl/Samsung).

I'm not logging any activities, though I haven't read any analyses of whether Garmin is secretly logging GPS, then uploading that when it syncs.

USB-C charging for electric bikes has arrived with the new Ampler Nova | BikeRadar in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bosch sells its 2A charger (~80w) for $93, and it's still 3x6x8 inches and weighs a pound. If I could use my MacBook Pro 96w brick, I wouldn't have to haul the Bosch charger to work.

I also have a Serial1, and there were no available chargers for a few years.

There is also fire risk when bodegas try to charge many bikes. If the bikes had the BMS and DC-DC on-board, and just used USB-C to get the electrons, we may see fewer fires.

Are e-bikes allowed on public transportation in your area? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Minneapolis MN USA allows them on light rail, but the racks on the front of the bus are limited to 55lbs (so a 46 lb Soltera is OK if you can lift it into place)

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boxcli from headless server? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
1 comments fedilink
 

I'd like to use the box.com cli from a linux server without X installed. However, during "$ box login -n me@mydomain", boxcli tries to popup a web page with the message Opening browser for OAuth authentication. Please click Grant access to Box to continue.

I've tried exporting BROWSER=lynx , and have tested that "xdg-open http://eff.org/" works; but I am not seeing lynx open while running "box login". Do I need a 2nd terminal window, and then set DISPLAY so the "popup" browser opens lynx there?

Wondering if anyone has managed to setup box.com CLI on a headless, X-less server.

Mini cargo-bikes, what do you think? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We have a Tern GSD (both wheels are 20"). I think having the back wheel smaller is important if people are going to sit on top of the rear rack. The smaller front wheel does allow more stuff on the pizza rack. But I also have an old 26" MTB with pizza rack, and it can carry plenty of camping gear up front, even with the 26" wheel.

The down-side of the smaller 20" wheels for me is in snow (not a problem for everyone!). I crashed once, even with studded tires, while I'd ridden that MTB with studded tires all winter for years without falling. Also, there is only one studded 20" tire available, and it is not knobby enough for me.

Having both wheels small definitely make it easier to store. I had an Xtracycle Free Radical attached to the MTB, and that bike was long and hard to park.

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downhill is harder on skate skis? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I grew-up skiing classic, and have done maybe 20 races. I am pretty comfortable on descents. My favorite descent skis are some noodle-y Masdshus that just seem to undulate over bumps like flowing water.

But when I try to skate ski, the high arch of the flex seems to make them very skittish and wobbly on descents. They are the opposite of "undulating smoothly over terrain". But everybody I talk to says the exact opposite (that skate skis are steady on downhills).

Wondering what to do to get comfy descending on skate skis. Are they more stable if I kick on the way down, than if I tuck? (I'm not yet fast enough to want to go faster on descents, so I'm not kicking much on the way down).

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setting needle bar height (lemmy.world)
 

I'm blowing the cobwebs out of my mom's 1986 Ward's (Happy Sewing Co) machine. I have been watching videos of setting timing:

adjust timing until the hook passes through the scarf...

...and how to set the needle bar:

adjust needle bar height until the hook passes through the scarf...

(I'm paraphrasing)

It sounds like you could take a perfect machine, then lower the needle bar 1mm, then compensate by delaying the hook 30 degrees, and you'd have the hook passing through the scarf at the correct spot... yet it would be all wrong.

Is there a way to set needle-bar height independent of the hook timing?

Like, obviously the needle needs to rise a few millimeters to make the slack thread form into a loop behind the scarf, ready to be caught by the hook. Is that amount of rise kinda-sorta consistent across machines from a given era?