So, I have had fun getting into some data CDs again. Writing data in single session TAO and with multi-session TAO CDs. I am not having issues with writing the sessions on Linux or OpenBSD, but I am having issues actually mounting any session other than the first one burned!

In cases where I am working on Linux I try to mount via
sudo mount -t iso9660 -o session=1 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom yet it mounts session 0!

On OpenBSD I run this command doas mount_cd9660 -s {session-offset-sectors} /dev/cd0c /mnt/cdrom and it gives me the same behavior mounting the first burned session despite being directly given another.

Does anyone have some insight on to why this is?

P.S

• The sector information for BSD was gathered with doas cdio info /dev/cd0c and on Linux via sudo cdrecord -minfo -dev=/dev/sr0
• The CDs were burned with ISOs generated via mkisofs -R -J -o out.iso -iso-level 3 {directory}/ (the cdrtools version) and recorded to the medium via sudo cdrecord -v -multi -data -tao -eject -speed=52 -dev=/dev/sr0 out.iso on Linux and doas cdrecord -v -multi -data -tao -eject -speed=52 -dev=/dev/cd0c out.iso on OpenBSD

Isn't a full HD resolution ( 1920 x 1080 ) almost four times less pixels than 4K ( 3840 x 2160 )? I think I understand that a higher bit depth gives me more information per pixel, resulting in for instance less banding, but I still expected my 1080p 10-bit video files to look very soft and literally low-res.

I was just gifted a Commodore 64 by my dear and beloved father. It came with a third party 5.25 inch floppy disk drive, an FD-148. The 1530 Datassette C2N unti I just bought separately and went for $15.

I am also lacking a power supply unit, but those go on some auction sites for about $20, so non problem there. Now, to the problems.

I have two 5-pin S-video cables, which I cannot connect to any monitors that I have. I am going to check the thrift stores in my area to see if they have any monitors with those 8-pin holes (into which the 5-pin plugs go). Even if they don't, buying an S-video to SCART converter is no problem, and then putting a SCART to HDMI on top of that shouldn't be a problem either. Here is the S-video plug.

The real problem is the disk drive.

I powered it up, no problem. The problem is the 6-pin serial data cable.

When the Datassette arrives and I finally buy a PSU and convert the S-video to HDMI, I will probably be able to read any diskettes and cassettes that haven't gotten demagnetized.

But I would really like to thank my father for gifting me all this by somehow backing up his old texts, poems and essays from these floppy disks into PDF or whatever.

Questions:

• is it possible to "simply" find a "dumb/passive" 6-pin serial data to USB adapter?
• if not, could it be possible to open up a 3.5 inch floppy drive, peel the 6-pin data cable and directly interface with the floppy drive's controller, which in turn I would connect to some interface/controller on a modern motherboard?
• other?

I am not having my hopes up at all. I am fully prepared to simply take pictures of the Commodore's output with my smartphone, making the pictures look as good as possible using my experience in photography.

Thanks in advance!

The router has a DNS configured and works with all other devices.

Public DNS, such as 9.9.9.9, do work.

I'm using OpenRC's netifrc (a script brings up my network interface) on Artix Linux (Arch based).

When installing MegaSync for the first time, I used this command from their website in order to install it: wget https://mega.nz/linux/repo/Arch_Extra/x86_64/megasync-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst && sudo pacman -U "$PWD/megasync-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst"

And no, even using -Sy didn't work. I guess me being an idiot and not understanding how Linux works or why it functions like this, I can no longer install anything with pacman as it complains about a repo database file for "Arch_Extra" being missing now :(

Looking at the command, I assumed the download would temporarily switch to that repo that was necessary to download the program, not completely alter how my pacman works though...

I'm not sure why MegaSync would just override everything and ruin my pacman like this.

Update: thank you all for your detailed and kind input! I finally tried crimping on an 8P8C connector onto an Ethernet cable. I failed. Miserably. But at least I finally learned what's actually happening - or what's supposed to happen: the teeth of the connector actually puncture the individual wires in order to make contact with the conductors inside. Sic. But omg is it a game of patience. 🤣

I actually just want to shorten one that I'm already using. 😊

Hi, I am new to lemmy.zip. I find the interface a little confusing. Why, by default, do i first have to click on a post, then only see all the comments, then click on the post again, to see the actual post? Is there a setting to click on a post and immediately see the actual post, maybe with all the comments already? Am i missing something? And what are all the community subscription blocks on the right good for? This is very different to other social media interfaces I have used…

I'm watching Percy Jackson, and there are a lot of dark scenes in this series. And they're ruining it! When Grover took off his hat to show Percy his horns, they were nothing more than a dark gray glint on a black field. Jellyfin's HDR tone mapping gets the colours right, but the brightness is abysmal. Any dark scene is incomprehensible.

I'm using nvidia hardware acceleration, Mobius tone mapping, auto tone mapping mode, PC tone mapping range, 0 tone mapping desat, 100 tone mapping peak, and no tone mapping param. I've been fiddling with these settings for two hours, and I've barely been able to get this show any brighter.

Is there some hidden menu where I can just enable a brightness slider, maybe? Or is there some ideal combination of tone mapping settings? The dark scenes in this show are unwatchable, and it's the same for a lot of other HDR moving pictures.

Work only supports iphones and I want to text like I can on android from my various computers from this phone. Seems like only way is from a mac? Maybe a mac VM?

Hello, everyone. 👋

I experience a persistent issue with having no sound during the MS Teams meetings. Other meeting attendees can hear me and I don't hear them, which complicates communication significantly. The volume bar in the settings is also greyed out.

Usually, I access MS Teams meetings via the links that are shared with me. I don't have a Teams / Microsoft account either. I have tried to access meetings via browsers (Brave, LibreWolf with relaxed settings, even Chrome and Edge) and teams-for-linux app.

I have tested pretty much all the possible Sound profiles and only Duplex seems to be recognized by Teams (I see Built-In Audio Analog), just it seems inactive for output sound. The pavucontrol settings seem fine. The system sounds work fine. I can listen to music etc. with the current settings. The issue seems to be isolated to MS Teams specifically.

System.: Linux Fedora 44 kde

Hardware: Lenovo Y530 laptop.

Whenever I download bigger files, my RAM fills up and the tab/download crashes. Is it possible to "fsync" downloads with Firefox (really Librewolf, but still) so that it goes directly into storage instead of RAM? Or to adjust the amount of memory used before it is dumped into storage?

Edit: feedback
Thanks for all the advice! Here's some funny feedback: it was a faulty drive 🤣 give me back my feelings 😭 obviously I'm sending it back

I have just received my Seagate 18TB IronWolf Pro HDD and the specs say that the logical sector size is 512 emulated. Moreover, Seagate says that switching to 4096 sector size is as easy as doing a quick format (Windows terminology?). I suppose on Linux this simply means creating a filesystem with that block size? For instance mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 /dev/device or - in my specific case - cryptsetup luksFormat --sector-size=4096 and then creating a file system?

What confuses me is the Arch Wiki article on advanced format that has instructions on how to use hdparm to tell the firmware to use a certain sector size.

Do I need to do the hdparm thing, which seemingly conflicts with the Seagate instructions?

In this economy, I somehow managed to get my hands on a brand new 18TB IronWolf Pro HDD for $500.

I have four 4TB SSDs on top of which I have made a logical volume with lvm, which in turn I encrypted with LUKS. Now, I want to backup everything inside that LUKS container, but I'm a little but unsure of which "layer" to copy or to clone.

1. Just cp/dd the contents of the LUKS container like I would any other file?
2. dd the LUKS container itself - in other words, close the container and copy/clone the mapped volume, which is encrypted?
3. dd the logical LVM volume - in other words, close/"unmap"/whatever the logical volume and dd?
4. dd the underlying raw disks? Although I don't see how that would be recoverable/usable/readable on the backup HDD.

The data is not critical. It's just some Linux ISOs that would be nice to have backed up so that I don't have to download them again.

Edit: the HDD is to be installed on the same system as the SSDs. The HDD is also going to be encrypted, but without a logical volume, since it has enough space on its own.

Please advise. 😊

It's been doing this for at least a month or so, but I haven't made any changes on my end during that time like new extensions or anything.

Video will be playing normally, then randomly the start of that video's audio will restart as a new track. The original continues progressing with the video, but whatever audio they used for the intro just butts in and now I'm hearing two iterations of the same video almost like it's running in two tabs.

Refreshing the page fixes it, but navigating from that page to somewhere else in YouTube does not - like I can return to the homescreen and the original audio track cuts out as expected; but the one that started randomly will continue to play, even on the home screen, until I refresh or navigate to a different website.

I assumed this was more anti-user bs aimed at firefox users, so I've just been tolerating it until a fix comes out; but searching the web I don't see any complaints about this, so I think it's screwy on my end.

Windows 10, Firefox.

Edit-

Oh, and sometimes it will start randomly playing audio in the homescreen of one of the videos that appears there. I don't actually click any of them, I'll just be scrolling through them, and suddenly "HELLO INTERNET! WHACKADOO BOB HERE WITH ANOTHER--" refresh page to shut him up. This started around the same time.

Idk if it's trying to do a mouseover preview or something, but it'll be a video I scrolled passed a good minute ago and just randomly starts blasting.

/shrug

This is an FYI for anyone who needs it rather than a request for help. Any comments or insight are gladly appreciated.

I have been tasked with taking inventory of several dozen iPad a16. These things have been sitting unopened for years. As I'm popping them in the charger, adding tracking tags, setting them up, doing updates, I have noticed that the tablets put into Magic Folio cases get stuck at 1%. I had one charging for a whole day.

It wasn't until I removed the cases and powered off the tablets that they started charging. It was quite a repeatable process.

For one, since they battery is at such a low state, the device seems to need every bit of power to get past 1%.

Secondly, the folio draws power from the iPad, and apparently needs enough that the tablet can't charge.

Third, the back of the folio is connected by magnet to the back of the device. I discounted it several times, but there were a few tablets that wouldn't charge up beyond 1%. My thought is that there is current running through the induction coil continuously and the folio's magnetic attachment creates resistance here, increasing the current somehow.

Anyway, those are my observations. Hopefully they help someone in the future. None of my searches indicated that the case could be the issue.

I've tried invidious and pipepipe/newpipe. E.g. can't watch this rather innocuous short abt fireworks affecting animals https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=3qbR8TqdBjc

So this is a weird one, I'll just say what I did then provide a list of symptoms. I updated the bios on my 'Gigabyte B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7' motherboard from vF2 to VF12b; I did this by formatting a USB to FAT32, plugging it into the bios designated USB port, turning off the PC, waiting 30 seconds, then pressing the flash button and not touching it until it finished doing its thing and booted up of its own accord.

The results:

• The card powers on.
• The PC still posts and otherwise works, notable because my screen is plugged directly into the GPU.
• 'Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit' system information can detect the GPU.
• Other Linux Applets can not detect the GPU.
• The motherboards BIOS somehow does not seem to detect the GPU.
• No software, neither productivity applications nor games, can detect the GPU.

Solution
Disabling secure boot fixed it.

So our work has a few systems in place. The abysmal SharePoint, which most people hate (other than HR) and a typical set of servers mapped to network drives on all our laptops.

My question. What is a good solution for searching on that server? Explorer search is abysmally slow and offers no option for customizing a search. Its not even that I want to search the entire server, even just 1 "project" folder within it to find a document that has the word "list" in it instead of combing through 45 folders.

This really shouldnt be hard. But our management is more concerned with getting inaccurate answers from slopbots and degrading quality of work than solutions to actual problems, so theyve never looked into this. Half the people at this place dont know what a server or win explorer even is.

I would guess a solution would have to be implemented by the IT team and not on a per-employee basis. Is it just a matter of them turning in indexing? Really I'd prefer something more robust than explorer search.

Obviously IT would have to approve it if its 3rd party.

Thank!