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[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I've generally had good luck with hardware and things just worked under linux. But one day I upgraded a few machines on my network to 2.5G ethernet. Several already had the ports, but my little NUC NAS box didn't, so I installed a 2.5G usb ethernet dongle. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to work. It would show up and NM would act like it was up and there were no errors or anything, but it just wouldn't actually function.

Eventually, I found out that it has a built in USB data partition that contains the drivers for windows. The card was coming up as a usb disk first when the hardware was assigned and not a network card which it should have been.

I had to write a blacklist the usb modules first, which I had done before, but I had to also write a udev rule to automatically add the network card and driver on boot. It wasn't that difficult to actually do, but I had just never had to do anything with udev rules before. Took me a good three days of troubleshooting to finally get everything to work correctly on boot.

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="20f4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="e02c", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe r8152" RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 20f4 e02c > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/r8152/new_id'"

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Not on my Galaxy S23+ from Google Fi

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

I got so tired of them that I actually answered one a few weeks ago. I was shocked that an actual person answered.

I asked to be taken off and she was very nice and they actually did it.

Haven't received one since.

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago

You can see the awful, misaligned panel gaps in those photos.

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TWO MONITORS!

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Like they're going to just take the lack of those fee profits off the bottom line. Look forward to the new and/or increased yearly fees now.

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Nice find!

I'd be curious to see RTINGS do a review of the panel on it.

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago

I thought I was 43 for probably close to a year, and even told everyone that asked I was until I had to get my own health insurance and found out I was actually 44.

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Except if you care about anything having to do with picture quality, brightness, contrast ratio or features such as HDR etc, then it's going to be a really shitty TV. They're made for the menus at McDonald's, not a device for modern media.

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 51 points 8 months ago (14 children)

If you disable the Ethernet/WiFI then you can create a local account, but you have to do a small.extra step...

press SHIFT+F10 keys to open Command Prompt.

Run the following: OOBE\BYPASSNRO

After this, setup will reboot the computer and you’ll get a new option I don’t have Internet or Continue with limited setup to skip the Internet requirement and you can create a local account as well.

[–] pixelscience@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Just can't win around here.

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