truxnell

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[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember doing work experience at school in the computer lab. Thought I was gonna learn fun stuff on the servers, ended up cleaning gunk from the rollers if every mouse in the entire school (And cleaning every PC out, and flashing entire labs one by one with updates OS...)

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting, ive been OK lugging my deck around but i mainly travel for work so it just goes in my daybag for train use/hotel use. And as i work from home mostly thats not daily - it gets most of its use around the house plugged into various chargers i have scattered by every casual seating spot...

Different strokes for different lifestyles i guess.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, i love the size of the steam deck - its a positive for me not a con. Im tempted to check out one of the smaller ones for fun if the price is right, but i also love the 'all in one' solution (so i dont have to sync game saves between devices etc) My 5yo daugher got heavily into Mario Odysee too! We have a switch so we let her on it, but had to wind back game time as she got a bit too obsessed. She went from being barely able to jump on boxes (as jump + move at the same time was hard) and like 3 weeks later she bet the basic game, and now is nearly 400 moons... She keeps asking me for help finding them and im like 'kid, you surpassed my knowledge of the game a month back'

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

And from my reading, helps secure against a situation where an police officer (AKA attacker in the US apparently..) coerces you to unlock the phone (or perhaps even just takes it off you in a locked, but active state), and stores it in a faraday bag with a charger. They do that to keep it 'alive' so their experts can break in - a dead-mans reboot can help circumvent even that (as it will just reboot and restore itself to an encrypted rest state, which is much harder to attack)

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, seems like its a move to follow apple after custom ROMS offering it as a security feature (Im on GrapheneOS and had it set for a while)

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the clarification, I forgot that (somehow)

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got a list of suggestions?. I have 50 tbh free and slowly doing a big clean/replace with prefered groups, would love 'forever' reccomends. Little tinfoil hat but looking to buffer the enshittification of commercial services.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

A few a year - currently festivals as my eldest has heavily got I to 'our music's - so I've had to take time off work to take her to slipkot, korn, baby metal, electric callboy, etc.

Parenting is so hard.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 98 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

After a reboot all the data is encrypted and needs a pin/~~fingerprint~~ to unlock. So if it's stolen (or feds get it) a planned reboot resets it to a highly secure state that is much more difficult to hack into than when it's just locked from timeout. Edit: removed fingerprint, corrected below.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 23 points 2 months ago

I have a plan at $job that will reduce our CO2 emissions a year by ~330 tonnes.

Almost makes you wonder why bother sometimes

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 29 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Very exhausting, especially when your stupid brain makes you roleplay possible future conversations with people in your head all day. Difficult to focus and so exhausting

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Why would you go for these devices over a steam deck + emudeck? My steam deck is my powerhouse that plays all my Indies, sreams more demanding games from my gaming PC, has a massive retro library and works as a Plex media streamer for travel. It's my dream all-in-one device. The only reason I could see to add this as well would be the form factor?

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