My laptop, similar Taiwanese brand, is fairly new and already beginning to look like this. I don’t know why they have to be such cheapskates with the crappy fake metal finish. Somehow we can find enough aluminum to make disposable Coke cans out of it but it’s too expensive for a laptop casing.
Good question. No, but at a small cost in security. The key I generated using sha512sum using a very solid memorized passphrase. This means I can regenerate the key in the scenario you describe.
Here’s one that probably nobody else here is doing. The backup goes on my mobile device. Yes, the thing in my pocket.
rsync the files acrossThe backup is incremental but the container file never changes size, no matter what’s in it. Your data is in two places and always under your physical control. But the key is never stored on the remote device, so you could also do this with a VPS.
Highly recommended.
Why would you want to toggle air plane mode with Termux? That’s doesn’t make sense.
You would think of some reasons if you tried very hard. The point is that it’s my device and I shouldn’t have to beg permission.
This conversation was about doing things with Termux
Then your device must be powered by magic, or more likely it’s not a recent Android version. That the toggle is there does not mean it works: it doesn’t work without root.
Incorrect. Wifi only without root.
But who decides what I need? For instance, I want to toggle airplane mode. Without root: not allowed.
Giving full admin privileges over device? Doubt it.
Yeah but to do that one thing that you really want to do, you need root and daddy says no.
And yet there they all are, using corporate garbage.
Citation needed, man page says nothing about that. Of course, you can use GPG directly to get symmetric, that is what I chose to do
What does the day-to-day operation of Pass compared to Keepass look like?
Someone else can confirm but Keepass seems to use symmetric encryption, whereas Pass definitely uses an asymmetric key pair.
This is why I gave up on Pass. Obviously it has its advantages or they wouldn’t have done it, but personally I find that this is too much complexity for something as critical as password storage. I want to be able to access the vault with a single memorized master password and nothing else. That is only possible with symmetric encryption.
The issue is more general. When dealing with, say, apt, my experience is that nothing ever breaks and any false move is immediately recoverable. When dealing with Python, even seemingly trivial tasks inevitably turn into a broken mess of cryptic error messages and missing dependencies which requires hours of research to resolve. It’s a general complaint. The architecture seems fragile in some way. Of course, it’s possible it’s just because I am dumb and ignorant.
If you’re having to type out version numbers in your commands, something is broken.
I ended up having to roll my own shell script wrapper to bring some sanity to Python.
i dont want to learn 400 obscure keystrokes among other nonsense. we dont need to hear about your text editing stockholm-syndrome.
This reads like projected insecurity. Or maybe even… jealousy.
always find myself needing to fire up a window manager just to get a browser eventually
A chromeless tiling WM is basically invisible and AFAIK has almost zero performance impact. That’s roughly what I do.
Launching it using the raw framebuffer means it blocks the screen until you close it, and there’s no means to do anything else except switching to another TTY, is that it?
Model and price is unimportant. But if metal’s too expensive and they can’t do a fake chrome finish that doesn’t wear off in 5 minutes then then they should just stick to white or black.