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I keep coming back to see if Linux is usable for daily driving. I still dual boot but for the past 5 years if I don’t update my Linux partition for a few weeks due to going on holiday or visiting in-laws then I always run into boot issues. Mostly it’s been the OS booting to a black screen. At least windows doesn’t give me login issues and just works with any peice of hardware I want. It saying it’s perfect but even as a daily driver of windows canary, my windows system is much more stable than my Ubuntu/Arch System.


I’ve only ever had this happen with dual booting as Windows is a noisy neighbor. Try doing a fresh install of just Ubuntu or PopOS.


It’s been a reoccurring issue for the past four years and I make sure that both my Linux and windows storage/boot drives are on completely separate drives. I also have a current issue on my Ubuntu server that’s plugged into a KVM where if I don’t have the sever as the active input, if switch back I won’t get a display unless I reboot the server. Honestly I mostly use it headless anyways by removing in via ssh, but it’s nuances like that’ll where I treat Windows the same way as Linux.


Nah, your install is broken somehow. That's not in any way normal.

Diagnostics: Ubuntu/Arch? So you're triple booting? With I assume automatic updates enabled in Ubuntu and Windows, and manual in Arch? Spread over a plethora of disks?

Yeah, no, don't get in too deep with a complex configuration you can't handle and blame Linux for being an unusable daily driver. My girlfriend daily drives Linux. My dad daily drives Linux. It's fine.


It’s not a triple boot, I’ve had this happen on multiple times on a Windows/Ubuntu and Windows/Arch systems. Happened first on arch and just blamed it on Arch issues and switched to Ubuntu and it happened again and this is across different HW generations. automatic updates enables enabled on all configs and Linux will just have some weird issue that crops up that renders the OS not usable. I know what I’m doing and I’ve been running systems with Linux for over 20yrs. Linux has its issue and so does windows. Funny enough the majority of issues(at least in recent memory) have been on desktop systems. My first homelab server ran on my old dell laptop without any major issues for 5 years before migrating to a desktop.


Thanks for bringing this to my attention would’ve never guessed.


It hasn’t regressed really, it’s just no longer free. Microsoft quick assist exist and allows you to connect to any pc with the users client code.


Didn’t MSFT recently uncouple teams license from O365? I think you now need a separate license to use business teams, but also why use anything else.


Yes, they did. They were forced by the eu commission to do so as bundling teams was an anti-competitive practice, similar to when Microsoft bundled internet explorer into windows, effectively killing the market for web browsers.


This part doesn’t seem to be common knowledge. I don’t own a Tesla but I have been a few. From my understanding the feature as always said it was in beta and that it still required that you have your hands on the wheel.

I like the idea of FSD, but I think we should have a serious talk about how the safety implications of making this more broadly available and also compatibility with making a mesh network so FSD vehicles can communicate. I’m not well versed in the tech but I feel like it would be safer if you have like say have more cars on the road that can communicate and making decisions together than separate cars existing in a vacuum having to make a decision.


I've wondered about the networked vehicle communication for a while. It doesn't even need to be FSD. I might be slightly wrong on this, but I would guess most cars going back at least a decade can have their software/firmware modified to do this if the manufacturers so choose. I imagine it would improve the reliability and reaction-times of FSD considerably.


Hmm on iOS I had no issues, but I also don’t have lockdown mode enabled


I scanned it on VirusTotal, it had never been scanned before, it isn’t picking up detected sig. But, with it’s behaviour analysis it is creeping me out. Take a look at it please… I think you will agree?

That user has been posting a lot of links to pdf’s every day hosted on wordpress platforms and more. I haven’t began scanning those yet.


PDF viewed on iOS 17.6 Safari in Lockdown mode, without error.

That's a pre-pub PDF hosted by the Usenix Security 24 conference, which takes place in two weeks. If a respected 30-year old security conference is posting hostile PDFs, that would be newsworthy.

> VirusTotal behavior analysis

What did it say exactly? Just tried a VT scan and it reported a score of 0 out of 95 (green), with zero detailed findings. That was the only/first/last submission of the URL, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/f7259d6da00636ec8632741d3...

> That user has been posting a lot of links to pdf’s every day hosted on wordpress platforms and more

Examples, please? I posted the Usenix Security paper. A quick scan of my submissions shows no PDFs in the last two weeks, and one other PDF in the last day, hosted on HP.com.


I’m unfortunately not able to view on desktop since I’m traveling but I’ll have to take a look upon my return tomorrow. Seems fishy the fact it was flagged with lockdown is suspicious.


Alarm bells and a half.

Looking at all the behavioural analysis on VT makes it look like malware, but considering my lockdown iOS was being weird, this PDF is making me worry that it’s some sort of cross platform malware capable of attacking both Windows and iOS - which I have never heard malware being able to do before.

I am super curious of how this PDF behaves on MacOS, Linux and Android now but it seems VT only executes it in a Windows environment.

I could be so wrong about this, but if I am not, then this would be rather serious indeed for a lot of HN users.


> then this would be rather serious indeed for a lot of HN users

It would be even more serious for the Usenix Security conference that posted the paper!


I can’t say for sure, I cannot get it to pop that same error again. I will try opening it from another iPhone with lockdown enabled later.

I wouldn’t even know where to start in looking at that PDF for some sort of iOS exploit payload, my guess is it would be extremely difficult to find (if it exists).


For the historical record, the Usenix Security paper PDF comment currently has 28 upvotes.

There is also your non-reproducible report that the PDF was incorrectly loaded as an Apple Wallet pass, which would require a web server MIME type of:

  application/vnd.apple.pkpass


Is t one of the main problems with used EVs the battery cap? Unless battery tech gets better can it be assumed that most EVs on the used market would also require a battery replacement so they have the original range?


The battery replacement meme seems like mostly propaganda. Lots* of 10 year old EVs have 20% or less degradation. That's very usable.

Excluding cars without active thermal management, which mostly means the Nissan Leaf.


Yes sounds like propaganda but I worry about the long term repair costs of the rest of a car like Tesla. They weren't built well in the first place and age can only make that worse. This is where right to repair would have really helped Tesla but no they have to act like every other crap SV company.


At this point, most car brands with dealerships also have a selection of EVs. You can get things like extended bumper-to-bumper warranties also.


Liquid cooled batteries (so, not the LEAF) have pretty modest degradation. Yes, it would require a new battery if you needed 100.0% of original range, but if you need 92% of range, you just buy a much cheaper used EV.


Tesla batteries are close to 90% after 200,000 miles. There is some degradation but it plateaus quickly.


You would just deal with the reduced range. With a hybrid it's not really an issue.


If you have a driveway, I don’t see why you don’t just add the little extra to add a charger at home. That’s actually my plan when I eventually get a UV. Just get a face charge and someone to wire it. Where I’m located at the current rate it should be around $1600 for the charger and the install.


I mean between bitlocker and T2 I’d rather have T2. At least with bitlocker the key is in my Microsoft account so if something happened to my pc and the drive was still intact I can easily access the data again. On a T2 secured Mac, if something happened then I’m screwed.


I'm certain I've read that with T2 enabled mac still offer to print recovery keys.


I mean if you’re that worried about ms having your keys, you can always encrypt with a local account and save the key somewhere else. But also if you’re that worried about v someone having access to your data, why are you using a non open source OS anyways?


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