[X] My Assistant

with rsync I feel like everyone has their favorite flags that they then just always use for every command, without really knowing what it all did. and rsync has those flags that turn on a bunch of options
on that topic my goto (bless the huge command history) is rsync -avP

Where i can find a guide to rsync "for dummies" ?

Where i can find a guide to rsync "for dummies" ?

That's like asking for "ffmpeg for dummies." rsync is a versatile enough tool that I'd need to know what exactly you're trying to do with it before I could recommend anything.
In the meantime…

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man rsync

It was oscillating the whole time. Badly.
Added the 1K and 10K resistor pad, and did a test run. I did it at higher volume eith a rag to muffle the speakers a bit. Amps, speakers, resistors stayed ice cild after the 6 minute track I was using prior. Upped the volume more and did a different 6 minute track, still ice cold, and still no audible change. I didn't test with good speakers yet, but pretty confident it's sorted out now.

Where i can find a guide to rsync "for dummies" ?

I'd suggest looking at what people recommend as rsync flags, then looking those up in the man page
should get you a decent way towards understanding. theres really not much to it besides some fancy options, usage is going to be scp tier 99/100 times

on a completely unrelated thought/complaint. work is switching to iphones, not sure if I should be happy or annoyed with it. its not like I was enjoying the modern android experience either.. I'll be sticking with my old qwerty nokia for personal phone anyway so it'll just be work related and on site usage.
the only thing I did like was androids 'super battery saver mode' where it turned off all useless apps and background tasks managed to survive close to old brick phone standards, hope iphones can do that as well these days.

EDIT: sorry for editing in entire pieces of extra post I dont want to double post, for anyone currently lurking/replying

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Apr 7 2022, 20:27

on a completely unrelated thought/complaint. work is switching to iphones, not sure if I should be happy or annoyed with it. its not like I was enjoying the modern android experience either.. I'll be sticking with my old qwerty nokia for personal phone anyway so it'll just be work related and on site usage.
the only thing I did like was androids 'super battery saver mode' where it turned off all useless apps and background tasks managed to survive close to old brick phone standards, hope iphones can do that as well these days.

EDIT: sorry for editing in entire pieces of extra post I dont want to double post, for anyone currently lurking/replying

I do the same thing, sometimes just double post for the bump if it's been a day since my last one though.
You may notice almost every post i ever make is edited.

You should be annoyed with the switch, since iOS forces devs to pay $100 a year to share their apps since they can only be installed via "app store." Additionally they're spyware.

Quicky project: got a wave radio and pedestal (stand w/ switcher for 3x aux inputs) dirt cheap on CL. Added switched 5V output to it for a bluetooth receiver. Found some cheap optoisolated relay boards on amazon, and was gonna bury one of those and a 5V switcher in it, relay triggered off the the Aux 1 led. Turns out the relay board can have the input be fully isolated by tacking a wire on elsewhere, and that it switches the high side of it's 5V relay. Also turns out the relay coil draws some 75mA, the BT module only needs 25mA, there was 5V inside the pedestal already, the led was also high side switched, and the 5V/audio/led all shared a common ground. Noice.
Popped the relay and terminal blocks off the board, jumpered it for high side/non-isolated, and ran 5V, trigger, and gnd to it, then ran switched 5V and gnd to a 3.5mm TRS jack I mounted in the rear. Made up a short TRS to barrel plug power cable and TRS to RCA audio cable for it too.

A one evening and done project was a nicre break from ones that drag on troubleshooting and sourcing parts for... I do have to order more of those relay boards though, they're quite smart.

Been wanting to replace my ancient water cooling system for months now, though never actually went ahead to do it bc of IRL shit and laziness.

And today I just noticed one of the tubes started dropping shit. Thankfully the liquid didn't reach any of the hardware components, but it's probably a good idea to swap the parts now.

I'm considering whether to go for soft or hard tubing this time around, any recommendations? I heard the latter can be an ass to deal with, while not really offering any real benefit.

I'm considering whether to go for soft or hard tubing this time around, any recommendations? I heard the latter can be an ass to deal with, while not really offering any real benefit.

EKWB Zero Maintenance Soft-tubing. As long as you don't use tap water then it will last a very long time. The only issue with tap water is I think the color can run.

I've never considered liquid cooling worth the hassle and risk. I'd consider an oil based setup, but commercial AIO coolers tend to use a highly conductive glycol mix.

I've never considered liquid cooling worth the hassle and risk. I'd consider an oil based setup, but commercial AIO coolers tend to use a highly conductive glycol mix.

Yeah i just use fans since my computer doesn't run hot enough to melt its own solder anyway

EKWB Zero Maintenance Soft-tubing. As long as you don't use tap water then it will last a very long time. The only issue with tap water is I think the color can run.

Someone recommended that one to me as well. Guess I should look into it.

Thanks btw.

I've never considered liquid cooling worth the hassle and risk. I'd consider an oil based setup, but commercial AIO coolers tend to use a highly conductive glycol mix.

Generally if you don't cheap out too much, and monitor for any weird signs, liquid cooling systems aren't really that unreliable. Though ~10 years of daily operation is probably pushing it a bit too much.

Made a hacky shell script to dump mozilla browser cookies for a domain, formatted so they can be directly pasted into gallery-dl.conf. Example usage:

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get_mozilla_cookies.sh /path/to/cookies.sqlite patreon.com
get_mozilla_cookies.sh /path/to/cookies.sqlite nijie.info

If you hardcode your cookie sqlite path into the script, you can omit that argument and just use a domain name. Might make it use environment variables for the cookie path in the future.

Note that the lazy way I'm matching search domains means that patreon.com.spyware.org or notpatreon.com would also match. Just be careful where you're sending things. It probably won't be a problem as long as you're just sending those cookies to the real patreon.

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#! /bin/sh
# args: /path/to/cookies.sqlite domain-name.com
if [ "$#" -eq 1 ]; then
  COOKIEFILE="$HOME"'/.mozilla/firefox/your-hardcoded-profile-dir/cookies.sqlite'
  SEARCHDOMAIN="$1"
elif [ "$#" -eq 2 ]; then
  COOKIEFILE="$1"
  SEARCHDOMAIN="$2"
else
  # dump _ALL_ cookies from _ALL_ sites (without domain names in printout!)
  COOKIEFILE="$HOME"'/.mozilla/firefox/your-hardcoded-profile-dir/cookies.sqlite'
  SEARCHDOMAIN=""
fi
LINENO=0
ALL="$(echo '.mode tabs
select name, value from moz_cookies where host like "%'"$SEARCHDOMAIN"'%";' | \
  sqlite3 "$COOKIEFILE" | \
  sed 's/\t/" : "/;s/^/"/;s/$/"/')"
LINETOTAL="$(echo "$ALL" | wc -l)"
echo "$ALL" | \
  while read -r line; do
    LINENO="$(expr "$LINENO" '+' '1')";
    echo -n "$line"
    if [ "$LINENO" -lt "$LINETOTAL" ]; then
      echo ','
    else
      echo
    fi
  done

It was surprisingly easier to extract the cookies from the sqlite database (assuming you have the sqlite3 command-line program) than it was to extract them from a netscape cookies.txt format. I also wrote a script for that if anyone is interested.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Apr 9 2022, 21:55

Been wanting to replace my ancient water cooling system for months now, though never actually went ahead to do it bc of IRL shit and laziness.

And today I just noticed one of the tubes started dropping shit. Thankfully the liquid didn't reach any of the hardware components, but it's probably a good idea to swap the parts now.

I'm considering whether to go for soft or hard tubing this time around, any recommendations? I heard the latter can be an ass to deal with, while not really offering any real benefit.

I'm pretty sure the hard tubing is 99% aesthetics I cant think of any other benifit besides it looking somewhat cleaner

slightly related thought, thinking of finding a cheap second hand psu for my machine as my shitty cx600 seems to be turning off at random times, either a short somewhere in the ratsnest of wiring or something else fishy. but I never liked it and it hasnt done me well. was thinking of getting something non modular and more normal looking (no cable netting or modularity or any of that malarkey).
cant imagine there having been huge leaps in quality that warrants going more modern instead of less with psus

(assuming you have the sqlite3 command-line program)

pretty sure its one of those things most people would have regardless, without them knowing

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Name            : sqlite
...
Required By     : aircrack-ng  colord  filezilla  gnupg  libsoup  libsoup3  motion  nss  openboardview-git  qt5-base
                  supertuxkart  tracker3  zathura

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Apr 9 2022, 22:46

slightly related thought, thinking of finding a cheap second hand psu for my machine as my shitty cx600 seems to be turning off at random times, either a short somewhere in the ratsnest of wiring or something else fishy. but I never liked it and it hasnt done me well. was thinking of getting something non modular and more normal looking (no cable netting or modularity or any of that malarkey).
cant imagine there having been huge leaps in quality that warrants going more modern instead of less with psus

If you use any molex->sata adapters, try removing them.

Someone recommended that one to me as well. Guess I should look into it.

Thanks btw.

Its not clear, but it lasts the longest without issues, has great bend tolerance. If you want clear tubing there are different options. Its also got great tolerance to UV but not sure why you would use it in a case with UV as its not clear.



Edit: Wtf is wrong with ASUS, they have rolled loads of software into their Armoury Crate platform, which is supposed to make it easier to manage LED lighting and ASUS hardware and peripherals but...

Its an absolute garbage dump. I thought my ram was failing because I was getting memory access errors...

No.. it was because the ASUS software installs every package and every process that isn't needed. Its like brute forcing compatibility but causes memory management issues in the process.

EG: It installs the memory management processes for multiple brands of memory all at once.... Some of them include older packages that had problems as well...

Computer works great with that garbage removed. I only installed it to turn LEDs OFF, then they rolled the software for everything else into it at the cost of stability.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Apr 10 2022, 06:32

I'm pretty sure the hard tubing is 99% aesthetics I cant think of any other benifit besides it looking somewhat cleaner

I could do that with enough cable management, so yeah, not really something that matters.

Its not clear, but it lasts the longest without issues, has great bend tolerance. If you want clear tubing there are different options. Its also got great tolerance to UV but not sure why you would use it in a case with UV as its not clear.

Not really interested in seeing the coolants floating around, so I'm more than ok with this.

Its not clear, but it lasts the longest without issues, has great bend tolerance. If you want clear tubing there are different options. Its also got great tolerance to UV but not sure why you would use it in a case with UV as its not clear.
Edit: Wtf is wrong with ASUS, they have rolled loads of software into their Armoury Crate platform, which is supposed to make it easier to manage LED lighting and ASUS hardware and peripherals but...

Its an absolute garbage dump. I thought my ram was failing because I was getting memory access errors...

No.. it was because the ASUS software installs every package and every process that isn't needed. Its like brute forcing compatibility but causes memory management issues in the process.

EG: It installs the memory management processes for multiple brands of memory all at once.... Some of them include older packages that had problems as well...

Computer works great with that garbage removed. I only installed it to turn LEDs OFF, then they rolled the software for everything else into it at the cost of stability.

If you can't control it from a shell, it's bloated shit.

Cut the led trace and put a switch on it.

If you can't control it from a shell, it's bloated shit.

Cut the led trace and put a switch on it.

The issue was that some of them were ignoring bios settings and manual commands... derpy design.

I did put a switch on one of them, to turn it off.

I need to buy a case fan, a keyboard, and I think there was another thing I don't remember a gamepad (I have a few, but not remembering which don't work how (because they all have a shortcoming) is annoying). And also one day an cd/dvd/bluray/whatever player.
...
But somehow I'm procrastinating hard instead of doing it (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

i replaced the usb cord on a gamepad I've had for 15 years or so.

For cd's/dvd's, i am continually surprised when people (especially the kind that might rip discs or make backups) don't have optical drives.

blu-ray can be annoying to dump, though.