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  • I always see this argument but I really don’t want anything plugged into anything as important as the USB-C port while the phone is in my pocket.

    3.5 plugs are rather short outside of the phone (at least for headphones with 90deg plugs) to minimize leverage that you put on the port. Being able to rotate also means less stress on the port as well.

    The USB-C adapters are pretty short, but lack the rotation. I have replaced USB-C ports in dozens of Nintendo Switches and other devices, it is pretty clear they aren’t designed to take much stress.

    Long story short if anything happens I would much rather have the 3.5mm pin stuck in a headphone jack than breaking the USB-C port and making it so my phone is a brick.



  • I don’t use the WebOS app but generally default subtitles/audio languages are set on your profile and the apps pick up those settings.

    Try logging in to the web interface and going to your user profile. There is a “Playback” section where you can set your preferred languages. If this isn’t set it likely is taking the default language from your media files instead.




  • Infinite scroll occasionally has issues for me on lemmy.world. Seems to always clear up after an hour or two so I have always assumed it is maintenance/issues on the instance side.

    Restart the app, logout+login again, and if it still persists after a few hours it is likely a configuration issue with your instance. Maybe make an account on another instance to rule that out.



  • My prediction is that this is more about banning VPNs than about age verification. Start with this, then when everyone is “using VPNs to break the law” they have an excuse to ban VPNs.

    Governments world wide likely see VPNs as incredibly dangerous. Plenty of examples of countries like Iran cutting off the internet entirely to prevent protests from organizing.

    I think they want their own great firewall.




  • Unauthorized VPNs (non government approved) are illegal in China. If a business needs their own they can get approval but they have to apply for those exceptions.

    It isn’t really enforced, probably especially so for non citizens, but if you do something they don’t like it is something they could use against you.

    You would probably be less breaking the law to just directly open up SSH and access that instead of tunneling through a VPN. Even though SSH can do tunneling of its own.


  • Connection refused is generally a network level issue meaning that a firewall is rejecting the tcp handshake, or more likely samba is not listening on that IP.

    So you are attempting to connect to your samba server and the OS (not Samba) is saying there is no service running on that port so I am refusing your connection request.

    So you have one of these problems

    • Samba isn’t running in the first place
    • Samba is crashing, systemd might be restarting it so if this problem is intermittent this is most likely
    • you have firewall issues (you said firewall was off, but are they on the same subnet? Might be other firewalls in your network rejecting the connection?)
    • Samba is listening on a different interface. I see you have lo/eth0 in your config most distros don’t use eth0 anymore are you sure that is correct?

    Even if those interface names are correct sometimes network managers rename interfaces. So when Samba starts that might be the wrong interface name, but by the time you login it is correct. I would just remove that line and the bind interfaces only line as well unless you specifically need to bind to specific interfaces.

    Try connecting to samba from the server itself on 127.0.0.1, which will probably work just fine because lo is probably a correct interface.

    You can also look at what interfaces/IP samba is listening on by running one of these commands as root

    ss -tlp | grep 445

    netstat -nlp | grep 445


  • A lot of the Qanon stuff was about draining the swamp by arresting all of the pedo Dems.

    They were basically told everything they see in the media is a cover for the real plan to catch these people and that there are already all sorts of sealed indictments that they are just waiting to execute at once, etc.

    So some of his most rabbid supporters are realizing something is up about denying this even exists.


  • Yeah it is fairly trivial to check. I called it a SPF record but technically in DNS it is a TXT record. TXT records are just a generic record type used for many different uses.

    Here are a few common DNS commands to lookup TXT records:

    host -t TXT domainname

    nslookup -type=TXT domainname

    dig -t TXT domainname

    For your barracudanetworks example here we get a few TXT records back but we can see spf.protection.outlook.com is in their list and therefore allowed to send of behalf of the barracudanetworks.com domain. All of the other entries are allowed to send of their behalf too so your email isn’t guaranteed to go through Microsoft.

    Judging by the Salesforce/Zendesk stuff they probably have ticketing/customer management systems, which means it might be possible to contact them without going through Microsoft’s email servers. Notifications from those systems would probably be sending email directly to you instead of routing it through Office365.