Thanks, the vinyl is a little fiddly to work with but it’s worth the work for one off pieces.

Oof, so the price has gone up but this is what I am using: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B001CJIHFI

Along with this grit: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08KHLW2DJ

Does an old work sock count as a filter? I could use the gasoline though…

Oops, replied to the wrong comment, in actual answer to your question:

I’m using a Cricut vinyl cutter but would never recommend one to anyone, their locked down cloud app is terrible. After I get a stencil cut I stick it down and then mask off the entire rest of the glass with tape. For a blaster I am using a tiny one that looks like an airbrush, it was ~$100CAD on Amazon. I use a pair of old socks as gloves in the side of a big clear plastic tub they keep the grit inside and let the air out! And that’s about it, I just blast all the exposed glass until it is frosted, I don’t think you can ever blow right through but if I hit one spot for too long there is a step in the glass at the edge of the pattern.

That’s a good point, probably made of cadnium glass.

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Yeah, this seems like burning man gold. I think Lumilor paint and careful stenciling could replicate this but it’s >$400 an oz.

Agreed, how long before you can get a car painted with it?

If you only have to fix up one, maybe two, bikes you can grab a bunch of Aliexpress tools and get going:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV_gX-C7RDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFhxEz7lG0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJr5EbtvtNg

I took this approach as well but I let Grub add Windows as a boot option. No mashing keys at post and Windows doesn’t get to touch Grub or Debian.

It’s a weight weinnie thing, you can save a couple grams. Electronics will never be as reliable as a cable though, too much vibration, temperature changes and moisture will eventually wreck stuff.

Nice fix, saved yourself an assload of money!

Just because cops are lazy doesn’t makes you less of danger on the road.

Makes me wonder if there are any cyphers that are easy enough that human meat could implement it but hard enough that it would take some serious GPU time to crack?

Around 2007 I had a Windows laptop die on me and drove me to device agnosticism. Maybe I learned the wrong lesson but now I keep my OS and data separate enough that a b0rked OS is an hour’s inconvenience instead of a day’s recovery.

Still, it’s pretty awesome that you can just shuck a drive into a totally new machine and only have to adjust network settings.

Computers are hard, can everyone go back to unobfuscated telephone calls and handwritten letters?

• Cops everywhere

I know it is kinda frowned on but I like to use new directories at root to cut down on confusion as to where things are. Video storage for the NVR goes in /video, user data for Nextcloud goes in /data, etc. But I also keep everything in it’s own LXC so I don’t have one machine with 30 extra directories cluttering up the root.

I have given in to GNOME. Set dark mode, install the extension “Tactile” and never touch the setting again.

There was a Defcon talk a few years ago (oh god it was 8 years ago) where someone found a way mess with Chryslers because they were all on the Sprint wireless network. Things like lock out the physical controls on the radio then max out the volume, or turn it into a GPS tracker, or disable the brakes! The cars had some service listening on port 6667, there was no way to stop them from accepting malicious connections so Sprint just blocked all traffic on that port on their network at the request of Chrysler. The speaker mentioned they were sorry if you were unable to use IRC any more on Sprint wireless.

DEF CON 23 - Charlie Miller & Chris Valasek - Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle

I trust my mobile device much less than my desktop.

I’m with you. Phones are toys, a PC with disk encryption and well chosen software it way more trustworthy.