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At the end of 2023, the source code of GTA V has leaked. There were also some guides to build it from source.

Does anyone know if it was used in some way?

Just remembered it today when cleaning my phone's nearly full SD card, and GTAVSP.7z said hello.

I like the idea of X forwarding, but it doesn't work in real world anymore. As far as I know, it has to do many round-trips for everything. Launching something like LibreOffice Writer is funny, it will be loading bit by bit, icon by icon for several minutes. It was only usable for me on < 1ms network.

Unlike say VNC, it opens windows locally.

And now there's Waypipe which does the same thing, but for Wayland. And it actually works! Even better than VNC.

BUT, it doesn't work for X programs. It can somewhat work with rootful Xwayland... but that's basically a desktop for X-only programs.

Welp, I just wanted to check something on the remote desktop, so I launched VNC, and WOAH, I didn't expect to get XFCE invasion.
I didn't know XFCE can do Wayland now.

Anyway, this cursed thing does actually work pretty fine. xfce4-session works with Waypipe, good to know.

I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.

Edit 3: Tested with wg-quick on Arch, same issue re-occurs. So, let's say we have a peer on 192.168.1.1/24 with internal (wireguard) IP of 10.0.0.1/24, but we also want to route through it to rest of 192.168.1.0/24.
Instead of nice AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.0/24,192.168.1.0/24, it would have to be:
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.0/24, 192.168.1.1/32, 192.168.1.2/31, 192.168.1.4/30, 192.168.1.8/29, 192.168.1.16/28, 192.168.1.32/27, 192.168.1.64/26, 192.168.1.128/25
Or there's something else going wrong. I only tried on Arch. Welp, as I said, it's not a thing that occurs with WG Tunnel on Android.

Edit 2: Hypothesis confirmed. Excluding the endpoint from AllowedIPs in NetworkManager solves the issue. However, this isn't a problem with 0.0.0.0/0, nor with WG Tunnel app on Android. I'll have to check with wg-quick. That seems most official.
Summary: NetworkManager tries to route traffic to WG peer over the same WG interface, and its /32 has to be excluded.

Edit: I noticed one thing, I'll try excluding the peer endpoint from AllowedIPs. It seems weird if it tries to connect to it over the interface between the 2 peers, which is of course impossible, but maybe? However, it is not matched by 0.0.0.0/0. Welp, time to experiment.

So, for 2 years I thought that NetworkManager Wireguard implementation is simply broken.
When I used a list of address ranges, like I should be (and am) able to do with Wireguard, I couldn't get any traffic through, however 0.0.0.0/0,::/0 would work.

Today I discovered something... interesting. It actually works... with a smaller list of AllowedIPs. Although even a larger list still ends up being shown by ip r.
So I went to AllowedIPs calculator as usual, created a desired list, pasted it in, and started removing IP ranges until I could ping a remote peer.

Problem solved? Well, no. I hoped it would be the limitation in number of routes, but it (also) seems to depend on route size.

Examples:
This is too much:
0.0.0.0/5,8.0.0.0/7,11.0.0.0/8,12.0.0.0/6,16.0.0.0/4,32.0.0.0/3,64.0.0.0/2,128.0.0.0/3,160.0.0.0/5,168.0.0.0/6,172.0.0.0/12,172.32.0.0/11,172.64.0.0/10,172.128.0.0/9,10.147.0.0/24
Removing one of the routes, 172.128.0.0/9 makes it work.
0.0.0.0/5,8.0.0.0/7,11.0.0.0/8,12.0.0.0/6,16.0.0.0/4,32.0.0.0/3,64.0.0.0/2,128.0.0.0/3,160.0.0.0/5,168.0.0.0/6,172.0.0.0/12,172.32.0.0/11,172.64.0.0/10,10.147.0.0/24

Time for mystery start. Keeping the same number of routes, but decreasing the size of one of them (second last) also makes it work:
0.0.0.0/5,8.0.0.0/7,11.0.0.0/8,12.0.0.0/6,16.0.0.0/4,32.0.0.0/3,64.0.0.0/2,128.0.0.0/3,160.0.0.0/5,168.0.0.0/6,172.0.0.0/12,172.32.0.0/11,172.64.0.0/10,172.128.0.0/10,10.147.0.0/24

Naturally, I tried breaking up 172.128.0.0/9 into 172.128.0.0/10 and 172.192.0.0/10, which breaks it again.

So, it seems to depend on both number and size of the routes. After all, larger ones alone worked.

Catbox appears broken, so Imgur again.

Just came up with my father again.
He blames me that mother forgot her phone's and Google password because I recommended against it being a word.
I mentioned encryption, "not necessary unless you're doing something illegal".
When mentioning lack of privacy with targeted advertisements, he said that he actually really likes them, because he bought a couple of things he wanted for years.

I don't really have good arguments.

Weird one, but there's always that feeling that it's my mistake. It's just too suspicious.

So the matter is one of those cheap game consoles you see on AliExpress. This one could do PS1 emulation as well, so sounds cool.

Welp, first a software issue. It wouldn't boot. I contacted the seller, he said it worked, and has been laying unused for 2 years, and that I can find guides on how to fix it myself.
OK, the software is booting from SD card and happens to be Linux based. In fact, it's just EmuELEC with "Kinhank" skin. Checking the hashes on there, I found SquashFS file to be corrupted. I tried Manjaro ARM unsuccessfully, and then went back to EmuELEC, also copying the required device tree blob image which happened to survive.

Software fixed. Mostly. I don't know if the ROMs are OK. By the way, there's also a random .exe with trash icon that gets 29 detections on VirusTotal.
But anyway, this would still fly with me.

Issue 2, the controllers don't work. Just some cheap ones with 2.4GHz dongles. I found others with same issue based on status LEDs, and the solutions are none. I tried them with my PC, I tried them with the original software just replacing the SquashFS, I tried in another room just in case it's RFI, I tried connecting one of the controllers to 3V PSU. Nothing.

So I once again wrote to the seller.
But now I feel bad. How the fuck does just everything break?

Domain names seem expensive in comparison. The cheaper VPS that I use for playing around is just $10.29/year.
I thought I'd get a domain name from RackNerd as well, but they're $24.95/year + I think $4.99 for privacy.

I've checked Namecheap, and that seemed great, until I found that renewal prices are often through the roof.

I don't really care about it being nice. For now, mostly I just want to use the VPS as image host for Lemmy, since Imgur and Catbox are both a bit problematic.
And without a domain name, the images only show as link posts in the default LemmyUI (though it seems to work elsewhere). Plus it makes migration impossible.

Yeah, they overlap since I did whole hour (120 30-second codes). I didn't know specific time, so it's 2 pages, 3 hours, 42 minutes and 30 seconds.

Credit goes to oathtool (and LibreOffice Write).
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