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It's album named Virgin from Lorde. Not quite my taste of music, but the disc itself is pretty interesting.
Though it does have issues. Since the reflective layer is very thin, a lot of light passes through.

Even beaming through the lid:

Here's a blog post about it on Hackaday, also showing the lower signal amplitude compared to regular CD.
For me, so far it worked in 2 out of 4 CD players/drives. And I didn't even try with those that can't read CD-RW, as those can probably be crossed off right away.

Anyway, what happens when it's upside-down? Obviously, "doesn't work" is the answer. But at least we can see the lens dance a bit, trying to read the disc:

If you're worried about data consumption, this video is less than 300KB in size thanks to AV1. ^Although^ ^it^ ^took^ ^7^ ^minutes^ ^to^ ^encode...^

And something funny to add.
I ripped it once, there was weird noise, so I tried it again. I played random track, "David", and skipped through it. It sounded corrupted. So I tried playing it directly using VLC. Still the same. Thinking it was the drive, I tried my Discman. Same issue.
Is the disc bad?
But, after finally getting the track from the internet, I found it just sounds like that.

I think someone screwed up on "3 business days to pick up".

Software often has pretty good documentation. But real-world things don't.
And if I don't know exact steps to do something and what to expect, I just can't really push myself to try it the first time. That can be put into an interesting sentence.
"I can't do it because I haven't done it."

Recent example:
I want to take a bus. But I haven't yet used the company that operates these buses. I do have an RFID card with e-wallet that is compatible with this company. That is because they operate as intercity transport in the same region, and same tickets are valid there. Except for one line, the one I am most interested in.
Now comes the problem.
How am I supposed to board? How do I buy the ticket? On other lines, am I supposed to prove I have one?

Before I start with the issues of unknowns, I should mention I so far spent 3 hours trying to find the information. That includes searching for videos which may show what others do in the background. In one similar case I found the answer from a TV news report filmed near a bus stop, and my answer was in the background.

So, boarding. Is it front doors only, or do the doors not matter? I've seen both.
Purchasing the ticket: There was a mention of possible cash payment, buying the ticket "from the driver". I managed to find photos from inside the bus, and to further my confusion, there were 3 terminals. All of them RFID-compatible.
2 are ticket validators next to both doors.
1 is on-board computer (apprears to be TransData Vesna model) along with a ticket printer and RFID terminal, operated by bus driver.
If it was just one of those, I'd know what to do.
I found one video from that special line. The person presented a QR code of valid ticket to the driver before boarding. But I don't use that payment method.
But if it's front doors only, why are there validators in the rear? Or was that just something specific to this line?

Now, I could do the one obvious thing, ask the driver. But I really hate talking to people I don't know.
An alternative I am contemplating is sending an e-mail to the company with my questions. They do have one for customer questions.

This is always a problem if I don't know exact steps for something. And even then I am still really anxious before I actually do it for the fist time.

Top shows ping round trip time averaging 10.3 seconds, peaking at 21 seconds. Perhaps that would be good for pingfs.
Below, 59.5% packet loss can be seen with ping.

Last 2 screenshots is from apt update, which made me realize how much time I was wasting. 18.7MB downloaded in 9 minutes and 26 seconds, and 78.3MB took 31 minutes, 34 seconds.

But hey, I could still download a 3.5" floppy worth of data in just around 40 seconds.

Not deprioritized, not throttled. Just a carrier with barely any RF spectrum (in 4G, my phone doesn't do 5G) offering 300GB data pack and getting overloaded to death in some areas. (Every day)

Proxmox is a virtualization platform based on Debian. It's not supposed to have a GUI, the management is either done via web UI or SSH.

But since it basically is just Debian with some more stuff, I installed Plasma on top of it.

It is also not supposed to use WiFi since that won't work with Linux bridges. But, after removing the adapter from /etc/network/interfaces (which gets automatically added any time I make a change through PVE web UI) and rebooting, I was able to make use of the adapter inside Plasma. And also create a bridge on proxmox, add IP to it, enable IP routing, and NAT everything coming from that subnet (used for VMs) through the WiFi adapter.

I just wish the noVNC could dynamically resize VM display like with VirtualBox after installing guest additions.

There is no use case. It can be done, that's it. I also tried to install Proxmox on my phone under Limbo PC emulator (QEMU-based), but I couldn't avoid random kernel panics during installation.

Also, Proxmox with 10GiB of available RAM (8+4, 2 for GPU), where the host uses up 3GiB is not really ideal. And on a weak dual-core CPU, on top of that.

Edit: But now I got an idea.
Now, there are issues. The simple solution will create multiple SSH connections that will never leave the laptop - that is - useless encryption, aside from other likely issues. The main thing is extremely easy set-up.
OK.
Thing 0: Exchange and authorize SSH keys between host and VMs.
Thing 1: Create another ext4 or whatever volume on LVM, and mount it on host (probably better to have VM with large disk - why should every VM have SSH access to host). This will be used for file sharing.
Thing 2: Mount it on all desired VMs using SSHFS.
Thing 3: Install waypipe (like ssh -X, but for Wayland) to VMs and host.
Thing 4: Create shortcuts on host desktop for desired GUI applications (which will run on VMs), prefixed by waypipe command. E.g.: waypipe -c none ssh user@debian-main.home.arpa firefox.

Waypipe works with vsock as well, which might be useful in this situation, but I have no idea how that's used, and if it is relevant here. Based on the man page, it does sound like it though.
But anyway, mostly just a concept.

Idea

Primary laptop will run DE with 1 screen (its own).
Second laptop is to be used as a secondary (extended) monitor for primary laptop.
Both laptops will run Linux.

Tested solutions and their issues

krfb-virtualmonitor:

Creates virtual display and runs a VNC server, exactly as desired.
Issue: Slow as hell. FPS become SPF even on 0.3ms 1Gbps point-to-point connection.

KDE Connect virtual display

Creates virtual display and runs an RDP server, exactly as desired.
Issue(s): Really needs that high quality connection to run reasonably well. That isn't much of a problem, I can use a cable. The biggest problem is, no matter the settings, both with Remmina and KRDC the mouse pointer does not show up. Silly issue, but yeah.
Also, the Debian 13 KDE Connect package is too outdated to work with this, but I was able to use it in KDE Neon and Arch.

So, basically what I want exists, just with a major bug. Not seeing the mouse pointer is quite a problem.

Also, at first I hoped to use the already existing "network", my phone's hotspot. I can get 300Mbps and 3ms between phone and client. But between 2 clients? 400ms and with ping I see 1/3 of packets being duplicated.

https://files.catbox.moe/8g9jk5.JPG doesn't embed again

If you want to modify a pointer to pointer you need to pass a pointer to pointer to pointer.

I am lost.

TOTP Authenticator
Browser
Terminal emulator
Wireguard client

I've had the weird idea to use libpam-google-authenticator for both SSH and Sudo.
Hell, for one machine I don't even know the password. I just set it to a long random string. If I need root access, I can get a code from my phone!
That means I open it A LOT.

At one point I also had 4FA for fun. Or 3FA depending on how you look at it.
On server - pubkey + password + TOTP
On client the private key additionally encrypted with a different password.
Anyway...

"Today in Budapest, Hungarian authorities took seven Ukrainian citizens hostage. The reasons are still unknown, as well as their current well-being, or the possibility of contacting them.
These seven Ukrainians are employees of state-owned Oschadbank, who were operating two bank"

• Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on X

The Oschadbank employees were detained while passing through Hungary between Austria and Ukraine and operating two bank cars, carrying $40 million, 35 million euros, and 9 kilograms of gold.

Hungarian government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs confirmed that "all seven individuals will be expelled from Hungary."

In connection with the incident, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry warned Ukrainian citizens to avoid traveling to Hungary for safety reasons.