Pretending it’s a fictional scenario, asking the question in tech-oriented spaces such as Lemmy and Mastodon, then using some of the answers.

I guess it should just be set to master since it’s the only drive, but I tried all 3.
I just tried to use it to make a copy of CD, all seems fine. Maybe it can’t handle the maximum read speed, but meh, it seems to work hardware-wise.
Software-wise, Windows-only.

IDE CD-ROM

Yeah. I have 2, so I want to use them. The dangerous thingy is an IDE to SATA adapter. If I manage to find DVD-RW drive with front audio and a play button, I’d like to use that in an external 5.25" drive enclosure I have.
The goal: External DVD drive that can also work as a simple standalone CD player.

All I have now is 2 CD-RW drives like that.
And one of them (BENQ 4816A) doesn’t seem to work with Linux for some reason.
Sample from dmesg:

[303803.821623] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 62 using xhci_hcd
[303803.953712] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=2338, bcdDevice= 1.00
[303803.953735] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
[303803.953745] usb 1-4: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge
[303803.953752] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: JMicron
[303803.953758] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 622222222222
[303803.956959] usb-storage 1-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[303803.957727] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-4:1.0
[303804.972734] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM            ATAPI    CD-R/RW 48X16    9.GH PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[303809.784518] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[303818.737158] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 62 using xhci_hcd
[303826.573935] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 62 using xhci_hcd
[303838.238333] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[303838.238795] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[303845.622418] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 62 using xhci_hcd
[303918.801647] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 62 using xhci_hcd
[303936.512741] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 62 using xhci_hcd
[303941.673166] usb 1-4: reset high-speed USB device number 62 using xhci_hcd
[303950.281142] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=1s
[303950.281164] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#0 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] 
[303950.281176] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#0 Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[303950.281186] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 05 5d ec 00 00 02 00
[303950.281192] blk_print_req_error: 80 callbacks suppressed
[303950.281198] I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1406896 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[303950.555155] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=0s
[303950.555173] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#0 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] 
[303950.555183] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#0 Add. Sense: Illegal mode for this track
[303950.555192] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 05 5d ec 00 00 02 00
[303950.555197] I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1406896 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 2 prio class 2
[303950.555215] buffer_io_error: 72 callbacks suppressed
[303950.555220] Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 351724, async page read
[303950.555232] Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 351725, async page read

Just keeps resetting, eventually spams a lot of errors, then goes on to start resetting again.

VLC manages to use it for audio playback. Sort of. It can load CD info, play a track, and skip within the track. But when trying to play a different track, it again resets the drive, so it has to load the disc again, causing ~15 second gaps between tracks.

Both digital (on PC) and analog (on drive) audio playback worked just fine on Windows 2000 after passing the USB to VirtualBox.

Maybe a solution similar to this could work: https://github.com/nfcgate/nfcgate/blob/v2/doc/mode/Relay.md

Have the card at home sitting on a reader connected to your homelab, add NFC module to PinePhone and simply relay the traffic over network.

Yeah, I already tried losetup unsuccessfully, but thanks anyway.

The world sucks right now for employment you might as well take a shot at a dream job because you never know what happens!

Well, I absolutely could get training for position of train driver.
Except…
As far as I know, you have to agree to a contract to work for that company for at least 5 years.
Otherwise, I’d have to pay them back for that training. How much?
I don’t know what it’s now. First I heard from someone, they mentioned it being EUR 21,000. But recently I overheard a train driver talking to a coworker about the training costing EUR 31,000.
Either way, in a country where the minimum wage is EUR 5.26/h… OOF.

Although I’d have to ask for official information, as this isn’t mentioned in the advertising they do.
But it would explain the eternal shortage they seem to have.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I am not. I am just usually imagining what happens in edge cases. Since I am in an English study programme (I honestly find English easier in relation to IT) I get the same information the foreign students do.
And I can see how fucking shitty it is.
The problem is they didn’t even translate the instructions to English, and further only gave them a 12 hour window until the deadline to figure things out. Ironically, the instructions highlight to really think about the decisions you make with the subjects selected (some expect prior knowledge you may not yet have). Think about it when? There’s also limited number of students to be accepted for each subject on a first-come first-served basis. Basically, a game of battle royale, but there were no instructions, and the game has already begun.

Hey.
So, it would seem I gave you a solution that’s still more complicated than it needs to be.
You see, I was using Debian at the time I initially played with this, but now I am testing it on Arch. When you check the man pages, you’ll see an interesting option available on Arch.

So…
Waypipe on Debian 13 (latest) is version 0.9.2.
Meanwhile on Arch we have 0.11.0.

There’s an interesting new option, --xwls.

Use xwayland-satellite to run X clients under Wayland; for server or ssh modes. This binds X display sockets for the next available display number and sets the DISPLAY environment variable for the program run under waypipe server. This option will only work if xwayland-satellite is installed and in PATH.

Which means that on Debian you have to:

1. Compile xwayland-satellite
2. Add xwayland-satellite to directory in PATH
3. Compile new version of waypipe from source
4. Add it to directory in PATH, at least for server

While on Arch you just pacman -Sy xwayland-satellite waypipe.

Then it works with waypipe --xwls ssh user@IP program.
It seems to have been added in 0.10.6.

poop gems

At least they’re pretty.

A fox. It (I don’t know whether male or female) was in a city. It didn’t seem too fearful of people, so I tried following it. When we got to a darker area it sat down, and so did I.

When it got up, I followed it, ending up on volleyball playground. With sand. The fox started running around in it. I noticed it would kick some sand, then jump there.
So I squat down, and threw a handful of sand to the side. This did work. It approached me to arm’s reach, but would spring away at any movement. I accidentally scared it off when the fox circled very closely around me and I turned around - I was worried about getting peed on. Foxes do that a lot.

Some 40 minutes later, I lost it at a construction site.

I completely lost the sight of it after I circled around to enter there.

Anyway, not a picture, but I also have some bit of video:

All is B&W because I used IR camera. I don’t know how much of that foxes see, but I hope it’s at least far less than if I used regular flash.

!bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org

Try it in a (proper) computer. I’ve had a phone complain, but it mounted on Linux. And after whatever magic fsck.fat does, it mounted on phone too.
I also had a SanDisk fail read-only.

Rip’n share sounds like a good phrase for pirate site.

And the you go on to use Termux, and encounter swipe from left to manage sessions.

But that bear looks so pettable 🥺

This seems like it’s for sharing same keyboard and mouse between multiple computers. What I am looking for is for the secondary laptop just to act as a monitor. That’s it. It could just be a video stream of a virtual monitor.

Thing 3 spice vnc is built in

Waypipe proxies separate windows, not the whole display. It’s pretty cool. Just looks the same as local programs, but running on a different machine.

What I mean is the mouse cursor isn’t there when I move it over there. Well, isn’t visible. It still interacts with objects.

Same as this person’s issue: https://discuss.kde.org/t/show-cursor-on-virtual-display-kde-connect-krdc/43421

Reverse compression: making transmission larger (while still being lossy).

please take a look and tell me what you think

Sorry if it seems like I do, but I in fact do not have a brain.
I just found this tool gets the job done, and that’s it.

I typically just use it in a pretty stupid manual way.

local$ waypipe -c zstd=6 ssh username@IP
remote$ export DISPLAY=:90
remote$ ./xwayland-satellite :90 &
remote$ xfce4-panel

Even the xfce4-panel discovery was an accident.
I was using waypipe before knowing about xwayland-satellite. I wanted to run an X program, so in the same shell I typed vncserver to, well, launch a VNC server. That invoked xfce4-session, BUT since the WAYLAND_DISPLAY was set, XFCE DE attached to waypipe rather than XTigerVNC, launching a full remote desktop over my local one.
And out of that, xfce4-panel proves pretty useful. I can easily launch other programs using GUI, and also see widgets on that panel.

Here’s what I mean, if that sounds confusing:

Plasma panel (bottom) is local, XFCE panel (top and middle bottom) are remote.
Right, and you’re probably wondering why that app launcher at the top looks shattered. Well, both can’t be opened at once. If the application launcher goes out of focus, it closes.
But also, I use the shatter effect in KDE Plasma, so it doesn’t go away immediately. This is just as close as I could get with screenshot timing.