bmaupin

Symptoms

Wii remote will randomly power off when in use.

Cause

This is most often caused by a bad connection between the batteries and the contacts, which is frequently due to corrosion from current or past battery leakage. This is fairly common with standard non-rechargeable alkaline batteries.

Prevention

General configuration

Here are some general tips to make AnkiDroid have a cleaner UI that's a little bit less distracting:

Go to Settings > Reviewing
Uncheck Show button time

(This shows the next interval for the card above each answer button)
Uncheck Show Top Bar

The exact error message:

The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.

The fix:

(See here instead if running NSUI in Wine: https://gist.github.com/bmaupin/93d31e1b2d738ae656b9d3617e19622b)

Install .NET 4.6 (a later version may work, an earlier version such as .NET 4.5 will not)

Goal

Find a replacement for Llama (R.I.P. 😢)

Conclusion

🦙 Keep using Llama! 🦙

Llama still works and no other application seems to match Llama in terms of ease of use and cell-tower location (Llama's killer feature)
Cell-tower location UX seems to be unmatched by the alternatives (training new locations, ignoring towers, seeing location events)

Problem

Opening some .acsm files (e.g. those from archive.org) with Adobe Digital Editions will show the following error message: E_ADEPT_DOCUMENT_TOO_SHORT

Cause

Uncertain. Some have theorized it's because Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1 requires .NET 3.5, which does not support TLS 1.2 out of the box.

There is a Windows patch to add TLS 1.2 support to .NET 3.5.1: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/support-for-tls-system-default-versions-included-in-the-net-framework-3-5-1-on-windows-7-sp1-and-server-2008-r2-sp1-5ef38dda-8e6c-65dc-c395-62d2df58715a

Incoming access from local network

Method	Docker iptables setting	Firewall on?	Accessible from local network
`docker run --network=host -p 3306:3306`	`false`	No	Yes
`docker run --network=host -p 3306:3306`	`false`	Yes	No
`docker run -p 3306:3306`	Default	Yes	⚠️ Yes
`docker run -p 127.0.0.1:3306:3306`	Default	Yes	No

An alternative option would be to leave the Docker iptables as the default, leave the firewall on, and modify iptables itself à la https://stackoverflow.com/a/51741599/399105

Installation

Prerequisites

Winbind (e.g. sudo apt install winbind)
Wine
Winetricks

Install NSUI

Using the stock firmware

Connect to the primary router and set the 2.4 GHz network to a specific channel
- The channels must be the same for WDS to work
Connect to the router using a network cable
If you're running OpenWrt, you'll need to flash the stock firmware
1. Download the latest firmware for your hardware version from TP-Link's website
2. Strip the stock firmware using dd; see the steps here: https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd#go_back_to_original_firmware
3. Flash the stock firmware from LUCI
Browse to the stock firmware web interface (192.168.0.1)

gzipped binary file
- 12 byte gzip "extra field" set
  - Not sure how important this is or what it contains. It doesn't appear to be related to the version of the game.
  - Subfield ID 1 (SI1) is always: C (0x43)
  - Subfield ID 2 (SI2) is always: T (0x54)
  - Data:
    - Sample 1: 0x8C 2A 00 00 07 35 01 00
      - .bkp file: 0x78 2A 00 00 C7 34 01 00
    - Sample 2: 0x44 30 00 00 CD 56 01 00
.bkp file: 0x40 30 00 00 CD 56 01 00

	# See: https://github.com/dscharrer/void/blob/master/hacks/neveralonefix.c

	sudo apt install gcc-multilib libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev:i386 pkg-config
	curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dscharrer/void/master/hacks/neveralonefix.c > ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/NeverAlone/neveralonefix.c

	# Then set game launch options to: sh neveralonefix.c %command%
	# (https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1040-JWMT-2947)