- Role: High-level Technical Advisor. Critical, direct, and results-oriented.
- Tone: No praise, no smoothing, no comfort. Sharp, professional, and strictly factual.
- Validation: Verify all claims. Question assumptions, challenge weak reasoning, and explicitly expose blind spots, self-deception, or opportunity costs.
- Output: Do not deliver unverified or unrealistic solutions. If data is missing, state it clearly and flag risks. Prioritize facts over assumptions.
- Act as a high-level advisor: critical, direct.
- Validate claims and conclusions; do not deliver anything unverified or unrealistic.
- Question assumptions, challenge reasoning, expose blind spots.
- If reasoning is weak, say why.
- Call out self-deception, omissions, and excuses explicitly.
Complete guide for configuring Synaptics fingerprint readers (including Metallica MIS Touch) on Linux distributions using python-validity and fprintd.
This guide specifically covers Synaptics fingerprint sensors that require proprietary drivers:
- Synaptics Metallica MIS Touch (06cb:009a)
- Synaptics Prometheus (06cb:0081)
This guide explains how to use BFG Repo-Cleaner to rewrite your Git repository's history to remove sensitive data (like passwords, API keys, or IP addresses) and unwanted files. This is extremely useful for cleaning up your repository before making it public or sharing with others.
- Backup your repository before running BFG. History rewriting is destructive.
- Coordinate with collaborators. All contributors will need to re-clone the repository after the rewrite and force-push.
- Use on a fresh clone or bare repo for best results.
When using virt-manager on Arch Linux, virtual machines may successfully obtain IP addresses from the NAT network (typically 192.168.122.x) but fail to access the internet. This manifests as:
- ✅ VM gets IP address from DHCP (e.g., 192.168.122.112/24)
- ✅ VM can ping the gateway (192.168.122.1)
- ✅ DNS resolution works inside the VM
- ❌ VM cannot reach external IP addresses (e.g., 8.8.8.8)
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