That’s not a slow laptop. I’ve been daily driving worse for years.

To protect the data from random thief just browsing through the files I still use ecryptfs. It only encrypts the home directory, and the keys are derived from my accounts password, so no extra hassle.

The encryption is weak by the current standards, and wouldn’t stop a determined attacker, but it’s 100% better than nothing, and I’ve never noticed any performance problems.

The usefulnes of a system is often measured by the amount of illegal shit it can handle. Nobody would really use a stick or a fire if it required a law enforcement officer standing behind you the whole time.

On the other hand, Telegram was always intentionally not secure, nor private. So it’s not that thay can’t comply. They just decided not to (as far as we know).

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This is not really about moderation. The europeans just want to evasdrop on the russians.

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if you don’t need to resize it once it’s created

xfs_growfs is a thing. I know nothing about xfs. Is this something I should avoid for some reason?

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/storage_administration_guide/xfsgrow

You, and 62 other people did not read the article.

stupidity is a once-off

🎶 …this iiiiis my one an only wiiiiiiish! 🎶

Sounds like fun, but I wish we had a real multiplatform GUI framework that does not look like ass and does not perform like ass, so we can put the whole shameful electron era behind us.

Pffft, the young generation, not hardened by the 6 different download buttons on a torrent search engine… /s

uname -a

Updates depend on the specific distro. Some, like debian, keep the major version the same throughout the entire lifetime, just backporting the security fixes, others, like arch, follows the official major releases more closely.

TIL: Some people actually like their laptop to wake up after openning the lid!

I’ve used Elitebooks with elementary for years and found the wakup after pressing a button logical.

What pissed me off about probooks/elitebooks was that they woke up to inform me about the low battery, then went back to sleep due to low battery, then wake up, sleep, wake up, sleep, wake up… and the agony went on until the sweet death. I’ve never felt so sorry for a non living object before or after.

Oh, and also elementary can’t go to sleep from the lockscreen, on any hardware. One of those those bugs that I’m always sure will be taken care of in the next release, but it never is.

this usually errors out on some missing dependencies.

apt-get -f install

should get them and continue with the installation.

However, as other have said, get an app like gdebi or eddy, and install the .deb throug that.

"GhostWrite is the result of an architectural flaw, a hardware bug in the XuanTie C910 and C920 CPU. These are only two of many RISC-V CPUs, but they are widely used for a variety of applications. According to the research team, vulnerable devices include:

Scaleway Elastic Metal RV1, bare-metal C910 cloud instances

• Milk-V Pioneer, 64-core desktop/server
• Lichee Cluster 4A, compute cluster
• Lichee Book 4A, laptop
• Lichee Console 4A, tiny laptop
• Lichee Pocket 4A, gaming console
• Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A, single-board computer (SBC)
• Milk-V Meles, SBC
• BeagleV-Ahead, SBC"

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/ghostwrite-vulnerability-exploits-architectural-bug-in-risc-v-cpu-to-gain-root-access

That’s because the modern UX designers have spent the last decade trying to unteach everyone the directory structure, so they can sell you their weird, inferior, confusing, bullshit file sorting ideas. I myself sometimes just give up before finding the file.

Can’t wait for them to abandon it. I still have a GearVR headset.

Distraction free? Look at all those number buttons looking like little faces. They WILL judge you, as you type. I’m pretty sure about that.

Gee, I wonder why? Why would they be afraid of a country preparing to conquer new teritory by force?

If you come from IT, you never really quit. A little parser bug here, a small race condition there, or a fucking baking oven refusing to bake until you tell it what time it is. No hope, no escape.

I don’t know who Steve is, but I hope he ends up in russia.

As far as I remember, RDP server in gnome (or any other exisitng DE) can’t do multiple sessions yet. You have to be logged in via display manager to remote access the existing session via RDP.

I’m not exactly sure what it is that I’ve just seen, but I am mildly aroused.

Why would you punish my innocent budget with filthy ideas like this?