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Sorry, I only know silly, goofy developers. Can't recommend this to anyone.

No, they're not installed.

Once an admin I know forgot to install a text editor. Imagine the fun editing files with cat, grep, awk etc., now imagine you have to use it to browse the web.

How would that work on Arch Linux which literally doesn't come with anything out of the box?

And how would I add accounts or any settings without touching dotfiles?

What is the point in using a car if it has GPS, but no internal cameras or microphones? Metadata is dangerous, but far from the only kind of data.

I think I missed the social message it was portraying in lieu of the science fiction one.

That's alarming, since the social message gets hammered in time and time again to the point of it being overexplained.

Your comment made me reconsider if the experience would be something to make a racist think about his own racism, if people who assumedly are not racists don't even see the message.

No, I just wanted to hear your reasoning why this would be better to teach racists.

Usually racists don't care about a writing level above 8th grade. Most of them never finished high school.

For me a single 2TB 2.5 inch external HDD in a shockproof case and a 1TB SSD contain all of my most important data (mostly scanned documents and personal media like photos, phone backups and letters). I have a Syncthing folder which syncs to my phone and is mirrored to the SSD once a week, while the HDD is used as a restic target. I don't want to lug around 3kg of disks when my house is on fire, war breaks out or an axe murderer chases me.

Why/how are these movies better than Detroit, which is an interactive experience?

Why use Gogs when you could use Forgejo or Gitea?

GrapheneOS is constantly being showboated by Ed Snowden which is a red flag and I did experience app contamination on it.

Can you elaborate on that or link to any information on this?

You're now on at least one watchlist for knowing what puts you on a watchlist.

Which drastically better media?

eh, i didnt mention any offline hardware

Sorry if my comment came over as criticising your approach, I just wanted to add that information if someone wanted to use it. What I wanted to say is: if you have a NAS, you need to have reliable cold storage which is not SSDs.

12 drives in the go bag seems a bit much, as I don't think the weight to usefulness ratio would be great if you really needed to leave the house in an emergency.

That's described in the linked article. You can add it to the environment variables in the bash profile, but I put it in the KDE environment variables in $HOME/.config/plasma-workspace/env/.

Breakage can be mitigated by root FS snapshots, e.g. with snapper.

Sure, if you want to send your CLI input to the cloud. What can go wrong?

Installing Arch manually will teach you a lot of those things. Just do not use archinstall.

Contrary to what people suggested, I would advise against optical discs or tapes and would go with HDDs you check every few months. They don't rot like optical media, the only thing you have to worry about are the motor spindles getting stuck and other mechanical failures.

It will also be the cheapest option. With tapes you need expensive drives and they change the version every few years. Tapes only are better if you store hundreds or thousands of TiB of data.

Which data so you want to save? Mostly games and media? If so, consider giving them to your friends and family to copy and enjoy, which some people call a 'friend backup'.

SSDs need to be powered periodically to not lose bits to the cells losing trapped electrons. For offline storage HDDs are a better option.

Always burn data at lower speeds too, less errors.

Doesn't help the fact that the discs degrade over time.