Quazatron @ Quazatron @lemmy.world

A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that like

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Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, Vista...

Stopped evangelising when I realised people hate evangelists telling them what they should do. Started leading by example instead. Curious people approach you if they want to learn.

Won't be going back to proprietary OSs.

This is the sensible thing to do. Try a bunch of distros using either USB or as Virtual Machines.

It'll save you a lot of heartache when you eventually kill the bootloader, the display driver or both (and you will, it is part or the learning process).

"Here Come The Test Results: 'You Are A Horrible Person.' That’s What It Says, 'A Horrible Person.' We Weren’t Even Testing For That."

Got an E14, easiest laptop to open ever (at least compared to the HPs and Toshibas I had the pleasure to own)

Reducing caloric intake (sugar and other carbohydrates) and walking or running regularly had a dramatic influence on my fatigue.

Before masking the symptoms with supplements, I would advise you to try to find the cause.

I wouldn't recommend Linux to my dad or any of my friends.

Well, you'd be surprised. Sometimes it is just the lack of familiarity that gets in the way.

For instance I have a 86 year old relative that decided 10 years ago that wanted a computer to get in touch with friends. I installed Xubuntu and explained the basics. My relative has been happily using it all this time (using Facebook, mail, some solitaire games, some word processing) and all I do is the occasional update. No viruses, no ransomware.

People who already use Windows can have a harder time adapting to a different system than those that never used a computer.

In addition to the basic hardware care (checking for dust, reapplying thermal compound if necessary) you can run powertop to check what is keeping your CPU awake when it shouldn't and take steps to purge unneeded services or resource-heavy applications.

I'm going back to FreeDOS. I can still edit autoexec.bat and config.sys.

LVM does have a bit of a learning curve, but once you're over it, you realise how dumb it is to keep partitioning disks like it's 1995.

Most if not all graphical disk managers now work with LVM.

Once you learn about LVM, you'll never use a naked partition again. Or your money back.

No effort at al. You define them once at install time and that's it.

For added flexibility you can use LVM volumes instead of partitions, they make resizing operations a thing of joy.

BTRFS also has something like subvols baked in, but I haven't looked into it.

It depends, if your docker installation uses /var, it will surelly help to keep it separated.

For my home systems, I have: UEFI, /boot, /, home, swap.

For my work systems, we additionally have separate /opt, /var, /tmp and /usr.

/usr will only grow when you add more software to your system. /var and /tmp are where applications and services store temporary files, log files and caches, so they can vary wildly depending on what is running. /opt is for third-party stuff, so it depends if you use it or not.

Sound like

You might as well abide. Or not.

It's fine for most uses.

For server or enterprise cases you want to separate /usr, /var and /tmp to prevent a rogue process from filling the / volume and crashing the machine.

I haven't had any problem with my subscription.

Their player works very well for my use cases: I use it on my Android phone, on my car via Android Auto, on my LG TV with WebOS and on my Linux machine via Firefox.

I too had many funny encounters with nvidia drivers back then, to the point of having cold sweat at the thought of having to upgrade them. It usually resulted in broken X in ways that I was not able to fix, resulting in a reinstall. Those traumatic experiences moved me away from nvidia permanently.

I've nuked the root filesystem more than once, but there was this one time that I edited the /etc/sudoers file and bothched it... turns out that sudo does not like that very much, and if you don't have root access you can't sudo to fix the mistake. That day I learned to only touch /etc/sudoers with visudo, that checks the file syntax before saving.

Epic. Well done.

Yep, I just dump everything to files included from .ssh/config, manager by git. Shell auto-completion does the work for me. Simple, fast and effective.

Yes, they have a 16bit/44.1KHz FLAC tier (€7.49), as well as a 320Kbps tier for lower data consumption and a 24bit/192KHz tier (€13.99) if you have the Hi-Fi gear to use it.