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It is weird isn't it? Given the rest of the system behavior I would have expected the com command to redirect to the BBS or throw an error or something if I didn't have access. At the very least I wouldn't expect two similar errors with slightly different spelling for two different commands.

I'd been hoping when I was made an ARPA member and could change my shell it'd just fix it, but that hasn't happened yet. I generally enjoy troubleshooting things, but obviously with an unvalidated shell my options for that are basically nonexistent. I guess I probably should compare with a fresh account.

Thanks for the advice!

Best explanation of snaps and their problems i've ever read.

You're absolutely not the target audience for the wm. But... you still might want to be familiar with it, because it could totally be your foot in the door to set someone down that path. The cost of adopting pop's workflow is substantially smaller than creating your own from scratch, but it's intuitive enough to get someone to at least understand why it might evolve to something like your setup.

These days I just don't have enough time, and i've seen enough trends come and go that i'm happy with most of the pop defaults, and it's mostly just dressing for terminal windows anyway. There are totally better options out there, I just don't have the time to invest in one.

And anyway, most Debian and Ubuntu documentation is spot on for pop, which is a big advantage for anyone who is familiar with them or doesn't have the time or desire to solve their own problems.

Window manager

Pop is great, even without the wm. The app store is top notch, if you're into that sort of thing. Basically it's Ubuntu minus snaps, so slightly more modern Debian, with good flatpak integration making up for all apt's drawbacks. Perfect for the computer you want to be able to use without dealing with out of date packages or rolling release tinkering.

Even so, the wm is worth taking the time to get familiar with, because it's intuitive enough for a non power user, and you're not going to approach its efficiency in terms of workflow unless you can consistently use several dozen keyboard shortcuts on a more bare bones tiling wm. Anyway, that's my opinion, having used a wide variety of window managers since the 90s.

Thanks for the info. I'm not on EU either. I've logged in from TTY.sdf.org and been connected to several different servers, with the same results. I would have thought com was accessible, given various things i've read. I guess they've tightened up security to the excent that you can't use com until validated.

The documentation, though copious, is pretty fragmented and sometimes decades out of date. I've found it really challenging to figure out how to do things, and what things i'm allowed to do. I can't even chmod my ssh folder so I can put in my public keys. Psh, or whatever the unvalidated user shell is called, is extremely limited. Running commands it says i'm explicitly allowed to use frequently redirects to a different command or gives an error. I wish it would just redirect to something that says unvalidated users don't have access so i'd know what's going on. I'm not new to Unix clis, but it's rather confusing anyway. Anyway, it's nof turning out to be the welcoming atmosphere I expected from the available documentation, mostly because i'm blocked from communicating with anyone on the platform.

You'd probably be a whole lot better off with a small air horn. They're used frequently in training problem behaviors out of aggressive dogs, and they work wonders.

I'm not one to be all doom and gloom about ai, but giving one its own small nuclear reactor, presumably one that's in close proximity to it and separate from the local power grid... that's obviously going to have substantial security measures around it... and be that much more difficult to cut off if need be....

I mean, it's starting to sound a lot like an unbelievable plot hole in a bad sci fi movie isn't it?

Is that why I get a '% buss error' when I try to run it? I'm not validated, though I sent in a donation for an ARPA membership a couple weeks ago. I read various places you could use com without being validated, but sadly it looks like a no. I've looked into the BBS, but there's not much activity there, and I've not found any mention of being able to use com as an unvalidated user one way or another, or a mention of the error I get when I try to run it. I get a similar error when trying to run irc on the weekend, except that it's '% bus era' instead of 'error', which i thought was a bit odd.

There really doesn't seem to be much for someone to do if they're not validated. Anyone know how long it usually takes?

I'm not going to say it's the best episode of the series, but when I try to think which one is, it's always the first that comes to mind.

It's amazing what Koenig did with that character in the limited time he got.

Sudor's arc is great. Have you seen Babylon 5? Because Brad Dourif plays a monk in 'passing through Gethsemane' and it's also an excellent performance. Probably my favorite guest character in the series.

I've been using linux for a long time, and I have a background in this kind of stuff, but it's not my career and I don't keep as current as if it was, so i'm going to give my point of view on this.

A zfs array is probably the legit way to go. But there's a huge caveat there. If you're not working with this technology all the time, it's really not more robust or reliable for you. If you have a failure in several years, you don't want to rely on the fact that you set it up appropriately years ago, and you don't want to have to relearn it all just to recover your data.

Mergerfs is basically just files on a bunch of disks. Each disk has the same directory structure and your files just exist in one of those directories on a single disk, and your mergerfs volume shows you all files on all disks in that directory. There are finer points of administration, but the bottom line is you don't need to know a lot, or interact with mergerfs at all, to move all those files somewhere else. Just copy from each disk to a new drive and you have it all.

Snapraid is just a snapshot. You can use it to recover your data if a drive fails. The commands are pretty simple, and relearning that isn't going to be too hard several years down the road.

The best way isn't always the best if you know you're not going to keep current with the technology.

They could also run Firefox as a nonpersistent app in docker, if that makes them feel any better.

When I need to blend in I use this https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Wsl is the bare minimum to make me feel less uncomfortable on windows, even if it's just for file operations and to ssh into a real computer.

If you want to be able to grow, check out mergerfs and snapraid. If you're wanting to use a pi and USB drives it's probably more what you're wanting than zfs and raid arrays. It's what i'm using and I've been really happy with it.

Red pocket on eBay. 30 bucks for a year of service with 200 minutes 1000 texts and some data every month. Cheapest i've found, but i'd love it if someone showed me something cheaper.

You might want to read my post again, because that's literally what I said. Where are they? They have no answer, and that shows the argument (hedge against tyranny) is bullshit. My point is that some reasons are deeply held and others are not. This one is the deeply held one, and it's the one people need to keep hammering home. If the 2nd amendment is a hedge against tyranny, why don't we see the beginnings of unrest? Conservatives may give different reasons they think things are going to shit, but they also think things are going to shit. And.they have no answer about why nothing's being done about it.

We accept some criminals escaping justice so that we minimize the number of innocent people who are deprived of their freedom. Most people don't find that provocative. It's the same basic argument to say that we accept some lesser evil (gun violence) to ensure a greater evil does not come to pass (tyranny). Assuming the first condition leada to the second.

If that protective mechanism (an armed populace) were functioning adequately, you would expect to see at least some fringe evidence of it both being active, and creating a benefit for society (ostensibly causing tyrants to back off). Bad as things are getting, we don't see evidence of either. Each day it becomes clearer that the argument is invalid.

I live in the south. I know lots of gun owners. Every one of them bases their whole concept of this right on self defense and civil duty. It's convenient to think that it's as simple as gun owners want to be able to play at being tough and have dangerous toys, and don't care about anyone else getting hurt. You're also not going to.change anyone's mind if you don't get to the reasons they actually believe what they do, right or wrong.

Just my 2 cents.