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  • You must have done more than rename a partition... it is looking for the partition UID and not finding it. Since the UID is never supposed to change until the partition gets wiped, this is very odd indeed.

    Also, putting external volumes (usb stick?) into fstab is not a good idea... let the automount find it when you put it in and want to access it.

  • Bash is always there, and bash scripts and snippets are precise. Describing gui manipulations when the GUI keeps changing is also quite hard... what if the person you are interacting with has a 2-yo system and you have the bleeding edge? Even knowing which menu the settings are in can be frustrating for the helper.

    Windows users (e.g. me at work) get grumpy when Microsoft starts changing the menu structure after keeping it consistent for 20 years and start thinking of powershell scripts to create consistency between our engineering workstations.

  • His admiration for "strong' leaders (dictators) starts to take shape. Supplying weapons to Ukraine to fight military aggression doesn't seem appropriate when you can simply try to outdo Putin at his own game.

    Julius Caesar did this... it is not a new pattern.

  • They are text files. If there is anything weird about them it is that they are indented with spaces and if you are inconsistent with indentation they won't read into the yaml import function, but I can't imagine why vim or nano would have a problem with opening them. Maybe the ones you were using were not actually yaml.

  • Mint.

    General pickyness: Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. For example, Android and Mint are both operating systems that use Linux, but the way you interact with Android is dramatically different than the way you interact with Mint.

  • Isn't this basically the plot of "Home Alone" and it's very popular sequels playing out with a firearm? With FPS games as the cultural backdrop, why is anyone shocked at this? Or is this just hand-wringing?

  • Agree. For clarity, the circuits that show the low-voltage status are much less hungry for current than the circuits that measure weight. So no, having enough battery to report low voltage does not imply that there is enough to make an accurate weight measurement.

  • Republicans don't mind a troubled economy because they believe they are avoiding worse pain. Democrats are more willing to increase the cash flow at all levels of the economy. There really isn't much to be surprised at here.

    Of course, they often don't present their positions that way, but lying is like breathing to all politicians. Trump kind of abandons any pretense otherwise.

  • When you come across some Python code for something written 5 years ago and they used four contributed packages that the programmers have changed the API on three times since then, you want to set up a virtual environment that contains those specific versions so you can at least see how it worked at that time. A small part of this headache comes from Python itself mutating, but the bulk of the problem is the imported user-contributed packages that multiply the functionality of Python.

    To be sure, it would be nice if those programmers were all dedicated to updating their code, but with hundreds of thousands of packages that could be imported written by volunteers, you can't afford to expect all of them them to stop innovating or even to continue maintaining past projects for your benefit.

    If you have the itch to fix something old so it works in the latest versions of everything, you have that option... but it is really hard to do that if you cannot see it working as it was designed to work when it was built.