LGA sockets (including AM5) have flat contacts on the CPU and spring-loaded contacts on the motherboard. No pins, no holes. You could take a small tweezer or precision flathead screwdriver and lift the CPU from a corner. As long as you don't reach in too deep, it won't damage either side. You should be able to lift it with minimal force.
Find the motherboard's manual. It will have instructions for installing and removing both the CPU and the cooler. If the CPU uses a PGA socket, removing it might require a little force.
If you're sure the clip and the retaining frame are released, but can't/don't want to lift it by its edges, you could use suction.
If there's still some moisture in the thermal compound, you can use a flat piece of glass or plastic. Press it against the CPU's surface and lift gently. If the thermal compound is dry, apply a little from a new tube.
A small suction cup might work.
There are vacuum pens made specifically for this kind of work.
(edit) The MSI B650 uses an AM5 socket, which is an LGA package. The CPU itself doesn't have any pins that could be damaged, so you can be a bit more forceful. You could even take a small tweezer and pry it out from one of the corners (as long as the retaining frame is off, of course).
The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He's been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:
Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
Acted like an absolute fucking buffoon the innocent little lamb who's been set upon by the wolves.
Yes, it's best to store them on a separate hard drive. The target partition must be formatted as a Linux filesystem (ext2/3/4 or btrfs) in order to retain file ownership and permissions. I have a 512 GB partition on a hard drive reserved for the last three weekly backups and never ran out of space.
Ext4 is still perfectly fine. It's a mature technology, and much more stable than btrfs. Your experience will not be any different because of this.
I still recommend using Timeshift. The only downside is that only the Rsync backup method will be available, which creates a full on-disk copy of your system files.
Bootloader no worky can be caused by a hundred different issues. The installer may have removed the kernel or a CPIO archive (initramfs or processor microcode) that the bootloader needs. You could be missing some EFI program. If the boot entry is set to identify the root filesystem by its UUID, formatting/reinstalling would have changed the real UUID and then the bootloader wouldn't be able to find it. Maybe installing the OS simply wiped or damaged that partition.
If you have to reinstall the OS, you should also reinstall the bootloader (the OS installer usually lets you do that from the GUI), or if you're confident, update the boot entries to reflect the state of the computer. I strongly recommend using btrfs as your root filesystem instead of ext4, and use Timeshift to set up regular snapshots (btrfs) or backup clones (ext4) in case this happens again.
I'm willing to bet that 95% of Wordpress users just want a one-click solution to their non-technical needs and don't give one shit about "innovation". Otherwise they wouldn't be using Wordpress.
While I wouldn't accuse him of having the intelligence to make a "calculated move" -- he has an extensive history of making decisions based on how it might make him look in the eyes of his suckers naive gamers. If you remember the beginning of his beef with Google and Apple -- Epic prepared an entire 80-page lawsuit and an animated short film before intentionally breaking ToS, positioning themselves as the messiah that will save the gamers from the evil corporations.
He obviously has something to gain from voicing a dissenting opinion. Remain skeptical, question everything.
I currently run Nextcloud inside a Debian 11 LXC container on Proxmox, together with Apache, Mariadb, and PHP. I followed this guide. Once Apache and PHP were running, the rest of the process was straightforward.
Switch from Pulse? No reason not to. Use Wireplumber instead of pipewire-session-manager, and consider installing pipewire-pulse if any of your scripts rely on pactl (or rewrite them to use wpctl, which does much the same as pactl).
As for Easyeffects, use the flatpak package to avoid dependency issues.
That's the point. It's a list of words that may or may not mean something and I can't make an assessment on whether or not it's bullshit. It's coming from Apple, though, and it's about privacy, which is not good for credibility.
LGA sockets (including AM5) have flat contacts on the CPU and spring-loaded contacts on the motherboard. No pins, no holes. You could take a small tweezer or precision flathead screwdriver and lift the CPU from a corner. As long as you don't reach in too deep, it won't damage either side. You should be able to lift it with minimal force.