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analdestroyer , in Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/a4f521da-f8f5-413a-ad86-d748ba13fb28.webp

float , in Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?

Yes!

I try to navigate everywhere with organic map. If I need to look up a business’ coordinates, I use a web container of gmaps I found on f-droid. If I go somewhere and it isn’t in open maps, I add it.

bizdelnick , in Beginner's Guide to `grep`

“Using regular expressions” is misleading. A beginner could think that by default grep is looking for a literal string, but it does not.

Gsus4 , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

Knoppix in 2nd year at Uni. It made me more productive because there were few distractions from programming. So zen.

myth , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

Started dabbling in Linux some 15+ years ago, dualbooting with windows XP. Tried bunch of different distros - suse, Slackware, RedHat (pre-enterprise) etc. Didn’t really understand it and kept going back to windows. A classmate had told me Gentoo was good for learning Linux. So once I was trying to shrink my windows partition to make space for another dualboot experiment, and in the process borked my partitions. They were probably recoverable, but I got furious, ragequit windows and installed gentoo on the whole disk and used it as my daily. That helped me learn.

chk232 , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

Ubantu in 2007 ish. Games didn’t work.

teawrecks , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

Around '08 or '09 I found Hak5 and was live booting backtrack on my macbook to play with the tools. Was really out of my depth, but hey, it’s easy to get stuff done when you run everything as root ;)

rev , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

Slackware 1998. I spent 6 months in a text only freebsd install in 1999. Because of a dram issue I wasn’t able to run windows without blue screens. Text based internet wasn’t that bad in 1999. I could load up xwindows if I wanted to see a picture but rarely did. Talking on irc somebody mentioned memtest and my memory had a very long warranty so I took it back to the store. Then I spent the next several years addicted to quake/quake2

basuramannen , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

Kernel panic after installing Redhat 6, not RHEL, in the late 90s or early 2000s. Later tried 7 and has been using Linux since.

contortions , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

First was Corel Linux, boxed, from Circuit City, on a dodgy Pentium hand-me-down. Then Gentoo on a second-hand HP laptop in college. Distro hopped a lot alongside Windows in the subsequent years. Now Arch (btw), for about a decade.

fushuan , in Found an interesting post about Linux saving someone's life. Does anyone else have stories like this that they want to share?

Cool it worked for them, but I’d end up reinstalling windows while cursing Linux for 3 hours. As I have done several times already :)

Grass , in Found an interesting post about Linux saving someone's life. Does anyone else have stories like this that they want to share?

This is so fucking weird. But what isn’t I guess.

whodoctor11 , in why did you switch?
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I really liked Windows XP & 7, it was good in the time I was tech illiterated, but I buyed a new laptop and I have to use 10. I didn’t hate it. But then, 11 comes. And was crap That time I was becoming concerned with privacy and decided to switch straight to Arch. Best thing I did in a computer. And I was more convinced when I saw that Windows 12 desktop concept that Microsoft showed, basically crapier MacOS.

I am happy with Arch KDE. The only problems I had until today were caused by my unknowledge. I don’t plan to ever return windows.

kanzalibrary , in Which M.2 SSD for Linux?
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Any SSD manufactures will fine as long you remember to choose SSD with SLC type for fastest, more durable, less error-prone, and security integration (on this link for further information). With the longest guarantee from the manufactures too will be great for you in long term usage.

For secure thing, SLC is the best option you have as you can see this video from this source that I found week ago. SSD with SLC type will maximize your productivity than other types, while also keep your privacy when you want sell them in the future.

I know the sources I’ll give to you are from 2011/13 research like this comment. But as far as I know, this sources are the best explanation that give me deep understanding on how SSD works, rather than just articles or simple explanation things from manufactures with no deep explanation how they methods works. It’s up to you to in the end…

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ono ,

choose SSD with SLC

Drives made with SLC flash memory are practically nonexistent. Affordable ones completely so. Times have changed.

Here’s a list of models: docs.google.com/…/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcrfpJKHkOf-O…

kanzalibrary ,
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Drives made with SLC flash memory are practically nonexistent. Affordable ones completely so. Times have changed.

Yes, there are many SSD SLC with afforable price right now too, for example ADATA SU650 I used. The benefit SLC over other types in the video I provide before are after we secure erase our SSD. SLC provide less latency than others, and trim from SSD controller are not enough to clean the data or reduce the latency after using it for long time (based by research in the paper). And from point of security as the main topic in paper, show a good point that SLC give more clean data format than others for privacy minded people (focused on that right now). I’m still searching the latest paper about this topic… still stuck in this because others not explain well or have proof with research / comparison as this.

ono ,

Yes, there are many SSD SLC with afforable price right now too, for example ADATA SU650 I used.

No, that is a TLC drive. It only uses SLC for the cache.

kanzalibrary ,
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Thank you for correct me, now I get what I need right now from this correction…

some_guy , in What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

MKLinux on my PowerPC Macintosh when I was ~14. Read about it online. Got my mom to take me to the book store to look for a book on Linux. They had none. Booted to a command prompt and had zero idea what to do. Didn’t run it again until (many) years later.

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