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Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits

I love how every time I read a “Critical” vulnerability in Linux it’s essentially “The user must leave their computer completely unlocked in an accessible area for a long period of time. Also he needs this very specific combination of programs running in these specific versions. Ah, and the planets have to be aligned for it to work. If all of these happen, an attacker might glimpse at your desktop wallpaper, so definitely critical”.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to nostupidquestions in Why does incest result in birth defects?

First you need to understand the difference between a dominant and a recessive gene. Dominant genes manifest if they’re present, recessive genes manifest only if there are no dominant genes present. A quick example is blood types, 0 is recessive, both A and B are dominant, you have two genes that specify your blood type, if both of them are 0 you are type 0, any other combination with 0 you’re not 0, i.e. 0A or A0 are A, while 0B or B0 are B. This means that a person with blood AB can’t have a son with blood 0, because his son will either have one A or one B inherited from that person.

Genetic diseases that happen because dominant genes are hard to miss, if you have the gene you have the disease, however genetic diseases that need recessive genes can be carried for generations without anyone manifesting symptoms. But of two persons have the same recessive gene it’s quite possible that their children will have both of the genes be that one and manifest the illness. The chances of two random people having the same recessive genes are quite slim, but the closer people are genetically the higher the chances that they have the same recessive genes. Using blood type as an example, if a parent is AB and the other is B0 their children have 0% chance of being 00, but they have a 25% chance of being A0 and 25% chance of being B0 (the other 25% being AB and BB). Now if their children A0 and B0 have a child of their own that child has a 25% chance of being born 00, whereas if any of them had a kid with a AB, AA or BB the chances would be 0%.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in How can i rsync over my network without using ssh?

I love this answer because it’s exactly what he’s asking, but absolutely what he shouldn’t do hahahaha.

Anyone wondering, go to a computer and type nc -lp PORT > file (Replacing PORT with the port you want to use), now go to a different computer and type nc IP PORT < FILE (Replacing IP and Port with the IP from the first machine and the PORT you ran on the command there, and FILE with a file you want to copy). Congratulations, you just copied a file from one machine to another without using SSH.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in How can i rsync over my network without using ssh?

You can create a second SSH key without passphrase, add that to the authorised keys, and specify to use that key instead, for example using an SSH config file.

Now this is a bit of a security flaw because anyone with access to the key can use it, so you can use rrsync to make sure that key only has access to rsync, so worst case scenario it can destroy your backup, but that’s expected since you want write access to your backup without inputting a password.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to nostupidquestions in Can I just convert to Judaism tomorrow and get a free vacation to Israel?

Which church asks people to study? You can simply start going to a church and no one will bat an eye. I’ve met Christians who couldn’t even read, and even the ones that can have a very limited interest in reading what they consider to be the most important book there is. As a general rule just as a casual reader I’ve read more of the bible than the average Christian, I definitely can’t say the same about Jews since they point out that I didn’t read it in Hebraic and usually know it better than I do.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in Plymouth not working in Kubuntu

Cool, didn’t noticed you changed it to your actual partition, although I should have because there’s no reason for me to have 4 partitions on my disk. That being said using UUIDs for booting is better than device names, if you add or remove a drive the device name can change. In my case it’s a laptop and only has one name slot so I’m fairly sure it won’t change, plus I had to write that file manually when I first installed my system so I was lazy and used the device name, but you already seemed to have the proper UUID there, so changing it to the device seems a bit backwards.

GRUB is also customisable, although I agree that refind looks a lot nicer. I don’t think refind is any better than GRUB in dealing with Windows updates, the problem is that Windows has this annoying habit of formatting the MBR so it essentially wipes all other boot managers from the drive, which is why people recommend having windows in a different drive so it can’t fuck up your boot manager, but I know that’s not always a possibility.

As for the splash screen being wrong I can’t help you there, I actually like the checks scroll that’s the default without a splash screen so I’ve been using that for a while now.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in Plymouth not working in Kubuntu

No, you should edit it to be something like “Boot with standard options” “ro root=UUID=96e2ea68-742d-4309-ae9f-4d12ba668b21 quiet splash” mine says /dev/nvme0n1p4 because that means device (/dev/) first nvme SSD controller (nvme0) disk number 1 (n1) partition 4 (p4). If yours worked with that line you copied from mine it’s only because coincidentally your / partition is the fourth partition on the first nvme SSD on your computer. (Or maybe because that config is not being used).

A question though, why do you want to use refind if you don’t know the basic about partitions and boot drives? I think you’d had a better experience using the default one which is GRUB.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in Plymouth not working in Kubuntu

Read my answer again, that’s the wrong file.

Also use Pastebin or something similar, people are not going to add random stuff to their google account just to help a stranger on the internet.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in Plymouth not working in Kubuntu

You’re using refind, you need to specify the quiet splash parameters in refind config. You can do this every time you boot by manually editing the entry, for example if you want to test that editing this would work, or you can edit the config file with the boot parameters.

I don’t know how you have your refind configured, mine has a /boot/refind_linux.conf file where I can put the boot parameters, e.g. mine looks like this:

<span style="color:#323232;">"Boot with standard options"  "rw root=/dev/nvme1n1p2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"Boot to single-user mode"    "rw root=/dev/nvme1n1p2 single"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"Boot with minimal options"   "ro root=/dev/nvme1n1p2"
</span>

For more information check out wiki.archlinux.org/title/REFInd

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux_gaming in Steam Big-Picture wrong controls (Arch, KDE, Wayland, AMD)

Is it also wrong inside games? Steam big picture has a setting for using Nintendo navigation style buttons.

If it was just the 8BitDo I could suspect pairing mode or something, but the Steam controller has never ever behaved strangely for me.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux_gaming in Mouse Suggestions

I have a Logitech G604 and it works flawlessly with piper to setup the extra buttons.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in What is a distro with updates of Arch but dependencies of Fedora?

Important is subjective, do you consider Spanish spell checker important for your document editor? How about Arabic or Chinese? Why would you want all of that bloat installed by default? Better than whoever needs spell checker in a specific language installs that.

When you install a program Pacman lists the optional dependencies for it, just install the ones you want and that’s it.

As for daily updates you don’t need to update daily, just weekly or monthly is good enough, just because there are updates available doesn’t mean you should install them asap.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in What is a distro with updates of Arch but dependencies of Fedora?

That’s a bad idea, even going back to his question, he wants spell checker, should it install every single language? It’s likely a bad idea to do that, you’ll get a lot of things you don’t need. Not to mention optional dependencies might contradict each-other if several of them perform the same service, e.g. video playback backend

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to nostupidquestions in Do any Spanish speaking countries play (American) football and if so what's the best way to watch it?

American football is, well, American… In Argentina we play Rugby, which is not entirely different as far as I understand.

Nibodhika , 5 months ago to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

I’ve done my plenty of stupid stuff, from dd disks I was using to forcefully uninstall dependencies of the package manager. But the one that takes the cake for me happened back in 2012, I was working at a research lab in the university and was sharing a computer with another intern. That other intern used Gentoo and so we agreed that the machine should be Gentoo, I’ve installed it at my house on my PC and got comfortable with it before we shared that computer. One thing that I learnt when installing Gentoo is that the /dev folder is created on boot, you don’t populate it when installing, instead you mount the one from the host system you’re using to install.

The computer had an issue with a device, can’t even remember what it was, so I thought I’ll run rm -rf /dev that should take care of the issue and after a reboot it will be repopulated… It might have worked, but what I actually ran was rm -rf /etc.