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Nibodhika , (edited ) to linux in Fixed Arch install error

Have you mounted /boot? Usually it’s in a different partition so you’ll need to mount it.

Edit: yup, your boot is in a different partition according to your fstab

Nibodhika , to linux in Fixed Arch install error

Refind does not generate the proper Configs when ran from the live image. From the wiki

Warning: When refind-install is run in chroot (e.g. in live system when installing Arch Linux) /boot/refind_linux.conf is populated with kernel options from the live system not the one on which it is installed. Edit /boot/refind_linux.conf and make sure the kernel parameters in it are correct for your system, otherwise you could get a kernel panic on your next boot. See .conf for an example file.

This is how my /boot/refind_linux.conf looks like:


<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>
Nibodhika , to linux in Non-root user that (suddenly) has elevated privileges in a specific command (only). [Have I been hacked?]

That is not an elevated permission, your user should be able to delete that file, do the same in another directory if it works it might be a permission, or more likely an attribute, problem on the directory itself or something on the path to it.

Nibodhika , to linux in Non-root user that (suddenly) has elevated privileges in a specific command (only). [Have I been hacked?]

Wait, why did you mentioned docker?

Nibodhika , to linux in Is PopOs a good option if i don't want to tinker much with the OS and do some basic tasks as web browsing etc?

it’s quite difficult for me to get things working for now.

What sort of things are you having problems with?

Where do i learn more about linux system so i can get more familiar with it?

Most of us learned by being curious and poking around, reading on Google or asking our friends who use Linux. If you don’t have friends who use Linux the community is also great, asking in forums such as this one will likely get you answers and explanations for things. Pop is based on Debian, Ubuntu is also based on Debian, so most things that apply to one apply to the other, in fact the vast majority of things that apply to one Linux apply to most of not all, which is why a lot of people look to the Arch Linux wiki for answers even if they don’t use Arch themselves.

I don’t want to break things up because of my curious nature

You will break things, consider this a fact because it will happen, Linux gives you too much access, so if you don’t know what you’re doing you might shoot yourself in the foot, but that’s fine because you would have learnt something important in the process.

So if you’re going to break things, how can we make it easier for you to recover? On Linux different drives or partitions don’t show up as different letters on the “my computer” like they do on Windows, instead they need to be mounted onto a folder. This means that you can have folder A and folder B side by side but both being in different drives inside a folder C that is in yet another drive. That sounds confusing, but we can use this to our advantage, the root of the Linux filesystem is / everything is inside that folder, so for example the full path to your user directly is /home/ whereas the full path to the Firefox binary (which you can check by running which firefox on a terminal) is something like /bin/firefox. When you’re installing a system you can partition the disk (or if you have multiple disks) and select each one of them to mount in a different place on boot, to do that on most installers you need to select manual partitioning or something like that, then you select one partition of at least 100GB (you can do a lot less for testing on your VM, this is my recommendation for your actual system) to be mounted on /, then you select a partition of at least the same amount as your RAM to be swap (swap is essentially a RAM in disk, this is used when you run out of RAM, or when you want to hybernate), and finally the remaining space you put to mount on /home. Remember how I said your user home directory was inside /home? So that means that now your user home directory is in a separate partition from the system, but why would you want that? Simple, because now if you break your system, or want to reinstall it for whatever reason, you’ll only format the partition you used for /, leaving the one on /home untouched, which means that all of your personal files, configurations, etc get preserved. You’ll only lose the system, programs installed, and other such things which are easily recoverable. If you do this, the worst case scenario for your curiosity is around half an hour of reinstalling the system before you’re back to where you started without losing anything important.

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"?

Yes, my entire point is that even if it was a human being, no questions asked, fully developed, with 100% chance of dying and 100% chance of you surviving, still the vast majority of people would agree the government can’t take your kidney, which means that on a case where there’s debate whether it’s even a human being, when it’s debate whether its alive or not, and where there’s questions as to whether it will even survive, the argument becomes that much stronger. Bodily autonomy is one of the rights out society considers most valuable.

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"?

When it comes to abortion however, I do believe that it’s a tricky situation ethically. I’m pro-choice, but I say that with difficulty, because considering both sides it’s not an easy position and I see it as much more ethically complex than the issue of unnecessary animal exploitation. That’s because I think you can make the argument that either forcing a person to undergo pregnancy, or terminating the life of an (admittedly unconscious, undeveloped) fetus, are in both cases breaching a sentient (or would-be sentient) individual’s negative (protective) right.

I’m going to answer this, because if we remove the ethical dilemma you have everything else is meaningless.

The right to bodily autonomy is essentially absolute in most people’s moral compass, let’s give an example: imagine a fully grown adult was in a car accident, completely out of his control, he lost a lot of blood and his kidneys were damaged, you are a match to him, and he will 100% die unless you donate blood and one kidney, in that scenario: should the government be able to force you to donate your kidney and blood?

There is no question that the person will die if you don’t, there is no doubt the person is a human being, there’s no doubt you’ll survive the procedure and live a normal life afterwards, yet the vast majority of people would agree that the government should not be able to force you, because we recognise that a person’s right to their own body triumphs over other people’s right to that person’s body. Applying the same logic to a Fetus is straightforward, even if it was a person, it wouldn’t have a higher right to your body than you do, there’s no moral dilemma there just like there isn’t one in the kidney situation.

In the unlikely event that you think the government should in fact be able to force you to donate your kidney, it means you value life above bodily autonomy, the logical next step is that as long as it saves more than one life it’s okay for the government to kill you, e.g. if your heart and lungs are compatible with two people who will die without them, then it should kill you to get them because obviously saving two lives is better than saving one.

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that?

What are you talking about? Ratchet and Clank had as much story as God of War, they were both released for the same console, and both of them had a new game released recently. If you don’t care about story Halo and CoD are very similar, and there’s a new CoD every year, why not play that?

Plus there are plenty of games that got released recently and are focused on mechanics, have absolutely awesome gameplay and are not “story” heavy e.g. Dead Cells, Spider-Man, Stellaris, Two point hospital, Factorio, Rimworld just out of the top of my head.

I’m really trying to understand your argument, but really can’t:

  • You mention games without gameplay and list as examples games that were acclaimed by their gameplay as well as storytelling
  • You say you don’t care about graphics but list games that were at the top of the graphical capabilities of their time
  • You talk about a recent trend and provide examples from 10 or more years ago

I’m not sure you know what you like in a game, I think it’s quite possible you enjoyed those games because you were in a different mental situation when you played them, and now nothing quite stands up to them because you changed and are not able to enjoy things as much. I’m saying this because objectively The last of Us is a masterpiece in every single aspect, not only one of the best stories I’ve seen in a while, but also a lot of great innovative mechanics and a gameplay that fits just perfectly, even if you skipped every Cutscene in the game you would still be playing an absolutely awesome game, it might not be your thing because you don’t like stealth, or scare easily, but to claim it’s a game without anything but story is more proof that you either haven’t played it or are trolling.

Nibodhika , to linux in Need some help with a Kali linux

You need to run sudo apt update before trying to install things. Notice that you’ll need to do this every time unless you installed Kali with some permanent storage. Which is why it’s usually a better idea to just use your day-to-day Linux box for stuff, Kali is for when you want to not leave traces and not allow any backtrack to get to your actual system, for most non red team related stuff you don’t need Kali.

Nibodhika , to steamdeck in The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on

Yes (to de series S), but he specifically mentioned buying used discs, and the series S is digital only, so it’s not viable for what he’s proposing. Also yes (for the 360 games), but it’s only some and only the games you bought digitally, so his arguments of buying cheap used games also moots this point. Subscription is not optional if you want to play online, which granted I personally don’t care, but his argument was Xbox+gamepass+used games was a better cost benefit than Steam Deck, so he’s including gamepass in his budged for Xbox so to remove it it would be a different point from what he was making.

Did not know about the emulator, glad to hear that, I thought because it was a console it would have been a lot more closed than that. In any case the emulator didn’t factor in the price of anything, it’s just because I like to play a lot of old games on my deck so that gives me hours of fun for free, glad to know people with Xbox are also able to enjoy it.

Nibodhika , to steamdeck in The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on

That math is so wrong on so many reasons. Let’s compare it

Device Steam Deck Xbox
Cheapest official price 339 549.99
Subscription fee 0 14.99/month
Initial games all of your steam library (800+ games for me) 0
Emulator support Yes No
Base cost after a year 339 729.87

This means that I have 390.87 to spend in games before we break even. Let’s see how many games I can buy with that, to do that in a way that’s as impartial as possible I’ll look at the top most played games to try to not put my bias for games I prefer and add their lowest recorded price (since steam sales are common place) on steam until I reach the 390 I have to spend. This gets me to number 33 on the top 100 most played games. It’s worth noting that if I add emulators, free games, and the fact that I personally prefer to buy a lot of indie games than spend 120 into two football manager games, I can easily make those 390 get me a LOT more games. But here’s the biggest kicker, if one month I’m short on cash I can play any of the hundreds games I have, you unfortunately if you don’t pay gamepass are out of games. Also in a few years when you need to buy a new console you’ll lose all your games except the ones Microsoft allows you to keep playing, so in the long run you get to where I’am, i.e. having a large curated list of games that you like and can play without having to pay.

To add insult to injury, I get to play my games on the go, and the suspend/resume midgame feature means I’m back in my game within seconds, not having to wait until my Xbox finished playing the Call of Duty ad

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Nibodhika , to linux in Linux empowered coffee, a must have.

I came to post exactly this!

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in What is a worker's union? How does it internally work? How can a union make the affiliated company do stuff to benefit the union(why can"t a company just say: f*ck off to their demands)?

What is a worker’s union?

A group of workers that act together for mutual benefit

How does it internally work?

Each can organise in its own wat

How can a union make the affiliated company do stuff to benefit the union(why can"t a company just say: f*ck off to their demands)?

Because there’s a large difference between the bargaining power a single employee has than all of them together. If one employee says “give me the weekend off or I stop working” the company will fire him, lose a small bit of productivity temporarily, hire one guy and have someone train him, in a short while they’re up again to the same productivity level and that’s that. If all of the workers say at the same time “give us the weekend off or we stop working” the company can’t fire everyone, I mean, they can, but it will take them a long time to hire the same amount of people, then hire external people to train them, then wait until they get up to speed and produce the same amount of work the previous guys did, and in the meantime they produce 0 so they’re burning money and missing deadlines… In other words, it’s cheaper for the company to talk to the union than it is to have to fire everyone.

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?

So, do you have a hunting or an sporting shoot license for your guns? France laws are the same as the rest of the EU, guns are very controlled, people in Europe don’t talk about guns as a means of revolution against the government. Unless you meant you’re french in the way 'Muricas say they’re Italian or Irish, i.e. they have a great grandfather that once passed through that country.

Nibodhika , to games in Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'

The majority of PCs are Windows, which is only marginally better.

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