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elucubra ,

The 5 is already somewhat enshittified. The Non Standard USB power that makes you buy a propietary PS is one example (which I found out after buying one for my son).

elucubra ,

Two days ago my Mint system got borked by a kernel update. I booted from the grub menu with the prior kernel, and rolled back with Timeshift. Pretty painless. You don’t need Atomic/immutable distros for that sort of reliability.

I’m playing with kinoite in a VM, though.

elucubra ,

Can’t you run timeshift from a live usb? Never tried, but i believe its possible. Obviously more time consuming and bothersome, but possible.

elucubra ,

“Generally” is the key word. I’m a linux user since slackware on diskettes. My daily driver is Mint, because lazy. I have 2 VMs with kali and kinoite.

A couple of days ago a kernel update borked my install. A problem with the Ryzen graphics driver.

For me it was trivial. Boot into the previous kernel, timeshift roll back, and back in business, but I can see how a newbie woul go into panic.

A satisfied “customer” will recommend you to a friend. A pissed off one will tell 10.

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elucubra ,

I do small business support. Everytime I do a windows install I do a ninite install of a bunch of things. Everything is always in the set. The fucntionality should have been in windows since NTFS was introduced

elucubra ,

Not really. Gravity and windows work as expected

elucubra ,

My car, a 25 yr old Skoda Octavia TDi gets about that mileage.

elucubra ,

L/100km. Standard fuel efficiency measurement in metric countries

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)

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elucubra ,

Is canva very enshittified?

elucubra ,

I’m hoping. I’ve been a Serif customer since the 00’s. Not much we can do except be very vocal, and remind Serif and Canva that if they go the Adobe route, they’ll risk becoming irrelevant. Difference is their power.

elucubra ,

Not open source, but pro grade, often nicer to work with than adobe stuff. The Affinity suite. Pay once per major revision. Decent upgrade plans. No subscription. Designer, photo and publisher.

elucubra ,

Yes, delay the submarine metamorphosis.

elucubra ,

Trustworthy Microsoft is an oxymoron

elucubra ,

You can have the backups encrypted and stored in a google account.

elucubra ,

If you think its hard to do worse, you haven been paying attention to China

elucubra ,

You have a self-declared zionist in office now.

elucubra ,

My 2 LGs do use WebOS, but I never use it. I have a raspberry pi for one, and the other one is my laptops second screen, so everything is fed from the laptop. I never see the TV’s OS

elucubra ,

Asus used to be the Toyota of computing.

Nowadays I would recommend MSI or Lenovo.

elucubra ,

Warranty is not the only problem. I ordered a Vivobook for a client. Upon arrival, I opened it up to see if there was space for a rusty disk. No space. Opening that thing was scary. I had the impression that it was going to break any minute. The thing is so flimsy it’s scary. I feels like it’s made out of a plastic pizza container and aluminum foil.

Thankfully we are in Europe, warranties here have teeth, and are 2 years minimum by law.

elucubra OP ,

Is every open source app audited? Look at the XZ near disaster. And XZ is pretty critical software. Open source doesn’t mean it’s safe by default, it means that the code can be read.

elucubra ,

Back in the day is half a millennium ago.

elucubra ,

My first job was in a Big Iron shop in the late 80’s, where I was in charge of backups. We kept Three sets of backups, on two different media, one on hand, one in a different location in the main building, in a water and fireproof safe, and one offsite. We had a major failure one day, and had to do a restore.

Both inhouse copies failed to restore. Thankfully the offsite copy worked. We were in panic. That taught me to keep all my important data on three sets. As the old saying goes: Data loss is not an if question, but a when question. Also, remember that “the cloud” simply means someone else’s remote servers over which you have no control.

elucubra ,

In a big iron shop?everything gets tested, dry run, etc, but shit happens, hence backups

elucubra ,

These things (and Seagate’s) have the usb interface soldered on, so if the drivd dies, forget about the data, no way to connect to another usb adapter to try to recover. Granted, it’s usually the drive that dies, but in these cases, you have a 100% rate of non recovery . Any other brand’s are standard drives. My favorite are toshiba.

elucubra ,

In my experience the drive fails more often than the adapter, but they do fail. Also, there is a good chance to recover data from a failed drive. With a soldered adaptor it’s basically impossible. The worst part is that the externals are often used for backups.

elucubra ,

Soldering is not the problem, unless its smd or tiny, its getting a non standard usb interface.

elucubra ,

Not particularly, but it happens.

elucubra ,

That’s because in the US you could be sent abroad to kill brown people for oil. I was a conscript in my country in the 80’s (Nato). In my country conscripts couldn’t be sent abroad, only professionals. I’d be ok with defending home soil. That doen’t mean that I wanted to do my tour, but I did it. I think I learnt a lot, not least about serving for the common good. Looking back it was good for me. Also, at hat time, after service you’d be in the reserves (simply listed) and the country could raise an army of millions, who’d only need some refresher training in a week, not like the green ass russian conscripts in Ukraine right now.

I’m favor of conscription for limited duration, and no possibility of deployment abroad. Also, women too. That wasn’t a thing then.

elucubra ,

Grass is the largest irrigated crop in the US

elucubra ,

Thanks! Did the trick!

elucubra ,

Generally you can upgrade RAM of different capacities, but only the amount of RAM that matches the original will run in dual channel. I’ve done it in a couple of machines, and it worked fine. the extra RAM should take a small performance hit, but In my case the tradeoff was worth it. I’ve also upgraded RAM beyond the specified max. Hasn’t always worked.

elucubra ,

In the US the most trustworthy media sources right now are Jon Stewart and John Oliver

elucubra ,

People assume that Boeing is behind this. I’m more inclined to believe that it’s a major shareholder

elucubra ,

I’m almost a boomer. I started out in a Big Iron shop that mainly ran Cobol I haven’t touched it in decades, and I was an Admin, so I barely touched the stuff. Now I could read the stuff, but not code a hello world.

A few years back a friend my age, who was a CS major, but had mainly been a mom for 2 decades returned to the job market, thinking that she faced an impossible task, that she had obsoleted herself. She was working within a week, maintaining Cobol at a bank, and making mint.

elucubra ,

Banks, Insurance , etc. are ultraconservative as far as tech. They want ultra stable systems. I had an acquaintance that had a business reselling ATMs to banks. Banks had a hard time sourcing EOL ATMs or spares. I remeber a story about some specific 486s CPUs and SIMMs that sold for 1000s, due to not being sourceable new from any supplier, and being needed as replacements for certain ATMs

Banks and insurance companies are also scared shitless of something breaking during upgrades to systems that control billions in funds

elucubra ,

I run Mint Cinnamon. It’s been Rock solid for me. You can modify, add, remove whatever you want. With Flatpacks you are mostly up to date. If you want to install a newer kernel you can, and if you have Timeshift running and something breaks, you just roll back.

I see Mint as an Un-enshittified Ubuntu.

I find cinnamon very frienly and comfortable, which I need in a daily driver. To play I have things like NixOS. I could Arch, but I’m not vegan. :)

That said, I’m giving Fedora Kinoite (Atomic) a try in a VM

elucubra ,

Actually Mint is un-enshittified Ubuntu

elucubra ,

I just tried it in a VM, and it had me jump through some hoops for flatpaks to work. Not ideal for newbies

Why is folder sharing between host and guest in KVM so hard?

I’m having the hardest tine setting up a shared folder between a Linux host and Win11guest. I want to get rid of dual boot, but there are a few programs that I use which are Win only. I have set up a VB VM, but I want a fine tuned KVM VM. On VB sharing is trivial, but I can’t get it to work in KVM. I have the host sharing...

elucubra OP ,

Some people have, with not great results. The software is the Affinity suite (design, photo, publishing, and I have used Inkscape, Gimp, and Scribus, but they aren’t there yet for me) A windows VM is fine for now, but VB is a bit sluggish. My aim is to set-up a physical partition for the VM, and try GPU passthough.

elucubra OP ,

Thanks. I’ll try.

elucubra OP ,

Thanks

elucubra OP ,

I have considered using an external NVME I have in a USB case, but It’s a clunky workaround.

elucubra OP ,

There are, and they are installed

elucubra OP ,

I suspect that there is something like that, since the Linux VM can access the share

elucubra OP ,

Will try. Thanks

elucubra ,

Here’s a revolutionary idea: don’t set an age limit!

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