@Pro The single reason I will not use IOS products is the restriction that you can only get apps from their store. Android limits what can be on their store, but you can toggle a setting in the config and download from anywhere you want to.
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1·3 days ago@Quadhammer Yes and so do we and so does Russia, and if Europe was willing to Frack, so would they. And I’m not suggesting we should not start building alternative infrastructure for the day when that does run out but in the meantime there is no good reason to plunge people into poverty.
Unlike you, I won’t resort to ad hominem attacks.
12·3 days ago@sthetic Answer 1) Because I think the latter is their goal, and offering convenience is just a way to try to achieve it.
- Experience. I’m 66 years old, I’ve watched the slippery slope in action take away too many of my freedoms already, I don’t care to give up more.
711·4 days ago@phantomwise @SpiderUnderUrBed Every program on your system has “kernel access”, it’s called “syscalls”, but actually being able to modify the kernel, that is another matter.
@MachineFab812 @SpiderUnderUrBed even if you have steamOS, what keeps you from downloading kernels from kernel.org and building?
@Godort @SpiderUnderUrBed That’s really the conundrum, in an open source kernel, where can you put anti-cheat that someone else can’t readily pull out?
@potentiallynotfelix You’re most welcome!
@potentiallynotfelix Ya gotta love it!
@Attacker94 The boot block pointing to grub is what gets overwritten, grub itself in /boot/efi doesn’t. You can fix either though with either boot repair or boot from a usb thumb drive, mount the partitions on /mnt and subdirectories,mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev, /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts, and then mount --rbind /proc /mnt/proc and /sys /mnt/sys, cp /etc/resolv.conf to /mnt/etc/resolv.conf, chroot to /mnt, and then grub-install /dev/sda or whatever the drive is. Not a big deal. And this only happens if you install Windows AFTER you have installed Linux.
@Rubanski if you have mdraid partitions, you also should add bootdegraded=true to the grub command line so the system will still boot even if a disk fails and an array is in the degraded mode.
@HiddenLayer555 This is a messed up era. When I was a kid from kindergarten and up I walked to school alone. It wasn’t a super long distance, about six blocks each way but it was unsupervised, and that was the norm back then. What has happened that it has become so dangerous that kids need to be bussed to school even if they’re three blocks from the school?
@over_clox You are most welcome. This is one aspect I love about Linux, damned near everything is adjustable. Those adjustments aren’t necessarily well organized, but they are usually there, somewhere…
@over_clox You can adjust this with hdparm:
hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda (or whatever the drive name)
Will prevent spin down altogether.hdparm -B 1-127 /dev/sda
Will allow spin down with ‘1’ being the most aggressive power management and 127 the
least.I put these in /etc/rc.local so that it gets run by systemd at boot-up.
@just_another_person @Rubanski On most modern systems neither Windows nor Linux is going to hurt each other’s boot record because usually on a dual boot system you’re going to launch grub out of the boot block which is going to them find and mount the UEFI partition which is a fat-32 partition usually mounted on /boot/efi by Linux, and then grub is going to continue from a directory within /boot/efi, windows similarly will have a directory there, and grub if it finds both will present a menu at boot. Since both use separate directories on this UEFI System partition, one should not interfere with the other unless the partition is too small and you run out of disk space. I usually size my EFI partition at 512MB and that’s always been more than sufficient for multiple operating systems. If you re-install WIndows, it will overwrite the boot block with it’s own boot loader, but restoring it with grub will you back to where you were. If you are a real glutton for punishment, you can setup the Windows boot loader to chain load grub, this works as I have actually done it, more as a matter of curiosity than anything else. But I prefer to use Grub as the first boot loader as it’s faster and less prone to exploding.
@5714 @Drusas Obvioously but older people don’t go to school. However, this whole blaming the weapon thing has gone too far. Need to start just putting the perpetrators to death and end this.