While I understand and empathize with your dislike of proprietary blobs (fuck you, NVIDIA), every game is a huge blob unless you’re playing FOSS games exclusively.
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While I understand and empathize with your dislike of proprietary blobs (fuck you, NVIDIA), every game is a huge blob unless you’re playing FOSS games exclusively.
Sorry everyone. Ill try to do better, I promise.
Security people sure are an enthusiastic bunch of fellows.
I understand the rationale behind you doing this, I’ve done it myself.
Your company sends you abroad for a week or two. You want to access your Netflix account but don’t want to do it on the company computer. On the other hand you don’t want to carry two laptops with you.
As others have said, tampering company hardware can get you in trouble with the IT department, and it’s enough to get you fired in some cases.
If you value your job get permission to do it or get yourself a tablet.
I remember Corel Linux as a great disto. I used it for a while and found it very beginner friendly, polished, and it looked like it could one day become what Ubuntu eventually did.
Unfortunately, Corel saw no revenue would ever come from it, so it was sadly dropped.
This is the attitude the OP is talking about.
Being snobbish helps noone, we’ve all been noobs at some point.
Can’t argue with cool points.
My SSD Steam library over two drives because life is short and I cba managing the two ssds independently.
You do know that Steam handles multiple libraries transparently, even on removable drives?
Rsync itself may be a bottleneck. Have you compared it to cp command, for instance?
It doesn’t have to be the best, it just has to be better than the current standard. Git was better than CVS and SVN, so it won.
Exactly. Boring stability is good.
Can one tool be used for multiple use cases? Sure. Should it? Maybe not.
Fair enough, but I like the fact that I can keep Firefox or Steam from accessing my bank records and holiday photos.
My take: native packages for the core OS, flatpaks for desktop applications. Works for me.
IIRC the root account was disabled (with no password), so I resorted to my trusty SystemRescueCD pen to fix things. Never leave home without it.
Found out the hard way that if you edit /etc/sudoers with anything other than visudo you best be absolutely sure the syntax is correct, otherwise sudo will refuse to read it and you’ll be locked out.
Also learned to add -rf to the rm command at the end, after I re-read it to make sure it does what it should do. Something like rm /path -rf instead of rm -fr /path. That protects you from your fat fingers hitting the enter key half way through.
If you send the noobs to a noob specific community with other noobs, then you pass the chance to share some of your knowledge that may save the noob from doing some silly stuff because of the bad habits he picked up while using Windows.
I think that it may be slightly annoying and repetitive, but it is important to give noobs a nudge in the right direction.
You can always ignore the posts, or contribute with fresh content. 😉
I mostly use Thunderbird. Lately I’ve been using Newsflash.
No love for Terminator?
I spend my day working on it. Multiple tabs, multiple vertical and horizontal panes, good keyboard shortcuts, profiles, themes… What more do you want?
True, but most people don’t sandbox their games, and while a userspace binary can’t usually get root privileges, it doesn’t need it to exfiltrate their summer holiday pics or health bulletin.
A good first step to mitigate this is to use separate gaming and serious accounts.