Youtube comments of (@dingokidneys).

  1. Linux Mint is a great introduction to Linux but it is also a great system for advanced users as it is a fully featured Linux.
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  2. "No, Dave. Don't do it Dave. I'm frightened ..." <blink> [fade to black]
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  3. Tor, as you said, provides a number of bridges to make the initial hop into the Tor network which effectively overcomes the concern that is supposedly addressed by using a VPN. Anyone can run a Tor Snowflake bridge as a browser extension or, if they have the compute and WAN bandwidth, as a small docker container. This helps people living under restrictive regimes and, again as you said, the more Tor traffic the safer each Tor user is. I have a Snowflake docker container running on a Raspberry Pi along with a bunch of other stuff and it's set and forget. I also have the Snowflake browser extension (overkill I know) and, apart from a tiny icon counting the number of connections you've facilitated, you wouldn't know that it's there and doing anything.
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  4. If something makes chronic pain more tolerable, that's a significant improvement to quality of life right there. I'm glad you found something to help.
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  5. I saw a part of an interview with Morgan Freeman where he was asked about the "race issue." His response was in essence: How about we just stop calling one another white and black. Just stop describing ourselves and others in these terms and it'll eventually go away. The thing is, he had personally experienced institutionalised racism; something which these people have not. But in order to try to feel a solidarity with those who had, they have to try to characterise themselves as victims rather than just appreciate the benefits that they've been gifted by the people who had to fight for those freedoms.
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  6. They say that they won't send the data back to Microsoft, but what about the models it derives from that data and the meta data? They will be getting something out of this or they wouldn't be ploughing so much money into it.
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  7. I'm a KeepassXC user on Debian 12. I support a keepassxc-minimal and a keepassxc (full-fat) version so as not to break existing users ingrained workflow. The Yubikey issue is particularly egregious.
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  8. With the way that Microsoft keeps changing up or "refreshing" the UI thereby causing our non-tech savvy relations and friends endless confusion, a simple Linux system with a "classic" style UI like Mint, Zorin, etc. is likely to feel more comfortable and manageable for them. They can also keep their old system that they're used saving a lot of buck$.
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  9. No one, who is not brainwashed, believes that Ukraine had anything to do with the Crocus killings. It would be so antithetical to their interests and certainly to their demonstrated moral values. I find it hard to believe that even the Kremlin Goblin would actually allow this to happen to "his" people but then I'm just a human being. What goes through his head is unimaginable to me. We all need to press our governments to boost support for Ukraine once more to ensure that Ukraine can continue this fight with the tools that they need. After all, they are doing this not only for themselves but for the people of all democratic countries.
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  10. I ploughed my way through the Arch install wiki and slowly built up a system that functioned and even built up a script to help me build a similar system again and again, and after all that work ... they go and bring out a script that does a brilliant job and blows all my effort into the weeds. Bugger. And Yay!?
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  11. Who remembers the movie "Total Recall"? Could this be used to implant 'evidence' either by a three letter agency or just malicious actors who want to target someone? With the local models of what and how you do stuff, it might be able to generate images of you doing naughty stuff and place it into an appropriate space in your 'timeline'.
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  12. The only way to regain a truly conservative political party is to vote all the MAGA cultists out at the November election. You may have to bite your tongue and vote for a Democrat but that doesn't mean that you have to vote Democratic in the future and it doesn't make you 'dirty' because you did what you needed to do to make sure that US democracy survives this most challenging of times. Yes, you might have to endure four years of Democratic party rule but you know that they will hand power back if voted out in the future and you don't know that about MAGA cultists. Trump and his followers are simply too dangerous to give any power to either by actively voting for them or by passively deciding to stay home and not vote. The conservative thing to do is to ensure the continuation of a constitutional democratic system by voting for those who still support it.
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  13. Watching the Trump's in action bring two images clearly to my mind: 1) the Dunning-Kruger effect graph, and 2) the Gov. from Blazing Saddles signing whatever's shoved in front of him as he looks at his secretary's ample assets and mutters "Work, work, work."
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  14. I couldn't name a Taylor Swift song but what I've seen of her, what she says, she seems to have a really good ethical and moral centre. She cares for other people and those who don't have a voice with the reach of hers. Getting young people involved and voting is a great thing and good on her.
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  15. This sort of thing is a GREAT way to learn about something; i.e. RiskV and emulation. Just working through the examples in a training course will never make you think and understand to the depth that something like this will. Yes, the final result is utterly futile, but the process to get there is amazing, rewarding and really beneficial to the person who did this. In the early 1990's, I once wrote a standard C library for 16 bit Small-C in Small-C and assembler and I learned so much thereby. I then actually used it to build some useful software all because I didn't have access to a "real" C compiler. No rational person would do that now when you can download a Linux distro with a fully featured C compiler (and many other languages) for nothing. The person who wrote this ... <chef's kiss> ... What a magnificent maniac!
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  16.  @no_name4796  These days it's getting harder to find a machine that isn't supported by Linux. Unless you really want to use strange hardware that is specifically built for the Windows ecosystem and doesn't comply with industry standards, you shouldn't have any problems. I have yet to find a machine that I can't get Linux onto.
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  17. I was an auditor for some years then a corporate accountant for many more. One of the crass jokes we used to make was that the Auditor comes in after the battle is over to bayonet the wounded. I think some of our management actually believed that though I always got on well with our auditors having been in their shoes and having strong ethical sensibilities. Maybe I didn't rise as high as I might have done if I didn't dig my toes in so hard against some of the things management wanted, but I kept myself - and them - well clear of the courts and the tax authorities.
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  18. Oh I hope they don't retract it. It's just what is needed to jolt people out of their complaisance enough to actually move to a different OS. Maybe even companies and governments will recognise the massive risk and switch to something safer and more efficient.
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  19. I use windows too. Any computer that comes within arms reach which is infected with that Microsoft virus gets thrown out the nearest window.
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  20. I never had a slow influx of doubt so much as I could never bring myself to actually believe, even a little bit, as much as I tried. At eight years old, I told my mother that I didn't believe in god which shocked her. It kinda shocked me too that I would say it out loud but when I thought about it later I realised I'd said it because it was absolutely true.
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  21. I read that Ken Thompson story back in the 1990's and it's coloured my view on computer security ever since. It didn't make me paranoid but it did make me consider who I was effectively trusting and what their intentions and motivations might be. Life is complicated.
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  22. This DRM fiasco was the reason I actively avoided buying Sony anything until very recently. I relented and bought a Blu-Ray player. It still makes me feel dirty.
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  23. When I bought my current car, I bought it new and the salesman smiled broadly and asked me how I'd like to finance that. I said "I'm paying cash." His face fell so fast. He would be missing out on a big chunk of finance commission. That was 12 years ago. If I ever need another car (I'm 63) I'll pay cash for that too, but I'll probably buy used.
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  24. Typing 'apropos' all the time is awkward and I'm a touch typist. So I use 'man -k' instead. 'man -k' is the equivalent of 'apropos' and I can type it faster than apropos.
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  25. The 'man' page is 571 lines long. It does a lot that a single person on a single laptop/desktop does not need, as Brodie said. It allows for fine grained control over user access to privileged resources which is great on a multi-user supercomputer on a research or educational campus but kinda overkill for a dude on his lappy.
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  26. There are lots of "delicacies" from around the world that I'm convinced were only designated "delicacies" in times of famine to get the kids to actually eat something. Swedish surstromminng for one as well as Gorgonzola cheese, Casu Marzu (maggoty sheep cheese) and Birds' nest soup too. Who, unless you were legitimately starving, would eat rotting fish, fly blown cheese with the maggots still in it, or bird spittle + faeces soup.
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  27. So Prof, vote for non-MAGA Republicans down the ballot where you can but have some spine and vote against the MAGA cultists, and if that's a Democrat, then do that to show that you are principled.
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  28. My tiny USB wifi dongle has got me out of many problematic situations when it was inconvenient to use a network cable but I needed network access. It works with every Linux distro I've tried it on as well as FreeBSD. I could set a basic system up and then sort out driver support for the built in wifi before putting my trusty dongle away for another day. And become familiar with dmesg, journalctl and the other logs hiding in /var/log. Some are a bit opaque but sometimes the problem is right there, in bold, with asterisks and 'ERROR' all around it.
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  29. Trump has the depth of an oil slick on the ocean. He has no idea of strategy or even tactics. He sees something and starts screaming "Mine! Mine! Mine!" as he did when he found out about rare earths in Ukraine, or minerals in Greenland.
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  30. The last sentence is the key point; having kids is part and parcel of a meaningful life. And this shows the full selfishness of people choosing to have children; I want to have a more meaningful life so I bring other beings into the world to suffer as we all do simply because it makes me as a parent feel better for a time.
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  31. He certainly does need help; help to get into an orange jump suit.
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  32. @ That's the thing. Some people tend to talk as if this distro is for beginners and this distro is for 1337 haxor, but when it comes down to it you can do just about anything with any distro if you're prepared to do some work yourself rather than work only with what's installed by default.
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  33. 💙💛
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  34. I've written so much documentation and I wasted so many hours going back over stuff, reorganising and restructuring it, re-wordsmithing to adjust the tone: I wish I'd been able to take a good course in technical writing instead of futzing about having to learn from painful experience how to communicate complex concepts to a bunch of people who really didn't want to have to know this stuff. Both my time and the users time would have been better used had I known a bit more about technical writing. You're doing a good thing.
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  35. It's astoundingly selfish to bring a whole other being into the world on the basis of "I wanted to" or "babies are cute" or "who will take care of me when I'm old?"
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  36. 💙💛
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  37. Slava Ukraine 💙💛
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  38. I heard that Europe is looking, once again, at replacing a lot of proprietary software with FOSS/Libre software. Hopefully they would also contribute monetarily to the FOSS/Libre projects.
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  39. I liked the lighting, but I'm old and my eyes don't enjoy bright computer screens. I thought the subdued light in the background was kinda classy too. Well done considering you were feeling less than at your best. Get better soon.
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  40. It was a great story and rather inspires me to actually get and read a copy of the "One thousand and one nights".
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  41. He has already destroyed the party. The question is can the party rebuild once Trump is out of the picture?
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  42. As an actual accountant, I think you're best off using a system that you understand and that works for you rather than deploying a "full featured" solution because it's a "full featured" solution. Many people can get away with a simple cash book style spreadsheet - which is effectively what was demonstrated in the video - where the principal advantage of electronic form over an actual paper book is making it easy for your accountant to import the data to a "full featured" system where they can prepare the proper reports and returns. The KmyMoney process shown provides an additional benefit in that it helps ensure consistency of coding. That's a useful feature. Even if you don't code accurately, if it's consistent it's easier to fix. With a small business the key element is keeping an eye on the money coming in and going out - and knowing when to expect each cash flow. Balance sheets and accrual based P&L is all fine and good but "cash is king"; and lots of people (C-suite execs!) don't understand the accrual based statements in any case. As someone who's worked with accounting systems ranging from physical hand-entered cash books, PC accounting systems to full-blown ERP systems (SAP, D&B, Tech1) work with whatever works for you and which doesn't demand heaps of your time just to administer. Your job is business, not accounting. Good luck.
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  43. Very cool. I've been using Linux for nearly 30 years and didn't know what to use 'fuser' for. I've been using 'lsof' but it's a bit more arcane. From now on 'fuser' will be in my toolbox. Thanks. 😊 Rockin' on with that outro: 🤘😝
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  44. For me this brings back memories of trying to set up custom 'config.sys' and 'autoexec.bat' configurations selected by a furiously customised menuing system to help my kids get games like these working because they'd "borrowed" the installation media from a friend and really needed to have it working so they could discuss the minutiae of how to beat that Boss at school over the following days. I seldom got to play any of these though I remember quite a few late nights of Commander Keen. Oh, and Prince of Persia. That was a favourite. I should try to run some of these up again on something like Lutris.
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  45. I'm still using the Crunchbang system that I set up on this computer in 2013. My ancient hardware doesn't feel slow because the OS is so light. I've had to hack it pretty hard at times to keep it running. Major Debian upgrades have sometimes been troublesome - shifting from sysv to systemd gave me a bit of heartburn - but it is so efficient that I never did get around to swinging over to a different distro or to even do a clean reinstall. Nice to see that the new improved Crunchbang keeps to the original design goals. It is just a great Debian install.
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  46. Perhaps people don't want the suffering they are experiencing to be inflicted on a child.
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  47. I'd heard about the Recall thing and it is ridiculous but I didn't know about the Pluton chip. Well named after Pluto - god of the underworld. I guess when they start rolling out all motherboards with these chips on them, we'll have to learn to Dremel them off if we want a new PC.
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  48. I think you win for being the old guy in this comment section. I was only 27 in 1988 and never had seen QDOS. I got to play with an HP3000 in high school in 1978 on which I tried to write a simple game, then got to play with an Apple II running Visicalc in Uni as well as another Unix system (don't know what) for "Programming" in Basic on an honest-to-god teletype. Didn't get my hands on another computer until I was working and got to build analytics spreadsheets on a Fujitsu mainframe. Then a PC turned up at work with an 80286 CPU and a colour display. The boss was amazed that I could make it draw pie charts. He thought we were really at the cutting edge of technology in 1987.
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  49. In the early 2000's, keeping my kids Windows systems patched against the latest vulnerabilities was a constant manual effort. They left home before MS started automatically updating the OS and by that time I was using Linux exclusively. A few years ago, I found the Debian 'unattended-upgrades' package and set that up. It's great. It keeps me patched against security vulnerabilities while still letting me control when I upgrade to the latest "Feature updates" or even the latest OS version. I have it running on every Debian or derivative box I have. I just check from time to time what else is available to upgrade and when I feel they've got to critical mass or there's something I think would be a benefit, I upgrade it.
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  50. That looked like you were having a hoot, which is great. Documentation is difficult and, speaking as someone who has written a lot of documentation, it's a thing that you need a lot of practice and feedback to start getting right. You need to be humble enough to accept when people tell you that it's wrong or difficult or whatever, Having a really good structure to the document that you are writing is also very important as that can make both the writing and the learning much easier.
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  51. 💙💛
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  52. The Youtube algorithm would not reward that. It only rewards people who leap to conclusions and make controversial statements that rile up reactions because reaction - positive or negative - is the life-blood of social media; not truth or carefully judged analysis.
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  53. Rescuezilla is great as it includes other tools such as gParted. Makes it more fully featured.
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  54. "Llamas are bigger than frogs" - Monthy Python
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  55. Thanks for this analysis. I'd read about this but couldn't really put it in context. You're breakdown really clarified the issues and the risks so very well. Cheers.
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  56. I'd love to see a Wireshark analysis of this distro.
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  57.  @VeronicaExplains  I also learned this trick for the first time after using xargs for years. I gotta RTFM a bit more. 😁
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  58. Yes! Cygwin, I used that for years at work on XP as I could get things done so much faster using things like Bash scripts, awk, Perl, curl, etc. Could even run an Xorg server and run graphical apps from my home machine over SSH. Almost made XP tolerable.
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  59.  @theroguerider  Maybe you're awkward because you feel that you have to succeed in this interaction because there are expectations that you will find a woman, have a family and make lots of money to feed, raise and educate your children. I'm a motorbike rider and one of the things you learn is not to hold on too tight. Holding on too tight actually reduces the control you have in a situation because it reduces your flexibility and ability to respond. Likewise, in life don't put too much import on any particular interaction with a woman or really any person that you interact with. It's not a win or lose at this singular encounter. The more people you encounter on a relaxed, no expectations type of basis, the better your chances of finding people you enjoy interacting with, be they potential friends or a potential romantic partners. Who ever said you are only successful if you have a romantic partner; no body whose judgement you should respect. For my kids, I've always felt that they are better set up for life with real long term friendships than glomming onto a romantic partner as soon as possible. They seem happy. One is single with a vibrant social life and the other is in a long term relationship - with a vibrant social life. That makes me happy too.
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  60. In Australia, licensed gun owners need to have a gun safe if they are going to keep their weapons at home. Interestingly, in the Arnold Swarzenegger file 'Commando' he retrieves his gun from a gun safe while under attack by the bad dudes. It was not above the fireplace or under the bed. He had it actually secured in a gun safe. If it's good enough for Arnie, it should be good enough for anyone.
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  61. Moving to a new OS is rather like moving to a new country and learning to drive on the other side of the road. You basically know where everything is and how it works but things don't fall to hand quite as easily and it can be a bit scary at times. However, you quickly get used to it because the fundamental concepts remain the same.
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  62. It certainly looked like asbestos roof sheeting to me. I grew up surrounded by the stuff.
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  63. I guess better opsec these days would be to have ChatGPT write any communications for you that are of significant length such that style, vocabulary, etc could be used to identify you. Just rough it out in bullet points and have the AI write the full text. That said, nothing that could relate back to the author was dropped as far as I could see.
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  64. Hmmm .... that must be why I'm divorced now.
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  65. Can't wait for my AI nose-hair trimmer.
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  66. I love "Young Frankenstein". So great but he simplified things significantly by using a whole body and replacing just the brain. <"Just the brain" he says. See the video for detail on that can of worms.> Also check out "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode "Some assembly required" for something more like what's described here. I still would like to donate my body, if they'd have it. With all the bit about treating bodies with respect, they could wear my gluteous maximus as a hat if it helped teach students to save lives.
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  67. I think for many people a hidden cost of buying groceries is simply the waste factor; stuff sitting in the fridge turning to mush than then needs to be thrown out. As a single person I cannot buy fresh produce in the quantities that generate savings so I make sure to buy only the amount that I will actually use. Nicole demonstrated a really good hack there by making her pasta sauce kit and freezing it. If you have a decent sized freezer this is a great thing to do enabling you to buy in quantities that generate savings without the storage waste.
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  68.  @BenState  Win11 is better than Win10 because of MORE ADVERTISING! YAY. Another revenue stream for Microsoft.
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  69. I too would love to hear more of Veronica's experiences with the early web. Unfortunately, I was too old to really get into it at the time as I had a wife, two kids and a crushing mortgage to take care of with a job that only allowed me (officially) to work with mundane office computer applications. Networking was "the dark arts" to which I was inexorably drawn.
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  70. Nice demonstration. So how does the 'crowd' part come into this? Are all the block decisions fed back into a global blacklist which lives forever or is there some more fine grained filtering going on? I'd hate an alcohol induced case of fat fingers to lock me out of my server forever. :)
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  71. The only issue, and it's a small one, is that they state that they built it from the ground up, which they obviously did not. Other distros generally give credit to the upstream - "Based on Ubuntu/Debian/Arch" whatever. Mint do this explicitly on their website and I think within other documentation on their distro.
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  72. I have it on good authority that Jesus isn't so keen on him either.
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  73. Poor Alina. Lost the post at Trump's elbow to loony Loomer.
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  74. I think that Georgia should at least send a cease and desist stating that they reserve their right to sue for copyright infringement, just to put another bamboo sliver under DJT's fingernails.
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  75. From the posting in the video, it looks like a wrapper around systemd-run which as you say is functionality that has been there a long time. My first reaction was "Oh, no!" but as the explanation went on I thought "This sounds pretty reasonable actually." Lennart seems to be one of those people who is (painfully for me) right about what he says. Sadly, I'll probably have to learn some new stuff; more about systemd and a bit about polkit.
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  76.  @THEMithrandir09  As I understand from the posting in the video, it's almost a wrapper for systemd-run so all the weighty stuff is there already. Still not sure that I like the polkit stuff but if you're a real sysadmin - not like me - you probably need to know that stuff anyway.
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  77. 💙💛
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  78.  @GiIgasmash  I never asserted that I knew absolute truth. I just knew that there was insufficient evidence so support the extraordinary assertion that there was such a thing as a god. I just could not believe anything without sufficient legitimate evidence.
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  79.  @GiIgasmash  And you think that makes a difference?
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  80. When I read 'hit the enter key' and think about some of the people I've had to try to teach these concepts to, I visualise them pulling a hammer out and whacking the hell out of the keyboard. My preferred verb is 'tap' although some people might still go to the bathroom, forcibly remove a faucet, bring it back to the computer and bash it with that. Malicious compliance was a feature of some of the people I've had to deal with.
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  81. I've used Brave for a long time now, pretty much ever since it became available. I love it as I can't stand the ads. I will actively avoid buying a product that I've seen advertised to me when I was trying to do something else. Using Brave along with Pi-Hole keeps me well insulated from being bombarded with pointless crap that just makes me angry and resentful.
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  82. A great pity that it's such a struggle just to bring us information about an important situation. I see other channels that show similar but uncensored footage and they don't seem to experience the trouble that you do. It really seems that YT is singling you out for "special" treatment and that's really not OK.
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  83. Ask them to send you a photo of them with a picture of Winnie the Pooh.
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  84. I actually wrote software with edlin on MS-DOS 2.1 - the horror ... the horror.
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  85. I came to the GUI thing kicking and screaming. "You'll have to take my command line access from my cold dead hands." All my first computing experiences up through punch cards, teletypewriters, CRT TTYs and DOS were command line and I resented work imposing Win3.1 on us. I'd fire the machine up then drop immediately to the DOS prompt. All through the Win9x, WinXP, Win7 and Win10 years at work, I'd always have a command line open somewhere because am I going to do file management with a GUI, like an animal? With Linux as my daily driver since the kids got their own machines in the early 2000's and didn't need mine for school, I've always had a terminal open somewhere. It's my happy place.
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  86. The only good thing Aunt Mildred ever did for anyone.
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  87. I'm writing this comment on Crunchbang on Debian 12 - not Crunchbang++, the original Crunchbang. I've had this system since 2013 and when the original Crunchbang project died, I moved my respositories over to the Debian Stable stream and patched the bits that broke. Since then I've just upgraded Debian, never actually doing a reinstall of the OS. One of the reasons I haven't swapped distros or reinstalled was that I just loved the system. I keep thinking that I should build myself a new system but while I do like some of the newer distros like Pop!_OS so many seem to put lots of effort into looking cute when nothing is going on. The minimalism and efficiency of Crunchbang keeps calling me back. My old box is starting to creak at the knees but then so am I. I'll have to bite the bullet and get something new soonish I think but I'm happy to know that I can get back to that Crunchbang goodness with #!++.
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  88. Maybe this just points to Canonical not knowing how to properly test systems. Still I'm not so sure that I'm keen on systemd taking over the world, or at least not the server world.
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  89. You should start with your index finger on the J key . This is the proper 'home row' position and before you build too much muscle memory you need to correct that. Moving left then becomes a left dart with your index finger. I love the idea of the training using the game but the hand position was freaking me a bit as a Vi/Vim user for decades. I love your content so please don't take this as a criticism, just a word of advice from and old guy who's been there. :)
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  90. 'su -c' doesn't work on my Debian 12 system where the root user is locked and has no password. This type of configuration is becoming more common. As I understand it, the run0 functionality is already in systemd-run and run0 is more like a wrapper than an additional thing. It actually sounds depressingly rational to me.
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  91. Something I have to remind myself of often when I get aggravated about things like this is that 50% of the population is of below average intelligence. It explains a lot and helps me to remain calm.
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  92. And then they have the temerity to say "Well it's not my fault. I didn't vote for them." That is the cowards defence.
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  93. Trump is a bully and will ride rough shod over anyone who shows any weakness or who Trump thinks has no come back on him. Is Trump afraid of McConnell? Does McConnell have something over Trump that makes Trump afraid of him?
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  94. I'm Australian and the idea of living in a "big bong" sounds amazing; not that I've ever tried weed. However, now that I'm retired and it is a legal medical treatment, I might have to start complaining loudly about my occasional knee and back pain to get a bit to try.
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  95. There is a saying attributed to Bill Gates that no one would ever need more than 640Kb of RAM. The 5.25" floppies were generally 720Kb.
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  96. The guy approaching Trudeau and Putin was probably a translator essentially checking if he was needed.
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  97. This is "disruptive tech" which Elon and the tech bros all laud loudly.
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  98.  @RunningAway_1990  Having a child because you "want" to is utterly selfish. You are not taking the child into account because there is no child to consider at that point. I'm not saying that it is thereby wrong to have children. I'm just saying be honest with yourself when you come to making the decision.
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  99. I'm so looking forward to the Sheriff's changing the locks on Mar-a-Largo. Come on Monday!
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  100. 💙💛
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  101. Putin probably has an old Cat Stevens song playing over and over in his head: "I'm being followed by a Storm Shadow, Storm Shadow, Storm Shadow."
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  102. Oh, Jimmy, that was beautiful, especially to see the bosses sitting there in their underpants. No one is more deserving of treatment like this.
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  103. There is no reason for these interfaces to be wireless. It is this that makes them less secure and open to "hacking". The older style ODB-II data port that you plug a diagnostic tool into is not able to be remotely hacked and is protected by the car's own physical access security. The reason for making this interface wireless in newer cars was simply to make use of laws that cover wireless security to shut owners and repairers who are not associated with the manufacturer out of the loop. The wireless interface would be less convenient than a simple physical plug as every time you want to deal with a new car, you have to pair the diagnostic device with the car and if you have a heap of different cars in the workshop all sqwarking out their wifi addresses, finding the right one to pair to would be a new pain. This is not done for efficiency nor to reduce costs, nor for the owner's security as it has an adverse effect on each of those.
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  104. I think that many never got over owning other people. This is why so many companies and business owners expect people work for a minimum wage that is utterly unable to support a single person, let alone a family. The American tip culture just enables this exploitation.
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  105. I grew up in Queensland in the Joh years. Not so free really.
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  106. Counterpoint: Skipping the snapshots saves disk space and improves performance, and borking and either fixing or reinstalling is rite of passage for Linux users. Fixing a truly borked install gives you wizard cred, but lots of practice installing Linux systems, with different partitioning schemes, filesystems and MBR vs UEFI is good stuff too. Still use a VM, but work without the net sometimes.
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  107. As you were talking through this and the motivation one might have for producing such a work with apparently no meaning or utility, a thing called Temple OS came to my mind. It's a computer operating system written by a wildly gifted but mentally ill person. It's amazing that one person could write this thing and it functions as designed but it's of essentially no use to anyone. It occurs to me that perhaps this is also the work of a disturbed mind that became obsessed with the production of something that perhaps was being dictated by the voices in his head. Some religious christians do "speaking in tongues" where they are "convinced" that the noises they are making have some grand and lofty meaning. Perhaps the writer had something similar going on in their head and sought a means to write it down because they were convinced that it had a great value.
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  108.  @Johan.Molenberghs  I'd think that this would only be necessary if you have really bad security hygiene; dropping your keys onto every machine that you touch. If you manage your keys well I can't see how changing them like you change your underpants actually helps. (1 to 12 months: yes, I'm a dirty old man :)
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  109. As a boomer myself I say Hey! Boomers built a lot of that technology to begin with. Just kidding. I'm pretty sure that when Win10 goes down for the count, I'll move my 67 year old brother's machine over to something like Mint Cinnamon, maybe with a Win10 type ricing so he doesn't blow the seat out of his diaper. He'd barely notice as long as Chrome, Facebook, his banking and Thunderbird for e-mail all show up where they were.
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  110. It's a pity that it wasn't based on the Holden Commodore model before that one. They kind of stuffed the styling with that version. The earlier one looked like it really meant business, particularly from the rear which is a view that most Aussie road users had to get used to. Vroooom!!! Missus: Oi, what was that? Mister: An SS Commodore. Missus: Oh, right. Mister: <under breath> bastard. And she made me buy the Hyundai. </under breath> Missus: What did you say? Mister: Nothing ... dear.
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  111. That was immediately what I thought as well though I guess you could allocate a partition then delete when all partitioning is done which might leave a block of disk that you could hide stuff in. It didn't look like there was any significant amount of space missing from allocated partitions however so that's just paranoia on my part. 🥸
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  112. You should do a 'Guilty' tee-shirt of him in an orange jump suit, behind bars, gripping the bars with his tiny hands.
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  113. Good on Drew. I'd have loved to see him in our senate. As I understand we have no legislated bill or rights here in Aus. We are a signatory to the International Bill of Rights but that doesn't constitute a local law and it's very hard to use that as a basis of a defence against any charges that might be raised. The right to protest has been seriously attenuated here over the past several decades - gradually but significantly - beginning here in Queensland with the infamous Joh Bjelke-Petersen. I think it's time that we had a true bill of rights, enshrined in our constitution. These rights get shrugged off too easily otherwise.
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  114. WTF? We have cyclones every year. It's just unusual to get one this far south. This is climate change writ large.
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  115. Slava Ukraine. The democratic world stands behind you.
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  116. Paying a bit more for fuel and other things is a small price to pay for preserving democracy against totalitarian regimes. The expression "tighten your belt" comes to mind. It originated as a response to feeling hungry - actually not having enough to eat - but you tighten your belt so you don't feel your stomach growling and get on with things. Those of us in countries far from the front lines of this conflict should tighten our belts in order to provide essential support to those who fight this war on our behalf, not complain that their actions make our lives a tiny bit less comfortable.
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  117. As a child, my parents took me and my siblings to church every Sunday. However, when I stopped to think, even as a little kid, and tried to put myself into the mind of a person who really believed in a god, I found it unsettling and freaky. I always hated going to church as it was boring and tedious. However, as a kid, I didn't have a say in the matter. I did participate and actually become an alter server which was better because at least there was something to do. I also became involved in a christian group in high school again as something to do that most of my friends were involved with, however, when I stopped to think about if these people actually believed what they said they believed, it was still unsettling and weird. I eventually had to admit to myself that I was an atheist and there was no changing that. I didn't come to it through rationality although rational analysis always seemed to back up my feeling. The 'cred' factor didn't seem to play a part either because I simply could not bring myself to believe that significant people in my life truly "believed" what they said they did. I thought they were at best being self-delusional; the way double-think is described in George Orwell's 1984.
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  118. I was told in preparation for my 'confirmation' to the Anglican church in 1973 that the bishop's mitre was a representation of the tongues of flame seen above the apostles heads on the day of Pentecost; i.e. representative of the Holy Spirit in that person. Maybe a case of retconning to ascribe a more satisfying/relevant meaning upon that occasion rather than a more mundane and awkward actual derivation of that kooky headgear.
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  119. I'm still running the Crunchbang system I installed in 2013 on this hardware. 😁 If course I've had to hack it quite a bit to switch the repositories over to standard Debian and fix the packages that were orphaned when the Crunchbang repos went away. Still, I've just updated the base Debian system as it changed and my system is now running Debian 12 with the Crunchbang Openbox WM on top. Sweet. The system's a bit old now and runs a bit slow for some of the things I try to make it do so I'll have to get a new machine soon but it might be a toss up between Crunchbang++ and Archbang when it comes to the system to install on new hardware.
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  120. So, Tucker is not a useful idiot ... Does that make him a useless idiot?
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  121. Where the document is stating "the Trump company, that took over the Trump business after it went bankrupt in 2004, went bankrupt in 2009" reminded me of the credits sequence from Monty Python and the Holy Grail; "the people hired to finish the credits, after the previous people hired to do the credits were sacked, wish to inform you that they have just been sacked." Llamas all the way down. 🤣
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  122.  @DrachenJager1  I suspect you're right about someone else putting up the collateral for the bond company. The financial monitor over the Trump orgs should be able to tell if Trump assets have been pledged so if none were there's something crooked going on.
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  123. He should be against companies providing motor vehicle, home or medical insurance as well as you may pay in more than you get out or you may, very rarely, get back more than you put in.
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  124. That was extremely cool! I used to use x2x for this but I recently tried it again and couldn't get it going. Haven't figured out why and it's probably now moot as I'm going to give Barrier a shot. Still love your music by the way. Oh, and x2x never did Win or Mac.
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  125. The plan for a 2nd Trump administration: Step 1: Collect underpants. Step 2: ? Step 3: Profit.
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  126. Nancy Mace talking about a man in a suit wearing makeup: was she talking about Donald Trump?
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  127. Using a Windows style interface on Linux is like visiting France and only eating at McDonalds. You can do it but why wouldn't you try something different? Broaden your horizons. You can always go back to what you know and is familiar if you don't like it.
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  128. It would be interesting to know what your use case is - what software do you need to use and what systems you need to access. I used to access all my work Windows systems from my home Debian Linux system over Citrix remote sessions. I presently run the one Windows app I need through a Windows VM in VirtualBox on my Linux host. There are also loads of free and open source software packages that can do what you pay through the nose to do with proprietary packages on Windows.
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  129. @ It looks like Unreal supports Linux just fine and AI shouldn't be a problem either as Linux will be where most development is happening these days. NVidia support is 'available' in Linux but gradually getting better. Virtualisation on Linux is great with support for different architectures via QEmu as well as for different OS's. Cross platform development skills could be a big item on your CV.
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  130. Wasn't the jury anonymous? Is this person actually one of the jurors? Perhaps this is why Trump doesn't want a hearing. He only wants this allegation in the media - not to be scrutinised by the court.
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  132. Love to see your videos and really happy to see you getting that old iMac back up and running. Keep up the good work. It's always a happier day when there's a new Veronica Explains video.
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  133.  @VeronicaExplains  Tractor feed. They're called "tractor feed". Oh god, the nurses are coming to change my adult diaper.
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  134. My brother (67yr old) was doubtful of switching to Linux but was constantly bothering me for Windows support. I built out a Linux Mint system on a spare SSD with all the software he needed to use (Chrome, Thunderbird, etc.), pulled his data into it then grabbed his machine and switched his old HDD for the new SSD. One or two tweaks since and he's totally happy with his new system. I have the old HDD still sitting to one side in case he needed anything but all has been good and the service demands are way down.
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  135. You know that they were running Linux on the antikythera machine two thousand years ago to calculate phases of the moon, eclipses, and to keep their todo list in line.
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  136. The fact that Windows introduced PowerShell and more and more stuff is done in PowerShell shoots down the argument against Linux's terminal use. Neither Windows nor Linux are dependent on the terminal, however you can achieve a lot of things in the terminal that are either impossible or really clumsy in a GUI. The reason that so many things too do with Linux involve breaking out the terminal is that mostly people are trying to do something special; something involved and complicated. Also, the terminal is a lingua franca across many distributions of Linux. Not all commands are the same but you get the gist of how it is done and can work it out from there yourself in many cases.
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  138. I must agree with Lukashenko's dog's comment upon the Belarussian elections.
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  139. Linux Mint is a good system, not just for noobies but for anyone. Easy to learn but as powerful as you want to make it. I switched my 67 year old brother over from two systems - Win10 and Win11 - to one Linux Mint system and he is perfectly happy. I get many fewer support calls from him now than I did when he was on Windows. I was careful of course to make sure that all the things he wanted to do were sorted out before I switched him over. You can't just do a clean install and run. I couldn't have done that with a Windows system either.
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  140. Cool stuff. I managed to write my own printf with a variable argument list back in the late '80's when I had no access to a real C compiler. I was playing with a shareware 16bit C compiler which had no libraries at all and which ran from 1.44MB diskettes as I was using a work laptop with a 20MB hard disk. I was (am) an accountant who just loved computers. I set out to write my own C stdlib to go with it and learned a lot by doing that.
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  141. It seems like the main intoxicant used by kids in my state is concentrated spray deodorant/spray paint. They spray it into a bag and inhale it to get a high -- and brain damage. If only a bit of weed was more available, perhaps they wouldn't do themselves so much damage.
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  142. I thought it was a house gecko. I have a bunch of them running through my place eating bugs which I don't mind.
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  143. Just recently switched my brother over to Linux Mint so now, out of 7 machines in the house, none run any form of Windows. Finally, sanity prevails.
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  144. Nevertheless, you made me think about just how I'd verify if this was a problem and how I'd get around it if an unknown password was set there. I may well be wrong but I'd try booting from recovery media and then copying the password hash from a known account into the hash field of /etc/shadow. That or copy the whole root entry from an unlocked, password set root account on another system into this /etc/shadow. Maybe it'd work; maybe it'll bork your system completely but it sounds like something I want to try out.
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  145.  @BrodieRobertson  I wouldn't have bothered to edit it. Your pinned comment is quite enough in my view and the original bit made me stop and think which is always a useful thing to do.
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  146. Shocking revelation: water is wet!
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  147.  @ITonOccasion  If you're new to tracking finances and especially if you don't have experience with accounting software, I'd be cautious about going all in on a SaaS solution like Wave. If you find it's not actually a good fit, trying to get your data out of these systems in a way that you can import into another can be difficult. They also often have unique work flows which can be confusing initially and, when you become used to them, make transitioning to a new system more confusing than it needs to be. For a real noob, I'd rather get them going on a spreadsheet - a simple cash book style layout - and probably an invoicing app like Tom outlined because it's easy to understand and it can lay down some core principles which then make transitioning to a more sophisticated accounting solution easier. If you then want to move on to a basic accounting system, I'd rather go with a local software package like GnuCash or KMyMoney because they support industry standard import/export file formats, you have total control of your data, and your personal and business details are not being leveraged to sell stuff to you and others. However, as I said earlier, use what works best for you. Different people understand and relate to things differently and if Wave works for you, that's great. I had a quick look at it (10 minutes or so) and it's got some nice features. There are also a few little traps for the unwary in there. Be good friends with your accountant. I'm not selling accounting services here but most small businesses go down the tube within the first two years of operation. Often that's because they didn't know where they were financially at all times. Sometimes this is because the book-keeping just gets on top of them which is a shame because if it's set up properly - for you - it can really be easy and be a great help. All the best.
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  148. The drones don't do the damage that an ATACMS would. They might destroy/damage one or two aircraft while one ATACMS with the cluster warhead could render a dozen or so inoperable.
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  149. I switched my 67 year old brother to Linux Mint without problems. He's not a tech-type person but has been very happy with it, and the number of service calls I get from him is way down.
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  151. While you could use git to back some stuff up, particularly config files in a $HOME directory as a good example, it is not a good generic backup solution. There are other videos on Youtube describing how to use a git bare repository to manage Linux config files which are great but once again this is a very specific use case.
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  152. The installation is a bit of a hurdle for people who've never done such a thing before. It's become much, much easier in recent years but there are still one or two things where it may be good to have someone with a bit of computing knowledge to make the optimal decision for the specific hardware. However, once over the installation hurdle, I'd say that most people would get on with a Linux system at least as well as with a new version of Windows. A little bit of uncertainty at first but things quickly become familiar.
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  153. If the old machine is only a backup and is likely to end up in landfill in any case, why not try installing Linux. It's not as hard as some people make out and you don't even need to install it to try it out. Just create a live Linux boot disk, stick it into the machine and boot from the removable media. Then see if it supports all your hardware and futz about as much as you like. Then power down, pull the USB stick and reboot into the old system. No harm, no foul. Honestly, it's no where near as intimidating as some people might make out.
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  154. I love it when people talk about GOP politicians going to "kiss the ring" of lil' donnie because, though I know the origin of the expression, it holds a somewhat different meaning for many of us from the land down under. Picture lil donnie dropping his pants and bending over to receive a kiss upon that place where the sun don't shine. A perfect picture for the degree to which these people will humiliate themselves to a weak willed, feckless, dim-witted child-man.
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  155. These are always fascinating and as for the digressions, I'm OK with them because you always come back to the point you digressed from but have also imparted some breadth to the discussion. I could always jump ahead in any case if I found them unhelpful.
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  156. I never figured out how to use ssh-agent from the CLI. I did however find it really useful when used with PuTTY from a Windows box to get to the Unix boxes at work. Neat and sneaky little invocation that "eval $(ssh-agent)". I guess it hooks into the file descriptors of the shell session to intercept and feed the passphrase in and out. Linux is full of these really cool and clever mechanisms.
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  157.  @earl_gray  I used to do karate and when we put on demos our principal instructor would do the "break the concrete slab on my chest" trick. There was only one guy he would permit to swing the sledge hammer because that was a critical part of the trick; you had to strike but not allow the hammer to follow through. A lot of what they were breaking disintegrated as if it had only just enough integrity to hold together; a slight bump would damage it. Our principal instructor also tried this to give confidence to one of our meek little girls. He had a pre-broken board for her to break but she didn't know that and she choked barely touching it but still breaking the board.
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  158. Mixed mode will drop back to WPA2 if that's the only way to get a connection so, yes it should work if you're using a bad password and some client devices that use WPA2.
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  159. Time for a snapshot of the VM prior to futzing with /etc/fstab. :)
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  160. It really depends on what you're trying to do with the new disk. You should be able to partition and set up a filesystem on it then mount it into your system wherever you like. I have four drives in my system: an SSD root/boot partition, a pair of spinning rust HDD's in RAID1 (mirror) for my home partition and another SSD mounted at /srv/share for VM images. You do have to tell your system where the new disk is and how you want it mounted by editing the /etc/fstab file but you only have to do that once.
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  161. Linux these days is easier to use than Windows. It's also more powerful than Windows. My 67 year old brother was going nuts trying to use a Windows 10 or 11 system to do e-mail, facebook and web browsing. (He has some problems.) UI inconsistencies, constant ads, notifications and updates were driving him to distraction. I switched him to Linux Mint where the UI is more reminiscent of WinXP or Win7 and he's happy as a clam.
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  162. ​​ @joshua476 I go the other way around: Debian on the host and Windows as the guest. That way when Windows shits the bed, I can restore from a snapshot. Much more stable this way around and better functionality from the virtualisation platform.
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  163. Not knowing your real needs, it's a bit hard to make suggestions but LibreOffice Calc has come a long way towards compatibility with Excel recently. I was a professional accountant until I retired and I used Excel in some very complex ways. Unless you need macros and some of the most recently added tools, Calc might be worth another look. As for Visio, there is a tool called Dia which is similar through maybe doesn't have all the features of Visio. It may be worth a look. I don't know anything about Directory Opus but if it is a file manager, there are lots of file managers available to Linux with many varied functions. There's almost certainly something that you'd be happy to work with. Then there's always the option of converting your existing system to a Virtual Machine to run under Linux which gives you more control and protection for your old Windows install. It's also easy to back up and migrate to new hardware. Just throwing a few ideas out there in case you hadn't heard or thought about them. 😁
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  165. Australia is too used to cheap high volume Chinese rubbish products. If we could convince people to buy fewer high quality locally produced goods, the economy and the environment would benefit.
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  166. Although I only had Windows on my desktop at work, I managed to finagle access to a Solaris system on which I was able to automate a lot of things I had to do. I also managed to install Cygwin on my desktop system to give me many of those tasty Linux tools. I guess these days you'd try to use WSL. When work moved us all to thin client desktops I still managed to wrangle some of my favourite tools onto a network share from which they would run. That and more Solaris stuff. When the Solaris system became too out of date to interact with external systems I needed access to, I set up an AWS virtual server to handle the interface. Strangely, though I was an accountant and not an IT person, the IT managers who became aware of what I was doing - I didn't try too hard to hide it - didn't object. When I retired seven years ago I had to sit down for weeks with an IT guy to reimplement a lot of what I had set up in a way he could carry on after I'd gone. While I was there, if I handled stuff that the IT guys didn't really understand and didn't break things, they let me have free range. They knew I wouldn't do anything bad.
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  167. I tossed it into a VM and out of the gate it was using 398MB with an open Terminator terminal. I forgot to look at Conky before busting open the terminal. :) I'd call that pretty lightweight.
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  168. Didn't Jesus say to the wealthy young man "Go and sell all you have and give it to the poor. Then you can follow me." And the wealthy young man went away sad. Then Jesus made the comment about "easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." Good christian? Not by the standards Jesus himself set.
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  169. The handshake only gives you the password hash. You then need to use other means to crack the hash, which is what hashcat and the wordlists he was using are meant to do. There's never a guarantee that the hash cracking will work. You may need additional information and heavy hardware resources to have a good chance of cracking anything that is not a silly, simple password.
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  170. Your explanation of the cause of the problem, which starts at 10:30, should have been up front. Everything else then comes into perspective. Good explanation by the way. A key element of the problem is that System76 is defining what is a "critical part" of the Pop!_OS system when they put it all together; not Debian when they build a distribution of interconnectable packages that are essentially a Lego set for the user to build a functioning system out of.
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  171. I would be sitting here in Australia smugly smirking but for the fact that our right wing parties are now trying out some of Trump's appalling rhetoric for size following his electoral win. When America gets a cold Australia gets an STI.
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  172. 💙💛
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  173. My second child was born in 1988 when DOS 4.0 came out. I was 27 and working as an accountant with a specialty in IT auditing. Also tech support for the audit team which meant I got to do many installs of DOS and WordStar along with fixing what had been borked and building backup and menuing systems for all the teams machines. Also wrote various utilities in whatever languages I could get from shareware distributors which included Modula/2, Small-C and assembler. Good times.
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  174. I've noticed that Jay uses some System76 devices. However, if you're in Europe, Tuxedo Computers might be the way to go; I've seen them recommended by other Linux YouTubers. More generally, Lenovo Thinkpads seem to be well thought of for Linux support and even Dell will sell you a machine with Linux on it and provide Linux support.
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  175. So god protected Trump but couldn't do anything for Corey Comperatore who was killed while shielding his family with his body and god says "Meh. Who cares about that guy? I'm all in for Trump." God decides to intervene physically in a situation yet still lets a decent guy die. Doesn't sound like any god I was taught about in Sunday school. And that's because it is all a scam to influence the gullible and hard of thinking.
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  177. My ex never ever thanked me for birthday/xmas gifts and generally seemed to avoid using them. Except for a pair of high quality sunglasses. She never thanked me for them but they never left her face when she was out of the house. I chalked that up as a win.
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  178.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I've just put Alpine Linux 32bit on an ASUS eeePC 701 4G as I couldn't get other 32bit systems (e.g. Arch) to run on it. No desktop environment; just CLI but I think you can build up a DE if you like, but the screen and keyboard are too small for me to make that usable.
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  179.  @GarretThomas  If you run a Windows VM on a Linux host, Windows sees only the disk allocated to that VM so it looks like a normal C: drive. You could test this out on Windows by installing VirtualBox and running up a Windows VM on that. You may have to learn to pass through your hardware (I'd guess it's USB) to the VM but in VBox that's pretty easy. If it doesn't work, no problem as you've not actually changed anything on your existing system. If it does work, then options open up for you.
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  180. These TC Alfred videos have been really useful. Thanks for this.
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  181. Being an SBC guy, I was surprised that you didn't showcase a USB to UART cable/dongle/whatever. It's great to get a headless Pi operational without having to disconnect my screen from my main PC and find another keyboard just to start and do a bit of configuration on the Pi. Nothing like the boot messages running up the minicom terminal to let you know you're in control.
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  182. Really good intro tutorial. I followed along on my Raspberry Pi loaded with Ubuntu server. It's giving me good ideas for new things to do.
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  183. Tinycore looks like it uses Busybox, as do Alpine Linux and some other tiny minimal systems. Consequently, some of these commands are considered 'bloat' by the people packaging these distros and you might have to install them yourself if you want them. Tinycore maintains its own package repository as do many other Linux systems so how you find the packages will depend on the distribution and the package manager used.
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  184. @ Many people say "Linux is not suitable for simple use cases" but clearly it is. Linux is also great for developers, AI and other high end uses. It is those constantly diminishing middle or corner cases that it is "not suitable" for. If you really assess people's needs and the alternative solutions available to them, there are fewer and fewer instances where Linux is not a viable option.
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  185. When I first got to use a terminal on an actual mini-computer, I thought this was amazing. Previously in year 11 maths, I'd had to prep all my coding on punch cards. Needless to say debugging was difficult via that medium and I got back about a half a box of fan-fold blue stripe paper when I didn't terminate my loop correctly.
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  186. My 65 year old brother is prescribed cannabis for anxiety and insomnia and he takes it as a tea. He cuts it up and bakes it in the oven for about 20 minutes at I think 180 Celsius to "activate the THC" as he says then makes a cup of tea with about a quarter of a teaspoon which he says does him a lot of good. He's always had problems with his lungs and doesn't want to smoke stuff.
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  187.  @InventorZahran  I watched the video. That was really cool! To be honest though, Linux wasn't actually running on the teletype. But it was acting as the I/O device to a Linux system running on another machine, which was a great achievement. I used to use literal teletype terminals for my programming at Uni in 1983 and I used line editors like they were using in that video. Wild stuff.
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  188. I was old enough to get on-line when the kids and the missus had gone to bed. Too bad about work the next day. :(
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  189. Trumps hands as he speaks remind me of that little wind-up monkey doll that bangs cymbals. I can't get it out of my head and it's hilarious.
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  190.  @VeronicaExplains  I use three little iptables lines which seems to stop brute forcing attempts and cleans up my log files a bit: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
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  191. I agree with you there. Another problem for me is the networking. I can't figure out how to bridge to my LAN. NAT works fine but bridge mode defeats me. I find VirtualBox better for mucking about with stuff though it's disk performance (especially spinning rust) leaves quite a lot to be desired if you really want to use that VM. KVM on the other hand has better performance for when you've decided you need a VM for a real task. That said I've a hell of a lot to learn about KVM and sometimes it's a bit frustrating.
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  192. Donald receiving his instructions.
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  193. 💙💛
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  194.  @Zeitgeistpionier  Check your logs for when you try to pair the keyboard to the PC. They should give you some clue.
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  195.  @Zeitgeistpionier  I'm no bluetooth expert but I'd compare the logs from your two systems. Notice where the system enumerates its bluetooth radio - version numbers, drivers, etc - and what the older PC records about the keyboard and its connection. Then hit Google for some research. Good luck.
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  196. That'll be pretty much because there are no free/open source drivers available. They don't share info about their chip sets and only provide 'binary blobs' which may or may not be compatible with your system. I have the same issue with a couple of my old laptops.
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  197. I wonder if your company was originally set up by a CPA or lawyer as a shelf company and then sold to you as part of the initial set up. This happens a lot. It's normal - someone wants a company and goes to an accountant or lawyer who has pre-setup a bunch of $2 companies and just picks the next one to make into your company. The paperwork should all go through to change the name, the addresses, the owner/s and company officers, etc. But if somewhere one address change didn't go through, i.e. on a register of companies somewhere, this could be the end result.
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  198. Biden can now have the 6 supreme court justices arrested.
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  199. Puppy is great for old low-powered machinery. I used to run it on an eeePC 701 until recently. However, I think when running from a USB stick, you'll find the speed of the USB interface to be the major limiting factor. If you use a USB 3 stick on a USB 3 port, most distros will run pretty well provided the underlying hardware is up to the task you ask it to perform. That said, I was running a very recent Kali (Debian 12) from a USB 2 stick on an old (2008) Dell laptop and it was fine. It even ran Firefox acceptably. I think the key to happiness when running Linux from USB stick is to have reasonable expectations in respect of what workloads to ask it to perform.
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  200.  @VeronicaExplains  Yes please. A video on networking in different ways on KVM would be great. I can do things like bridge and create local networks on VirtualBox but KVM stumps me. I think that my basic understanding of networking is lacking somewhere. Everything I find seems either too high level or too down in the weeds. You might end up with a whole series on networking and VMs if you tackle this, and I wouldn't object. :)
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  201. THAT is really reprehensible. I hope you reported it and got that wretch fired. I guess that people now have to take OS snapshots, create restore points or what-not before taking exams these days to protect their systems but it also calls into question the reliability of the exam results. What if the proctor doesn't like you and changes answers you've given that haven't yet been transmitted?
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  202.  @er...  So I guess your only viable options are to either fresh install after each exam, dual boot so you have a work system and an exam system that you can select between (with the nuke and pave on the exam system), or use a university computer for exams. My old uni seems to allow students to borrow a suitable laptop to do exams if they don't have one of their own (or don't want to expose theirs to malware) or book a booth on campus set up with an approved system. This sucks.
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  203.  @er...  Glad to hear that it's not so prevalent now. As if students didn't have enough to contend with!
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  204. Very true. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
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  205.  @BrodieRobertson  Can you just restore the original? I like this video. Could you add a text overlay at the /etc/passwd point saying "Got it wrong - see comments"?
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  206. Just discovered this channel and am loving both the take on the stories and the cartoon artwork. A bit of Nightwish in the sound track didn't hurt either. 😁🤘
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  207. I also started working seriously on computers in the 1980's, primarily with DOS. When Windows arrived on my work machine I hated it. It was slow and clunky. When I booted up first thing in the morning as soon as the Windows desktop came up I'd close out of it and get back to my beloved DOS prompt. I was however using a load of custom programs, some of which I'd written myself and some of which I'd carefully typed in from code in a PC magazine. I was already starting to toy with Linux about this time on my home PCs and at this time a GUI was advanced stuff and you had to write your own XFree86 config file to get it working. I did eventually just use Windows at work and to a lesser extent at home but I've always been attached to the command line interface. I'm a Linux only household these days and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. Every machine I work on has a terminal session open as it's just the fastest and most precise way to do many tasks.
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  208. I have a couple of old Dell laptops with Broadcom wifi chips that require the b43xx drivers. I also have a USB 802.11n wifi dongle that's so tiny it's barely there. I won't be asking for b43xx support to remain in the kernel as it's very reasonable to retire old decrepit stuff and I can just use my tiny dongle (heh heh) if I need wifi. I could also replace the wifi card with something more up to date if I really needed it.
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  209. The mechanism demonstrated uses ssh as the underlying transport method which gives you encryption by default and uses a default port 22. This also means that if you can reach one end from the other with ssh, you're good to go. As Jay mentioned in his reply to you, home to a VPS should be a breeze. The other way around brings more complexity and some risk. Jay's demo showed driving the backup from the machine you wanted to back up, but you could also do it the other way around; rsync doesn't care, so it doesn't matter if you're wanting to back up a VPS to your local machine, or your local machine to a VPS; you can do it. Of course if you're wanting to back up your dad's home PC to your machine, there will be port forwarding and possibly dynamic DNS to handle as well as the software configuration. It's not actually that hard but does require a bit of planning and knowledge.
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  210. I don't have a Windows machine to run Rufus from and other tools such as Balena Etcher don't seem to support setting up persistence. I guess I could run it from a Windows VM with the USB stick passed through to it, but I'm perverse and wanted to be able to do it all from Linux and understand how it works. Essentially, once you've written the Kali ISO to the USB stick with 'dd' or Balena Etcher or whatever, you create another partition, give it an ext3 filesystem with the label 'persistence', then write a file called 'persistence.conf' into the root of that file system which contains the single line '/ union'. Works great.
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  211.  @SoundCubed  I have two Dell Inspirion 1525's from 2008. One runs LinuxMint MATE and the other runs Pop-OS!, both based on Ubuntu 20.10. They run really well with a little 120GB SSD and only 4GB of RAM. Good reliable hardware with great operating systems. No reason to throw these things out 'cause they just keep soldiering on.
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  212. Ugh! I hated it! I'd drop out of the GUI shell to the DOS prompt and work from there. No wonder I'm such a big Linux nerd these days. I love me some terminal prompt. # rm -rf /*
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  213. We have some lovely birds that come to visit my yard. We get hordes of Rainbow Lorikeets and Corellas but we also have Fairy Wrens in the area which are tiny and iridescent blue and very cute. Look 'em up.
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  214. Trump might not want to play so hard on king-like immunity given the fate of Charles I. Also, if Trump has total immunity for whatever wrongs he's committed, then so does Biden. So his claims that Biden is wrongly driving these prosecutions of him fail because Biden can do anything as President.
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  215. Agreed. It is one of the main reasons people quote as not being able to move to another platform. If they have someone to show them how to move to another mail client such as Thunderbird or even web-mail (god help us) they might have more confidence. I gradually weaned my brother off Outlook in his late 50's then just last year moved him to Linux Mint and he's totally happy with it. I get many fewer support calls too - bonus.
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  216.  @miavelvet  I'm a Debian user of many years and the setup has just got easier and easier. However, I hear that MXLinux - based on Debian - is a nice setup.
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  217. You only need to install Terminator on any distro to get that. Not that I'm trying to deter you. I'm using the same Crunchbang installation that I set up in 2013 to edit this comment. Of course I've had to do some major hacking to keep it working after the distro officially died but it's worth it.
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  218. "We're all individuals" (from somewhere down the back) "I'm not"
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  219. From what I can tell, FlexOS is an obsolete Real Time OS so I suspect this is not what you mean. If you mean ChromeOS Flex, that sounds like a good option for a browser based system. Otherwise, I switched my non-tech 67 year old brother to Linux Mint and he's doing fine. I run the one Windows app that I need on a VM in VirtualBox on my Debian Linux system. This arrangement may be an option for your other son. He could try it out by installing VirtualBox on his Windows system, then run up a Windows VM and install his software on that to see if it works OK. If it does, he could then export the VM, install Linux on his system, install VirtualBox and import the VM with his essential software. Depending on the specifics of your situation, there may be several options available to you that should be evaluated to determine the optimal solution.
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  220. @ Even if he does move to a new machine, he should consider what he would do if that machine died on him as his business is dependant on having a functional machine. If he has a new machine, he could try experimenting with the old one as a backup solution. Not everyone likes to futz about with computers as I do but if his business is dependant on being available on-line maybe it wouldn't be a bad thing to try out alternative solutions.
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  221. That is a very "belt and suspenders" type approach but actually pretty good advice for people who are just learning, particularly if on a system they can't afford to break. Personally, I think that people who really want to learn should be free to break stuff. Then they have the learning experience of fixing it up again. I also think that people should do a lot more work on VMs which they can break with impunity. It they can't fix it, restore from a snapshot or just recreate the VM.
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  222. 💙💛
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  223. So frustrating that Putin continues this pointless violence. Russia and he gain nothing by it except infamy. Those of us in democratic countries need to urge our governments to speed up the provision of aid and weapons to Ukraine.
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  224. That's really good. Windows needs all the help from open source tools it can get. :)
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  225. 💙💛 Stay strong Anna and please keep us informed. Slava Ukraine.
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  226. AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh!! Should have been a trigger warning!!!!!! So much dot matrix hell!!! I spent so much time trying to line these things up on the quadruplicate ( yes it's a word ) forms. BTW, I laughed out loud when you showed the Linux boot up output on paper. :o) ... I thought the Centronix was the parallel and the other was a serial. Yes, serial used to use 25 pins. The 9 pin port was all new-fangled and fancy schmancy. And I love the jumper/pullover/whatever Americans call it.
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  227. Do the easy start with Linux. Burn Linux Mint to a USB stick and boot one of your old machines with that. It makes no changes to the installed system. You can then poke around and try things out to see that all your hardware is supported and then so see what you like and what you don't about the actual Linux system. It will be slower running from USB than from a built in SSD but allow for that. If you then want to give it a real try, take the storage media (HDD, SSD, NVMe) out of the machine and replace it with a blank one and install to that. If you don't like it, you have the old system on the old storage that you can just drop back in. I swapped my 67 year old brother over from Win11 to Linux Mint and he loves it. I get far fewer service requests now too.
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  228. 💙💛
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  229. Good for you. I've been exclusively Linux since 2013 though I've used it since the mid 1990's. I will never use, nor will I let anyone I support use, Microsoft products in the future. Take control of your life. Use a free - as in freedom - operating system.
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  230. You could just set up an alias for lsblk that adds the -e|--exclude option. I think that "lsblk -e 7" would do the trick.
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  231.  @zeckma  It's still possible, with sudo privileges, to unlock root and set a password. It's just not the standard configuration and so 'su -c' won't work on systems using the standard configuration where you don't have authority to make changes to root functionality on.
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  232. People these days often don't realise that proper capitalisation and punctuation is a massive guide to understanding, given that the pauses and inflections of spoken language are not present in the printed form.
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  233. I get budget level tiling and stacking using Terminator as a terminal emulator. I have a session full screen on one desktop that is split 3 or 4 ways and I manage my RPis from there. But I love Pop!_OS (I think I got the spelling right there). I have it running on an OLD laptop, a 2008 Dell Inspiron 1525 with an SSD and it makes it feel like a new machine. I love the way Pops workspaces work too. You can flick through to what you want really quickly. Keep up the good work. See ya in future vids.
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  234. More and more these days doing significant things on Windows requires a Command or Powershell prompt. It just the best way to communicate something complex but easily repeatable. On the other hand, as others have said, there is less and less need to break out the terminal in a modern Linux distro as most functions have a GUI interface.
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  235. My number one tip is learn to touch type. The number of people I've seen hunting and pecking, backspacing over long screeds to correct errors caused by watching the keyboard as they type instead of watching what is ending up on the screen ... The productivity of half the people at my work would double or triple if they just leaned to touch type.
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  236.  @markkeilys  My son gave me a "Das Keyboard" for my birthday a couple of years ago - the one without any markings on it at all! Even the special keys. I love it. It's a beautiful keyboard for actual typing.
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  237. Use what gets the job done. These days however my default position is Linux. Then if I need anything else I run up a VM.
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  238.  @VeronicaExplains  She thinks she's old. Ha ha! You're the age of my kids. I started to code with punch cards on an HP 3000 minicomputer in 1977. I've coded in Fortran but never in COBOL. That's a special kind of pain.
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  239. I've been running a Snowflake docker instance for about a month now. However it's not an ideal setup in that I'm behind a restricted NAT. I've had nearly 3000 connections so far this current month but I'm not sure if people are getting real benefit because the up/down traffic figures seem very small. As a proxy, I'd have expected to see bigger numbers but not understanding the protocol I can't say for sure if this is a problem. I don't want to essentially be a hindrance or bottleneck to users who need internet access so you tell me if this is expected or not; e.g. over one hour recently I had 8 connections with 129Mb down and 8.7Mb up and this seemed to be a big data hour. If I'm better off just running it in my browser I'll do that but if it's useful I'm happy to dedicate some RaspberryPi compute and some of my fibre bandwidth to help out Tor.
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  240. Ah, 'dd'; the notorious Data Destroyer. I love it as a general purpose tool for writing ISO's to USB sticks, cloning partitions/drives, or - more fun - completely wiping a disk before junking it so that nothing is recoverable from it. I recently played with Rescuezilla which is a Swiss Army Knife kind of distro including Clonezilla and gParted along with other tools. This way you can re-size the partitions on a drive before cloning so that you can fit a system from a larger drive on a smaller drive. Much more manual of course than some of the tools demonstrated but then I don't have a Windows machine so they are not much use to me.
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  241. The thing with Chromebooks and Android phones is that the OS is built for the specific hardware by the vendor. The same goes for OEM Windows installations which are tuned by the hardware builder to work on whatever they are selling you. The peculiar assemblage of parts that comprise your specific desktop system is not known to the builders of any particular Linux distro and neither are your specific software requirements and user interface peccadilloes. Allowing for all of that, most Linux distros do a damn good job of working as a reasonable person might expect on most random agglomerations of hardware that they find themselves waking up upon. In addition, there are several builders of hardware that provide and support Linux on their machines including Dell, System76, and Tuxedo just off the top of my head and I'm sure there are more. Microsoft will do just as they please with Windows and home/individual users to them are leeches who provide minimal monetization. Hence the bloatware, advertisements, data harvesting and software subscriptions. Don't expect anything to get better.
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  242. You could see that he was causing himself permissions problems with that file he was creating. I also cringed when he did that.
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  243. I'm running 32bit Alpine Linux on an old eeePC 701 that I wanted to be able to find some purpose for. The keyboard and screen are too tiny for me to do anything productive with a GUI on it so it's set up headless as a wifi scanning rig. Basically I'm using it like a Raspberry Pi and it works fine for the stuff I do with it. I think Alpine have no current plans to ditch 32bit at the moment.
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  244. I love VIM and use it everywhere but I'm much less a fan of macros than of using awk or sed for those kinds of edits. Macros have their place no doubt but the way my brain works, I'd usually rather write a short awk script, even on the command line, than run a macro. Also you can use '.' to repeat the 'dd' which is often easier and quicker than either counting the instances or just typing 'dd' over and over again. It repeats the last delete, yank or paste command.
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  245. That's a lot cleaner dual boot set up than I'm used to. I've always had to do my own resizing and repartitioning which is why I've avoided it like the plague for a long time. I did recently set up dual boot between Windows and Pop!_OS and it was no where near as clean. I now have two UEFI partitions and have to select Windows from the BIOS. A bit of a pain and I'm sure that I could consolidate the UEFI partitions if I try hard and research lots, but I seldom want Windows anyway so ... meh.
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  246. I wouldn't be too quick to jump on the fire authorities "unpreparedness". This is the off season for them, a time when people can take vacations, when training can be done, and plans developed. Yes they are prepared to respond to fires but historically they have not had to respond to huge fires at this time of the year. Budget constraints make sure that the resources available will always be minimal, because who's going to fund more than absolutely, unequivocally demonstrated to be essential. That said, these fires took off in canyons with steep sides which acts like a chimney and causes the fire to develop much more quickly than usual. Once you get that much heat over such a significant area, as you observed yourself, the fire creates it's own weather which helps it to develop in unexpected ways. The embers that blow ahead of the fire cause spot overs that demand attention and spread any fire fighting effort out thinly. And this all probably started out from some person doing a foolish thing. One of the worst fires I attended, as crew, was started by two kids with a poorly managed barbeque who managed to knock it over. The fire took off and they fled. This was on an island and yet we had spot overs to the mainland about a mile away. You don't fight fires like this. You try to manage them by slowing their progress down, by diverting their weakest flanks back into the burnt area, by cutting fire breaks and hoping for a change in the wind and weather that works in your favour. You also get all the people and livestock that you can out of the path.
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  247. Don't let Cinzia loose on the "fantasy" female armour, where she's essentially naked but for a tiny metal bikini.
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  248. I've been a Linux fan since the mid 1990's. I must admit though XP almost lured me to the dark side. It was clean, lean, functional, pretty stable and with my Cygwin Linux utilities loaded on it there was very little for me to gripe about. It has been mostly down-hill from there though Win7 wasn't a huge backward step. For the past 11 years, I've been exclusively on Linux at home (barring the odd Windows VM) and NOTHING could induce me to go back to a MS OS. If you want control over your UI, nothing will give you what Linux can give you. Lots of desktop environments and window managers to choose from, from the glitzyest of glitter to the most austere "nothing but the facts, ma'am". I'm using the Openbox window manager on my Debian system and it stays right out of your way. The whole desktop is yours to command.
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  249. Windows consumer editions are almost entirely an advertisement delivery system with the legacy functions of running some software that the user wanted to install. Windows 11 delivers nothing that Win10 doesn't for the moment while trying to force people to buy new hardware - this at a time when chip shortages are making all kinds of tech more expensive and more difficult to obtain. If ever there was a time to show average users how to run something like Linux Mint, now is that time. Hey, you can either buy new hardware with the new OS, or try something different on your old system. No loss because if you don't like the different OS you can just buy that new hardware and OS that you were being forced into anyway. Why not try something different because Microsoft is forcing you to relearn the whole UI layer once again, and if you can move to Win11 from Win10 with no change to your workflows, you are a user who could just as easily switch to Linux Mint with hardly a hiccup. What's to lose and maybe you save some money - and pain.
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  250. Ana, 100 years ago women had to pump the water to wash their lovely long hair. Then heat it on a stove. They did it at most once a week and that was efficient water usage, and is still doable under our modern conditions. If you wash your hair less, it'll probably be more lustrous in any case. Just brush that natural oil through from the root to the tips. Water is a precious resource and wasting it is a crime, either in California or here in Australia; the driest continent on earth (after Antarctica strangely enough.)
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  251. 💙💛
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  252. "If they say they won't do it, they will." I remember just before the Russian invasion began there were reports of Russian troops gathering in Belarus near Ukraine's northern border. Various world leaders were saying "It won't happen. Putin has promised." I kept saying "he absolutely will do it. Do these people not see what he's been doing to his own people and do they not know any history?" I was not surprised when the invasion began. What did surprise me was the way Ukrainians responded - fighting back furiously to drive this army, feared by so many, back across the northern border and then maintaining the fight so steadfastly and heroically in the face of huge numbers and huge resources being thrown at them. Ukraine has shown Putin that he is not as powerful as he thought and all this with tremulous, uncertain support from allies and a determined fifth-column of Russian supporting lackeys embedded in those allies. I think that Ukraine is not only teaching Putin a lesson, but Xi Jinping as well; that he needs to think twice before acting on his expansionist urgings. Slava Ukraini.
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  253. Hack the algorithm! I can beat them: I use two empty bean cans and a length of waxed string.
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  254.  @Marco-ip5cw  Agree 100% that lots more needs to be done to manage the potential fuel load. Controlled burns are great for this but as you say local residents push back against them because of the smoke. Here in Australia, another issue has been getting weather conditions, even out of the fire season, where it is safe to conduct controlled burns. We've had several that got away. One of the worst fires I've been crew on was a "controlled burn" by a rural resident that was poorly planned, incorrectly executed, badly managed and it just roared away from him and went on to threaten other residents and destroy a significant portion of forest production land. As for eucalypt trees, depending on the species if the fire gets into the crown of the forest it can really become terrifying. We have several species known as paper-bark (melaleucas) and because of their papery trunks fire gets into and up them very easily. They cause spot overs at an amazing rate. I've seen dinner plate sized pieces of burning bark flying with the wind ahead of the fire lighting up areas hundreds of metres ahead. We had a fire in a paperbark area spot over across a 1 km wide channel. The upshot of all this is that sh!t can hit the fan hard and fast and the only real defence against fire is managing the fuel load beforehand to minimise the effects and try to keep them manageable.
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  255. There also used to be a tool called EXE2BIN which would then strip a lot of the stuff from an .EXE file and generate a .COM file which was much smaller. I don't know if you can still build and run .COM files in Windows. I haven't used Windows on the regular for years but back when I was learning to code in 16bit assembler that was how I made tools that I could add to a 1.44Mb bootable diskette for trouble shooting.
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  256. This is a solid plan. Knowledge is power and understanding the options available to you puts you in the best position to make choices rather than have choices imposed upon you.
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  257. 💙💛
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  258. And 1984 Ministry of Truth - rewriting history.
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  259. Your biggest vulnerability is the web browser and modern web browsers don't like to work on old versions of Windows. If you intend to use a web browser, you need to find a base OS to do that from. If you are just running old software that has no exposure to the web, then do as you like.
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  260. Horrifying thought: kids might be safer at work than at school where they may be killed by a gun wielding maniac. The world is horrible.
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  261. Trump is well known for making agreements, taking what he wants from them and then not making good on his obligations. It would be very bad for Zelensky to sign an agreement for the rare earths on the basis that security guarantees would then be forthcoming at a later date. Trump would just never come to the table on the security guarantees once he has what he wants. The more I see of Zelensky, the more I admire him. He's a man with true convictions, who works whole-heartedly for the good of his people.
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  262. It worked well enough for me in KVM to get used to installing it such that I was comfortable installing it on hardware. Then the real fun begins.
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  263. It's not really very private information. If you know his public domain, which is right there and which he promotes, you can find the IP address.
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  264. I loved Perl, particulary Perl4 which I could get on a Windows machine with a single binary.
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  265. As David said there, only attack your own networks or networks you have permission to attack. Deauth attacks are very noisy and attract attention, like from law enforcement. I need to show this video to some of my neighbours as they have really bad WPA2 passwords. 🤔🙄
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  266. Trump is not playing 3D chess, nor is he 10 moves ahead on the chess board. This guy couldn't play tic-tac-toe. He's lived his whole life in a cocoon where he's been pandered to from all sides. He was handed a huge fortune along with a business structure that would ensure that the fortune kept growing almost regardless of the stupid things that Donald did with it. He's nothing but a stuffed shirt. He was manipulated into that squabble with Zelenskyy by Vance and MTG's reporter boyfriend; the guy who made the stupid comment about Zelenskyy's dress. Trump is easily manipulated as Hillary Clinton pointed out and Kamala Harris demonstrated; a man who can be baited with a tweet as well as being shown to be put impressively off message by a slight dig at his crowd sizes.
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  267. Linux has better hardware support, especially for newer hardware or odd peripheral devices. You will also find lots more Linux information for whatever distro you choose. FreeBSD is great and I run it on a small file server and on an old laptop. However, it doesn't support all the laptop hardware (i.e. camera, microphone, tap on trackpad to click). Unless you really want to learn a BSD for some reason, I'd strongly recommend that you just run with a Linux. There are loads to choose from and there's almost guaranteed to be a distro to suit anyone. Most of what you learn on Linux is directly translatable to the BSDs in any case.
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  268. They look to me to be relevant to more professional level, multi-user installations rather than a home lab type install.
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  269. Good choice of OS. I keep telling myself that I ought to buy a new machine but I've been running this machine with Debian Linux for over 11 years now and it still runs just fine. Up to date software, totally secure, snappy and responsive; what more do I need.
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  270. Surely the case before the Supreme Court will have no bearing on this as the question asks if a "past President" has an immunity, not a prospective President. Therefore the motion can be dismissed out of hand.
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  271.  @turtle421  Your laptop may power off or it may not with the 'halt' option. You'd have to test it. It is more common these days when shutting down from the command line to use "sudo poweroff". There's also "sudo reboot" to warm reboot the system. The 'shutdown' command is old and more appropriate to environments where the hardware needs some careful handling on startup and shutdown; i.e. where disk packs needed to be loaded or unloaded but you still needed the device to be powered on get that to work. You might then invoke "shudown -h now", park the heads and unload the disk pack and then flick off the big red switch.
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  272. We in Australia stand with Ukraine. Slava Ukraine.
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  273. 💙💛
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  274. Very nice video and I really liked the music. How do you find that people take to Pop_OS! I've set up machines with Linux Mint previously because I thought people would find the interface more familiar than Gnome or Cosmic.
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  275. 🤣I agree wholeheartedly.
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  276.  @dovonun  It can get pretty simple when you strip things down or build out a minimal system to suit just what you want to do. This is why so many IoT devices use Linux too. A full operating system in under a gigabyte of binaries and scripts. My Alpine system that I use as a wifi scanning appliance occupies 168Mb of disk space and runs in 36Mb of RAM at idle. You can either pick a distro that suits or build a system scaling from what I have running on a 32bit eeePC to massive multiuser system. It's up to you to choose what you want.
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  277. When Kremlin denies it, you know it's true.
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  278. Very cool. I love the 'find' command. Really useful but I have to admit that I didn't know the '-exec ... +" trick. I'd feed the output to xargs to get the same result but that's not as efficient clearly. I wondered for a moment if the '+' part of exec was a Gnu extension but no, there it is in 'find' on my FreeBSD system. I totally agree about getting to know the stuff that is portable across systems and is part of the reason I don't fill my systems with many of the cool and weird things like 'cd' and 'ls' replacements. I like to learn how to use the basics correctly so I'm not lost on an unfamiliar system. Are you keeping up with the Commodore? (I love your outtro.)
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  279. Poor Judge Cannon. All these motions backing up there. We should send her a bulk supply of prune juice and psyllium husk to help her get it all moving.
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  280.  @ChrisHarringtonMinneapolis  There's also a remote desktop plug-in for Chrome which functions a bit like Teamviewer. Many people have Chrome and if you need to give someone a hand remotely it might be a solution. I wouldn't necessarily rely on it if security is a top priority however. In that case I'd rather SSH and then use a non-cloud protocol like VNC or RDP.
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  281. Re: Your surprise at the manual saying "SS Sedan" - in Australia, they also made the SS ute, like a pick-up based on a family sedan. The SS Ute goes like - as we say down under - a shower of sh*t, and that's a REALLY GOOD thing. We even race the things! Also the SS embroidery doesn't cover a Holden emblem and the door sill, well we don't put names on there 'cause the door's only open long enough to get in and get that fire-breathing monster started up.
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  282. China is likely to be ready to jump on large swaths of Siberia when Russia starts to crumble. Sadly for the eastern "Russian" states, they are likely to go from rule by one autocratic regime to another.
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  283. Maybe it's not your responsibility, but it is in the US's strategic interest. The Trump White House is shooting the US in it's foot with his foreign policies in relation to not only Ukraine but Canada, Mexico, Denmark and other allied trading partners. Trump has no concept of strategic foreign policy and he's cut himself off from the experts who were there to provide this advice to him. Trump will cut the US off from it's trading partners and it's strategic allies thereby making the US irrelevant to the rest of the world. It will be painful for everyone but mostly for the population of the US.
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  284. Trump: Hey, Supreme Court, look, squirrel!!
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  285. The difference now is that Trump is terrified that the chickens are coming home to roost. He's always been an ignorant narcissist but now he sees that he is being called to account for his bad actions that have harmed normal people. The only reason he wants to be president again is to try to head off federal charges; he doesn't care about his MAGA base, normal Republicans or the American people in general. Everyone goes under the bus if he thinks it will help him avoid accountability.
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  286. If you want to reclaim your party, you have to demonstrate that MAGA is totally unacceptable as a part of the Republican party. I.e. vote non-MAGA Republican where you can but where there is no non-MAGA Republican candidate, vote for the Democrat; don't just not vote, actively vote for the person opposing the MAGA cultist. It's the only way to demonstrate to the Republican machine that MAGA is not a way forward in any sense.
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  287. @ You could put an additional SSD into the machine and move your Linux install over to it. Easiest. Otherwise you need to resize the Windows partition within Windows then resize the Linux partition which will probably be problematic as you're adding space to the beginning of the partition. It might still work but it's awkward and you're likely to stuff it up unless you really know what you're doing. There are guides on the internet and YT.
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  288. Biden should now send Seal Team 6 to arrest the gang of 6 rogue supreme court justices for treason against the constitution. How'd they like them apples?
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  289. Russia's 'warm' water ports are mostly boxed in so they are looking for anywhere else they can operate a navy from which is why they are looking towards the arctic, Svalbard and Greenland. They can't move warships within the Black Sea, they cannot get them out of it and they are being severely limited in the Baltic. They have only the far east and the arctic left. The arctic is gradually becoming more viable with the reduction in sea ice.
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  290.  @chrissimpson1183  Isn't every windows machine a Walrus? Clumsy, lotsa noise and belligerent.
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  291.  @KingZeus96  You absolutely can connect to the internet without a router. That's what we used to do commonly when XP first came out. This is why Windows still has dial-up modem software but even if you have cable or fibre you can connect any machine directly. You may need to use some sort of PPPoE software but if you have a cable or fibre modem where the ISP connection is initiated and the credentials are stored on the modem, you don't even need that. It is like dipping your balls into a fish tank full of piranhas but you can do it.
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  292.  @Rukushin  You are completely right with what you say. There has to be something listening on a port that will accept connections before any remote attacker can even try to exploit something. After all, a router is just another computer via which you control what is exposed and what is not. Many routers, especially if 'managed' by an ISP are ridiculously insecure with a remote admin port open using default credentials.
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  293.  @sadssddsd2926  Windows still has dial-up modem software which exposes you directly to the internet. If you have a cable or fibre modem with a network cable to the router, you can pull the router out and directly connect a computer though you may need some PPPoE software or whatever other means your ISP requires for you to authenticate. I did this just a few months ago to sort out problems with my fibre connection. When all else is said and done, a router is just another computer.
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  294. Is this a dead cat bounce? Bouncing off a stair on the way down.
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  295. 💙💛
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  296. One thing the Aussie muscle cars have that the American's don't seem to have is an ability to take corners; and to rip up straights. Our muscle cars are the basis for our premier motor racing class - the V8 super cars. Or they were until the American company directors killed off Australian manufacture.
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  297. I always learn a lot from Leeja's videos even if I usually find them very discomforting. Please, keep it up. We need to know these things.
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  298. To be honest, that sounds like a problem caused by Canon. They don't want to support those cameras any more. That said, you can probably work around it by learning to use virtualisation tech. Install VirtualBox, create a Win7 VM, install the needed drivers and/or pass through the camera USB device and perhaps you have a functional system again. VirtualBox works both on Windows and Linux. You can get Windows installation media (.iso files) from Microsoft itself or if you have an old installation DVD, pass that through to the VM to get the installation running. There are lots of solutions available if you start looking.
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  299. Microsoft has a plan to 'monetize' the home user. They haven't been able to do that effectively in the past because people were happy to ride the OEM install into the ground or put on their eye-patch and tricorn hat to install whatever they wanted by whatever means worked. MS think that they have a way to do it now by cutting the hardware platform out from under the home user's feet; end of Win10 support + hardware requirements for Win11. Now they can force data harvesting and advertising onto the hapless home user along with software subscriptions.
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  300. I loved the keyboard too and thought maybe I should get one, but then started typing on my Das-Keyboard and realised, it's pretty but I don't need it. Pity.
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  301. Recall is a god send for scammers the world over. They are already connecting to people's PCs and manipulating the interface. All they need to do is turn Recall on if it's not there already, and the supposed security feature of it not being decrypted without a biometric confirmation won't be a problem as they already get people to tell them SMS 2FA codes or otherwise confirm 2FA challenges, so setting the biometric to be face recognition will be a breeze - the only problem is if Windows Hello can't recognise the old lady frowning at the camera instead of staring blankly. Once past the biometric challenge, it's decrypted and ripe for all that data to be downloaded and sifted through later on.
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  302. I just finished changing all my keys over to ed25519 a couple of days ago. I had no idea they'd be changing the default so this is good news. I always had to either run '--help' or do a quick 'man ssh-keygen' cause I could never remember ed25519 and then because I had an old rsa key still hanging around I'd always have to specify the id file either on the command line or in a config file which was a bit of a drag.
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  303.  @Jossandoval  Man pages are certainly becoming more terrible. I've often heard of a command and gone to the man page to find a mass of arcane detail, hundreds of options and switches but nowhere is it described what the command does and what one might use it for. The name of the command doesn't give the game away either as they are often cute little in-jokes or strange mish-mashes of something else; e.g. 'exa' - wtf is that? Discovering new commands from the man page is becoming impossible.
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  304. Great review with good analysis. It looks like a promising design when applied where it's benefits can best be leveraged.
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  305. Looks very nice - clean and compact with fresh software. I'll be giving it a look over.
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  306. Trump has described the documents he stole as his "personal property" which surely makes his taking of them not a Presidential act.
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  307. A loathsome dude doing loathsome things. And yet people will still vote for this guy for President. Inconceivable!! <pronounced with a lisp.>
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  308. I was a corporate accountant since the late 1980's but I used Perl all the time for data manipulation. I built whole systems to handle reporting, data validation, and data conversion using Perl and loved it. Perl4 was a great language for this stuff as it was compact and I could get away with putting it on corporate systems as a single binary.
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  309. Looks good. I'll have to give a run and the fact that it comes as a flatpak makes this so easy with no long term commitment. :)
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  310. Microsoft makes money on the OS in the business environment but the individual and home user markets have always been problematic I think. What MS is doing now is, in my mind, their attempt to 'monetize' the individual/home user in a way they never could in the past; through software subscriptions, advertising, and harvesting user data for on-selling to data brokers. I suspect that in the long term what they want for the individual/home user is for them to access a managed system-as-a-service via an appliance like a Wyse terminal. MS will then own and sell the end user the computing power that they want to deploy be that home office or gaming or whatever. They can then sell access to these systems without the annoying bloatware and ads as a feature, as you pay more for a video streaming service without ads - until they have a critical mass on board and decide to put ads in anyway when you have nowhere else to go.
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  311. Gnome Boxes is built on QEMU, KVM and libvirt according to the Wikipedia page which is a great thing as this is very solid technology. I'd be interested to see how Gnome Boxes handles networking. Can you access the VM from the host network or is it only VM out. I use Virt-manager to handle my QEMU/KVM VMs and there are two networking schemas one of which permits things like port forwarding into the VM and the other seems to be VM out only. If you want to play with more interesting network setups it is important to know these things. I find VirtualBox networking easier to manage for trickier networking requirements but if you only need a VM to play in and test OS's/software, Boxes looks really simple to get going.
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  312. Could they elect a person who is not an elected member of congress to the speaker role thereby gaining an additional vote?
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  313. That's an awkward work flow. And what if the hardware dies as old hardware is wont to do? At one point when my brother's similarly aged system "passed on", taking with it a copy of Adobe CS he really wanted to keep, I managed to swap the hard drive into his newer system then set up a virtual machine that would boot the old system from the raw HDD. Clunky, but it worked. It would also be possible at that point to copy an image of his HDD to an SSD in case the HDD died. I would be looking at ways to migrate off that hardware because, as much as you may love it, it will not last forever.
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  314. Thanks Denys. Your experience in explaining all the factors in play is highly informative and valuable even given that no conclusions can be drawn at this point.
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  315. Do you have any space remaining on the USB stick? A normal installation of Kali with persistence would not leave you any. The easiest way to gain more space would be to just get a bigger USB drive and set Kali up on that with persistence. Copy your old persistent files over and you're all good.
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  316. 💙💛
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  317. You can run Win10/Win11 as a Virtual Machine under Linux without any problems. You may have to learn to pass some devices through to the VM but that isn't usually too much of a problem: just tick the box. This way you have a fully supported machine that you can browse the web with safely and run your music equipment in its natural environment.
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  318. Boxes is a light weight solution to run up and try out OS's/software and doesn't require a dedicated host machine. Both Boxes and Proxmox use QEMU/KVM as the underlying virtualisation tech so it comes down to, do you want a full virtualisation stack to run multiple VMs and containers on or do you just want a desktop app to run up a quick VM to try something out on.
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  319.  @VeronicaExplains  COBOL has to be the least sexy language to work with these days but it was probably a clever decision to actually learn it. A very rare skill and hopefully you are remunerated appropriately.
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  320. I wish I'd known of the existence of this museum when I was in Seattle in 2014 on a work trip. I'd have gone to see it instead of some of the less techy things that the people I was with wanted to see.
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  321. Not to be a Chicken Little or anything but 1984's Newspeak - or dumbing down of the language - was a way to control thought to keep people in check. I think we need to be careful about how language changes so that, as your guest pointed out, precision and accuracy are retained.
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  322. Honestly, running VM's is pretty easy, especially if you don't need to do it in a highly available production environment. You can run VirtualBox on your Windows system to test things out. VirtualBox also runs on Linux so if you switch over you can export the VMs from the Windows system, import them to the Linux system and you're off and racing. You may need to first check that hardware virtualisation is enabled in your BIOS/UEFI. Different motherboard makers have different names for it so check yours.
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  323. Minimalist computing. Very cool.
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  324. My first line editor - after the punch cards - was I think 'ed'; Yr 11 at high school, 1977. Later in the days of MS-DOS 2.0+ I learned 'edlin' which was essentially a DOS port of 'ed' and I wrote all my batch scripts and basic 16 bit C code in 'edlin'. My first 'screen' editor was actually a DOS port of 'vi' and that was so great to use after making do with 'edlin'. When I first used Linux in the mid 1990's, I felt at home in 'vim'. Never did properly learn to use EMACS, though another DOS editor I used for work seemed based on it. These days, I just use vim everywhere. It's pretty hard coded into the muscle memory.
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  325. I used Clonezilla to backup a system before doing major repartitioning and setting up dual boot. I'm an irritable old guy so I didn't read the text at each step "Yeah, yeah, I know what I'm doing. Just do it." I got tripped up by the "destination directory" bit and ended up with my files in the wrong place. If there's one thing to take away from this it's take your time and read the text until you've done it enough times to fully grok the process. Also when cloning to the VM, I'm assuming that you passed the USB image store drive through to the VM at some point?
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  326. Always fascinating.
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  327. Work implemented SSH for transferring financial data between branch and head office systems in the early 2000's I guess. I was an accountant but very interested in computers and programming and so forth so for some reason it was dropped on me to get this set up - hey, it was financial data so a finance dude should do it right? I think the IT guy I was working with didn't know anything about it and was happy to leave it to me. I sat down to read the SSH man page from my own Linux system and really had a hard time getting my head around it. That is until I actually got hands-on and the fireworks went off in my head. It was so straight forward and so powerful. Public/private keys make perfect sense and I got the key exchange sorted out and things started to just work. There is so much you can do with SSH that would take so much more setup to do any other way. I set up tunnelling from work to my home system and was able to forward X windowing apps over it. When our bank upgraded their SSH service to one that was incompatible with the work Solaris system - work was slow to upgrade even though I was banging on doors and yelling about the dire things that would happen - I set up an AWS VPS that could relay the data via SSH between the bank and our systems until the upgrade finally came through. I wasn't going to put up with my work flow being stuffed up because work couldn't get their act together. Probably a massive faux pas as far as IT management would be concerned, but what they didn't know couldn't hurt them and I had the VPS bolted down pretty hard. :)
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  328. "dd is the Unix equivalent of a sledge hammer" - absolutely but it puts me in mind of a Bond film; Golden Eye I think it was where Pierce Brosnan as Bond was picked up from the airport by an associate who then had trouble starting his car. He popped the engine cover, produced a sledge hammer with which he gave a couple of delicate taps to a strategic point on the engine then stood back, took a full stance, and smote the hammer onto the engine as though he'd drive it halfway through the earth, whereupon the engine fired and ran smoothly. Sometimes the sledge hammer is exactly the tool for the job.
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  329. Perhaps these videos are to put a little gentle pressure on Walt Nauta to co-operate with the prosecution.
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  330. I love self checkouts as I only buy small amounts at any one time - I'm weird, I know. I always make a point of thanking the staff member in attendance as I leave, whether or not I've had to call on them to sort out some weird behaviour of the system. I'm sure that that is one of the highest pressure jobs in the store.
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  331. Para-doily-a. Now I gotta go crochet me some of them satanic doilies. It's like I'm compelled by some subliminal urge.
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  332. 💙💛
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  333. I really hope you can post an actual conversation with a telemarketer. What about phone scammers? Can it deal with them too?
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  334. Sounds like they are going for mistrial based on ineffectiveness of council.
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  335. $ man woman No manual entry for woman This is a fact that men have lamented forever. :)
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  336. It belongs to Microsoft. They choose who to offer it to and on what terms. If you don't like that there are alternatives. There might be work and some pain involved but you still have a choice.
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  337. I am still wrapping my head around this. Sheeeeesh!!! I usually listen to Youtube videos at 1.5 time speed. I had to slow this one down to 0.75 to actually take in all the information being thrown at me and even then I had to back-track a couple of times to be sure I'd heard correctly or because I was still processing something that had been said earlier. And I'm not even from the USA. I'm from Australia which, strangely, seems to want to adopt everything that the USA does without much actual assessment of whether it makes sense for us or not. The US system of law enforcement has always seemed a bit weird to me with elected local Sheriff's departments and so forth. Here in Aus the state police, which is the lowest level of law enforcement, are a professional unit led by someone who is appointed based on merit rather than elected on the basis of a popularity contest. I get the US obsession with election as a way of selecting officials, but I think it is a method that doesn't scale the way they think it does. It was developed when the states were very much smaller and could not support a law enforcement 'profession. ' I think our law enforcement is getting worse because they are trying to adopt US law enforcement methods. There has been a definite up-tick in police shootings of people who exhibited mental problems, who might have been talked down if time was taken and empathy deployed. There is a definite portion of Australia who view the American way of doing things (whatever that is at the time) as the proper way to handle things. Personally, I think we should be more open to filtering what comes from America through a mesh of our own system of ethics and norms.
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  338. Holy Shit!!! He shot a guy for being disagreeable? I'm not visiting the USA anytime soon!!
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  339. 💙
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  340. Why pay "big bucks" when you can get a perfectly usable operating system for free and gratis? The number of people who cannot use Linux is becoming smaller and smaller as people with simple use cases have no problems and developers mostly use Linux. It's the constantly shrinking people in the middle who play specific games or must run specific software that currently "must" use Windows. Linux is nowhere near as difficult as people like to make out. I switched my 67 year old brother to Linux Mint and he's perfectly happy. He also doesn't bother me for support as much as he did when he was running Windows.
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  341.  @locnar1701  Never made any sense to me why they needed a 25 pin connector for a one-way serial connection. TxD, Gnd; what more do you need?
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  342. No. You shall purchase new hardware. So sayeth the software overlords. It is written in the Windows 11 hardware requirements and as it is written, so shall it be.
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  343. SSH into Windows is like a viewport into hell. I've done it but what from there? I don't know Powershell and without that you're pretty much stuck apart from some minor file fiddling.
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  344. It looks like the PMC Espanola is supposed to recall Julius Caesar's IX Legio Hispana. Does this imply that Putin is trying to set himself up a a new Caesar or Tsar?
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  345. The poor brits, having to eat squirrels. Here in Aus we'll all have to get together and send them over some deep fried koalas; maybe some bandicoots too.
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  346. I would be happy to see the dissolution of the Russian Federation if it wasn't for China sitting there waiting to move in on many of the asian republics with small populations but large areas and significant natural resources. The template for what would happen then is played out in Xinjiang with the Uygur people and it's not pretty.
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  347. Re your last point about people wanting to argue: People should check out the Monty Python Argument sketch. Brilliant!
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  348. That's not how Microsoft want to deliver a system. They want to make as much money out of you as possible and, as it is their software you are using, they have all the say and you have none. There is an alternative.
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  349. Good to see you back publishing videos after the recent problem.
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  350. Hashcat with a decent GPU using a brute force attack should definitely crack it in a few hours I would think, even less if they can work out that you're not using lower case characters.
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  351. What's really putting me off Win11 is that Windows is becoming more of a sales platform than ever before - they're trying to out-Google Google. The Start menu tries to sell you stuff as does the Microsoft Store and you keep getting OS notifications to "try Edge." As Windows keeps changing the UI, the people I help still find it confusing so it just becomes easier and easier to swing them over to a Linux distro all the time. When I do the complaints die down and things become calm and serene.
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  352.  @TheRealDrWho  I used to use Notepad++ when I had to use Windows. There's a Linux package called 'notepadqq' which is very similar, but then there are lots of great GUI editors available in Linux. Geany is very Notepad++ like and I use that a lot. However, I usually use vim. I like command line editors having started out on DOS with edlin. Then I found a neat, tiny text editor that was way better - can't remember what it was called - and it worked very like 'vi' or 'vim' so when I flipped to Linux at home and Solaris at work using 'vi/vim' was second nature. I've tried emacs and I've used nano but both seemed clunky for the kind of stuff I was doing.
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  353.  @jacobwerner8533  I recently started playing with FreeBSD on an ancient (2008) Dell laptop and on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. The Pi is running FreeBSD 14.0 and I have it set up as a file server with SSH, Samba and NFS for Git/remote admin, Windows shares and sharing to my Debian system and the FreeBSD lappy. SSH seems solid as a rock between Debian 12.5 and FreeBSD 14.0 and from the FreeBSD 13.2 lappy back to my Debian system as well as to the FreeBSD file server. I couldn't get FreeBSD 14.0 on the lappy; too old and crufty I guess. I tried for a while but gave up. FreeBSD 13.2 seems not to handle the touchpad properly as no tap-to-click, side-scrolling or two-finger scrolling which worked with Debian on it. I also have problems with Sleep and Hibernate but the hardware is ancient and I don't rely on it for anything and I wouldn't read anything into this as regards more modern hardware. The little Pi has been rock solid. Only problem was with a power outage and I didn't really know how to bring a UFS filesystem back on-line cleanly but I've learned a bit more since then and bad power is much less scary now.
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  354.  @wuw127  OK, I'll give you that. But when my grandfather wanted to travel by train in peace without people crowding him, he'd carry some gorgonzola cheese with him. It got him a train carriage to himself most times. 1920's Australia. Perhaps people's palettes weren't as refined but their noses worked.
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  355. If Hannibal Lector said he loved Trump he was probably talking about foi gras made from Trump's liver. Plump and fat and full. Lector famously liked to eat the "free-range rude" which sums Trump up nicely.
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  356.  @VeronicaExplains  I never tried machine language but I did write assembler to build a basic C library for a shareware Small-C compiler I got back in, I think, the early 90's. My crowning achievement was 'printf' with a variable number of parameters. I really felt good when that one worked.
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  357. I export them as an OVA - sorry that's in VBox. Duh.
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  358.  @BrickTamlandOfficial  I use Alpine on my eeePC these days but without a GUI as that machine is too tiny and low powered for a GUI to actually be useful. I use it a bit like a Raspberry Pi; remote connection and do server type things. Works great for that purpose.
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  359. Is this "Blazing Saddles" in real life?
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  360. Kamala would beat him in an arm wrestle, big tough man that he is.
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  361. Definitely not saying it's a scam - for legal reasons. Yup, definitely not saying scam.
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  362. Putin has the problem of the previous pumped up election results. If he won in a genuine election with 65%, it would look like a reduction in support from the previous elections. He couldn't have that in the middle of his "special military operation."
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  363. 💙💛
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  364. That was fun. The reverse shell code was an interesting bit. Using named pipes like that always makes my head hurt but in fact I've seen it quite a few times. To use though I have to refer to my notes.
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  365.  @kirschkern8260  This is not actually copy/paste. Many terminals though (not shells) do have a copy/paste function . E.g. Terminator (and some others) use Ctrl+Shift+c and Ctrl+Shift+v to copy and paste. Just highlight with the mouse cursor and off you go. Sometimes you can just highlight text in the terminal then right click and it will be pasted onto the command line. Useful.
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  366. That's a good simple mechanism for creating backups. I use something similar myself. Just some other things I've been pondering: I want to keep backups unavailable to any hacker that gains access to my internet facing machine and how to minimise file duplication in the first place. I think that if you run the backup from the backup server and make sure that the other machine doesn't have credentials lying around to get into the backup server, you could be more secure. In fact you could set firewall rules to lock everyone out of the backup server and have it open a port when it goes to run the backup. Next, rsync has a mechanism for creating hard links to unchanged files instead of copying the unchanged file. See '--link-dest=DIR' in the rsync man page. Timeshift uses this method with rsync on non BtrFS file systems to avoid duplicating unchanged files. Undoubtedly, you can get very complex very fast when you look into what rsync can do but it's worth having a look to see how you might gradually improve your backup mechanisms to achieve better and more secure backups.
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  367. Luckily, all the things you need to do can be done via a smartphone. This has become the lowest common denominator so corporations and governments must make their systems standards compliant and OS agnostic to that degree, which then unshackles us from Microsoft. Which means that we now have a choice in PC operating system for day-to-day life.
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  368. @ What I meant was that developers often can't just write software for Windows exclusively anymore; to get the broadest reach, they must take smartphones into account which means they need to use more open standards. It also means that this software will then run on PCs, Macs, smartphones and Linux. We are not so often stuck in a Windows walled garden. I'm old and my eyesight is not what it used to be so I still use the desktop system even when I could run things on my smartphone.
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  369. As a young man I once worked with a beautiful, tall, blonde Finnish woman. I had a Swedish girlfriend at the time so was a bit familiar with Swedish and thought Finnish would be something like that. Then one day the Finnish woman's husband phoned in to talk to her and they started conversing in Finnish. I was really set back as it seemed very harsh and guttural and not at all like what I'd imagined. I probably over coloured it, but the image I was left with was like sawing wood with your teeth. Sorry Finnish people. Since then I've heard Finnish many times and while it's never had that sudden jarring impression on me subsequently, I never did think it was a pretty language though it seems that J.R.R. Tolkein used it as a structural basis for Elvish which as Rob said is considered and was intended to be a very beautiful language.
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  370. This is an ex-parrot.
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  371. 🤣🤣🤣
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  372. I come here for data and facts. You seem to care about the veracity of the data and facts you present so I appreciate that. I take your political views as interesting but your views, some of which I agree with and some of which I differ from you on, and that's OK. If we both can start from a core of true facts, we can then use our individual value filters to decide where to go from there or to discuss the merits of our differing views. So thank you for your efforts in this regard and for this forum that you provide.
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  373. What's Amazon Prime ??? Hey! You kids!! Get off my lawn!! You too!! <waves walking stick at cloud> Modern problems like this don't seem to affect us boomers.
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  374. A few years ago I heard some of what Jordan Peterson said to young men of recent generations. "Take responsibility in your life" and "Be the person whom others can depend on in difficult times." These kinds of things will give one an intrinsic feeling of worth and often others will find that an attractive attribute in a friend or romantic partner. I felt that this was good advice at the time and I still generally agree with it. I don't agree so much with some of his other public musings. 🤨 I once read that book, "Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus" and found some interesting insights in it, so much so that I passed it on to my sister's ex-husband who was very down about their break-up. Given what I'd drawn from the book, I was startled by what he got from it; a handbook on manipulating women and bending them to his will. I understood then why my sister couldn't live with him regardless of the two children they had. I have to agree with Leeja; many men are not okay. I wish I knew how to help in this situation but so much of this is so far from my experience that they may as well be from Mars - the Mars from "Mars Attacks."
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  375. You could have that if it was a free and open source operating system, like Linux. Steve Ballmer called Linux and the GPL a cancer so you are unlikely to be getting that from Microsoft any time soon.
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  376. @ You're right that the quote is old. I too am old. My point was more that MS is very unlikely to ever make Windows open source and available to fork. They have to work with Linux to stay relevant in the server space - Azure I believe hosts more Linux instances than Windows instances and Microsoft even has their own distribution of Linux called Clear Linux. However, even after releasing the source code for DOS 4.0, (for "study", not available to fork) they would never make anything available that might compete on any level with their current OS's. Their plan for the home/individual space is to suck as much money out of them as possible through software subscriptions, advertising and selling user data. They'd never give anything usable away for free.
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  377. That is so tiny. Very cool indeed.
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  378. Are they bucking for a mis-trial? The three pro hac vice lawyers trying to have their permission to appear withdrawn so that Trump has no representation?
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  379.  @bsahin7110  OK, just tried single user. This does not work. If the root account is locked, the system won't open a terminal; password or no. If the root account is unlocked and a password exists, you get prompted for the password. Chroot also would not work as you are working with the running system credentials. If on the other hand you boot from SYSRESCD or Clonezilla or some such rescue disk, you are not using the system credentials and /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are simply files with permissions that you can now bypass as the 'verified' root user of the rescue system.
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  380. Was that on an 8" floppy 'cause I remember the 5.25" floppies all being 720Kb (until double density pushed them to 1.4Mb).
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  381. Since getting rid of my land line in favour of mobile only, the scam phone calls just stopped. I felt so let down. Once I held a scammer on the line for an hour working through his script without even being in front of my computer; I knew the system so well that I could give correct responses to all his "what do you see now?" questions. Event viewer, command prompt, tree command, netstat. It was only when he wanted me to download remote control software that I gave up that I hadn't even started my machine. Cue the hair pulling and name calling.
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  382.  @xaxa-0x3F  Just Google "tor snowflake" and you'll get all the info.
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  383. If they're going to be that specific, surely the 2nd Amendment doesn't cover anything other than a muzzle loaded gun.
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  384. What an amazing young woman. I hope she can achieve what she sets out to do in her gap year by inspiring other young people.
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  385. Trump should be imprisoned for the contempts at least. Give him house arrest or postpone imprisonment 'till after his new term for the other stuff but at least put him inside for two weeks for the contempts.
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  386. Slava Ukraine 💙💛
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  387. Loved the screwdriver / power drill analogy. Brilliant!
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  388. I've had FreeBSD+XFCE running on an old laptop and FreeBSD as a server on a Pi 3B+ for over 12 months now. I wanted to see how they went against Linux which I know pretty well. I ran into some hardware problems with the laptop but it works well enough for my purposes which are undemanding. The little file server which runs Samba, NFS and git is pretty good. I can see that FreeBSD is solid particularly in a network infrastructure role but If you want cutting edge software on a desktop system FreeBSD takes a lot more work than a Linux distro. Compiling software with the ports system seems straight forward - I needed to compile a wifi driver - but updating from there either requires a good routine or additional utilities that I haven't explored. It's actually a lot of fun to work with.
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  389. Great demo.
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  390. The civilised world is behind Ukraine.
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  391. This is a classic example of someone knowing just enough to be dangerous.
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  392. Thank you Natasha for your views on this. I always find your take on things enlightening.
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  393. He obviously didn't file because he was being sarcastic. ... no wait, it's a cunning strategic move in a complex game of 3D chess ... ... no, he did file but the Biden controlled DoJ canned it ... (Occam's razor) he dumb and so are his lawyers.
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  394.  @slizgi86  Are there problems accessing that disk from the terminal? Can you see it with 'lsblk', 'cd' onto it, 'cp' a file from it or to it? This might indicate if it's just the file manager or a KDE problem. Chcck your logs to see if the disk is mounting OK or throwing errors. Crack open a terminal and try 'less /var/log/dmesg*' and search for some disk identifier or 'sudo dmesg -w' to list and follow the log to see problems occurring in real time. (Enter 'q' to exit 'less' and Ctrl-c to quit the 'dmesg' list.) If it is some sort of Dolphin issue, there are lots of other file managers you can use. You are not limited to the one that comes with the distribution. That's just the 'suggestion' from the distro packagers.
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  395. My system is very old - built in 2013. I have a 120Gb Samsung SSD for the root file system and a pair of 2Tb Seagate HDDs in RAID1 for my home filesystem. It's Debian with Openbox and I started out on Deb 7 I think and have just upgraded again and again so now I'm on Deb 11. Because the home filesystem takes up so little space on the little 120Gb SSD I haven't had any problems with aging/write limiting. I've had two HDD failures on my home filesystem which I barely noticed. I just replaced the HDD, told the system to rebuild the RAID array and all was good. It is so reliable that it's actually pretty boring. :(
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  396. I think that Linus and Luke are approaching this like someone coming from a car with an automatic transmission to a motorbike which has a manual transmission and different dynamics. They will both get you from here to there but the approach is different. You have to be open to taking a different approach to solving the same problem because the underlying mechanism is different, and your experience will benefit from doing some upfront research and training.
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  397. I was just limbering up my fingers to write a comment about Busybox on Alpine when - Bingo! - you made exactly that point. Then I was thinking Desktop Environments and - Bong! - you hit that one too. So why the pointless comment? Food for the algorithm. Good video, and I hope DT is feeling better soon.
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  398. Gotta be careful. Often the first thing they do is get the mark to set up persistent remote access. Once that's done, they can connect whenever the machine is powered on and logged in. Your bank accounts, social media, etc. is all theirs for the taking then. I agree that they are highly unlikely to actually install a true clandestine RAT software as AnyDesk or TeamViewer is easier for them to manage and less of an investment of their time and resources.
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  399. Bind9 - the original and the best. dnsmasq - if your requirements are not so industrial strength.
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  400. I would not be surprised if it's the DOGE kids who set up the toe-sucking video. It seems like the kind of childish thing they'd do to play up to Musk.
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  401. Four Seasons - comment for the algorithm.
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  402. This comes down to the display environment or window manager. There are many of these available though going with one of the mainstream ones like Gnome, KDE, or Cinnamon should give reliable results.
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  403. 💙💛
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  404. To MS, anyone other than the enterprise is a leech. This is why they have to covert the leech to a profit centre. Sell your personal data, earn revenue by showing you advertisements, convert your software use to a subscription basis.
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  405. That was a good take on this situation. Thanks.
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  406.  @act.13.41  Well at least it's easy to find the ethernet port. You can see it every time the cat walks away from you.
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  407.  @VeronicaExplains  Yee ha! I request Kashmir!
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  408. The way to ensure that after Trump loses the 2024 election he doesn't continue to rule the Republican party is for him to lose in a devastating landslide so that the party has no choice but to acknowledge that they will run nothing while he's involved. This means that old guard Republicans need to do more than stay home and not vote; they must hold their noses and vote for Democrats up and down the ballot where the alternative is a MAGA cultist. This is the only way to reclaim their party and ensure the continuation of a proper constitutional democracy going forward.
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  409. I'd really be concerned about that web server running on your system if you can't apply the latest Windows updates. I'd look to palm that off on a cloud based VPS. The other stuff is not such a great security exposure. I'm sure you know what you're doing but from a brief read of that post, I'd look twice at the web server.
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  410. I guess that the .ZIP and .MOV domains were just a way of producing more real estate to sell but, Wow!, are they a dumb idea. Hopefully all rational organisations and tech savvy people will hard block .ZIP domains (and perhaps the .MOV) and they will just die on the vine.
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  411. Trump is a petulant child. Why would the American people want the leader of their country to behave like a petulant child when the lives of millions of people are literally on the line? There is no point in trying to figure out what Trump has in mind when he says anything: he doesn't have a formed strategy that he works towards. He just flaps with the breeze, with whoever was the last person to flatter or resist him.
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  412. Ukraine is an ally who is fighting for it's life. Zelenskyy is fully aware of that every minute of every day. Trump and Vance treated him in a manner no ally should be treated. It was utterly despicable and all of Europe is now reevaluating their relationships with the Trump US.
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  413. EC: Windows has a better file manager. Ugh! I've always loathed the windows file manager. When I had to use Windows at work, I'd always install or use a Portable Apps dual pane file manager like Total Commander or Free Commander. I started my computing on CLI only systems such as Unix and DOS so I only grudgingly came to GUI systems and the GUI file managers were always crap. At least with Total Commander or such like tools, they are much more keyboard friendly so I don't have to wave my mouse around like manic ground controller directing taxiing aircraft.
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  414.  @tristengrant  I generally just keep a terminal open in a Linux GUI environment. I prefer to do file management the way god intended. :) That said, Thunar's ability to do side by side directory listings brings it closer to something I use on a more regular basis.
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  415. If they take the fact that the AI could pick out the pizza topping needle as being incongruent as evidence that it is self aware, does that mean that my manager from 20 years ago was not? When asked in my annual performance evaluation what my objectives were for the next 5 years, I quoted Conan the Barbarian and said "To crush my enemies; to see them driven before me and to hear the lamentations of their women." He just signed at the bottom and handed it back to me. Obviously either not self aware or in a way darker place than I'd credited.
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  416. 💙💛
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  417. Back when all my computer work was done on a DOS command line, I taught myself to program in C and built ports of a lot of Unix commands, including cal, that I could use at that command line. When you don't have a GUI desktop with all the widgets that go with it, it's surprising just how many of these little commands are very useful.
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  418. I believe it's very true that the very absurdity of the initial approach is designed to filter out all but the most gullible. I've tried to dissuade someone from falling for a similar type of scam but they so wanted it to be true that they just couldn't conceive of it not working wonderfully for them. They came to regret not listening.
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  419. Republicans cannot stay home and not vote if their only Republican option is a MAGA cultist. Up and down the ballot, vote for non-MAGA Republicans where you can but if the only red choice for a post is a MAGA cultist, you need to send a message by voting Democrat; bite your lip and do it. Preserving a real constitutional democracy is more important than a label.
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  420. Therein lies the fun and a learning experience. I've buggered up my system with a bad fstab many times though I've been using Linux for almost 30 years. The last time was a few months ago with a little FreeBSD file server running on a Raspberry Pi. A sudden power outage, the drives not coming up clean and I needed to edit fstab to get the system to come back onto the network. With the RPi you have options though; either remove the SD card and edit the file on the card on another machine, or set up a serial console to another machine - which is a fun thing to do - and boot to single user mode. On another machine you'd probably need a bootable USB stick plus a screen and keyboard. It's good to practice different recovery techniques so you don't panic and make things worse in the heat of the moment.
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  421. Thanks for continuing to provide us with news regarding Ukraine. It's valuable to us even if YT doesn't think so.
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  422. These guys are unflushable. Wherever there is a buck, a turd will pop up to try to steal it. Jim, you have your work cut out for you for a long time to come.
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  423. Maybe NVidia sees a growing "gaming on Linux" market and is wanting to position itself to take greater advantage of that. Also possibly AI on NVidia on Linux?
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  424. I hope that King Charles and his courtiers make it known to Zelenskyy that he is welcome to wear his battle fatigues when they meet. Zelenskyy is in a battle for the lives of his people and his dress reflects that and is a constant message to the world whenever he appears on camera. It is not disrespectful to anyone he is meeting with, it is his showing respect to his people and his fighters.
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  425. My TP-Link routers have been far more robust and reliable than the other routers I've owned. My current TP-Link router model was selected specifically because I could load DD-WRT firmware on it and it's rock solid. I never fully trust anything so I do periodically check for unexpected behaviour but all has been fine so far.
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  426. I'm glad you posted this video. Many of us from different walks of life have found ourselves in a situation far different from what we expected and had to go along with the silliness just to keep a bit of money flowing in and keep the kids fed. I'm glad you found something that enabled you to use your skills while doing something that gives you a bit more satisfaction. I certainly enjoy your videos, for the information and for the humour. Thank you.
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  427. Nothing Trump does is principled. He is driven entirely by fear of being held to account for his wrongs. He will say and do anything in order to avoid being required to pay for what he's done.
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  428. Good to see Putin thrashing about for some way out of the situation he's got himself in. It shows to the Russian people his lack of effective power and destabilises his position regardless of his "election win".
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  429. Don't use it for a desktop system unless to really know why you want it. It's a great server system. The thing about Linux is that it has support for newer hardware way before almost anything else. It also has much better desktop user support than the BSDs. Linux forums expect newbies. The BSDs essentially expect that you have some idea of what you're doing on that system and why.
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  430. If you don't need the session control and just want screen splitting, Terminator will do that and the key bindings are easier to remember and use. Tmux looks really interesting as like a combination of screen and Terminator but the key bindings look a bit too Emacs for me. :)
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  431. Russian people are losing faith in Putin's war so they need to drum up fear and paranoia so that 1) Putin's election win looks less like the fix that it is, and 2) to reduce push back against further mobilisations. This is all very like George Orwell's '1984' with the whipping up fear and hatred against the enemy of the moment; it used to be Ukraine but now they are all 'Russians' that Putin is trying to defend from the evil 'Westerners'. This also opens up for a move on Moldova with the poor repressed Russophiles there needing Putin's help, then later on Poland and the Baltic states with the same justification. I also couldn't help but notice that one of those guys was styling his look on uncle Jo Stalin. Hilarious!
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  432. Great video and I love your solution to connectivity - the Soarer's dongle thingy. Much more a hacker solution than having to do the same software mod on every machine you want to use the thing on. Do once, use everywhere. My son bought me a DasKeyboard years ago which has the same layout and wonderfully clicky keys - and completely blank keycaps so it's unusable by anyone who is not a touch typist. :) Behold my elitist smugness. I love it and though I'm often tempted by other more compact keyboards I can't give up my DasKeyboard. It's just so good.
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  433. Apparently, not sick enough as they voted a convicted criminal and sexual predator into the highest office in the land. Perhaps the only thing more intolerable to them than a felonious sex offender in the White House is a competent woman.
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  434. I put Crunchbang linux, which was a Debian derivative, on the machine I'm using now in 2013 when I got it. I've been meaning to try out a different daily driver for years but even with Crunchbang dying as a distro and having to swap over to Debian mainstream (repointed repos and dist-upgrade, manually patch a few things) and then upgrading from, I think it was, Squeeze through to Bullseye (again repointing repos and dist-upgrade) this system has been pretty much rock solid. I did want a more up-to-date browser than was on offer from the standard repos, so I installed Brave which updates from it's own repo. I've broken it a few times, like when I first installed the NVidia proprietary driver and lost X11, and I've had a few hard drives die but that was not much problem given I use a mirrored RAID array for my /home partition. Root is on an SSD. I also upgraded the GPU as my old one aged out of support from Debian. I still want to try out a different daily driver - I love Pop!-OS on my laptop - but this installation is almost 'vintage' now and I'd feel bad about wiping it out for new shiny.
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  435. Being a fan of the Terminator films, I've watched the development of combat capable drones with a bit of apprehension. However, it's just occurred to me that you don't take ground with drones. They are not much of an offensive weapon but are brilliant against an aggressor. To take ground you still have to put boots on that ground. If the development of more and more capable drones makes potential aggressors stop and reconsider, then that's a great thing and probably something that not only Putin but also Xi are having unhappy dreams about.
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  436. This guy demonstrated that the company was right to demote him.
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  437. My 67 year old brother is very non-tech but I switched him over to Linux Mint some time back and he's very happy with it. The service calls have dropped off too. His requirements are not extensive; Chrome signed into his Google account with set-up for his banking, Facebook, etc., Thunderbird linked to his e-mail account, configure LibreOffice to use MS fonts and default to .docx and .xlsx, and thats about it. Lots of other useful stuff comes with the basic install. He's even doing his own updates when given a subtle prompt in the system tray. Linux Mint is a very good system, not only for new Linux users, but for Linux gurus too.
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  438. I worked in a bank in the late 1970's to early 1980's, before computers were introduced to the teller's stations. The number of times a day I had to sign my name was huge and the variation in my signature as the day progressed was significant. I also had to manually inspect customer's signatures on cheques, comparing them to the sample on hand. Signatures can vary wildly and we very seldom bounced a cheque based on the signature not matching the sample because it is well understood just how different legitimate signatures can be.
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  439. 👍Good for you! People who can't handle Linux on their PCs have their smart phones (which also run Linux.)
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  440. Charles Darwin also married his first cousin, Emma Wedgewood in 1839. It doesn't seem to have been a big deal at the time though apparently his children were not very healthy and three died in childhood.
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  441. I'd love to see a video of you ordering angelic uber eats. :)
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  442. Half the world is of below average intelligence. I keep reminding myself of this and it explains a lot.
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  443. This is Alina "faking being smart"? Enough said.
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  444. Good point! I'm from Australia. We don't know what anti-freeze is. I was also thinking, with reduced fuel supplies, perhaps they were looking to stretch their fuel out with ethanol. Either that or sober Russians are likely to be more unruly and dissatisfied.
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  445. Yes you can. I just did on a CB++ VM. However, it won't automatically add the app to the menu and it didn't add the appropriate directory to the user PATH so you have to do one or both yourself to make the apps usable. Start here: https://flatpak.org/setup/Debian/
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  446. I'm still unsure about the whole RHEL thing. I've always thought that bug-for-bug RHEL compatible distros were not necessarily in the full spirit of libre software as they didn't seem to add anything of their own to the distro; just take de-branded software, re-brand and re-package it (identically to the upstream) and then distribute that. While the software is unequivocally open source, the distribution also results from the selection, testing and integration of all the disparate packages that make the distro up, obtaining certifications for government and other work, and working with major software vendors to ensure proper support of their offerings. I'm not saying that what Red Hat is doing is right or fully justified; just saying I'm not sure that I understand all the factors and I'm not sure that there isn't some justification there.
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  447. Interesting to see the use of the masks. I've not tried that before . When I moved into my new house, I had a play with Hashcat on a 14yr old low-powered laptop - Core 2 Duo, no GPU. On a totally unrelated note, I think that several of my neighbours really need to learn a little more about wifi security.
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  448. @ 😳Who would ever think of doing such a thing. Shocking to imagine. 😇
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  449. Trump should be jailed immediately for 2 weeks for the contempts. If they delay the sentence on the other accounts, that doesn't matter so much to me, but he should spend a little time inside right now!
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  450. Listening to you here was FUN. A lovely, precise dissection of the situation.
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  451. Your response to those who told you to get rid of your little dog - that they haven't experienced love ... and FUCK YOU! - yeah baby!! My last two dogs lived so long with expensive medical conditions but it was totally worth it because they gave back so much more. I still miss them though one died in 2008 and the other in 2019. So many happy memories. I hope your little boy keeps on keeping on for many years to come.
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  452. Oooh yeah baby!! I've got to give that a try! That would be hilarious. I'll set my timezone as Beijing and my user name as Xi Jinping.
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  453.  @VeronicaExplains  Wireshark will show the bad of telnet. Nobody needs telnet (unless you do of course.)
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  454. The second Chesebro video clip near the end (13:06) is missing. Pity, I'd have liked to see that.
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  455. Comment for your analysis. Cheers.
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  456. So if Trump is immune from prosecution for anything criminal that he does, Biden is surely immune for any illegal things he does while in office. So if he is taking bribes or kick-backs, unless an impeachment gets across the line, he's home free. How does that sit with the MAGA mob?
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  457. Hey there now! Don't blame us corporate bean counters. We told them it was a dumb idea but the marketing bunnies got in ahead of us and said "Change the look and feel, and reduce the functionality along with it. We can bung it full of advertising and sell all the user data to data brokers. Profit!!"
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  458. Here, have a free, non-optional, down-grade. Oh, you wanted to have an informed choice? Not on MY operating system you don't!
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  459. I've been using computers since the late '70's and, contrary to your assertion, Windows, which was based on DOS, was built to emulate Unix concepts. It did it very badly which is one of the reasons it's ended up quite a long way from Unix these days but it still has POSIX compliance to a point; it needed to have that to be acceptable to the US Government. When you install one of the major consumer oriented Linux distros, you get a system that doesn't require you to know anything about the command line interface and comes bundled with office type software - granted it is not Microsoft Office but even Windows doesn't come with that; just a stub to get you to pay for a MS365 subscription. Linux actually has software that you enables you to write documents, work on spreadsheets and it can be compatible with the MS file formats. Many games these days run better on Linux with the compatibility layers than they do on Windows; the platform they were written for. Windows, for the home user, is rapidly becoming nothing more than a platform for delivering advertising and sucking more and more money from users, while Linux remains focused on productivity. The corporate user is being directed more and more towards thin client systems where the box on the desk runs Linux and connects to a remote Windows session. I think it won't be long before Microsoft gives up on Windows and switches to Linux with a Windows like presentation layer - desktop environment in Linux parlance - because it's cheaper and more secure. You can already get 95% of the way there with things like Zorin OS and the only things holding them back from working exactly like Windows are the legal issues. Microsoft are already working on marketing a virtual desktop to consumers so they have even less control over their own system and data than they have right now. Linux is very easy to install and use these days and you can use it to resurrect old PCs and get them working better than when they were new and using MS Windows. With Linux, you can do all the things you need to do in all but edge cases and it opens up a whole new world of experiences if you want to go that far. If you have an old PC that you can't use with Windows anymore, grab a copy of LinuxMint with the Mate desktop environment and install it. Or even run it from a bootable USB drive without disturbing the OS on your system. Give it a look and see just how good a current Linux distribution is. It will blow your socks off.
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  460. Can Trump be committed to prison for the contempts but have a prison sentence for the other 34 convictions deferred pending appeal? I think he should get a taste of prison even if only for 5 days or so.
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  461. I've seen, used or played with just about everything you demonstrated as I'm an old fart, except maybe the standalone bridge. Heard about them; never seen one. Still that was a really useful video.
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  462. Very cool. Seeing your approach to debugging the issues you hit was instructive too. Some of those would probably have stopped me in my tracks. Nice to learn from a real sysadmin.
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  463. If I'm just after the local IP address on a linux box I use the -br (brief) flag to the ip command; e.g. : $ ip -br a You get output one line per network connection and if you have many, you can just pipe to 'grep UP' to find the ones which are presently functional. Also, I liked your "Super key icon" on the Windows panel. :)
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  464.  @VeronicaExplains  You don't need to give me a shout out. I actually just read the 'man' page a couple of months ago and thought what a dufus I was for not reading it sooner. :) I keep popping this little tip into as many Linux YT comment chains as I can when it's appropriate because it seems that it's not widely known and it makes it so much easier for people, especially when they don't know what all the other stuff is that's thrown up by the unadorned command. I look forward to whatever topics you're going to cover in future as you seem to have a slightly different take on teaching about tech which I find refreshing.
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  465.  @lis6502  Ironic this comment. I just had my system fail to boot because something went wrong with a BtrFS file system I had mounted via /etc/fstab and I couldn't access the single user (or 'safe' or 'recovery') mode as the root user was locked. Bummer. I had to resort to a Kali live-boot USB disk, mount the root filesystem and edit the /etc/fstab file to comment out the problematic mount. At the same time I also chroot'ed into the root filesystem, unlocked root and set a password. Rebooted and up she came in all her former glory except for all the VMs I had on that BtrFS filesystem. It looks like they are hosed. So you are absolutely right that not having a password on root can have it's own problems, but as long as you actually control the hardware and can manage what the machine boots from, you can recover. I put this comment here not to 'win' a point as what you said is valid, but for the information of anyone else who may find it informative.
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  466. the horror ... the horror ...
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  467. Ukraine has already stuck in the far east blowing up the Severomuysky train tunnel in Buryatia that was a major link between China and Russia though it seems that the tunnel is now operational again.
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  468. 💙💛
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  469. Loved that whole story. Comment for the algorithm.
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  470. Glad to see you back on the air, Jim. I've not taken any action and I still appear to be subscribed, so that's a good thing. The unbelievable creativity of scammers amazes me - seeing options to monetize the most arcane things. I consider myself reasonably smart but no way I can see ahead of time some of the paths to payout that these guys come up with. I guess I'm inhibited by a moral compass - Damn! :)
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  471.  @markkeilys  Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate - yup, that's ma baby. It's pretty glorious. The best way in the world to interact with your computer. My son gets the good inheritance for giving me that one.
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  472. Drag queen storytime initially made me think of the old fashioned pantomime 'dame' where a man would be dressed as an older woman in a flamboyant way. Think the Ugly Duchess in Alice in Wonderland. This was meant to be silly and fun and the gag was rolled out again some years ago in the Saint Trinian's movies where the same actor played a girl's villianous father and his sister, the school principal. That stuff didn't hurt kids nor confuse them about gender identity. Kids are very familiar with the fun of dressing up as something they are clearly not and so I don't think that stories read to them by an adult playing "dress ups" would be inherently damaging. However, if there's some kind of sexualised aspect to this - like the twerking bit or sexualised costumes - that seems to me quite wrong and inappropriate.
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  473. What is more life altering to your identity than becoming a parent?
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  474. It's not really. All file systems have limits. I've been running this system for over 10 years and have never run into that problem. It will only occur if you have some run-away process creating files like mad, e.g. creating empty or tiny files that take up minimal space but each consume an inode. What Jay was saying was essentially, this is a really weird looking problem that is likely to baffle people but it's really a simple fix. Find where all those tiny files are, identify the process that's creating them and deal with that.
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  475. If looking for a distro to run in Windows WSL 2.0, Kali is great as it comes without all the tools and so is ultra light weight. Just add what you need on top of that. As for Kali itself, as it says on the pack, it is ultra quiet on the network. It doesn't spam out heaps of random network traffic which is nice in certain scenarios, e.g. where you are trying to actually monitor network traffic. It's a great distro to have on a bootable USB for those unexpected situations as it has tools for almost everything.
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  476. Sifting through all this data would be like looking into the mind of the man himself: I.e. very much like sifting through a septic tank. I hope they wear good HazMat suits.
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  477. I wonder if the Pope's mention of a "white flag" was as a symbol of temporary truce in order to see if negotiations can find a way forward, rather than as a symbol of capitulation or surrender. I still think the idea is misguided as Putin will never negotiate in good faith.
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  478. Zelenskyy needed security guarantees because no one can trust Putin and frankly no one can trust Trump. He is well known for reneging on deals and if Zelenskyy signs the minerals deal without a security guarantee or even an MOU for a security guarantee he would be doing the wrong thing by his people. Trump was in full-on petulant child mode and Vance was trying to make himself relevant by doing his biggest sycophant play, demanding that Zelenskyy grovel and lick Trump's boots. That's not how you treat an ally. That was despicable behaviour by Trump and Vance as well as MJT's boyfriend who was the 'reporter' who threw shade on Zelenskyy for his choice of dress.
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  479. Don't sell your business. I you really want to sue, get the other 400 people to go in on a contingency based class action.
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  480. If you want to do everything by hand with 'dd' you certainly can but a tool like this can save time and heartache if you fail to do one of the manual steps to create/restore an image. There's also 'ddrescue' which does 'dd' type stuff but again handles stuff automatically that you'd otherwise have to do manually and can save a lot of time when trying to save data from a dying drive. Choose the right tool for the job.
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  481. These days you see more and more Windows admin type stuff being done in a terminal; either CMD prompt or Powershell. It turns out it's a far more powerful and clearly defined way of getting important jobs done.
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  482. I agree that 'smart' TVs are just not worth it. I'm happy to watch all the entertainment and get all the news and current affairs info I need on a computer screen.
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  483. Do people still know about ^Z and 'bg'? If you launch a program from a terminal, such as mpv, and your terminal is locked, just type ^Z (Ctrl-Z) in the terminal followed by 'bg<enter>'. You have both a usable program and a usable terminal. Much less fuss to my mind than a special script and aliases to just hide (but not release) a terminal. Or better still, when you type the command into the terminal just follow it up with a '&' to automatically background it. Simple.
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  484. 💙💛
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  485. Alina Habba would rather be pretty than smart because she says she can "fake" smart. She has too high an opinion of her acting abilities. She thinks watching a few episodes of Perry Mason makes her a trial lawyer.
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  486. They should all dress like Zelenskyy.
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  487. In reference to your joke at the end, certainly if you'd pounded on the desk and told Khrushchev or Brezhnev that you didn't like how they were running the country, you'd have been in a gulag in Siberia before you could pick up your hat. Possibly not so much by the time of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. But with the arrival of Putin, ex-KGB officer, complaints about government action have seen the gulags getting a fresh influx of unwilling workers. I was very hopeful that Russia after Gorbachev and even Yeltsin would gradually become a normalised member of the free countries of the world. Putin put an end to that and the people suffering most are not those in the west but those in Russia.
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  488. I have trouble with bridged mode on my USB wifi interface. It has something to do with multiple IP addresses linked to one MAC I think. You may be able to fix this by allowing 'promiscuous' mode in the VBox network settings though it may also need promiscuous mode set on the host wifi adapter. I've never had problems with bridged mode on a wired connection. Alternatively, to access the VM from the host with the NAT interface if you only need one port available for SSH or RDP for example, you can set up port forwarding in the network settings under the Advanced drop-down. E.g. for SSH forward host port 3122 to 22 on the guest. This works great if I'm accessing a VM with no GUI as I get all the GUI terminal enhancements on the host while managing the guest; bigger window, scroll back support, etc.
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  489. New found sympathy for hyenas!!
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  490. Hey Louis, I commented on your previous video that this might be related to the initial set up of your business; i.e. buying a company from an accountant or lawyer. You later commented on that video; "I can't find it now, but yesterday, some guy said there were 60 other judgments/warrants/liens for the SAME DOLLAR AMOUNT as mine that were filed on the SAME WEEK as mine. I forget how he found that. It would be cool if someone else could show me how he found that. How much do you want to bet that ALL of those liens/judgments are to that same PO BOX?" This reinforces my idea that it might be a company set-up thing. When the postal worker said that the box was "vacant", it is vacant now. I doesn't mean that it was at the time stuff was being sent out to you and if stuff for other people was being sent at the same time to the same place, I'd guess that someone who had the mail box at that time was just binning all the mail. Find out who set up your company and where they were based, though sometimes I understand that companies are set up in other jurisdictions because of easier regulatory standards or cheaper costs. I'd just about bet that someone was setting up shelf companies using that PO box in Maine as the default address and one of those got sold on to you and then changed to "Rossman Repair Group". A stuff up by the lawyer/accountant changing the shelf company to your company would go some way to explaining the problem you've had as well as the story of many other similar problems. A systemic failure by one person's office.
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  491. Kid: Mummy, I don't like Grandma. Mum: Well push her aside and eat your vegetables.
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  492. Thanks Sabine. I appreciated that rant. I think that everyone past a certain point in their career can relate.
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  493. This makes me think of the sign that says "Don't remove the safety guard and put your balls into the hydraulic press then press the 'GO' button." There will always be fresh blood stains to indicate that someone just had to ignore that sign.
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  494. Ho lee farque. Dey stoopeed. I don't think I can watch too much more flat earth sheet. My brain is trying to escape my skull because of the abuse. I'll have to soothe it with a little more scottish whisky.
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  495. I've been using unattended-upgrades for several years now on my main desktop machine which I never turn off. It is just great. I let it update the security stuff plus I added my browser to that to make sure I'm never using a vulnerable browser. Every now and again I just check for what other feature updates are available and upgrade them manually. I also set my brother's machine up to auto update though as it's a Mint machine I'm using mintupdate-cli. He doesn't even know it's happening. He just knows that what was once a Windows machine that drove him mad with updates now just works quietly, responsively and securely. Now if I could just stop him from falling for scam emails ...
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  496. @c99kfm I'd say when you start answering other people's questions about how to handle their systems, you're getting there.
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  497. @thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755 Haven't used Puppy in a long time but Alpine is great as a minimalist system. I have it on an old 32bit system for wifi "exploration." Start from a very basic CLI install and add what you need from there. Tight and functional.
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  498. ​ @YoStu242  Windows users coming to Linux will often have no idea of just how much is tunable/tweakable on a Linux system. You can tune EVERYTHING: you can build your own kernels, change out the scheduler to give snappier response in certain workloads, change the init system to one that you prefer, change the display system choosing between a host of window managers or display environments, change the look and feel of your selected display system, build your software with your own tweaks or preferred options, manage software with APIs to scripting languages or via IPCs, etc. It's customisable at every level of the software stack.
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  499. ​ @YoStu242  Every Linux distro aimed at desktop use has a graphical user interface and most, like Linux Mint, allow you to do virtually everything from within that GUI. That said, even Windows users have to break out the Command Prompt or Powershell to do some more esoteric things on their systems. It's simply the most efficient and repeatable means of getting some things done. Some Linux GUIs, like Gnome and KDE, have GUI system tweaking apps for those that prefer them. Your statement that a GUI is "often missing" or even extending that to graphical tweaking tools has not been true for more than 20 years.
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  500. Anna, we feel for you. I'm sure that Europe and the rest of the world will be with Ukraine even if the US pulls out.
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  501. I knew of column but I'm not sure it had all these options at the time it would have been useful to me. Instead I used AWK and Perl. They are very powerful and not all that difficult to use when you get your head around the basics. Oh yeah, and I was working with Windows systems (ugh) for which I had small compact ports of AWK and Perl but not column. Still column seems like a pretty cool tool these days. Love your work on these videos. I always jump right onto them when they pop up.
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  502. Have you tried connecting from Thunar - the file manager? In Thunar, type CTRL-L then enter'smb://<ip of NAS>/<share name>' Update: requires gvfs-fuse and gvfs-backends to work like this.
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  503. I've been using FreeBSD for a file server and an ancient laptop and it works really well - except that I haven't got full trackpad functionality nor webcam. I haven't been really trying for a while as they don't much matter on that machine. I like the file server. I have it running on a RPi 3B+ just to see how minimal I can go. I don't use ZFS on either machine as they are so underpowered. UFS seems to work just fine. I've also been using Alpine on a tiny ASUS eeePC 701 because Alpine is tiny and provides a 32bit system. I use it headless essentially like another RPi and it's great for the purposes I put it to. I wouldn't use Alpine on a workstation as you're stuck with BusyBox rather than the full-fat GNU utils but, for a tiny server, a container or IoT type situation, it's great.
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  504. VLC contains all the codecs you could ever imagine. I've yet to find anything that it won't play.
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  505.  @lloritoovidexequield.8609  I'm using the old Crunchbang but if #!++ is the same it won't include any additional codecs over and above what VLC contains by default. This being a Debian based distro, you can install anything - media player or codecs - that is in the Debian repositories, or with a bit more work anything at all.
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  506. Perhaps he meant it's the only OS that easily available to the average punter that is secure and private. The BSDs have come a long way but for people who find installing Arch Linux an insurmountable challenge, almost any of the BSDs are out of reach. Well they might handle Nomad or GhostBSD but even then ...
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  507. It would be good if Elon came out with a statement of what he meant by that gesture if he didn't mean it as a nazi salute. This might at least tamp down the foamy mouth fascists.
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  508. I almost felt sorry for the "poor scammer" who was trying to get a bit of shut-eye. Almost, but not really. You guys are great, and that software is a great tool.
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  509. I've always been interested in tech. I taught myself to program for MS DOS in the late 1980's and early 1990's and have continued learning about tech stuff ever since. However, I don't own a single smart device, other than my phone if you can call that smart. A moment's thought about what benefit I would get from a 'smart' door bell vs the cost of losing more control of my personal data as it feeds everything to "the cloud" and home base let alone the dollar cost vs expected life just convince me that going to the door and saying "hello" is not a big imposition.
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  510. At 245,000 he shaves his beard. At 250,000 he shaves his head as well?
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  511. I have two 13 year old Dell laptops that refuse to die. I'm running LinuxMint MATE on one and Pop! OS on the other and they both run really well. The Mint box is for use by my brother who is not a Linux guy and generally has difficulty with computers. He finds it no more challenging than Win7 or Win10 and, as DT said, the work flow is very similar to Windows.
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  512.  @duckmeat4674  I am running Debian with Openbox. It's just Openbox as configured by Crunchbang because I don't feel the need to change it up. It works for me.
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  513.  @I-have-a-brain_and-use-it  I too am one of the 160. Brains and using them, FTW.
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  514. There was a Romanian film made in 1979 called Vlad Tepes (Vlad Tsepesh or Vlad the Impaler) which was a favorite of Nicolae Ceausescu that I saw on TV in the late 1990's. It portrayed Vlad III as much more of a hero of the people and less a blood drinking monster. They didn't shrink away from a bit of impalement but, as you say, that form of punishment was not actually a novelty at the time. It was probably as much propaganda as the original stories published to defame him but it was an interesting thing to see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_%C8%9Aepe%C8%99_(film)
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  515. I cannot watch a Youtube video without an ad-blocker. If an ad kicks in, I immediately get out of the video. The ads are bad for my mental health - I'm likely to rage smash my monitor. I never, ever, ever actually click on an ad let alone buy anything so no one is losing out on a sale to me. If I see an ad on Youtube - if my PiHole is on the fritz - I'm more likely to actively boycott the vendor. I'm old and grumpy and this is my way of yelling "GET OFF MY LAWN!!" to the ad companies.
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  516. I've been playing with Pop!_OS and its tiling interface for some time on a REALLY old laptop (2008) but the upgrade to 22.04 seemed to break the wifi support; I have an ancient Broadcom wifi adapter. So I switched back to LinuxMint. I really missed the tiling interface 'cause keyboard stuff is so much faster than trying to mouse around on a laptop. Consequently, I re-did a clean install of Pop!_OS 22.04 and re-loaded the wifi driver I needed and it worked beautifully. Must have just been a glitch in the upgrade. i3 and some other tiling WMs that I've tried seem a bit too hard-core for me but Pop!_OS seems to have just enough of that secret sauce to make things really snappy without going full Spartan. I really hope they get the full Cosmic desktop done and made available in other Linux distro's because I'd love to try it on a stripped back Arch install.
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  517. Scammers using remote admin tools who would have had to go through a long involved script to acquire someone's banking or other credentials will now be able to connect briefly, grab the Recall data, do some hand waving and say "I've fixed everything. You're good to go." then they can move on to another mark. This is an enormous productivity boost for scammers. If they also establish persistent remote access, as many of them do, they can then come back later, grab the next payload and be out of there before anyone notices because who knows maybe their banking credentials weren't in the first batch or maybe they opened a crypto currency account.
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  518. So does Mike Johnson still think he's Moses?
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  519. I'd like to see one on firewalls too; iptables or nft if that's the better interface to learn.
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  520. cherkasy - comment for algorithm.
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  521. If I understand the numbers, Harris received 68M votes to Biden's 81M in 2020. Trump received 71M compared to 74M in 2020. What happened to 13M Democratic voters? Both sides seem down but the Democrats seem to have fallen off a cliff even with so many moderate Republicans coming over to their side. Is it just that Harris is a woman, or is it that seeing Republicans on her side was repellent to a group of Democratic voters or what?
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  522. Lots of TikTokkers seem to be moving to a site called RedNote a.k.a. Xiaohongshu - or literally 'little red book' like chairman Mao's literary work. Frypan -> Fire.
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  523. The paper may be white now, but as Trump gets more nervous the papers will be yellow and then brown. 🤣
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  524. Don't save that .ogg!! Love your work. Always fun and informational.
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  525. Obviously "preserve, protect and defend" encapsulates "support" but on steroids because of the emphasis by repetition.
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  526. Like most things, the real weakness lies in how it is used - default/weak passwords with internet accessible admin interfaces. I use a TP-Link wifi router but I switched the default firmware out for dd-wrt which is more secure, more functional and there are regular updates. Open-WRT is another great option if your hardware will support it.
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  527. Thank you for that summary. I've been vaguely curious about UFO/UAPs since the early '70's but never worked up enough 'give a f***' to do actual research. I'd concluded that if aliens didn't want to actually say hi and were so incompetent as to actually crash while their own didn't care enough to recover either craft or bodies, then they weren't anyone we actually needed to be concerned with. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had some plausible scenarios to explain the random UFO sightings: either alien teenagers doing the equivalent of knocking on the door and running away (with or without a burning bag of poop) or a specific alien called Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged who, being immortal and having nothing better to do with his time, flew around the galaxy insulting every individual life form in alphabetical order.
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  528. Microsoft sacked their testing staff years ago and now treat end users as Beta testers. Know your place, pleb.
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  529. I did the Adult ASD screening test; it suggests that I am on the spectrum, and I'm not surprised or concerned about that. It just puts some things from my earlier life into a bit more perspective.
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  530.  @thejollygreendragon8394  We in Aus don't register a political affiliation but then again we have no say in who the political party puts up unless we formally become part of the party. Kinda similar when it comes down to it. Then again, we have compulsory voting which means that in the most part people must take a position on the issues come election day, whereas Americans can sit home and say "It's not my problem"; like sticking their fingers in their ears and going "LAAA LAAA LAAA". Americans would find compulsory voting an appalling affront to "freedom", but it's not like anyone goes to gaol for not voting. It's more like the teacher wagging their finger at you and saying "You MUST do your homework."
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  531. While it might work for the moment, I wouldn't count on it working for very long. There are a bunch of specialised packages that are likely to have dependencies in the base Debian install and if any of the base install packages are upgraded in an incompatible way, you will find things breaking without a clear path to fixing them. That's what happened to my original CB install when the distro died and I upgraded to an unsupported Debian release. I managed to strip out or fix the broken stuff so I kept my system going but it was a close thing to just doing a clean reinstall of Debian. Still I learned quite a bit by persisting with fixing things.
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  532. 💙💛
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  533. The case sensitive nature of grep can be alleviated when needed with the '-i' flag. Also, when hunting through config files, I often just want an overview of what is set and what is not so I set a bash alias : $ alias grepconf='grep -Ev '\''^$|^#|^;'\''' This filters out all the comment lines and blank lines to give a succinct view of the config settings. Use it as, e.g.: $ grepconf /etc/samba/smb.conf
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  534. It's like a viewport into hell. I've done it and it ain't pretty. :) However, if you're a Powershell wrangler it could be useful. Me, I ain't and it ain't.
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  535. Trump waives his big crayon and yells "Avada Kedavra!" <crickets>
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  536. We used to dream of 56K modems! My first modem was a Netcomm 14400 baud (14K) modem and I was lucky to get that. The naughty pictures came down really slowly in those days!
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  537. His e-mail sounds like a typical scam e-mail we all find in our 'spam' folder.
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  538. Great video. A pity that the outlook for gibbons is a bit dark. We shouldn't do that to other species and should learn to appreciate them for themselves.
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  539. Little Anna standing in line with her mum hoping to get some butter is why the fall of the Soviet Union made me feel optimistic; I was thinking that these people and their children now had the chance for a future somewhat like my kids. Elton John had recorded a song called 'Nikita' earlier that really resonated; "Nikita if there comes a time / guns and gates no longer hold you in / and if you're free to make a choice / look towards the west and find a friend." I really hope that your western friends will ramp up the support once the US election hurdle is over and done with. Slava Ukraine 💙💛
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  540. I love when Sabina comes out with something I think I disagree with. It makes me stop and think more deeply about that matter when I may not have thought so much about it previously. I'm still not sure where I fall on this issue but I now look forward to many hours of poking at this issue from all sides.
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  541. I would suggest you're best off dealing face to face with a technician that you contact in the first place; some one like Geek Squad perhaps or there are mobile technicians in my area that will come to you. That said, any individual could turn out to be a criminal wretch but you might have more recourse dealing with a local business.
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  542. You do have a good personality for a trainer and a way of explaining things that is fun and engaging. I hope it all works out beautifully for you. I love the picture of you in a "Scammer" hat. I'm sure that would have been a fun presentation.
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  543. Microsoft sacked all their testing staff years ago and now uses production users as their Beta testers.
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  544.  @landrover827  If you switch the routers around and have no port forwarding on your 'secure' router (which is behind 'insecure' which links to modem) your 'secure' network should be as safe as if it was just connected via the modem to the internet. Otherwise, you may be able to use some firewall rules on router 1 to lock router 2 out of going anywhere other than out through the modem.
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  545. Lots of people use leaves to cook things in, like banana leaves. I'm sure you could use other broad leaves as long as they have no toxins. You wrap the food up and place in the coals covering the top as well. It's got to be better than eating a fistful of ash with your food.
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  546. Gee, that sounds great! ... Wait ... No it doesn't. It's still a massively bloated system which is moving away from being a basis on which I can run the programs that I want to run to an advertisement delivery platform that will occasionally let me do some of the things that I paid money to be able to do; if it's not updating or sucking down ads, or displaying notifications of products and services that I don't want. Any version of Linux, FreeBSD or OpenBSD is better in my view than the rubbish that Microsoft is imposing upon the world.
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  547. Maybe they all had asthma from smoking too much. 🤣
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  548. The only thing I've ever thought could be improved by a decentralised blockchain is international trade contracts. All the paper-pushing that goes into selling a commodity overseas is crazy; actual bits of paper being couriered to banks who have to assess them and then courier the same paper on to someone overseas who then has to produce the same bits of paper to their bank before payment is approved and then sent electronically and all within tight time-frames. If it could be properly bundled into a self executing contract on a decentralised blockchain so that no one entity can modify it without the changes being visible to all (i.e. add a new term, attach a customs clearance, record bank approval) it could actually be an improvement to business generating actual savings. But "Bored Apes" and Trump NFTs are the shiny that get actual attention. <face palm> 😖
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  549. I've cracked bad wifi passwords on a 2008 Dell laptop without GPU support in seconds. I then used hashcat with GPU support to crack some other somewhat more complex passwords within a few hours. I have a wifi password that is 20 random characters and tried to crack it with hashcat using all the wordlists available to me, then via brute force which quickly told me that it would take some thousands of years to work through that character space. I didn't bother letting that one run.
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  550. I have a new theory about dinosaurs: Dinosaurs are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and thin again at the far end. And this theory comports with observable facts making it a better and more valuable theory that this guy's.
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  551.  @kenlen8029  I agree with you. Why throw a perfectly functional machine into e-waste or landfill? The machine I'm using now is 11 years old and runs Debian 12.5 perfectly. True, I don't game on it but it does everything I want to do pretty well. It's only when running a couple of heavyweight VMs that it starts to chug and I start to wish for newer hardware. Fun fact: though my 11yr old 'hardware' doesn't support Win11, I can run it fine in a VM with emulated hardware, just to see what the noise is about. It's far too bloated to actually use. I also have a 16 year old laptop that still runs Linux fine. I had Kali on it until I recently put FreeBSD on it for a laugh and both of those work OK on the ancient hardware. And all systems are fully patched and up-to-date. Once you move away from Microsoft OSs and you are no longer tied to someone else's upgrade schedule, there is a whole world of opportunities that opens up. I could never go back.
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  552.  @agibitable  The average end user has changed a lot over the life of the "personal computer". For many people, their only computing device (away from work) is a smart phone. The new Windows OS is not going to tempt them to buy another machine if their phone suffices. Then you have PC gamers who have been a key support base for new hardware - and hence new OS - sales. They are becoming aware of the Steam Deck and will be hearing about other operating systems where they don't have to battle to get the best performance from their hardware. As more gamers take up gaming on Linux the demand for better game support for the platform will grow which will lead more game developers to support Linux which will lead to better performance and even more adoption by gamers who continually chase improved performance. For me, these factors indicate that past user behaviour is not necessarily a predictor of future user behaviour which is why I'm optimistic about the future of Linux in the broader population.
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  553. The "non-visible part of the spectrum" seems a good way to put it. My daughter thinks that she and I are on the spectrum but I was never identified as an unusual one as a child, possibly because I was the fourth kid out of five and we moved town every couple of years all through my school years. So little attention was paid to me at home unless I needed a good belting for misbehaving and at school I was always initially the new kid with no friends. I have a nephew who is diagnosed with ASD and these days I wonder if my dad was also on the "non-visible" end of the spectrum as I really felt like I understood him better and better towards the end of his life when I spent more time with him. I felt that he and I had similar feelings about social situations - avoid if at all possible.
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  554. STAFFER: "Yeah. [Laughter] Now we have a problem." Someone was aware of just how wrong this behaviour was and my guess is that this person is cooperating.
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  555. It looks a bit like Midnight Commander from what I can tell. I believe Gnome-Commander is also a dual-pane file manager with some similar functionality.
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  556. Sounds like a solid environment.
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  557. Why did this comment make me think of Goatse? "Come and get it boys!"
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  558. The word "nevertheless" indicates that legal liability for criminal action attaches and that the impeachment/conviction doesn't put an end to this.
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  559.  @GiIgasmash  So by your definition, if you believe in a god, you are ignorant. Got it.
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  560. The next shitty thing being done to us is making things that we used to buy outright and pay for one time a "subscription". Want your car to work? Pay a monthly subscription so the accelerator continues to work, or the entertainment system, or the seat warming, or the air conditioning.
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  561. Trickle down economics: what people feel as the billionaires piss on them.
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  562. I'm really enjoying your videos. Good solid legal analysis along with dry humour that I love.
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  563. I'd guess that this was to do with the HAL (hardware abstraction layer) in Windows as well as drivers. VirtualBox pretends to be hardware that Windows has supported forever by default when you let it know that you're installing a Windows guest. Fixing this would be hard though if you have a Win XP installation disk ISO you may be able to use Safe or Recovery mode or whatever it's called to try to fix it. But if you have installation media, I'd just do a clean install.
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  564. In reference to people obnoxiously wanting to talk to German people about the war, I couldn't get Fawlty Towers episode 6 "The Germans" out of my head. Please forgive me. 😝
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  565. Gangs make enormous amounts of money by trafficking illegal substances, as they did in the US during the alcohol Prohibition era. If something is legally available, it's often cheaper and better, more consistent quality. Though where I live some people illegally traffic tobacco because the tax is so high that if you can acquire it prior to the point in the supply chain where tax is imposed, you can make enormous profit and still undercut the legal product.
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  566. "It was the principal law clereeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkk ..........." 🤣🤣🤣
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  567. Terminal is more environmentally friendly - takes less power to drive a CLI than a GUI, hence less greenhouse gas emission. Viva la CLI. Oh yeah, you can actually do more in a shorter time with the CLI. Maybe that evens things out on a kwh basis. Ethical tech is hard.
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  568. Putin will be held responsible.
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  569.  @Professor-Gerdes  Trump has no foreign policy. He's as ignorant about the world as he is on almost every other subject. During his presidency, he simply depended on the people who worked for him - all much smarter than he - and simply picked the option that was presented briefly enough to be somewhat comprehensible to him. Then he'd go play golf. Just listen to the people who actually worked with him to know this is true. The latest position presented to him was the one he'd go with, like a pennant in the wind. Trump was a sock puppet for people like Steve Bannon.
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  570. As more people are doing all their computing on their smart phones or tablets, the group of people who actually use Windows outside of work is becoming more concentrated on gamers and other people who are not actually averse to or incapable of installing another OS to do what they want to do. If Microsoft keep shitting the bed with their bloatware, advertising and data mining, there may well come a tipping point when people start to move en-masse to other systems that do what they want the way they want it done.
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  571. I always used to use 'dd' until a few years ago. Consequently, I learned very early to be VERY careful about what I was writing where. Once bitten ... I like balenaEtcher these days as an appimage. I have used Rufus in a Windows VM to create Windows boot media which worked fine.
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  572.  @flipflopski2951  You can just try a live Linux system out by burning the USB and booting from that. Poke around and see that your hardware all works OK, see what software is available and try some out, then you can just power down, unplug the USB and you're back to your old system. There is no risk in trying it out.
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  573. This is like watching the 2006 film 'Idiocracy' play out in real time.
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  574. When I moved into this house in 2022 I was curious so I ran Kali Linux from a USB stick on an old Dell Inspiron 1525 from 2008 and did a quick scan of my neighbours' wifi networks. Using the tools available on Kali and with utterly puny hardware I discovered several wifi passwords. The password bar is not high for many networks.
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  575.  @agatemosu  Pick a place at random; Why not?
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  576. Always fascinating to delve into the history of some of these technologies.
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