I’d recommend using an atomic distro. Then if you get shot to pieces you can roll back to a good state.

I’d certainly feel primal if I was hiking and got a splinter in my feet.

You need to watch out for hallucinations - you need to use brown glass rather than clear glass.

They aren’t available as regular boot options, so you need to use timeshift itself to switch to them. It provides a cli though so it can be used in cases where you’ve broken your x server.

I’m not sure if it’s treating “localhost” as a hostname or not, but does replacing it with 127.0.0.1 function as expected?

Even then, it’s possible that there may be small embedded circuits inside the camera with the sole purpose of constantly recording and sending that data who knows where.

You know, if you want to go full tinfoil hat.

Not paying open source devs or firefighters is taking advantage of their enthusiasm.

I’m no elevatorologist so soneone can correct me, but don’t elevators need a lot of surrounding machinery in order to operate? Like, there needs to be weights and pulleys and all that. I image there would not be enough room for both that and the stairs.

I don’t know how available it is for other distros, but Mint has a gui tool called Timeshift that allows you to take and restore snapshots.

Snapshots seem an ideal tool for the job. It won’t replace a full backup system, but as long as the cost of failure (such as you mistyping a command and nuking the disk’s partition data or something) is only a few hours of OS reconfiguration rather than losing priceless family photos, it should work.

I use btrfs snapshots on my system. When I’m about to do something “risky” (e.g. trying out kde or cosmic) I take a snapshot beforehand. Then when I want to go back, I just restore the snapshot and reboot.

For /home, there won’t be a lot of OS configuration there, and if it’s a burner machine you probably won’t have much personalisation done on it. However, if you want to backup configuration there, look into a dotfile manager.

I usually have Nutella in my Nutella jars, but you do you.

Depends on how much RAM you intend to use, and how much you need. For normal web browsing, I think probably enough swap space to make your total RAM + Swap amount up to 24GiB should do. If you have more than that and don’t run anything memory intensive, you can probably get away without any swap at all.

If you want the ability to hibernate though, you need at least the same amount of swap as physical RAM (since Linux will use the swap space as the location to “hibernate to”.

I think for an SSD it makes sense to use a swap file rather than a swap partition, since random access is basically free and you can resize it easily. That’s a minor thing though.

How much memory do you have? How much storage do you have? What will this computer be used for? Do you want to be able to hibernate?

Seems useful for their VR headset. Probably so you don’t have to hop into VR to trigger downloads.

I’ve been using Mint+Home Manager on my main desktop and NixOS on other devices.

Reminder that binaries cannot change a shell’s working directory, so the non-mines will do nothing.

(cd is a shell builtin)

What is your end goal? There are a lot of different ways to install Wine for different purposes.

If it’s just to run a arbitrary binary, I use Heroic and add it as a non-Epic/Amazon game. Different Wine/Proton versions can be downloaded in the settings.

You can also add them to Steam as non-steam game and enable compatibility mode in the settings.

Ehhh… I was more going for someone saying they like vegan foods and responding with “ooh, have you tried this recipe?”.

Jesus fucking Christ guys. Regardless of your thoughts on age verification, hunting down someone just for complying with the (currently) rather inoffensive law is nuts.

Posting his face here is absolutely going to get him doxxed, and going to cause someone to actually hunt him down and hurt him.

Focus your anger on the people who actually passed and push for this law. Not the person who drew the short straw and had to implement it.

EDIT: Yeah, this whole discussion is toxic now. Suggesting that someone shouldn’t be lynched for making a change in a piece of software is equivalent to me agreeing with that change. I don’t like the push for age verification. It gives me a lot of stress. But I don’t think some random software developer should be hurt for it.

Reading the room wrong when writing software is not worth a life.

If you want different programs to have their own file structure, there’s always NixOS. It’s not as readable, but every package has its own directory in /nix/store.

I think it’ll be a tough sell for game developers. Steam Deck and the Steam Machine are now “real consoles” and supporting them is seen as important.

The optics of blocking support for a platform people expect the game to be playable on using a technology that games are openly hostile towards would be really bad.

You can draw parallels to anticheat, but gamers are generally more accepting of anticheat than drm.