things like ventoy are extremely convenient. been using it or a predecessor for years… but i’ve run into more images lately that won’t boot (or an install fails) from one, so i end up using a different flash and writing the image to it directly (usually with rufus if on win, gnome disks if not). i now have two flash drives dedicated to such reuse.

stonking releases next week.

they got hit six months ago, too, for resolute’s last test and release.

they ain’t doing it for us, they’re doing it for themselves.

this one was one of the bullshit ones. iirc, underneath it just made your swap bigger

the redlib instance i was looking at has more ‘‘stuff’’ in the way that isn’t allowing it to work on it. but using the source reddit url in yt-dlp… that still works fine here.

it’s also what peppermint uses in some places.

i’ve had to deal with two bricked dell all-in-one systems due to failed automatic bios updates. to their credit, they did repair those (shipping both ways, motherboard replacements) at no cost despite being out of warranty. but it did take some time for them to reach that resolution–both users had already replaced the systems with something else by the time they got word of the repairs being covered. that was years ago (7-8? maybe). the culprit then was dell’s own update software, not windows update.

i still cringe whenever i see a bios update screen that i didn’t initiate myself. at least my own systems are mostly way too old to have bios updates pushed out for them by microsoft or lvfs.

“peee-ewwww”.

why is it that open source folks have such a difficult time naming things?

debian doesn’t do that ‘out-of-the-box’, but you can do luks and btrfs at install (default partitioning even, just go back and change partition type of root before continuing with install), then ‘adjust’ things to be ‘timeshift compatible’ after install. for some inspiration: https://mutschler.dev/linux/debian-btrfs-trixie/

i’ve used this numerous times, on debian and a couple other distributions.

any ol’ live media with gnome disk utilities (aka ‘disks’) or gparted would be enough to have an easy gui to clear the partitions. i usually use a linuxmint usb for that (and did use for that purpose a half-dozen times today).

it appears qubes uses anaconda (same as fedora) for its installer. there should be an option in it, where you pick your target disk, to ‘reclaim’ space. so op should be able to just do that during the (re)install process if they don’t care about the data on the disk.

every bypass to age-gating at youtube that i’ve used, tried, or looked at no longer works, and hasn’t for awhile.

… just this week, and it’s only monday!

dos ain’t done 'til lotus won’t run.

and the death blow is when more like-minded developers do the same… there won’t be enough left that would vote to change policy to try to lure some back.

it’s not a ‘loophole’. it’s not an exception, either. it’s a time bomb. if it becomes widespread, it’s a literal death sentence for linux and foss on users’ desktops.

i’m actually a little surprised, given their history about being so hardcore about dfsg compliance.

i have a POS laptop here with a small ssd in it, gemini lake, originally came with 4gb and hdd. as sold, was about the slowest piece of shit available that ‘officially’ supports win11. it has 8gb and that 120gb ssd now, and it’s barely usable to look at a web page.

i just get it out when i need to show someone something online or do something online for them.

parted_magic has gui tools for this (among many other things) on a bootable image. it’s not free, but a one-off download is only like 20 bucks (use that version forever). secure erase and running smart tests are about the only things i use it for, and even just for that it is definitely worth the lunch money.

https://github.com/Containerpak/cpak/commit/92ce3d2c13860199f5e7158cb67b0775957a81de

the linked project literally changed to gpl3 five hours ago.

yea a lot of them do report linux, if they report an os at all. however, in a survey of “desktop” visitors, one would expect visits determined to not be ‘interactively human’ to be omitted entirely from the counts.