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Illecors, to asklemmy in Which things have you avoided or embraced on the name alone?

It ended up in my top of all time :) Next to The Wire and Breaking Bad.

Illecors, to piracy in Once a pirate, always a pirate

That is definitely not the point of this post.

Illecors, to privacy in Multiple Adblockers in a row - does it make sense or is it even harmful?

If you have a way to run wireguard - it’s a lifesaver. My LAN is wherever I am :)

Illecors, to linux in I created a shitty Python script to manage multiple SSH connections because I couldnt find a decent one

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Illecors, to linux in One single partition for Linux versus using a partition table?

I don’t know, haven’t used Mint in a decade. It’s not difficult to set it up, though.

Illecors, to linux in One single partition for Linux versus using a partition table?

BTRFS has a concept called a subvolume. You are allowed to mount it just like any other device. This is an example /etc/fstab I’ve copied from somewhere some time ago.


<span style="color:#323232;">UUID=49DD-6B6F                                  /efi            vfat    defaults        0 2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /               btrfs   subvol=@root    0 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /home           btrfs   subvol=@home    0 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /opt            btrfs   subvol=@opt     0 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /srv            btrfs   subvol=@srv     0 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /var            btrfs   subvol=@var     0 0
</span>

/efi (or /boot, or /boot/efi, whatever floats your boat) still has to be a separate vfat partition, but all the other mounts are, technically speaking, the same partition mounted many times with a different subvolume set as the target.

Obviously, you don’t need to have all of them separated like this, but it allows you to fine tune the parts of system that do get snapshot.

Illecors, to linux in Newbie with questions about Debian

I’d like to respond to 3.

My suggestion would be to setup a keyfile to unlock the partition automatically. You can use your EFI partition to store the keyfile, which makes no sense from security perspective; or you can keep it on a usb drive. Machine will ask for password if usb is not present, or boot straight up if it is.

Illecors, to science_memes in HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I’ve noticed an uptick in spinisaurus memes. Has there been a newsworthy event I’ve missed in the last couple of days?

Illecors, to asklemmy in How are "We" to place trust in the fediverse?

You’re pointing at the ugliest corner there is, and yet I’d like to point out that there’s been that kind of attack yesterday and the day before; and the tools and people reacted well enough for it to go unnoticed for most folk on the fediverse.

Illecors, to risa in The many genres of Riker

What’s a fucking trumpet?

Illecors, to linux in My ubuntu installation broke completely

Honestly, for a long term usage like this a rolling release distro is better. I’ve never not had massive issues upgrading ubuntu release to release, but I’ve only ever had minor ones on arch and pretty much nothing on gentoo. Arch is bleeding edge, so can’t recommend it to you all that much and gentoo has some learning curve initially. But I’ve heard good things of whatever rolling names are from fedora and opensuse.

Illecors, to linux in My ubuntu installation broke completely

Thinking straight is rare in stressful situations.

Illecors, to linux in My ubuntu installation broke completely

Ah, I had misunderstood your /boot situation previously. There’s an easy way to fix it by backing up current content of boot, unmounting it, creating some dir somewhere where there’s space (/tempboot was my choice last time), bind mounting it to /boot and going through the apt process. Then unmount the bind, mount the real boot, delete everything except currently booted kernel stuff, copy all the things from /tempboot update the initrd and grub. Et voila!

Illecors, to linux in My ubuntu installation broke completely

You won’t. Arch has very little glue that holds it together and the components are quite robust. Buntus of this world, on the other hand, have plenty of glue to enforce their way. And it might be good for first timers, but definitely gets in a way as you start learning the system. My last annoyance like this was disabling gdm - it just kept coming back. Some script somewhere was making sure thr service was running no matter what.

Illecors, to linux in My ubuntu installation broke completely

That sounds fun

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