drwho

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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

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Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

Well I’ve joined the “accidentally trashing your system with rm -rf” club! Luckily I didn’t delete my home directory with all the things I care about, but I did delete /boot and /usr, and maybe /var (long story, boils down to me trying to delete non-system directories named those but reflexively adding the slash in front...

drwho,

That’s entirely valid. Good luck.

drwho,

Your chances are pretty good if you copy them back - ultimately, that’s what the restoration function of backup software does.

As for ownership of the directories and files, that’s a bit trickier and might involve some trial and error. root:root is a safe bet for most of it, but there is a lot of stuff in /var that is owned by system accounts.

What distro are you running? That’ll help figure it out.

drwho,

I’m surprised they don’t want to scan something else.

drwho,

I’m going to be building out a third wireless access point with OpenWRT to get better wireless coverage in the house.

drwho,

I don’t use Bluetooth a whole lot on my Linux box (Arch Linux 20231128, MATE Desktop Environment, bluetoothd, pulseaudio). That said, I have blueman-manager in my system tray all the time, and it seems to do a decent job of managing two pairs of headphones (they’re there, and I use them occasionally, just not often). The thing that seems to work for me is to use pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control) to set the parameters of the Bluetooth headphones while they’re active and associated, and those settings are stored for later. That way, when I’m wearing a pair of those headphones my laptop’s speakers are automatically muted, the Bluetooth headphones go back to where I had them before, and whatever I happen to be playing back through (Firefox, vlc, whatever) automatically cut over to them and away from the (now muted) speakers).

I guess I just did it one step at a time - get bluetooth turned on, get a pair of headphones associated with them, then turn off speakers, then… I iterated on it until I had something that worked.

drwho,

A classic! Way back when it used to be recommended on as a good introductory text (until O’Reilly started publishing books on Linux, anyway).

drwho,

Destination port 123/udp isn’t Tor. That’s NTP.

drwho,

Neither do I. I’ve had a sensor net watching for Wayland news (because sooner or later I’m going to have to migrate to it, just want to know when) but so far there hasn’t been any executive summary.

drwho,

I’m okay if Xorg dies off. I just hope that the stuff I use everyday works reliably with Wayland before it does.

drwho,

As long as you follow the instructions you should be okay.

drwho,

What boot loader are you using? That is what allows you to pick between what OS (in your case, drive) to boot at power-on.

Are you using UEFI for this?

drwho,

Hmm.

Not being able to select boot order in BIOS suggests something very strange is going on, because it suggests that the BIOS can’t see all the drives. That has to happen before the bootloader can be evoked.

It sounds like GRUB is installed on the WD Black. BIOS -> drives it can see -> boot loader

What was the specific error that the Arch boot attempt threw? How did os-prober work for you?

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    drwho,

    Of course it will. 702 is the best weapon they’ve ever had, and they’re not going to give it up come hell or high water.

    drwho,

    Yeah, that should be fine.

    Anything in the kernel message buffer? dmesg -T | less

    drwho,

    Are you keeping an eye on system temperature?

    drwho,

    I’m not seeing anything relevant to lockups or crashes in there. Pretty boring logs.

    drwho,

    It’s only a matter of time before those records (and my mental health records too) get involved in a breach.

    This does not leave me sleeping well at night.

    drwho,

    Even then, not so much. I’ve been tugging on those particular wires, and the overall response seems to be, send a reply once, then ghost you until you’ve forgotten that you asked them. They do nothing during that time, and will probably continue to do nothing well after we forget.

    drwho,

    Hmm.

    We’ll see.

    drwho,

    Something seems fucky. Check this out: www.metastem.su

    drwho,

    Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to.

    drwho,

    Because nobody cared about what I was listening to when I did. It didn’t get me anything useful.

    drwho,

    Yup, pretty normal.

    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration (www.phoronix.com)

    The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

    drwho,

    I know, that wasn’t the question I asked.

    drwho,

    That is simple. About as simple as it gets. The more complex method involves figuring out what VPN software Mullvad really uses, figuring out your keying material, fighting with NetworkManager…

    tl;dr - Follow the directions.

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