This is such an odd thing to do… I really cannot see the benefits for the project doing this. Maybe those maintainers were payed for their work and sanctions prohibit paying them or something?

No one knows yet. Given the scale of the operation it’s most likely a large organization.

Installs arch with install script, cannot fix grub, reinstalls arch. Good comedy, would recommend. Martincitopants style editing is lovely

The exiting part will be if they launch a passive cooled arm based laptop.

If you can get a metal body laptop, I would suggest you do. Metal chassis with Linux will last a long while. Programming will not take much resources (and if it does, rewrite your code). Since you’re into light programming like python any distro would be fine. It feels like the community has somewhat agreed to suggest Linux Mint to new users so I’ll support that.

This is what I think one need to do to test if that would work

• get latest ubuntu live cd
• install bottles
• run label printer installer for windows in bottles
• check if the program runs at all

If the device is a COM device in windows then I think it should just work out of the box. If not, then the entire device needs to be forwarded using udev rules to wine. Let me know if you want to attempt this :)

This sounds interesting. What the hell is RevOS? What kind of label maker is that? Does it have a name? Do you know what kind of cable it’s using to communicate with the pc?

true heroes

how is mime cache related to this?

It says it’s scraped and not leaked

Glowies luckily lost this battle

curl cheat.sh/command is more useful because it just spits out common examples. man is only useful if you need complete documentation or need to build a complex oneliner.

I never remember hot to extract tar files. Would you dive into the documentation for that or look up a cheatsheet?

well, a computer contains sensitive information so it should always be encrypted. Even if you think you have nothing to hide

Seems like you’re fucked anyway then. This has to be solved politically.

There are only two distros in the world. Those that people hate and those that no one uses

That is a classical windows mentality. “gnome is cheap macos clone”. Gnome tries just to create a minimal and distraction free and polished DE. KDE tries to bulldose as many features as possible and that sacrifices stability and UX. Analogy would be similar to having a leaky water pipe in the roof. Gnome would fix the leaking pipe meanwhile KDE would give you a bucket and a few towels to clean that up in different ways.

“Installing APP does not require you to switch to it nor asking friends and family to use it. What it does is allowing them to reach out to you in a private way. By installing it you respect and support their choice of avoiding BAD_APP.”

On the sidenote: Just recommend Signal. It uses phone number as identifier, easy to grow by using phone book, has good track record when glowies have a warrant and most importantly it’s stable. It has flaws (no sms, not saving chat history) but there are no other alternatives available yet that beat signal for normies.

It’s a KINGSTON SA2000M81000G. Here is a “datasheet”.

I’ve looked up some of the inode numbers in the logs and they point to some application state data in /var so reinstalling application could bring those files back.

I’ve never touched SMART before since I’ve assumed it’s an HDD thing. Anyway. I’ve installed smartmontools. nvme ssds don’t report smart stats like for hdds so this answer suggested looking for Percentage used in stead.

root@archiso ~ # smartctl -a --test=long /dev/nvme0n1 | grep "Used"
Percentage Used:                    2%

It could be true that the firmware is not optimal but I could not find any news about that like you have for the 980. gnome software should keep firmware up to date in the background but just for good measure I ran it in live environment as well. I will probably get a new ssd at some point in the future and maybe use this old one for non critical storage in the future.

Well I never set up any raid on my systems

root@archiso /mnt/arch # btrfs device usage .
/dev/nvme0n1p2, ID: 1
   Device size:           931.01GiB
   Device slack:              0.00B
   Data,single:           520.01GiB
   Metadata,DUP:            6.00GiB
   System,DUP:             16.00MiB
   Unallocated:           404.99GiB

root@archiso /mnt/arch # btrfs fi us .
Overall:
    Device size:		 931.01GiB
    Device allocated:		 526.02GiB
    Device unallocated:		 404.99GiB
    Device missing:		     0.00B
    Device slack:		     0.00B
    Used:			 480.21GiB
    Free (estimated):		 447.51GiB	(min: 245.02GiB)
    Free (statfs, df):		 447.51GiB
    Data ratio:			      1.00
    Metadata ratio:		      2.00
    Global reserve:		 512.00MiB	(used: 0.00B)
    Multiple profiles:		        no

Data,single: Size:520.01GiB, Used:477.49GiB (91.82%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p2	 520.01GiB

Metadata,DUP: Size:3.00GiB, Used:1.36GiB (45.45%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p2	   6.00GiB

System,DUP: Size:8.00MiB, Used:80.00KiB (0.98%)
   /dev/nvme0n1p2	  16.00MiB

Unallocated:
   /dev/nvme0n1p2	 404.99GiB

root@archiso /mnt/arch # btrfs device stats .
[/dev/nvme0n1p2].write_io_errs    0
[/dev/nvme0n1p2].read_io_errs     0
[/dev/nvme0n1p2].flush_io_errs    0
[/dev/nvme0n1p2].corruption_errs  19317
[/dev/nvme0n1p2].generation_errs  0