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“Title II” in this context refers to Subchapter II of 47 U.S.C. Chapter 5. 47 U.S.C. is the Communications Act of 1934, the act of Congress that established the FCC, and Chapter 5 is the part that deals with “Wire and Radio Communications.”

If you want to know what this law empowers the FCC to do, you can read the statute yourself. Or, if that’s too difficult, you can also use your access to the internet to look up more accessible sources, such as Wikipedia’s “Common carrier” article.

As long as you copy from the device file (/dev/whatever), you will get “the raw bits”, regardless of whether you use dd, cp, or even cat.

Same thing happened to me. Borked my Windows install and didn’t have a recovery disc, so I just wiped the whole thing and went Linux-only. Never looked back since. :)

Sometimes, all you need is a little push to get you out of your comfort zone.

There’s also vidir from moreutils, which lets you bulk-rename files in your $EDITOR of choice.

If you’re using a shell script to install software, you’ve already failed.

Better alternatives include

• Third-party package managers like Homebrew and Nix.
• Language-specific package managers like pip and npm.
• Self-contained package formats like Flatpak, Snap and AppImage.
• Using checkinstall to turn a package with an install script or a “make install” command into a package your distro recognizes.
• Downloading a tarball and using GNU Stow to install it into /usr/local.
• Compiling from source and installing in $HOME.

This technique is called Huffman coding, and it’s used in a number of compression algorithms.