Out of curiosity, what’s the issue with installing a different DE?

I keep expecting them to die like Unity DE

But they’ll totally bring the best features from the old one into the new one!

(They do not consider that feature that you care about to be one of the “best features”)

Honestly?

By looking up the command. It took like two seconds and that was nearly twenty years ago. And I’ve been using it off and on since then (only off because I’ve not been consistently using Linux, not because I’m using a different terminal text editor; when on *NIX, vim/vi is pretty much all I’ve used on the terminal)

11 to Mint 21.2 was, obviously, clean

Clonezilla, last I checked like a decade ago, can do a block by block copy and save an entire disk as an image. If it doesn’t support btrfs, I assume that just means for things like reading and writing a disk image backup, not the disk/block device itself

Openly distributed while being private(-ish; I know blockchains aren’t truly private but it could at least obfuscate it adequately against casual or semi serious attempts to identify someone)

I’ll admit I’m no expert or even particularly well versed in blockchain technologies, but my (limited) understanding of them suggests this might actually be the kind of thing it’s good at (as opposed to how it could seemingly do anything a few years ago and everyone was trying to shoehorn a blockchain into their products)

And to underline part of my comment, I did say “I wonder if…” rather than asserting that it would work or even that I bet it would work

Yeah, I’d imagine not, though I’m fairly confident any solution to this would be nontrivial

I hate to suggest it but I wonder if a blockchain would work here

That actually explains the sensation I have with headphones provided by my work, I want to like them but the sensation is kind of unpleasant

No Starch in general is excellent quality, they’re one of my main go-tos. I own several of the books in there and they’re high quality, easily worth more than the bundle for each book.

No Starch Press does not publish AI generated crap, with very few exceptions they’ve been very high quality (the one exception I can think of is Linux Basics for Hackers, which should have just been called Linux Basics, and had a better editor because it was full of technical errors, but everything else I’ve gotten from them has been stellar quality)

Because that’s the most recent version… The firewall it covers I don’t think has changed much in that time though so it’s probably fine

That is an incredible collection, and includes current versions (a lot of times these have older revisions)

How Linux Works, Absolute FreeBSD, and Absolute OpenBSD are worth way more than the cost by themselves

Which is the opposite of Manning, got a book from them recently that the cover made me go “what the fuck?!”

Still, those two are my favorite tech publishers, hands down

Not so much “optimistic” as “the way it used to be”

I’ve got a fridge that’s nearly 30 years old that we’ve never had to fix anything on (other than the ice maker). I thought it died about a week ago, turns out I just accidentally turned it off (issue with the coldness dial) and it’s colder than ever right now.

I’ve also got a 6 or 8 year old fridge that I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it needs replacing before the old one.

I didn’t think I could hate a name shortening system this much but here we are

This is the first time I’ve ever even heard of these kinds of abbreviations, what the hell even are they?

I’ve given up trying to understand what benefit companies like googie get from most of the shitty consumer-hostile decisions they make. You’ll have to ask them when they inevitably shut that down what they get from doing that.

You’re giving them a lot more credit than is probably warranted. They’ve killed off so many popular things and workarounds that really cost them nothing to leave available for the tech savvy they’ve very much shut down to force people to use the systems they want to push.

googie hasn’t been tech savvy friendly for a while now