They aren’t available as regular boot options, so you need to use timeshift itself to switch to them. It provides a cli though so it can be used in cases where you’ve broken your x server.

I can hear the laugh track in the last panel.

I’m not sure if it’s treating “localhost” as a hostname or not, but does replacing it with 127.0.0.1 function as expected?

Even then, it’s possible that there may be small embedded circuits inside the camera with the sole purpose of constantly recording and sending that data who knows where.

You know, if you want to go full tinfoil hat.

Not paying open source devs or firefighters is taking advantage of their enthusiasm.

I’m no elevatorologist so soneone can correct me, but don’t elevators need a lot of surrounding machinery in order to operate? Like, there needs to be weights and pulleys and all that. I image there would not be enough room for both that and the stairs.

I don’t know how available it is for other distros, but Mint has a gui tool called Timeshift that allows you to take and restore snapshots.

Snapshots seem an ideal tool for the job. It won’t replace a full backup system, but as long as the cost of failure (such as you mistyping a command and nuking the disk’s partition data or something) is only a few hours of OS reconfiguration rather than losing priceless family photos, it should work.

I use btrfs snapshots on my system. When I’m about to do something “risky” (e.g. trying out kde or cosmic) I take a snapshot beforehand. Then when I want to go back, I just restore the snapshot and reboot.

For /home, there won’t be a lot of OS configuration there, and if it’s a burner machine you probably won’t have much personalisation done on it. However, if you want to backup configuration there, look into a dotfile manager.

I usually have Nutella in my Nutella jars, but you do you.

Depends on how much RAM you intend to use, and how much you need. For normal web browsing, I think probably enough swap space to make your total RAM + Swap amount up to 24GiB should do. If you have more than that and don’t run anything memory intensive, you can probably get away without any swap at all.

If you want the ability to hibernate though, you need at least the same amount of swap as physical RAM (since Linux will use the swap space as the location to “hibernate to”.

I think for an SSD it makes sense to use a swap file rather than a swap partition, since random access is basically free and you can resize it easily. That’s a minor thing though.

How much memory do you have? How much storage do you have? What will this computer be used for? Do you want to be able to hibernate?

Seems useful for their VR headset. Probably so you don’t have to hop into VR to trigger downloads.

I like how you haven’t actually presented those statistics yet.

Reading the ragebait script out of order? :P

Interesting you bring up blackjack because there are absolutely people out there who, through skill, can flip the odds and make a profit (i.e. card counting).

People aren’t automatons and don’t rigidly follow probabilistic models. Especially probabilistic models likely created to push an agenda.

Hmm… Would messing up throwing yourself in zero g and hitting something wrong count?

They’re a person, not a statistic. Telling someone fighting with depression that they’re going to lose that fight is a dick move and actively harmful. If this is a genuine mistake rather than transphobic ragebaiting, please consider the effects your words have on people.

And to all the trans folk reading this: You got this. Don’t let haters get you down just because you’re making changes to improve your life. <3

… Isn’t supporting and highlighting smaller creators rather than huge megacorps kinda a core part of the anti-capitalist movement?

I’ve been using Mint+Home Manager on my main desktop and NixOS on other devices.

I find it amusing that supposedly a modern smartphone is “useless” because it lacks mobile data. Tech like the iPod and PDA were innovative and changed society. Having a device that functions as a camera, calculator, note taking device, information database, audio recorder and even light source is insane.

Other than that, I think one of the best things to do is to learn how something works, head back in time and invent it. Seems like a good way to get reliable income.

Reminder that binaries cannot change a shell’s working directory, so the non-mines will do nothing.

(cd is a shell builtin)

What is your end goal? There are a lot of different ways to install Wine for different purposes.

If it’s just to run a arbitrary binary, I use Heroic and add it as a non-Epic/Amazon game. Different Wine/Proton versions can be downloaded in the settings.

You can also add them to Steam as non-steam game and enable compatibility mode in the settings.