I have a love/hate relationship with a lack of a comma somewhere around “old” in your message.

FOSS projects tend to be nice with their communities because if you piss off enough tech savvy people, your project just gets forked. Sooner or later there is a fork that everybody will recommend instead of the original project.

Outside of specialized B2B software, I never met a tech rep that would be helpful with an issue. Do you actually have experience where you’d call Google/Apple/Microslop and get help with their software? In Linux world, with many programs I can just go and nag the actual developer of the thing, which often works wonders.

Excuse me, they do what now? Do you have a source on this? Because I know of this little article, but that was quite a long time ago.

I mean, it doesn’t magically appear on the device. You pay for the installation, it’s just included in the price of the device (with Windows you also pay for the license key, by the way). There are companies that’ll install Linux for you. Hell, pay me $30 and cover shipping, I’ll gladly set you up with, I don’t know, Fedora and even add a timer with notifications that’ll nag you about package updates, just like Android does.

One of the reasons Manjaro lost a lot of users is that there are better alternatives now. If you want more or less vanilla Arch, but easy to install, go for EndeavourOS. If you want Arch that’s optimized for performance, you have CachyOS.

That’s probably integrated speakers. Those can have quite powerful magnets. If it has old spinny hard drives, those have magnets, too. Sometimes the lid also has a magnet if there is a hall effect sensor for detecting if it’s closed.

Usually it’s hard to find a magnet that’d be strong enough to make electronics inside a laptop malfunction without breaking the case open. Your regular fridge magnets are too weak for that kind of application, so are the ones usually found in glasses cases. And if you happen to be an owner of a chonky magnet, you probably already know the thing is dangerous.

That’s kind of the nature of this sort of apps. Instead of implementing the clipboard handler yourself, you just rely on whatever clipboard utility the system already has.

Most terminal emulators will copy with Ctrl+Shift+c. I’m using foot, if you set this part of your config, it will copy with just Ctrl+c.

[key-bindings]
clipboard-copy=Control+c XF86Copy

But now for most shells you don’t have a keybind to send SIGINT, which is very commonly used.

I solved the drag and drop issue with dragon. Copying and pasting depends purely on your terminal emulator, no?

Борщевик! That thing is a menace across pretty much all the post-Soviet countries. Vavilov and whoever listened to him were stupid as fuck.

$ history | grep -E '(sed|grep|awk|perl)' | wc -l
50
$ history | wc -l
500

Checks out perfectly.

Stop teaching people how to scream, please.

Could have just used class E addresses, at least then it would look intentional insead of brainless.

If you do this, be sure to make an image of your EFI partition and/or keys and keep it somewhere safe along with whatever is needed to restore the partition. Because if something tempers with it, your computer will stop booting because sighed hashes no longer match the ones calculated and you’ll be locked out of your own system without some sort of way to restore the partition to a safe state.

@onlinepersona@programming.dev

As bad as secure boot is, that’s exactly the use case for it. Frankly, you can both swap the CD and solder a new BIOS flash if you are really interested in boot poisoning, the latter is just a tiny bit harder to do without some sort of trace.

Mainly because then the manufacturer decides on how your stuff is encrypted, no likie.

Well, something has to be. You can have your EFI partition on a separate drive and then the actual drive will be fully encrypted. It’s just as good as we can get, the algorithm for decrypting the data obviously can’t be encrypted.

I think there are implementations with encryption logic stored in the BIOS or on a separate chip, but don’t quote me on that. And even then, the decryption logic itself will be unencrypted, because, as it happens, computers can’t run encrypted code.

So, you just want a prebuild? Just as with consoles, you still need to do maintenance. Yes, you can neglect it for a couple of years, but then you start noticing that your thermal interface is not as good anymore or that your heat exchangers are now more dust than metal. And I find full-sized computers easier to maintain, as they are so easy to disassemble, contrary to consoles.

Also, if you want VR and have the money for it, it’s probably a good idea to buy a beefier machine. VR is a bit hungry for system resources (depending on the title, of course), standalone headsets don’t provide nearly as good of an experiece as a proper PCVR.

What is a PC for you, though? Steam Frame is a full on computer running Linux, as well as Steam Deck. Nothing prevents you from running basically anything on them. But the same could be said about your MacBook that you already own.