but it really does help
depends on the person and symptoms. I was the opposite of sceptical, but when I tried it, I was super disappointed, because reading suddenly became MUCH more difficult.
The non-open dyslexiefont is what helped me. Even though the differences seem minor.
But the best solution for me is modern TTS while reading along.
If the partition where your OS stores boot images at is large enough, you can have practically infinitely many kernels in grub.
Some distros store those in a boot partition. Some store it in the root partition subdir. I don’t know about ubuntu tbh.
I once had a 2gb boot partition and I needed to add a graphics stack to the boot image so I could use a touchscreen keyboard during boot to enter a LUKS password. That made a single kernel image over 1gb, so I could only have one…
I’m pretty sure thats not possible wifhout some custon extension or script.
go with fedora
i feel you’ll be happier with it
I feel like by “scaling” they mean upgradability. So either vertical (adding more drives, ram, cpu) or horizontal (adding more boxes that loadbalance an increase of multiple parallel tasks/users) hahaha ooops
use a modern, popular distro. There are less things broken and you get more support
do a fresh install with a fresh user to nor carry over your broken configs and customizations. Do everything from scratch again
Tackle the issues one by one and provide detailed steps to reproduce, error messages, logs, screenshots or videos. You can ask right here on lemmy, but you’ll probably get more eyes on it on reddit tbh.
I felt just like you a long time ago when kde introduced wayland at the end of 2016. After a couple of super frustrating months, I made a backup of my /home, migrated my archlinux to btrfs (by doing a fresh install) so I can have snapshots and revert if I mess something.
Had only minor issues since then and most have been fixed some years later. Others I’ve learned how to work around (for example by using gamescope, because I have mixed resolution multi monitor setup and some games think my 2k screen is 4k)
afaik the Ruhr Universiry of Bochum has an intranet that connects the uni and all the dorms. And they selfhost a couple of services, like email, git and pastebin. You can see a line going to the dorms on the graph.
I think that really depends on why the app made the system hang.
Can you reproduce it consistently? If so, you could try out different forms of isolation, like flatpak, docker, a VM. And there are linux distros focused on each of those, but you can try a solution on whatever distro you’re running.
If for some reason your system hangs due to resources (which is the only case I have ever experienced), that can be limited through cgroups and such. The only resource I don’t know how to limit is GPU compute.
When doing IT support for my parents windows PC I used the following two options in the past:
software that can copy the programs to a new install (but it was flakey and couldn’t copy every app)
just cloning the whole drive with clonezilla. As long as the new drive is equal or larger than the old one, this worked perfectly.
There is a clonezilla live boot iso somewhere, or you can do it with any linux live boot and gparted + dd. Just make sure to have a backup of your important data outside of this PC (just in case you fuck up) learn what the tools and command do before running them and tripple check that you are copying the old install to the new drive, not the other way around.
Then after the cloning unplug the old HDD for testing. Because a clone will have identical IDs the boot process and some programs might get confused.
During the linux install, unplug the windows ssd and have only the hdd attached, again for the ID issues and just be extra safe to not fuck anything up.
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you bought one? Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?
my 2 old phones (usb c) were both replaced because of hardware issues.
one has a broken power button that is constantly detected as being randomly spam pressed, so as soon as it gets power if it ever manages to boot it either hard reboots itself or tries to call emergency services.
the other has a flaky usb c that constantly connects and disconnects unless you hold it at a specific angle and the battery is like a step away from meltdown - it can hold charge for a couple minutes.
I’d be afraid to leave either plugged in at home.
I guess the article is for people that buy a new phone for fashion, not need.
there is also the cross platform one by jetbrains - i always forget the name
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I only enter one password for LUKS and have kde autologin
What is Linux protecting us from by using passwords?
I’d argue: from yourself.
On windows I often spam clicked through dialogues and popups and without thinking got malware or some other unwanted outcome.
On linux, when asked for a password it takes effort to type, so I have a moment of my lazy brain resisting and asking “do we really need to do that” and it makes the action more conscious and responsible. I cought myself one step from fucking something up multiple times this way.
I had some viruses and malware on windows, just like you. But I never had them on linux in mt 15 years of daily driving it.
Thats fine until it isn’t.
Remember all the small folk people the government or other powerfull institutions fucked over in unjust ways for a wide range of reasons (sometimes down to personal grudges other times completely random)?
Yeah, it would be super easy to put some incriminating files on your computers and lock you up for years. Your grandma would be really sad.
Also on linux you can set everything to passwordless in polkit/sudoers or a blank password - it doesn’t actually force you and I’ve done that where it made sense (not on a PERSONAL computer)
it always baffles me when people set up disk encryption with the TPM instead of a password
The Matchbox window manager is normally a good start for this sort of project.
It displays a single application at a time full screen.
I have 2 powered RAID enclosures from icybox with 2 multi TB HDD in each one. The RAID is set to mirror the drives.
They are connected via usb 3 to a raspberry pi which runs borgbackup.
One is in my own place, just next to the main server.
The other is at my parents place in another city.
All my desktops, laptops and servers have borgmatic installed with the two pi’s as two targets. So when I create a backup it gets send to both locations. On my PCs I manually do a borg backup like once a month when I feel like it. The server computers are all on a daily schedule.
Borg has extremely efficient compression and defuplication. So having 20 historical snapshots of the whole file storage of each device takes about 30% less space than the original size on disk.
For example my desktop currently uses ~800GB but the borgbackup of said desktop takes only ~500GB.
The only disadvantage I find is that there is no cross system deduplication.
The super useful advantage is that I was able to just take the HDD enclosure, plug it into my Desktop and restore whatever files I want. I did an rsync to a blank fs once and it restored everything properly. And it’s pretty cheap. like 150$ total per backup location without any significant monthly costs.
I used hetzners storagebox for a while for borgbackups but restoring from it was SO SLOW. And my internet connection is not stable enough to do that without interruptions for multiple days. Never again, except for using it as an extra last resort “cloud” backup.