It's a nightmare to search for anything about GUID Partition Tables (GPT) now.

I bet they said something like "we don't use most of that information, we just need access in case we add a new feature in the future that uses it". And then it'll come out that they've always been using it, and it's been associated with your identifying info. And then their server will be hacked (because the admin password was "meta123") and the all the info will leak. The modern internet sucks.

In exchange, FF uses Google search by default. So they're also getting direct value from the deal.

The real problem is the government not protecting consumers from such predatory business practices. It's almost certainly not legal, and if it is then it shouldn't be. After 3-4 companies are absolutely destroyed, companies will stop doing it.

I've thought WD was sleezy ever since they secretly switched from CMR drives to SMR drives, including in their NAS products (for which SMR drives are particularly unsuitable). So this doesn't surprise me at all.

People need to stop buying WD drives and buy Seagate instead. They had their own SMR scandal, but at least they never put them in their NAS drives.

Ever since we found out that Grindr has been tracking their users' locations at all times and then selling that data to private companies, Grindr has been dead to me.

OP is 13.

I'm surprised that other people are surprised that for-profit companies constantly try to increase their profits; such companies only contribute to FOSS when that's more profitable than the alternative. The Linux kernel, AMDGPU, Steam, etc only exist because some part of the software/hardware stack is proprietary (which becomes a more attractive product as the FOSS portion of the stack improves).

I'm definitely not justifying the "rug-pulling", but people need to stop supporting projects with no potential for long-term profitability unless those projects can survive without any support from for-profit companies. Anything else is destined to fail.

Akshually Linus Torvalds is a prophet, Richard Stallman is our lord

"Vending machines are more deadly than sharks".

While it's true that (at least for some years) more people are killed by vending machine accidents than shark attacks, your personal risk depends on what you do. If you're a vending machine factory worker who never goes into the ocean, you're far more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark. But if you live in a part of the world that doesn't have vending machines and you swim in the ocean every day, the reverse is true.

I've taken to calling him GNU + Richard Stallman

Do you lock your door at night or when you leave? You shouldn't have to, but you currently need to. So it would be stupid not to.

The ability to talk to animals

Meh, it's a hobby. Lots of people talk about their hobbies.

Still a funny comic, though.

Laughing from Debian

Oh hey, I was also fired because of my anxiety. Fun stuff. And by that I mean fuck them.

Now I want to start calling people "narse"s with no context.

Kernel upgrades are very... Painful.

You know how some companies make vibrating dildos? Twitter should do that.

They're turning the frickin RAM gay!

Always put your filesystems in an LVM volume (and in general, partition disks with LVM rather than partition tables)! You never know when you might need to combine multiple disks, make a snapshot, add redundancy, or transfer to another disk without unmounting. But it's very difficult to format a block device as LVM once you can't erase its contents.

Make your /boot partition at least 500MiB.

Leave at least 1GiB of free space at the beginning of every disk. You never know when you might need to add EFI and boot partitions to that disk. And again, it's very difficult to do after the fact.

Business decisions are almost always influenced by the personal preferences of people in charge. While OP probably can't change the existing infrastructure right now, when the infrastructure is eventually changed, OP's pro-Linux input could make a big difference.

Request access to each video and wait for a letter with the title and thumbnail printed on the outside.

Not anymore (hopefully)

SMH my head

I've become a lot more sympathetic to RH after learning about Oracle Linux. I still disagree with it, but another mega-corp selling support for a RHEL clone is egregious.

A robe and wizard hat.

Is it that fun?

Yes. Sorry. I only have 1 or 2 days a year where I can legally blow stuff up.

thanks

I'm not a cryptographer (so maybe this is wrong), but my understanding is that although it's possible to modify the cipher text, how those changes modify the plaintext are very difficult (or impossible) to predict. That can still be an attack vector if the attacker knows the structure of the plaintext (or just want to break something), but since the checksum is also encrypted, the chances that both the original file and checksum could be kept consistent after cipher text modification is basically zero.

Seeing Ubuntu now is like seeing your (previously) favourite musician, sold out and washed up.

Also buying and eventually replacing expensive hardware. Running AI at scale requires hundreds of thousands of dollars of infrastructure.

I agree that this is a grey area, but it could really go either way. Anyway, giant corporations have been abusing individuals who can't afford lawsuits for decades. Even with precedent on your side, that probably wouldn't change.

Probably after he gave up on his own kernel (Hurd) being a viable competitor.

I think most people sign up on whichever instance is most convenient but still want to access all other instances. Those people should still be able to do that, even if one instance has decided to hinder that ability.

IMO the best solution would be to mark those posts when viewed from a de-federated instance. Something like "Note: your comments on this post will only be visible to other users on this instance".

Not only will you not get updates (after they end your subscription), but you'll probably lose access to the entirety of their packages before you can download all of them in the first place.

I think it's about controlling others. Not in an evil or conniving way, but rather that a lot of devs "don't want other people forcing design decisions on them" when in reality they're just replacing one set of design decisions with another.

Customers have more power than companies would like you to believe. Politely explain the situation to customer support, and ask for a refund. If they refuse, mention that you purchased a game that was promised to work for at least several months, and you haven't received the product you paid for. Because of that, you're considering charging back through your bank. If that doesn't work, say you'll charge back if they don't refund. If that doesn't work, actually charge back through your bank. Banks are surprisingly cool about it as long as you don't do it too often. Of course, you need to buy the game directly (no account balance) from a credit card.

Just don't be a jerk to the support person, because it's almost certainly not their fault. It's also less likely to get you what you want. They'd rather give you what you want so you go away, and you just need to give them reasons that they can relay to their supervisor if necessary.

One annoying thing on some subreddits was moderators auto-removing your posts unless you had a certain amount of karma.

The real downside to SMR drives is "random" writes; adjacent tracks need to be re-written, and then their adjacent tracks, and that keeps going until the tracks adjacent to a write happen to be empty. It doesn't matter much for long sequential writes (because adjacent tracks will be overwritten anyway). I think the re-writing process also hurts read performance for the host, but reads alone don't cause rewriting.

If you need to reshape/resilver your array (grow, shrink, or change geometry), it'll probably take weeks or months with an SMR drive compared to days for a CMR drive.