NaibofTabr

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You’re welcome, and yeah growing pains every time with a new install. But you do it a little better each time.

One recommendation - when you do reinstall, don’t use the default/automatic partitioning. Manually set up your /home directory as a separate partition from /root. This lets you reinstall the OS without having to touch your user files. When you reinstall again, all you have to do is select the existing /home partition to use as the new install’s home (and make sure not to format it). This makes your install a lot more flexible, and your OS a lot more disposable.

If you do manual partition configuration, don’t forget to also create a /swap partition that is at least 1.5x the size of your RAM.

I could probably backup most of my important data to a flash drive but I’d rather not.

You should ALWAYS back up any important/irreplaceable data before making any changes to your hard drives, even if you think the risk is low. Accidents happen.

You can move the drive from one slot to the other, the drive’s UUID should not change. You’ll just need to change the boot drive selected in UEFI. Physically swapping the drives will be faster, easier and less failure-prone than trying to move your boot and root partitions between drives.

For editing drive formats and partitions, the best tool is gparted: https://gparted.org/

It’s convenient to have gparted installed on a USB drive so that you can live boot it and use it to make changes to the system drive(s). With gparted you can simply erase the Windows drive and create a new partition formatted for Linux (probably ext4).

If you are not already familiar with editing disk partitions and formats, you should read some tutorials first: https://gparted.org/articles.php

As for encryption, some Linux installers have this as a selectable option during the install process. If Mint does, you should consider reinstalling anyway to use that, as you are more likely to have it working properly.

If you just want to encrypt your data partition(s) you can implement LUKS with cryptsetup: https://linuxvox.com/blog/linux-luks-encryption/

Note that this is the most basic use, it does not cover FDE. If you want to also encrypt /boot so that your computer will not start without being unlocked, that is more complicated to set up:

!! YOU SHOULD READ A LOT OF INFORMATION BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS !!

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1470391/luks-tpm2-auto-unlock-at-boot-systemd-cryptenroll

https://cryptsetup-team.pages.debian.net/cryptsetup/encrypted-boot.html

Be aware that doing anything wrong in this process is likely to leave you with an unbootable system, and unable to recover any data from the encrypted partition/drive. You need to be sure that the steps you’re going to take are relevant for your hardware and OS before you start, and that you have all of the necessary utilities installed.

Again, if Mint has a selectable option for this in its installer, you will have much better chances of success reinstalling with that.

Don’t skip the backup.

Not likely. It doesn’t matter how much slave labor you throw at it, getting a new fabrication machine to the necessary precision to make modern chips requires a lot of time.

It is way too late to be starting a new chip fab for it to be relevant to the current market. If they are producing reliable chips 5 years from now that’ll be fast.

You really need to see just how bad these things are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlxkLawZrw

It’s a slightly animatronic mannequin. They’re so garbage. This is what they brought to CES to show off, like they’re proud of it. Tickle Me Elmo was more life-like.

Bad Horse?

Look, it’s hard to tell if a girl’s into you, OK?

If winning means not getting charged with sexual harassment, it’s a good strategy.

He’s basically admitting that Meta’s own models aren’t competitive with any of the other major tech companies, so he wants to be able to use alternatives.

Yeah, that’s the picture that Wikipedia has.

This is what organic growth looks like. It spreads in fits and starts, bits of it clump together and pile up, pieces of it separate and take on life of their own or die. When part of it rots (hexbear) the larger organism cuts it off to limit the spread of disease.

Lemmy (and more generally, ActivityPub) is growing, not like a rose bush, but like a field of grass. Some pieces of it are blooming, some pieces of it are dying, some pieces are adapting to different environments, but the spread is inexorable and the horizon unlimited.

If you want to see what the field is like on the other side of that hill, well it won’t just come to you, you’ll have to get up and go to it.

Nice. There’s probably nothing in there but an adapter board and a ROM chip running just enough of the firmware to report the drive as 16TB.

Where did you buy this at? Name & shame the seller?

From left to right:

5.25 in (130mm) and 3.5 in (90mm}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

VHS tape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS

Compact Cassette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape

Open-reel magnetic tape (as opposed to a cartridge or cassette)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-tape_data_storage

Punched card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

See also:

108 Rare and Bizarre Media Types - The8BitGuy (much has been forgotten)

Bird Song

What is the point of designing technology for people to use that does not account for common "people problem"s?

I think it’s important for people to understand just how large of an issue CSAM is on the internet. This recent article has some numbers: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/child-abuse-online-statistics/

Basically every platform that allows users to upload arbitrary content has this issue. It doesn’t even require presumed anonymity, people share this stuff on Facebook. I think Darknet Diaries Episode 93: KIK also helps show just how prevalent it is.

You can’t just handwave CSAM as a pretext. Every file-sharing platform that allows anonymity is rife with it. To operate an anonymous file sharing system is to enable child exploitation.

Ah, see, this is unnecessary! All you have to do is pull the same kind of trick that rich people do - use the documentation of the money as collateral and take out a loan or line of credit against it. Take out a big enough loan, reinvest some of it (in your own company, before news of the massive deal goes public) and profit.

Presumably you’d be sleeping in a tent, so the “sleeping outside in the rain for days” bit isn’t too bad.

How many days have you spent living in a tent in the rain? because personally I think it’s kind of fun for one night, assuming it’s not a complete downpour, and then the novelty wears off and everything is damp and muddy. And that’s assuming you have a reasonably good tent that you’ve prepped for wet conditions, and you set it up in a spot with good drainage that hasn’t become a puddle. Campfires are a lot less fun in the rain too.

Carrying everything is a pain though, particularly if it’s a cold season and you’d have to carry a bunch of furs to help maintain body heat while sleeping.

Yeah, cold weather gear, or if you can’t rely on water availability and you have to carry it with you. Being able to keep yourself alive while not getting overburdened with gear is pretty difficult.

Only real way to do it in that case is to have an extra horse for cargo, which of course further complicates logistics

It really does. There was this excellent video that was shared on lemmy a few weeks ago:

What Medieval People Ate When Traveling

One of the things he covers (around 9 minutes) is the cost of keeping a horse while traveling (from historic records). Really great description of traveling considerations overall.

These people use far too much jargon.

It’s very intentional, it allows them to change the meanings of words on the fly, then claim that the problem is your ignorance of what they really meant.

Everybody wants to go on an adventure until they find out it means being cold and hungry, carrying everything you need on your back, and sleeping outside in the rain for days.

Whoa, that looks like trash. Are you getting a refund for that?

Can you send a picture of the bottom of the drive with the control board?

Also what adapter / enclosure are you using?