Affinity is one of the things i lost in moving from windows to Linux, but I’ve been getting by.

I bought a license before canva acquired it and quite enjoyed the software.

Really sad to see canva doing what everyone knew they would do to it.

If you are coming from Windows, I would say Mint for sure. I have friends that are 20 using it and my parents in their 70’s use it. Both seem to like it and even find it easier to use in quite a few respects.

Speaking of Quod Libet, Ex Falso from them is still the best way to fix meta data on music that I have found - so very very handy.

Definitely agree - I usually use cmus because it follows my system theme as part of the terminal and kind of fits in anywhere, but for graphical players having options for skins is a must for me.

Is English your first language?

No, it is not in fact? I didn’t know I had to submit my “I have spoken english since birth” certificate to you in order to have an opinion.

I’m going to go ahead and block you now, because if you aren’t an open racist, you aren’t far off.

I felt like more than the theme was common. The first panel and second panel are quite similar in that that both use “puke” as their term of choice over vomit, throw-up, hurl, spew, etc. In the first panel, both cats are stationary and making their statement about needing to puke. In the second panel, both cats are in motion while making a statement about needing to be in motion.

In the final panel of this comic and the final 2 of the one I linked, both cat’s make a statement of relief of having “made it” in time to throw up. The joke is the same, and is delivered almost identically, except the other comic delivers it better by splitting the last pane up into 2 in order to reveal the location.

The largest difference I see here is that the comic in this thread cuts out the additional work of having 3 extra panels without the text.

The theme, choice of words, and when those words are spoken in these comics align.

Furthermore, this has nothing to do with myself, I have no idea why you would say “get over yourself” when I am not talking about me. I can only assume you chose to say that to be intentionally inflammatory.

If you are that offended by me seeing more similarities between two comics than yourself, then I have no idea what to tell you.

I think they may have taken the idea from a different artist without crediting them (or vice versa, I haven’t checked the dates on which comic is older).

https://lemmy.world/post/6518297

This is the first time I saw this same joke.

Hmm… This is pretty similar to this post I saved 2 years ago.

Similar enough that I feel like it might be derivative / a redrawing of this comic without accreditation by the artist.

https://lemmy.world/post/6518297

I play the Java edition on Debian with mods from modrinth and don’t require emulation etc.

That’s true, the problem with the original statement is that it is too broadly scoped by “knowledge”, implying that it is any and all knowledge. If I obtain the knowledge to write a singleton in object oriented programming while at work - even if the concept is applied to a work project, and later use the programming concept of a singleton in my own software, then they can’t do shit.

A simpler example that shows that it’s too broadly scoped is that if I get trained and certified to use a forklift for a job, and later start my own company and have to use a forklift, there is no precedent for my original employer to come after me for using a forklift in my business operation just because I learned how to use a forklift while I worked for them.

If the knowledge is proprietary or copyrighted or a trade secret and what I do uses any of that, or what I produce is a 1 to 1 product of that, then they can come after me.

This is kind of how VeraCrypts hidden partition feature works.

You start the process of the volume’s encryption and set a “false” password for it. It creates a partition that is encrypted with that password. When it finishes, you mount it and store “fake” files, the files you would reveal under duress. Veracrypt then takes in a second password and creates a “hidden partition” in the remaining free space of the disk - to be clear, that memory space still reports as unused/free if investigated, but the partition is there.

You can then mount that with your second password and store your actual files. You can work with files and folders in the hidden partition as needed, however if anything is added or changed etc in that first fake partition, the data in the hidden partition will be corrupted by those actions.

This means that so long as you plan ahead, someone can literally put a gun to your head and demand the password to the encrypted disk, and you can give them one that works without revealing the data to them.

In theory, since the data in the hidden partition is encrypted and unreadable, it is impossible to detect that it exists in the “unused” space of the disk, even by a forensic analyst. To them it would just look like old, randomly flipped bits that came from previous usage followed by a quick format.

Now, what’s really cool about this is that if you use the veracrypt bootloader, you can store and boot from an undetectable OS you store in that hidden partition, while having a decoy operating system on the visible partition:

https://veracrypt.io/en/VeraCrypt Hidden Operating System.html

Oh for sure - I think that this method has more efficacy in production environments ran by small businesses anyway, since best practices are rarely followed in many of them (until something happens that changes their mind on what they budget for haha), and even at that it is still a rare attack to see.

I am unaware of this type of attack ever occurring on a persons personal network, most likely because so few end users make backups, there is no need to go through the trouble of doing this, making this method useful only in highly targeted attacks.

We are definitely in agreement on proper backups still being the best method to recover from the vast majority of problems - even this one, depending on the backup solution.

They usually embed themselves in within the system files and have some scheduled job that basically checks for the criteria - if you are only backing up and restoring user data then it’s a non-issue, but if you do a full recovery including the system files/the system scheduler etc, then it can happen, and it is often necessary to backup executable and system files for production environments (true, not so much for individual users and their systems).

When I was working in an IT shop, one of our clients was ransomwared with this method. The saving grace for us in that instance is that our backups were going to a product that allowed you to easily break open and dissect the compressed backups pre-recovery, so we were able to determine where the malicious files were and kill them before pushing the backups. Of course we only noticed that it was in the backups after we had tried to push the backups once already, so it was quite the timely process - I think I worked for something like 18 hours that day.

You can read about such malware if you search for “timebomb malware” or “malware does not execute until date” etc.

The attack is not super common anymore, but still happens.

For example, here is an article discussing time bomb methods on linkedin.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-bombs-malware-delayed-execution-any-run

Another on the knowbe4 blog:

https://blog.knowbe4.com/ransomware-can-destroy-backups-in-four-ways

There are viruses that are time-bombs. They specifically don’t do really do anything until some criteria is met in the future, such as the current date being beyond a specific date, at which point they proc. They do this in order to make sure they are in your backups when you restore them so that they immediately run when recovery is completed and the system is booted.

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The Debian docs were really useful for me in setting up my 3090 on Debian proper.

Since Mint is downstream, maybe they will help you.

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

This is beautiful.

I’ve been looking for exactly this for some time, really excited to try it out.

It wasn’t for me on Debian 12/13. I just had to add the repo for the drivers and run 1 or 2 lines of bash and I’ve been good ever since with my 3090.

I was not about to put up with windows co-pilot or recall and had already put up with enough ads and bugs.

I had been running Debian on my laptop for a year without a problem and then finally Windows 11 started doing this when I was trying to update:

Click check for updates? Same result. Wait a week and try again? Same result.

I could no longer trust that the OS was secure from even 3rd parties, so I pulled the trigger and installed Debian 12 - later upgrading to Debian 13 when it released.

There just is never any going back now - Linux is just waaaaaaay too good.

Now I just need something similar to happen with phones.

Helix, Kakoune, build Codium from source would be my suggestions.

I use Helix now mainly - I use Codium if I need a graphical editor for something, or one of it’s plugins.

At work the systems use VSCode but I use the Dance plugin with Helix bindings to get some of that functionality back.