oh, I see. well, lessons learned hopefully! :)

what garbage cleanup tool gets rid of dotfiles, especially .git? if you let us know we can learn to avoid it

well, it’s in the settings. “Include anti features” menu.

my 750 ti works. nouveau can’t increase the clock speed to the operating clock on boot, on boot the display on that card shows random data with colorful pixels, and nvtop does not see it either, but it works.

wait, are they really using it?

IT basically constructs several virus exe files during runtime FROM THE BYTECODE SECTION !!

what kind of viruses? what do they do? did you notice anything objectively bad that they do? or something fishy other than creating executables?

These exe files are what does the activation. It also installs backdoors, and potential malware !!

could you provide a little more details on what kind of backdoors does it install? and what malware?

this could be a big deal, but you didn’t provide anything that could be verified.

I would say they’re a bot,

not a bad guess probably. just a week or two ago was when I noticed them posting frequently very suddenly, and before that I haven’t seen their name anywhere.

I think I know what you are talking about, I have trays like that and they came back in the days with that old freezer that still works good enough. that plastic is really more sturdy than anything today.

Unfortunately they started cracking so we were looking for new ones, but all of them are made of some kinf of cheap plastic or silicon, which I don’t want to use, because just by looking at them I feel they probably “leak” lots of microplastic over time. also the cube holes are not trapezoid so its often hard to get out the cubes without damaging the tray, and adding even more microplastic to my drink

unexpected lesson, but that umask in a subshell is very clever!

then ask a friend or a random person on the street about it. “easy for me” does not mean it is easy for the average person. the average person is lost in the settings of their phone, and they rarely turn on the desktop anymore, if they have one

no it is not easy, but there are many open instances so there’s that

installing it is quite easy, if you have some linux-fu, but if you ask my admin its not easy to maintain.

anyone successfully managed to import chat history from one instance to another? heard it’s possible, don’t know of anyone actually doing it.

what do you consider importing?

you can invite another account of yours into the DM room. then export all encryption keys in your old account, and import them in the new one, and now you should be seeing your old encrypted messages. if the room stopped being treated as a DM room after the invite, you can kick your old account and execute the /converttodm command or something like that in element web.

a loaded gun, sure. is that what you also think about the billions of windows users?

I mean with something easier than OBS, but which works on KDE or any other desktop. something like OnTopReplica on windows

isn’t it possible with some external utility? OBS can capture individual windows with pipewire, and it can render that to a new window, so it must be possible with something easier too

once I noticed failures on my ventoy pendrive because a specific bootable system had unexpected bugs each time I booted it. after I have rewritten it from backup, it was working fine again.

but bitrot works this way not just on pendrives, but SSDs and HDDs too. the system won’t know unless it tries to read the file. SMART selftests may help. but even then, what good it is if it does not let you know actively?

you don’t need the whole usb drive to fail. It’s enough if a sector or two went corrupt, and you won’t be able to open (or even see) a directory, or copying a file will stop in the middle. maybe files disappear too, and then at best they get recovered to FOUND.001 or such directory without path and name, maybe also just partially, or interleaved with other lost or deleted files’ fragments

but surely microsoft keeps multiple copies! they are infallible!!

I have heard less about phone chargers failing catastrophically. They also handle much less power (except the fancy ones), and I haven’t seen a hot phone charger adapter yet, but plenty laptop chargers of which some were just very warm, and some so hot just on its outsides that it was uncomfortable to hold it in hand.

this is why I’m more worried about laptop chargers