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I think the problem is NFS more than Gnome - even umount chokes on an unresponsive share

I’ve also seen GUI used (e.g. by QMK)

If the private keys have a passphrase they’re already encrypted. The fact that it’s a text file doesn’t mean it’s a plaintext file. But for improved security, you could use a Yubikey or similar hardware token.

What’s their angle? US companies can seemingly get a pass on copyright infringement if it’s for training AI. Why say that?

Pretty interesting, kudos to them for building a different system and not yet another distro. The end result of having a ton of pre-installed software in the hope that it covers your hardware and workflows makes it a pass for me as I’m all about being lightweight and modular, but it does seem like an almost perfect grandma distro.

The connection is that while the “system drive” (C:\ in Windows, / in Linux) for each system has its own partition, the EFI partition is shared. This is the partition where the files needed to load the respective OSes live, aka the entries you see in the bootloader. You could create a new EFI partition and tell Linux to use that one, but then you would have to select the OS from the boot devices in the BIOS, so no one does that.

Also is the fix to manually increase the size of that partition?

Well, yes, but the problem is that it’s at the start of the drive, usually. That means you can not expand it without moving the main Windows partition, which is a pretty bad idea (terrible on HDDs) as it’s prone to data loss. If your OEM put it at the end then you’re very lucky and it’s a quick operation, although it might require to delete some OEM-specific partition (which only serves to give you the branded wallpapers and bloatware if you factory reset from within Windows)

Honestly, if you don’t distrohop this shouldn’t be a problem. I had to do a stupid installation dance to have a 500MiB EFI partition, but I was motivated to do it because:

1. I hate Microsoft
2. I wanted to fuck around with kernels, bootloaders, and distros

No one mentioned this yet, but a possible issue is that Windows, for some damn reason, still creates a 100MiB EFI partition, although by EFI spec It should be at least 256 iirc

This can cause the /boot/EFI partition to fill up. Some distros/bootloader are more affected than others, but I’ve had it happen a couple of times

So you’re suggesting running a kneecapped system over USB rather than reinstalling grub twice a year?

A legitimate backdoor is still a backdoor. If you have security measures and a way to bypass them, you don’t have security measures.

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Storing files encrypted and decrypting them on-demand is called “encryption at rest”. Linux supports it but is not enabled by default. You can also encrypt /boot to get FDE (Full Disk Encryption) to ensure that the kernel or bootloader is not tampered with. Look into LUKS

Should be, but why?

You don’t need to change drivers strictly, just add the new ones then remove the old ones later. It’s just to avoid having issues with display output on your first boot - although you should pretty much always get some video out even without the correct drivers

If you’re switching vendors it’s not a bad idea to install the drivers beforehand. Otherwise no, just swap & cable.

#blessed by a chance to learn something on the aw 🙏

Both comments are right. It is still a buggy, minimal alpha, but i would say in the last year or two it has become a somewhat enjoyable game rather than a tech demo you’d check a release every once in a while.

Development has consistently been a shitshow, but there really is nothing else like it.

If the internet actually enforced copyright to the letter of the law

Whose law? Whose enforcers? The Internet is fundamentally incompatible with traditional sovereignty and jurisdiction concepts

No. The problem is that that system was created and lobbied for literally by Disney and other big “IP holders” like music labels. That “while” after the holder’s death has been increasing to ridiculous levels. They are not getting special treatment by abusing the system, they’re changing the system to benefit them. And don’t be fooled into thinking this benefits bedroom musicians, it’s quite the opposite. (source)

And don’t get me started on how the US treats copyright internationally. The whole world has been effectively subjugated to incredibly ass-backwards rules without even a say in it. “If it’s accessible via the internet it counts as officially published in the United States”? fuck off.

On the other side of the coin, we have agreements such as the Berne Convention, a 1886 document that still governs a good chunk of international copyright relations. Even the “good” parts of such agreements are terribly inadequate for the Information Age where works can be published and redistributed globally with little effort

What is “fair compensation”, in this case, for you? Does bringing joy to millions of people entitle you to more money or do you see the happiness you shared and subsequent fame as part of your “payment” - what you get out of it?

Personally I don’t have an issue with individual intellectual property, it’s the acquisition and trade of it by corporations that I have an issue with. For example, I believe no copyright should last after the creator’s death. Disney is dead, Tolkien is dead, many musicians are dead, let alive creators contribute to their worlds.