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Conversely, instead of blocking the data transfer, have it send false data. Maybe a few drop table inserts.

As a Mbin user, appreciate him being in the right place at the right time, even if his coding wasn’t fully “ready” for the sudden task and he couldn’t continue the work himself. That he made it open source for others to take and run with made a huge difference. Glad he’s doing okay.

At least there’s redundancy! Good luck trying to request recovery of the files though.

Some songs work better for this than others. My first realization of this was the scene from Night Shift, where he has The Rolling Stones’ “Jumping Jack Flash” on a looped cassette in his car.

If systems that run Linux were to power down, that’s it for almost all of the internet.

In my current and seemingly final jump from WIndows to Linux I had played a bit with Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian. Ubuntu “felt” more like something I could work with, and certainly when you look at installing things from terminal there’s usually Ubuntu or at least Debian, so it seemed a good fit. After running it a while and having no problems (not even with Nvidia which I keep seeing comments on) I noticed regularly things like this on “what distro to pick”, and it always seems from the suggestions that I’ve gone the wrong way. And yet… it’s working great. I’ve got far too much set up and running well to backtrack again and start over, so I guess either Ubuntu users are the silent group or I’m a lone wolf and everyone’s gone to Bazzite or some other offshoot.

I don’t use Arch, btw

WIndows is bloated, especially if there are updates involved. However, how old is the hard drive it’s on? Not only tech age, but perhaps there are some read errors occurring to cause rereading that you aren’t seeing because it finally works. Also, if it is a hard drive upgrading to SSD is huge as well.

A keeper for sure. Just be sure to respond in kind.

Thanks. I’ve browsed the instructions on how people typically do it, but I was hoping that there might be a way to basically transfer the WIndows copy and all its stuff into a virtual version. That seems to be not that simple. Perhaps the procedure is to establish a new WIndows in VM and then move/install what you have on the old. Which is why I’ve avoided it, that’s a lot of work.

I think it depends on how your Windows setup sees it. I’ve never had a huge issue in the various Linux versions over the years, but I have had to tweak things now and then, especially after a Windows update which gets really upset at not being the only OS. My Windows/Ubuntu now works fine, was simple to install (it’s on a separate drive which helps), and the Windows issues are minor things I don’t worry about because if I use it now it’s only briefly and I’m back to Linux. Still don’t know enough to convert Windows to a VM, and I’m not sure that would be better than just keeping it this way.

The best way to find out what works for you is to dual boot. That way you can either use WIndows for things that won’t work or are trouble to fix, but you can start getting used to Linux. Plus you can try out different flavors and see what feels like you. You don’t have to decide to go Linux and throw out what you know. Ideally you can do one drive for Windows, one for Linux, but you can also share the single drive with two partitions as long as there is space.

I’d say extremely complex autocomplete, not glorified, but the point still stands that using probability to find accuracy is always going to deviate eventually. The tactic now isn’t to try other approaches, they’ve come too far and have too much invested. Instead they keep stacking more and more techniques to try and steer and reign in this deviation. Difficult when in the end there isn’t anything “thinking” at any point.

Another Mandrake user off and on user back then. Was my first Linux, mainly because the install was very easy to do. Since it was based on Red Hat, I guess I started at the right end of the curve and worked my way back to Ubuntu.

Figured from the expression.

“It’s the same picture.”

Always has been. The only difference is what they’re selling.

Your point of Ubuntu guides is one reason why I settled on Ubuntu this time around. I didn’t want to have to dig deeper to make things work when there’s usually Ubuntu install instructions. Granted they can often be just .deb, but Debian is a bit too far for me (I tried it a number of years ago and it was too “Linux” for me. But Mint (which I do like, and actually have on a spare laptop) is too Windows-like and doesn’t feel like I can alter it like I want. I guess I’m just saying that Ubuntu has always hit that sweet spot for me, and this time around I’ve stuck with it and very rarely boot into Windows now. So when I see everyone recommending everything else but not mine, I wonder if I missed a memo.

I’m curious why I never see Ubuntu recommended in these kind of questions. I do see people suggest Ubuntu-based, but then name Mint or others and not an Ubuntu variant. Is it strictly a Canonical dislike or anti-snap thing, or something else? The reason I ask is that I’ve tried many different distros over the years on and off, but this time when I went all in because of Microsoft’s pressure, I went with Ubuntu 22.04, and it’s been flawless. So it just seems weird that it’s never named while others that I know of but seem very niche are mentioned.

That nickname is an insult to compassionate and intelligent muppets.

Even those that don’t understand command line know its used more than just “for hacking”.

I don’t think Hollywood has caught up yet. It doesn’t even have to be a console, just any window with some code scrolling by fast equals hacking.