I’d forgotten all about the notification LED. I wonder, could you flash a small part of an OLED display to achieve something similar while still being low power?

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You can usually grow a partition online, even the one you’re booting from.

Sure, if you’re willing to walk around with a potential lithium fire hazard in your pocket, that’s your choice.

Some things are worth paying the fine for.

The chat machine is just a tool. The problem is that a pay disparity exists in society, and that they did not account for this bias in the training data.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Grouping

I don’t see any mention of only being allowed to use a semicolon. I don’t have a test system handy unfortunately.

Ideally you’d simplify or separate your logic so that you’re not relying so much on bash. If you need complex logic, I’d use another language, depending on what’s available in your environment.

I would not trust a text generator to do math, no. It’s wholly the wrong tool for the job. Nor do I trust them to be up to date and compliant with tax code. And I really don’t trust them to take legal responsibility for their output.

It’s been a while, but ^S suspends output to the terminal and ^Q resumes, I think. I don’t know if it’s really supported in the modern era.

It is. MIT license on the code, CC-BY on the binaries and resources.

If secure boot is off, and you run malware on your pc, it can change the boot process to escalate privileges.

This probably requires root or admin in the first place, but if they can install a malware loader, they can establish persistence so that even if you remove the os-level components, they’ll be reinstalled on reboot.

Even better would be to automatically install vlc-plugins-all for people upgrading, so that it preserves the existing behavior.

If you need to restore it, back it up.

How do you plan to restore if the whole drive dies?

I’d say you want Linux from Scratch then, but even then the Linux kernel maintainers are making choices for you.

But Linus is very firm in that they never break userspace, so you should never see an issue like this when updating the kernel.

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

Someone should inform whoever made that change. If a package is split in a new release, the initial state should match the final as closely as possible, in this case by installing the new optional dependencies automatically. (Although I’m not sure why they’d want to split everything out like that anyway; no other VLC distribution does that, so splitting is itself a violation.)

Maybe Manjaro might be an alternative? I haven’t personally used it. I don’t like this kind of surprise, so I stick to boring distros like Debian. I used to use CentOS but it was too boring.

If you’re buying used you’re not directly funding Google.

A Chromebook?

Firefox will get HDR on Firefox?

You can probably disable it entirely by changing the kernel boot options.