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When putting Debian.iso onto a flash drive do you have to use root?
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    mvirts
    4h ago 100%

    Do you not have root access or are you worried about using root access? Sudo will do the trick, you don't need to login as root directly.

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    Linux 11h ago
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    When putting Debian.iso onto a flash drive do you have to use root?
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    mvirts
    4h ago 100%

    Copying the whole image onto the device file will rewrite the partition table, boot flags and all.

    But yes, usually this requires root equivalent capabilities.

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  • How to install up-to-date python for a user only?
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    mvirts
    4h ago 100%

    🤣 damn I would've been looking for a new image to flash at that point.

    I'm glad chatGPT didn't brick your system.

    Where'd you get the audio setup script?

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  • Is there a way to use a vpn on one network card, and use a second network card for a regular connection?
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    mvirts
    4h ago 100%

    I think the key to this idea is that as long as the VPN only apps are running in docker containers, container networking can be used to restrict their traffic to the vpn.

    Apps like qBittorrent support proxy connection options for this scenario without containers.

    https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Explanation-of-Options-in-qBittorrent#proxy-server

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  • I'm so fucking done with this project already
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    mvirts
    17h ago 100%

    Sounds like time for a break to me! Any chance of warmer weather?

    Renting a truck for work would probably be cheaper than hiring someone to finish the job.

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  • zram + swapiness = infinite ram
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    mvirts
    3d ago 100%

    Considering how much faster my CPU is than my ram, even though they are both 12 years old, I should do this 😹

    Great post!

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  • Can this be recovered? 2nd image is of the first non zero bytes of the partition. Btrfs was used.
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    mvirts
    3d ago 100%

    I would definitely try using photorec if you have specific files you hope to find. It may not handle btrfs well but any files stored as a contiguous chunk should be recoverable.

    I would also try partition recovery with testdisk but chances are it won't do much for btrfs.

    You can try the steps in this article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000018769

    Don't forget to copy your volume if there's anything super important in there. only a very small part of the volume was zeroed, if tools don't exist to recover the data now, they will eventually 😅

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    This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?
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    mvirts
    3d ago 100%

    The ball falls off the edge but doesn't make a sound, effectively disappears from the scene.

    Glass ball for some reason

    Nondescript woman, no distinct features, blurry at the edge of perception. Vaguely wearing business clothes.

    Ball was softball size

    Table was featureless but the size and color of the table I'm sitting at now

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  • Visit about:compat in your firefox. I find it insane that these exist. Edit: I've learned that this is part of the webcompat system addon developed by Mozilla and other contributors. I see why this is beneficial default behavior, since FF has no chance of getting enough market share to matter more if things are broken. However, this behavior is too intrusive for my taste. For example this injection: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/8a4afb4d34f8/browser/extensions/webcompat/injections/js/bug1472075-bankofamerica.com-ua-change.js is basically just to silence annoying user reports. Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.

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    WTF mvirts 4w ago 62%
    Wtf does this exist?
    https://youtube.com/shorts/9EAnhWKe_rM

    Where do they put them? How many of these are there? Is this just a septic truck with a mattress inside?

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    Designed in freecad, printed in black pla on an ender 3 v2 neo the print popped off the bed near the end but it works fine 😅

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    Cook At Home mvirts 8mo ago 94%
    Gyoza

    Made some delicious beef gyoza today. This is what's left after dinner, for the next few days lunch. 3lbs ground beef ... A bunch of gyoza skins (about 3 packs) A small onion Salt Oil for frying (olive + a little sesame oil) Garlic, crushed red pepper flakes, soy sauce, and rice vinegar for the dipping sauce Rice to go with it

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    Any thoughts on why `cat /sys/kernel/notes` gives me: `LinuxLinuXen@ XenlinuxXen2.Xenxen-3.Xen����XenXen��&����� XenXeXeXen������XeXengenericXen Xenyes` I'm beginning to look into another issue I posted about, but this struck me as odd

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    Help w/ crash

    Any advice on where to go from here? This console was running dmesg -w to try and catch an intermittent crash... And this is what I got. I am using an el cheapo USB wifi adapter that I'm suspicious of. Everything was working fine until I rebuilt nixos with Nvidia support... Now my old generations of the OS are crashing after a few minutes (display on, no response to input, keyboard lights don't respond, SysRq doesn't work)

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    Anyone else getting random sketchy websites occasionally instead of the link in posts? Second try usually works fine.

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    Mechanic Advice mvirts 1y ago 100%
    XC90 speed vibration

    I've been procrastinating a fix for a vibration that is speed related on my xc90. It starts around 45mph and comes and goes up to 65 or 70... I broke some stuff 'diagnosing' it, and once I fix that I'm going to take the awd driveshaft out. I'm assuming a bearing is bad, any ideas? I want to repair the driveshaft because it's really expensive to replace.

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    beans

    #1 America's favorite

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    I mean it's a pretty small city, and an even tinier Lemmy community. Anyone part of nmlug? I've been meaning to go to a meetup for a while.

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    I have the unique pleasure of waiting as /usr is copied _back_ to my Ubuntu SSD after offloading it to a sea of spinning rust to save some space. Surprise surprise Ubuntu keeps almost everything in /usr these days and it didnt boot :l but hey, at least BusyBox in initramfs has my back for times like these. Can i mount a specific ext4 directory with options? the issue seems to be my attempt at using a bind mount fails while running from the ramdisk, for whatever reason it wont mount my large data drive on /data

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