Recent content by Vimmer

I like desktop items: last time i was using standard ubuntu, there was some issue putting things on the desktop. Does anyone know what im talking about?

You can't: hopefully, it changes every day

No duh :) yeah, sure i can trust insider hero i can't see! They will take prison time for me, trust them!

Which kind of city center are you talking about? I tried busking in a high foot traffic area, i played for a few hours and made $10. Terrible.

I think that's worthwhile to bring up: even though chrome doesn't come pre-installed, i have never had an issue installing it. I think the main thing is that firefox is more "ideologically" consistent with the FOSS community. Google clearly isn't trustworthy in terms of how they manage the...

That's a great post and an unfortunate reminder of how insecure/vulnerable we all are when we use any browser. I already have 6 add-ons. It's probably fine to have this as a policy for those: -don't install add-ons that aren't open source. -don't install add-ons that haven't been commented on...

I don't really know much about how the internet works, but blocking ads and not trusting anyone until they give you a reason to helps.

Vim has 3 visual modes: V: visual line mode (always use this for cutting/copying/pasting lines) Ctrl+v: visual block mode, it's used to select blocks of text and make repeated edits to parts of several lines v: visual character mode, used to make edits to characters individually. Unlike...

checksums only help in very specific scenarios. Like ML says, if it came from the official website, then it's probably OK. I'm too lazy to bother with the checksums, and am also too lazy to bother with so many different forms of software (IMO this is a good thing). More (possibly false) info if...

@InvaderSumo: The articles here discuss using usb's for swap space. This is practical, but using un-used hard drive space is more practical. The reason being that SATA is designed to be faster and more efficient than USB data transfer. Also, I personally like having usb slots open and available...

Laptop motherboards tend to have bad ventilation, and motherboard components bear the heat from a lot of the other components. With any setup, id guess chance of what goes bad first is equal, but according to my research, power supplies and motherboards tend to be the worst.

All i was saying is that if trimming did work that way, then i guess you could save your SSD (SSDs serve the same purpose as hard drives, stop confusing things!). But since trimming doesn't reduce the amount of writing, it seems worthless in a non-server scenario. And yes, mobos tend be the...

I'm honestly skeptical about trimming being helpful too, but to me the trimming still makes sense if you are a "normal" computer user: this seems to be saying that trimming reduces the general amount of writing activity on the hard drive. Overall, the hard drive will most likely out-live your...

Thanks for the reading material and nice emoji

I'm curious why your root partition needs to be bigger than 80GB? I understand 4TB is pretty massive, and I am not a server person like you (i just use linux distros for home and creative use). What goes in the root directory in that context?