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    Differences between NVMe, AHCI, SATA, PCIe, and M2

    I would like to clarify my understanding regarding SSDs and motherboards for the CompTIA A+ exam. My simplistic understanding is that there are two types of SSD data transfer protocols - AHCI / SATA and PCIe / NVMe. Is it overly simplistic to say M2 AHCI / SATA always uses a B key and PCIe /...
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    Solved Installing Python IDLE

    Hey guys, I'm running Debian 11 and trying to locate / install IDLE for Python3. idle and idle3 both turn up nothing in the terminal: I've searched through the available packages and found few different versions, can you advise which one to install? Thank you! :)
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    Can I run fwupdmgr update with disk encryption?

    Hey guys, I'm running Debian 11 on a Lenovo ThinkPad (4th Gen) and I'm getting a notification from Software that my firmware is out of date. During install I set up my hard-drive with full disk encryption and LVM. For some reason, I'm unable to update the firmware through the Software...
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    [SOLVED] Cannot add default user to sudoers file

    Hey guys, I'm trying to give my default user account (named tim) sudo privileges on Debian 11 but I seem unable to. I've run the command as root: usermod -a -G sudo tim My account appears to be in the sudoers file (see below), but when I attempt to access sudo privileges I'm unable to. Can...
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    Fix broken VeraCrypt installation

    Hey guys! Newbie here, apologies if this is in the wrong thread. I'm trying to install VeraCrypt on Debian 11 but am having some issues. I downloaded the Debian 11 GUI .deb file from https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Downloads.html I tried to install it, however It says there are dependency issues...
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    Issue installing Signal on Debian

    Hey guys, I'm trying to install Signal on Debian 11 using the provided command line instructions - https://www.signal.org/download/linux/ I've done it multiple times before with no issues, so I'm not quite sure what's going wrong in this case. The first two commands worked fine: wget -O-...
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    HP webcam not working

    Hey there, I've installed PureOS 10.0 on a HP Notebook 14s-CF0078TU. I've managed to get it running smoothly minus the built-in webcam; it appears to be missing a driver. I thought it was due to PureOS being completely FOSS, however I tried a live boot of Ubuntu and it still wasn't recognised...
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