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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from finest feck fips in Boot options not coming up for Linux when starting PC   
    This once reminds me how I dealt with my Surface Go tablet, ubuntu just would not be the primary boot option in any way possible.

    I ended up replacing the bootmgr.efi executable with the grub one, BUT you can also edit the Windows boot manager to load grub instead of bootmgr.efi by just changing the efi executable location from Windows
    bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi But change the \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi to your grub bootloader location

    This means the "Windows boot manager" entry from the UEFI bios actually loads GRUB everytime

    Anyway It's a bit risky unless you know what you do, brace yourself in any case.
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to thedarthtux in Linus his Linux challange   
    Honestly, there is nothing controversial about any of this. At least from what I see.
     
    Over the years I have been using Linux and computers more generally all the way back to my ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, I have just come to learn a lot about these things that, (yes I admit), the average person may not know or care about, but this is exactly why I actually understand both sides of the argument and will not just tell people struggling with some of the things Linus was by just saying "you shouldn't be doing that" or "just use the command line" I would actually explain the details and reasoning as best as I can.
     
    It is also why I always tell people looking to switch to or try Linux to research by downloading and trying the LiveCD/USBs before installing to see if the distro works for them and why I pretty much stick to recommending only a couple of distros all derived from either Arch or Ubuntu. And before discovering Garuda earlier this year and trying it for myself, I would only have ever recommended Ubuntu-based distros like Pop_OS, Elementary, and Mint for a regular PC gamer or Windows user. My recommended distros for Linus and Luke would literally have been
    Pop_OS (Ubuntu) Garuda (Arch) ElementaryOS (Ubuntu Long Term Support) Mint (Ubuntu) ZorinOS (Arch) I would have also told them to install applications like Disks and TimeShift before going into the other stuff.
     
    But this type of knowledge would really come from an initial background research on Linux, the top installed distros, and if you're a PC game looking up what distros Valve actively support based on SteamOS (i.e. Ubuntu and now Arch with Steam Deck).
     
    The background research is needed because Linux unfortunately doesn't have the corporate/commercial support that Microsoft managed to negotiate for Windows back in the day or that Apple created by selling MacOS with their PCs. We are seeing more of that approach in Linux now with Valve, Lenovo, System76, Purism, StarLabs, and Laptops With Linux, but it is small and you still can't walk into a BestBuy or Micro Centre and buy a Linux desktop or laptop. Since that commercial infrastructure hasn't been there, you need that initial research to know what you are getting into. When I talk about Apple, Google, and Microsoft having monopolistic control, this is what I mean. They forged, through various contracts and deals, a commercial infrastructure to get the masses used to their products. Canonical tried to create the Ubuntu Phone but couldn't raise the funds back then to mass produce though even that is changing now with PinePhone and Librum.
     
    However, if BestBuy won't make money by selling Linux desktop PCs, then why would they carry them in their stores? If BestBuy won't carry Linux PCs why would HP or Dell produce them? If they don't carry or produce Linux devices, how are people going to buy a Linux desktop PCs and learn to use Linux the way they have learned to use and become familiar with Windows and Mac? The curious Windows or Mac OS users who want to try Linux will really have no choice but to go online and do research to figure out what Linux is and be hit by an army of distros and get confused and say there is no standardisation and Linux is complicated. Whereas the truth is more that Linux is simply just an entirely new thing to learn for most people used to years of only seeing Windows and Mac but it is in reality no more complicated than Windows or Mac OS despite how it often is made to comes across as.
     
    I may have a preference for Linux and opensource applications for my personal reasons, but that doesn't mean I have any issues with proprietary applications or Windows or Mac. I don't even particularly care if people prefer Windows or Mac over Linux. However there just a lot of misconceptions on both sides I see in these debates, that if people truly understood the hardware, software, and commercial backgrounds to would result in more constructive help and advice.
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to emosun in Linus his Linux challange   
    I think they are going to discover what ive been saying about linux for years.....
     
    The only thing wrong with linux is the people/community that gatekeep it from being useable by the masses. They dont want linux to be popular, thus it isnt. 
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to LAwLz in Audacity classed as spyware   
    Pretty much every country has that.
    The US has USCYBERCOM for example. The CIA even has something called the "marble framework" which tries to make it so that cyberattacks from the US appears as if they come from Russia or China, so that those countries gets blamed instead.
     
    But in any case, sending data to Russia is not inherently bad, just like sending data to for example the US is inherently bad. Preferably I wouldn't want my data being sent to either since both of those countries are horrible when it comes to privacy and security, but neither one is inherently bad.
    The country the data is being sent to doesn't matter all that much. What really matters is what servers the data is how it is being sent, what servers it is stored on, who has access to those servers, and what the data is used for.
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to NotTheFirstDaniel in Audacity classed as spyware   
    Why the hell are people MORE worried about the fact Audacity is collecting data such as User country (could possibly inform decisions on language localization), non-fatal error codes (you know, to make stuff easier for people who don't know how to correct/bypass them if they pop up a lot), User OS and Version (right because if 0.1% of people are using Audacity on Windows Vista, why the hell should any budget be reallocated to supporting it) and processor in use (because who knows there could be a trend where a specific error/bug is present in X or Y processor/processor architecture. If the M1 version of Audacity has an error the Intel one doesn't, then wouldn't it be great to know the difference was the processor) than how apps like Facebook and Instagram are quite literally creating a digital fingerprint on you? This shouldn't be taking up any space in the privacy argument since not only is it completely optional, its disabled by default!
     
    The outrage is due to the word "Russia". Had Audacity been collecting this data and storing it in the US/Canada or somewhere in the European Union, there wouldn't be any outrage.
    An entire fork of a project to remove like what, 5 lines of code that were disabled by default in the first place? Is there a bigger example of being overdramatic?
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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from nic_ in Slow transfer speeds on Manjaro   
    Don't use filezilla, every linux distro has an ftp client integrated in the file manager, just access through the server with ftp://foo.bar
    Then it will ask for credentials 
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to Lurick in Bridging two VLAN ID's on a Cisco SG 350   
    The SG350 doesn't support bridge groups so unfortunately that's out.
    Can you tag the different SSIDs with a non-default VLAN and use that same VLAN for all the SSIDs on the AP?
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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from flowalex in Elelmentary OS dosent boot into KDE   
    Elementary OS has a custom set of packages and differs from the usual "ubuntu" I don't think you can get to work another DE that easily like on an official ubuntu flavor 
     
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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from deflatedrubberduck in Ubuntu - drive mounting points   
    Just try to use the Gnome-Disks app, it's more like a fstab frontend and you can edit everything from there
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to Radium_Angel in Linux gaming is BETTER than Windows?   
    Look at it this way, that case is *peanuts* compared to this

    It's all in how you look at things 🤣
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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from Aaliyah Reynolds in Is a VPN really useful when Working from home?   
    I think there is a misconception here, you are not using the classic "privacy-friendly VPN" that someone sells

    When working from home you are supposed to access the company resources through their own VPN server without opening any useless resource to the internet 
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to Chabax in Options to 'Debloat' Windows 10   
    oh my GOD!! FOUR MEGABAJTS OF DATA EVERY DAY, THATS ALOT OF MEGABAJTS MEJT
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to TetraSky in Windows 10 May 2020 Update - Here is everything you need to know - Out now!!!   
    Notepad is designed to be as lightweight as possible and is literally just for taking notes and basic word input.
    If you want a more feature rich "notepad", there's Notepad++.
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to LAwLz in Windows 10 May 2020 Update - Here is everything you need to know - Out now!!!   
    A few years ago they did actually update Notepad. It's usually years upon years between updates but they do happen.
    Last time they added high DPI display support (or at least made it better), the ability to hold ctrl and scroll to zoom in/out, and they also added support for the Unix standard line ending (LF) and Mac line ending (CR).
     
     
    Let's just hope Microsoft doesn't mess with Notepad any further. I absolutely love Notepad++ and its plugins and stuff, and I rarely use Notepad myself. But there is a great appeal to simple programs that "just werk", and Notepad is one of them. It's such a basic tool. If Notepad is a hammer, Notepad++ is a nailgun, and I certainly wouldn't want to someone to try and "improve" hammers.
     
     
     
    And by "mess with the update system" you mean doing things like, click "check for updates".
    Still super pissed at Microsoft for treating people who click "check for updates" as beta testers.
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to LAwLz in Wii source code leaked on 4chan after hack on BroadOn servers   
    Don't worry. The current copyright law ensures that anyone trying to use this for any purpose of improving the world will be shut down and have their lives financially ruined. Nintendo has around 140 years left of exclusivity to this code. So maybe in the year ~2162 we will get a perfect Wii emulator.
     
    The entire copyright and patent system surrounding software is so fucked... Because of this leak, emulators like Dolphin are at risk.
    Nintendo could now attack Dolphin because as soon as some code is published to Dolphin, Nintendo can claim that it was developed using their code which was stolen. If a developer proves that the code wasn't stolen by making comparisons, the developers admits to having downloaded and looked at stolen information from Nintendo. And even if the code isn't the same, Nintendo could argue that they just took the stolen code and modified it slightly, which I believe is still illegal. They would have no evidence to support the claims, but if it's Nintendo and their nearly endless funds vs some indie developer then they can just keep the legal battle going until the developer runs out of money and have to settle (and the settlement would probably be to seize development).
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to AlexOak in Wii source code leaked on 4chan after hack on BroadOn servers   
    Homebrewer's aren't going to touch this. Even with a 10-foot pole. The legality that comes with this is high.  
    https://twitter.com/Dolphin_Emu/status/1257051968045899776 
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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from Metallus97 in [TUTORIAL] AMD GPU Linux Folding at Home | Arch, Manjaro | Sometimes more perf than Windows!!   
    A bit of an advice of what you are doing here for the 3.2 part 
     
    You are enabling AMDGPU support for legacy GPU's who primarly use the radeon driver, the amdgpu driver is builtin at least from the last 3 years on the major distros and the only AMD GPU's that will use it are Southern Islands (SI) GPU's and Sea Islands (CIK) GPU's, and what you wrote was enabling support ONLY for CIK gpu's, you actually have to put this
    Southern Islands (SI): radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_7000_series)
    Sea Islands (CIK): radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1 (as you correctly wrote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_Rx_200_series)
     
    This is not needed for new gen AMD GPU's
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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from Zmax in Is a VPN really useful when Working from home?   
    I think there is a misconception here, you are not using the classic "privacy-friendly VPN" that someone sells

    When working from home you are supposed to access the company resources through their own VPN server without opening any useless resource to the internet 
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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from Eigenvektor in Is a VPN really useful when Working from home?   
    I think there is a misconception here, you are not using the classic "privacy-friendly VPN" that someone sells

    When working from home you are supposed to access the company resources through their own VPN server without opening any useless resource to the internet 
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    Chunchunmaru_ reacted to AlTech in QT plans to go anti-open source because of Coronavirus and need for profits | All future versions possibly delayed by 12 months for open source   
    Here's a couple more (hopefully more popular) examples of who uses them:
    Valve: Steam client Nvidia: GeForce Now PC client GOG: Galaxy Client OBS Teamviewer Virtualbox Folding At Home: Desktop client EA: Origin client KDE: KDE Desktop Environment
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    Chunchunmaru_ got a reaction from TechyBen in HPE warns of firmware bug that bricks SSDs after 40,000 hours   
    Well uhm... I do...
    At work
    Over 20 servers, at least
     
    Well actually I try to regularly update all of them including the bios, ssd and hdd firmware and the OS itself so I do not worry that much, all of them under warranty
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