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    Luxzio22 got a reaction from goatedpenguin in Did Linux Mint leak into Windows in my dual drive-dual boot setup?   
    I understand, its very interesting how much you can learn from a simple oddity on your system. 
     
    Thanks for the app recommendation, I installed both separately but will check with GParted just in case. 
    Thanks, I'm still getting the hang of stuff so its still above my level but hopefully I won't need to learn from experience too soon🤞
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    Luxzio22 reacted to goatedpenguin in Did Linux Mint leak into Windows in my dual drive-dual boot setup?   
    Well its not only the mount command(it is to a certain degree) but lets say if you broke your mint installation and you booted on a live Debian iso, what you would usually do from there, is mount the drive and all of its paths and then chroot into /mnt which in a nutshell lets you interact with your broken system and fix whatever you broke.
    Here is a good link on how to "chroot" into a broken system which is bound to happen and you should be prepared for:  https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000018770

    While this is from a different distro your currently running, the logic is still the same and make sure you don't just blindly copy the commands given and actually understand what you are doing. 🙂
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Eigenvektor in Did Linux Mint leak into Windows in my dual drive-dual boot setup?   
    As long as both drives are connected, either operating system can see them.
     
    Windows does not show the drive in File Explorer, because it uses a file system format (e.g. ext4) that Windows does not understand. That does not mean Windows can't see the drive. It is aware of its existence, which is why it is shown in Disk Management, but it isn't usable by Windows, so it doesn't get shown in Explorer.
     
    Linux on the other hand does understand the file system format used by Windows (NTFS), which is why you can access your Windows partition from Linux.
     
    However, Linux can't boot from NTFS, so the drive used by Linux needs to stay ext4 or any other format natively supported by Linux.
     
    If you want a partition that can be used to exchange files in either direction, you would have to format it with something like ExFAT (or FAT32, but that is limited to files with a maximum size of 4 GB). This would have to be a separate partition on one of the disks, since neither Windows nor Linux can use such a partition as a boot drive.
     
    If you installed them on separate disks while the other disk was unplugged they each have their own. So nothing to worry about. You can check with a partition editor like GParted. This is what it looks like on my boot disk:
     

     
    The top one with the name "EFI system partition" is the one created by Windows, the bottom one with the mount point "/boot/efi" is the one I created during my Linux installation. Since you have two separate disks, there should be one EFI partition on either disk.
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    Luxzio22 got a reaction from goatedpenguin in Did Linux Mint leak into Windows in my dual drive-dual boot setup?   
    That's a relief, I thought they'd be invisible to each other since they were on different drives and I installed Linux only after disconnecting the Windows drive. 
    Thankfully I installed them completely separately; making sure the Windows drive wasn't even connected to the mobo while Linux was being installed. What's the strange thing is that Windows can't see my Linux drive in File Explorer, only in Disk Management. I think it will require formatting for Windows to be be able to access and store data on it. Which it doesn't need to since its a dedicated Linux drive I won't be storing important data on but its still interesting how it doesn't seem to work both ways, at least in this individual setup. 
    Though I don't know if they are on the same EFI partition, is there a way to check? 
     I think there is a limit to what will be tolerated since I actually opened up an image file and was still able to boot into Windows afterwards without errors. What I didn't do is modify or delete a file in the Windows drive. Even as a noobie, I can't imagine Windows will be able to handle a file being deleted while its unbooted. Would it go the Recycle Bin in Windows or to the one in Linux Mint? 
    There's probably something in the background regulating this because it didn't ask for the password when I stumbled across it. I wonder if it has something to do with boot priority set in BIOS. 
    Yup, its interesting to see and learn stuff like this so I'm glad I finally decided to get my feet wet on Linux. Fingers crossed the next steps also come this naturally. 
    Yes that sounds like a threat becomes plausible once you have a system like this. Thankfully I'm more careful on Linux than on Windows. 
    I didn't know about AV on Linux or the mount command either. I guess that command is how so many distros specialize in data recovery. If only I'd known about it before I nuked my malfunctioning, unstarting Windows drive and wiped my Dark Souls savefiles.
     
    Thankyou Eigenvektor, zinco and goatedpenguin for all the information! 
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    Luxzio22 reacted to goatedpenguin in Did Linux Mint leak into Windows in my dual drive-dual boot setup?   
    This is the beauty of using linux ie. it allows you to see files from different drives. Now while this is a really clean feature this is still a security risk since if your Linux system were to be compromised the hacker could just yoink your browser files from the windows drive since browsers are a gold mine for hackers etc... To address this I would encrypt the windows drive as well as password protect important files on your windows system. It is also a good practice to install clamAV on a Linux system. Btw this is not only limited to windows drives if you for an example attach another drive, usb stick etc. to a linux system you can use the "mount" command to access the drive's file system.
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Eigenvektor in Did Linux Mint leak into Windows in my dual drive-dual boot setup?   
    Unless you explicitly mess with files in System32 or some other Windows directory, no it won't. I've copied files between Windows and Linux multiple times and it does not automatically cause things to break (note: do keep fast boot disabled).
     
    When I open Files and click on the Windows drive, it asks me for my password before it allows me to do so. So the risk is not that great.
     
    A virus generally can't do anything unless it (or the executable it's attached to) gets executed. It would need to be copied onto the Windows partition for any chance of that, since Windows can't access ext4 by default.
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    Luxzio22 reacted to zinco in Did Linux Mint leak into Windows in my dual drive-dual boot setup?   
    Yes, you can do that. lets take it this way. you have windows installed on Drive1 , and you plug in another drive called Drive2. You'll be able to see that Drive2 on Windows explorer as a usual storage drive.
    Now lets say we have Linus or some other OS installed onto that other drive, and we plug it into windows, we'll still be able to see the drive and also add/delete/modify files in that drive. (doing so would corrupt the OS on that drive)

    Installing an OS into a drive doesn't reserve the whole drive to the OS, only while in the OS that the restrictions are present. lets say you cant delete a Windows system file cause Windows doesn't let you. You can still boot into Linux from your other drive and delete that windows system file without restrictions, thus proving restrictions are only from the booted OS.

    Above examples are vice-versa, applying to both Operating systems.

    You May run the risk of accidentally modifying the files on the other drive, but that's unavoidable and you should be careful when doing stuff.

    Fun Fact: If you manage to download a virus meant to run on Windows, while you're on Linux, you're not safe. Since the virus works with windows, the virus can stay in the Linux drive and when you boot into windows, can wreck havoc there. And vice-versa
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Eigenvektor in Did Linux Mint leak into Windows in my dual drive-dual boot setup?   
    Linux being able to see your Windows partitions is normal and nothing to worry about. It won't "leak" into Windows unless you explicitly tell it to mess with these partitions. Modern Linux can also read/write NTFS so you can access the file system from there, but again it won't do it on its own.
     
    Windows being able to see the other drives attached to the computer is also normal. If they are installed on the same disk, there is some risk it'll mess with your Linux installation on update, if they share the same EFI partition. But if you keep these separate, they can co-exist without issues (that's what I'm doing here).
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    Luxzio22 reacted to The Hope in Non-OS dependent way to access BIOS on Asus laptop? +Best XFCE distro?   
    Today I took a look at the difference between XFCE and PeKWM on FreeBSD in terms of RAM usage.
     
    This is what top indicates in terms of RAM usage in XFCE.
    Mem: 392M Active, 444M Inact, 152K Laundry, 865M Wired, 2199M Free
     
    PeKWM.
    Mem: 59M Active, 85M Inact, 403M Wired, 3354M Free
     
     
    The XFCE configuration is a setup that I have been using almost daily for 3 years now.
    I only created the PeKWM configuration an hour ago, and I still need setup autostart for things like tint2 so that it becomes easy to use.
    But the point remains that PeKWM is extremely lightweight. I know I had Aero Snap configured on PeKWM in the past with eight different snap options.
    It takes a little more configuration work, but it's not that hard to make PeKWM more productive than any other desktop, and you will have absurdly low RAM usage.
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    Luxzio22 reacted to The Hope in Non-OS dependent way to access BIOS on Asus laptop? +Best XFCE distro?   
    2GB of RAM is very little, even for XFCE. 
     
    Because it has so extremely little RAM, I would even recommend the following:
    http://openbox.org/wiki/Main_Page
    http://fluxbox.org/
    https://www.pekwm.se/
     
    This way you save another 160MB RAM, which is quite a lot if you only have 2GB of RAM available.
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    Luxzio22 reacted to LapsedMemory in Non-OS dependent way to access BIOS on Asus laptop? +Best XFCE distro?   
    Linux Mint is a pretty easy one to learn on and has a full feature set.  
    Download Linux Mint 21 - Linux Mint
     
    As The Hope stated, you're probably going to be better off sticking with distros that have an XFCE desktop environment, as that's preferred for older hardware (very lightweight).  
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    Luxzio22 reacted to The Hope in Non-OS dependent way to access BIOS on Asus laptop? +Best XFCE distro?   
    MX Linux, Void Linux, Mint, EndeavourOS, NetBSD, Devuan and FreeBSD are among the best systems for XFCE.
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Temple in YouTube SHOULD charge for 4K. Hear me out.   
    Firstly, I believe with the whole "adblock = privateering" conversation during the WAN show a while ago Linus mentioned that you already do pay for your consumption of YouTube, at least if you don't block ads . The transaction is: You watch ads before/during/after the video, whose ad spot is purchased by an agency or company from YouTube, and then the proceeds from the purchase of that ad spot get split between the creator and YouTube. YouTube Premium is essentially just paying the money that would've come from those ad spots (and more) from your own pocket, bypassing that step, and thus directly going into the pockets of YouTube and the creator.
    So, essentially since Premium accounts are a more profitable income stream than ad-supported accounts, they moved a feature that the majority of users didn't care about from their ad-supported tier to their premium tier to try and get more users to move to the more profitable tier for them, and remove a huge money sink called 4K bandwidth costs in the process. 
     
    Anyways, doing this would also remove the vast majority of older videos from smaller creators, who can't (or don't want to) pay to keep up their back catalogue of videos, and doing this would impact one of the truly useful points about YouTube: the enormous amount of guides, lessons, and other such educational content present on the platform.
    What if you were trying to use some niche program for your job, but can't find a specific feature? Their website is long dead, the app itself is poorly documented, and so you Google it, and a video comes out from some random channel 7 years ago whose topic is exactly what you were trying to find. 
    The removal of such old videos would prevent that from happening to any user on the platform. 
     
    I personally believe that the removal of old videos is a rather radical solution to this problem, and erases one of the founding tenets of YouTube: the ability to find any (public, undeleted) video ever posted to the website. 
    I remember an anecdote I heard from an EmpLemon video (one of the ones on copyright) (take w/ a hefty grain of salt): One of the founders of YouTube once said that he made the website because he couldn't find a specific clip from a TV show, so he made a platform where such things could be posted and searched for easily.
     
    Also, as @yolosnailmentioned, there is a 45% cut to YouTube for the express purpose of maintaining (and expanding) the site. Why should the creators pay more out of their paychecks to do the job that YouTube already said that they were going to do? 
     
    With all that criticism being said, I could definitely come around to the idea of some kind of payment from the creators in order to subsidize the bandwidth their channel generates, but it would have to come with some real, legitimately useful features along with the payment to make it anywhere near feasible, and I just don't see Google doing that. 
     
    Anyways, as before, blah blah I'm not a professional, yadda yadda all my own somewhat uninformed opinion.
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Kilrah in Non-OS dependent way to access BIOS on Asus laptop? +Best XFCE distro?   
    It's usually F2 on Asus machines. It's OS independent BUT if the OS is in hibernation that won't be presented to you, and "shutting down" the computer if Fast Boot is enabled in Windows is actually hibernation.
    So disable Fast Boot. 
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    Luxzio22 reacted to jaslion in Non-OS dependent way to access BIOS on Asus laptop? +Best XFCE distro?   
    Windows 10 with fastboot tends to takw over bios entering capabilities in a lot of systems. When windows is gone the normal keys work again.
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Error 52 in Twitter reportedly set to accept Musk's offer [Twitter accepts deal]   
    That's it. It's time to move to Mastodon and get harassed off it after a week because I was too dismissive of She-Ra's asexual representation.
     
    Maybe soon Mastodon will actually overtake the band on the Google results
     
     
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Zodiark1593 in When Activism goes too far - popular npm package adds malicious code that affects Russian/Belarussian IPs   
    https://opensource.org/osd
     
    This move runs pretty counter to the Open Source Definition (in particular, against discrimination), so no, I do not support sabotaging of open source software. 
     
    As much as I despise Putin, Open Source should remain neutral as according to its principles. 
     
    This article pretty closely mirrors my thoughts. Certainly way more detailed than I could’ve written myself. 
     
    https://beny23.github.io/posts/on_weaponisation_of_open_source/?source=techstories.org
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Mark Kaine in Hitman 3 is Being Review Bombed on Steam / Guide to buy Hitman 3 on Steam.   
    actually it should be illegal, its something.steam specifically uses to remove or hide negative reviews, because they argue that complaining.about technical issues is "off topic" , when that is actually an important part to "review" the quality of a product. "review bombing" is basically the same thing. sure its slightly different but the reasons of a negative review are still legitimate. its kind of like youtube dislikes, except this is an actual store that actively falsifies and removes negative feedback…
    btw im sure other stores do the same, but since this is a gaming related topic i think its worth singling steam out here
     
     
    On the other hand it would probably be more effective if gamers voted with their wallets instead, which we know , at large, they dont.
     
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    Luxzio22 got a reaction from Colty in Hitman 3 is Being Review Bombed on Steam / Guide to buy Hitman 3 on Steam.   
    Yeah, ''review bombing'', the term industry shills game journalists invented for when people call out massive fails by developers and but its easier to defend them as victims than criticize the hand that feeds. The point where I feel like I could spend upwards of $90 and still have no idea if I'm getting everything is the point where Gabe's idea of offering a better service has been forgotten. 
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    Luxzio22 got a reaction from Jzan in My PC wont turn on after I moved my case fans   
    I had the same problem after reconnecting my fans to tidy up. Does your system start and then shut down or just refuse to start at all? Mine would start (fans would almost start moving) then stop as if a power limit was reached or something. 
     
    Turns out the problem was that the fans were connected to the wrong headers from the case and switching them around solved the problem. You may have done something similar and connected Fan A headers / cables to Fan B's. 
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    Luxzio22 got a reaction from Forbidden Wafer in Firefox users down 50 million since 2018   
    What did they say? I was an FF user too until they cancelled their CEO over a political donation he made years ago. 
     
    I use all of them, except Opera I guess:
    Vivaldi - daily driver, steam, youtube, forums, researching. Use DDG when possible, google when it fails
    Edge - work email, flicker, Linkedin
    Chrome - Prime Video, online registrations
    Brave - for potentially shady stuff 
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    Luxzio22 reacted to Orcblood in Firefox users down 50 million since 2018   
    Their stance on censorship ruined it for me.
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    Luxzio22 reacted to LAwLz in Firefox users down 50 million since 2018   
    What makes things even worse is that those 50 million users were not just random uneducated people who just switched to Chrome because Google's website said "download Chrome, it's fast". The people who switched were informed users who had gone out of their way to use Firefox before, but switched for some reason(s). 
     
    Personally I switched to Edge. Mozilla spent too much time and money on giving their executives massive bonuses and "woke" campaigns and not enough on actual development of their browser. They started constantly falling behind on new features and performance. 
    When they laid off all the people on the MSDN team, the dev tool team and the people working on their new engine I felt like it was time to abandon ship as well. They were already behind before, but with less developers they would just keep falling behind even more. 
     
    Doesn't help that their horrible CEO said that she wouldn't cut C-suite salaries to 500K a year because it would put too much burden on those people. Imagine paying yourself 2.5 million dollars a year, publicly saying other leaders within the company deserve more than 500K a year (because a 500K salary would apparently be a "burden" to live on), and then firing a large portion of your programmers because "Boo hoo the pandemic has lowered our incomes". 
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    Luxzio22 got a reaction from Jet_ski in Everyone’s a winner in the PC market but Dell   
    Don't worry Dell, you can be be losers with us: the consumers. 
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