BCsven

joined 2 years ago
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Zorin has modified the GNOME back end so the UI looks more like a KDE layout. You get 4 options for the layout (iirc). So its Windows like, but smooth and polished. It's a really good choice for people transitioning from Windows.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 weeks ago

Therapy / counselling, there is usually a reason for this kind of detatchment

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh shit, that's terrible.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is true. On some distros you just tell it to ignore the windows EFI and it suggests a new during partitioning. You say OK and the installer takes care of it.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Port forwarding is done at the router/firewall, so if ports can't be transferred its a cgnat thing they are doing. Like a Non CGNAT IP on the internet can be sent a packet on any port.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I use libre office draw, the underlying PDF is editable, but there may be a way to lock it like layers or something

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's an Intel i5-7700 cpu in a Gigabyte Z270N mobo. Those were chosen as a form factor fit for the Monsterlabo fanless case. (Only a select set of boards, and in this case 1151 brackets, fit the case)

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have been looking for something new.

Last week was moving Immich up to the new release I was on an old version, which meant migrating to an intermediate version to allow a database rebuild. It worked well.

I was bored this week so just ran some wattage testing.

  • 15w at idle (800MHz)
  • 20w active (3.4GHz)
  • 30w peak at boot
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's a fair point. And probably true on many distros.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It really should be a challenge. The saying at my kids college/university was "A 'C' gets a degree". And while "haha that's funny" there were many in that group that took that literally and put in the least effort possible.

For work, my team and I work with engineer types, and its been a 10 years span of helping them. The newer graduates are a mixed bag: some are bright and innovative, and some are coasters.

We've had young guys asking for help on a problem, and as you help they start replying to text messages on social media, missing the entire "help" session you provide.

We've had grads struggle with simple counting / talling.

We have done step by step troubleshooting documentation. Then field a call from somebody saying the steps don't work. OK let's see your system and go through the steps. Let's check Step 1.
Them: oh I didn't do step one, because it said I didn't have system permission. So I just did step 2 onward.

I could go on, but I should end this rant LOL.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not if you separate into two EFI partitions and set Linux one in your UEFI boot options. Windows only gets access when grub hands over boot to windows via a chainloader entry, windows only knows about its EFI. I have run it 8 years like this...after dealing with windows killing my first shared EFI.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have run a dualboot for 8 years this way.

Chainloading hands the boot over to Windows (from grub) but windows just thinks its a fresh boot. When windows does EFI changes its only to its own designated partition.

You can even run windows update and when it prompts for reboot to install, you can launch Linux and do whatever, then boot back to windows and the install will continue like you didn't interrupt it.

The reason two drives works is same as what I mentioned, you have two EFI partitions that are separate.

The only way you will wreck it is if you go into windows device manager and delete the unknown partitions.

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