NateNate60

joined 2 years ago
[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's because even a grey market Windows key costs US$20 nowadays and that's over ₹1,600. For comparison purposes, the largest Indian banknote is ₹500.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware that rsync also copied system files. I'm curious to know why my method is unsafe. The only potential problem I see with what I did is mixing up if and of in dd.

 

Here's what I did: I bought a new 512 GB SSD to replace my old 256 GB SSD, which was getting full. I put the new SSD in an NVME to USB adapter and then booted to a Fedora 38 live USB and cloned the old drive into the new drive using dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda. Then I used gparted to expand the LUKS partition to cover the rest of the disk. I did not have to unlock the encryption for this. After that, I powered off, removed the 256 GB SSD and installed the 512 GB SSD, then booted normally. I did not erase either of the SSDs.

Now when I get into Fedora 38, GNOME Disks reports that /dev/mapper/luks-5e5f911c... is a 511 GB ext4 partition with 80 GB free, and /dev/nvme0n1p3 is a 511 GB LUKSv2 partition, but when I run df, this is what I see:

nate@redgate:~$ df / -h
Filesystem                    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/luks-5e5f911c...  233G  159G   63G  72% /

What did I do wrong?

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people don't want their computer to be a challenge. They don't want to be able to notice the operating system at all. For most people, the operating system is a means to an end.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

They are not. I do not refer to the package called "LibreOffice". If you search for "office" on the Windows Store, you'll see a bunch of LibreOffice clones that are not branded as such and are not free of charge or contain advertisements.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is like the people who repackage and rebrand LibreOffice and then resell it for $10 on the Windows Store to gullible users.

And the worst part about that is that it doesn't even break the law.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This problem is pretty common across most parts of the Linux space. Everyone wants to volunteer coding work, which is great, but not what's desperately needed right now.

The Linux community needs more than programmers, or else it will consist only of programmers. We need UI/UX experts, or we'll never have the simplicity and ease of use of iOS. We need accessibility designers or we'll never match up to the accessibility of MacOS. We need graphic designers and artists or we'll never look as good as Windows 11. We need PR professionals and marketing experts or we'll never be as notable as the Windows XP startup sound.

We don't have enough volunteers that fit into these categories. The next best thing you can do is contribute your money so that your favourite project can hire the people they need.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Is it really that hard to do your own taxes? I was taught to do this in school and it's really not hard if all you have to do is write in how much money you made and then claim the standard deduction. If your taxes really are that messy then you can hire an accountant to do it, and they'll do it ten times better than any tax software could, because if the software could do it better then they'd bloody use the software.

Edit: was mostly referring to people who work a job and that's it, which is probably 80% of the population