There’s just no way to prevent this

GTNH suffers from this a lot, especially at the beginning 😅

Thousands of items, you always need to carry around at least 5 different tools because you constantly use them.

Even going mining fills up your inventory with so many types of the same ore (raw copper ore, crushed copper, impure copper dust, copper dust, … ), not to mention if you decide to go loot a dungeon.

Also you unlock AE2 200h into the game, so good luck with your chests until then!

It’s a fun modpack though, I still reccommend to try the 2.9 beta and laugh at the ridiculous crafting trees and how painful everything feels (try to craft a door, good luck!)

(alt: picture of Facebook’s mod report form, with “I’m in this photo and I don’t like it” selected)

I agree! On gentoo even if you do manage to break your system you’d also know how to fix it (since you basically spent days installing it by hand…).

I ran it on my pc for a few years and the only source of breakage were nvidia drivers (in the past they sucked possibly even more). I remember running it using VESA drivers for like a week until I figured out how to fix it.

It’s really nice how much you can customize it and make it really fit your own use-case. I once ran it in a fully offline raspberry pi for 5-10 years (without updates) and it was rock solid. The hard disk it ran on and the power adapter died, but the sd card was mounted read-only so it lasted the full 10 years without any corruption. I kept a backup of the root filesystem on the sd-card so restoring it to a new disk was super-easy. I also ran the hdd in btrfs raid-1 mode with a itself (two partitions), so that it could self-recover from random corruption due to power losses (I’m not sure it’s a good idea, but it never caused any trouble) It was just running 1 service and that’s it, without any monitor or keyboard connected. I even made a small program with a single-key interface to run admin commands directly without needing a screen or any login (press “b”=reboot, “s” for btrfs scrub, for example). Trying to customize, say, an ubuntu like that would have been a nightmare. It took forever to compile everything on the raspberry pi though.

The trick for windows is to rename the file and kill the process that’s using it / reboot (if it’s some unkillable service). The service won’t then be able to find the file after reatarting and you can delete the renamed copy.

On linux this whole thing is done automatically by the OS: if a file is open and you delete it, it will disappear from the folder but its data won’t actually be deleted from the disk until it’s closed by every program. Some programs even use this trick to create invisible temporary files to offload some data from RAM to disk!

I remember that splash image! It might seem like a joke/meme, but it was an official one:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp-data/-/blob/main/images/splash-log.md?ref_type=heads

Search for version 2.7.2 / 2.7.3 on that page

Exactly, and some of the laws require just asking if the age is over a some pre-defined threshold, not sending the full date, for example “is the user over 18? Is the user over 15? 13?”

And just to be clear, I do think that “protecting the children” is just an excuse to push surveillance tech that was very convenient to use after the Epstein files. I am strongly against these laws and I am supporting ($$$) activist groups fighting against them. Do consider donating or getting involved too if you can.

But this specific change isn’t adding surveillance to Linux. It’s just a date of birth field that a parent can set. I can see why a parent would want it instead of using shady and intrusive “child control” software that takes over the computer.

You need to store the date of birth to update the user’s reported age automatically. It makes sense and puts the “protecting the children” responsibility back on parents instead of third parties that every website is now starting to use.

The systemd solution is not even reusable for actual verification because it can’t provide any cryptographic proof of the verification! It’s literally just a date.

a sensor triggers

screen goes dark

rock crubling noises close by

… RUN!

Say no more!

Life pro tip that will make your IT deparment hate you: you can use Evolution and change the client id to match outlook’s one in the advanced settings. It’ll look like you are using the standard outlook client from your IT department point of view, but you’ll actually get a usable interface instead. I assume that thunderbird has the same options to override the client id, but I haven’t checked.

Don’t blame me if you get in troubles though.

On my system I am using kde x11 instead of wayland for the same reason. Last time I tried wayland I was getting half of the framerate compared to x11.

At some point I want to switch to a gaming-oriented distros and see if it’s magically better there.

The only good ubuntu is 4.04 “Not Found”