UnfortunateShort

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in What is your experience with btrfs snapshots?

The kernel in the EFI partition is used as a tool to bootstrap hardware and memory for your proper kernel, which is chainloaded.

There is a simple reason for that: The Linux kernel can do anything a bootloader needs to do, especially for itself, so why not use it as one?

That said, in most setups there is another bootloader before that, which loads the kernel itself and the initramfs for that kernel. That can be for example systemd-boot, formerly known gummiboot, a minimal bootloader meant to (auto-)discover EFI compatible stuff it can load.

Dracut creates a setup / boot chain like that.

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in What is your experience with btrfs snapshots?

They work.

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to Memes in I hate Nazis

The "German Reich" these days consist of some weirdos who skipped history classes and call themselves "Reichsbürger". They even have capitalism! The heads of this movement charge them for nonsensical documents, like passports exactly no one accepts. Oh, and some think Germany is a corporation led by the allied forces.

I don't know where they stand on mugs, but feel free to try it out and throw some at them.*

*They may possess illegal weapons tho. Pls help

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in nuclear take:

OpenSUSE exists as a testbed for SLE, I don't think there's anything confusing about that. It's also much easier to get to a sensible setup for new users. If it weren't for the AUR and the Arch Wiki, I would probably still be using it.

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in There are only 4 serious consolidated Linux Distros: Fedora, OpenSuse, Debian, Ubuntu

I don't really know how to change your mind except bringing up that you are objectively wrong.

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to Memes in Thank you Raymond Hill

It's kinda sad that without Mozilla, Raymond, the NoScript guys and TOR we would lose control over the internet pretty much immediately

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in cause no one asks you for tech support if you still running windows XP

Come on, everyone knows you're supposed to tweak your Linux to look like MacOS on mushrooms.

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in The fix is scheduled for the next release

No software is perfect, you are going to run into some issue, somewhere, eventually. However, I would say when talking about Linux spcifically, there is a high chance that people talking about stuff being broken are people breaking stuff.

It's simply fun to try riscy, experimental things. Naturally, people also like to write about it.

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to Memes in I’m a man of many talents

I have witnessed reading assignments and beg to differ.

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago to Memes in Me irl

I don't particularly like the UI, but I haven't had any Issue with teams ever tbh. It even worked on Firefox with uBlock, NoScript (ofc allowing like one or two domains for it) and VPN. For me, Office in general just works most of the time. I would never use it for private stuff, let alone pay hundreds for it, but for work it's more than fine.

Except Outlook. Holy fuck, how is such a central application such a pile of steaming garbage? It has the worst UI/UX I have ever seen in any mail client by far.

UnfortunateShort , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Memes in No fking way guys

It is literally fucking knapsack problem the game™️ and I can't stop playing it. This game is one in-game shop away from ruining my life.

Edit: I mean ruining it further. Sorry.

UnfortunateShort , 3 months ago to Privacy in New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser

Does it block MS tho?

UnfortunateShort , 3 months ago to Privacy in Proton AG and Standard Notes joined forces

Woah, chill Proton. I know I started using it, but you didn't have to buy it for me. I like it tho. Very frequently updated app, lots of features.

UnfortunateShort , 3 months ago to Privacy in Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service - gHacks Tech News

It's quite good value, especially the 2-year plan, if you actually use all the stuff they offer. I got my family there, but they are still not to eager to integrate all there is into their routines.

UnfortunateShort , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to linuxmemes in Why don't banks like root on Android?

The reason is very simple: They rely on Google Safetynet (basically self-diagnosis). And that will immediately tell you off if it notices your device is rooted. And while you can have a lengthy discussion regarding whether this makes your phone less secure or not, this is another simple argument from Google's POV: The device has obviously been tampered with, we don't want to put any resources into covering this case. As far as we are concerned, you shouldn't use our OS like this.

So basically laziness.