I mean, most of the success of Linux comes from the freedom to solve local issues the way you want.

There have come lots of issues solved with a departure from the project from a need that drove the change. Want Debian without systemd? Devuan.

So yes, literally, if it’s important to you, you can fork it. Whether that takes a big lift or not doesn’t mean you’re any less free to do so.

You make it sound like no one can just go keep the older hardware alive by forking.

Yes, exactly.

Block chain would have been an amazing solution to most democratic vote validation processes.

Corey Doctorow isn’t speaking to you, he’s speaking to the many, many people who have been fooled by the ai craze.

Not a productive comment.

Ansible certainly works here, most implementations I’ve seen are terraform with ansible or cloudinit.

Most of my stack is containers, so I personally prefer cloudinit and a handoff to ansible.

Mint is pretty polished and mostly stays out of the way. I think that was probably a good choice, looking at your style of shifting over components of your workflow.

The lack of adoption is well understood: very few devices ship with Linux pre-installed, and most people don’t care about the os.

Come on, I like supporting n00bs, but this is low effort, bullshit trolling.

“I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas.”

And this person comes back to this linux community again and again with “my pirated games don’t work”. So many of us try to help this person, but they dont want a solution, they want to be disruptive.

Oh, you are failing one over if the other fails? That’s not the same thing as configuring two interfaces with the same IP, gateway, at the same time, which is what I thought you were trying to do.

Is it possible to configure interfaces this way? Yes.

Will it work? No, not without bonding, and not with WiFi as one of the interfaces.

But the field can contain anything at all, so if anonymity is the goal, you can still have that.

This dialog isn’t asking for a legal name, it’s just suggesting using your real name because that’s a pretty normal thing.

It’s always been thus, tho, I think?

Seems like our times are troubled enough that identity is become a powderkeg issue, which I can understand.

But I don’t think Debian is forcing us to inscribe our legal names here.

I don’t get it.

Depends what version of the Surface, but I have a Surface Pro 6 and it still performs well. I use the Surface Linux kernel.

BTRFS and ZFS both use block compression, ZFS by default. It’s meant to increase both storage efficiency and access speed and has nearly zero impact on performance. The files aren’t compressed from the filesystem point of view, which would satisfy your requirement not to need any other tools.

I’m confused about your statement that you don’t want to save space with compression, but you indicated that you want to “make the most of your storage”. Are you looking for long-term archiving?

It’s not clear here if you mean block compression, file compression, or stream compression.

It would be nice, but the time it takes to do the work of validating package versions for LTS candidacy is either limited or not free, so this is the acceptable compromise.

Are you waiting for a kernel patch, or is this support simply not available yet?

Use ps -ef to find the source of the file.