@Cornflake I prefer good old fashioned dump/restore, but whatever works for you. Most people seem to opt for no backups at all, obviously not a good choice.

@solrize Well it could be worse, I still have an old Dell Inspiron with it's original 2.5" 3600 RPM ultra-slow hard drive. Now that the battery has finally given up the ghost, I am going to replace it with an SSD while I have it open to change out the battery, but because the nvme slot on this machine only supports a max of 500GB, I am going with SATA.

@solrize You want to use nvme rather than sata if possible, particularly if a high end ssd as the absolute max speed you can get with sata is 6gb/s and also using a sata ssd will often make one or two sata ports not function.

@FooBarrington You didn't just specify memory safe, you advocated stripping away a number of features. Yes memory safe anything is a good idea and I've got no objection to the use of rust, I think it's a good language, one of the few worthwhile efforts to emerge in recent years, but if it is going go be re-implemented, do so fully. Yes, anything that runs with privileges should be memory safe else it's open to attack and Rust certainly makes that more possible, I am just concerned about the limiting feature set aspect. I'm not in favor of protecting users from themselves, I don't want a car that is capable of reading speed limit signs and prevents me from exceeding them even if doing so might be unsafe or illegal, that not the car manufacturers job to be come an arm of the government, likewise I don't want Linux protecting me from myself, I already address potentials with regular backups, etc.

@FauxLiving I've been using Ubuntu for about 14 years and in the past they've been at least somewhat interested in user input. I hope "don't become another fucking Microsoft" is a message that Canonical gets.

Control-D gives a hex value of 0x04, where as ENTER or CR gives a hex value of 0x0d,
they are not the same. Control D returns the carriage on old tty machines, on many modern linux platforms it is treated as CRLF, that is carriage return and a linefeed. Control-D indicates end of file or end of transmission.

You can limit what a given package has access to with kernel based security package profiles for packages like apparmor, selinux, smack or tomoyo. Someone with root access can change this but it can be helpful at preventing someone from gaining that access in the first place.

99% of what I do is on Linux, I have one Windows partition I occasionally boot into to play games, it is and will remain Win10.

@theunknownmuncher The US has been involved in probably 300 regime changes throughout the world, has invaded many countries, including those that we were not affiliated with. Russia invades a neighboring country when we install a leader that is going to allow us to put missiles on their border. I really hate to see political hegemony get in the way of a good collaborative effort, we all suffer for it if we allow this.

This is a shame, I always thought Linux was supposed to be an International collaboration, hate to see it caught up in this bullshit political agenda.