It would effect any UEFI based system regardless of OS from one of the affected manufacturers (which is basically all of them).

Correct.

Side note if you can’t figure out how to use psycopg2 in a 5 line tutorial you have even less ability than you thought you did

Just sit them down with it. Kids can figure new technology out.

Note: Create your partitions from your empty space. You may need to resize your existing partition to do this. But don’t practice on your main drive.

This is a simple job, in that the steps are few, but it’s something that causes catastrophic data loss if you get it wrong.

I’d recommend buying a cheap second drive, doesn’t have to be big or even good. Partition it, mount it, make sure you can make the partitions automatically mount, teach yourself to copy data around, umount it and remount, make sure you got it right.

Just… these are all very simple things. I wouldn’t hesitate to repartition my own drives. But if you fuck it up you fuck it up good. Make sure you know the operations you’re taking first. Measure twice, cut once, all that jazz.

Boot from a live distro so you can modify your boot disk. Use the disk utility to create partitions. Copy the data to the relevant partitions ensuring to maintain file ownership and permissions. Modify /etc/fstab to mount the partitions at the designated locations in the filesystem.

I don’t bother putting anything but /home on its own dedicated partition, but if you ask 10 people this question you’ll get 12 opinions, so just do what feels right.

Actually just saw btop mentioned on Lemmy the other day lol

htop and/or btop are more modern user friendly alternatives to the classic top

You might check out xfce. It’s gtk like Gnome but the development team doesn’t have their heads up their asses; pretty much every aspect of xfce can be customized. It should be a simple install from your package manager, whatever distribution you’re using. The downside of this, however, is it might take extensive tweaking to get it to look how you want as it’s a pretty bare bones UI by default. Personally I like it, but ymmv.

That’s the beautiful thing about the Linux world. If you don’t like some aspect there’s virtually always an alternative.

It’s fair to call them terrorists when they attack civilians.

And don’t give me the “what about Israel” bullshit. They can be terrorists, too, it doesn’t make Hamas suddenly freedom fighters for murdering children. A terrorist is a terrorist.

You’ll thank yourself for it later. Things like this take a little longer up front but putting them off has a way of making you have to work around it again and again until, when you get around to correcting it, it takes far more time to undo the workarounds than it would’ve taken to correct it the first time.

I don’t think you understand what root is. By definition it has those permissions because it’s root.

If a different user doesn’t exist then you obviously can’t run the command as that different user. The only solution here is to create a new user account.

Also your image is improperly configured which is something you should fix first.

I’ve hired hundreds of people in technical positions, many of them the exact position you’re applying for. All have been in the United States. I’ve worried about a few things:

1. what they know (the knowledge test)

2. how they’re gonna interact with the rest of the people that work near them (the cultural fit)

3. how they smell (cultural fit 2.0, they pass but their close coworkers still won’t work together)

Obviously #3 in a remote age is irrelevant but you still have to be able to work with other people. If you do that and you’re competent then as long as what you wear to work doesn’t make people uncomfortable (ie: don’t wear a Speedo and that’s it) I don’t give a shit about your clothes. I’m not hiring you for your fashion sense.

Well technically it’s called getting it “fronted”.

That’s an awfully cynical take.

That’s a fucking nonsense idea, but how else would they afford the crack that caused that idea to originate?

Simple doesn’t mean well done. Badly written code can be simple but still bad

They weren’t that bad. You had to look in like 3 places, depending on the distro, but you could find them. And you could see exactly what they were doing once you found them.

systemd gets a job done but I’d much prefer something simpler.

Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.

It can be done remotely, even over SSH by writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger