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.

Didn’t end your post with :wq

Yes

Not sure I’ve ever heard vociferous used that way.

That isn’t how swappiness works.

Changing the sysctl for swappiness only adjusts the ratio of anonymous and file pages, it doesn’t set a “threshold” or “aggressivity” in swapping pages, nor does it dictate how much or how little to swap.

It’s generally ill-advised to touch swappiness at all unless you know what you’re doing. You can start here.

If you’re going to hand out free advice, at least make sure the advice is worth the price of admission.

Ah, OK. I thought you were doing a Riddley Walker.

Yeah, I get what thorn is. It’s just not part of normal English, so I was just trying to understand the point of using them.

What’s with the thorns?

Openness. Most cameras for android phones are proprietary because it’s easier to save money by not having a common controller for cameras and just using a proprietary blob.

Simon Stalenhag! Nice wallpaper. I have a bunch of his images for mine as well.

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

Those are considered firmware, yes. And these can vary in their installation as being updated via the firmware interface itself or some other update mechanism.

Some firmwares like on certain IBM thinkpads, my surface pro 6 and others can be updated directly via a Linux command called fwupd, but the firmwares must live in specifics public repositories.

This news means we’ll all have a much better time using fwupd to update these on dell and lenovo machines, but the firmwares themselves will remain proprietary blobs.

Coreboot replaces the bios/firmware altogether, and it’s not an easy task to get new ones, unfortunately.

With certain devices, yes, it’s possible. My Microsoft surface pro 6 can update its various firmwares from the blobs extracted from the official exe.

Yeah, I’d love to see my idea book not require windows to update firmware.

This is talking about fwupdt firmware and patches, not uefi/bios replacement.

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.