I am still active at my local scouts troop. I’m not a group leader anymore (not enough time), though I’m responsible for the courses for new group leaders (those that are needed to start being a group leader in my scouts organization). Also I was the main author of our new song book and play guitar for the kids on various camps.

Besides that I currently try to get politically active with a leftist party here. Though I’m not sure, what I can contribute. We will see.

What crosses my mind again and again for quite a while now is joining or creating a neighborhood help group. Something to help people locally and tie the neighborhood together. Though I’m unsure on how to start that, find other people that would like to join, and also not sure about my own time constrains. Don’t want to overwork myself with volunteering.

“Wow, me too! Let’s go and fuck some shit up!, so that we are going to both hells!” XD

The important part where this scheme came from:

According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was “S12n”, the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. The use of such numeronyms became part of DEC corporate culture.[3]

So it was a technical limitation gotten corporate naming scheme.

Though that is mostly a problem for big techs vision of VR, where we use it everyday allday (like all the shit with business meetings in VR). It was always a niche technology. But 3D printing is also a niche. But it got to be a big niche. And with even the current developments we got quite a reduction in size (thus better wearing comfort). I think an open hardware and software system would quite help the whole VR industry to get better, though still being a niche.

While you generally have a point, the year of the linux desktop is not hindered by that. Distributions like Linux Mint, Ubuntu and the like are just as easy to install as Windows, the desktop environments preinstalled on them work very good and the software is more than sufficient for like 70% to 80% of people (not counting anything, that you cannot install with a single click from the app store/software center of the distribution.

Though Linux is not the default. Windows is paying big time money to be the default. So why would “normal people” switch? Hell, most people will just stop messaging people instead of installing a different messenger on their phone. Installing a different OS on your PC/Notebook is a way bigger step than that.

So probably we won’t get the “Year of the Linux Desktop”, unless someone outpays Microsoft for quite some time, or unless microsoft and Windows implode by themselves (not likely either)

I sometimes wonder what would happen to VR, if it would get the same situation as 3D printing. That took of, because some patents where expiring and it was then easy to build up your own version. We had/have many open source/FOSS printers and nearly all the companies currently in this space wouldn’t exist, if it werent for the many open source developments and the extention of the market, that they created. I know this is highly unprobable for VR, but one should be allowed to dream

Are there any infos about what an attacker can do with this? The article didn’t say this. Remote Code execution? With the privileges of the app? Reading all files? Or only some? The impact information seems important here.

Though it definitely has something to do with Bazzite also, because previously I had Ubuntu installed in that exact location on the disk. Honestly, I’m currently not impressed by Fedora Desktop and its Spins (Bazzite being a special version of Fedora Atomic). I also have problems with my other fedora desktop installations, that I didn’t have with Ubuntu. I contemplate on keeping Bazzite for gaming (because now that its installed that seems to work great) and move to Debian for everything else (trying if that works as good as Ubuntu without snap, that gave me headaches multiple times)

I really don’t understand that argument. So is most of the US not connected to the sewers? Since these are also dug underground. If you already dig trenches for the sewer system, then you can also place electricity lines for relatively cheap. Though that was not done in the US and retrofitting is a big cost, usually only done, when you need to dig either way (e.g. for modernizing the sewer system). So its more about the default and if a country can take the opportunity when sewers get modernized

Though in development of an area you probably already dig up the ground for other utilities, so in that case it is relatively easy and cheap to also put electricity lines in there too. But retrofitting in an already developed area is really expensive. So it becomes more a question of the default.

Wow, was für eine Analyse XD den Linken zu sagen, sie müssten Politik wie die Rechten machen, und mehr auf unproduktiven Hass gegen Arbeitslose setzen um Arbeitende ohne Abschluss zu gewinnen. So dicht, das kannste dir nicht ausdenken

I can enter Ubuntu and Windows just fine via my grub boot menu. I now tried manual partioning in different variants, not leading to a bootable install (see my update in the pist for more info)

It only says, that it doesn’t support steam game mode. I don’t think this should prevent an install. My problem is definitely partioning and EFI related

I tried a seperate EFI partition (described in other comments above). Got me past this error, though due to another error not to a bootable install. The additional EFI partition stays empty

On the download site they list a section for legacy Nvidia GPUs, including the 10XX series. So I guess that image should already have the correct drivers.

In fact I tried with both Nvidia versions (since I only later had seen the legacy section). Both fail at the same point, before anything GPU related happens.

Secureboot is permanently disabled on this PC. What other stuff should I disable in the UEFI?

Mhh, I will check that as soon, as I have time again

Today I tried this. The original EFI partition is 1.4 GiB, which should be big enough; I tried nonetheless. The installer has a partioning helper (available through the tree dots menu), though that didn’t show any disks. I had to use gparted to create the partitions. The mentioned error didn’t appear again after I used this partioning:

The boot and esp flags where necessary for the installer to accept the EFI partition.

Though I got another error later in the process:

The new EFI partition was completely empty afterwards (checked through my Ubuntu). No grub boot menu entry either.

Yes. First I tried having 2 partitions (/boot and /) then I tried to build an additional EFI partition (/boot, /boot/efi and /). Though I could not create the partitions in the installer, since the storage helper (which is reachable through the tree dots menu) didn’t show any storage devices (though gparted and lsblk had no problems seeing them). I then created the partitions using gparted

In fact then the mentioned error didn’t appear. Instead I got a different error at a later stage:

The newly created EFI partition stays empty (I checked by mounting it with my working Ubuntu). And there is no entry in the grub2 boot menu for Bazzite

The original EFI partition is 1.46GiB big. Most of that shows up as unused in gparted. I think, this should be big enough