You can use FDE and setup a minimal ssh server like dropbear to run at startup. This way, you can supply the password via a keyboard connected to the machine OR via ssh. This gives you a similar workflow to the data partition you mentioned, but encrypts the entire system.

I hate the cloudflare stuff making me do captchas or outright denying me with a burning passion. My fault for committing the heinous crime of using a VPN!

I am almost afraid to say it, but I’m confident someone out there has created such a cursed terminal. The modern word ribbon does not match the windows XP theme, though :(

I wonder if registry keys can be set with an ansible script? Granted, that is still not as nice as a declarative config (yay NixOS), but better than having to write down and do by hand again on a new install

That varies from command to command though. man is nice if you know how to use the command but have forgotten which option does what you want. But if you have no idea how to use a program, reading e.g. man awk will not be very helpful

There are definitely people who think it is reasonable to memorize button locations and 10 levels of menus in GUI programs but would rather go into cardiac arrest than use something like program --option input-file output-file.

I keep a windows LTSC install around purely for Escape from Tarkov. Everything else I play works great on Linux.

“You need to format your USB drive” when there’s a perfectly usable FAT partition, which just happens to not be the first partition on the drive

Depends on how you write out “nine to five”. 9-5 is just 4 and obviously quite small, but 9^5 is even bigger and therefore more betterer than 777

Why openvpn? Last I checked wireguard has significantly better performance (plus it’s built into the kernel already)

Same, I know installing from other launchers on linux is possible using lutris, but since the steam experience is so smooth, I’ve never bothered to figure out how.

Have you verified that? I would start by checking (with wireshark) for any non-wireguard traffic coming from your machine

There are small SATA backplanes that allow you to fit 3 HDDs into two 5.25" slots (or 4 HDDs in 3 slots). You can find used ones for cheap (mine was 30€), and with some cheap tower case you could get something NAS-like with hot-swap drive bays for way cheaper

They shouldn’t be able to see anything except encrypted wireguard traffic. Are you sure all torrent-related traffic is going through the VPN (e.g. requests to indexers) and that traffic stops flowing when the VPN connection drops?

Use a VPN? If you’re using containers, you can bind qbittorrent to gluetun to prevent leaks

I never had any problems with cp either. But the post makes it seem like dd is somehow more error prone, which makes no sense to me

What do you mean? Explicitly having to set if= and of= is way harder to screw up than mixing up the order of arguments for e.g. cp.

No, see: some of us spend countless hours setting up their NixOS config repo, which is totally worth it because you save half an hour when moving to a new machine

But if you’re more productive in the time you actually work, you have more time to slack off