I have started with Mandrake (later renamed to Mandriva) then went through few other distros before settling on Gentoo.

Gentoo installation is one of the most complicated because there is no installer, you do everything yourself.

This is like buying car parts and assembling them together into a car using a manufacturer’s manual. its painful but once the car is assembled you almost never have to take it to a repair shop. Not because it doesn’t breakdown but because you know well how it function and thus how to fix it yourself.

This is a law that companies are required to implement or stop making business in the states enforcing that law.

You probably feel that companies should just stop doing business in those states “to show them”. Sadly a lot of profitable Linux companies that fund Linux development disagree with your high morals. They want to continue doing business there.

Adding that field help those company comply with the law and doesn’t hurt you in anyway except maybe taking few bytes in your disk drive.

Even if the field is not added, those companies would come up with another place to store date of birth or even use systemd fork.

Its not like they will say since we can’t store date of birth in systemd’s user model then we’ll have to abandon this project and close our branches in those states instead.

I have read the git thread related to the merge request.

I don’t see what’s the big deal. You have a user model that already contain fields like user’s full name, location, … among others and all this developer did was adding yet another optional field called date of birth.

This does nothing to verify user’s age and enforce nothing. They’ve stressed that repeatedly in the comments.

What that does is making it easy for a Linux distro to store user’s birthday - should they wish to do so - and making that bit of info accessible to running apps so that each app can do what it wants with it.

User’s fullname and location are already there which are also optional so what’s the big deal?

are you able to ping a website? try this command “ping google.com” without quotes

if you press “Alt+F2” a popup should appear with a text field where you can type in a command like “terminal”

are you able to open terminal inside your KDE by any chance?

yes there is also windows 11 lite / tiny11 and yes I usually VirtualBox is fine.

you will find stripped down versions of windows (i.e windows 10 lite) with low ram consumption. I run windows 10 with 2GB of RAM. Of course if you will play games you would need a lot more than that.

Virtualmachines dont usually provide good experiance for graphics intense apps. I would strongly recommend wine or proton instead.

steam runs on Linux so if your games on steam you may not need windows.

You scared me for a second

It doesn’t work for me (using plasma). Also it seems to be using DBUS which I am not sure if it will work within a cron job.

A simple solution that works for me is something like this:

echo hello > /dev/pts/0

what is the argument against using systemd?

A quicker way to test this is by using echo

try echo tar czf ~/package.tgz admin/* api/* mobile/*

If it wasnt encrypted you could have used testdisk app but I dont see how you could decrypt it in this state

If there is a problem with memory, windows wouldn’t have worked too.

Highly doubt memory is the issue but doesn’t hurt to check

Errors and Warnings obviousky.

you coukd redirect the output to a file

sudo journalctl -e > log.txt and upload it sonewhere for us to check

for running GUI app, I use flatapp which is a sort of a container / sandbox

why games get windows 3.1? Lot of steam games work well on Linux some even work better than on windows 10.

Windows 3.1 can not play any game developed in the past 20 years or so.

yes Syncthing should work just fine just make sure to only sync the save directory to minimize bandwidth. rsync is another common tool (at least for Linux) that does same job through command line. making it easier to automate the syncing tasks through bash scripts

I’d check https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search because most browsers including mozilla firefox rely on google safe browsing.

The other thing to point out is that if an attacker somehow got root access, they could install a so called “rootkit” and what it does it replacing some of the basic commands like top, ps, … with altered ones in order to hide the malware activities

few years ago I was contacted by digital ocean because they got reports about myserver being involved in ssh attack or something like that. Turns out my old drupal website had unpatched vulnersbilities that allowed attacker to access my system and use it for attacking others.

am not saying that to defend your provider they should have at least give you a warning. I an saying that to check yiur server as it may have been compromised