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HamsterRage

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  • [SOLVED] how to increase the /home partition

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  • The question implies that the OP wants to create one giant filesystem with all of their data on it. This has its own issues, especially if it is in /home. For one, as someone else pointed out, it's fairly difficult to run your system without /home mounted, and that makes it difficult to resize. Sure, you can set up an admin account with it's home in the /root filesystem and then log into that - but that seems to be a lot of work in itself.

    If it was me, I'd set up mount points for file systems that make sense. Maybe /data/Photos, or /data/Music, or data/AppData, or whatever. As much as possible, I'd just point whatever software I was using to those new directories to find the data. If that isn't feasible, for whatever reason, then a symbolic link from /home/Photos to /data/Photos will work seamlessly in most cases.

    As far as I'm concerned, after administering enterprise systems using Unix going as far back as the early 90's, symbolic links are a key tool in managing disk space that you shouldn't just dismiss because it's "an unnecessary layer of complexity". Having smaller, purpose designed, file systems allows you to manage them better. Sticking everything into /home is probably not the right answer for anyone.

  • [SOLVED] how to increase the /home partition

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  • Resizing partitons is often not necessary. Use a symbolic link to relocate a subdirectory to another file system. For 99% of use cases this is indistinguishable from expanding the partition.

  • I am font hunting again

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  • In all truth, I've probably seen more sphinxes than foxes. There are literally hundreds of them in Egypt, although they are quite small compared to the one near the pyramids in Giza. They also find their way into museums around the world.

    I've only seen one or two foxes, in the wild. A few more in zoos, I suppose.

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  • I guess they figure that Linux users already know what they are doing when it comes to security.

  • Canada finally reveals the results of its universal basic income experiment

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  • Except that the amount for a couple in the article was 24K, which is 8K less than individually. You even quoted the 24K and disregarded it.

    If you have 60K employment income, then the UBI would push you to 76K and the UBI would effectively be taxed at the highest rate. If your only income was UBI then you would exceed the basic personal exemption, and would pay zero tax.

    Everyone gets the same UBI, but some people pay more tax on it if they have other income.

  • Canada finally reveals the results of its universal basic income experiment

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  • If you did work in some reasonable proportion of married couples, it might get close to break even. Then remember that CPP, OAS and EI all disappear, and whatever funds they have would contribute to UBI. CPP at max draw by itself is almost as much UBI.

    Then, for people that also have some other form of income, some quantity of the UBI would be taxed back.

    I'm not saying that it really does scale up, but your analysis is overly simplistic.

  • Trump bullied Canada over ‘digital taxes’ – and Ottawa submitted

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  • That's what I was hopingmthe plan was. We'll have to wait and see.

  • I'll fix it next time

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  • I would like an ad-blocker that blocks the "Please enable ads pop-ups"

  • TIL the pound was named because 240 Sterlings (pennies) weighed a pound.

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  • My BIL still gives his weight in "stone". As in, "I'm 12 stone, 7 lbs and 3 ounces".

    I joke with him that only makes sense to people who are comfortable with Pounds, Shillings and Pence, too.

  • Astoria, OR.

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  • Shoot both. The JPEG's take up negligible space and are good if you need something "at the moment" for a purpose or to share. You can also compare your finished product to what the camera would have done by itself.

  • Trump says Canada would pay $61B for Golden Dome, but zero as ’51st state’

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  • How about we charge them $62B to keep NORAD running?

  • Canadian wins 100-km ultramarathon while stopping to breastfeed her baby along the way

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  • This has to be more than just an ultramarathon, because 17 hours for a winner is a long time. A normal marathon is 42km, and takes 3 or so hours for a winner.

    Given that this was in Snowdonia, it looks like it was some kind of grueling trail race up a mountain.

  • A compiled list of my opinions and experiences on cutting out big tech and switching to more open source and private alternatives

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  • I don't think so. The mail is delivered to the Proton mail server via unencrypted SMTP and then sent on to the client encrypted. The secure layer is between the client and the server. It might also be stored on the server encrypted.

    Email is unsecure as hell in any event, but I think the idea is that once it's delivered, it's secured.

  • A compiled list of my opinions and experiences on cutting out big tech and switching to more open source and private alternatives

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  • Isn't Proton supposed to be end to end encryption between crient and server? And wouldn’t that rule out IMAP?

  • I'm baffled

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  • Not saddest, just worst.

  • Why US Workplace Surveillance is Banned in Europe

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  • Exactly, manage the outcomes, not the people.

  • The John Wick of dogs

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  • A f***king pencil!

  • N.L. hasn't buried a single unclaimed body since legislation change in January

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  • And don't forget, this is pretty sensitive stuff. So you have to make sure that it's a well built website or it's going to be a disaster. It's not just a page, it has to have some kind of content system behind it that non-programming staff can interact with and keep up to date.

  • NDP insiders are trying to fix the leadership race for an establishment candidate  ⋆ The Breach

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  • Officially? I thought that they were going on a vote by vote basis. In that case, given that the CPC will always vote against the government, when something comes up that both the Bloc and the NDP are against it becomes a race to say who will vote against it first. This forces the other party to vote for something they dislike, or suffer an election (at least for confidence motions).