Yes, unfortunately. You might be able to use it as a normal user if you are a member of the 'disk' group, but its not consistent and it may still actually need root to do all the loopback setup and so forth that you need to make the Windows install ISO sane.
It depends on how the document is written, but > stops matching on a period, comma, apostrophe, space, newline, what have you. Word boundary matching is just very handy.
As to why its that set of characters.... Honestly I have no idea :) Regexes are just what they are and I assume the special escape made sense to the inventor at least.
You may not hear this from others, but I would NOT switch your phone OS and desktop OS at the same time. Assuming you live a digital life there is just TOO MUCH to have to deal with while dealing with tbe hassle of things that don't make sense, or require you to stop what you're doing and google the answer.
I love /e/OS and would absolutely recommend it, but there are just shortcomings that slow me down all the time (are you OK with the play store compatibility suddenly stopping and you cant download apps - do you wait and see if it starts working after a few minutes? reboot your phone? Log out and back into your google account? Switch to/from anonymous? This happens more than I think folks would readily admit and the solution is just different each time)
Once you are up and running fot a few weeks with whatever change you want to make first then sure go for the other one.
From what I'm reading, autoclean would remove any local packages which couldn't be download (i.e. they are out of date). This would indeed fix the issue, but your packages could still be missing critical udpates.
When possible you should definitely run 'sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade' to get the latest stuff installed. If it says you're up to date then that's awesome and no further action is needed.
This is almost always the issue. Apt is not like yum and pacman, you must first run apt update or it will inevitably fall out of sync with the current packages when you try to run install or upgrade, etc.
In DNS and all Unix style host resolution generally (documentation on the file /etc/resolv.conf details this), all clients have a domain search list, usually set by your DHCP server, which for Google owned computers is obvs google.com, but it can be several domains.
All they need is to set up an A record for go.google.com (its more likely googleplex.com) which runs a link shortener/expander site, and their employees can use the shorthand form of go/linkname for it to be expanded for them in their browser.
They could also set an entry in every corporate computer's local hosts file for 'go', and deploy it automatically using ansible, chef, etc. Or configure it in the company wide HTTP(S) proxy that all clients are configure to use. I forget now which method it is, and there are of course many other ways to do it than these.
Anyway go/linkname is a huge part of their culture as mentioned by the other commenter, and I was also triggered seeing it.
I have indeed seen that XO-CE script. But is it true that you have to delete and recreate the container, rather than just doing apt update? AFAIK XO_CE is just a debian VM.
This is a bit of a hack, but while you wait for a new drive or laptop, you could install Linux onto a thumb drive and run it from there.
When you use Rufus to write the image to the flash drive, it should give you the option to create a persistent storage section with a slider to say how much of the drive to allocate to that. At least this should keep Microsoft from destroying the data on it, lthough it will probably ask every time it starts up whether you want to format that drive.
This way you can just use whatever your BIOS boot key is, probably something like F12, to boot onto your Linux and keep it away from Microsoft :)
Bitcoin is basically only mined via ASICs now. You can still mine something like ETC but honestly chains have (rightfully) been moving to far more efficient consensus using Proof of Stake.
For the amount of electricity you would need to mine a meaningful amount of BTC, you'd be much better off buying spending $50 or $100 worth of BTC or ETH every week. Either hodl or DCA sell when prices bounce up.
Yes, unfortunately. You might be able to use it as a normal user if you are a member of the 'disk' group, but its not consistent and it may still actually need root to do all the loopback setup and so forth that you need to make the Windows install ISO sane.