kill automatically sends SIGTERM (15) if no other signal is specified. It’s the gentle way to terminate a process.

I’m going to guess you’ve never been part of a project with complexity and sheer black magic fuckery comparable to Ventoy. The developer (a singular person) had to make a choice between:

• Pandering to a small group of vocal open-source extremists, dedicating a large part of their time to changing the incredibly complex build process to also build the binaries of other open-source projects, potentially at the cost of stability, eventually arriving at a product with the same feature set, pleasing some open-source extremists, but still receiving criticism for “taking a year to respond to a genuine concern”; or
• Not doing that and focusing their effort on stability and compatibility fixes to arrive at an improved product.

I’ve read the original issue thread front to back, and it’s a fucking clown show. I can’t blame the developer for not wanting to engage with those people. Nobody is entitled to the developer’s time or attention. Right now the issue is being worked on, which is more than most of the whiners can say about themselves; if you think that’s still insufficient, do better.

dickanter

Yes, but people have concerns. Ventoy is fully open-source, but the build process pulls binary blobs (compiled executables, think of them like blob chips) from other F/OSS projects, which is an issue for some people. They have legitimate concerns about trusting Ventoy because they have to implicitly trust the projects that Ventoy pulls from but can’t verify what is getting pulled. If such a project were to become compromised (the way XZ-Utils was), it would eventually spread to Ventoy.

That being said, the developers (or singular developer, not sure) are taking steps to reduce Ventoy’s dependency on external blobs. It’s a difficult task and they have limited resources, but they have acknowledged that it is an issue and are working on a solution.

From the Ventoy developers: the blobs are getting unblobbed.

I don’t see an egress airlock… wonder what it means.

The minimum spec is whatever e-waste you can find that still powers on.

My home server has an i3-4160, 10 gigabytes of mis-matched RAM, a ten-year-old 240 GB SSD with 36000 hours on it, and three 1 TB hard drives in a RAID5 array each with ~25000 power-on hours. It runs Proxmox on the metal with a virtualized OPNsense, Nextcloud, and Jellyfin server (plus smaller services). Jank levels are high, but not fatal, and it was mostly free.

Gparted. I’m pretty sure it’s bundled with Mint. Identify which partition it is, then simply delete it. Then you can create a new partition on the newly unallocated area or extend an existing partition onto it.

You might have to edit the bootloader’s boot entries and remove the Windows boot manager.

“Fuck around and find out”?

As long as it’s not watery diarrhea brown (a.k.a “gruvbox”), I’ll take it.

Damn, you were correct. Mostly.

It doesn’t connect moon dust to the white gel and portalability, but at least indicates its presence.

Uh…

Well, I guess I’m replaying Portal 2.

Chell can’t be deaf. On two occasions Wheatley asks her to turn around while he does his thing and waits for her to comply, and the clue to the final boss is delivered through an audio recording.

Of course I’m ignoring the excellent player training integrated into the game’s design, but the OOP is ignoring the player (probably) not being deaf and considering only the in-game events.

I don’t see how this might be interpreted as misinformation (8) or any attempt to do harm (8.1) either to a prospective user or Nix itself. Nor do I see how this might be an attempt made or supported by the Nix developers to influence the greater community. If you have evidence to the contrary, produce it.

There is no denying that a vocal group of people are promoting immutable/atomic distributions, or that many are fans of Nix’s declarative configuration solution. Still, that makes it no worse than the people who are pushing back against the adoption of Rust in the Linux kernel, or the proliferation of systemd services, or the adoption of Wayland over X11.

What about LCD? Switching the state of a cell results in mechanical changes, which might influence how much sunlight it absorbs (even if it’s minuscule compared to the heat generated by the backlight)

Nice report for “astroturfing”. Please go ahead and point out which rule was violated so I can make a decision.

There was some politically charged drama… I think. There was some drama, anyway. I’m not clear on the details.

It was probably a Twitter-tier disagreement that was blown way out of proportion by a small group of people. If others have details, please don’t enlighten me, I value my ignorance.

They did in version 7, but not in version 5, and even Windows 11 only bundles 5. All the bullshit aliases are still there.

You’ve just triggered my fight or flight reflex. Three years ago I spent about three months writing an entire .NET/WPF application with nothing but Powershell and XAML. Having access to .NET was nice… but the shell was trying to be too many things at once and the mix of method calls, programs, and cmdlets was infuriating.

I’ll never forgive them for aliasing curl to Invoke-WebRequest instead of the real curl.exe.