it deals with items of different materials and different kinds of dirtyness. drying is done wildly differently too, and some dishwaser detergent has stuff to help faster drying

is this an advertisement?

also, is it really the world leading oss firewall distro?
I’m no expert but I have never heard of it, even though I’m not exactly new to Linux. in contrast, OPNSense and pfSense is quite popular

I’m pretty sure UEFI systems don’t make use of a boot sector anymore. They look for the bootloader in the form of an .efi file in the ESP or EFI System Partition, of each sata drive (maybe other block devices too).

also, the disk it uses is not necessarily “/dev/sda”. first because it can be on any of the disks, second because that’s not a persistent ID but something that depends on detection order

Especially with software being called firmware and not being called motherbootware or pre-bootware or anything that indicates that this piece of software is the very first thing that starts running during boot.

firmware is a pretty common term for things like this (code on chip that manages low level startup)

which is not a solution, only a hotfix

For android phone GrapheneOS.

it does not fix a lot of the bullshit changes

why do you think that?

I don’t know whether it would be impossible to do, but using OBS would be much easier both on the short and long term

I also sometimes (but often enough, including a time this week) hear people discuss to not install updates because of this and that.

but then if I think about it, I have trained myself too to this:

• I avoid updates to my smart tv, because I know with facts that they’ll enshittify it, including patching in admin access (was not obtained by a no-interaction attack), flooding it with ads and even more tracking, and even more preinstalled apps and their own tracking. this applies to any “smart” appliences
• I am cautious with android updates, because they sometimes break things with no way back, not even a real way to do backups. besides that, major version updates always reset some settings including to not connect automatically to any random ISP’s cellular network. versions starting with 8 also introduced many new arbitrary limitations out of the user’s control that cannot be reverted
• I’ve seen many apps on the play store get enshittified, but sometimes f-droid apps to make changes that I would wish they rather didn’t do
• windows updates breaking expected and unexpected things just as well
• linux is fragile regarding updates, though at times an immediate reboot solves it (when the issue is caused by incompatibility between the the on-disk and in-memory versions of the programs and program libraries)

but then how does it override the default only once?

KDE too, but those users who have literally no idea how does the computer work, they won’t even remember to check that popup window. an automatic solution is what is needed.

does it use efibootmgr? if so,how is it handled on BIOS systems?

you haven’t ran out of space, then

the article does not tell about how to keep the system up to date

all jira tickets regarding it has also been closed without a (real) response

they have been breaking the GDPR for years but it seems nobody cares. data mining is still an opt-out setting

for me it doesn’t work in telegram and notepad++, but does in word. this seems to be a program-specific feature though, not an os-specific one

I thought that’s a firefox exclusive feature. in which other programs did you see it work?

afaik USB can be used for serial, car diag programs often work like that too, so this might not be the problem

3 GB swap usage is usually very unpleasant in my experience when the swap is on a HDD. and no thabks, I won’t move the swap to the SSD to kill it earlier

19 GB cache is worthless after you have just moved a lot of files, large in total size. very few useful things remain in there, while your program will get swapped out unnecessarily

through a kernel parameter, or permanently through sysctl