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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's funny to mention NMS, as what I've heard from most people is that you'd have money AND get more value by buying that particular today over Starfield

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago

There are a ton that have weird fucking usernames. I was confused at first why my Bluetooth was showing BobByJimSmith4345 as the "artist" after telling it to play a song, but yeah they'll pretty much just look whatever up by name from YouTube and play it.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Once but it was a long time ago

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Glad it worked for you. Your could also try and of the recovery options after booting from a Windows ISO. I think there are a few things that can do there that aren't in the boot-failure recovery menus.

If not, then at least your data is safe for a reinstall

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can boot the VM from a liveCD ISO and then mount the drives to extract files (share a USB storage device to easily get them off). You could also add a second virtual disk, put an NTFS partition on it (within the VM) and copy to that if you plan to rebuild the OS drive.

If you need the offsets of the partitions you could also mount them from the disk image directly via a loopback device, but that's a bit more complicated.

When dealing with Windows either on bare metal or VMs, I've often found it useful to store my more important data on a second disk so that I can easily back it up and it will survive across a wipe+reinstall of the OS.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So essentially it's running a single computer we if it were two seperate workstations?

I could see an implementation that's similar to those running a VM with a DGPU for gaming. User A could run a login against the primary GPU and OS. User B could run a VM with several cores allocated and the secondary GPU dedicated to the VM. If any shared did file resources in the primary OS are needed, KVM has ways to do that as well.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

xrdp tends to work well enough, and plays nicely with both the windows remote desktop application and various Linux clients

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The only thing that continues to bug me about this particular device is why they included a slot for a cellular card but not microSD

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Also, the iFrame is particularly asshole'ish in that the original author's site is still out the bandwidth for content, but somebody else is making money off it.

I fully support his response. Personally, I'd love to see the same done to certain scraper-bots

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No, it's a user problem on both OS's. Installing random shit from untrustworthy sources is a much more likely source of infection that a zero-day, network-based exploit, etc

Not every OS allows you to simply click on a random installer/eventually (maybe enter a password) and get owned. IOS on phones doesn't. Android requires you enable untrusted sources.

It sounds like not including a GUI app by default to click-install random packages (outside the package manager) is the extra step for various Linux distros. That's not a problem, that's a good idea.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Try command line?

dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb

That's likely an app just not installed by default for GUI

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago
  • Login as a user.
  • Delete the user while still logged in
  • Run command

You should get a message "you don't exist, go away"

Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with "deluser $USER" and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that

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