The vast majority of dotfiles can be split into multiple documents. If you want to share but also put sensitive/personal information in some of them, just part the personal bits out into separate documents and maybe give them all an easy to filter suffix/prefix. Then just only publicly share the other files.
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If you don't plan to expand the swap partition, I would recommend just deleting the swap partition -- you could either make it a new ext4 and use LVM to combine it with the shared storage, or if you're going to combine your EFI partitions you could grow your Mint partition to include both the SUSE EFI and the swap partition -- and using a swap file instead, as another commenter mentioned. You honestly really don't need swap space regardless with 16gb of RAM if you're really just using this to run a web browser, but you can easily set up a swap file if you want one.
Tax software is basically all in browser at this point.
Is there any reason? You're effectively wasting half the drive by using that space for OSes you almost never use.
If you ever happen to need Windows, which I don't see happening as you yourself can't imagine an actual use case, you can just go to the library or borrow a friend's computer or maybe use your phone.
As for Mint, do you just have it to experiment with? If you're just trying to try out other distros, a virtual machine or even live USBs are much easier ways to quickly try out new systems without having to clear actual partitions.
If you had much more storage then sure, waste some of it, but you're really gonna be missing that 120gb if you use your computer for... basically anything.
The order of the partitions basically doesn't matter at this point -- I think having a boot partition first used to be important for MBR schemes but I'm pretty sure in the UEFI era you can have them in whatever order. As others have mentioned, you could combine your EFI partitions, but doing so to an already installed system is slightly complex. You also could shrink some of your EFI and boot partitions, I'm not sure of the recommended sizes off the top of my head but I think they could be smaller. On the other hand, your swap partition should probably be bigger -- making it the same size as your RAM is a good rule of thumb and will enable hibernation (I think).
Oh it almost certainly won't save you time unless you already know Nix and how the ecosystem works. But it does make rolling back to previous configurations basically effortless, which seems like it would obviate your need for a full staging drive.
Sounds like you could benefit from NixOS ;)
Note: the growing the partition from a live USB thing is only necessary if you want it all to be one partition. If it's a separate drive, or even if it's not, you can just format the old Windows partition/drive and mount it as a new storage volume.
Advertising should be illegal. Huge waste of money and everyone's time.
Ahh well one day you'll learn to apply the same critical thinking skills to intangibles.
Yes indeed, providing for all is basically the same as genocide.
I know that and you know that, but have you seen the sort of thing Trump and those who have his ear think is a good idea?
I don't think they'd just ban using all open source software, it'd be something ridiculous like asserting that all FOSS licenses are null and void and those projects are now the intellectual property of the US. Likely propped up by the classic "security" justification.
You seem to be handwaving all concerns about the actual tech, but I think the fact that "training" is literally just plagiarism, and the absolutely bonkers energy costs for doing so, do squarely position LLMs as doing more harm than good in most cases.
The innocent tech here is the concept of the neural net itself, but unless they're being trained on a constrained corpus of data and then used to analyze that or analogous data in a responsible and limited fashion then I think it's somewhere on a spectrum between "irresponsible" and "actually evil".