Mandrake -> Whatever came on the Linux Magazine CD -> Backtrack -> Arch

According to the Arch Wiki, it’s the driver recommended by NVIDIA and, anecdotally, I was having issues in Wayland and with gamescope/HDR until I switched to the nvidia-open drivers.

yay -S nvidia-open

I read it as “This is a silly Android thing that I don’t have to deal with because I use custom roms”.

I use Graphene and use this feature, but I can understand why it would seem silly to some people and I can think of use cases where you wouldn’t want it to happen (like using your phone as a security device with Haven (https://github.com/guardianproject/haven)) installed.

Most Android users don’t understand the BFU/AFU states and the security implications, it is good that default android is including a sane security default that’ll be pushed out to the standard Android users.

Welcome to the club :)

It is not enough to lock the phone.

An advanced attacker that has access to forensic imaging tools can pull data off of your phone as long as it has been unlocked the first time after boot.

There are some models and some OSs (like Graphene on the newest Pixels) that are safe, for the time being, in AFU mode. You still want to power the phone off if you have the chance.

In your friend’s situation, his phone can be powered, isolated from RF to prevent remote wiping and kept in a lock state in order to preserve the keys in memory until an exploit is found for that model. If the OS automatically reboots after 3 days, it prevents this kind of attack.

You want to do this even with custom roms.

Having your phone automatically go into the BFU state ensures that there’s only a small window for a thief to extract data from your phone.

If you ever think your phone is about to be stolen or seized you want to power it off for this exact reason.

I learned how to make a dual boot machine first.

My friend wanted to get me to install it, but he had a 2nd machine to run Windows on. So we figured out how to dual boot.

And then we learned how to fix windows boot issues 😮‍💨

We mostly did it for the challenge. Those Linux Magazine CDs with new distros and software were a monthly challenge of “How can I install this and also not destroy my ability to play Diablo?”

I definitely have lost at least one install to getting stuck in vim, flailing the keyboard and writing garbage data into a critical config file before rebooting.

Modern Linux is amazing in comparison, you can use it for essentially any task and it still has a capacity for customization that is astonishing.

The early days were interesting if you like getting lost in the terminal and figuring things out without a search engine. Lots of trial and error, finding documentation, reading documentation, etc.

It was interesting, but be glad you have access to modern Linux. There’s more to explore, better documentation, and the capabilities that you can pull in are still astonishing.

If you’re using KDE, look at KDE Connect: https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect

OP is a newbie and is externalizing his lack of knowledge.

A 747 would seem like a death trap if a toddler were given control but there, as here, it isn’t the plane that’s the problem.

Coming from Windows, Linux (especially when only talking about GUI environments) seems to not tell you anything about your problems. Eventually you learn how to find the relevant logs and the problems seem less arbitrary.

Ah, you’re one of my users

That’s the downside of having a group of millions of people, you can’t moderate it like a community of people.

In a community of someone is acting out you can talk to them and try to engage. If there are hundreds of thousands of people, you don’t have the time or energy and have to resort to brute force methods.

People always complain about the size of non-mainstream social media sites. They don’t seem to realize that social networks are far higher quality when they are small. They’re just not as economically valuable to the corporation that owns the servers.

If you’re old, and used the Internet when it was young, before smartphones brought everyone online and converted the Internet into a theme park, you’d remember the forum communities.

It used to be that, when you’d search for a topic online, you’d find a forum full of enthusiastic people that were passionate about a topic. It was such a great time, you could have a conversation with actual experts and receive good advice from human beings.

That’s all been replaced by subreddits full of millions of people spamming memes and bots pretending to be humans that REALLY LOVE a specific product (this sentence brought to you by NordBPN).

Because the Internet was smaller and was made up of select demographics.

Now, something that’s completely unacceptable to some of the population won’t even register with the majority.

Me too nephew, me too

No, this is Patrick

That’s pretty close, the Permissive Action Link code was 00000000 for about 20 years.

This hamster is clearly in the know…