The 800M series is first generation Maxwell architecture, if that is your question (basically slightly upgraded processors from the 700 series rebranded for mobile). All but the early 860M which is still Kepler for some reason. Nvidia numbering is weird.

I don’t know if Fedora (or plasma) do things differently but the normal default is that you need sudo to reboot/shutdown/etc.

Then on basically all distros using systemd this behavior is modified via logind session and polkit. So the first thing to look at would be if a shutdown rule exists in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ that allow users in a certain group to shutdown/reboot in the first place.

Mine looks like this:

/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-shutdown.rules
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if ((action.id == "shutdown" ||
action.id == "reboot") &&
subject.isInGroup("wheel"))
{
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});

So every user in the wheel group can do it without password prompt. Without this UI elements for shutdown/reboot will try assuming they have the right but simply fail.

• Arch

• 7.1.6

• “the past few days”

Those 3 don’t go together…

Edit: Oh, wow… Scrap that.

I completely missed that the main kernel is still stuck on 7.1.6 as even the RealTime one usually lagging behind is on 7.1.8 already.

That being said I have seen comments about fixes to AMD GPUs in 7.1.8. So how about testing it with that kernel?

No, all those tech idiots are actually trying to destroy the world then rule over the ruins from their secure luxury bunkers and islands. Maximized disruption and destructive tendencies backfiring from time to time is just a side effect.

The fat32 formated partitions are EFI System Partitions used to boot your PC. I assume that sda3 is the one Windows created, while a later Linux install created sda5 as an alternative. Yet sda5 doesn’t seem to be really used (with that cute 9MB used), so your Linux boot stuff -including a bootloader that would allow you to start Windows (or you picking directly from EFI?)- is probably all sitting alongside Windows’ EFI stuff in sda3.

In fact I wouldn’t touch anything there without some backup.

A platform platform…

Yes, the older ones of the rotating backups are still readable.

But that’s not even the actual problem nowadays: CDs and DVDs were nice when their size was still relevant in comparison to usual amounts of data. The real problem behind their decay is that we are lacking a widely available, properly scaled backup solution for more than a decade. So the mean reason people have now unreadable optical data is that they stopped thinking about it a long time ago for an utter lack of options.

• yes

• yes

• only if your hardware agrees and you can do without some features

• as just an init system: no, but you get a much more complete package

• who cares?

with Cinnamon DE: very Windows-esque UI

While I support the general advice, “very Windows-esque UI” is not a benefit for less tech-literate people. It’s the former Windows-users that conditioned themselves to expect Windows UI with all it’s shortcomings. The average elderly relative who doesn’t use anything but ~3 pre-installed programs does not care normally and can get much eaiser and more intutive UIs than those close to Windows.

Yes, the system expects regular updating. But Arch is entirely pragmatic. What has enough popularity and a mainainer to do the work will be kept in the repositories, even more if you include the AUR (also stuff moving between them when popularity and/or demand of packages changes). And because it is constantly moving on with new packages a lot is kept in parallel: There are a lot of packages in the repos in different versions, one being cutting edge, one being the lower version dependency for other packages not upgraded yet.

For reference: Yes, Arch for example expected you to update to the new open source NVIDIA drivers the day NVIDIA dropped the Volta, Pascal and Maxwell cards (GTX 1080 and below). But at the same moment the nvidia-580xx driver was introduced to the AUR, including explicitly being supported officially still. And the same happened every time a set of hardware got dropped (nvidia-470, nvidia-390, nividia-340), still kept unofficially for legacy reasons as long as it’s technically feasible. So I can in fact still run graphics cards from 2006 20 years later…

Or for another example: Yes, Arch runs kernel 7.0.12 right now and updates the kernel on a weekly basis. Yet it also has the LTS version 6.18 (guaranteed to get support until end of 2028 upstream) fully supported in the repos. And again, including the AUR I can still run the oldest still officially supported (until end of this year) long-term-support Linux kernel 5.10.

And those are basically the most extreme examples in terms of losing support, one being the constantly developed core of the whole system, the other on proprietary drivers of a private company. Otherwise the amount of 1990s tech still support by Linux is actually insane.

— Written on an ancient toaster (AMD FX series from 2011, gtx750ti from 2014, non-EFI motherboard) running Arch… which nowadays runs -given: older- games with better performance than years ago, because “the newest stuff” does introduce constant improvements and optimisation instead of new drains on your ressources like you are used to because they want you to buy new stuff.

While I understand the idea in general Tux, the penguin, is basically freely available, do whatever you want with it, and you are explicitly encouraged to integrate the design into Linux related projects… as long as you mention the author should someone ask (source)

I wouldn’t even buy a pre-fabricated sticker but do one myself. But that wasn’t the question…

PS: the Impressum here or here, down at the bottom labeled “Impressum”?

https://www.linux-shop.info/aufkleber/maxi-aufkleber/maxi-sticker-tux-pinguin?number=LI18700.9

oder

https://www.linux-fan-shop.de/aufkleber/maxi-aufkleber/maxi-sticker-tux-pinguin?number=LI18700.9

You could click the link already provided above. Just the Table of Contents at the top gives you a good overview about issues with Brave without reading anything else…

Debian daring to suggest that using your real name to identify yourself on the system is a reasonable choice for most people. So get the torches and pitchforks…

Also don’t tell those people about the fact that such fields for additional information (like real name, address etc) exist in most user-handling parts of their software since forever.

You get asked for your real name when creating a new user for longer than Linux even exists. It’s just that noone actually cares. But now that’s suddenly an horrific anti privacy policy because the narrative demand that it is.

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Occasionally I need to run an “occ” command after an install to fix some indexes

That then fails and breaks it (in about 1 out of 3 cases). Which requires rolling back everything, running the commands again pre-update, then updating and praying to not have to do another re-install (~ 1 out of 5).

I actually moved away from classical self-hosted cloud storage solutions after trying the usual suspects like opencloud, nextcloud etc.

And for me the time and effort (also the ressource-hogging if you don’t use quite overpowered servers) just weren’t worth it. Not when the used interfaces most of the time are open standards anyway and simpler solutions do the job:

Radicale for contacts and dates via a webdav subset. Webdav concidently being widely supported for integrating online storage into any filesystem (or as the backend for several other things like for example syncing my bookmarks over several devices and browsers). SFTP or the million tools being just a frontend for it.

One shiny platform like for example Nextcloud to do it all might be nice for a lot of users when they have someone dedicated to maintain it. But for selfhosting (as in: mainly for myself) the constant attention needed to fix stuff was quite tedious.

When I think of “Google Drive” or “Dropbox” alternatives nowadays it’s just a drive hooked up to some low-spec device and accessed via one (or several) already existing open standards.

(Bonus point: that lost phone is simply cut off by deleting its keys - unlike so many dedicated platform where you have to manage -if you even can- multiple dedicated users and their rights just to easily separate your personal access from your devices that are by design not all equally secure.)

Productivity is such a bullshit idea… Like how do you measure productivity? In GDP?

Yes, but normalised for buying power and per capita. Where I live the last several decades saw an increase by +250% in normalised economic output per capita, while at the same time real normalised wages stayed the same. Which marks a stark decoupling of economic output and wages (thus usually also pensions, taxes (public budgets), sometimes health care - all linked to wages) that did not exist before. What happens to all those gains? They get transfered upwards to a few rich people, while the system is now only based on less than a third of the economic output… Alas! “We can’t afford proper pensions, social security or even just maintaining the existing infrastructure anymore” is the most sang song everywhere the neoliberal insanity rules.

And alongside it come fairy tales about demographics (how should the working people afford double the amount of people that need support? easy… when everyone of them is 6x as productive -> see output per capita still more than 3 times as high) and a lot of agitation pitting the “lazy stupid youth” against the “greedy old generation” when in reality they get all fucked over by the same small minority (with the old ones just having a better buffer because they already worked when the system wasn’t that broken).

Long story short: Industrialisation killed so many jobs… but in reality the people still working suddenly made enough to provide for the rest because of massive production gains (and so children didn’t need to work anymore, women could stay home and raise the kids etc). Automation killed so many jobs, yet again the actual productivity per capita massively increased. In general development of tech but also society happened and increased life expectancy as well as productivity side by side. And now we are talking about the impact of AI. Guess what… the problem is again not AI. It’s having changed the system to the point where workers get exactly nothing from productivity gains because we need to push imaginary stock market numbers and shareholder profits instead. Well done Reagan, Mulroney, Thatcher, Mitterand, Kohl and countless others…

Yes, when I’m talking about automation from the industrial revolution to the development of AI, the third world is obviously not the focus.

Not that would be sad with it gone, but we had capitalism decades ago and the system still worked for the most parts. It’s the neoliberal lunacy pushed on us since the 80s/90s (depending on country).