And there’s the typical non-answer…

There wasn’t any question asked in the thread I replied to.

“just use fstab”

What I actually said was:

You can just run a mount command for your drive on startup as root.

Which is significant because its less verbose than the fstab

a helpful answer would read something like; To auto mount drives on Bazzite open terminal and type…

Its not a given that someone would know how to automount disks in X desktop environment. One can’t provide a step-by-step process on something they do not know.

Same could’ve once been said about a free OS like Linux. Now it is absolutely possible, with the downsides shrinking bit by bit.

The goal of 100% free is one I support. And these people are working to make it possible.

All fstab does is provide data for the mount command. Typically your OS just runs something like mount -a on boot and it mounts all the filesystems as listed in the fstab.

You can just run a mount command for your drive on startup as root. It would be doing essentially the same thing and its quite simple even for a new CLI user.

(DBus-based?)

Yeah. iwd even has this issue where it needs you to run a system dbus (presumably so regular users can configure network and the admin can apply dbus polices) even if you do everything as root. No dbus, no function.

Not good.

Simple solution is to use cryptsetup to encrypt it, forget the key, and optionally overwrite the first megabyte or so of the disk (where the LUKS header is).

If such a project were to become compromised (the way XZ-Utils was), it would eventually spread to Ventoy.

What a lot of people don’t know is that the XZ attack entirely relied on binary blobs: Partially in the repo as binary test files, and partially in only the github release (binary).

If someone actually built it from source, they weren’t vulnerable. So contrary to some, it wasn’t a vulnerability that was in plain view that somehow passed volunteer review.

This is why allowing binary data in open-source repos should be heavily frowned upon.

It’s not about features…it’s about ease of use.

Its absolutely about both features and ease of use. If your program doesn’t do what people want from it, then good luck.

Its also irrelevant to talk about considering I have used IRC and highly doubt that people are going to consider it easier to use than discord.

For instance, Discord shouldn’t be a thing since IRC exists, but Discord exists and is very successful.

IRC lacks a massive amount of features that discord users typically want. Screensharing, VCs with group and camera support, built-in history (don’t need to use a bouncer like on IRC), built-in online GIF searcher and sender with one click, huge community of bots that use discord’s API to do anything from games to moderation.

It isn’t even close.

Really Linux distros just didn’t work with it right out of the box…

From what I’ve read, this is misleading. Default secureboot within Windows will only boot a bootloader signed with Microsoft’s key. Although Microsoft does seem to provide a signing service for signing with their keys, this is at their mercy. Windows made a change that broke booting alternative operating systems unless they use a service that Windows provides to fix it, or disable secureboot.

The “I hate change.” Mindset.

Or maybe it’s extra complexity that often leads to the first recommendation to fixing Linux not booting being “disable secureboot” and how this is an extra hurdle to jump through for new users. As well as increased likelihood of problems, due to secureboot.

They do, their alternatives are…

So they don’t.

…not the worker who has to live under the policy.

They don’t have to work there.

Until we end tipping culture, tip your servers.

If everyone continues to tip by default, then I believe this will delay or prevent an end to the culture. If servers don’t have an issue with tipping (because everyone does so), then there is less reason to support change.

If one person doesn’t tip:

You’re just an asshole.

If a large majority doesn’t tip:

Maybe there is a problem with tipping by default?

Sounds like flatpaks/appimages with extra steps.

I’m fairly sure the complexity of flatpak/appimage solutions are far more than the static linking of a binary (at least on non-glibc systems). Its often a single flag (Ex: -static) that builds the DLLs into the binary, not a whole container and namespace.

The question should by why you’d want to.

Because the application working is more important than the downsides in my case. Its quite useful for an application which hasn’t been updated in a long time, will never receive updates again, or doesn’t work in my nonstandard environment.

I have had older applications fail to function due to DLL hell.

You can modify the keybinds in software too. You would need to change your console keymap (TTY) and your desktop environment keybindings. Programmable keyboard is most likely easier though.

I played around with it and changed both to just use F1 = tty1 and so on, without requiring CTRL+ALT.

Your needs must be different than mine.

I press one button combination and have root without ever entering a password. I press a similar combination and go back. Not sure how this is a pain in the ass.

All I do is have agetty --autologin root tty2 linux run as a service. It launches on startup, and I just hit CTRL + ALT + F2 if I ever need a root shell.

All its doing is just auto logging-in as root on TTY2.

From what I’ve read, no. Though it doesn’t solve the fundamental problem of a root process handling untrusted input from a regular user.

The TTY method is IMO better as it ties privileges to a piece of physical hardware, bypassing the complexities of userspace elevation of privileges.

The nosuid mount option disables this behavior per mount. Just be sure you don’t use suid binaries.

Example: sudo or doas. I replaced those with switching to a tty with an already open root account on startup. Generally faster and (for me) more secure (you need physical access to get to the tty).

…decided it was evil to suggest to people showing non-cis traits or behaviors that they, indeed, may not be cis.

From the sources I found, most people take the “Egg Prime Directive” to mean asserting someone’s identify is wrong, not suggesting explanations for how they feel.