It depends how your boot is setup
If you intially get the uefi boot (usually black screen) then try to search “removing entries from uefi boot in Linux”
If you directly get colorful screen then it could be grub and in this case u search for grub instead of uefi
But it also could be something else that is neither grub nor uefi, you really need to find out first what is your bootloader
The easiest solution is to format windows partition and mount it as separate mount point (for example /mnt/extra) and use it for storing any large files you have (movies, songs, books, photos, backups, downloaded files …)
Same here, battery running for years with no noticeable degradation
You’re right about memory limitation during compile time. my concern is the updates. you need to update system from time to time and doing the cloning might not be very practical.
Gentoo started providing binary packages (pre-compiled) for some software (that are common enough and take long time to compile).
Another thing: gentoo allow one computer to compile the packages specifically for another computer even if cpu architecture is different. that second computer then simply pull the compiled packages and download them.
https://waldolemmer.github.io/guides/gentoo/cross-cpu-binhost/
It used to be, but isn’t anymore. Try booting the Gentoo minimal install image for your arch instead.
Wow! I went on searching and sure enough sysrescuecd changed to ArchLinux 6 years ago. I had no idea
Why not give Gentoo a try?
It natively require you to compile the kernel which is perfect because you get to drop all the drivers and features you don’t need.
Gentoo package manager also compile every package in the system which is very slow but it gives you lot of control over what features you want from each package. You’re no longer required to install X server just because one package provide GUI support.
End result is less memory for kernel and less memory for most other apps. 256 should be doable but just to be sure try running “sysrescuecd” which is based on gentoo. first to see if it would work
In order to use this exploit you need a program that has UID bit set and the file owned by the user you want to use itheir privilages.
For example su (among other commands) has that UID bit set and because the owner of the file is root then when you execute it, it always runs with root privileges
Most Android devices use SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) which is configured in such way that you couldn’t have root access even if you could run a program owned by root and has the UID bit set.
What you could do - in theory - is finding a process already running with root privileges and happened to be executing certain command periodically. you could then override that certain program in cache using this exploit to do what you want.
I can at least tell you what it does because I tested it:
It override your /usr/bin/su so that it now let you run as root with no password.
My guess is that the payload is an su command that was modified to run without requiring password but it’s also possible - though unlikely - that it just patch your existing su.
either way if you will run the script, you need to backup your existing su command first.
Correction: The script doesn’t permanently modify the su file instead it modifies a cached copy of the file in memory. restarting your device or doing echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches to flush the cache restore the su file to its original state
Here it is after improving readability a little
there is no su binary in most android devices sadly
Regarding VPN being slow, two possibilities here:
If it is the first possibility, I know that OpenVPN with static key tend to be very difficult to detect if not impossible. Its also a bit faster but it has its cons that I encourage you to read about.
If it is the second possibility then you need to disguise your VPN traffic as https. I know its doable but I am fuzzy on the details.
I have started with Mandrake (later renamed to Mandriva) then went through few other distros before settling on Gentoo.
Gentoo installation is one of the most complicated because there is no installer, you do everything yourself.
This is like buying car parts and assembling them together into a car using a manufacturer’s manual. its painful but once the car is assembled you almost never have to take it to a repair shop. Not because it doesn’t breakdown but because you know well how it function and thus how to fix it yourself.
This is a law that companies are required to implement or stop making business in the states enforcing that law.
You probably feel that companies should just stop doing business in those states “to show them”. Sadly a lot of profitable Linux companies that fund Linux development disagree with your high morals. They want to continue doing business there.
Adding that field help those company comply with the law and doesn’t hurt you in anyway except maybe taking few bytes in your disk drive.
Even if the field is not added, those companies would come up with another place to store date of birth or even use systemd fork.
Its not like they will say since we can’t store date of birth in systemd’s user model then we’ll have to abandon this project and close our branches in those states instead.
I have read the git thread related to the merge request.
I don’t see what’s the big deal. You have a user model that already contain fields like user’s full name, location, … among others and all this developer did was adding yet another optional field called date of birth.
This does nothing to verify user’s age and enforce nothing. They’ve stressed that repeatedly in the comments.
What that does is making it easy for a Linux distro to store user’s birthday - should they wish to do so - and making that bit of info accessible to running apps so that each app can do what it wants with it.
User’s fullname and location are already there which are also optional so what’s the big deal?
are you able to ping a website? try this command “ping google.com” without quotes
if you press “Alt+F2” a popup should appear with a text field where you can type in a command like “terminal”
are you able to open terminal inside your KDE by any chance?
yes there is also windows 11 lite / tiny11 and yes I usually VirtualBox is fine.
you will find stripped down versions of windows (i.e windows 10 lite) with low ram consumption. I run windows 10 with 2GB of RAM. Of course if you will play games you would need a lot more than that.
Virtualmachines dont usually provide good experiance for graphics intense apps. I would strongly recommend wine or proton instead.
steam runs on Linux so if your games on steam you may not need windows.
Run this command
grep -ir ask ~/.config/k*see if there is any relevant file/line or just past the output somewhere and provide a link