at the wm here, if you even look at the scanner cross-eyed, it sounds the alarms and halts the register until the babysitter can come over, review the footage and unlock it. if anything passes anywhere in the cameras’ very wide fov and a scan isn’t registered… anything… it stops.

they got sam’s club-like checkers at the exits, now, too. anything not in a bag gets ‘checked’… at least that’s what we’ve concluded is their criteria, based on when we have been stopped trying to leave.

me thinks they’ve had a slight uptick in ‘customer-applied discounts’ lately.

sidekicks in '09. had so many users here affected.

never again.

when the orange turd says ‘make argentina great again’, does he mean when nazis fled there after ww2 to avoid prosecution?

in the live linux mint environment, gparted or disks should give you a clue. if it just shows zero space free for that partition or can’t mount it, it probably is–go into windows, disable device encryption and let it complete that process. while you’re waiting for that, find the rest of the power options (in control panel–via ‘windows tools’ in win11) and disable ‘fast startup’.

is your windows encrypted?

which tends to be the case for the release before an lts.

easy to use gui backup utilities (like pika and déjà dup) can also encrypt its backups

if your system uses full disk encryption (such as via LUKS) and you simply copy files off to an external or a secondary drive for a ‘backup’, no. the copy is not encrypted unless the destination has encryption set up on it, too.

the alternative would be using a backup program, instead of a simply file copy, that encrypts its backups.

that was probably the issue. drm support in browsers is usually disabled by default on linux, but enabled on windows.

the odd cases where one still didn’t work on linux, a simple useragent addon in firefox to flip it to windows has usually worked.

but then, even when it is working, linux clients often still get a lesser product as the streaming sites like to reserve higher quality video to clients with os-level drm, restricting linux to 720p or even 480p.

i know the difference. this was active, in-use memory. the half-dozen dell items uninstalled and their many, many processes, used that much.

I don’t have any more drives to test this out

you have a drive from a budget-tier vendor. it could very easily a glitchy drive. the only way to know is to replace it with something else.

RARs might have been originally sourced from ‘elsewhere’, that place where the first rule is to not talk about it.

i use some of those low power soc laptops, running with lid closed (heat is basically a non-issue), for pihole, white noise, and a few other ‘little’ things. one of 'em is even running stuff in VMs (the rest are debian-based dietpi).

and all the oem bundleware. i knocked-down fresh boot idle active ram usage from 5.5gb to 3.5gb on a new dell desktop just by uninstalling anything that had ‘dell’ in the name.

that a ryzen 2200g with 16gb ram, nvme, and usb-c is ‘unsupported’ is total bullshit. i just pulled one from service. meanwhile, i just ‘upgraded’ a 10th gen celeron desktop, and some even-worse gemini lake laptops, all with hdd (except one with a massive 64gb emmc chip) to 11.

(that ryzen is now rocking silverblue and looking for a new forever home)

it pretty much depends on what their distribution agreements have in them–there could be something in there that requires monthly or longer terms for subscribers. if there isn’t, there sure af will be from now on for streaming services carrying ‘cable’ channels

cinnamint is great. i think you may have already found what to put on the ‘main pc’.

if you’re at all interested in ‘atomic’ variants, kinoite is what is running a couple of kde desktops here.

did you just drop the full index into the config, like the ‘how to use’ image shows in the repo’s ‘readme’? take that out, it’s all 10,000+ ‘channels’. go into the repo’s ‘streams’ directory and find one or a few for your country and add those instead (load the ‘raw’ url for each in the browser, then copy the resulting address from your browser address bar into the config).

“hey cortana, slo-mo!”

a bag of popcorn set to 30 minutes instead of 3 might be all it takes and is an ‘innocent’ mistake anyone could make.