It’s not monitored for security patches as it gets all the latest stuff anyways pretty quickly, security patches (and new vulnerabilities) included. It’s just not meant to be hardened nor rock solid as it’s excactly what it claims to be: development branch of the whole project. That doesn’t mean it’s insecure by default, it just works differently from stable releases where security patches are provided for years after official release.

Our previous president son is on the files. There was a news article where he explained that Epstein had contacted him for fundraising or some other legal thing and they met somewhere once for a short while but that’s all. There was also other finns, like one young woman who applied for an assistant job on some of his businesses but didn’t get hired.

So, while there’s a crapload of people who should be convicted and thrown in a jail there’s also a ton of people who don’t have anything to do with pedo-ring or anything else. Good to keep in mind that having someones name on the files alone doesn’t mean too much.

And just to avoid any confusion, if you are mentioned in the files more than Jesus is mentioned on the bible it’s not an accident or one time thing. Allegedly that applies at least to Trump and there should be a small and dark cell somewhere ready.

Run the command and it all dies.

And all of your data on that machine is gone as well.

What errors excactly? Copy and paste what you’re getting from your terminal. Also post output of ‘df -h’.

What kind of errors you’re getting? First what you can try is to run ‘dpkg --configure -a’. If that doesnt help we need more information on what’s going on.

It wasn’t for nothing, you got some learning out of the experience and a story to tell. Good luck with the new system, maybe hold upgrading that to testing for a while, there’s plenty to break and fix even without extra quirks from non-stable distribution :)

Have fun and feel free to ask for help again, I and others will be around to share what we’ve learned on our journeys.

There’s a walkman model which is pretty much just that which runs some flavour of android but I don’t know who they think their customer base is as the pricing is absolutely stupid. Top of the line model has gold plating and a nice 4k price tag. Also it apparently has ‘oxygen free copper’ and other audiophile bullshit, but no FM tuner.

And then there’s a ton of similar products from China but no idea which models (if any) are actually useful.

Rootfs location is passed via kernel parameter, for example my grub.cfg has “set root=‘hd4,msdos1’”. That’s used by kernel and initramfs to locate the root filesystem and once ‘actual’ init process starts it already has access to rootfs and thus access to fstab. Initramfs update doesn’t affect on this case, however verifying kernel boot parameters might be a good idea.

Just in case you end up with reinstallation, I’d suggest using stable release for installation. Then, if you want, you can upgrade that to testing (and have all the fun that comes with it) pretty easily. But if you want something more like rolling release, Debian testing isn’t really it as it updates in cycles just like the stable releases, it just has a bit newer (and potentially broken) versions until the current testing is frozen and eventually released as new stable and the cycle starts again. Sid (unstable) version is more like a rolling release, but that comes even more fun quirks than testing.

I’ve used all (stable/testing/unstable) as a daily driver at some point but today I don’t care about rolling releases nor bleeding edge versions of packages, I don’t have time nor interest anymore to tinker with my computers just for the sake of it. Things just need to work and stay out of my way and thus I’m running either Debian stable or Mint Debian edition. My gaming rig has Bazzite on it and it’s been fine so far but it’s pretty fresh installation so I can’t really tell how it works in the long run.

I’d argue that if the plan is to run Debian testing it’s at the very least beneficial, if not mandatory, to learn some basics of the terminal. Debian doesn’t ship with sudo by default, so it’s either logging in directly as root or ‘su’. Instead of vim (which I’d personally use) I’d suggest nano, but with live setup it’s also possible to use mousepad or whatever gui editor happens to be available.

I suppose it’d be possible to use gparted or something to dig up the same information over GUI but I don’t have debian testing (nor any other live distro) at hand to see what’s available on it. I’m pretty sure at least stable debian installs with UUIDs by default, but I haven’t used installer from testing in a “while” so it might be different.

The way I’d try to solve this kind of problem would be to manually mount stuff from busybox and start bash from there to get “normal” environment running and then fix fstab, but it’s not the most beginner friendly way and requires some prior knowledge.

Do you happen to have any USB (or other) drives attached? Optical drive maybe? In the first text block kernel suggests it found ‘sdc’ device which, assuming you only have ssd and hdd plugged in and you haven’t used other drives in the system, should not exist. It’s likely your fstab is broken somehow, maybe a bug in daily image, but hard to tell for sure. Other possibility is that you still have remnants of Mint on EFI/whatever and it’s causing issues, but assuming you wiped the drives during installation that’s unlikely.

Busybox is pretty limited, so it might be better to start the system with a live-image on a USB and verify your /etc/fstab -file. It should look something like this (yours will have more lines, this is from a single-drive, single-partition host in my garage):

# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=e93ec6c1-8326-470a-956c-468565c35af9 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=19f7f728-962f-413c-a637-2929450fbb09 none            swap    sw              0       0

If your fstab has things like /dev/sda1 instead of UUID it’s fine, but those entries are likely pointing to wrong devices. My current drive is /dev/sde instead of comments on fstab mentioning /dev/sda. With the live-image running you can get all the drives from the system running ‘lsblk’ and from there (or running ‘fdisk -l /dev/sdX’ as root, replace sdX with actual device) you can find out which partition should be mounted to what. Then run ‘blkid /dev/sdXN’ (again, replace sdXN with sda1 or whatever you have) and you’ll get UUID of that partition. Then edit fstab accordingly and reboot.

I don’t really follow what’s going on between different distributions as Debian has been my workhorse for decades, but a few weeks ago out of curiosity I threw bazzite on a desktop which was left ower due to work changes and that hardware is now just for gaming. Installation was pretty much just next-next-next and it after boot there was a steam login window ready to go. Every game in my library so far has been just as flawless experience than with windows, if not even better. I don’t have any the new AAA-titles and I’m not a fan of any online-multiplayers, so YMMV. For Epic I installed Heroic-launcher and (atleast games I’ve tested so far) everything works.

~/autoclean and a cron job to delete everything older than 7+ days from there. I can just download whatever, throw it in a special folder and it’s gone after few days. Keeps my ~/Downloads a bit more clean, easy to store temp txt files to keep track of what I currently have on hand and so on.

It’s kinda-sorta social problem, but originally not the way you intend. It used to be possible to self host XMPP and chat with people regardless of the platform since both Google and Facebook (it wasn’t Meta at the time) adopted the protocol. But then they changed their policy and created the walled gardens they have now and thus it’s a social and/or political problem.

They fully followed the playbook of Embrace-Extend-Extinguish which eleijeep@piefed.social mentioned few messages up the thread and pretty much devastated XMPP out of existence. Sure, there’s still handful of users and project itself isn’t dead, but before their policy change I saw quite a lot of servers around which are now either dead or forgotten.

On a previous comment I didn’t mean to describe that as a technological problem but a problem related to big corporations embracing FOSS projects/protocols and killing them by introducing their own walled garden variant of it.

It’s not really a same thing. I can’t reach my mother or neighbor over fediverse since they don’t know nor care what that is. But they use whatsapp, facebook and other stuff which are in their own walled gardens and there’s no option to communicate to those gardens with anything I self host.

And trying to convince everyone to switch is not a battle I’m actively fighting for multiple reasons. Of course I mention signal, fediverse and everything to anyone who’s willing to listen, but those encounters are pretty rare.

See Jabber/XMPP for an example.

There was a (short) time when I could chat with my friends on google hangouts (or whatever that was called back then) and facebook messaging via my own xmpp server. It was pretty cool and somehow felt like that’s the way things should be. Like email today (even if every big player is trying to destroy that too).

Maybe in some version of the future we’ll get that back.

But it’s not ‘gaming’, it’s ‘learning’. And for all of those there’s plenty of walktroughs around if you get stuck. I’m currently playing the newest Monkey island and it has the spirit of old titles, but it has a ‘hint book’ where you can just practically skip puzzles you can’t figure answer for. That one relies heavily on the old games at the story tho, so it may not be the best one to start with.

But yeah, that might be a concern. You can try a lot of those out at Internet Archive before setting up a dosbox, so it’s atleast cheap to try and see how it goes.

Get old LucasArts SCUMM games for them. Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Day of the Tentacle and so on. With those you need to understand English for both understanding the story and to actually progress the game.

Scratch is good, but if you want something with a bit of syntax search for Basic256 (or any other basic interpreter). There’s also games like Autonauts which have basic programming in them (altough Autonauts gets pretty complex on higher levels).

I always killed processes with ps -ef | grep <process-name>

From top man-page global commands:

• k :Kill-a-task

       You will be prompted for a PID and then the signal to send.