They can, yes. You’ll need an experienced psychologist to diagnose that, probably. At least it’s not me, too insecure to answer honestly, instead thinking about the “socially correct” answer, because mine would be either too telling or a cringe reference.

It should be fine, as long as you’re not using one of these ancient bootloaders.

The volume recovery key for Linux is the LUKS key, yes. You should have that stored somewhere, you can’t view it iirc. The volume key for Windows is the BitLocker Recovery Key. If you’ve signed in with a Microsoft account, it’s stored in the cloud, otherwise you should have that printed out, too.

You don’t die in Elite. You escape in an escape pod and are recovered by the PFRR. Honestly, it’s a good universe (if you can afford the ship). You have infinite insurance without any reputation repercussions and with an absurdly small copay, can go anywhere you want, and can actually earn money instead of living your entire life doing the same monotonous job. Even smuggling, piracy, assault and attempted murder (Odyssey’s “death” message implies life-endangering injuries) is forgiven by a very short time in jail and a fine. Also tuning your craft is allowed and in part encouraged.

Turing Complete’s main character was abducted by aliens, who threaten to kill them if they don’t prove intelligent by learning how to build a computer.

Unlike Google, Lemmy (and Mastodon etc.) are FLOSS, so if one instance enshittifies, we can move, even to different ones, fediblock that instance, and continue on. This is the problem with Bluesky: You cannot (realistically) self-host all the ATProto infrastructure, or federate with anyone while not using some service from Bluesky.

DDG allows you to disable ads and AI in the settings!

And unlike most „forbidden characters“ for file names, the colon is actually used in NTFS: to separate the file path from the name of a named fork Alternate Data Stream.

How do I do that with the SSD cache? Everyone just talks about it, but I can’t find any documentation…

I have them at home and as such don‘t need to spend money on them.

Follow up question: Do I need a separate CPU cooler, or is the boxed Wraith enough? And how loud is it? I can’t really find info on that.

The NAS drives are here because they are from an old NAS which only uses a cheap dual-core Intel, has 2G of RAM, and boots from eMMC. So anything would be an upgrade…

I personally use a TPM with Measured Boot (so it doesn‘t give the key to external disks), and have a YubiKey and password as fallback options.