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  • I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn’t bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.





  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWindows eats partitions
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    1 year ago

    In my experience (W11 + Fedora on UEFI Thinkpad), I’ve seen it actually get rid of the Fedora entry from the UEFI boot list. Reinstalling GRUB from chroot didn’t fix it, so I used EasyUEFI and manually added the Fedora EFI file to the boot list and that worked.

    So it wasn’t simply changing the boot order, it actually nuked Fedora from the UEFI boot list.













  • You’d know if you need one if you’ve got unknown/unidentified devices in the Device Manager. But these days, you should be able to get most of your drivers directly from Windows Update. Since you’ve got your WiFi working already, you should just run a Windows Update and install any optional updates. You can also go to the Device Manager > Right click on any unknown device > Install Driver and select Windows Update as the source.

    Also, ideally it’s best to install drivers from the laptop manufacturer’s website, as it’ll be a better match for your hardware. Only install from Intel etc if the system manufacturer’s driver is quite oudated (usually the case if the laptop is a few years old and out of support), or if there’s a critical vulnerability in the driver which justifies doing the update.




  • Mini all-in-one PC are expensive, just buy a used/refurbished regular PC. If you want, you can get them in SFF (Small Form Factor), which are still upgradable and a better option than AIOs. Here are some results on eBay for reference.

    I’d recommend getting AMD because of their excellent Linux support and overall better gaming performance. Also, you don’t need a dedicated GPU for playing old games, even more so since AMD’s integrated GPU is a lot better than Intel’s, and works better on Linux too.

    But it you want to play current games, you’ll need a dedicated GPU, and that $250 budget isn’t going to cut it unfortunately. However, you always have the option of buying a cheap used GPU later on, when you’ve got some cash to spare. But for now, if you focus on older games then the integrated GPU on an AMD will do fine.