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2:37:09 The reason they’re fixing search is because they don’t need to pad Bing Search numbers anymore. Investors care more about Copilot.
No anti cheat = no Linux for me yet
I think Linux people don't talk about Mint much because it's kind of boring, because it mostly just works. Which is why it's a great option for first timer Windows refugees. My 74 year old dad moved over with my help last year and he likes it. Just needed some help with language support in LibreOffice, that wasn't a simple task for sure.
I really wouldn't recommend using NTFS on Linux. It just makes life harder for the short term benefit of not having to switch.
The reason for NTFS problems in Linux is when/if NTFS or exFat drive gets corrupted, and it happens a lot for external drives, then problems occurs at Linux because Linux cannot fix the NTFS drive properly. That's why using NTFS at Linux is not recommended because repair options are limited with it. Linux can read and write NTFS without a problem but it can't repair properly if it gets corrupted
My only problem with Mint is that my laptop speakers sound terrible. No problems with headphones though
Thanks to AI, now it's cheaper to buy a jet than build a couple of PCs…)
Most poorly timed intro animation ever considering the happening overseas 🫣
Linus using a new word, scrum, and agile, just as i am learning for a QA Tester certificate.
if it's down to studs anyway, have you considered using slaked lime?
Hold up! the windows pin issue. So if I'm understanding right you swapped out CPU and mother board. then when booting in it wouldn't let you use the pin, you had to sign in. Is that not a security thing? prove that the SSD is actually yours? Genuine question because i can't understand why is so bad.
Hey, Linus…
1) If you're going to want to redirect people to the new channel, POST A LINK TO THE CHANNEL IN THE DESCRIPTION! 😉
2) You want a story on timing? (This is far, far too long for a merch message or whatever you want to call them 😀 )
October 2025… I was looking at my NAS, 24TB, and thinking it didn't have enough space… because it was full.
So I ordered five 22TB WD RED drives @$395 ea. (4 drives for NAS + 1 spare)
Received a week later…
Only problem: The NAS (a WD MyCloud EX4100) didn't like them… I spent weeks trying to get it to accept them and tried reformatting and everything… nothing worked.
So now I had these drives and my NAS wasn't taking them… what to do….
I know – I have that old server box that I've had sitting in the corner for about five years and not doing anything.
Tested all the hardware… worked…
Tested memory overnight… passed…
Tested drive cables… chucked a few in the recycle bin, and sorted by length…
and I put together a NAS, installed TrueNAS.
This took me to early December.
Copied data to it…. and it gave me scrub errors.
Never worked with this before… ok, so I took and reformatted, putting in the spare drive too, and set it up as Z-2.
Still getting errors….
Added a second pool of five 6TB drives I had… same issue on those.
Bought drive controller… apparently the motherboard SATA ports can go bad, according to a conversation in Reddit…
Nope – same problems after getting that.
Eventually I got tired of people telling me it's RAM, and I was going to get the MemTest results and post them…
………………………………………………………………………..except it didn't pass.
#)(&*%)(*#$)(&@(&*(*%)&%()*&@($^*&!^@$%&*!!!!!!
Bought replacement RAM… we're now in early February…
(DDR3, so it wasn't too expensive… but still, I had to buy replacement RAM…)
After installing that, I ran a bunch of benchmark tests, MemTest, etc. etc. No issues.
Copied a bunch of data around onto the pools….
NO ERRORS.
Waited a week
STILL NO ERRORS!
Ok! FINALLY!
I copied the data from my original NAS … no errors!
That verified – it was the RAM.
So now…. I reformatted back to Z1, but kept the 5th drive in. That gives me 79.9TB of space with RAID protection. (Yeah I don't have the spare, but the drives should see less use on average.)
And I'm reorganizing data as I move it off the old NAS… that was meant to be personal data anyway, and ended up with "everything."
But the other day, I looked at drive prices….
The WD RED 22TB was $780 per drive.
That's right… By buying in October, I saved just shy of $2000 compared to what I'd spend today.
Even if drive prices come down 30% in the next few months, due to the AI changes, I'm still far ahead …
And if I do need/want to get another replacement/spare drive, I'll still be ahead.
How's that for timing? This fits in with your good news show theme. Thought I'd share!
"Pin not available" – this is why I switched to Linux back in 2006. My machine decided it needed to reauth on that weekend when all the activation servers were offline the whole time, so I grabbed a magazine with a SuSE DVD on the front and Linux has been my daily ever since.
Kernel level anti-cheat software is basically a malware (06:00 min.). There is no way for MacOS nor Linux possibly allow such stuff running in their OS because anti-cheat software is scanning every app running in your system, basically recording everything you do with your computer. This is a massive security hole that only Microsoft allows. It is quite possible to mass hack all the computers which runs that kernel level software
57:07 20 or 30 usd… The scam coins reaching new heights 😂
Good News Wan Show is fun for you, but it does lose the audience connections. The perspectives are also half baked because of the effort to only be good news.
Living with your mom is never cool…
27:00 If you see bad sectors, it's time to replace the drive. Period. When reallocated sectors are depleted the drive will fail soon. Hell, you might not even have reallocated sectors and still have bad sectors.
My game drive is ntfs drive and I have to create a symlink for proton compat folder otherwise it gets lost trying to find the compat data. 🙂
Space and science generally brings together intelligent, smart and rational people, not the least among us that seem to be in politics
I’ll see you guys in a month when Linux is back down to 2 percent lol
Got my first steam survey last month. Been on steam 15 years. 😂
you should give the house to Luck with a very low payment or something like that
you live in a mansion and he lives in an apartment…i cant see how that is fair
u f-ing got a private plain
First month i have 0 windows and all Linux devices.
why dont ltt just make official timestamps?
NTFS support on linux is just nowhere near reliable enough to be used every day. It used to be read only when I started using Linux. It got much better but if you're using linux every day you should forget about NTFS completely, it's just there to be able to use a drive from time to time.
Did they do the bitrate drop? I can't tell, am I gaslighting myself? It seems the same as the other channel.
As a audio listener i will be one of the last few holding on main channel
Your bitrate game do not affect me
39:28 Luke Lab House?
Coming from Ubuntu as my first ever distro, probably 17 years ago now, to Kubuntu, Mint, and eventually Arch Linux built for me by a friend the first time… Antergos (Arch Based but with GUI installer) & Cinnamon, was a fantastic experience. Same with my original Arch install. I had less issues and fell in love with it. I always had more issues with updates/drivers and/or file transfers.. Desktop environment… you name it. Maybe I’m opinionated lol (and more willing to tinker) but through various hardware configs Arch always did me good. Antergos was much like Cachy is today with more options. Today I run Cachy but with KDE and I get the same feeling. My laptop is a Surface Laptop 3 and has been running Cachy for over a year without a reinstall. I wish it was around back when Antergos was depreciated.
The only reason I’ve lost my Cachy install on my desktop is because Windows sucks and it breaks the bootloader eventually no matter what when I dual boot. 😅
Anyway, Arch & Cinnamon are a match made in heaven, and Arch & KDE are damn near close 🎉
put in chapters pls timestamps has been slacking for so long
25:00 Not only drives… I had installed Bazzite on my PC and I had an annoying coilwine sound that I did not had with windows. After 3 months 1 of my ram slots in my motherboard just died. Also the noise of the coilwine changed with the power profile… I don't have the tools or the knowledge to prove it to you, but what would be your conclusion?
Fedora on my laptop still works beautifully though…
I would very much think that, if it is an issue with ntfs, it's something I usually that has to do with the drive dying.
I would also point out that a full reformat of a drive will mark all bad sectors and thus could eliminate errors simply because the bad parts are no longer being used.
Bad sectors aren't necessarily completely broken, and can work if you retry them enough times.
where ntfs could fail is in warning you about the errors
Linux is winning thanks to Valve and Lord Gaben
I think I know the problem with copying files.
On ext4, btrfs you can have longer file paths and more special characters in file names. So, regardless of program you use for copy it errors out. I've had to bulk rename files, shorten file paths which seems to be the case for luke. Ntfs is the problem
My experience with Mint have unfortunately not been as positive as Luke's. It's great while my Framework 13 is in my USB-C dock. But when I resume from sleep with it not in the dock. Cinnamon decides to completely freeze after a couple of minutes. Fedora KDE doesn't have that issue for me. But I do agree that Cinnamon is a nicer DE. KDE is great for those that like to tinker, but it can be a bit overwhelming and information dense. Sometimes less, is more.