And they’d lose a huge number of potential sales.

You can usually grow a partition online, even the one you’re booting from.

Yup. I’ve weighed the costs and benefits, and I’m still using Gmail myself.

That depends on your risk tolerance, which is a decision you have to make yourself.

Some things are worth paying the fine for.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Grouping

I don’t see any mention of only being allowed to use a semicolon. I don’t have a test system handy unfortunately.

Ideally you’d simplify or separate your logic so that you’re not relying so much on bash. If you need complex logic, I’d use another language, depending on what’s available in your environment.

Password manager, and give access (or recovery access) to your spouse and attorney now.

It’s been a while, but ^S suspends output to the terminal and ^Q resumes, I think. I don’t know if it’s really supported in the modern era.

Is that something you control? Because pi.hole is not a registered domain name. (And I wouldn’t trust a random person’s pihole anyway.)

Assuming it’s your local pihole and you have DNS set up, I would check that configuration start to finish.

A VPN isn’t rawdogging the Internet. For that you should use stuff like ad blockers. A VPN only protects traffic inspection by on-path attackers like ISPs, though HTTPS mitigates most of that, leaving only metadata. It also changes the apparent origin of your connection.

If possible, I’d change providers.

Yeah, but why would Facebook kill their own business model?

Yeah the dove is the symbol of peace, not privacy.

I also liked the blue field. Black fields aren’t really a thing for flags.

Why is the eye more significant than the hand?

It’s probably because you haven’t proven you’re a human to their satisfaction. Do you have Firefox’s privacy settings turned way up? You may need to set an exception. If you block too much and are mixed in with a bunch of other clients, you look like a bot.

It is. MIT license on the code, CC-BY on the binaries and resources.

If secure boot is off, and you run malware on your pc, it can change the boot process to escalate privileges.

This probably requires root or admin in the first place, but if they can install a malware loader, they can establish persistence so that even if you remove the os-level components, they’ll be reinstalled on reboot.

Even better would be to automatically install vlc-plugins-all for people upgrading, so that it preserves the existing behavior.

If you need to restore it, back it up.

How do you plan to restore if the whole drive dies?

I’d say you want Linux from Scratch then, but even then the Linux kernel maintainers are making choices for you.

But Linus is very firm in that they never break userspace, so you should never see an issue like this when updating the kernel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

Someone should inform whoever made that change. If a package is split in a new release, the initial state should match the final as closely as possible, in this case by installing the new optional dependencies automatically. (Although I’m not sure why they’d want to split everything out like that anyway; no other VLC distribution does that, so splitting is itself a violation.)

Maybe Manjaro might be an alternative? I haven’t personally used it. I don’t like this kind of surprise, so I stick to boring distros like Debian. I used to use CentOS but it was too boring.