The reason I asked that is 3.5” drives can’t operate from usb bus 5v like 2.5” ones can and you didnt specify.

Have you tried hot plugging the drive into the dock while it’s plugged into the computer? If the usb sata controller is slow on the uptake it might miss the relatively narrow chance to report to the pc what’s going on.

Don’t worry about damaging your drives doing that btw, it’s extremely unlikely that you have a disk whose firmware doesn’t support it and all sata ports support it electrically.

As an addendum: is the drive even good? Do you have a known functional disk to test with?

E: oh yeah, on the off chance that the disk is uninitialized get everything plugged up and do an lsblk to show the various block devices. Sometimes if I plug up a disk with no partition table or superblock or whatever gpt uses nothing happens but lsblk shows it and I can mess with it.

Do you have it plugged into the wall?

In the ops defense, they’re probably not accounting for their labor and calling anything in between cost+parts and sale price “profit”.

Eh, gnome is the default on some of the biggest distributions in a time when apparently lots of people are trying Linux for the first time so there’s an outsized opportunity for their usual shenanigans to have consequences for the rest of us.

Which has happened a bunch of times in the past.

Historically speaking, the gnome devs have made “disabled by default” the first step towards removing a feature everyone uses.

Do journalctl and look at what’s happening.

The uhh a16 I think is four gpu card intended for remote working that would be a natural fit to this. Except that it has no outputs.

You can do what you’re asking about in x, but I don’t think in Wayland.

Making something not the default then removing it because it isn’t widely used (because it’s now disabled by default and users have to know it exists and then turn it on) is the gnome way.

Make no mistake, they’re trying to remove features they don’t like. There are lots of people involved in free software because they didn’t get to be in control of nonfree software.

Grimly: “year of the linux desktop”

If it’s simply putting your money where your mouth is then that’s perfectly good.

If you’re worried about being in the crosshairs of that intelligence apparatus it would be good to limit what information stays outside the encrypted vault of whatever password manager you choose no matter where the service is based or servers are located.

The mullvad port forwarding takedown is a great example of legal denial of service if you’re wondering to what extent these different agencies collaborate across oceans and borders.

Oh I wouldn’t self host that, all I was trying to do was examine what business or compliance reason you might have for wanting to stay out of servers in us jurisdiction or not use a service that might be subject to us laws.

You need an sd card adapter that lets you read and write the sd card from your pc to put an image the pi can boot onto the sd card.

You will need this anyway when you eventually run into the sd card having a bunch of of bad blocks or unreadable sectors.

It will work ”fine” for what you’re describing but consider getting one of those sata/m2 adapter boards so your root filesystem isn’t based on the media explicitly designed for temporarily holding information until the user can get back to a computer.

If you already have a computer, just set up a vm.

Do you mean the us government or just into us jurisdiction?

I’m pretty sure that even with a service based in another European nation whose servers are in that nation you couldn’t rely on either…

Since you dont know what’s happening you dont need to be fucking around with busybox. Boot back into your usb install environment (was it the live system or netinst?) and see how fstab looks. Pasting it would be silly but I bet you can take a picture with your phone and post it itt.

What you’re looking for is drives mounted by dynamic device identifiers as opposed to uuids.

Like the other user said, you never know how quick a drive will report itself to the uefi and drives with big cache like ssds can have hundreds of operations in their queue before “say hi to the nice motherboard”.

If it turns out that your fstab is all fucked up, use ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid to show you what th uuids are and fix your fstab on the system then reboot.

Reads like a communist hiding their power level or a liberal searching for a take on the enclosures actively happening this very moment that isn’t the fascist/libertarian one (“it’s different because it’s happening to me!”).

That won’t work.

The best you can do is clear your cache and history every time you close the browser and use some kind of containerized system like the Firefox plugin.

What you’re asking about is fundamentally not how the web is designed.

E: and of course close the browser when you’re done looking at the website.

After you eventually settle on bitwarden, rotate all passwords and uninstall or clear out the contents of other password managers. From your replies in this thread it seems like you’ve used many different managers.

I wasn’t able to reproduce what you described about apple ai and signal.

The foss-ness of an operating system or application doesn’t matter for the purposes of encrypted messaging, what matters is if the user has the application and operating system configured appropriately and understands how to not give up secrets.

Use bitwarden, go to Settings -> account security -> unlock with pin and turn it on. If it’s already on, toggle it off then on. You will be prompted to set your pin. Dont forget your master password.