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What do they do about devices that are still getting minor updates or fixes but not new major versions?

Say you released version 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are in support at the same time. It’s 2025, but your latest release might be 2023.2, which looks like it’s out of date to a user.

Date-based versioning sounds great in theory, but if you have more than one version in support at once then it can get ugly quickly

Maybe I have had failures and haven’t even noticed!

Yeah I’d definitely agree with not using them for critical backups. I think they’re generally fine as long as they’re never holding your only copy of something, but then I’d probably say that about every kind of drive…

the chance of your USB stick failing when you try to read all the data off it after your SSD fails is fairly high

Out of interest how high is “fairly high”? I don’t think I’ve ever had a USB flash drive fail!

Thanks!

Thanks!

What did you do to get the nice terminal output with the colour display and fedora ASCII art? Just a copy+paste in bashrc?

If your phone is encrypted and you factory reset it I believe the encryption key is wiped so the data is gone (unless MI5 are really keen on spending a lot of time piecing it back together, I guess)

Skipping past the usual deserved ‘fuck Oracle’, what reason do universities (or most organisations for that matter) have to ever use Oracle’s Java? The likes of OpenJDK seem to provide identical functionality for anyone who isn’t specifically supporting Oracle Java customers, and I doubt unis are raising many JDK bugs that warrant paying for support.

Downvotes aren’t federated but you still see all the downvotes sent from just your own instance

That’s really useful, thanks

Ah OK, so what’s the difference between uBlue and the other fedora atomic distros? Just different people and a different arrangement of pre-installed stuff?

I’ll answer my own question: there’s plenty more here

So from there I can see

• Aurora
• Bazzite
• Bluefin
• uCore

and then this link which has

• Silverblue
• Kinoite
• Sway Atomic
• Budgie Atomic
• Cosmic Atomic

Does that sound like all of them?

Is there a guide to all the different Universal Blue spins anywhere?

Was there an original uk one? This one is the only one I’m aware of, it had a moment of doubt a year back but we got new admins before we needed to move.

Passwords? A relic, and an insecure one at that.

instead of scanning your face (which can be spoofed) or fingerprints (which can be copied), these systems scan the ‘pattern’ of the veins running inside your palm – something that’s unique to you, and absolutely can’t be faked.

Consider me sceptical.