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  • mlfh@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•No permissions - Did I bonk my LUKS encryption?
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    1 month ago

    /dev/sda is the whole raw disk - you typically don’t want to directly interact with /dev/sda, unless you are partitioning or overwriting it. There are a few layers between that device and the files:

    • raw disk - /dev/sda
    • disk partition - /dev/sda1
    • luks container - when unlocked, mapped to /dev/mapper/{name}
    • ext4 filesystem inside the luks container, mounted somewhere like /mnt, /media, etc

    You’ll need to find where that ext4 filesystem is mounted, and run the chown command on that. You can run lsblkand see a tree of the above hierarchy, with the ext4 filesystem’s mountpount shown in the right-hand column.

  • mlfh@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•catharsis
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    1 month ago

    Nikita Khrushchev, in his own memoir, stating clearly that the USSR could not have won the war on its own:

    I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin’s views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were “discussing freely” among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany’s pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don’t think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.

    -Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Khrushchev, Serge (2004). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918–1945. Penn State Press. pp. 638–639.

  • mlfh@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•what's your take on this tlp command?
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    5 months ago

    I’d recommend a full battery calibration before running the command one more time, if you haven’t already (charge the battery fully, leave it on the charger at 100% for a while, then fully discharge until it shuts itself off, leave it for a bit, then fully recharge while off). If the calibrated values line up with a full:design ratio of ~80%, especially with a 10-year-old battery with almost 700 cycles on it, my take is that’s pretty great.

    That said, I think the best way to get an accurate feel for the health of an old battery is to put it through one full cycle of normal use and time how long it takes to die.

  • mlfh@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•ELI5: GrapheneOS questions
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    7 months ago
    • Your user account on GrapheneOS is just a local user account
    • GrapheneOS comes with its own camera, gallery, contacts, sms, phone, and file manager apps, a hardened fork of Chromium called Vanadium, and an app that lets you install sandboxed versions of google play services and google play store, if you so wish. Nothing else. You can install other apps using F-Droid, or by installing the google play store app.
    • GrapheneOS does not have a “cloud”, aside from the web services it uses to check for and pull new updates. If you want to sync files somewhere, you can install whatever you want (Nextcloud, Google Drive, etc)
    • F-Droid is a fine choice, and the google play store is as well, all depending on what your priorities are for your phone. I only use F-Droid and have no non-foss apps on my phone for privacy reasons, for example.
    • Running your own Nextcloud server is a great learning exercise, but it’s a big commitment of time if you’re not already familiar with linux administration, and if you want it to be secure and accessible remotely that’s even harder. Don’t let that be an impediment to getting a secure phone though - you can always keep using Google Drive for now, and then learn how to set up Nextcloud or some such as you go along.

    Good luck!