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  • Hirngespinste sind keine Ergebnisse. Oder hast du tatsächliche Zahlen, welche deine “progressiven Prozesse” nachvollziehbar positiv belegen können und nicht aus der gegenseitigen Nabelschau von Sozialpädagogen und Politilogen an ihren Mitpatienten stammen? Bzw. das Wahlverhalten der Bevölkerung und die Zunahme rechtextremer Gewalt und Ansichten entkräften können. Die deuten nämlich in die genau gegenteilige Richtung. Ich würde mein grosses wisenschaftliche Maul lieber nicht so voll nehmen, wenn ich damit rechnen müsste dass sich mein Adressat nicht gerne für dumm verkaufen lässt. Mal abgesehen davon, dass mir Evidenz für “geänderte Denkprozesse” schon von vorneherein als methodologisch anrüchig erscheint. Und erzähl’ mir nichts, vom Linkssein. Erst recht nichts vom “Sein” und denke nicht mal daran, mir mit Hegel daherzukommen.















  • I didn’t take it personally but installing core software packages from websites instead of using your distro’s package manager is the worst possible practice. Absolutely nothing that should be recommended publically without anyone with a clue protesting. I don’t really believe the “DKMS doesn’t work for any situation” argument either, tbh. Either there is a miodule matching your kernel, compiler and glibc then DKMS will just work or there isn’t. In the latter case you better believe in your distro’s maintainers’ descisions or you really know what you’re doing - and the fact that you’re overriding package management in a production environment tells me that you don’t. Better someone on the internets is telling you than your boss, believe me.


  • Yes, but the problem is that it’s not that hard to wipe your personal files incidentially. An operating system can be replaced easily without deleting your /home partition (you did create an extra /home partition, did you?) but your personal stuff not so much.
    And that’s why there’s three things you should never forget:

    • have a backup
    • have an automated backup (or you’ll end up having no backup at all)
    • have a tested way to restore from backup

    Just argue against that fact, blame me of incompetence, know it all better, I’ll just laugh at you because you will as sure as the sun rises in the morning remember my words. Three times if you’re missing a single one of these three. Don’t ask why I am so definitely sure about that - let’s say it was a three step learning process…



  • There’s no gambling envolved. You’re either smart enough to just boot from a live image (“smart” extending to “have a bootable image at hand or have a way to create one”) in which case it’s not gambling - or you’ve got not only a band hand but also no clue how to play it. In which case you shouldn’t have gambled in the first time.


  • Hehehe, that’s what I call the “Diving Bell Approach”. Either remote via serial console over IP or local when greeted by the dreaded

    GRUB:>
    

    prompt. Which means you really fucked up your boot sequence. Ususally happens with multi-disk machines and complex LVM/RAID setups. Which escalates the plain “fuck up” to “real fuck up” state. You’d better have a second machine or a printout of GRUB’s excessive documentation with the hard to find but essential parts highlighted. There are ways to find the partition to boot and even ways to “manually” boot the right kernel, initrd-image and get the latter to mount the right root partition - even if it’s on encrypted LVM, but be sure to have enough oxygen, keep your decompression times and have enough batteries for your flashlight…