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I use Grub for my bootloader so I’m probably not the best person to ask for rEFind problems, but a good place to start for everything Arch related is the wiki. The page for rEFInd has a configuration section that outlines where the config files are and how to read them. Check that everything there matches what you expect it to be: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/REFInd#Configuration.

If you’ve verified that your bootloader config is correct and it’s installed on the drive you’re booting from correctly another config to check is /etc/fstab to ensure you have a root device set in there too. The wiki is your friend here too: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab

You’ll need to post more info about your bootloader/fstab config. The error ERROR: device ' ' not found implies there’s something set to an empty string.

What does this have to do with Linux?

I use a mix of shell commands, terminal file manager, and GUI file manager depending on the task at hand.

The terminal file managers are quicker to navigate to a particular file/directory since it doesn’t require typing commands but I can still navigate with a few key strokes as opposed to using a GUI.

Liferea has “search folders” that let you define conditions for which stories/feeds show up in them.

Well you’re being far more in-depth than me. I just run pacman -Syu periodically.

What distro are you using? I haven’t seen /etc/crontab in quite a while with the advent of the /etc/cron.d directory. That said, crontab -e will handle this stuff for you.

Edit: I see, Ubuntu. I’m not too familiar with what they’re doing over there. I have an /etc/cron.d dir on my Arch boxes. Some other stuff to check though: does any cron job run? If not, is the service running? You could also redirect this script’s output to a file under /tmp or something to check if it’s running and what might be going wrong. Beyond that, check the systemd logs for any errors.

0 * * * * * root /mnt/nas/freshrss/backups/backup.sh

Why do you have root in there? If you need something to run as root do sudo crontab -e and edit the root user’s crontab accordingly. The user shouldn’t be specified in the crontab directly.

GTK is a big one, but you’d likely find it easier to get started with something like Qt and PySide.

For real. I’m so sick of every new phone having a slightly bigger screen than the one before it. At first it was nice but I literally cannot fit a phone bigger than my current one in my pocket. If this is the trend then my only hope is vertical flip phones get cheaper so I can at least have one that fits comfortably in my pockets again.

If it’s possible, you could try talking to your IT department about this. Intune policies are configurable by the team using them so your IT department could allow your device as you want it if so. Hopefully they would understand the freedom to use your hardware as you see fit is worth the tradeoff of loosening their policies.

You can still buy Android phones that have manufacturer support for unlocking the bootloader. Once that’s done obtaining root is trivial. Pixel phones notably support this. Personally, I only buy phones I can unlock the bootloader on to show the demand for this feature. It doesn’t matter to me how great a phone is otherwise. Can’t unlock the bootloader? Not buying it.

That said, I completely agree with you. We all pay for and own the hardware, but let the manufacturer dictate what software it can run. That’s like buying a car and letting the car company tell you what roads you’re allowed to drive your car on. I don’t really blame the average use for not giving a crap because end users will never care about this stuff as long as their basic needs are met. It’s a failure of the people in the software industry to stand up for the open systems that built everything we have today. Without that constant fight for openness companies are going to be more than happy to take advantage of a locked down system to create a competitive advantage. Hell, look at what Google is currently doing with WEI in Chrome. If they have their way, the web will become just as locked down as smartphones are now.

Android was initially built on Linux

For the record, it still is.

Elastio offers it apparently: https://elest.io/open-source/lemmy. But they offer many managed services so who knows how good their managing of Lemmy is/would be (I have not used it).

On the other hand, I’ve considered setting up something like this myself. I run my own instance for my own personal use in a Kubernetes cluster, but did the hosting such that everything is scalable to many instances if need be. I just don’t know how much interest there would be in people wanting their own instances to make it worth my time to build out an admin/billing portal and automate it all. If anyone else is interested in this I’d love to know though since it could be a fun project to work on.

Red Wing. Pricey, but they’ll last forever. Made in the US too.

Again why? Is this some repetition of the Cold War Soviet-US competition?

Yes, it’s a prestige project. It’s the same reason why some countries spend billions to host competitions like the Olympics/World Cup: it’s an international dick measuring contest.

(For the record, scientific investment in space programs has incredible ROI so I whole heartedly support programs like this even if the motivation for doing so on the part of politicians is less than noble.)

What questionable practices does Cetaphil have?

This doesn’t really answer your question, but you may want to consider hanging on to Thunderbird given massive UI upgrade that’s coming very soon for it: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/our-fastest-most-beautiful-release-ever-thunderbird-115-supernova-is-here/

Hashing is typically done server-side. So you need to transmit the password to the server and you can’t have a truly unlimited data limit. Pretty much every web server will reject requests over some size so while it’s entirely reasonable to support something like a 1,000 char password if you really wanted to, having it be truly unlimited with something using a 10 million character password is a security/operational risk in itself.

It goes both ways: Programmers have a responsibility to inform PMs how bad of an idea short max password lengths are. And if they’re still absolutely forced to implement it anyway, do you really want to be working somewhere that goes out of their way to purposefully implement poor security and somewhere that doesn’t respect serious concerns raised from their engineers?

Is it completely bullshit or what?

Ding ding ding!