Thank you for supplying your birthday, please upload a copy of three photographic government identification documents.

I have asked for sources when a post makes an extraordinary claim. It’s rare that I get anything meaningful as a response, but often I learn something or both of us do.

You can even archive extended attributes with the ‘--xattrs flag.

Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.

A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.

You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.

In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.

Use a bash command line:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250698/how-to-decode-url-encoded-string-in-shell

A bug is a bug. Someone needs to deal with it. The forum is for discussion, a bug report is to advise developers that there is a problem.

As a developer, I’m not looking at forums for bug reports, I’m looking at bug trackers.

Lodge a bug report.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Bugs/Reporting

Excellent.

Unfortunately, I strongly suspect that the depth of the pockets paying for legal fees is likely to determine the outcome, rather than any pesky facts.

I’ve used the node.js version of argparse, which as I understand it, is a clone of the python implementation and I’ve not seen how to do mutually exclusive flags. Mind you, at the time I didn’t need them, so it wasn’t an issue, but I don’t recall seeing any way to do it either.

Did I miss something?

Oh boy … very cool.

Now how do I do this in bash?

USA only

When I last played with this a decade or so ago, there were several map tiling solutions in the geosciences that are self hosted.

From memory, “World Wind” is a good search term, but there’s others.

Censorship by stealth.

… because that’s what it amounts to.

Platforms will start making their content “acceptable” to the “general consensus” (ie. right wing bible bashing hetero caucasians) in order to allow general access to content.

“Unsuitable” material, like sex education, domestic violence advice, sexual orientation and religious freedom will “vanish” from the internet, just like it already is across the platforms run by USA billionaires.

Those who fail to comply will be taken to court and those too small to fight will close down their internet presence.

The credit card companies are already doing this for anyone who sells anything they don’t like.

This current wave is just more of it.

It has absolutely nothing to do with keeping children safe, and everything to do with control.

I use sshfs.

There is no file at that URL (anymore).

If that was the case when you tried this, nothing happened.

If there was a script there when you did this, the only option is to restore from backup.

It’s ironic that this comes from Stack Overflow where I’ve seen on more than one occasion the wrong answer selected as the solution whilst the right answer was ridiculed and voted down.

This was happening long before Assumed Intelligence was pretending to be the nail to every hammer.

What is an Ubuntu LTS release?

An Ubuntu LTS is a commitment from Canonical to support and maintain a version of Ubuntu for ten years, with the initial five years available for free following Ubuntu’s mission. In April, every two years, we release a new LTS where all of the developments from the previous two years accumulate into one up-to-date, feature-rich release. These releases focus on performance enhancement and stability. The LTS is what we recommend to large scale enterprises, general users and businesses. However, for more dynamic users, every six months throughout those two years there are also developer releases. These releases are kept up-to-date and relevant, with the latest and greatest contributions, but are only supported for nine months at a time.

Source: https://ubuntu.com/blog/what-is-an-ubuntu-lts-release

The reason you pick an LTS release is so you get Long Term Support.

Use the support.

By moving to a non-LTS, you not only reduce the duration you get support, you also increase the frequency of doing updates. This is not desirable while you’re learning.

Pretty much the same.

Word of warning. Your /home directory contains your documents, but it also contains configuration files. If the packages you’re installing have different versions, you might discover that the config file for a different version doesn’t work on the version that’s installed. This isn’t universally the case, some applications are smart about this, others less so. You can find many of them as “hidden” “dot” files.

You can find all of them like this: find /home -type f -name '.*'

Explanation:

• find - the find command
• /home - the place to start looking
• -type f - find files only
• -name '.*' - find things only starting with a ‘.’

I hear your frustration and understand what you’re concerned about.

Ask yourself this.

Is the thing that I’ve discovered is broken today something that I’ve fixed before?

If you use the package manager that comes with your distribution and don’t install random software from the Internet, and don’t follow unverified procedures written by anyone with a keyboard, then the answer is almost certainly “no”.

I say this with the benefit of knowing what’s good practice and what isn’t. I can tell you that if you come at this with a “Microsoft Windows” approach, you’re likely to spend weeks, if not months in purgatory. It’s no different from migrating between MacOS and Windows, or vice-versa. You need to remember that just because Linux looks similar, it’s a different beast and is so by design.

I’d strongly recommend that you start using the machine with ONLY the packages available through the Ubuntu package manager. If you run into strife, you can ask for support. If you go outside that and you break something, you get to keep both parts – and truth be told – that’s true with any other operating system, just that the lines are not as blurred.

In Linux world many of the distributions can cross pollenate applications and solutions, but that requires experience that new users don’t (yet) have.

One way to deal with the “jump” is to keep your “old” Windows (or MacOS) machine around while you get comfortable with the lay of the land.

The thing that most people switching to Linux have forgotten is that this requires experience. You cannot expect to just jump into a new Operating System and take all your old habits with you. Think for example about the differences between iOS and Android, a world of difference.

So, keep at it. This frustration will pass.

Make sure you backup your /home directory regularly. That way if you ever blow something up and are left on your own, you can blow away the drive and start again, restore from your /home backup.

Meanwhile, keep asking questions.

Good luck.