That’s how I got into online chess. And I played the Quake2 demo a lot there too. Good times.

Can confirm. I was playing with both of them online, and Luigi and I were making lewd comments about lemmyng’s mom.

Just because you swallowed some sand the other day doesn’t mean whatever came out the other end today is a pearl.

Time to self reflect, realize that your posts are largely percieved as whiny, and move on.

Almost all OSes support exFAT. Forgive the typo; b6 -> by

Yes. But it’s the best we have that also makes sense. Internet has worked this way since the beginning of time, and it wasn’t a problem before the amount of entitled numpties reached critical mass.

It would seem I can only pin my own comments. I was trying to do a stackexchange and choose yours as an officially approved canonical answer.

First question: lack of journalling won’t cause data loss by itself. It’s only a real issue if you happen to be writing data at the exact moment of the power outage, and even if so it’ll only affect the datablock currently being written. In 99.99% of the cases, it will at worst require a filesystem check. You’ll be fine without a UPS.

Second question: Correct on both accounts.

EDIT: Spleling is hrad

Tvtome.com

Miles better than IMDB, and specifically for TV shows. It was a great way of keeping track of episodes and seasons in preparation for tormenting torrenting (ducking autocorrect).

I do not doubt your expertise, especially since you have an infinite multiple of books on the subject in question compared to what I have.

Cool, but I have no way of testing your knowledge on the matter beyond obvious stuff sych as “how many legs does a spider have”, lol

Linux user for close to 30 years, here. Exclusively on linux since 2015 or thereabouts. I’ll give my tidbits on your linux-related questions, but I am no authority on this, as I still consider myself a newbie on the subject:

1a - Is there no file system that works perfectly on both Linux and Windows? I could technically dual-boot using two different drives, but what if I need to access/move files between two drives with different file systems? Which issues would I face if, say, one is NTFS and the other is ext4? I think all of my drives are currently in NTFS, would I have to reformat everything to safely access them from Linux without worrying about data/metadata loss?

In general, Linux have good to great support for windows’ filesystems, NTFS included. The other way around is a bit more iffy - I remember that there was some sort of plugin/program that allowed me to mount an ext4 volume on Windows 7 eons ago, but I’m not sure how well it’s doing today. When I dualbooted, I solved this by using Windows as normal, and mounting the windows volume (NTFS) in linux. exfat is widely supported b6 “everything”, so if you set up a shared volume, that’s what I’d recommend using.

1b - I read that to open an .exe on Linux I would have to do it through WINE, and that there’s a database to check compatibility of individual programs with it, but are the worst compatibility issues just “the program doesn’t open”, or can a compatibility issue result in data loss/corruption too?

Compatibility with windows software is very forgiving. It doesn’t really cause any corruption in the sense that a windows program won’t go amok on your linux installation and start wrecking stuff because it’s not incompatible. It’s more a matter of it failing to start properly, or doesn’t work the way it should.
However, this isn’t as complicated as it might seem. Many games, for example, run fine via Proton in Steam, and this is more or less a transparent process in that you don’t have to do anything special.
And it’s worth noting that most windows software has a native linux alternative. I suggest you do some research into specific programs you need, and see if there’s a linux release for it, or if there’s a viable alternative for you.

1c - I’m currently using Firefox on Windows, is it possible to copy all my settings and data (browsing history included) from the Windows version to the Linux one?

I honestly don’t know. Firefox has been advertising its sync feature to me for ages, but I never bothered with checking it out.

1d - Other than specific .exe without WINE compatibility, are there any relatively common file types which can’t be opened with Linux that I should be aware of? (Mostly talking about picture/video/audio/text files, compressed archives or similar).

No. A file is in itself not a limitation. Only the programs used to read and interpret them are. I have not found a common file type that doesn’t have a linux native program for reading it.

1e - What can I mess up by testing an USB live version? Are there any things I should be careful about? I’ve heard “changes aren’t saved”, but that’s referring only to OS configuration, right? And, going back to file systems, can I even access the data that’s on my NTFS drive from a live version or would I just be working with the stuff inside the USB?

A live USB version doesn’t affect your system (under normal circumstances). It reads everything it needs from the USB, and if you install software, it is only installed in memory and not on your harddrive or USB stick. It is possible to mount your existing filesystems and access your persistent storage that way, but you will only affect it in whatever manner you chose to. So in other words, if you boot from a live USB, you have to actually try to ruin anything on your disk - I’m having a hard time imagining how one would do this by accident.
I recommend trying it to get a feel for the OS and see if it’s something you can get used to. It’s worth noting that it will be somewhat limited, as it probably won’t have GPU drivers, and anything you configure or install will disappear upon reboot.

1f - I read often that “you can’t get viruses on Linux”, but that’s mostly because they’re not developed specifically for it, so you might “get” them but they won’t work, right? If I dual boot, is there the chance that I get a malware while browsing with Linux and then it infects my pc when I boot Windows (even without consciously opening unknown .exe files)?

In theory it’s possible, but in practice it doesn’t happen. A virus targeting linux for people who dualboot is a very narrow target area, so I wouldn’t worry about it.

1g - Which Pc components should I pay attention to because they/their drivers might not work on Linux? Is there a site/tool that can check if my current hardware would have any issues? (For example, I have a Nvidia graphics card and I think I read that might be a problem?)

Hardware compatibility isn’t much of an issue that anymore. I see a lot of people complaining about NVIDIA drivers on linux, but I never had any issues myself. I run a fairly stock Linux Mint 22.1, and everything worked out of the box.
On my previous install, when the laptop was brand new, I had to update the kernel so that I could install an NVIDIA driver new enough to handle my GPU, but it wasn’t much of an issue.
It is worth noting that hardware compatibility often comes down to your choice of distro. While all distros are technically compatible, some distros are more focused on “It should just work out of the box” and that’s why I prefer Mint as a desktop OS. Only hardware I’ve never been able to make work was a PCI TV receiver card I had once upon a time.
If your hardware is reasonably common, you can be sure some annoyed kernel hacker somewhere made a driver for it.

Now I’m curious which communities you moderate, and whether it’s a topic on which I can test you.

No. But some users seem to have limited understanding and self awareness in regards to how their posts often fail to contribute anything worthwhile.

If you don’t like the mods of this community, go make your own (blackjack and hookers optional), instead of posting whiny questions because a mod (me) removed your post once upon a time.

A jumpbox. Set up a VPS somewhere, have some remote hands at home set up a VPN client to connect to the VPS, and then you connect to the VPS as well.

Alternatively, is it possible that your ISP can remote config your router and set up the port forwarding again for you?

Something along the lines of “she heard that he said when they were somewhere and then like she said that he thought that she said that they shouldn’t say what he said when she thought they wouldn’t anyway.”

…I detest hearing about what other people did/said. I live in a tiny town and I absolutely refuse to take part in gossip. I will not spread it, and neither will I hear it.

One of the ships is “famous” in the industry; Most seismic companies lease it at some point, and I discovered a couple of years ago that when my former employer folded, my new coworkers employer leased the ship, and we had been sitting in the same chair in the instrument room.

He cracked up when I told him there’s a counterstrike map somewhere based on that ship. Because we needed something to do during standby days.

I’ve lived in 21 apartments/houses, and I remember them all except from four where I didn’t live for very long.

Side note: I’ve worked offshore rotation for years, and a ship becomes your home away from home. I remember them all.

Firefox for the most part. Ladybird whenever remember to build it, and the site I’m visiting isn’t too complex.

I’m not a vegan, but my impression is that many (most?) vegan pet owners got their pets before going vegan.

You can say “Weird Al” and “Reykjavik” here on Lemmy.