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[00:00:03] + linuxuser/rizon .wz penrith, nsw

[00:01:07] + linuxuser/rizon !bang

[00:01:10] + linuxuser/rizon !reload

[00:01:11] + linuxuser/rizon !bang

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[00:01:25] + linuxuser/rizon wait wat

[00:01:42] + linuxuser/rizon !duckstats

[00:02:31] + linuxuser/rizon !duckstats

[00:03:21] + linuxuser/rizon everyone's DuckHunt stats were reset?

[00:20:45] + linuxuser/rizon Imagine historians in a few hundred years attempting to decipher such gibberish as "ngl tbh fam, fr"

[00:50:15] + linuxuser/rizon don't accept the pudding from Bill Cosby

[02:46:50] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fn2VRAHN4

[04:03:28] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLzKgR2Vmy8

[04:05:53] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kAEoCHANYY

[04:08:02] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuNgCrafpkE

[04:11:27] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xobtyt5Yb6E

[04:18:02] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpfxG52kYQY

[04:20:53] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv6ns88gJZk

[04:24:29] + linuxuser/rizon such a great album

[04:24:30] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kHMaBERTJI

[08:12:25] + linuxuser/rizon PC games or console?

[08:20:44] + linuxuser/rizon hmm

[08:21:00] + linuxuser/rizon for recent stuff, I'd suggest https://rarbg.to

[08:21:37] + linuxuser/rizon retro stuff, maybe try https://www.myabandonware.com/

[08:22:04] + linuxuser/rizon but also

[08:22:10] + linuxuser/rizon download RetroArch

[08:22:44] + linuxuser/rizon and install cores for NES, SNES, PSP, Sega Megadrive / Master System, etc.

[08:24:57] + linuxuser/rizon if you have a PS4, you can jailbreak it

[08:26:45] + linuxuser/rizon some sites for console ROMs: https://romspure.cc/roms/ | https://www.retrostic.com/roms | https://www.emulatorgames.net/ | https://www.romsgames.net/roms/ | https://romsfun.com/roms

[08:27:20] + linuxuser/rizon RetroArch: https://www.retroarch.com/

[08:31:18] + linuxuser/rizon https://i.imgur.com/Nc86Gwp.png

[08:34:14] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31jvtk3Z8AU

[08:35:03] + linuxuser/rizon yeah, you can emulate original Xbox on a PC

[08:35:10] + linuxuser/rizon but you need a pretty beefy machine to do it

[08:35:21] + linuxuser/rizon cheaper to just buy an actual old xbox

[08:35:49] + linuxuser/rizon you can also emulate PS1, PS2 and PS3

[08:35:58] + linuxuser/rizon and Xbox 360

[08:37:13] + linuxuser/rizon NES, SNES, Sega Megadrive, Sega Master System and PSP you can emulate even on an Android phone with Retroarch

[08:37:14] + linuxuser/rizon !bang

[08:37:22] + linuxuser/rizon oh and Gameboy

[08:38:16] + linuxuser/rizon mostly Mint and Debian

[08:39:06] + linuxuser/rizon I might try LFS if I can muster up the motivation

[08:39:28] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[08:41:00] + linuxuser/rizon I multiboot a bunch of OS's on my laptops

[08:41:40] + linuxuser/rizon Windows 10, Windows 11, macOS, Linux Mint and Android x86_64 build on my ancient ThinkPad

[08:42:24] + linuxuser/rizon depends on how it was installed, in legacy BIOS mode or UEFI

[08:42:46] + linuxuser/rizon in UEFI mode, there will be extra partitions, and the Windows bootloader, etc. in the EFI partition

[08:43:10] + linuxuser/rizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI

[08:43:23] + linuxuser/rizon You can just delete them

[08:43:37] + linuxuser/rizon they will be recoverable though, until you overwrite them with new data

[08:43:52] + linuxuser/rizon if you want to securely erase, you can issue ATA secure delete commands to the disk

[08:44:11] + linuxuser/rizon or fill it with zeroes using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

[08:44:23] + linuxuser/rizon or if you're super paranoid you can use DBAN

[08:44:37] + linuxuser/rizon https://dban.org/

[08:45:10] + linuxuser/rizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darik%27s_Boot_and_Nuke

[08:45:50] + linuxuser/rizon I used to work at a place years ago that received old computer hardware from the state police

[08:46:05] + linuxuser/rizon we used DBAN and then physically destroyed the drives with drills and hammers

[08:46:29] + linuxuser/rizon SSD's and HDD's should both support the ATA commands for secure erase

[08:46:52] + linuxuser/rizon https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

[08:48:34] + linuxuser/rizon in short

[08:48:53] + linuxuser/rizon if you just "delete" stuff, including partitions, they are recoverable until overwritten

[08:49:24] + linuxuser/rizon well it depends on what you want to achieve

[08:49:44] + linuxuser/rizon the NSA also publishes standards for securely erasing and physically destroying data storage devices

[08:49:56] + linuxuser/rizon if you just want to format the drive and reinstall

[08:50:14] + linuxuser/rizon oh

[08:50:22] + linuxuser/rizon then yeah, you can just delete the partition

[08:50:40] + linuxuser/rizon gparted probably easiest

[08:51:01] + linuxuser/rizon delete the partition, apply

[08:51:14] + linuxuser/rizon move/resize your linux partition after that

[08:51:35] + linuxuser/rizon just make sure that your GRUB config is identifying the boot partition by its UUID

[08:51:40] + linuxuser/rizon (it should be, by default)

[08:52:03] + linuxuser/rizon the UUID won't change when you move/resize the linux partition, so it should still boot fine afterwards

[08:52:05] + linuxuser/rizon but

[08:52:15] + linuxuser/rizon you will need to unmount the partition to do it

[08:52:23] + linuxuser/rizon so boot off a live USB

[08:52:28] + linuxuser/rizon and do it from there

[08:52:58] + linuxuser/rizon you can get a listing of the UUIDs for your drive partitions with the lsblk command

[08:54:12] + linuxuser/rizon err

[08:54:21] + linuxuser/rizon sorry, easier if you use blkid command

[08:54:45] + linuxuser/rizon probably the Windows "recovery" partition

[08:54:58] + linuxuser/rizon OEM manufacturers often include the install media on a hidden partition

[08:55:06] + linuxuser/rizon well, "hidden" from Windows

[08:55:49] + linuxuser/rizon yeah, Windows is bloatware

[08:56:50] + linuxuser/rizon well yeah, I don't run a DE on my fileserver

[08:57:06] + linuxuser/rizon or the VM I use for my email server

[08:59:51] + linuxuser/rizon I prefer Debian for headless (no GUI) server setups

[09:00:13] + linuxuser/rizon pffft

[09:00:18] + linuxuser/rizon LFS or piss off

[09:01:06] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[09:01:32] + linuxuser/rizon I'm still going to refer to the entire distro as "Linux" and you can't stop me

[09:02:25] + linuxuser/rizon https://copypastatext.com/id-just-like-to-interject-for-a-moment/

[09:03:28] + linuxuser/rizon So why are you even using the Linux kernel?

[09:03:34] + linuxuser/rizon Why not Hurd?

[09:06:30] + linuxuser/rizon Gentoo isn't even on the FSF's list of approved Free distros

[09:06:32] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html

[09:08:37] + linuxuser/rizon You sir, are a hypocrite

[09:11:26] + linuxuser/rizon Right, it's trying to resize your linux partition afterwards that'd be the problem

[09:11:51] + linuxuser/rizon because the partition will need to be unmounted to resize it

[09:12:10] + linuxuser/rizon you don't know it's ext4, Gentoo. It could be ext2, ext3, or even ReiserFS

[09:12:39] + linuxuser/rizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS

[09:13:02] + linuxuser/rizon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

[09:13:13] + linuxuser/rizon lel

[09:13:28] + linuxuser/rizon it's a criminally good filesystem

[09:15:28] + linuxuser/rizon yeah, it's just safer to get into the habit of booting from a different disk than the one you're modifying

[09:15:52] + linuxuser/rizon yep, you don't need that, you can always download a Windows ISO from microsoft if you really want to reinstall it

[09:16:16] + linuxuser/rizon well

[09:16:27] + linuxuser/rizon you could do disk passthrough

[09:16:34] + linuxuser/rizon and use the existing Windows partition

[09:16:36] + linuxuser/rizon in a VM

[09:17:09] + linuxuser/rizon I'm not recommending it, I'm just saying that if he's going to keep running Windows anyway in a VM

[09:17:22] + linuxuser/rizon could use the existing partition

[09:19:06] + linuxuser/rizon I use VirtualBox mostly

[09:19:38] + linuxuser/rizon qemu, virtualbox, vmware something or other

[09:19:51] + linuxuser/rizon there are a bunch of options

[09:20:04] + linuxuser/rizon I didn't recommend vmware

[09:20:09] + linuxuser/rizon I said it was a possible option

[09:20:11] + linuxuser/rizon !bang

[09:20:25] + linuxuser/rizon there's a free version I think

[09:21:39] + linuxuser/rizon anyway

[09:21:44] + linuxuser/rizon I recommend VirtualBox

[09:21:46] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.virtualbox.org/

[09:22:52] + linuxuser/rizon I don't think you need the repo

[09:23:06] + linuxuser/rizon https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.36/virtualbox-6.1_6.1.36-152435~Debian~bullseye_amd64.deb

[09:23:14] + linuxuser/rizon you can grab the .deb package directly

[09:25:28] + linuxuser/rizon dpkg -i virtualbox-6.1_6.1.36-152435~Debian~bullseye_amd64.deb

[09:25:44] + linuxuser/rizon well

[09:25:49] + linuxuser/rizon sudo dpkg -i

[09:25:56] + linuxuser/rizon if you're not already elevated to root

[09:26:50] + linuxuser/rizon you can add 3rd party repos

[09:27:09] + linuxuser/rizon but for virtualbox I usually just grab the .deb off their site

[09:28:07] + linuxuser/rizon frankly, there's not really any difference between downloading a prebuilt binary and downloading source unless you're going to audit the source before you compile it anyway

[09:28:44] + linuxuser/rizon not to mention the infamous Ken Thompson compiler hack from 40 years ago, which proved that even auditing the source won't save you if the compiler is compromised

[09:29:34] + linuxuser/rizon https://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

[09:31:35] + linuxuser/rizon the most up-to-date version will be from the virtualbox.org repo

[09:31:43] + linuxuser/rizon or y'know, their website

[09:33:20] + linuxuser/rizon you can just look at the checksum to confirm your download matches the checksum on the site for the package

[09:34:12] + linuxuser/rizon well it is a repo

[09:34:26] + linuxuser/rizon and the signature is available

[09:34:53] + linuxuser/rizon https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc

[09:35:22] + linuxuser/rizon or you can not be completely autistic and just confirm the checksum

[09:35:56] + linuxuser/rizon y'know, scale back to 50% autism

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[09:42:13] + linuxuser/rizon !reload

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[09:56:51] + linuxuser/rizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fn2VRAHN4

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