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  • Middle click in chrome…

    If you want to use ctrl-v you need to the newer method of ctrl-shift-c first. It uses shift for the same reason windows does in a command prompt, ctrl-c is a reserved combination.

    Not a Linux issue. Two different paradigms one older than the other, chose which is best to use.

    On my laptop’s I use ctrl-shift-c and ctrl-shift-v due to not having a middle click. With a mouse I middle click instinctively.




  • Also I am using a USB attached SATA adapter

    Very likely. Hdparm must support the bridge chip in order to pass commands through the bridge, now we know that the bridge in some form supported as you are able to query the drive but it might be the bridge is blocking either the security-erase command or the response. The drive would respond to the bridge should there be any errors, the bridge has to pass that on.

    The only way to be certain is to plug the drive into a proper AHCI SATA port. Or use eSATA.




  • Well if we think about the chronology, If GNU/Linux never existed I’d be using Windows still.

    If however tomorrow it somehow became impossible to run Linux then I would probably switch to one of the BSD’s, as well as Risc OS Open. However, the method it becomes impossible to run Linux is important:

    If it is merely illegal, I’ll just run GNU/Linux. If it is blocked by the TPM, I’ll just use old hardware which has no TPM or one that can be disabled. If it’s just the Linux kernel that the TPM stops running, I’ll finally install GNU/Hurd, or use the older hardware (seeing as my laptops were made in 2014 and my PC was built in 2016 I’m already there).

    If I absolutely had to I would have no problems using much older hardware. I started on a 486 and can easily build that again, I have a few pentiums too. Obviously these systems won’t be doing web browsing but they can do everything else, document writing, email, IRC, and of course programming.

    If I’m pushed hard enough I’d revert back to using my Risc PC and 8 bit computers.

    So as far as your question is concerned, I was converted to the Free Software ideals when I found this “Linux thing” back in 1997. Nothing is stopping me from computing that way. Mac OS is obviously out of the question, even if I hadn’t discovered Linux it’s (MacOS) interface is terrible, the company is terrible, the hardware is overpriced and underpowered and unreliable. I also wouldn’t go back to windows for anything other than gaming which I do once in a while.