I find incrond works way better.

Although he won’t win any awards for his vocal skills, this was the song that drove me in my early years in college as I learned what a hacker really was and learnt more about GNU at a time when everyone miss-pronounced it as Linux.

Well yes I thought you were using emulators. When I was a kid I would frequently break X11 so I spent much of my time on the console framebuffer. All I needed it to to is let me watch TV and videos till I was bothered to fix the config file for X

None.

Why? Erm, living by myself I don’t need to lock myself out ;)

Look up chroot

Mplayer can render to the terminal using aalib

Yes I have used that in the past but it’s way to finniky in operation as it sometimes registers a left or right click instead.

GNU Parallel

Unlock the power of multiple cores in your command lines!

Dar

Tar = Tape ARchive

DAR = Disk Archive

It is supposed to replace tar when storing on random access media as tar isn’t random access. Compression and encryption options.

Put your aliases in .bash_aliases

Make sure your .bashrc sources .bash_aliases like this:

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases fi

I’ve tried hard to get libreoffice and dvddisaster to render in a terminal but for some reason it never works… 😏

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.

Language models hallucinate

I have moved from the left side (tech normie) only it was DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1 (apple was something you ate back then in the UK) to Tech Paranoid today with aspirations to fully become an FSF member

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.

Systemd is tolerable but it still messes up my day. I’m moving away from it soon.

The idea was sound, the implementation not so much.

Hmm perhaps the drive is responsible for returning the error and your ones are just ignoring invalid commands.

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.

You will get an error

I do tend to waffle when I have just woken up I have to admit.

Comes with having been a software tester, you find you have to write enough to cover everything.

A bad habit of mine is coming back to edit the post when I think of more to say :D