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    1. Yes

    2. Userspace (as in the programs you interact with on a daily basis, as opposed to the kernel) doesn’t really care that much about drives. But they do care a lot about your filesystem. And some programs, such as a filesystem browser, will care about partitions on a disk to allow you to mount a partition somewhere on your filesystem so that you can interact with it.
      Basically, whereas windows (and friends) used drive letters, linux doesn’t - it only has the root filesystem. The practice of mounting something (another filesystem on a drive, a cd, an ISO, a network share, or whatever it might be) basically means to associate that filesystem with a mountpoint. A mountpoint looks like a normal directory, except that everything under that directory is on a separate filesystem.
      In effect, this means that you can have an external drive mounted to somewhere convenient, such as /home/58008/Desktop/windowsdrive , and you interact with it as you would any other directory structure on your desktop. Mounting can be done in multiple ways, and the main three are:
      a) automatically by defining them in /etc/fstab
      b) conveniently via your Explorer of choice. Usually this will result in any unmounted filesystem you try to access getting mounted under /media/somewhere/filesystemlabel
      c) manually via the mount command. I suggest you try it and play around with it, as this will make it much clearer than my explanation ever could.

    3. I don’t feel competent enough to answer this properly, as I only use apt-get or compile from source

    4. Don’t know. But I would still recommend this, even if it’s not what you’re after: https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/#start-here







  • neidu3@sh.itjust.workstoshitpostingEmojiis are hieroglyphics
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    2 days ago

    Once upon a time a colleague messaged me about some minutia regarding the assignment I was currently attending. I wanted to reply to her with that thumbs up emoji I had seen people using. But I couldn’t find it and eventually gave up, and instead responded with a cow emoji, concluding that it’d show that I’d read the message.

    I have since found the thumbs up, but due to usage history the cow is placed higher up, so I keep using it whenever a message needs a response where the actual contents doesn’t matter.

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  • Yes. There are exceptions, but most American beer usually fall into ine of two categories:

    1. Water.
    2. Infused with a bunch of stuff that shouldn’t be anywhere near beer, in an effort to have it not taste like water.

    At least these are the common denominators for most well known beers.

    Exceptions, off the top of my head:
    Blue Moon
    Shiner Boch
    Some weird local brew I stumbled across in Galveston
    While it doesn’t hold a lot of flavor, I do enjoy Miller now and then.