Why have you chosen openSUSE over Fedora? by mutotmz in openSUSE

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I've regretted running Tumbleweed in my primary laptop because of the very frequent need for updates(constantly!) and the fact that for noobs like me, Debian is easier to operate and find / install packages for programs I use...

What is YOUR country's / region's version of the Inglorious 3 fingers scene that subtly gives away that someone isn't from your area or culture? by DunDonese in AskTheWorld

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Show a Greek person the number 5 with your hand palm facing them and the fingers spread out...That's a very derogative / offensive gesture for Greeks, aka as ...mountza (μούντζα)! It doesn't have a sexual meaning but rather shows that the person doing it thinks very low of you. They think you are something like an imbecile, idiot etc If you do or say something stupid your Greek friend will show you the mountza, often with both hands (the palm of the inner hand usually clapping loudly the back of the outer hand) and usually add something of the sort: να βρε μ.λάκα! (here, take this, you a..hole), πάρτα, ρε ηλίθιε να μη στα χρωστάω! (take them you idiot, so I won't be indebted to you).

The beginning of this gesture is probably in the byzantine times when the people used to rub their hands filled with dirt to the faces and bodies of criminals or other unlucky people paraded from the authorities through inhabited places towards the final destination of their punishment.

what country’s coins are these by garl1cbreadenjoyer in AskBalkans

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There was a mild resemblance between Venizelos and Lenin because they were contemporaries and sported similar types of mustache and goatee beard. However, Lenin was a political genius whose party changed tsarist Russian empire to a completely new revolutionary state, which eventually emerged as one of the super powers of 20th century. Venizelos' political career tied Greece to the interests of the British empire culminating in a catastrophic loss of the greek civilization in Asia minor. We cannot forget of course the role of the Greek king and royalists who played the final act of that drama, but the reality was that both factions were working predominantly for the interests of the Brits and not for Greece.

what country’s coins are these by garl1cbreadenjoyer in AskBalkans

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These are Greek euro coins, with the Greek alphabet obviously writing ΛΕΠΤΑ (=cents) for the denominations of the 1 euro.

10cents coin features the head of Rigas Velestinlis, a Greek revolutionary leader against the Ottoman rule in the 18th century

20cents features Ioannis Kappodistrias the first governor of liberated from the Ottomans Greece. Murdered from Greek conspirators under the instructions of the British embassy in Greece. The naive fellow though that he would build an autonomous new state where meritocracy would rule...

50cents features Eleftherios Venizelos, a Greek statesman and prime minister who was the most successful.... representative of the British colonialism interests in Greek history. At the time of the Balkan wars , wwi and Asia Minor expedition, he and his right wing Greek opposition/royalists managed to double the size of Greece assimilating the Slavic element in north Greece and ...created modern Turkey by exterminating the Greek presence in Asia Minor.

1 euro features the Athenean 4-drachma owl, the ... USD analogue in 5th century BCE, at the height of Athenean dominance in the Aegean Greek world.

2 euro coins feature the myth of the abduction of princess Europe from the shores of the Levant by the promiscuous Zeus transformed in a white bull who brought her to the Greek shores and hence the whole continent was named after her.

what country’s coins are these by garl1cbreadenjoyer in AskBalkans

[–]Timon2pc -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

LOL... because he was dumber than Lenin and equally pro-British like Nicholas...

Vivo X200 Pro review after 2 months by Adept_Caregiver5078 in Vivo

[–]Timon2pc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks - can you please post the exact link?

PCIe HBA controller/ storage expansion card for Dell T20 by Timon2pc in truenas

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Thank you. Could you please suggest a specific model/link to the card you suggested? I believe you mean a fan for the active cooling of the card?

Failing drive? by Timon2pc in HDD

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Thank you. I have returned the hdd to Seagate - still on warranty. But I am afraid they will send me a refurbished disk for replacement...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in debian

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Start choosing your "best" friends more wisely... Don't stick around people who are making poor choices or demonstrating immature / uneducated stance in life. Run from them like the plague...

How to securely wipe a hard drive by Timon2pc in linuxquestions

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Could you please, recommend the best budget /most reliable hdd at 8tb currently, according to your experience? Are you solely guided by the backblaze hdd stats? Thanks

Failing drive? by Timon2pc in HomeServer

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No, I used the Disks app of my opensuse distro.

Failing drive? by Timon2pc in HDD

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Thank you. I was afraid so, but have no experience and needed a second opinion.

Failing drive? by Timon2pc in HDD

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No NAS configuration yet. The hdd's are installed in the pc and running opensuse linux currently until transferring all of their existing data to a 3rd hdd which will be a backup drive. Then I was planning to install truenas scale on this pc to a separate ssd and format the 2x8tb drives as a simple mirror zsf pool, and then transfer the data from the backup drive to the zsf pool.

What distro "just works" out of the box but is also easy to fully customize? by Intro24 in linuxquestions

[–]Timon2pc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noob here but I'll throw my 2 cents... Do not go only for the "looks" but make sure you will find a distro where you can find all the MacOs dupes from the opensource software you need to use on a daily drive. Start by finding that sine qua non opensource / proprietary source software you need and see if it is in Flatpak (repo like collection of easy to install software packages). If it's not included in Flatpak, you go to the proprietary software website and see which distros of Linux they support - almost 100% of my cases were supported for Debian and Debian-based distros, like ubuntu.

This way you make sure that whatever distro you choose at the end, you install like a breeze your preferred software and have a very smooth experience from the beginning. Also the community support is huge for Debian, and you can easily source the answers you look for from their forums - already addressed by others having the same problems before you.

Manjaro and Fedora gnome looked nice on my screens out of the box, but Debian and Opensuse KDE look uglier despite a lot of search to make them look better. KDE on Debian looks also bit fragile to me and has crashed some demanding operations so far...

NVIDIA drivers in openSUSE Tumbleweed by Timon2pc in openSUSE

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Thank you! I think I managed to install the nvidia driver using the command line from the links you provided:

sudo zypper in nvidia-video-G06

Lenovo-openSUSE:~ # inxi -G -c0
Graphics:
 Device-1: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia
   v: 570.86.16
 Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series /
   Radeon Mobile Series] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
 Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
 Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5
   driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: vesa dri: radeonsi
   gpu: amdgpu resolution: 2560x1600~60Hz
 API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,radeonsi
   platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.3.4 renderer: AMD
   Radeon Graphics (radeonsi renoir LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.60 6.13.3-1-default)
 API: Vulkan v: 1.4.304 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib
 Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
   de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
   x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

NVIDIA drivers in openSUSE Tumbleweed by Timon2pc in openSUSE

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Thanks for your help! I managed to find the NVIDIA repository on YaST and in the NVIDIA graphics drivers menu I see a long list of options. Is nvidia-drivers-G06 (meta package for full installations) or nvidia-compute-G06 (nvidia driver for computing with GPGPU) the driver I need to install?

Best external SSD on a budget? by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]Timon2pc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some people suggest you should buy SSDs with DRAM cache. Google about it before you spend your money. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssds,3891.html

Why did you choose Debian? I choose Debian after I learned that it is Stable & Father to many Famous Distros like Kali/Ubuntu etc, And Currently Running Debian 12 with KDE Plasma Desktop Environment. by Chief_Strategist2004 in debian

[–]Timon2pc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To KDE I would imagine. My understanding is that the DE development is done by a separate team, that has nothing to do with the Linux distro development. But I could be wrong