Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:19:02 -0700 Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com> :
On 3/14/24 08:43, Ben T. Fender wrote:
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:17:22 +0100 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> :
On 2024-03-14 16:10, Ben T. Fender wrote:
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:43:05 +0900 Masaru Nomiya <...> :
Just one thing, can you tell me from what update the problem started? No, I didn't log it cause I was anything but surprised :-(
What's more, for the first time (because I'm now using what are actually two versions of TW instead of Leap & TW) both of them have the Failing-Audacity problem and since I'm on one or the other I hardly ever know which one I'm working with at the moment.
A (now late) friend of mine had an antique auto colection of about a dozen very rare rides. He would sometimes drive one to work because they 'needed to get oiled'. When I asked him how he picks one he said "the first one I manage to start". I have 6 or 7 distros installed precisely to make sure that when I sit down for a guitar session at least one of them will have all it's freakin' sound and music act together; well today Devuan is *the ONLY one* of the lot! I'm about to buy me a Mac and be done with Linux. Why don't you get an install that works with your music gadgets, and stop upgrading it?
good question, a bunch of freshies, all tweaked once and working, and an update embargo!
Of course, you should do this only with a machine that's isolated from the Internet after you set it up. Otherwise you could become vulnerable to malware. We all like to think that Linux is impervious to malware, but that's only wishful thinking. When I first started with SuSE in 1998 I had my home machine running SuSE 5.2 and I didn't start the firewall because the docs were in German. Alas, I got zero-click compromised via a mountd vulnerability. I noticed it right away so no damage was done, but I learned a valuable lesson.
With ssd's and the time to recover a reasonably sized partition from a dd backup falling through the floor I'm actually thinking of starting every session with dd, and minutes later booting a sterile copy of the original installation (sterile meaning never before connected to anything). Not so much for so-called security as for my required apps all working, my interest in security is academic and mostly a question of principle, not of need.