That doesn’t have anything to do with whether it’s open-source or not.

I can’t think of any reason the backend can’t be open-source too.

I missed the word “server” every time and thought it was a client, and spent far too long trying to figure out how you’d play Minecraft in Bash. Text based? ASCII graphics?

What do you mean “doesn’t work”? Is there some error message in the log (dmesg, /var/log/messages, on the console, whatever raspbian uses)?

Still can. Only a few years ago, I would cat random things to classmates’ tty devices.

Yeah. I know of ancient AS/400 and slightly less ancient RS/6000 systems still humming along, keeping insurance companies running.

But they probably haven’t seen software updates in decades. Linux 1.0 didn’t even exist when they were new, let alone 6.7.

Is anyone actually running modern Linux on Itanium? I have never in my life even heard of anyone using those chips. I find it hard to imagine anyone still using them that isn’t running something legacy.

I started banking with them in 2011, I think, on recommendation from friends. I’ve continued to use them because of my satisfaction with the things you’ve mentioned as well as the services they make available through the site and app. (It’s USAA, for reference).

I am a millenial.

Nobody is stopping you from copy-pasting the third clause into the two-clause plus patent license.

What are you trying to accomplish with the patent thing? Have you already patented your software?

There are a bunch of APIs, actually. Plaid is a pretty popular one. The problem is getting the banks to implement them.

But people definitely choose banks because of their apps. For example, my bank doesn’t have any physical branches in my area, so I do everything through the website or app. Remote check deposit through my phone camera, for example.

Is that an artificial limitation that could be resolved by third-party clients?

I make it green for an ssh session, and red when I’m root. That’s it, nothing fancy.

No need under Windows either. Hasn’t been since Windows 98.

Does Ctrl+Alt+Backspace not kill X any more (assuming you’re using X)?

Does Ctrl+Alt+Delete reboot the system from a graphical desktop? Or is that only from the virtual consoles?

I wonder if locking the session would have stopped it as well. I doubt the Alt+SysRq combos would have been useful since other random input was happening at the same time (unless the next keystroke happened to be an I, U, or B).

Partitioning doesn’t affect backups. Any modern system supports both full images and file-level backups, so even if you take a whole disk image, you can just restore /home if that’s what you want.

I would just use whatever filesystem is the default for your distro. For the root partition, usually that’s ext4. That’s a perfectly good default.

Not always. I’ve seen Linux systems keep running, and open programs work, until they need something from disk, and then either they throw an error or crash.

Unlikely. I’ve used this with moderate success when I needed to run two Discord accounts: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.island

But I think it partially just uses the builtin Android profiles functionality.

Storage media doesn’t make a difference here. You can partition a spinning drive, an SSD, NVRAM, phase change storage, hell even magnetic core if you have enough of it.

It also depends on how you did the partitioning. A full partitioning program like gparted will intelligently move and resize partitions. But even if you blindly rewrote a partition table, if you did something like take a 100gb partition, changed it to 50gb, and added a 50gb partition after it, as long as the filesystem has only used that first 50gb, nothing bad will happen. A partition table just says “partition starts here, ends here”.

Just look at the output of fdisk:

Disk /dev/sda: 100 GiB, 107374182400 bytes, 209715200 sectors
Disk model: Virtual disk
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xaf179753

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048 192944127 192942080  92G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       192944128 209715199  16771072   8G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       192946176 209715199  16769024   8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Right. Use some kind of centralized authentication like freeipa.

For bash aliases, I just pull down a .bashrc from github gists.

That’s fine right up until something on your network, even the ISP modem-firewall-router-switch itself, gets compromised.