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  • Archiving (catting files together) and compression are two different actions. This is true even in formats and zip or rar where the functions have always been a part of the same utility. They are separated in Unix because the Tape ARchiver wasn’t initially intended to produce a file on disk. The tar utility did eventually add compression but that’s not always desirable.

    An archive of compressed files is just another archive regardless of the format.  Compressed files is also a bit vague a term.  Most video and music formats are compressed, so compressing them again doesn’t really add much value and can sometimes even produce larger sizes.


  • aarch0x40@piefed.socialtoNews@lemmy.worldUkraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
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    14 hours ago

    Russia’s showing signs of desperation anyhow which is why they’re trying to push through an agreement.  They can’t debase the currency much further, they don’t have the reserves or the GDP.  Ukraine is in more the position strength here as they’ve spend their time building alliances which has been aided by Russian actions strengthening the resolve of Europeans.












  • aarch0x40@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.worldLinux Antivirus?
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    5 days ago

    ClamAV is probably the way to go. While there are UIs available in various states of maintenance, it’s not really necessary. The way ClamAV works is that runs a scan on daemon (re)start then continually monitors the system from there. One of it’s best features is that you don’t really need to worry about it.




  • Full disclosure, I’ve never actually used mint specifically and I’m providing guidance from a more generalized perspective that would be applicable to any Linux distribution.  You may have to research the specifics for your OS.

    Before I get into all of this, I should start by saying that it may be easier at your present skill level to perform an new installation over top your existing (no formatting).  Your best bet though is booting to the previous kernel.

    The bootloader is a tiny program installed on the first bits of your bootable disk slice.  It can often present a menu to select different kernel / initrd (also called a initramfs) combinations that are available on that bootable slice.  This menu can be hidden and only display if a key is pressed on what is typically a completely blank screen or perhaps just a small flash on the screen before kernel messages start displaying.

    It’s not so much that a backup of a kernel / initrd gets made but rather a new bootloader menu configuration, kernel and initrd image are added.   This leaves the previous boot setup available for just this kind of scenario.  The bootloader menu may also have a “Rescue” or similar option available.  If you’re unable to access this menu, it adds to the complexity of booting to the existing installation.

    If you’re booting to a rescue image on a USB stick hopefully there’s a repair or rescue process available on it.  What you’d be looking to accomplish once booted to a workable space is to have a recovery process detect your hardware, generate the proper boot configuration with initrd containing all the appropriate supporting software.  While it is possible to do this by hand that is a bit much to explain in comments.