Love you too kind internet stranger!

With sun dried tomatoes, pesto, chunked garlic and cashews.

If you have 2 separate drives each with their own boot loader and you tell your bios to boot from the grub bootloader and grub has successfully detected another OS like windows everything will be fine.

The trouble with dual booting comes from splitting a drive into partitions with different OS’s on them sharing the same boot partition. Eventually windows will nuke grub and you will loose the ability to boot linux till you use a live USB to repair through chroot and fixing/installing grub manually or using a grub-repair live USB. Usually only gets complicated if you have luks set up.

I don’t advise dual booting on a single drive. I intentionally buy gaming laptops with dual drive setups and keep the windows drive untouched till the warranty is out. Just in case i have to send it in for repair. Been doing this since 2004 without ever having any bootloader issues that I didn’t cause myself.

You could write a simple python script using datetime and pyperclip. Datetime would supply the date format and pyperclip to copy that to your clipboard. You could setup a key binding to call the script then [Ctrl + v] to paste.

I believe all linix distros have python installed OTB.

There are probably a bash solution but my bash is rubbish.

Edit:

The bash solution that has been provided is the best option IMO. I just thought I should provide the code for my solution so you have options. This python script is easily extendable / customizable. All this depends in you installing the python module pyperclip. datetime should be part if the standard python library so you dont have to install it.

installing pyperclip with pip.

pip install pyperclip

The script:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""A simple script to copy a formatted datetime string to the users clipboard"""

import datetime
import pyperclip

def clipboard_timestamp(initials) -> None:
    """Function to create a formatted timestamp string to users clipboard.

    Arguments:
       initials: Uses the provided string during formatting of the timestamp."""

    time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    pyperclip.copy(f"{initials} {time}")

if __name__ == "__main__":

    clipboard_timestamp('ABC')

The above script also adds the hours minutes and seconds to the timestamp. If not needed remove the %H:%M:%S. Dont forget to edit anything that you want like the 'ABC' near the end.

Save script somewhere. I usually save personal scripts to ~/.local/bin so they are out of the way. I used the name clipboard_timestamp.py Doesn’t really matter as long as you remember the name. Next you have 2 options. You can make the script executable using chmod a+x clipboard_timestamp.py. If you dont want to take this step you will have to tell the shortcut that python is executing the script by prefacing the script’s full path with python like so python ~/.local/bin/clipboard_timestamp.py If you made the script executable you just use ~/.local/bin/clipboard_timestamp.py.

I use KDE but your system should be similar-ish. in your desktop’s setting’s search for keyboard and you should see something that says something like shortcuts. Add New -> Command or Script. Point this to your newly saved python script /.local/bin/clipboard_timestamp.py. Then you choose the keystroke combination.

EU should talk to putin. Invite him to the Hague for a nice sit down.

You might want to file a bug report so they can grab some info from you that could help an updater get pushed sooner and help others.

Very glad you got up and running. Hopefully they will get a better update pushed out soon.

Hay if the restore works might hold off on doing an update for a few days just too see if kubuntu had pushed a bad update. If they did they did they should fix it pretty quickly when they get a bunch of people with broken systems.

I haven’t used timeshift in at least three years so Im going to give you this instead of relying on my possibly faulty memory.

https://itsfoss.com/backup-restore-linux-timeshift/

Command line instructions

https://dev.to/rahedmir/how-to-use-timeshift-from-command-line-in-linux-1l9b

Yes try to do that first. First research how to restore from timeshift backup so you do it properly.

Does ethernet work?

Did you chroot and reupdate? You might want to reuse timeshift to roll back before doing so.

Could also try going back a couple timeshifts ago.

Have you tried making sure network manager is enabled and started?

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager

sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

From a live USB do you have networking?

As I see it EU has about three years before agent Krasnov starts his invasion. He needs this war to extend term limits and keep his power. Watch how over the next few years he dismantles our allied relationships and places the blame on the US old allies while removing anyone in the US that dares go against him installing yesmen in their place.

Putin is too weak to go against the EU alone. China is a wildcard. My guess is that russia, US, North Korea and China will form a new axis of evil within four years.

I hope I’m wrong and there is still so much that can happen in a few years. But If I was the EU I’d be getting ready.

I think your best bet is https://xdaforums.com/.

Tell you when i remember.

Fair enough!

I very much appreciated the xkcd, gave a good chuckle.

The LWDIS page should have a basic overview of the different distro family’s and maybe a breakdown of their specialty’s or focus. Probably have a breakdown for windows and mac specific easy ways to burn an ISO in the stickie.

Then people could field questions and guide people to the distro that might suit OP’s needs best instead of sponsoring their favorite distro.

From there they can go to the individual distros for more complete information and questions. If that distro and their community feels like a fit for their needs I think we could have a better retention rate than what we have been doing.

The other day I saw one of these which distro posts and most replies were not very helpful and mostly fanboy sponsorships which i don’t think would be very helpful to the OP. But their was one person there patiently and thoroughly answering OPs questions with the best info he could provide. It was tip top! That’s how we grow together!

I get it, the fanboy thing, I’ve got it bad for arch, endeavour and garuda. Im also the geekiest twat in my town. I don’t really recommend them to people I dont intend to be their IT guy when shit goes wrong. For the most part I recomend distros that have great communities people can draw from. If a newbie goes to the arch forum and hasn’t at least read the docs and researched their problem, provide logs or terminal output they arent getting helped. At least not how they might need. But on the mint, ubuntu, fedora forum’s they can plow through just about any problem with a little hand holding if that’s what they need, and that’s not a bad thing.

Friendliness, inclusion, understanding of the users personal needs, computer usage and goals is the way to keep people and expand our linux community IMO.

I want linux to be as welcoming as possible to everyone and the newbie question of what distro to use will come up a lot. I dont think it’s helpful in any way to bicker about why my choice in linux is better. We should be giving them the tools to make the best decision for themselves

What if we built a beginners linux community (Linux, Where Do I Start -> LWDIS) and point to all the distros communities, and on those distro specific communities they had beginner friendly install, setup, rice, maintenance instructions and advice along with a difficulty rating. I don’t know if stickies are a thing here but could be helpful in keeping relevant info on top. This could be a place for fanboys to shine on there favorite distro while keeping the basic inclusive LWDIS community free of bickering about distros that might cause confusion and turn people off.

That sucks, i thought i had used it before to get some music videos.

I think newPipe has an age restriction toggle in its settings, its available on android, not sure about ios, pretty sure not available on desktops.

Its been a while since ive needed to do this.

Dammit, i replied to myself. Stupid self!

yt-dlp might do the trick.