Technically, you're still downloading it, even if your package manager does it for you. And, tbh, even on Debian stable it needs some user action (including a visit to Mozilla's site) to get an actual version of Firefox and rolling upgrades installed instead of the LTS version.
Tja, kein Bakschisch an die entsprechenden "Dienststellen" in der Botschaft gezahlt, nehme ich mal an. Dabei geniesst das deutsche diplomatische Corps international durchaus den Ruf erhöhter Flexibilität bei finanziellem Anreiz.
Having a backup is not enough. Having an actual backup is better but still not enough. Having a tested recovery procedure is not trivial but usually is enough. I have not yet experienced the case when even that fails and I hope I never will.
I didn't take it personally but installing core software packages from websites instead of using your distro's package manager is the worst possible practice. Absolutely nothing that should be recommended publically without anyone with a clue protesting. I don't really believe the "DKMS doesn't work for any situation" argument either, tbh. Either there is a miodule matching your kernel, compiler and glibc then DKMS will just work or there isn't. In the latter case you better believe in your distro's maintainers' descisions or you really know what you're doing - and the fact that you're overriding package management in a production environment tells me that you don't. Better someone on the internets is telling you than your boss, believe me.
Yes, but the problem is that it's not that hard to wipe your personal files incidentially. An operating system can be replaced easily without deleting your /home partition (you did create an extra /home partition, did you?) but your personal stuff not so much.
And that's why there's three things you should never forget:
have a backup
have an automated backup (or you'll end up having no backup at all)
have a tested way to restore from backup
Just argue against that fact, blame me of incompetence, know it all better, I'll just laugh at you because you will as sure as the sun rises in the morning remember my words. Three times if you're missing a single one of these three. Don't ask why I am so definitely sure about that - let's say it was a three step learning process...
There's no gambling envolved. You're either smart enough to just boot from a live image ("smart" extending to "have a bootable image at hand or have a way to create one") in which case it's not gambling - or you've got not only a band hand but also no clue how to play it. In which case you shouldn't have gambled in the first time.
Hehehe, that's what I call the "Diving Bell Approach". Either remote via serial console over IP or local when greeted by the dreaded
bash
GRUB:>
prompt. Which means you really fucked up your boot sequence. Ususally happens with multi-disk machines and complex LVM/RAID setups. Which escalates the plain "fuck up" to "real fuck up" state. You'd better have a second machine or a printout of GRUB's excessive documentation with the hard to find but essential parts highlighted. There are ways to find the partition to boot and even ways to "manually" boot the right kernel, initrd-image and get the latter to mount the right root partition - even if it's on encrypted LVM, but be sure to have enough oxygen, keep your decompression times and have enough batteries for your flashlight...
Kreator's older releases are pretty failsafe while I'd avoid their newer albums like hell. Live, they used to be quite a blast but honestly I am going to miss their upcoming concert despite the location being a 10 min footwalk from my flat just because of my fear of their playlist containing any of their latest "melodic" hippie shit. Which is a shame, remembering their performance in 1987 when I saw them live for the first time together with Sodom, Destruction (who just had released their breakthrough album "Infernal Overkill") and Motörhead (It was a cold Thursday night in December in a small town in Germany, easy to meet the bands after the show and the three German bands behaved like arrogant assholes - shame on you Schmier, you suck! while Motörhead -with Philthy back on the drums, then- were real fun to meet. But I'm drifting off into Metal grampa world again...). I absolutely doubt to see any of that anger, energy and freshness from them nowadays.
Würzburger und hessische gedungene Meuchelmörder waren unter anderem auch beteiligt. Aber wir wollen nicht ablenken, gell? Oder höre ich hier etwa Anklänge von Austrorevisionismus?
Da sieht man wieder was Merz, Spahn und Konsorten doch für bescheidene, einfache Leute sind. So, wie diese Typen den Sozialstaat verabscheuen, müssen sie ja bettelarm sein. Zum Glück weiss man ja, wo man notfalls spenden kann.
Eine Senkung des Strafmündigkeitsalters für schwerste Straftaten sei unter anderem wichtig, [...] um Kindern zu helfen, die kriminelle Bahn zu verlassen, erklärte Justizminister Gunnar Strömmer.
I hope you enjoyed your recreational sleep under that rock. There has been, specifically in the Black Metal scene but also to a much smaller degree in harcdore and thrash, a pretty ugly subscene existing. They're absolutely not just using "evil" symbols as a provocation in the way the good old Sex Pistols and even Joy Division(!) did but are full blown nazis. The stereotype of metalheads being racist is pretty much a 1980s thing, btw - and it wasn't even quite common even then.
Compressor before the Wah, hmm. How does the CryBaby behave? Because mine (Jim Dunlop GC95, 1990), directly after the guitar is quite a treble soak when inactive which makes it mostly useless for me. I got an old Morley as a replacement which is nice but just doesn't have that characteristic bite of the GC95.
Solange die Grenze zum infamen Österreich nicht unbeaufsichtigt bleibt, brauchen sie meinetwegen überhaupt nichts zu bewachen. Dem Schurkenstaat im Süden aber ist nicht zu trauen. Die Verbrechen von 1705 bleiben unvergessen!
? Worked for me.