PSA: skirting their attempts to block ad blockers if you have a Google account you would rather keep may be unwise.
Google has been known for banning people for stupid crap, and this checks all the boxes.
While they were silent on this topic there was a gentlemen’s agreement that you could block ads. But now that they have voiced their opinion the jig is up.
I’d recommend people to use an alternative account if they are going to block anyway and they want to keep their gmail.
It seems funny at first, but knowing they don’t hate a media twisted version of you, but the real thing, is more depressing than funny.
philosophers are still coasting on the fact that they were mixed in with the real sciences in the past.
they are nothing but a bunch of glorified poets. you can get the same level of authority in the lyrics of any god damn song.
this is not audio specific but just an FYI, reinstalling does nothing on an updated system unless the program files were corrupted somehow, which is not normal.
to really reinstall a program from scratch you have to use apt-get purge or apt purge to ensure that global configurations files are removed, and pay attention to the logs printed out because some files may not be removed.
then, you have to manually delete your user configuration files for those programs, or create a new user un your computer to test it out first to see if user config files are generating any troubles.
just test it out.
some setups will work fine with wayland and some will work better with xorg.
there are of course ways solve those issues, but it’s easier to test both and use the one that works best for you.
wayland is the future, but the present is whatever works best for you.
dd is good if the destination disk is equal or bigger, unless you are brave enough to shrink the source partition.
if you are moving to a smaller disk for whatever reason (hdd to sdd) then you need to fallback to a different method, which takes us back to cp/rsync.
why not? sudo cp -ax foots the bill.
I assume people prefer rsync because you may need to run it twice, but unless you tick all the boxes rsync won’t copy capabilities (see getcap /usr/bin/rsh)
sudo cp -ax is short and sweet and does everything right.
it’s not the recommended way but it’s how I’ve been doing.
you format the new drives and just cp -a -x from the running os to the destination, update the destination fstab, then treat the new drives as an os with a broken boot and continue from there.
Google has banned whole accounts of some users for copy pasting comments on Youtube chat (similar to what people do on Twitch).
https://9to5google.com/2019/11/09/google-account-bans-youtube-emote-spam-markiplier
I wouldn’t gamble on it.