There’s also a cost to transitioning to the new technology.

Normalizing arbitrary size removable media makes physical exfiltration much easier because no one is asking why you’re using an illegal technology in the government building.

Floppy disks are not able to identify themselves as a keyboard and release a payload of keystrokes on command, or hide entire soc computers complete with network adapters.

There is also the matter of retraining on an institutional scale, and if you think it’s as simple as “put this into the computer, not that” you’re woefully underinformed.

Just as an aside, it’s pretty fraught to compare a language transition caused by centuries of forced resettlement to switching the kind of computer thingy government employees use over the course of two years.

Unless dictated by the particular data in the disks, /mnt is generally used for system managed volumes and /media is used for user managed volumes.

If you do something else, stick with it so you don’t get confused.

Well that’s dumb.

The government can use whatever system it wants, and if there aren’t components on the market it can justify a make work program to domestically produce them.

Governments were able to run perfectly well without high density removable storage, why is it necessary now?

Why would it want to get rid of floppy disks?

It’s just mini pcie. As far as I know there isn’t any whitelisting.

They’re cheap little things, buy one with Linux support and see if it works!

Lol

The first image for wm8650 that comes up is a Debian boot logo.

why do you want to learn a gui for firewalld?

almost all the support and documentation is gonna be using the cli command firewall-cmd.

by swap them around i mean physically take the two drives out and put them in each others connectors. by interface i mean physical interface, like the plug or socket or slot they connect to the motherboard with.

the bios usually enumerates drives based on their position on the bus, so switching the connector they’re plugged into would fix the problem.

linux usually handles drives based on uuid, a unique identifier per device, so it wouldn’t mess up linux.

you didn’t specify if one was like a sata or esata or nvme and the other was different so i had to qualify “if theyre the same interface”.

alright, good news, you probably are using qemu. the disk images (that’s the hard drives for the vm) are usually in the .local/share/gnome-boxes/images/ in your home directory. if the images are .qcow2 files then you’re running qemu.

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Even if you know how to do stuff, I’d avoid doing ostree on a universal blue derivative.

I been using Linux for 25 years and just recently embraced the “don’t break Debian” part of the backport manual.

Stuff you do and don’t document or don’t force yourself to recognize comes back to bite you years later when you can’t use the normal tooling in order to deal with it.

Anyway, good luck, it sounds like you’ll be fine.

Also, don’t jump straight into a universal blue derivative. Actually learn how to use Linux before you start in with something that relies on a bunch of convenience features.

Iotop will help you figure out what process is causing zfs to timeout when syncing.

Yes

Alternately, since the vm has network access, just use ssh from your windows vm to scp your files from the windows vm to the Linux host.

Just turn off the vm (shutdown the windows install running in the vm, not pause), mount the vm block device, navigate to the file and get it that way.

Are you using qemu?

It’s easy if you have a second computer or phone or something and can read and plan first.

It’s hard if you want to just click click click through.

Don’t look too deeply into this unless you’re comfortable discovering that the military and security state is a prolific contributor to many open source projects.

Swap em around if they’re the same interface.

When the time came to pick which boring old man distro to use, the people who picked and would recommend fedora all got jobs supporting rhel. They don’t have time or energy to devote to computer touching when they get home from their serious business jobs making sure the computer keeps increasing shareholder value.

Fedora is very good.