You asked why and I gave an explanation where the 27 downvotes came from. So I think there is some agreement within this lemmy about being offtopic.

If that bothers you too much I suggest focusing on something more productive, as I will do.

Not selfhosting AND privacy.

From the sidebar of this lemmy:

“A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.”

So its about self-hosting with certain qualities (not giving up privacy or lockin). Not about privacy in general.

Signal isnt selfhosted and does lock you in, albeit with a high reputation to not become evil.

Better lemmy would be https://lemmy.ml/c/privacy

Nothing to do with selfhosting

I just see those foundation onboard / leaves from afar … but isnt the retention rate way to high to do actual foundational stuff?

I am dutch and spend many an hour at the intersection of IT and Privacy … but this is the wrong community to advertise a local Signal group.

I work with a Grub boot for Win11 / Debian on the same disk (work provided laptop without the persuasion to change my employer MS-First policy) but one of the lucky ones I guess. No problem for 2 years now.

Only thing after a big Windows update it forgets its TPM Bitlocker key for its own partition. Must type it like once in 2 months manually.

Luckily this was about Snap.

That … makes a lot of sense, thanks 🙏🙏

Oh never thought about using ls to “test” things, thnx!

Yeah agree, its a work provided laptop, they allowed local admin etc but require Windows (at least that is) so just glad they gave me a HP laptop with 500GB SSD and for me certain freedom to configure dual boot etc

Got chills down my spine initially but was a “good” scare … the one which makes me carefull next time before any real damage is done. 🙈👍

Strange thing is, instead of moving folders (which isnt possible without root anyway) it looked like some of them got copied instead. Compared some folders from /boot/grub with the dump in my homefolder and they were the same files (number and names etc).

I took a deep breath (was not being root, how bad could it be?) and rebooted. Luckily everything seemed fine.

Grub letting me choose between Debian and Win11 (its a laptop from my employer) and both booted if choosen. Thanks for all the advice.

If the actual command was this … mv /*/*/* ./ would moving stuff out of /boot or /dev folders make more sense?

Ah, keen eye, corrected the title and body text to match the screenshot. (From terminal history so I think thats what I actually ran)

Oh that worked, thnx!!

I only have a backup of my own personal files, not of the whole system. So my question about impact is about not having to do a fresh install.

Also I have dual boot and grub etc do scare me. 😁

I didnt work as root by the way …

Ouch … feel so stupid.