This is not something that needs balance.

And they have quite different kinds of petty:

When Linus gets petty, then there’s a proper rant, somebody gets red in the face (but you don’t get to see the pics), and some news interns can write headlines.

When politicians get petty, then people in foreign countries are killed.

Then they should try to free themselves from it.

And governments should wise up and exempt them from any kind of petty stuff.

It is not good for the kernel and it’s team to suddenly have to kowtow to Usamerican politics.

My wife is still on Windows on her own laptop. But for watching TV, she has been using Linux successfully with an appropriate GUI (vdr, mythtv, Kodi, Androidtv…) for 15 years or so :)

There’s a lib/tool called exiftool iirc. It can be used from the commandline.

It’s also great to live in Switzerland, but not everybody is doing it.

Take care of a good power supply to the Pi and to that flasher device.

From my experience, it often fails if you simply use power from USB. Then I connect a real power supply directly to the small device and it all works.

The SD card is broken, but not totally dead yet.

So, decide now if you want to try and rescue some files from it, then DO NOT USE IT anymore until the real data recovery operation starts. No further tries to boot, no fsck etc.

Have you tried reading the manual?

People join companies, but leave managers.

However, the process would stop immediately when I logged in via SSH or console. As soon as I logged out, the malware would resume running within a few seconds

OK so you just need to stay logged in - Solved :)

better to pass the individual disks through to the VM and manage the zpool from there?

That’s what I do.

I like it better this way, because less dependencies.

Proxmox boots from it’s own SSD, the VM that provides the NAS lives there, too.

The zpool (consisting of 5 good old harddisks) can be easily plugged somewhere else if needed, and it carries the data of the NAS, but nothing else. I can rebuild the proxmox base, I can reinstall that VM, they all do not affect each other.

Go to youtube and work through a few of these. …for dummies tutorials.

Tl;dr but:

If you simply want the best UX, then you need to stay with the real Facebook etc.

They spend millions and millions and millions only for UX. Free software can never compete, period.

Have you heard the story of the man who was driving his car fast on the freeway when he heard a warning on the radio: a car on the freeway drives in the wrong direction! And he thinks “One? There must be hundreds…”

:-)

Now I understand that you are personally involved and emotionally invested.

It would have suited you (and your case) well to make this transparent right from start, before calling somebody a dick etc.

This drama is from 2021.

Oh.
Well.
Then.

Now it’s pretty clear why we should (see OP) fork as soon as possible NOW !!!1!111

You don’t seem to understand the technology enoug

Ah. So there are even more people whose fault is that they do not understand…

;-)

Nixpkgs asks NOTHING of the maintainers of the original packages.

No, no, no. You just said above that the problem is because the developer did not understand something that nixos does or wants or whatever.

renck was being a dick because he didn’t understand Nix

Sorry but it makes no sense to me.

Please tell me: why in the world should a developer (of free software) invest any of his time into trying to understand what some packager/distributor does with his product?