Polkit asking you to type the password every few minutes when moving a bunch of files:
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mtpender@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Linux users: “I don’t have such weaknesses.”
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
“You fool, I could sudo rm the whole drive right now. It’s only out of my exuberant benevolence that I don’t.”
Later: me pressing the up key 38 times rather than type sudo apt update && upgrade
skepller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When you learn
Ctrl+Rto reverse search you can’t go back lolBOplaid@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
You mean remove the French language pack
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Immutable Distros joined the chat
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Well, you can technically remove the immutable flag from files… but I wouldn’t
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Well, you can technically boot Windows into safemode or boot the install iso to modify the files owned by TrustedInstaller. But should you really do it?
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I also wouldn’t, just like I wouldn’t touch the immutable flag
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wish. I spent 4 hours trying to get both I and docker to have permission to see my other drive. I finally gave up entirely and made a puid:guid that had access to everything short of root and put myself on that. It’s still dubious as to whether that will work…
pticrix@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Just do it like a champ and run
sudo chmod -R +777 /! Who needs privilege access anyway?captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I need to go in and get access to stuff I saved on my older distros/oses somehow
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Did you try :Z? Maybe SELinux was blocking you?