hddtemp:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
     0.3-beta15-54 -1
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Why would they remove it? Was it causing some sort of problem? That's really annoying since Gkrellm needs it to read HD temp. Is there a replacement? How difficult would it be to get Gkrellm to use the standard Smartmon interface?

Yeah, as others have already pointed out, he said nothing new here. Everyone has known this for ages, And yet Wind'ohs continues to dominate the desktop. Partly it's sheer inertia. When people develop habits they can be very hard to change.

As far as the government is concerned, it's actually about (irony of ironies) security. Not from the network, as this is the whole problem, but from the users. Government likes Wind'ohs for the same reason that big business does, the control over the peon desktops that you can have with Group Policy. There really is nothing else like it. No competition at all. If you want to have thousands of workers on computer workstations that you control remotely, restricting users from doing various things and keeping them under surveillance, there are no other options. And that's why big business and government use Wind'ohs and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future.

The ordinary consumer, on the other hand, without the resources to pay the huge license fees that government and corporations can shoulder, will be getting more and more advertising on their 'personal' computers in their own homes. A Wind'ohs computer is now a kiosk that MS controls and just happens to allow you to use. And MS has given themselves the right to watch everything you do and sift through all of your data to figure out what ads to shove in your face.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/06/2 … r-backlash
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/1 … even-worse

Odds are very good this is not Firefox, it's the sites. I've had several banking sites that used to work in Firefox stop working. But I've not forgotten the current problem with the web, called Chrome. Back in the day, MS was actually investigated for twisting HTML to suit themselves and lock out other browsers. Now, Chrome is being used to do the same and no one bats an eyelid. When I switch to Chrome the sites I was having problems with work fine.

We might try filing customer service complaints with the websites that only work with Chrome. But I suspect it's too late. Firefox is now 1 percent or less of usage and they won't care. Where are the antitrust investigators now?

It's been WEEKS and I still have to boot to the old kernel every time I used that system. This is how they support "old stable"? I am suddenly much less inclined to start using Linux as my primary OS.

"Dropping down"? Will we have to install backports repositories to get it? Why didn't they realize this update would cause a problem and arrange for both upgrades to be synchronized?

Demise of third-party cookies delayed again. But it's not clear from this story if the restricted extension rules will still be implemented on schedule.

https://digiday.com/marketing/google-de … yet-again/

Can anyone say if they are still killing ad-blockers on the scheduled date?

The data sheets I have found show the enterprise drives as only marginally louder than the consumer drives of the same size. The larger any of them get, the louder. I guess that's a predictable consequence of more platters spinning at high speed.

It looks to me that the only issue I need to think about now is whether those 'cheap' enterprise drives on Amazon are very old OEM stock, manufactured further back than their warranty technically extends. Though I've seen the warranty on the consumer drives updated when you enter the purchase date on the registration site. Maybe WD is very confident of the shelf-life of their drives? If I get a five year warranty, how much does it matter when the drive was manufactured, I wonder?

Well, that tip alone makes it worthwhile to have asked for info here. According to this site:
https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of- … rives-hdd/
The drives I am looking at are CMR, not SMR. But many of those 'cheap' models, like the Red or Blue, do indeed use SMR.

My experience with WD drives in general has been good, but I always buy the high end, not the budget drives like Red or Blue. I had a set of four 1 TB RE4 drives, and still have 3 of them. One died very suddenly, but it was more than a decade old. Well past the warranty. When I moved up to 2 TB I bought the WD Black. Now I'm noticing the price difference again and I think the RE drives will be fine. Sure would like to know what the "Gold" designation means in the WD product line though. Never heard of it before finding that product.

Probably a system service that didn't get the memo when you removed it. Is there a way to examine the 'script' in a .deb file and see all the actions taken? That might provide a clue to a setting somewhere that was not completely removed.

More changes...

Over this past New Years weekend I update my various systems. All of them currently run Chimaera, as I always wait for the wrinkles to be worked out in the latest releases. Despite all of the systems running the same version of Devuan, and having Chromium installed (some also have Chrome), only one of the them gave me a warning about Chromium soon losing support on older versions of Debian. Not Devuan, but Debian. Since Devuan is based on Debian, though, I take this to be an important notice. I wonder why I didn't get it on all of the systems? Would different packages possibly be sent to systems running Chimaera based on other configuration details? And one of these packages had the warning?

I have since tried to find a 'roadmap' of Chromium development but cannot seem to find any clear info. Can someone tell me where to find a clear list of support dates for Chromium on various versions of Debian so I can figure out what this might mean?

At least some people are working on the broader problem:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/ … post_open/