I thought ICE stood for Internet Comment Etiquette

It was totally this, thanks!

I actually tried entering my password with caps lock on just in case, still didn’t work sadly

I encrypted it using Gnome Disks, haven’t had any problems with it for years until now

I tried mounting it normally with Dolphin on KDE Plasma, after it was giving me an error I tried unlocking it in terminal via sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 backups

Here’s the output of the command you sent: /dev/sda1: UUID="109ffa3d-6181-43cf-a813-fdd285386866" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="ac0402f1-01"

but I suspect that you will need to wipe the drive and set it up again while ensuring that the volume key is stored on the external drive itself.

Whenever I format a drive I just use Gnome Disks since it’s the easiest and it lets me encrypt it using LUKs as a option, I’ve never had an issue like this for years until now since whenever I’ve used Gnome Disks in the past it always lets me decrypt the drive on any other Linux machine

Hmm, what method did you use to back it up?

I used an app called “Pika Backups” , it shouldn’t effect LUKs at all tho and the backups themselves weren’t corrupted because it also lets me verify the integrity of the backup files which I did before distro hopping and I got no errors

it’s nice to have fun once in awhile

That’s not true.

The tools someone has has nothing to do with difficulty.

No way you aren’t ragebaiting

you forgot the /s

Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.

Emphasis on the “slowly”. It’s been four years!!

I unironically had a friend who hated Linux Mint for awhile because he believed for YEARS you always double click applications in the task bar like you would on your desktop. When he switched he was so furious how apps would crash and/or just not start until I told him “dude… just click it once”

I have no idea how this didn’t happen on Windows or how he never had something open up twice

Don’t ever tell them about that one quest in BOTW

Unironically, Ecosia has been working on a browser that’s currently in beta with a built in adblocker. Works really well!

my bad, I always assume not just because we’re on the topic of privacy but because of how Ecosia advertises itself as a privacy friendly alternative on their front page when it isn’t that at all that, much like the difference between apple.com/privacy and apple.com/legal/privacy

Your IP address and search terms are automatically shared with our search partners, Microsoft Bing or Google, when you search.

https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

Your search query, IP address and iirc fingerprint gets shown to Bing everytime you make a search, so it’s not private at all

Bazzite is my first true experience with an immutable distro, and wow, what a magical moment it was.

I’ve been eyeing on fedora 40’s release for some time now because it fixes all the Wayland problems for Nvidia cards. One night my grandma needed some help, so I walked away from my PC, it automatically suspended, came back 30 or so minutes later, and when I logged in I was just automatically on KDE 6 with fedora 40, didn’t even reboot.

This is truly the year of the Linux desktop.