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The Fedora box just updated to Plasma 6.6. I should be grateful to the developers who have been working so hard for several months. What I'm
really grateful for is after downloading 800 GB of files it restarted and looks the same as it always did.

The login screen looked about the same. I typed in my password and was
good to go. As long as that happens I really don't give a damn what it is.
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On 2/19/26 00:57, rbowman wrote:

The Fedora box just updated to Plasma 6.6. I should be grateful to the developers who have been working so hard for several months. What I'm
really grateful for is after downloading 800 GB of files it restarted and looks the same as it always did.

The login screen looked about the same. I typed in my password and was
good to go. As long as that happens I really don't give a damn what it is.

Any 'new great things' about 6.6 ? Maybe an AI
that spies and reports ?

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On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:00:43 -0500, c186282 wrote:

On 2/19/26 00:57, rbowman wrote:

The Fedora box just updated to Plasma 6.6. I should be grateful to the
developers who have been working so hard for several months. What I'm
really grateful for is after downloading 800 GB of files it restarted
and looks the same as it always did.

The login screen looked about the same. I typed in my password and was
good to go. As long as that happens I really don't give a damn what it
is.

Any 'new great things' about 6.6 ? Maybe an AI that spies and reports
?

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/

You can't imagine how thrilled I am by the ability to choose a skin tone
for emojis. I don't see anything else I would use.
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On 2/19/26 14:03, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:00:43 -0500, c186282 wrote:

On 2/19/26 00:57, rbowman wrote:

The Fedora box just updated to Plasma 6.6. I should be grateful to the
developers who have been working so hard for several months. What I'm
really grateful for is after downloading 800 GB of files it restarted
and looks the same as it always did.

The login screen looked about the same. I typed in my password and was
good to go. As long as that happens I really don't give a damn what it
is.

Any 'new great things' about 6.6 ? Maybe an AI that spies and reports
?

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/

You can't imagine how thrilled I am by the ability to choose a skin tone
for emojis. I don't see anything else I would use.

Do they have THAT now ? Wokie Horrors ... !!!

After my ffmpeg probs I re-installed a box today
with Deb Trixie. We'll see. LXDE spin, of course.

Did download a netinst OpenSUSE Leap as a backup plan.
Alas my download speed is SHIT ... alleged 5G
router ... it's often worse than my old defunct
DSL connection .....

But about all I can get. Most providers now want
a bank routing number for charges. I think putting
those numbers out there is a DISASTER in (short)
waiting based on the dismal 'security' news blurbs.
In USA you have a number of PROTECTIONS for CC
fraud, but NONE if you give routing numbers.

So, what's next for KDE ... tranny emojies, a
happy face with a beard, and titties ? :-)

Trixie, so far, looks good. Even the VNC worked
first time. Installed stuff for Pico and Ard
dev too. The BMax mini box has 500gb main, and
I added a 1tb SATA SSD (fits inside) and a 500gb
USB->M.2

Did, after some looking, rediscover a short little
shell script that resets everything on the USB bus.
Run that a few seconds after reboot - the effect
is like if you'd plugged in the USB devices after
boot, tends to put them into a standard order and
ensures they're available. THEN mount using LABEL=
in fstab. The '_netdev' option helps.

Getting USB devices, even SATA drives, to mount where
you WANT them to has always been a pain in Linux.
What's sdc today might be sda on the next boot.
Using "LABEL=" is often the best fix. Longer back
I'd have to find the drives, UN-mount them and
then RE-mount where I wanted, ugly scripts.

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On 20/02/2026 08:33, c186282 wrote:

Getting USB devices, even SATA drives, to mount where
-a you WANT them to has always been a pain in Linux.

Use the UUID e.g.
/etc/fstab

UUID=3e48d310-2e08-44f8-8505-c38844132ab8 / ext4
errors=remount
-ro 0

lsblk -f shows the ids

NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda
roLroCsda1
roe vfat 3B2E-0C1C 511M 0% /boot/efi
roLroCsda2
roe
rooroCsda5
ext4 3e48d310-2e08-44f8-8505-c38844132ab8 91.9G 55% /
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Any fool can believe in principles - and most of them do!



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On 2026-02-20 09:33, c186282 wrote:

-a Getting USB devices, even SATA drives, to mount where
-a you WANT them to has always been a pain in Linux.
-a What's sdc today might be sda on the next boot.
-a Using "LABEL=" is often the best fix. Longer back
-a I'd have to find the drives, UN-mount them and
-a then RE-mount where I wanted, ugly scripts.

It is being recommended for many years not to use sda, sdb, sdc, etc,
but instead use label, uuid, etc. Not a problem at all to have fixed
names and to mount them where you want.
--
Cheers,
Carlos E.R.
ESEfc-Efc+, EUEfc-Efc|;
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