Be careful if you buy a Samsung 8x0 SSD. They have long standing bugs that may cause data loss. They are worked around in the kernel, however you have to ensure that the workaround for your particular model exists in the kernel version you use.

It is not steganography. It's just cat original.png trojan > malicious.png.

I don't know, however this is impossible to understand what's wrong with your fonts.

What kind of changes? Package installation, removal and configuration? Use apt-mark showmanual to save list of manually installed packages, dpkg --get-selections | grep 'deinstall$' to save list of removed packages, debconf --get-selections to save debconf package settings, backup files that you edited in /etc. This should be enough for restoration, wouldn't take a long time for backup and avoid risk of filesystem inconsistency.

The standard answer: don't backup the system, automate its deployment instead. Backup only data.

The biggest problem that I see on this screenshot is that it is a compressed JPEG.

And also show ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d

It's the same across all POSIX compliant shells. zsh is not POSIX compliant.

touch a b c 'd e f' 'g h i'
for f in *; do ls -la "$f"; done

fxd

Try to avoid using any file manager (uninstall them all if it is difficult to avoid running them). So you will practice in using file manipulation commands.

Is it still alive? I switched to LibreTube and happy with it.

What is this? Looks like a website filled with info about projects unrelated to it and gathering donations for unknown purpose.

Why not use Privacy Badger to prevent usage of tracking cookies?

I recommend to throw away this drive because blocks that are readable and writeable now, may fail soon. But if you want to use it anyway, it is possible to collect a list of unaccessible blocks usong badblocks and pass it to mkfs to create a filesystem that ignores that blocks. IIRC this is described in man badblocks.

Don't do this. I'm unsure if this works in any distro, but if it does, this is unsecure.

Don't do this. I'm unsure if this works in any distro, but if it does, this is unsecure.

I have no idea what you are talking about. The answer to your question is: this is impossible and this is done for purpose. Don't try to work in linux like in windows.

Use bash-completion, it is much faster than clicking menus.

every distro I’ve tried has a strong sense that if you’re using the GUI you don’t need or deserve admin controls

GUI tools are not suited to be run as root in general. Few ones that are have special measures taken to prevent gaining privileges by another process, e. g. run a background non-GUI process as root and GUI communicating with it as an ordinary user. Such tools (package managers, system tweakers etc.) are usually configured to get required privileges via polkit (e. g. pkexec synaptic to run GUI package manager in Debian). Don't use sudo to run GUI programs!

You don't need to run any GUI programs as root.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux