People have already given direct answers, and the indirect answer of ‘set up regular automated backups’ (which everyone should set up right now if they haven’t already), but for the sake of throwing another option out there, people could take a look at ‘trash-cli’: https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli

(P.S. I know OP might not have actually deleted the files with ‘rm’, but this addresses a broadly similar issue.)

I think it’s worth emphasising here: Don’t put it off!

There are millions who can tell you from experience that good intentions count for nothing when it comes to backups.

I’d recommend going and setting up Timeshift right now: https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

It’s easy to set up, it takes literally 10 minutes, and if you decide later you want to use something else, you can just uninstall Timeshift and delete its backups. But in the meantime you’ll be protected with backups.

It’s literally the first thing I install on a new system and it’s saved me multiple times from having to do a complete reinstall.

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/BlYeM

The Football Association’s (FA) rules state teams must wear colours that distinguish them from each other.

(from: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68579553)

Sorry to hear about your gravitas situation, times are tough for many of us 😆

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There are new claims being published.

Recent article: https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies-in-gaza-alleges-human-right-group

(Euronews MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/euronews/)

Yeah, I’m surprised it hasn’t been deleted for being against the rules.

Here’s a recent article from an actual news organisation: https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies-in-gaza-alleges-human-right-group

And their MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/euronews/

It plans to open 900 new stores in the U.S. and 1,900 in some of its bigger international markets like Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company said it plans another 7,000 stores in other international markets; more than half of those would be in China.

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Title is missing a word or two. Should be ‘Likelihood that average global temperature to will rise …’ or something.

You should probably put this warning in the body text of the post and/or a [NSFL] in the title

I think they’ve combined politics with the circus. Now even people who think they’re paying attention are really just watching a show.

I’d assume the normal procedure in the case of bankruptcy would be to donate their collection to another appropriate museum. The article seems to me to indicate the museum is a charitable foundation, so it’s not like they have investors that need to recoup their losses in the event the museum is wound up.

This article is from December 2022.

Wayback archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230312112812/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11494991/Switzerland-BAN-electric-cars-roads-power-shortages.html

Switzerland will ban the use of electric cars for ‘non-essential’ journeys if the country runs out of energy this winter, the government has announced.

I’m sure they have the same plans in place if there is a gasoline shortage, and this will have been prompted by a methane shortage due to sanctions on Russia. Hardly grounds for a hit piece on electric cars.

As well as the environmental benefits, the replacement could offer significant solutions for the food industry allowing manufacturers to satisfy increasing consumer demand for lower fat, healthier food products.

That makes it sound like it’s not a fat at all, which is… interesting.

EDIT: Not just a fat, anyway, in light of this passage:

a novel ingredient composed of a linseed industry by-product, fibre and rapeseed [canola] oil

The demonym for Niger is ‘Nigerien’, but it’s an understandable mistake in spelling since the difference in pronunciation isn’t really in the ‘-ian’/‘-ien’ part.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/424159/pay-gap-between-ceos-and-average-workers-in-world-by-country/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_conflicts

New to Linux so I’m sorry if I’m being ignorant, but it does seem crazy you can get access to a machine without the password.

This is always the case, no matter what OS you use, unless you use full-disk encryption. User credentials are all just data on a disk, so if someone has physical access to your machine, and your disk isn’t encrypted, then they can access (and change) those credentials or any other data.

See also: https://ostechnix.com/reset-windows-password-with-linux-live-cd/

What’s even the point of having a password

As you say, preventing remote access is one, but also a password will slow someone down a bit, and stop low-knowledge adversaries entirely, possibly. Also you will at least know someone has messed with your machine if they change the password.

Really, though, there’s nothing malicious someone can do to an unencrypted computer by changing the password that they couldn’t do without changing the password (copy all your files, delete all your files, install malicious software). Except I guess annoying you by making you change your password back. 😆