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I sympathize with moderators, they make the forum work and not be full of crap, but at the same time they should moderate themselves a bit... also, I disagree with their AI position.

They are afraid that the forum will be overrun by AI slop, but AI is useful in many ways. I already broke the rule ...

Thanks for the confirmation, sorry for the back and forth with this one.

Sigh... I will fix it. Sorry about this.

Fixed deb here, coming to the repos shortly:
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/hom ... 2/binaries

Thanks for confirming, actually I release a .05 which doesn't need those dependencies, I was using them for convenience mostly because jq is very small and also because awk is on most of the systems but why use them if there's no need.

I am also thinking to remove that tooltip when hovering over ...

OK, I think I figured it out, you guys don't have the "awk" or "jq" command, I will add those as dependencies.

The "DEBUG: Exit code ... does not match..." should be harmless, but I will remove it because it might be confusing, I don't understand the issue and can't replicate it. The code is actually pretty simple:

if (asRoot && getuid() != 0) {
if (exitCode() == EXIT_CODE_PERMISSION_DENIED || exitCode ...

Sorry about this, I fix the ownership and permission when I do the other changes but I forgot to add for when editing the file, fix should come shortly though the repo.

Bash doesn't like spaces around =
It's actually annoying because it's nicer to leave spaces around operators, and it's not consistent with ( and [ either where you do have to leave space.

Just to clarify (maybe). even if you don't have persistence set up (that's a special file that is written while you use the system or when you shut it down), if the flashdrive is created with read/write system (not with dd) you should be able to do the updates in memory and then when you want to ...

AA BB wrote: Thu Aug 14, 2025 10:56 am ... I can log in with my user name using CTRL-ALT-F1...there is only one user account on the problem PC

Cool, did you check that Xorg log?