@FaheemMitha That is simply not true. A pendrive is usually seen as a hard drive.

@FaheemMitha That is nothing you need to worry about. Assume that the computer could run the version of linux for which there is an ISO placed on the pendrive. Further assume that all that is needed is a temporal "live" version of the OS, or just to load and start an OS "installer". In short, leave the problems of what an ISO does to the actual ISO.

@Isaac So you're planning to run the OS off the pen drive entirely?

I.e. use the pen drive i.e. external USB drive for storage as well?

@FaheemMitha Yes, for the rare occasion that some laptop needs booting to repair something.

@Isaac I guess you can do it that way, as long as you have it properly configured beforehand.

@FaheemMitha Yes, but not meant to be done while running an OS from the pen-drive. But when a pendrive is needed as an actual pen-drive: to store some data (files) in a running system.

@FaheemMitha So, the pen-drive could be dual purpose: To boot and to store some (a few) files.

Hi all :-)

I have a little question if I may... I do use SE sites as a note journal where most of the time i write self answered QA in form of articles and sometime my QA kind a get a little broad/non-focused, while the answer do answer the question like this last one unix.stackexchange.com/questions/593570/…

I started by writing a focused version and noticed I can easily extend the info to other systems... so i did, but on the other hand the question get broad/not-focused... do you have any advice on this?

(it's just to avoid closure of the question and to respect the site rules)

(I am still editing the QA)

@Isaac I thought the plan was to use the external drive for storage when bootting from it.

@intika I'm not sure what question you are talking about.

Did you post the link?

@FaheemMitha If possible, ok, but not a main requirement.

@FaheemMitha Yes, he did

I king a found an alternative... I'll make the question more focused while leaving the answer targeting more systems

Question: what is TigerVNC, and what makes it special?

Maybe just an example, but why not just make it general?

I just want to comply with the site rules... my previous QA unix.stackexchange.com/questions/596894/… get a lot of attention and lot of viewer complained about it being too broad... so I am trying to fix that / comply with the rules

I guess I'll leave it general and see what happen, and may be update/change the question if it does not please

@intika A broad question means that it doesn't admit a sufficiently short answer.

Since SE isn't designed as an encyclopedia, questions and answers are supposed to be relatively short and focused on a specific issue.

are QA kind a limited in size ?

Hummm gotcha

@intika Yes, there is a built-in size limit. Around 30k char, I think, from memory. That may be wrong.

How-to recipes are usually ok as long as they aren't too long.

that make sens

In doubt I suggest posting what you want. It can always be edited if necessary. You can ask for feedback here after posting it, too.

There are usually people here who will offer feedback, unless the topic is very specialised.

If your question applies to all VNCs, I would just make it about all VNCs.

I wouldn't post information that applies only to a specific VNC unless someone has asked for it.

yes indeed, behind the scene is that I need those infos myself and basically I am just sharing the infos instead if keeping them on an offline note

but yes sometimes it does not match the site structure :)

@intika You could possibly include information specific to particular VNCs in a separate section, but that sort of thing dates quite badly. Bear in mind that SE is supposed to be generally useful.

@FaheemMitha thanks for the clarifications and suggestion :)

I'll see what i can do

How exactly would I figure out if my touchpad is capable of multitouch?

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@FaheemMitha I might adjust this guidance slightly; SE does intend to be a respository of Q's and A's. The Q's should be answerable. A narrower Question with a broader Answer is probably the best of all words. (cc @intika)

Would one consider a screenshot to be a download, a scan, or neither?

Can someone check if mutualfund.adityabirlacapital.com/portal/investor/quick-invest/… opens? It hangs here for me. It was fine a couple of days ago.

I tried Chromium, Chrome and Firefox, and none of them work here.

@FaheemMitha it's a picture ;)

@FaheemMitha a few things load but it doesn't seem to complete. And probably not just because of no-script.

@AndrasDeak You mean an image? Should it be in a separate category, then?

@AndrasDeak Ok. Would it be hard to diagnose what goes wrong?

A surprisingly large number of these Mutual Fund sites have problems.

Yeah, I wouldn't think it's either of those. And gnome saves screenshots in ~/Pictures, I thought you were busy with that again

@FaheemMitha for me, yes. I don't know any JS. I could only check that there's a big red error that says "ERROR TypeError: can't access property "SchemeDetails", e is null"

@AndrasDeak "I was busy what that again"?

@AndrasDeak I don't know any JS either. And I don't want to risk my fragile sanity on trying to debug web pages.

Just wanted to check if their was something weird here stopping this page from loading.

@FaheemMitha there's a chance it's impossible to debug from outside

@AndrasDeak Oh, that. No, I just have a directory hierarchy, where I put files.

@AndrasDeak Reporting bug reports in India is usually not a good way to spend the time.

@FaheemMitha I'd put it in its own category, same level as scans

And I was wondering if I should create a new directory, or use one of the exsting ones.

I already have scans and downloads.

@AndrasDeak Category called screenshots?

@FaheemMitha yup. downloads, scans, screenshots.

@AndrasDeak Ok, thanks.

nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html

Is Sweden a success or not

or a "myth"