Data recovery assistance for a complete noob.

Hi all,

I'm sorry to start off from such a basic state but googling isn't helping me particularly well.

Problem: accidentally deleted an entire home video folder from a cheap NAS that didn't have a recycle bin option enabled.

Actions so far: immediately powered off NAS and removed drive, and have tried using some free windows software to recover data. Program was known to be good for windows drives but i'm having trouble with the drive being EXT2/4, Ext drivers for windows haven't helped.

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I have a spare PC temporarily that i'd like to install linux on and try to recover the deleted data - would anyone be able to talk me through this or point me in the right direction? I have no experience with Linux other than setting up a basic NAS using OpenMediaVault on a RasPi 4.

Many thanks in advance!

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Wireguard VPN

wireguard vpn in linux kernel, and I wanted to know what you think? do you like the idea or not?

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This week in KDE: Plasma 5.18 in two days
https://pointieststick.com/2020/02/08/this-week-in-kde-plasma-5-18-in-two-days/

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Nothing has changed....
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Does anyone actually know what happened to Pear OS?

I know it got "bought" by a "big company" but many speculate that Apple forced the developer to take it down. Does anyone actually know what happened with 100% confidence?

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Boot sequence when waking pc.

I recently came across a problem where my keyboard and trackpad stop working after waking pc. Did some googling and most of the solutions are pointing to grub configuration/kernel parameters which lead me to my question. Is grub somehow loaded before the kernel during wake from suspend?

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cron.weekly issue #120: sudo, CoreOS, uq, Ubuntu & more
https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/issue-120/

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Make your /tablet/computer as a secondary monitor on Linux.

VirtScreen is an easy-to-use Linux GUI app that creates a virtual secondary screen and shares it through VNC.

VirtScreen is based on [PyQt5](https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro) and [asyncio](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html) in Python side and uses [x11vnc](https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc) and XRandR.


[https://github.com/kbumsik/VirtScreen](https://github.com/kbumsik/VirtScreen)

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Learn about the UNIX history between line addressing in Vim

Hello everyone!

I recently started a blog (new year's resolution!) where I post about Vim. I posted my first article [over on the Vim reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/epig4f/learn_about_the_darker_corners_of_substitute/), and some people suggested I talk more about ranges and addresses.


I'm sure a lot of you know that Vim has an addressing system, in which you can refer to line with numbers (or special symbols), like with \`:1,5w myfile\` to write line one to five of the current buffer to \`myfile\`.

I honestly didn't know much about it, so I did my research and wrote a second post! I talk about:

* What is exactly an address, a range, and what are the differences
* **Some text editor history** and how addresses came to be what they are today
* Some quirks of ranges, and a few shortcuts

This is not a "Vim tricks compilation" kind of post, as I try to go in depth and really explain where addresses come from. I am aware that not everyone here uses Vim, but I thought some of you might appreciate the bits of Unix history!

I would love any feedback you guys can give me

[Here is the article](https://nikodoko.com/posts/vim-ranges)

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Copy-left behind: Permissive MIT, Apache open-source licenses on the up as developers snub GNU's GPL
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/17/mit_apache_versus_gpl/

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Flatseal - A permissions manager for Flatpak (you can use it to deny network access to the apps you don't trust)
https://flathub.org/repo/screenshots/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal-stable/752x423/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal-f3247a8229e96894bb5052308e1b96d8.png

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Linus Torvalds Just Made A Big Optimization To Help Code Compilation Times On Big CPUs
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddad21d3e99c743a3aa473121dc5561679e26bb

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This week in KISS Linux (#10)
https://getkiss.org/blog/20200209a

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Access Windows Shared D Drive On Ubuntu?

I shared the D: Drive on my windows 10 PC and now I want to access that drive on my laptop running Ubuntu. How do I access the shared drive from my laptop?

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[Solution] Migrating to Linux and the ms office problem for Students.

Well if you are a university student you are probably facing this problem, but I got two solutions for you.

PS: This tutorial is for beginners like me. Probably users will say a lot of things against ms office, but if you are a student you have to adjust with your local library set doc format, which will be dependent on ms office. So, take a deep breath and lets start.

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**First option**: WPS office. Why? Well, its the one which best suited me in many aspects which are more similar to ms office and doesn't unset the doc format.

Step one: download and stall: [https://www.wps.com/](https://www.wps.com/)

Steps two: open your Linux terminal and type this commands:

sudo su

sudo apt install msttcorefonts

Thats it, your docs will probably be very similar to office ms. But if you still have some problems, see the seccond option. If you need more help on these steps check this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3R58a0cg0Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3R58a0cg0Y)

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Seccond option: Office 365 online.

Why? Well, it\`s free for students and you will have no problems at all with unset formats. Even better, your documents will always be on cloud, so its always saved for you. Believe me, you can adapt to use office on your browser and having everything on cloud is safe from losing it on crashed pendrives. Lets start:

Step one: Make an institutional email on your educational institution. You will need it to prove that you are an actual student.

Step two: put your institutional student email and log in with it to this ms link: [https://www.microsoft.com/pt-br/education/students](https://www.microsoft.com/pt-br/education/students)

step three: Wait for ms office email you, normally it took less than 24 hours.

Well, it's simple, but these simple steps took me from fully migrating to Linux for almost a year when I finally discovered all these possibilities. I wish it help you someway.

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Cya

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Linux is a way of life
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Rust's Freedom Flaws | Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:rusts_freedom_flaws

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Convergent file manager from KDE about to hit most major platforms
https://twitter.com/projectmaui/status/1226620216282619909?s=21

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New Issue of Linux++ Published for your Perusing!
https://medium.com/linux-plus-plus/linux-february-9-2020-3d6c5727c033

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Histogram of all commands in my /usr/bin by length (total 5006)
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Review of EasyOS with point and click containers
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200210#easyos

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