From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 22/01/2026 12:06, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-22 10:42, Marc Haber wrote:   
   >> "Carlos E.R."  wrote:   
   >>> On 2026-01-22 00:51, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:32:57 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> When repairing the computer, /home is out of commission, and text   
   >>>>> login does not work, for some reason.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If text logins don’t work, how would you expect GUI logins to work?   
   >>>   
   >>> I have seen it happen once.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nobody could login in text mode because one of the tools doing it was   
   >>> broken in an update, while the graphical login used different tools.   
   >>   
   >> I find it interesting which exotic use cases people cough up to   
   >> justify their own every-day insecure usage.   
   >   
   > Where do you get that I, or we, login every day as root?   
   >   
   It is the only assumption he can make to support an increasingly weak   
   debating position.   
      
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   only in others...”   
      
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