I have access to multiple POSIX desktops where my personal user account has different UID/GID.  I use an ext4 formatted portable SSD, which is great for my work, except for the permissioning issues arising from having different UID/GID on the different desktops.  I understand the design trade-offs of UID/GID permissioning, and synchronizing UID/GID across those desktops is not an option.  Is there a better solution than starting my work session on each desktop with:   sudo chown -R `id -un`:`id -gn` /media/$USER/disk   that   does not require root priviliege; does not unnecessarily write metadata (and wear the SSD); does not require the creation/management of additional groups or other UID/GID manipulations on any of the concerned desktops; does not require setting specific permission to individual files; and does not add (unnecessary) complexity?
I have an external USB 3 disk drive (2TB capacity) that is most likely going to be moved from machine to machine. The disk has a GUID partition table and an ext4 partition. I am unable to write to the disk unless I elevate the process (sudo).  As of now I am thinking of trying one or both of the following and would like to know the cons of each -   chmod 777 /mnt/externalDrive chown nobody:nogroup /mnt/externalDrive   If I give 777 permission and user1 (UID:1005) writes to it and I later move the disk to another computer where user7 is UID:1005, what happens? Does user7 become the owner of the file on that computer? It seems to me that I will periodically have to run chown -R nobody:nogroup /mnt/externalDrive on the disk.  Is any of what I am considering an obvious bad practice? The disk will most likely contain videos, music and pictures none of it need to be protected like some financial data.
Tags are not showing up on the right side of the screen This is on Stack Overflow. On Meta I'm able to see what the tags are on the right side of the screen. In fact, I think yesterday or some point earlier today I saw tags on the right side of the screen (I can't screenshot or remember correctly).  It's right above the asked and active heading.  I know this is minor but what happened to it? It might be useful for browsing instead of having to look at the bottom of the question post.    Found an image on Google and it shows the tags on the right side of the screen: How to cleanly launch a GUI app via the Terminal? right now when I connect to my VPN, my internet is served from my home router, but any requests for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx i.e. my works ip range are served via the vpn connection I believe.  How can I force all traffic to the vpn? Undo a particular commit in Git that's been pushed to remote repos Postfix SMTP banner show multiple hostnames How to amplify 3.3V to 10V by using an NPN transistor? How to select resistor based on current, how does the amplification happen? I am always confused about where to put adverbs in sentences. For example, consider the questions below:        Why did they target us specifically?   Why did they target specifically us?   Why did they specifically target us?      I believe all these sentences mean the same. Am I correct? I am always confused about where to put adverbs such as always and specifically, etc. Is there a particular grammar rule for this?  Funny, you see, I can even form the above sentence in different ways.         I always confuse where to put this kind of adverb   Always I confuse where to put this kind of adverb Allow moderators to fine-tune the effects of a lock Current Situation  When a moderator locks a question or answer, they can choose between different types of post notices: content dispute, off-topic comments, historical significance, wiki answer, or no notice. , but that it works this way is not clear to moderators and it is also not clear what effect a given notice has. The only way to find out for sure is to ask somebody who is not a moderator or use a sock. (This is due to moderator powers possibly overriding the effect of locks.)  Feature Request  Store the effects of a lock separately independent of the post notice. In the interface for locking a post, provide moderators with a checklist regarding the effects of the lock, for example:     This lock prevents:         answers   votes   flags   comments   edits      For questions, also add an option to apply the same lock to all answers to the question. For the canned lock reasons, automatically provide an appropriate choice as defaults.  At the very least make it clear in the dialogue what detailed effects a lock has.  Rationale  Post locks are used rarely, but when they are it is often for important reasons such as avoiding a divide of the community, an escalation of events, or similar. Thus, locks are a tool which moderators have little experience with, but whose correct use (i.e., choosing the right type of effects and knowing what the effects are) may be crucial. Moreover, many locks are used for special cases with individual needs, which in turn require individual locks.  In a specific example, there is a question on Academia, which lead answers and comments, whose appropriateness for the site is subject to a Meta discussion. To avoid further potentially inappropriate comments, answers, etc., I wished to lock question for the remainder of the Meta discussion. I chose content dispute as a lock reason, since it seemed most appropriate notice, however this only prevented edits to the question – which makes sense in other cases but not here. After I noticed this, I chose a historical lock (which I knew to be affecting everything) and removed the post notice (because it was not appropriate). The latter action lead to comments on answers being allowed (), which was not the desired effect either.  Related Questions    – This seems to be partially addressed: The different locks already do have different effects. However, my request goes further than this.  – This is about customising the notice not the effect.  – This would be addressed with this. Series of books featuring dragons, enchanted forests, magic swords, etc When I was younger I read a series of 3 or 4 books involving largely traditional mages/dragons/enchanted forests.  I'd like to buy it for some of my younger extended family members but I can't remember the name of it.  Here's what I remember from this:   I read the last book first, in which the son of a woman turned out to be largely one of the main characters in the other books takes an enchanted sword into a forest on a quest to do something. At one point in one of the earlier books the group was travelling through a swamp like area to get to a tower where a witch(or mage lived). There was a king (possibly the son's father) who was frozen in a castle during the last book. The evil mages/witches would melt (but not die) when some spell was cast on them. I read the series circa 1992 (estimated), comparable to the DragonLance series it was geared towards a younger audience (I don't remember any sex/brutal slayings of anyone). I believe in the first book the mother of the son in the last book runs away from home and becomes something of a maid to a dragon. I can't remember if there were evil dragons or not, I seem to remember that at least some of them were good (or at least largely neutral).   If I think of any other details I'll add them. What is the pressure at the center of the Earth? (Or a neutron star) The  has microgravity and is thought to be solid and almost 6000 degrees hot. What is the pressure like there? The confusing thing, for the common man I suppose, is that there's no gravity there, but lots of matter around it which does gravitate towards the center. How does that add up? Is the center just a gas cloud or is it highly compressed?  And I could add the aside question about what it is like in the microgravity center of a  or a black hole, but I don't expect anyone to know about that. Getting Error while starting Google Map v2 Get display resolution from the command line for Linux Desktop How to completely remove virtualbox I had installed VirtualBox but it started giving me problems. So I uninstalled it using:-  sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-\* sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-\*   But when I reinstalled VirtualBox it again resumed to previous settings and started giving same problems. How can i completely remove VirtualBox from my laptop and then reinstall it such that it wont give same problem again? How could a statement be true without proof? Godel`s incompleteness theorem states that there may exist true statements which have no proofs in a formal system of particular axioms. Here I have two questions; 1) How can we say that a statement is true without a proof? 2) What has the self reference to do with this? Godel sentence "G" can say that SUB(a,a, no prove) but could be this just arbitrarily judgement about non-provability of "a" because it may simply has a proof which is not yet revealed or discovered? I'm using  and trying to switch from Web Applications to Stack Overflow.   I enter sta into "Switch sites" field, but search showing unrelated results first (3D Printing, 3D Printing Meta, Software Engineering ...): How can I remove all duplicates so that NONE are left in a data frame? Are fractions with prime numerator and denominator dense? Wouldn't the thermodynamic cost of creating alternate universes make the Many Worlds interpretation implausible? I was thinking about the many interpretations of quantum physics, and one thing that never made sense to me was the many world's interpretation. Basically at any given moment for which something exists in a superposition, isn't this interpretation basically saying that there would have to exist a new universe for every possible discrete outcome that could result once the measurement is made?   So let's say an electron's location is a superposition of two distinct locations. Doesn't that mean there would at that moment have to be two distinct universes for each distinct location that is superposed? If so, then clearly the amount of universes being spawned every moment must be astronomical.   There could be trillions upon trillions of electrons(for instance) having superposed states, and then every moment in time (I suppose every planck time?), it seems there would have to be yet another set of universes spawning for every superposition.  How could this be? Surely there must be some kind of thermodynamic cost to replicate an entire universe. What would fuel or supply the additional mass and energy for every universe at every moment for every superposed state?  To my lay person's mind, this seems to be a very big weakness of this interpretation, but I needed to ask people with the physics background required to answer this question. Could there be some kind of loophole that could allow alternate universes to spawn so rapidly? Otherwise, doesn't this present a bit of a problem for taking this interpretation seriously? Remote Desktop Settings Missing I'm trying to setup remote connection to my Windows 10 machine. During the setup I noticed that my installation is missing some settings all the tutorials have. Can anyone tell me why I'm stupid and what I should do? Below you can find a screenshot of what I'm talking about. The first image is how it should be. The second picture is a screenshot on my machine.      Edit: After popular request, my windows version: How does MySQL process ORDER BY and LIMIT in a query?