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Alpine: How to forcibly remove a package even if it would break dependencies?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 0 down vote favorite I'm somewhat new to Alpine Linux but am very familiar with Linux overall. I've used many different distros, and most every one I've used has a command to force delete files from a package even if a dependency would break. I'm trying to build a super-minimal Linux with Alpine. I don't need linux-firmware as it installs firmware for everything, using up 300+MB of space. This is a stock installation. However I can't uninstall any of the linux-firmware packages: dev-alpine:~# apk del --force --force-broken-world linux-firmware World updated, but the following packages are not removed due to: linux-firmware: linux-vanilla OK: 504 MiB in 122 packages More than half the stock install is the firmware! Short of just deleting the files themselves (which will come back on an update!), how can I force Alpine to remove all the firmware files I don't need? (Given that the firmware files already see...

Unable to boot after attempting KVM passthrough of GTX1070.. broken /etc/default/grub?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 0 down vote favorite I got a Windows installation onto KVM under Ubuntu Server 18.04, and now I want to pass through my EVGA 1070 GTX card to Windows. I followed the instructions here (except that I had already set up my Win 10 guest). I got to the end of part 4 of this tutorial, tried to restart and since then have not been able to boot. With the monitor plugged into the GTX1070 (I did this at first by accident, but maybe it will help): and then I restarted and froze during boot at the line: vfio-pci 0000:43:00.0" vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io:mem:owns=io+mem With the monitor plugged into the Radeon, I just get a black screen (not even the motherboard screen). But also no "no-signal" indicator. The power light on the monitor flashes as if the computer were asleep. So it seemed obvious to me that the problem was with the changes I had made in step 4 (either to /etc/default/grub, /etc/modprob...

Book Identification - Children's sci-fi book about videogame aliens

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP .everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty margin-bottom:0; up vote 2 down vote favorite So when I was a kid, I remember reading a book about a kid playing a popular videogame, except all over the world, ships are starting to appear less and less in the levels. At one point, he's restarting the game and the very first three easy ships appear, and send him a message with a picture of some weird eggs with legs and something like "Please don't shoot! There are children on board!" He looks into it more, and instead of just being a glitch he finds out that there's actually a world inside the game, and each time people reload the videogame they're actually fighting new, different ships of an alien species and they're running out and almost dead. The kid transports into the other world somehow, and meets with the alien queen (they're bugs of course, I think the author was a fan of en...