Tangential, but anyone passing by this comment and doesn’t like popcorn after working at a theater?
Whenever I see a bowl of popcorn it reminds me of that smell of popcorn and coke mixed together in a garbage can. It’s not so bad that I don’t eat it at all. But if I do, I have very little.
Fine points. And I am considering that simplicity might be worth it. Except for:
Another fix might be moving towards software that doesn’t require the capacity to reverse updates frequently.
Totally solid advice, but I love my rolling release distro though. So for the time being I’m willing to accept the associated risk.
Your comment as well as @stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net were really food for thought for me. stupid_asshole69 advising against, and yours as a cautionary tale.
This would be a complex stack to accomplish my goal. It occurs to me that it’d be mdadm (raid 1) > LUKS > btrfs since btrfs can’t do encryption which is right in the middle of that stack, so I couldn’t use it’s raid 1 functionality. If any of those pieces break, all the protection they would have otherwise provided me goes out the window.
And I’m not really worried about losing data. I already backup my personal files and most of my configs. The appeal with this kind of setup is the data redundancy and fairly quick recovery. But a partition clone like what saved you also works pretty well for that purpose. I don’t know what I’ll do just yet, but definitely taking all that in to consideration.
I wasn’t familiar with timeshift so I took a look at it. My primary use case for snapshots is to take one before updates. So I can load from the snapshot if there’s issues. It doesn’t look like using it with ext4 would fulfill this use-case. But it looks like it also supports btrfs snapshots so could be useful as a UI to configure that.
Hearing roughly a decade of successful use, especially on systems with constrained resources, certainly makes me lean further towards btrfs.
its RAID ≠ 0/1/10 are buggy, but 0/1/10 are considered reliable.
btrfs has been solid and done everything I could want. It was a huge upgrade from mdadm and lvm
@ikidd@lemmy.world said that btrfs is poor at software RAID. I’ll do a little research in to how it fares for RAID 1 vs mdadm. I don’t see any reason I couldn’t do mdadm>luks>btrfs if that’s the better choice. But if btrfs is reliable and with comparable performance, I’d certainly rather do that.
It’s the shits at software RAID, but that’s rarely a thing on a workstation.
I am using a RAID 1 mirror over two disks. So that’s good to know. I’ll do a little research and see if it’s better to let mdadm handle that.
Look at
btrfs-assistantfor adminstration. That’s what Fedora ships with, I think it uses Snapper in the backend.
Doesn’t look like that’s in the void repo. But that’s ok, I don’t mind learning the command line tools.
I don’t know specifically about a medical lab tech program. But I do know about clinical software in general. It is by and large proprietary Widows software. Seems like something you may encounter. But said software could be delivered via Citrix, which does have a Linux client.
My personal experience gaming solely on Linux for about two years is a 100% success rate running Windows games. Mind you I don’t play anything that has anti-cheat. And maybe 85%-90% without needing to fiddle with anything.
I feel like I was aware of this (much time has passed), but I think it’s something we discovered by trying it out of curiosity.
I was aware of this, but I think it’s something we discovered by trying it out of curiosity.
Reminds me of the Ferd Fteenthousand. https://youtu.be/F8P5vGcf-NU
Gross. I didn’t know that. I do occasionally use AirBnB. I’m aware of their impact on the rental market, so I favor hotels most of the time. But there have been a few occasions in recent years where I was traveling in a larger group and an AirBnB made more sense. But no more of that.
I looked in to this a little, and Joe Gebbia is no longer the CEO, but he is still on the board. Still a good enough reason to boycott.
NixOS is a declarative distro. Meaning it you can declare pretty much every aspect of it from what software is installed to how the system is configured from a config file.
Using your calandar example, you can list Thunderbird (or whatever) as a package you want in the configuration and it will be installed. You can also use that same configuration on another machine and produce the same environment.
Relevant to the original point, since all your software is listed in a text file, you can easily see exactly what’s installed.
Void for desktop/laptop. These are the things I like about it.
Debian for my server. But I plan to migrate to Devuan.
I’ll try this! I used to use caldav via my mail provider with DAVx5, but I had problems with it not retaining notification settings with recurring events.
I don’t know if that’s a problem with their caldav server, DAVx5, or my phone’s calendar. But worth trying with radicale and see if it works.
My kneejerk response to this was negative. “Oh, another distro spinoff”. But I read the article and the front page of their site. It feels to me it’s trying to be to Fedora what Mint is to Ubuntu. And I hear good things about Mint.
While I take issue with both base distros (Ubuntu, Fedora). I’m also of the opinion that Fedora is better, relatively speaking. So, maybe this has more of a place than I initially thought.
For those like myself who hadn’t heard of GoToSocial and are curious what it is but don’t want to watch a video, it is as you might guess an ActivityPub based microblogging platform. With a focus on smaller instances capable of running on low end hardware. According to their site, anyway. https://gotosocial.org/
It’s a novel idea. But despite the article’s claims this is not a practical alternative to a laptop in planes, coffee shops, etc. Nor is a minipc inherently more serviceable than a laptop as others have pointed out.
For traveling, if it’s a longer trip, it almost makes sense to me as you’d have it set up for a while. Though I’d do a mini ITX system. The ones with external power supplies and no drive bays or expansion slots are pretty small. But even then, I don’t feel like this would be significantly better than a laptop. And that’s a lot to buy for a niche use case.
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I was able to retain time and money for gaming and other hobbies by having a vasectomy.
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