Well... of course only time will tell, but the fact that we've been doing that for sooo long... (me for ~20 years?) would imply that it might just be around for longer than snap/flatpak/etc
Of course, sometimes it's disguised as yay -S...
I must get around to looking into 2FA / MFA sooooon (next ~5 years)
Did you find it really straight forward to get setup?
I think the fear of getting started with these things is sometimes worth it (home system offline for days) but often it's quite simple...?
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I think others have generally caught this, but I wanted to simplify the point: the apps on your phone are not controlling your home, a computer is. If you don't use Google's, then you'll need to provide one.
Er. Am I the only one to comment that this is a refreshing change to all the displays in shops, airports, etc that show the many ways that Windows errors and BSODs?
Linux on the desktop? Hell no, it's on 80' billboards.
(It's not Arch btw)
So, Microsoft saved everyone from the bad Linux then?
/s
... searches for "Futa" on company laptop...
Best way: strip the whole thing down to 1 stick of RAM and do a memtest and then work back up.
Don't rule out a dodgy PSU with a floating power rail, so the first few RAM tests are also testing if the PSU is dying.
Whatever you do:
That means you'll really understand it and how to maintain it.
And others have said: 3-2-1 backups
This is a really good point - us "believers" probably don't glance at the negativity because we know it's (generally) incorrect, but how others perceive it can be hard to convince if all they read is negativity.
Consider that most people know a laptop runs an OS, so they can distinguish "Dell" from "Microsoft", so I'm often baffled why people stuggled when moving from WinXP to Vista / 7 (ie a whole new experience... and often asking where to get a hacked version for free), but when I suggest putting then they run away.
Yeah, I have trail sense installed - but everytime I'm out and about I just can't work out how to use the myriad functions it has (like how high something is, etc)...
I really ought to RTFM and try to use it properly
I'd also split #2 further:
2a: Using a domestic DSL router and Synology NAS to run everything 2b: Has a Raspberry Pi (or 6) maybe a 2nd repurposed old PC and possibly an unmanaged switch 2c: Full height 19" rack, UPS, firewalls, managed switches, full virtualisation with SAN, redundancy and 100Gb full fibre internet
I'm somewhere between 2b and 2c
I'm struggling with what appears to be buggy wifi on an old Lenovo laptop... I spent a moment just looking at the logs and appreciating whoever has spent time and energy trying to get this working, probably reverse engineering without any support... I wonder if that was Larry...?
This must've changed as I've shucked WD Elements / Book drives and they were normal drives...
So, you're saying the actual harddrive has a USB chipset onboard and only a USB interface?
When did this start happening?
Logseq.
I used Joplin in the past, but just didn't quite get completely comfortable with it.
I also tried Nextcloud in the past... that project has become too big for my needs and the file syncing had issues.
Logseq is very similar to Joplin (ie markdown files), but IMHO the editor is easier with Logseq, plus the files are just simple plaintext files, named after the page title, so are easy to edit outside of the application (and immediately update in the app)
At first, I was a little unsure of Logseq's default of working as a daily journal, but after a while it makes more sense for me - I use it at work, so 99.9% of my notes are meetings, tasks that occur during daily life... and of course those daily journals can refer to other "non-time based" project pages...
I also use syncthing to sync the notes between android phone, linux and Windows laptops and my NAS... so that wouldn't change for you.
+1 for Radicale as a CalDAV server
The calendar on Vivaldi browser is a good enough client for me on a laptop.
I also sync to my phone with DAVx5 and view with fossify calendar from F-Droid
Logseq it defaults to a daily journal and uses Markdown files (again, daily files by default)
It has a whiteboard function and can "embed" images, videos, etc (they're obviously links to asset files stored separately to the markdown text file...)
There's an Android app which I sync to Windows and Linux machines via syncthing - the App doesn't have plugin support yet, but IMHO, on the phone, I just want to type notes...
It can be hosted on a web server, but I have not tried that (more resources to setup & maintain from my POV)
I tried Obsidian and Joplin in the past, but this just seems to be simpler, opener (if that's a word) and fits to my needs easily.
There's also a load of videos on youtube to get started...
I'm kinda repeating things already said here, but there's a couple of points I wanted to highlight...
Monitor the SMART health: Enterprize and consumer drives fail, it's good to know in advance.
Plan for failure: something will go wrong... might be a drive failure, might be you wiping it by accident... just do backups.
Use redundancy; several cheapo rubbish drives in a RAID / ZFS / BTRFS pool are always better than 1 "good" drive on it's own.
Main point: build something and destroy it to see what happens, before you build your "final" setup - experience is always better than theory.
I built my own NAS and was going with ZFS until I fkd around with it.. for me... I then went with BTRFS because of my skills, tools I use, etc... BTRFS just made more sense to me... so I know I can repair it.
And test your backups 🎃
Post it to me?
Thank you. I went quite light headed laughing about your statement.
Logseq. That is all. (Oh, and syncthing...)
Yeah, I can understand RAM use in htop, but not in top
Also, the Tree View makes it easy to see which part of has become a zombie, etc.
Agreed... with a timestamp on the video this was the best advice I had after a housefire.
Yep, look into Wake On LAN if you just want to power the NAS on remotely.
My NAS also powers on at certaIn times of day and off again after a while - IF - no-one's connected / no network traffic / etc.
I do NOT need my NAS on at 3am...
Edit : forgot to say, check out OpenMediaVault
I tried to use rEFInd years ago on my first UEFI machine, gave up and ended with GRUB... maybe it was just a crap setup and I need to try again...
But, how about backing up just the boot sectors / EFI partition with a dd command and then just restoring it again? Not a slick solution, I agree
TBH, if a distro doesn't give me options during install then I'd probably stop there as every update to GRUB could be automatically installed and blat your machine again.
Install nmon - it's a CLI tool to show system load Run it and press 'd' to show disk usage, then 'l' to show a longterm graph, then '-' to speed it up. If your storage is the issue you'll see it here - and potentially which drive(s) are affected.
Came here to say this too... I contribute a few €/£/$ per month to various projects...
I won't get all righteous here, but just because you don't have to pay, doesn't mean you to say you can't support the developer(s)...
No way!
Generally, user interfaces are hard work. If you just want to code, then having a web app means you're already 50% done.
Actually should be 90% done, but each browser has differences which means more coding... I'm looking at you, Internet Explorer
Maybe not watching it per se, but it's nice to catch a problem before I reboot (ie a grub upgrade failure for example)
I came here to +1 Mint
I've installed it on 3 laptops for different family groups and had 0 problems with either the laptops or the family using them
To clarify that - with Ubuntu the UI was just a tiny step too different (than Win XP) for them to feel comfortable using... with Mint, no problems.
The laptops vary, but 1 is ~12 yr old, another is new (well, 3 yr old now), but Mint was installed to dual-boot Win 10 when new.
I use Arch btw
Ooh, didn't know libvirt supported clusters and live migrations...
I've just setup Proxmox, but as it's Debian based and I run Arch everywhere else, then maybe I could try that... thanks!
Using my real surname for email was ok a few years ago, but I don't have a common surname, and with GeoIP I just felt having a personally identifiable domain name / URL was 1 step towards lack of privacy.
For example anyone lookong for nextcloud.thatstheguy.com was going to be fairly confident they were brute-forcing MY system. (Yes, I know, MFA...)
Short & snappy is a much better approach IMHO
Feb 2034: grammer correction: there are no humans.
Be aware that some old laptops had weird combined chipsets that Linux just can't use... I tried putting Linux Mint on a friend's laptop for their kids to use and the networking (wifi and cable) just wouldn't work... it was something that only Win98 / WinXP could use (from memory).
So just try anything in case you just need to ditch it - as someone else mentioned, treat it as a learning exercise.
As an All-In-One, I use Parted Magic
It costs money, but I use it for work, so the money is totally worth it, just for the GUI environment.
But, for most things, all I ever need is gparted, smartctl / smartmon and maybe grub - I believe all that's on Arch ISO
Oh, and CloneZilla...
I think others have covered the main points, but I found it hard going for 1 device (ie a Ras Pi, VM, etc), but then it was effortless when I wanted to add a 2nd (or more...), so at first pick the sensible uses, then consider ansible for that one-off device a little later...
I like a few specific utils (tmux, nmon, htop) on all my devices: ansible script
I want to update all the Ras Pis in the house: ansible script
You get the picture...
This is a great explanation and probably the best one I've read... ever?
(Without referring to a 400 page Cisco book)
Yep, completely agree. We only (really) learn when we make mistakes.
I usually aim to do my "first" (of whatever) as best I can, but totally prepared to wipe & restart...