Second this. In the spirit of a 3-2-1 backup scenario, I also like to keep a copy on SpiderOak or Proton Drive and that works well for me. Encrypted cloud storage is my recommendation. And store your key file someplace apart from the database.
For real. Last year we finally got some competition against Spectrum and their customer service is actually worse than Spectrum. I didn’t imagine that was possible
Agreed. Tried NextDoor years ago and found it was primarily a venue for busybodies, nosy neighbors and HOAs to complain and nag people about nonsense. I love the idea of an app like this, but hate the people who use it the most.
Since Windows ME, a system update was always a risk. You never know when some BS like this might happen. It taught me at a young age to turn off automatic updates and only update when necessary and ready to do some troubleshooting.
Thanks for this. Good to know! I haven’t taken the leap yet. I’ll plan the upgrade when we will be on vacation…
This is why I don’t update unless absolutely necessary. I’m only running a local instance so it is less of a security issue. Once I land on a working version, I’m gonna go ahead and stick with that as long as I can.
To expand on this, I have witnessed small, indie channels have their content copied, processed through AI so it is stripped of audio, watermarks and re-edited. Then it is posted as a new video. When it is reported as a fake, or pirated copy, or not original content, Google then puts the burden of proof on the small indie channel that originally created the content, often requiring them to lawyer up and file a legal complaint, before they will take any action to remove the AI slop. It is fucking absurd. It would only take a real person about 60 seconds to compare the content and dates to determine who is the theif.
I used Ubuntu on an old Surface Pro and it worked really well.
I trialed several distros on my Precision 3550 and settled on Garuda. No regrets!!
I don’t know anything about that but it sounds interesting. If you have any sources for further reading about sandboxing vs paravirtualization, I’d like to read up on it
I find it odd that the author didn’t mention secureblue at all. I wonder why they didn’t consider that option?
I like notebooks like OneNote, Obsidian, etc for this purpose. I can keep things organized, broswer plugins to send direct to the notebook and even save a PDF or screenshot of the page if I want to.
I’m eagerly awaiting an update to Eternity. It was the best! For now I’m using Connect
Thanks for this! I’m looking forward to trying this. Would you have any recommendations for implementing this on an existing Arch system that’s already LUKS and BTRFS with snapper preconfigured?
I’ve been looking for something like Macrium Reflect for Linux and this sounds like the solution!
Currently I’m just using Clonezilla to image the entire drive on occasion. Your solution seems much more elegant
With great power comes great responsibility
I do too. Though to be fair to OP, Garuda didn’t advise about the vlc problem either. I had to go hunting on my own to figure it out. But anyway, still loving Garuda and it is much less painful than any other OS I’ve ever used.
I use Garuda on my daily driver and I love it. I distro hopped for years and I’m finally home. It’s not hard like trying to do your own Arch from scratch. It’s like some super geek setup Linux for me with all the bells and whistles just the way I want it. I had to ditch the dragon theme and then it was perfect. And snapper is so well setup and integrated with Garuda, there’s rarely a case where a clean install is warranted. I highly recommend it.
I’ve had similar experiences moving to Linux on various machines. I don’t yet understand the pattern. Why do some distros work better on some machines than others?
I have an original MS Surface Pro. Ubuntu works best on it, imo.
I have a 10 year old Asus laptop that has all kinds of seemingly random issues - currently on Mint but about to migrate to OpenSuse.
I have a 4 year old Dell laptop and it likes Garuda the best.
Go figure.
I love Ventoy for this reason. I can try 8 different distros till I find one that works best on a particular machine.
This process sounds very flexible. Got a link about how to set this up?
Great read! I wonder what his perspective is now. That article was written in August 2024 and a lot has happened since then. For example, I cannot fathom the agreement to Sundar’s latest pay package. Another example of failing up the corporate ladder.
Also, it feels like competition with China was an overlooked wildcard in his argument. It would not surprise me if the bubble continues to grow just to try and beat China.