Ah, you need The Reg online standards converter

So, a 1kg brick = 0.1149 Adult Badger

I think that’s the point (.txt)

True, but that would be a phone app which has to come from an official (US) app store on a phone that is using offical (US) firmware…

I’m all for having a financial system that we can use 100% disconnected from the US, but it’s the details that makes this hard, not the initial concept of e-Money.

But, back to the original point, I don’t know how interest would work on money in an eWallet. I’d want to keep all my funds earning for me, which means loaning to others and then getting something back… so I don’t want those transactions sitting in a 0% “safe” place… I’m either saving or spending.

So, if we can just have a EU version of Visa / Mastercard as step 1 that would be best. I think that’s just arriving…

CalDAV is all you need

I setup Nextcloud and then realised no one used it’s Calendar, or contacts, or basically anything - it was just being used as a sync hub for phones.

So, I ditched it for Radicale. Waaay less maintenance.

DAVx5 on the phones with Fossify Calendar & Tasks(.org) apps from FDroid.

They do all the alerting.

On the desktop Vivaldi has a good built-in Calendar, so I use that (although I’ve only just noticed it doesn’t show Tentative appointments at all)

For work, I use Logseq (for everything) & to keep a note of ToDo items that I don’t need reminders for (otherwise Tasks is overwhelming)

And for bonus points, Home Assistant has a CalDAV module so domestic things like waste collection are sync’d from Radicale too so there’s a notification on the kitchen display each morning to tell me what coloured box, bin, bag needs to be taken out today.

And… (some time management advice thst you didn’t ask for) - I’m currently starting timeboxing - so instead of creating a todo item, just schedule the time to actually do it in. Less ToDos, but more progress (I hope)

But isn’t the bank lending out your money and charging interest… which they pay back (some) to you?

If that doesn’t happen and the digital euro just sits under your bed, then how do savings work vs inflation?

Ho ho.

Yeah, a friend of mine does the entertainment systems on some of these, so I only have anicdotal stories to go by, but, yep, I wish I’d done that years ago.

Also… I work a tough job where it’s often 12 hr days, so living in the building… I’ve even got the t-shirt 😉

Yeah, I have MythTV setup in a passively cooled box in the corner of the lounge… works fine…

But, I’m considering oprions for the rest of the family, both local (other rooms) and remote, so rather than reinvent wheels…

Good analogy… that’s really answered the question I wanted to ask

Kinda hijacking this a little: what do the cool kids use on a “normal” TV as a client to watch Jellyfin?

Chromecast? A PI plugged into the HDMI port?

This hasn’t been on my radar, but with Winter coming (John Snow) I’m thinking this might be something to look into…

The thing is though, you’ve probably got some skills they would need on that boat…

Bet they need a barista onboard…

So, you (we, us) could be going to all those same luxury locations, sleeping on the same boat, doing simple jobs and just slowly sailing around in the sunshine too… without having to pay for it (admittedly not getting paid much either)

And when “the boss” is off on a helicopter trip to some lame party, then we’d still be there, having a beach bbq, enjoying the good life.

That’s what I found out too late in life… I should’ve done boating jobs in my school / college holidays and worked up to the luxury jobs

This was doing the rounds a while back:

EXPOSING The Billion Dollar SECRET VPN Companies Are Hiding

It’s an interesting view / listen.

That’s just saying that things are tripping each other up whilst trying to shutdown.

Try sudo journalctl -b-1 --reverse

That will show the last system log in reverse order, and might help see what’s going on.

There’s an old bug report (notice I say report, as it’s locked and not solved - & I don’t have the link to hand) with several people saying that systemd causes this, but, it might be applications or services that have user accounts open, etc, etc…

but… try shutting down services and unmounting any shares / filesystems that might be causing this to see if you can isolate something.

As mentioned in the other thread, try shutting down from the command line on a new TTY (text-only screen) and see if that shows anything else.

(They meant, instead of doing your normal shutdown, open a command window and type that command instead.)

I think you’re agreeing with me then.

My first point is keeping everything updated - which would include the browser(s)

My later point was visiting dodgy sites with protections disabled.

Got an example in BASH?

Edit: someone else has a link

Just make sure everything’s updated.

Microsoft do a good job of updating drivers and their applications, but Windows application updates vary so much.

For Linux - mostly - the distro maintainers handle all updates and just updating is usually enough.

After that it’s down to you… if you disable all the built-in protection and visit dodgy websites then any OS is going to struggle.

You can improve the out-of-box security by removing software you don’t use, improving default configurations (one size doesn’t fit all) and considering if you want additional security software - this applies to any OS.

So, to return to your question, choose a Linux distro which has regular updates and only contains applications that you use.

Thanks. Didn’t know these existed.

TBH once Mint’s up & running and all those updates / dependencies are sorted.out, I’ve not had a problem with it.

I’m supporting a couple of people that don’t do updates, so it just stays static until I get there… when we arrive (ie for a weekend) I’ll do a full backup whilst we’re all catching up and then at some point I’ll do a full update and make sure it’s working again well before we leave.

Agree with the other point on enabling remote access - and also setup something (ie syncthing) to get their data somewhere else.

Lol…I was curious if HML was still going, so I looked it up…

TL;DR: It’s not: Hannah Montana Linux in 2025

I didn’t understand the cryptocurrency part… is the application doing some mining on the phone??