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David From Space

@ emuspawn @orbiting.observer

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  • Kettle Chips

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  • Perhaps the ICP should appeal more to the everyday layperson.....a gender neutral term coined in 1972, just seventeen years before the unrelated 1989 release of Belgian techno anthem, Pump Up the Jam.

  • lil' hat

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  • oh, to have a familiar that shares your fashion sense

  • Any Invader Zim fans here?

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  • I miss you, cupcake...

  • a strong beak, of course

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  • A relatable situation

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  • Surely this one last permutation.....

  • Managing windows and focusing specific apps on Linux?

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  • I will check out Polonium! Thanks!

  • Managing windows and focusing specific apps on Linux?

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  • I know you said Gnome, but if you are willing to look at Plasma, I've just started using Bismuth on KDE Plasma and I think it can do at least a chunk of that. It can set particular sizes with Window Rules, it looks to have a quite robust shortcut system, including resizing windows, swapping, rotating, or changing layouts. As for the focus vs open, KRunner lets you choose the active application when you type it's name. There's also this: https://github.com/academo/ww-run-raise but I have not used it and cannot vouch for that.

  • We'll fix it later

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  • Don't worry, if the bridge breaks there are two backup bridges conveniently located close by!

  • Bobby Flay's Simple Tip For Elevating Almost Any Pasta Dish Instantly

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  • stylish

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  • Alligators steal hats all the time?

  • What do people use for a shelf-stable backup

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  • No, they don't, I pulled it out of my butt. I rewrote my original draft and that slipped in. NVME wouldn't make sense unless you were powering them up every few months for updates.

  • What do people use for a shelf-stable backup

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  • If you buy your LTO drive new, then yes they rip you a new one, for sure! Buy it used...but it still will cost you a few hundred. Like I said, if money is not a concern. If losing the encryption key is a concern, then USB is still your best bet. Make two, keep them simple and unencrypted, stick em in two different safes, update them regularly. And print the documentation with pictures!

  • What do people use for a shelf-stable backup

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  • The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever.

    Documentation, documentation, documentation. No matter what system you have, make sure your loved ones have a detailed, image-heavy, easy to follow guide on how restorations work - at the file level, at the VM level, at whatever level you are using.

    That being said, DVDs actually have quite a short shelf life, all things considered. I'd be more inclined to use a pair of archival strength USB NVME drive, updated and tested routinely(quarterly, yearly, whatever makes sense). Or even an LTO tape, if you want to purchase the drive and some tapes.

    You can put your backups in something like VeraCrypt. Set an insanely long password, encoded in a QR code, printed on paper. Store it in the same secured location you store your USB drives (or elsewhere, if you have a security posture).

    You may also consider, if money is not a concern, a cloud VPS or other online file storage, similarly encrypted. This can provide an easy URL to access for the less tech-savvy, along with secured credentials for recovery efforts. Depending on what your successors might need to access, this could be a very straightforward way to log into a website and download what they need in an emergency.

  • Marker and pen on photo paper

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  • That's cool.

  • First self-hosted post!

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  • Receiving signal up in low earth orbit! Congrats!

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    I don't understand the purpose of some selfhosting

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  • Sounds like you should get a basic low power linux box going!

  • Miez chilling in her cat crate like it's the most normal thing ever

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  • They be grace, they be elegance, hey those cats a' sitting two a' pence!

  • Windows 10 Countdown: Make the Switch to Linux for a Fresh Start

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  • What are you doing with your machine that would be confusing for your standard end user? KDE out of the box is good enough for my daily driving. PopOS, Bazzite, and Mint work great. GUI options for most normal computing things you'd do these days. The amount of customization allowed on an end user's machine is often minimal anyway. Plus, you sorta imply that the end user would be doing all this, instead of an IT admin preconfiguring a machine with Ansible or a custom install script. I think you may be over estimating what your typical business user does. It's mostly "Here's my chat, here's my browser, here's my 1-5 LOB apps, here's my printer. Can I change my background to my kids? Great."

  • Windows 10 Countdown: Make the Switch to Linux for a Fresh Start

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  • Between cloud apps and RemoteApp technology, there is a pretty decent chance for Linux desktops with Windows servers becoming the norm, again, for smaller size businesses. Organizations I work with still use thin clients, which - what's the difference? And based on end user reactions to the UI when upgrading to Windows 11 - all change is hard. They'd get used to it fast. Especially if it acts mostly like Windows 10.