Excellent breakdown of history there

Have a look at Serve The Home

(IMHO - more specifically their youtube channel)

They did a load of reviews “recently” (months ago) and I ended up buying a fanless / passively cooled box with multi-Gb NICs that is serving me well.

I came from MP3Tag and the closest Linux version I found is puddletag it’s litterally written to be the same.

I use it for some metadata editing that - in my case - I can’t seem to get Picard to do (might just need to RTFM a bit more)

This is a great explanation and probably the best one I’ve read… ever?

(Without referring to a 400 page Cisco book)

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 <insert distro here> then they run away.

Maybe not watching it per se, but it’s nice to catch a problem before I reboot (ie a grub upgrade failure for example)

Of course, but IMHO it’s worth checking the alternatives first before requesting an “obvious” (but only to me) feature that someone spends hours of their free time working on…

I was orignally hoping that the built-in mute could be scheduled, so that might be a suggestion.

So far DnD appears to be the option for me, now that I’ve thought about it more (after reading these comments) rather than trying to pause ntfy, gotify, etc…

Hmm. Interesting, just from the face down point of view… kinda like the “hide the screen = do not disturb” pov.

Thanks

Hmm, thanks, that seems like a good starting point - I’d not explored that entire option! Thanks

Excellent explanation - I might use your “feet in shoes” analogy in the future

GParted has solved so many things over the years… my data, my reputation… maybe even my job on 1 occasion.

Probably due to too much coffee in his house.

So, Microsoft saved everyone from the bad Linux then?

/s

If this gives you an idea for an alternative app I’d love to hear it.

I don’t have any direct experiences with kanban, but I ditched nc because I found that no-one used the web UI and it was just a complex file, calendar and contact sync. Replacing nc with syncthing and radicale made no impact to the users and saved me a whole heap of misery upgrading and maintaining nc. If those can support your kanban needs, then… just sayin’…

+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

Feb 2034: grammer correction: there are no humans.

Yeah, Ubuntu 9.x here too… becuase I could use it to install MythTV

(BTW)

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)

IMO, I’d run pf/opnsense on an x86 box, but openwrt on a low powered device…

Did that years ago with a pfSense firewall connected to the DSL modem, with OpenWrt APs around the house…until the hardware couldn’t support the next version of OpenWrt… (not enough RAM?)

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.