mertn, mertn33@lemmy.world

Navidrome/Feishin

As a kid I learnt P = I2R ; P = IE ; P = E2/R by careful selection of resistor values stuck across the 240V house supply and standing well back.

I just use file systems that compress behind the scenes. Over the wires I might use a -z option if I am in a hurry.

Linux was originally just the kernel back in the 90’s. Combined with the GNU libraries and all the free software it is now an OS. You can call it GNU/Linux if you like. Much better explained by olenokoVD just here.

I tried to upvote you twice but was not allowed. So here is my second upvote: You hit the problem spot on!

Not true in my experience. Windows users hate their OS and all the crap they have to live with.

Dual booting sucks if you don’t do it well. Windows keeps messing with the bios settings and the boot loader and crap like ‘fast boot’ to make your life painful.

Try Linux on a USB stick in live mode (JUST DON’T PRESS INSTALL YET) . It will be a bit slower than a direct drive boot but you can play around with Linux and get to like it without having to wreck all your windows stuff or wipe any drives.

Even Microsoft are now renting Linux VMs on their cloud infrastructure.

I tried netbird for a while but it was using too much battery on my phone.

The last thing I want is database corruption. That is why I “docker compose down” before I make a backup then “docker compose up” when the backup is complete. Is that not good enough? Do I have to do something else?

My backup tooling just shuts down the container and associated db, then rysncs it all somwhere safe and restarts the container. Am I missing somethoing critical by not doing a db dump in the middle of that?

I do the same. If the docker container has problems with db I can just shut it down and fix the db from my desktop then start docker again. That has saved me starting again from scratch several times.

I have no use for github except as an oauth provider for tailscale. I can’t wait to be rid of both of them.

Trump is under to much pressure to re-open Hormuz. He will accept any deal even if it is just status quo. He NEEDS to be the apparent winner no matter the outcome.

If you are going to try Linux from a USB drive as suggested by others here try and get a USB3 drive. Most of the cheap USB drives are USB2 which is really too slow to be of use.