A single, decent, maintained one for LVM.

Redhat had a couple of goes at this and they suck ass big time and rely on KDE (so no good for any other DE / WM). I'm not sure anything really works, so I'll say: none exist.

Just a +1 for Open Camera - it's a great bit of software.

Not sure if it's the devs to blame when there's statements like:

Kurtz therefore has the possibly unique and almost-certainly-unwanted distinction of having presided over two major global outage events caused by bad software updates.

So, I'm guessing it's the business that's not supporting good dev->test->release practices.

But, I agree with your point; their overall software quality is terrible.

I think they should consider the word "wages" instead.

Let's be honest, this is compensation for skilled labour.

I would add that a lot of attacks are done after a fix has been released - ie compare the previous release with the patch and bingo - there's the vulnerability.

But agree, patching should happen regularly, just with a few days delay after the supplier release it.

No it's Crowdstrike... we're just seeing an issue with their Windows software, not their Linux software.

Fun fact: the Zombie film "World War Z" was filmed (mostly) in UK

World War Z Filming Locations

Just to add - if your phone drops off the wifi (mine does and I'm still trying to find out why... maybe due to power saving), then maybe, you could also look at bluetooth tracking (ie something like ESPresence) for HA to know you're still at home.

(Bluetooth can also be setup in the Companion App)

Many thanks for your efforts - I appreciate it's quite a thankless task you're doing.

And... I meant to setup a regular payment when you picked up from Tom and... dunno... fighting off zombies distracted me... so I'll take another look at those links.

Uncheck the box labeled Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement.

And, we're back to normal?

I tried using Enlightenment years ago - it looked amazing, and then... I found all the bugs, incompatibilities, etc... and it's lackof progress was disappointing.

I tried Bodhi Linux and even they gave up, creating their own Moksha desktop environment too...

Whatever you do. Full backup first 👍🏻😉

Personally, I'd go with the clean Fedora install on the new drive and copy your data over as someone else mentioned, then expand Windows once you 100% happy with it.

(I did something similar with WinXP years ago... eventually dropping Windows, so that harddrive just became a data drive)

Follow the videos, the original developer shows what it can do, but it's basically running keylogger software.

This is the way.

There's nothing worse than finding your DNS/DHCP has gone down and it's a VM / container running inside a server that can't start because it doesn't have an IP address and you can't resolve names to get the thing started.

Break things down into chunks that make sense - to you.

I have dedicated (low power) hardware for the interweb firewall / DHCP / core network stuff.

I have a NAS for storage with all the backups / reinstall images on (so I can rebuild the firewall if there's no internet, for example)

Then I have everything else in a single server.

Sources: a house fire, water leak & many hardware failures & borked upgrades over many decades.

It's come quite a way... O.MG Cable

Just a cable... complete with wifi man-in-the-middle abilities

I mean, from an engineering point of view, hats off to the guy... I know how much effort would've gone into that...

But like one of the YT comments implied; if I tried that in my home, I'd be living in my shed.

I agree with this point: age isn't the measure of usefulness, popularity is

Something might be 10yrs old and uaed by many people... and also something 10 months old is no longer used.

Also, just a thought, if it's "old" it's probably a standard too, so probably doesn't actually need much (relative term) effort to maintain...

I didn't know this was a thing

Got to admit it's quite close to the start date / time to be deciding on a design now - unless I've misunderstood?

Yes, because the CLI command is poweroff, so I do agree with you 🙂

(Please Wait... comments about alternative CLI commands will arrive soon...)

Checkout big-launcher:

big-launcher is a work-in-progress HTPC application launcher. The design is loosely based on the Roku UI, consisting of a sidebar menu on the left, and selectable apps on the right. This project is intended to be the successor to my other HTPC project, Flex Launcher. Compared to Flex Launcher, big-launcher will be more graphically advanced, but less customizable. The program will be written in C++ and utilize SDL for graphics.

I just read about it from the Flex Launcher page, so no idea what it's like, just passing it on...

Yeah, that was me a couple years ago... I'd read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze... encrypted...so... ok... is it restorable? No idea.

the recent influx of so-called 'immutable' distros springing up like mushrooms is undeniably linked to and inspired by NixOS.

This is the usual (only?) solution - the idea forks or inspires a different community to take it further.

There's usually no fixing a toxic person / community in either real life or online.

If you like music have a look at

• Picard
• Puddletag

No, you can jusy restore to a second location...it depends on whether everything was backed up, or just a few test files.

I prefer backing up specific folders rather than "everything", so it's easier to test. (I'd just reinstall the OS if that was nuked)

Let's say I want to do a test restore of all my photos. I just rename that folder to simulate that it's been accidentally deleted... then I just do a normal restore - and do a bit-by-bit comparison of the two folders and check it all went well.

Also setup a bootable USB stick with a backup program like clonezilla to do full machine backups.

You'll get the hang of OS vs data backups later, but for now, do a full backup, play around installing / removing stuff and if you break it, you're back in business in no time

I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)

That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you've lost your decryption key, weren't backing it up correctly, etc (for example).

Ooh, nice, I didn't know them - thanks!

Thanks, good to know... although I'll do one other thing first... a full backup with clonezilla first ;)

That's comforting to know.

I have kinda the opppsite: a machine that isn't changing it's hardware, but it hasn't had updates in ~2 years (due to some issues with an AUR package back then...)

I wonder if it'll upgrade...?

I've kept arch-keyring updating now & again... so it should work, but I know packages change dependencies so, it'll be an interesting one (ie full backup first)

Do you have any other hardware between computer & monitor? (Ie a KVM Switch?)

The other post about display ID jogged my memory that KVMs (etc) don't pass through the data (sometimes?), so just wondering whether there's another factor here...

Not sure how it would only trigger this on updates, but just building a complete picture of the issue.

If you do find their site works on a other browser (and I mean, the browser, not due to an addon, etc.) then complain to the company / bank / etc.

If they take your complaint seriously then I'd persevere with them... if they don't then they're not customer focused and your business (money) goes elsewhere.

It's not just browsing discussed there. Re-read that again with cybersecurity in mind... online banking shouldn't be done whilst you're sharing a browser with tiktok (as an example)

Yep, there's private / incognito modes, but they just drop all the local session data, they're not any more secure.

:) you don't have to use containers, but they do simplify the install.

I don't use containers.

There's also no Setup.exe to download run where you just Next, Next, Finish.

So, instead, I have to install separate packages, configure them, deal with conflicting requirements, etc...

Did I have to learn Docker? No. Did I have to learn something else? Yes.

As someone else mentioned, spending some time learning what / how / why you're doing will help massively later on. Probably why you're getting Docker answers, they're auto-suggesting it to start you off with something simpler...

Yeah, good summary - I'm not using the latest version, but LiveTV channel changing still takes a second (on a dual tuner machine), but, like you said, we rarely watch LiveTV now and if we do, we're not really channel hopping either.

Yeah... I've been trying out the resizable cards and... well... hopefully the next version will be better.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for incremental improvements and that means we need a Step1 somewhere.

I wanted to just change one dashboard, but there's no migration option (yet?) which is fair enough, so I created a new one and tried copying over cards...

I have a couple of Glance cards with a title and I can't really get a single row of icons with title to line up nicely unless I use a 3-row card...

But, it's also nice to slim down a Graph card to just 2 or 3 columns wide if it's a short-duration graph.

I look forward to the next revision.

I'm still dabbling with this, but so far I have a Pi Zero2W with a reSpeaker 2-Mics Pi HAT and an old speaker (no idea where from) that (luckily?) has the correct connector on.

It's ok as a geeky POC, but it needs work to gain sufficient WAF

How well doea the NUC perform as a Frontend? I have a small TV in a spare room which could benefit from a separate Frontend...

Glad we helped you :)

I think Myth can record from the homerun boxes?

I'm lucky the OTA scheduling works well enough for me - only issue is that I can only see a few days ahead.

Ah, ok, you're a bit of a contributor... I helped with a couple of patches and loads of wiki edits (that needed much love a few years ago)

TVDb is still hit & miss, but much better than it used to be.

And yeah, Myth's not ideal for external streaming...