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Google had a leak.
They found a way to make your photos more social,

A bag of frozen peas.

Whenever someone says that there law is to protect:

• the children
• old people
• the vulnerable
• …

You know that it’s full of hidden shit.

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Now you have the reliability of fifty-three messages all saying “ring me back”.

Give me visual voicemail. You put the switch on my Android. Just do it!

Oh. Thank-you. I’ll read through.

Thank-you. Recently rebuilt my Arch Rescue build and saw that section in doing the UKI dance.

I don’t mind the Microsoft keys being there at all. I just don’t think tying myself to them is particularly clever.

From your final part. I think I need to go back and reread it. Thank-you again.

I thought it was a Microsoft centric thing in that the certificate authority was either Microsoft or signed by Microsoft?

Maybe I need to read about it more? Can you direct me to the general area?

Being beholden to Microsoft doesn’t sound like something anyone needs.

Until that ends I’m doing best to avoid secure boot. I don’t want to.

Do you trust any other provider? Amex used to have a payment type app but I’m not sure I’d call it a wallet. From what I remember Amex wasn’t well used in Germany.

You’re better of looking in the degoogle communities. Sorry, I still haven’t learned to cite the communities here properly (there seem to be two forms). Type degoogle into a community search box (all one word, no hyphens)

This is such a wonderful project. I am so grateful that it exists.

Thank-you everyone. Truly.

If you’re new to Linux, you won’t stay with the distro anyone recommends for more than a month. It’s a truism.

I’m not you. You’re not me.

That said. Ubuntu isn’t the Ubuntu of old. The real selling point is the zfs, but you have all the other NIH stuff like snap etc. I’m not a zfs fan but I appreciate that it’s got a huge fan base.

One thing to say is that you don’t have to have a one and only. I have at least two distros I use daily for workstation stuff. I use Fedora for typing and Arch for backups, debugging, rescue, and other fiddling about stuff (because Fedora gets in the way sometimes). Every distro has the same set of commands.

distrowatch.com is your friend.

I’d suggest no-one ever dual-boot Windows with anything. There are to many mishaps when Windows takes it into their head to fuck the bootloader.

Put the OS into a VM. If you only use Windows for one app put Windows into the VM. Otherwise put Linux into the VM until you find you’re mostly using Linux.

Unless you have an old PC laying around …

Logseq to Obsidian.

Logseq’s markdown is weird and not standard. Everything is indented and in a list, even headings. I love me some open source, but this is a hard no.

Open your logseq files in a plain text editor and compare with the standard. I spend much of my time editing them back to Markdown.

Syncing logseq is easy on Syncthing. The only issue being that one has to watch out for conflicts by not editing one on one instance before the other sends it/it is received, but that’s a sync issue not Logseq.

I started on Logseq, because I’m a contributing open source advocate. I fully intended to stay with Logseq.

However, it seems to indent everything in the markdown including headings, bullet points and so on. When one loads a document into a markdown editor, one ends up removing all these indents before the document becomes ‘valid’. They’ve made some other unusual design choices that mean the markdown doesn’t read very well in plain text. I used Logseq for a year.

There’s also a difficulty for me with getting help. For some reason Logseq help community seems to be based around the Discuss (sp?). It’s not easy to read because the lines are very short as it’s a messaging platform. The community is very very active though.

I eventually got frustrated with trying to debug my Markdown outside Logseq, and went looking for another vehicle.

Rather distressed, I installed Obsidian. It’s been designed with a more logical approach. To link to a heading in another document, the document is linked in a Wiki-like way (if you’ve chosen that format) with the heading separated by a hash symbol; in Logseq you get an unintelligible UUID plus all that indenting.

There’s a lot of help within the Obsidian community but some of it is locked down in medium paid-for content. However, the hundreds of Obsidian YouTube channels and videos, obsidianrocks and obsidian.md sites are very well authored. AI searches augment the rest, TBF I don’t really use Google proxies anymore.

Even though I’m a personal user, it’s worth it to me to buy a commercial licence to show my appreciation for the work that the two(?) developers have put in.

The plugins use the published API and are all (?) open source AFAICT.

Most of the issues I have with Obsidian are just related to my workflow. I think that there are probably plugins that will solve them.

I don’t expect to be looking for another note-taking app anytime soon and it’s been over a year since I started with Obsidian. Understanding templates opened my world up enormously. I haven’t started data-mining in any meaningful sense yet.

Just my tuppence.

The major issue is to complain to/about your provider, not mess around with the workaround solutions.

That said once you have the list of packages, you can download them on your phone and seamlessly transfer them to your pc with Syncthing.

Have a look at dnf-automatic to do downloads only. I’m not sure how many retries it allows.

There is also the option of limiting your bandwidth on the PC so that it doesn’t choke.

Ultimately the ISP has to provide a working service.

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Restore from backup. No point in trying to figure out what changed, how and where.

bat.

(half replying to other comments as well as yours)

If you have a look at the btrfs mailing lists post that introduced RAID1c34, they were created because RAID56 were not considered viable or fixable. It’s in couched language but reasonably clear. I don’t think you’re thinking of using those (RAID56) but don’t.

Never had any btrfs problems that weren’t self generated or date from a really sticky period in btrfs’s history (years ago, 4.13 or maybe 3.13). I’ve used RAID56 until RAID1c34 became available and RAID10 where I could.

Haven’t tried LUKS - btrfs though, although effectively no worse than putting btrfs in a VM (which is fine if slow at the time), albeit a bit more computationally intensive.