I work for state government and even we have trouble with email reputation issues from the big orgs. It’s a pain for everyone.

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Fair point

This might sound crazy, but you don’t have to shutdown your computer every time you’re done using it. You can just lock the screen and walk away.

Is the Linux disk still visible in your UEFI firmware?

Haha, I feel that switch to LTS only releases. I was upgrading to every release in the beginning as well but it started to get old real fast. I run Mint nowdays. In the early days I loved testing new distros and tweaking around with my system, but after over a decade working in tech the last thing I want to do in my free time is have to fix my own computer.

ITT: a lot of people trying really hard to justify their use cases for Windows.

He’s been on version 22 since I set it up back it February of this year. I don’t think a new major version had come out since then. (I actually haven’t thought to check) my plan was just to do a fresh install as needed for major updates, or when his current version stops receiving security updates since new features aren’t really a concern for him.

FydeOS might be more in line with what you need. Based on ChromeOS, but without the Google account requirements and spyware. I installed this on my dad’s PC along with setting up DNS-based Ad blocking and it’s been rock solid. If he just needs a browser, that’s basically what it is.

In the US it is. 🙃

I’m not British, but it really is bizarre seeing this old geezer actually dressed up in this stuff. It’d almost be comical if it wasn’t for the fact that he’s dead fucking serious.

Mine is just Debian.

True, but for some reason there are a bunch of people who shutdown their PC every time they’re done using it and unless you’re using a laptop, I have never understood that. Screen lock + monitor sleep is the way.

I have no problem with freedom of choice. It’s just that your choices are wrong.

YouTube and social media drive a lot of it. I call them bandwagon distros.

The people saying “just pay for premium” don’t seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.

That’s sick! I ran a precision workstation 390 all the way up until 2016 before I finally decided to build myself a PC after years of building them for friends.

That’s interesting. I checked my logs and I only see a few hits for insights.navidrome.org but nothing for demo.navidrome.org. I’m on version 0.59.0 so I’m a little behind.

EDIT: Here’s some information about what data they collect and how to opt-out: https://navidrome.org/docs/usage/admin/insights/#what-will-be-collected

I mean, if you want a full mirror, rolling your own backup target is going to be the cheapest option even with the current high price of hardware. Other options are cloud storage, or using another media like tape. Cloud storage is of course an on going cost which rules it out for me, not to mention privacy concerns. There are certain “cold storage” options from cloud storage hosts which are considerably cheaper but they have limitations on how the data can be accessed and how often. The tape route is possible but it’s not really viable for home use due to the high upfront cost of the drives. Outside of that, backing up a subset of your storage as others have suggested is the only other option. Creating viable backups without breaking the bank is a challenge as old as computers, unfortunately.

So you have 56TB of total storage, but how much of that 56TB is actually used? Take the amount of storage used and add 10-12% to that figure. Now you create a new NAS (preferably off-site) with that amount of storage and that becomes your backup target. Take an initial backup (locally if possible to speed up the process) and then you can use something like rsync to create incremental backups going forward. This is the method I’ve used and so far it has worked out well. I target 10-12% more than the amount of used storage for my backup capacity because my storage use grows reasonably slowly. If your usage grows faster you might want to increase your “buffer” a little more so that you’re not having to constantly add drives to your backup target.