Thanks for the link list, I coud read what was interesting to me instead of the whole thing

I feel your pain.

I now keep my data backup separate to the OS backups, so a rollback might time travel me back 3 years, but my data’s safe… elsewhere…

(Sure. I might still have to do a restore…)

I know I’ll get downvoted for this, but what’s the problem?

I see a screenshot of Dell diagnostics running fine

Dell BIOS updates come with a checksum to prevent corruption issues, whether it’s installed via Dell’s software, Microsoft Updates or Linux fwupd… I don’t think I’ve had a corruption in ~20 years of using Dell equipment.

I have seen settings reset to defaults before - which was mentioned in the release notes…

Wow, I didn’t know there were so many…

We’re often faffing with CSVs at work, I’ll go through that list again - thanks!

Well, kinda, but not in practical use.

You only lose the data on the failed drive, but - depending on how the PVs and LVs line up, you’ll find it difficult to get them to mount.

I also found that clonezilla (partclone, etc) can’t backup just 1 drive or 1 LV, it can only backup the whole lot, which might or might not be an issue

Careful with LVM on individual drives…

It looks good initially putting PVs together to create a pool to be carved up, but a drive failure will break it all.

You’d really need a RAID layer first (source: my delicate media server)

Logseq?

I don’t use pen input, so I don’t know if that works well or not, but it has drawing capability, can import PDFs to allow for highlighting and linking to contents

It’s now split into the (original) markdown version and a DB version intended for realtime colaboration… so might meet some of your needs?

1 - there’s 2 things to consider here… A) Your files (documents, photos, etc) B) Everything else (the Windows / Linux mac operating system, applications, your screensaver, printer defaults, etc)

You only need to backup A.

It’s up to you if you want / have space for B

But, 1st time, backup everything. Then do item 2 (screw up) big time and do a full restore.

Once you’ve done that, you’re set for life

Interesting, thanks.

Looks like nothing has been found for 17 years until - presumably - someone pointed AI at the (entire?) suite and found 2 CVEs with a very low (<1%) chance of being exploited.

I’d guess that’ll be the last 2 bugs left…

Whilst that may be true, I would expect coreutils has all memory issues debugged by now.

I can understand new applications - or perhaps extended versions - to be created in Rust, rather than reinventing perfectly good wheels.

It feels like they’re doing this just for the sake of it, and I expect there’s probably better things that could be done with the money / labour

Not heard of mgmtconfig, I’ll take a look.

What’s the benefit over Ansible?

Most of my home is setup (& maintained) via Ansible (I have a few Pi Zeros scattered around the place with the same monitoring setup installed) but I’ve not found a nice solution to doing setup locally, then reproducing on Ansible, then testing, then refining… if there’s a shortcut to that I’d be interested!

Consider your perfect settings as the part you want to keep (as well as all your documents etc, of course), but the OS will change.

Tomorrow you’ll do an update and 2 applications and 10 libraries are now newer… so you probably don’t want to store a “golden image” for too long without redoing it to consider all the updates.

Now… with that situation in mind, it’s generally easier to just do a clean install of the distro and reapply your settings.

So, depending on what you’ve setup, installed, tweaked & configured, saving that can be done with config files in /etc and /home and maybe a 1-liner for applications to install.

That will be smaller and more easily reproducable on all your hardware (and maybe some VMs)

How you do that depends on what you’ve changed and your skills… maybe bash, maybe ansible, maybe just copying files - whatever makes sense to you.

TBH, I think everyone’s playing with the new thing and a bunch of people will just move on to the next big thing (augmented 3d post-realism AI?)

Then, it’ll settle down into decent workflows and become more organised… it’ll just be painful until that happens.

And at the rate they’re finding the bugs, they’ll all be found by the end of the year.

Then no more bugs and all the LLMs can be shutdown.

Get Arch on there if you’re looking for bleedng edge, no bloat performance.

The wiki has some points on nvidia drivers too

Ok, yeah, I think your last sentence is probably where I was thinking…

Yep, repo packages are going to be fairly good except for watering hole attacks, but PDFs and other documents could be a potential source of malware that anti-malware software would - potentially - protect the user.

Can you expand further?

Though I have something more to add here.

Don’t unleash your army of clankers (I believe the formal term is ‘AI agents’) on this project; it’s already happening to many open source projects lately, and this one has just been revived. It doesn’t need to be inundated with hallucinations and pointless fixes.

The maintainers also request that anyone opening a pull request for a bug fix show a way to reproduce the problem first.

Yeah, the modern kiss of death to any project.

I use LightDM on my daily driver and hadn’t noticed it hadn’t received any updates, but yep, it’s there in this morning’s batch, nice.

VLC?

That’ll play subfolders, randomly and with normalisation… although I’ve not really used the normalisation much, just played with it a few times when yoochoob downloads were all mismatched.

Yeah, I’m not a subscriber - I don’t have a YT account - but if I did, I’d be down voting and writing comments like “so… where’s the content from your click bait thumbnail?” 😉

Edit: I’d also add something like “my subscription? You’ll never guess what I did next…” 😉