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I went to maga.place and it’s so edgy! Some 13 year old is having a good laugh at their own jokes.

I know it’s brand new, but as of right now it seems like a waste of time to even talk about it.

Could be a different story a week from now, but until then who cares.

Ah, maybe the max was 20GB for zip. I’d just do the max available for zip.

Do it again, but select 50GB chunks. This will produce fewer files.

Use immich-go to do the importing.

Maybe. I love to hate on Proton as much as the next person, but this particular blip gets a pass from me based on what I’ve read.

I thought it wasn’t fake, just a typical “oops sorry the auto-system tagged it, but we re-enabled it now”. Either way, hard to pin it on Proton at this point.

I’ve never had to restore a backup (yet), but to me this is the best feature of Restic.

I used Duplicati for a while (I think it was Duplicati, not Duplicacy) and although the backups seemed to work, I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.

Restic is a slight chore to get set up with the environmental variables, figuring out which directories to “–ignore”, etc… but man once it’s set up it’s just great.

I’m not sure I fully grasp what you want, but Restic is excellent. I use a cronjob to back up on a schedule. It’s command line only. I think there’s a tool to make it a GUI but I haven’t tried it. They have a Docker image available but it’s weird, you have to pass commands to it, it runs, then shuts down when it’s done. I love Docker but that didn’t quite work for me.

I use Backblaze B2 for storage, but any S3 will do. Restic supports all sorts of storage targets.

Credentials and things go in an .env file, or you can put everything into the command line every time.

When it’s time to restore things, you can fricken mount the whole backup you want and browse the files, copy and paste what you need, etc. That part is really cool to me.

Backblaze is $5 or $6 USD per TB per month, so 500GB will be about $36USD a year.

I looked at three of the banks/brokerages I use and the results are interesting!

The brokerages present you with step by step screens, and first have you choose the “to” account. Then you click ‘Next’ and choose the “from” account.

My bank presents them on the same screen, going top down. On top you pick the “from”, and below it you select “to”.

So, despite my strong opinion, apparently there hasn’t been any consistency in my experience, granted I don’t transfer money very often.

It’s not a perfect example. The need to pay sort of starts as soon as you put something in your shopping basket. I’m not transferring money to the cashier unless it’s cash – otherwise it goes somewhere else and eventually the store gets it.

It’s just a thought experiment about something reasonably similar, and the similarities for me start after everything is rung up and it’s time to move money.

We have very different brains in regards to this subject.

When I pay for something (moving money) the first thing to do is choose the source. Cash, credit card, venmo, etc. Only once I’ve decided that can I pick where to move it… The cashiers hand, credit card machine, scan a venmo barcode, etc.

It has to do with taking up screen space. “Advertising and headers take up …”. The title bar is sort of a header, so I posted how to remove it.

Right click up on the toolbar and select “Customize Toolbar”. Uncheck “Title Bar” to get ride of the text at the top of the screen.

Edit: apparently this stuck a nerve. This is a way to increase screen space, just like how someone recommended using verticle tabs.

If it’s just for charging, a USB-C port is just a different part. The charge controller and everything can stay “dumb” if it’s a low power device.

The USB-C spec is complicated and to take full advantage of it is expensive like you said, but I think just using a modern form factor isn’t expensive.

Yeah, that stinks.

Linux Mint

… or maybe it was Ubuntu, but it didn’t last long so I don’t really count it. Linux Mint stuck for a number of years.

Why not now? Do you use the computer for school or work?

Linux is very easy to try, without even installing it. You can load Linux Mint on a USB thumb drive, then the hardest part is setting your BIOS to boot from it.

The survey in question is in regards to personal computers, so it depends on how the question was asked, and how people answered it. If people consider their Steam Deck to be a personal computer that runs Linux, I suppose they could answer that way. But, I don’t think that’s very likely.

Good question. It’s an actual survey (not analytics data) which asks specifically about PCs, not handhelds. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Survey data isn’t always the best data. Linux users might be more likely to take the survey in the first place, for example, while Windows users might not care to.