Just looking at my NAS now…

I used to use Kopia to backup to a Backblaze B2 bucket, but I’ve moved to Restic as I can backup over ssh to a NAS at a family member’s home and to a Hetzner storage box.

Use the one that makes most sense to you for restores.

Backup a folder, then restore it somewhere else… if any of the applications causes you problems for your setup, move on.

Just add a “Not To Be Used In California” note.

If - yep, a VERY big If - that happened it would at least trigger a larger discussion. At the moment, no-one in the general public knows about this erosion of privacy.

And under Settings->Extra Settings->Audio on Android version of VLC

Another +1 for Hetzner.

I did an initial backup of my music (so I wasn’t concerned about encryption) with plain old rsync to get a feel for the system first, do a restore, etc. to feel comfortable with it all - and see if there were any hidden costs.

Then I wiped all that and moved over to rclone to encrypt my data into different chunks (photos, music, work, etc)

It all worked well and they even skipped charging me 1 month becuase I hadn’t exceeded their minimum charge (rolls up to the following month)

I’ve had proactive emails from them notifying me of work which might have reduced my ability to access their system, but ad it was outside the time of my backups, then no issue.

A post introducing a graphical web-based system would be remiss if an image of that graphical system was missing.

Of course you can block those posts (if that function is.enabled) , but you’d be missing out on many discussions.

No worries, I don’t have a time limit on responses 😉

But… I took somethong like ~3 days to get an initial baxkup done.

Then ~3 years later I was at a different provider doing the same thing.

What I did do differently was to split the data into different backup pools (ie photos, music, work, etc) rather than 1 monolithic pool… that’ll make a difference.

Define “Operating System”…

I guess my washing machine & car are also going to be “not for use in California.”

Those Cisco switches & Broadcom DSLAMs would be tricky too … I guess the internet’s “not for use in California.”

And the air-gapped power station control system? “not for use in California.”

It is annoying that these laws come in (I’m also including magical thinking about encryprion backdoors for “the good guys”) without any form of real-world, practical assessment. Complete waste of tax payers money and undue stress for everyone.

FFS.

Hmmm… I have a spare Pi kicking about, I might give this a go.

Before I go looking for stuff, did you need a BT adapter to get better range, etc?

And then after that command has run try ^update^upgrade

See my other reply just before yours.

It was from another post a few days ago

Ok, I started to disconnect about halfway through that article and skimmed the rest, but I don’t see how this is a trap.

I just see someone highlighting LLM categorisation and the legality of training data… but no trap.

Or, am I the one stepping blindly into a trap?

A recent post in here linked to this: https://ba.antheas.dev/bazzite-postmortem.html

I used to put all my setup & config notes into tiddlywiki, and to some point I still update them, but it’s become difficult for others to update and maintain when I share them as you need a browser addin to be able to save updates properly.

The formatting is similar to markdown, but just a little different to make copying the original source that way too… but… I’d still consider it, esp. once you’ve really played with it and found all the things it’s capable of.

+1 for logseq… it literally saved my life when I changed jobs, nothing else came close.

However, the original markdown version has really slowed down development whilst the newer db version is slowly catching up, so, I’d rcommend the MD version for now, but people might want to hold for a little while…

👆🏻 This is what I install everywhere for others that I’d need to maintain as I can leave it for 6 months and then do an update.

For more advanced users that want to play & learn, plain vanilla Arch. You learn what the hell is in your own machine.

But, as someone else said, get a feel for different desktop environments (DE) as Linux has many whereas Windows only had 1.

I thought Bazzite was now dying?

What’s your recovery needs?

It’s ok to take 6 months to backup to a cloud provider, but do you need all your data to be recovered in a short period of time? If so, cloud isn’t the solution, you’d need a duplicate set of drives nearby (but not close enough for the same flood, fire, etc.

But, if you’re ok waiting for the data to download again (and check the storage provider costs for that specific scenario), then your main factor is how much data changes after that initial 1st upload.

In a different location

Also Arch, but barefoot