Pretty much every alerting system I know also has a filter option to only apply automated discovery rules to certain filesystem types.

But yes, most don’t first squashfs or mounted read-only snapshots by default and it sucks.

How old are you?

Are you using zfs?

That really is one hell of a hot take 😀

I for one really love the zoomed out preview on the right that has become popular in recent years.

https://jason-williams.co.uk/assets/img/2020/debugging_screenshot.png

Really hard to do in a terminal. If you have errors you can see very fast where they are located/clustered in the file and can already tell just by the shape of the program where it is.

Another example: GUI color picker directly in my editor as a tooltip above color values in css/html templates.

Another example: inline preview of latex or Template fragments.

In Germany we need coins to unlock supermarket carts, so I use the coin pocket for it’s intended purpose to house my one coin.

That’s why you do regular restore tests on separate systems. That should be standard procedure for any company. A fully encrypted disk should be noticable immediately.

If your backups are online and not in a warehouse, you are doing it wrong. Even my own personal backups are on disconnected disks. What a bunch of amateurs.

Which is completely fair to say but does not mean that people here should shit on windows users in general. If it works for them, let them do their thing.

You can’t trust any full disk encryption without it because only a TPM can verify that your bootloader and initrd are not compromised.

I get what you mean but please read the study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41347-023-00304-7

They themselves note that the very small sample size would be an issue. They say they would need 78 people for even remotely confident results, then they initially targeted 74 people, of which 20 dropped out.

Let me be clear that I too want to believe that social networks are bad for people, but studies like this one do very very little to provide any meaningful data to base my opinion on.

Sample size, 50 students. Lol nothing to see here. This has no value whatsoever.

If you are not saving things to a remote location, you will lose all your shit in a flood or fire. Remote storage has gotten cheap enough to make it practical.

Hetzner storage boxes cost 3.8€/month for 1TB, which is more than enough for the important things people have.

Backblaze is 70$/year for unlimited data.

What’s the problem with that script? That’s such a basic use case and not very hard to do at all in systemd.

Where do you struggle with it? Can we maybe help with something?

Brother has been amazing. Good products, manufacturer support for all operating systems, no subscription bullshit.

Replace Debian apt sources with Ubuntu ones, do system upgrade and install the Ubuntu-Desktop package, now you have Ubuntu.

It’s been a while since I have done this, but it’s totally possible.

We did this transition from Ubuntu to Debian at Work with thousands of workstations.

It requires a bit of time and testing but it’s possible.

For a handful of servers, try zabbix. Every distribution has a packaged zabbix agent. It has everything: web ui, a way to Auto discover things with a bit of setup, nice graphs, alerting, LDAP User Management if you need it, a way to define per person/group alerting/notification schedules. And the community is big enough that many common services (fail2ban/postfix/MySQL/etc.) have premade custom monitoring scripts. Adding your own metrics is also very easy.

I want it to continuously adapt to my ever changing interests. That’s one of the major features for me.

Because I get a non-toxic personalized YouTube feed that does not suck…

Honestly by far the best subscription I have.

13€/month to never see ads on any device, give a lot more money to creators and free access to YouTube music so I don’t need Spotify anymore. It’s amazing how much you get for comparatively little money.

Not really. You can still use dm-verity for a normal raid and get checksumming and normal performance, which is better and faster than using btrfs.

But in any case, I’d recommend just going with zfs because it has all the features and is plenty fast.