deadcatbounce

I’d suggest no-one ever dual-boot Windows with anything. There are to many mishaps when Windows takes it into their head to fuck the bootloader.

Put the OS into a VM. If you only use Windows for one app put Windows into the VM. Otherwise put Linux into the VM until you find you’re mostly using Linux.

Unless you have an old PC laying around …

Logseq to Obsidian.

Logseq’s markdown is weird and not standard. Everything is indented and in a list, even headings. I love me some open source, but this is a hard no.

Open your logseq files in a plain text editor and compare with the standard. I spend much of my time editing them back to Markdown.

Syncing logseq is easy on Syncthing. The only issue being that one has to watch out for conflicts by not editing one on one instance before the other sends it/it is received, but that’s a sync issue not Logseq.

I started on Logseq, because I’m a contributing open source advocate. I fully intended to stay with Logseq.

However, it seems to indent everything in the markdown including headings, bullet points and so on. When one loads a document into a markdown editor, one ends up removing all these indents before the document becomes ‘valid’. They’ve made some other unusual design choices that mean the markdown doesn’t read very well in plain text. I used Logseq for a year.

There’s also a difficulty for me with getting help. For some reason Logseq help community seems to be based around the Discuss (sp?). It’s not easy to read because the lines are very short as it’s a messaging platform. The community is very very active though.

I eventually got frustrated with trying to debug my Markdown outside Logseq, and went looking for another vehicle.

Rather distressed, I installed Obsidian. It’s been designed with a more logical approach. To link to a heading in another document, the document is linked in a Wiki-like way (if you’ve chosen that format) with the heading separated by a hash symbol; in Logseq you get an unintelligible UUID plus all that indenting.

There’s a lot of help within the Obsidian community but some of it is locked down in medium paid-for content. However, the hundreds of Obsidian YouTube channels and videos, obsidianrocks and obsidian.md sites are very well authored. AI searches augment the rest, TBF I don’t really use Google proxies anymore.

Even though I’m a personal user, it’s worth it to me to buy a commercial licence to show my appreciation for the work that the two(?) developers have put in.

The plugins use the published API and are all (?) open source AFAICT.

Most of the issues I have with Obsidian are just related to my workflow. I think that there are probably plugins that will solve them.

I don’t expect to be looking for another note-taking app anytime soon and it’s been over a year since I started with Obsidian. Understanding templates opened my world up enormously. I haven’t started data-mining in any meaningful sense yet.

Just my tuppence.

The major issue is to complain to/about your provider, not mess around with the workaround solutions.

That said once you have the list of packages, you can download them on your phone and seamlessly transfer them to your pc with Syncthing.

Have a look at dnf-automatic to do downloads only. I’m not sure how many retries it allows.

There is also the option of limiting your bandwidth on the PC so that it doesn’t choke.

Ultimately the ISP has to provide a working service.

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Restore from backup. No point in trying to figure out what changed and where.

bat.

(half replying to other comments as well as yours)

If you have a look at the btrfs mailing lists post that introduced RAID1c34, they were created because RAID56 were not considered viable or fixable. It’s in couched language but reasonably clear. I don’t think you’re thinking of using those (RAID56) but don’t.

Never had any btrfs problems that weren’t self generated or date from a really sticky period in btrfs’s history (years ago, 4.13 or maybe 3.13). I’ve used RAID56 until RAID1c34 became available and RAID10 where I could.

Haven’t tried LUKS - btrfs though, although effectively no worse than putting btrfs in a VM (which is fine if slow at the time), albeit a bit more computationally intensive.

Install your own from one of the parent distros: Debian, Fedora/openSUSE, sources (eg. Exherbo, Gentoo), the state-based one I always forget.

An atomic distro is one which is in my understanding, has a basis in libostree, right? I’m familiar with the Fedora/RedHat versions but not any others.

Immutable distributions, for me to are wonderful when they are sparse. I don’t want anything on my OS which I don’t use at least once on a while.

If I install Fedora (RPM) Workstation to a large extent I can remove programs that I don’t want. Whereas SilverBlue (libostree), I’m stuck with whatever the maintainers template (is there a blocking mechanism?).

However, with sparse Fedora-IoT, I can’t break it - to a large extent - and it doesn’t have anything I don’t want.

I always install minimal versions of OSs, from Fedora (Everything iso), to Debian (debootstrap) to ArchLinux to Exherbo to Talos, just keep them cleaner longer. Then I fix them until they break!

I think they’re ideal for those starting out in Linux because they are not ready to break; not saying that they’re not for others too.

There’s enough documentation, at least for Fedora atomic distros, to make your own custom spin.

I’m not switching for any desktop, unless the basic OS is minimal; but have switched for Raspberry Pi OS to Fedora IoT (atomic distro), at least temporarily.

I’m not criticising you. I cannot validity criticise you, even if I was so inclined (I’m not), because I cannot proficiently grasp the subject matter. I would like to understand, NOT criticise. You’ve written an engaging piece which is opaque to me; apparently a contradiction. Hopefully I’ve rephrased that enough times to get across that no criticism is intended. 😁

I don’t know the product names. I don’t tend to be focused on product names because they come and go. Your first message didn’t help me.

Your last precis is just what I needed. Ideal. Thank-you. I now know what you’re trying to achieve.

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Wasn’t being critical at all. Not expecting you to write for anyone.

I wondered what this actually provides. If you were explaining to someone with a good knowledge of the world, not grandma!!

Thanks fella. What do they actually do? Elevator pitch stylie!

Excuse the ignorance, what am I actually reading about here?

I read the first few paragraphs and an out of my league.

What are ‘we’ trying to achieve?

I live these old stories. Kinda gave up programming by 1996. It was a short-sighted thing to do!

Having grown up with Acorn Atoms. BBC Micro, MS and DRDOS, Gem, Xerox something, Windows 1, don’t remember 2, 3.0 to 3.11, NT. I didn’t realise how nice early (2004) Linux was until I used it in a Windows server hosted VM to handle my phone calls (VoIP@home or something it was called).

I did everything I could to ditch Windows after that. The webification of QuickBooks was the final release.

It’s actually not that pricey for what you get from it. The problem is that they have a tendency to be closed mouthed about their plans.

I bought a 2.5 GBE router, to replace my elderly and difficult USG, and was about to buy a 2.5 GBE WAP - there was a problem with them having issues with only one chipset inside the first version, so I didn’t pull the trigger immediately. Within a month there was a 10 GBE WAP being sold. A 10 GBE Router appear soon after. Damn.

The only viable alternative, IMHO, is pfsense (mostly US users) and opensense (not US users) and you need your own hardware.

I run my Gateway without a UI login, a local account. I lose some of the features, but that’s ok with me.

I started some time ago by reading his Ethereum emissions. I have a relevant qualification but it was handed down last century.

Yeah. I need a refresher. 😳

That’s not to say that the bits which I did understand weren’t elegantly put and digestible.

I do like this man’s musings. This is one I actually understood.