GSconnect extension on GNOME, and its honestly amazing. Send files, copy clipboard, auto pause my music when a phonecalls comes in. Custom commands from the phone to lock my session if I’m away from my desk. Such a great application.

Exactly, its smooth and integrated but looks like Windows style menus and task bar.

Its a solid choice. If I wasn’t such a Tumbleweed fan, I would use Zorin

Zorin has modified the GNOME back end so the UI looks more like a KDE layout. You get 4 options for the layout (iirc). So its Windows like, but smooth and polished. It’s a really good choice for people transitioning from Windows.

Oh shit, that’s terrible.

This is true. On some distros you just tell it to ignore the windows EFI and it suggests a new during partitioning. You say OK and the installer takes care of it.

Port forwarding is done at the router/firewall, so if ports can’t be transferred its a cgnat thing they are doing. Like a Non CGNAT IP on the internet can be sent a packet on any port.

I use libre office draw, the underlying PDF is editable, but there may be a way to lock it like layers or something

It’s an Intel i5-7700 cpu in a Gigabyte Z270N mobo. Those were chosen as a form factor fit for the Monsterlabo fanless case. (Only a select set of boards, and in this case 1151 brackets, fit the case)

I have been looking for something new.

Last week was moving Immich up to the new release I was on an old version, which meant migrating to an intermediate version to allow a database rebuild. It worked well.

I was bored this week so just ran some wattage testing.

• 15w at idle (800MHz)
• 20w active (3.4GHz)
• 30w peak at boot

That’s a fair point. And probably true on many distros.

Not if you separate into two EFI partitions and set Linux one in your UEFI boot options. Windows only gets access when grub hands over boot to windows via a chainloader entry, windows only knows about its EFI. I have run it 8 years like this…after dealing with windows killing my first shared EFI.

I have run a dualboot for 8 years this way.

Chainloading hands the boot over to Windows (from grub) but windows just thinks its a fresh boot. When windows does EFI changes its only to its own designated partition.

You can even run windows update and when it prompts for reboot to install, you can launch Linux and do whatever, then boot back to windows and the install will continue like you didn’t interrupt it.

The reason two drives works is same as what I mentioned, you have two EFI partitions that are separate.

The only way you will wreck it is if you go into windows device manager and delete the unknown partitions.

Or if you make two efi partitions, one for Linux and one that Windows uses. Then use the Probe Foreign OS in Linux to make a chainloader entry to windows. Set Linux as UEFI bootloader. Windows doesn’t know about the other partitions and leaves them alone.

I have resorted to the AI step also, if Stract.com doesn’t give me a good link, because if I paste a minidlna crash log Google responds with:

• Mini Cooper on sale
• Buy your DAC device here
• want to sign up to streaming music
• network and NAS comparisons

Useless.

At least AI said: based on your error it appears a file in your database has metdata tags it cannot parse properly. Sure enough the tagger I used had applied a tag to a wmv file and Minidlna couldn’t deal with tag1 area vs tag 2 areas used in other file formats.

That’s why I put GrapheneOS on my phone. It sandboxes apps and you can grant specific containerized storage spaces aaccesa per app.

But screen reading OOF, I thought that would have needed screen overlay permissions.

Thanks, I meant to note that and got distracted lol

https://antennapod.org/documentation/general/other-platforms

Yeah, he created an OS from scratch to avoid corporate greed of what they charged for Unix.

It is a lot of work, and the TempleOS guy building his system is a huge accomplishment also…as quirky as it is.

I guess I don’t see us being stuck with anything other than our own complacency.

To be honest nobody has given me a good view of what emacs actually does…so I’m all ears

If you want to get that deep into it even your tomato choices are controlled by a large company (hybrid seed, chemical starter, distribution, preestablished deals with vendors) but you can still grow your own.

Nothing stopping anyone from being the next Linus and deciding to start something new.

Nothing stopping anyone from forking an old kernel and doing something different with it and stripping out the big corp stuff you don’t like.