Been meaning to fully switch to Debian for a while, but I’ve been making due modifying my apt sources to have the apt version of Firefox from the ppa and pin it above the snap version, but I guess at some point I’ll have to bite the bullet and do a reinstall.

Kinda crazy this had been 10 year old Ubuntu installs that I’ve kept going year after year from OS upgrades to hardware upgrades. My server Ubuntu install has transitioned from a Q6600 Intel core 2 duo, to a i7-4770, and would have survived another hardware upgrade I’m going to plan but that’ll probable be when i do my reinstall.

My personal laptop install has gone through 3 different laptops that I’ve just moved over from 1 drive to the next with gparted, from a dell vostro 3550, to a Dell latitude e7450, to a dell latitude 7490, again looking at an upgrade for the laptop too, I’ll probably reinstall with Debian.

If anyone has any new-ish AMD based laptop recommendations that are upgradeable (non-soldered ram, etc) and that don’t break the bank, I’d appreciate it! Apparently dell doesn’t sell any AMD laptops other than 1 outdated model from before 2020 I think.

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nevermind, I see you just posted the link, you’re not the dev. Leaving this question up to see if anyone has good suggestions for this type of backup.

Hey there, does this just handle files/data, or can it backup apps too? Been looking for a reliable way to backup apps and data for the few times I need to do a phone wipe, would be nice to restore everything like it was and not have to go through the whole install process again for all my apps.

I haven’t tried extensively, but each tool I’ve tried in the past had issues and didn’t really work for 100% of my apps and data, whether its Titanium backup, or the seedvault built into LineageOS, or Neo backup, etc. I haven’t really had great success doing this.

Do you have any git instances that you could share out to help distribute, but also further develop the mod? Github, gitlab, gitea, etc?

I’m not a big online gamer, so I don’t really have to mess much with anti cheat stuff. But I wonder if any of the games you want to work will work in a windows VM with a GPU passthrough. You get basically native performance that way, but I think some anti-cheat stuff will still throw a fit even when trying to hide the fact that its running in a VM, so it’s not guaranteed to work for 100% of games.

Sorry man, still confused, can you explain more?

I’m sorry I’m confused by what you’re hinting at with this reply, you’re going to have to explain further.

You ever watch scifi stuff and its kinda far fetched? Its because they’re envisioning a future that hasn’t happened yet. Its not an ‘edge case’ you just haven’t been affected by it yet.

But for some reason you’d like to take it further. How odd.

Get back to us when your health insurance company kicks you off your plan because your car has been reporting that you’ve been going to the bar 4 nights a week.

Or when your wife starts getting ads when connected to your home network for strippers and strip clubs because you parked the car near a strip club 1 time.

Or when your car starts suspiciously routing you through weird routes on maps, that take you close to the local fast food joints because Taco Bell/KFC paid them advertising money.

“But none of that happens right now!”

That’s not the point. The point is, it could.

“It was labeled as a technology platform, I didn’t think any of that technology would be used against me!”

Ahhh I see. Well damn because that functionality does sound pretty useful, sad that its currently broken with Wayland.

I never used khotkeys, but would input-remapper do what you want? You can remap keys or execute macros on key presses. It supports X11 and Wayland.

https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper

Appreciate it! Like others I probably won’t use this in practice, but its nice to know how if I wanted to.

You got any guides for running the ARM docker containers with root? I already got a rooted phone.

There was a thread yesterday where most people were choosing arch for their server, I didn’t get it either. Like you, I’d much rather Debian or something else with smoother updates.