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Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?
  • I’ve been using it ever since Ubuntu switched over. No major issues, though I have to launch Calibre (the ebook manager) via the command line with a special environment variable because the developer is anti-Wayland. I’m looking for alternatives.

  • ThinkPad Alternatives
  • The Panasonic ToughBook and ToughPad series are engineered to be, like the name implies, tough. I had a customer who purchased those almost exclusively, and I never had anything bad to say about them (except for cost).

  • Am i the only one who gets panicky when i get told to "talk about my self"?
  • It’s not just you. I’m not that entertaining. My hobbies are kind of boring. I’m not very exciting. I use this question as a chance to talk about my accomplishments.

    My last job told me to stop that and try to talk about myself. I forget what I said, but it got me hired.

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  • Switching from Word to LibreOffice Writer was hard. Sure, I figured out documents on my own, but it still won’t print envelopes correctly (the printer doesn’t respect the margins and orientation compared to my Windows install).

    I assume changing platforms and apps is harder when you use your computer to make money. I feel for the OP in the screenshot. Assuming his hardware is compatible, I’m sure he could take some time to learn a FOSS alternative but it’d be a while until he was proficient enough to make a living. The commenter was dickish but correct. Still, let’s not assume switching apps is as easy as switching gas stations.

  • truly the power of innovation
  • Yeah, but reflashing a motherboard is far less dangerous than reflashing a $30,000 car. Your computer couldn’t kill someone if something fails. As much as I hate this image and wished repair instructions were made public, this may be the wisest move from a liability perspective.

  • [CW: Alcohol] How to covertly drink while watching a theatre performance?
  • Does the theater not serve drinks? If they do and you can get away with one, buy one. Covertly refilling it would be indistinguishable from you just nursing one drink for the entire performance.

    You could also use a base with a strong scent. Colas, Dr. Pepper, orange soda, etc. may have enough smell to hide your habit from those around you.

    I feel for you. Nothing beats a good drink. However, in cases like this, perhaps edible cannabis is better. No smell, discreet, and enough to “just take the edge off” (for me) is about the size of a breath mint. Have some while you’re waiting in line to get in and enjoy the show.

  • After 17 years and 761 episodes, FLOSS Weekly ended
  • tl;dr, podcasts are expensive to produce, about $1000/hour with video, hosts (local and remote), and post-production. TWiT is going through hard times and some shows and hosts have to go. Sadly, FLOSS was on the chopping block.

    Advertisers just aren’t interested in podcasts anymore. If you still want to support the network after this, give Leo $7/month and join Club TWiT. I don’t give a rat’s ass about Discord, but I do want to prevent stuff like this.

  • what caused you to get into Linux?
  • I tried Linux when I was younger. I decided to try Gentoo on underpowered hardware with zero Linux experience. I credit that uphill battle for teaching me Linux! I used that until I got into dependency hell and switched back to Windows for a while. I needed PowerShell and stuff for my old job, before it went cross-platform. It was fine.

    A few years later, I was dual-booting again. Then, Windows 10 began blue-screening randomly. I couldn’t figure out why. Reinstalling didn’t work. So I started using Linux full-time and I’ve never looked back.

    Even when I found out that one of my memory sticks had been half-inserted for months, and that’s probably what made Windows crash all the time. How did Linux handle it? Obviously, because it’s better.

  • How can I best back up a ZFS volume to a USB hard drive?

    (I feel like I've violated plenty of common-sense stuff while learning ZFS. If so, you can let me have it in the comments.)

    I have a large RAID-Z1 array that I back up to a USB 3.0 hard drive. I'd also like to maintain zfs-auto-snapshot's snapshots as well. I've been doing a zfs send MyArray | zfs recv Backup and it's been working pretty well; however, once in a while, the array will become suspended due to an I/O error, and I'll either need to reboot, or rarely, destroy the backup disk and re-copy everything.

    This seems like I'm doing something wrong, so I'd like to know: what is the best way to back up a ZFS array to a single portable disk?

    I would prefer a portable backup solution like backing up to a single USB hard drive (preferably so I can buy two and keep one somewhere secure), but I'm open to getting a small NAS and zfs sending over a network.

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