“mesh” is a buzzword that doesn’t make much sense (to me at least) if we are talking about wired and routers… what do you mean by it? can you describe your setup?

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Let me clarify :)

Unless I’m mistaken, mesh means that one a bunch of devices, usually wireless access points, connected with each other (in a mesh) with possibly low-quality connections that automatically switch traffic for each other.

If you have ethernet running from the router to the APs, you always want to use that and so you don’t want a mesh at all.

The best option would be to have a “regular” client that keeps a local copy in sync with the cloud instead of a mount.

BTW: IDK what cloud storage you are using, but IIRC some show files that are not available locally (ie. only the most recent files are downloaded locally - the older stuff is downloaded on request).

Alternatively, you could hack something together running unison locally in the guest to sync the cloud folder to a shared one… you’ll have two copies of the data though.

This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.

It nails a different problem on the head.

You don’t have to convince the US government to allow you access to classified information, you just have to convince a lawyer that their (possibly non-US) client won’t be liable in case you are lying.

First of all, saying “based on their country of residence” is either grossly uninformed or (most probably) plain dishonest.

Ignoring that, the GPL-freedoms of companies subject to sanctions are still preserved, so… having established that your “free” is not the same “free” as in “free and open source software”, what the hell are you talking about?

Follow-up story: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements

Finland was invaded by Russia before WWII, then participated in a campaign against Russia with the Axis powers and finally signed the Moscow Treaty with Russia and the UK and joined them against Germany… I fear history is more complex than what may serve your simplistic view (I’d go to far as to say that, most probably, reality is too).

Also, if I may, that happened some 80 years ago… do you think current Finns should be ashamed of that when they were not even alive back then? Can you name a nation that didn’t do anything shameful in the last century?

One way or another, if you want to run an application you are gonna need its dependencies (the key is the name)… they may be bundled into an appimage or come as part of flatpak ruintime, or be confined inside a container, or live in the nix store, but they will “bloat” your system anyway.

Learn how to cleanup your system (ie. uninstall all packages that are not needed by others that have been requested explicitly) and live a happy life. Only bother with other solutions if the software (or version) you need isn’t available for your distro.

Because podman :)

The main difference is probably that I have a desktop PC rather than a laptop (plus, a few old hard disks lying around).

I think I’ll keep the local replica even when I’m finished reorganizing the library: the local copy doubles as a backup and I must say I am enjoying the faster access times.

I also read that drives should not be spun down and up too often, but I think it only matters if you do that hundreds of times a day?

Anyway, the reason I spin down my drives is to save electricity, and… more for the principle than for the electric bill (it’s only 2 drives).

Never heard of it… OMG that must be the worst name for a backup solution! :D

It reeks of abandoned software (last release is 0.50 from 2018), but there is recent activity in git, so… IDK

Yes, Syncthing does watch for file changes… that’s why I am so puzzled that it also does full rescans :)

Maybe they do that to catch changes that may have been made while syncthing was not running… it may make sense on mobies, where the OS like to kill processes willy-nilly, but IMHO not on a “real” computer

The ones I added recently are all git-related (one key for signing and I started using different keys for codehaus, gitlab and github)

I did add a bunch of new keys to my ssh agent… this might really be it!

Now that’s a neat idea! (not sure I’ll ever implement it though: having passwords on my ssh keys is already enough of a hassle, plus having provisioning and scripts ask for password is a PITA)

Anyway, I was just trying to authenticate with a password, like we used to back in the day :)
(it’s only for install isos or freshly installed systems that I’ve not provisioned yet - everything else requires a key).

How would that improve security when all a bad actor has to do is add -o PubkeyAuthentication=no on their side?

Also, I’m pretty sure it used to just ask for a password?

It used to back in the day, especially if you tried using shitty windows usb inkjets.

Nowadays basically all printers are network printers (they are, aren’t they?) plus we have cups which is the same thing macos uses (so manufacturers actually care).

Agreed. I don’t come here to read about windows.

Also, “microsoft’s ads for linux” in the title is a fraud clickbait.

(I assume you meant “I created a separated /var partition”)

You can move/resize partitions from basically any live usb (via cli or gparted for gnome and kde partition manager for kde).

Shall you want to, you can also merge the var partition with (say) your root partition:

1. mount both partitions in two directories (just create empty ones and mount on them, say ~/root and ~/var)
2. inside ~/root create the new var/ directory
3. copy the data over
4. edit ~/root/etc/fstab (remove the line for the old var partition)
5. use whatever partitioning tool to get rid of the actual partition and expand the previous/next one

Be aware that you can very easily lose your data ;)

PS: just in case, try running flatpak uninstall --unused

You can use OnFailure in your .service file if you want some thing to happen when that specific service fails, but I don’t know if there’s a blanket way to tell systemd to notify via email when any failure happens (I wouldn’t mind a desktop notification… will investigate)