Combined USB-C charger and jack connectors also exist, so could help you here.

Edit: ah… just saw the /s

Ah, good old dd

When you have some spare time, take a look at partclone - clonezilla uses it because it only backs up used blocks, not free space, so more efficient.

Interesting.

Yep, I agree there’s 2 types of backups:

• data
• OS image

Out of curiosity, how are you doing the drive imaging?

Yep, this is what I did too.

I found no-one was using the NC interface and just syncing, so stripped right back.

Stable. Lightweight. Mostly no maintenance (just moving to syncthing-fork)

I think the point here is that no-one uploads / enters a password/phrase/file.

Whatever you enter on the keyboard is hashed and the hash is sent. Depending on the protocol, sometimes it’s time limited so no-one can record the network traffic and resend the data (replay attack)

Files (SSH keys, certificates, etc) are checked against a (usually) asymetric key exchange algorithm, so they can only compare what’s sent if they have the corresponding key to decrypt the cipher.

The length of the password (or file) is basically meaningless. It’s just how long it’ll take someone to guess it (brute-force), but as the saying goes, you don’t break into a house through the door, you go through Windows… ie the weakest link.

In your concept, the weakest link is the meatware: humans. We need ease of use, so, someone will store that file and it’ll be compromised, so 64b, 128b or 512b doesn’t matter, if they have the file, they’re in.

Now… MFA… Now, that’s more like it.

Gotta say… I don’t really rate Cisco as a security vendor these days.

Sure, we’ll happily rack up a load of their switches (disabling the call-home feature), but edge protection? I’ll pass…

Best advice I had, was to rewrite the job advert as your CV… so each application will be different.

Obviously don’t lie about your experience, but if they’re wanting a “dynamic self-starting highly motivated…” then, well, that’s what you are.

Now, whether that forms a CV or an online form, it doesn’t really matter as you’ll be just copy & pasting their advert anyway.

Accounts are rarely brute forced these days.

It’s almost always a leaked, unsalted hash table.

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At least there’s no Windows…

Time. And experience.

I compare this with other skills like growing plants… “keep watering them” is not good advice for cacti…

A lot of Windows users have to search for solutions which you probably know. And there’s still advice out there to “open regedit…” (do you understand the difference between HKLM and HKCU?)

Windows is like Linux, but someone’s taken away all choice: 1 desktop GUI, 1 filesystem (mostly), etc. so there’s usually only 1 answer.

Pressing the volume key should work as it’s been the same for decades. Yet, why can’t I move the taskbar to the top of the screen in Win11 now?

You’ll get there with Mint Cinnamon, but someone else on Mint Xfce will have to do something different, and learn different things yet you’ll still both learn about apt even if you try to only use the gui to update your systems.

Over time the venn diagram of advice becomes clearer and you find what advice works for you (ie cli vs gui) and you learn why some plants need water and others don’t.

I have a 7530. (Is yours a typo?)

Yes, those instructions look about right.

My pfSense box has the username & password, so the router really is just being used as a dumb modem (I used to use Draytek modems)…

… but…

The router’s diagnostics will show the DSL details, so you can check if your external connection is ok (ie OSI Layer1), but it will always think it’s offline.

So once you get your OPNSense setup and working, have a look around the Fritz diagnostics and get comfy with what you can / can’t see, because when there’s a failure you won’t know what is really failed.

Also… write down what you did and how to reverse it, as you (or others) might want to reset it to full router if your OPNSense is down.

The advice above matches mine.

I have a home-built pfSense unit and when parts die (not if), then I just replace them with spares I have already waiting… as that box is now critical for you.

I also have a Fritz in bridge mode with the pfSense doing PPPoE through it, so effectively, the firewall is the first real device on the WAN. Makes things much simpler as the WAN interface has status like packet drops, etc, much easier to diagnose issues.

Just some friendly advice: Consider changing your card’s bank’s password.

Years ago I had my Barclaycard account compromised, someone disabled paper statements, changed my password and bought loads of toys.

I pay my card manually monthly and couldn’t log in (I use keepass, so I knew it was the correct password)… phoned Barclaycard and got transferrd to their fraud dept. they asked a few questions to verify me and then were really good and going back through all the stuff I’d not bought.

As they’d obviously gained access to my account details, not just cloning the card, I changed all my banking passwords and put alerts on transactions larger than I normally spend.

We have 2FA nowadays, but still, I don’t trust the website security and I definitely don’t use banking apps.

Yeah, I agree

I’d prefer a better way to manage the thousands of Todos as setting a scheduled date doesn’t really do much - and I don’t see that anywhere in the list of features.

Ok, I’m not sharing these graphs with others, but syncthing manages to keep my phone and 2 laptops organised… not sure a DB is gonna sync that easily.

Well, I was looking for this today too.

There is a long term changelog for the DB version on the forum here: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-db-changelog/30013 - just scrollllllll to the end and the last entry was yesterday.

And here is a comparison of MD vs DB versions: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-og-markdown-vs-logseq-db-sqlite/34608

Your quirky quest to quit using quizzical words is quite strange…

I’d expect that a dashboard / sidebar item could be available only if that module was installed - like Integrations for example.

I use the Energy but not Climate, but in the future I might install it, likewise I might remove an existing one.

I don’t see this as a big problem, but I do agree that automatically adding them can be annoying with multiple phones / tablets / etc.

Wow.

Ok, I don’t have anywhere near that amount of media, but MythTV takes seconds to rescan ~2TB of videos and maybe a minute to get any missing details like fanart, etc.

Similar amount for music - but I feed it the files after I’ve run them through Picard.

I’ve not done a complete rescan of eveything for ages, but from memory it’s like an hour absolute tops. More like ~30 mins.

And that’s on an underclocked CPU (for quietness).

Out of curiosity, which Mint bugs are you seeing?

I’ve just upgraded one family laptop to… 22? And about to do another on the weekend… so curious if I should hold off, or hurry up…

Yeah, exactly… was probably 11am when I had that feeling that I should be doing something else…

Mind you… too many days like that and I’d go mad and do something crazy… I really do not know how people cope with retirement.

This looks very interesting.

I track the family’s location with GPS Logger (on Android) and the Home Assistant app on the iPhone user… it’s all going to HA at the moment to turn lights on when people get home…

And I have a separate Immich server.

So, reading this, I can combine this all together from HA and Immich - or do I need to send the GPS coordinates to this server too?

I’m also not a container user… skimming the installation section, the instructions appear to be only support docker - are standalone instructions also covered? (I may have missed them…)

But, this looks really nice.

I liked thr piechart where you distinguish between walking, cycling, driving, etc, I presume that’s done by velocity…? So, do you calculate that or need that data from the phone app?