Ah, but it’s how old you feel which is more important 😉

Maybe those statistics could be really interesting:

• How old do you feel when using proprietary software?
• How old do you feel when using FOSS?

Thanks for posting the version.

Looks like Arch updated to this version on 1st July.

My DMZ node had it installed a week later, so I’m all smug today

Nice. Glad you’re on to something.

I can’t help you with docker files as I don’t use it, but, there’s usually a way to find out who / what owns a file, so I hope docker utils can tell you if it’s safe to delete

No, even lighterweight - no containers.

My NAS is mostly plain Arch packages, so just upgrade and all is well. No additional container software layer to maintain either.

Btrfs management tools update with the OS, all is good.

+1 on all of this.

Logseq basically saved my mind when I took on a new job where I needed to take a lot of notes quickly, easily and keep track of all the ToDos.

Syncthing keeps my laptop and phone in sync (with my NAS) so I can start notes on my laptop and then finish on my phone.

You can definitely reorder checkboxes, but on Android it’s still not quite a smooth experience, but it’s ok.

du -hs * won’t find “hidden” (.) files and folders, you’ll need a slightly sifferent regx (which I will leave as an exercise for you / I don’t have that info here)

And also both du and df show different results depending on the underlying filesystem, ie btrfs (and maybe ZFS?) won’t show how much deduplication is happening.

Also, you might be looking at sparse files too, and from memory, you’ll need another option for du or df to report those correctly.

A confession in here is worth total forgiveness.

I’ll phone your boss and clear it for you…

(Most of mine then eventually ended up on ebay)

I think that’s the point (.txt)

Yeah, I have MythTV setup in a passively cooled box in the corner of the lounge… works fine…

But, I’m considering oprions for the rest of the family, both local (other rooms) and remote, so rather than reinvent wheels…

Good analogy… that’s really answered the question I wanted to ask

Kinda hijacking this a little: what do the cool kids use on a “normal” TV as a client to watch Jellyfin?

Chromecast? A PI plugged into the HDMI port?

This hasn’t been on my radar, but with Winter coming (John Snow) I’m thinking this might be something to look into…

That’s just saying that things are tripping each other up whilst trying to shutdown.

Try sudo journalctl -b-1 --reverse

That will show the last system log in reverse order, and might help see what’s going on.

There’s an old bug report (notice I say report, as it’s locked and not solved - & I don’t have the link to hand) with several people saying that systemd causes this, but, it might be applications or services that have user accounts open, etc, etc…

but… try shutting down services and unmounting any shares / filesystems that might be causing this to see if you can isolate something.

As mentioned in the other thread, try shutting down from the command line on a new TTY (text-only screen) and see if that shows anything else.

(They meant, instead of doing your normal shutdown, open a command window and type that command instead.)

I think you’re agreeing with me then.

My first point is keeping everything updated - which would include the browser(s)

My later point was visiting dodgy sites with protections disabled.

Got an example in BASH?

Edit: someone else has a link

Just make sure everything’s updated.

Microsoft do a good job of updating drivers and their applications, but Windows application updates vary so much.

For Linux - mostly - the distro maintainers handle all updates and just updating is usually enough.

After that it’s down to you… if you disable all the built-in protection and visit dodgy websites then any OS is going to struggle.

You can improve the out-of-box security by removing software you don’t use, improving default configurations (one size doesn’t fit all) and considering if you want additional security software - this applies to any OS.

So, to return to your question, choose a Linux distro which has regular updates and only contains applications that you use.

Thanks. Didn’t know these existed.

TBH once Mint’s up & running and all those updates / dependencies are sorted.out, I’ve not had a problem with it.

I’m supporting a couple of people that don’t do updates, so it just stays static until I get there… when we arrive (ie for a weekend) I’ll do a full backup whilst we’re all catching up and then at some point I’ll do a full update and make sure it’s working again well before we leave.

Agree with the other point on enabling remote access - and also setup something (ie syncthing) to get their data somewhere else.

Lol…I was curious if HML was still going, so I looked it up…

TL;DR: It’s not: Hannah Montana Linux in 2025

And now I have mangled lyrics from a Run DMC song in my head:

It’s like þat and þat’s þe way it is.