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  • edit: jfc, typos. I hate typing on phone keyboards.

    Secondary to that is that getting bluray to work on a computer is a pain. It’s not impossible, but its not natively supported on macos or Linux (I dont know about windows, haven’t used it in ages now).

    Whereas if you do use the alternative methods, you don’t have to fight with trying to get the os you’re using to work with bluray




  • Update: Correction. While you do get five years of security updates for Universe on an Ubuntu LTS, those are updates done by the ubuntu community, not canonical. To get Universe security updates from Canonical, you do have to sign up to Ubuntu pro, which can be done without any payment, but as I describe in my original comment, does require creating an account.

    While Canonical deserves the criticisms leveled by op (that I agree with), it’s also incorrect to say that they lock security updated behind a paywall.

    Anyone that does use Ubuntu gets security updated until they stop supporting that particular release version, which iirc is for six years (I may be wrong, thus is from memory).

    If you want extended security updates for a specific version of the os, you can elect to sign up to Ubuntu pro without paying any money. You do have to make an account, and if you so choose you can populate the account info with garbage info and a disposable email, and you’ll get extended security updates for that release version.




  • I got a test box set up with nixos and a config that runs all of my services. I wanted to test the declarative rebuild promise of it, so I:

    1. Filled the services with my some of my backed up data (a copy of the data, not the actual backup)
    2. Ran it for a few days using some of the services
    3. Backed up the data of the nixos test server, as well as the nixos config
    4. Reinstalled nixos on the test box, brought in the config, and rebuilt it.

    And it worked!!! All serviced came back with the data, all configuration was correct.

    I’m going to keep testing, and depending on how that goes I may switch my prod server and nas to nixos.