Shithole country.

KDE FTW.

Good thing I never finished a project!

Yes, that’s true. I wouldn’t say that that entirely fits Bob, but the point stands. He strikes me as having eventually stopped being capable of Beginner’s Mind.

Those sentences prove nothing of the sort. And you really have no reason to get that arithmetic so wrong. And you could have looked it up instead of guessing. He has a Wikipedia page.

He was born in 1952.

There are good reasons not to follow him. No need to invent bad ones. That only hurts the credibility of people decrying him in public.

I don’t know what those first two sentences are doing. This kind of thing is exactly what mesmerized young me and puts wise me off.

One thing worse than appealing to authority is appealing to your own authority.

I have not yet regretted any of the Misen cookware I’ve purchased. I’ve used the dutch oven at least 1.5 years and the carbon steel pans for several months. Very happy.

Among people who trust you, I would expect no problems. Among those who don’t (yet), I would expect a variety of interpretations, ranging from “That’s just their opinion” to “They seem to think their opinion is the only one that matters!” and “I guess since I like it and they don’t, they look down on me”.

Folks routinely conflate directness with self-importance, even though I value directness for its clarity. They often see directness as self-assuredness, then mistake that for self-importance or self-absorption. 🤷

In a conversation where we are talking about our respective preferences, I wouldn’t find such a comment offputting. Outside that context, I might wonder what you want me to do with that information. And especially when such a comment seems to come out of nowhere, it can come across as entitled or selfish in the “I’m the main character” vein.

If you can state your preference without intending to declare it superior to my preference, then I find little to criticize about it. If you don’t intend to imply that my liking what you dislike is somehow wrong, then I don’t mind.

Stating this kind of preference boldly could be interpreted as trying to be authoritative on the subject, and especially in matters of taste, your opinion is no more valid than anyone else’s, nor is it any more important. You might not intend it that way, but I could easily imagine a listener interpreting you that way.

To answer your question more directly, stating a preference somewhat tentatively or meekly can convey an appropriate amount of humility. That tends to make it safer. As with most of these situations, the more your listeners already trust you, the more boldness you can safely get away with.

I hope this helps you somehow. Peace.

Ugh. No. I still don’t know how to just boot this backup. When I try it in an older laptop, the keyboard and trackpad stop working once I log in. I presume this is a hardware driver problem. Presumably that’s unavoidable.

I am, of course, not eager to screw up the BIOS settings on my daily laptop.

I couldn’t figure out how to boot the cloned drive in a VirtualBox VM. The tutorials seem to assume that I have a virtual disk image or enough internal hard disk space to copy the cloned drive locally in order to run it locally. That defeats the purpose.

So I’m stuck. If I can’t just boot to the USB external drive because of UUID clashes, then I don’t know what I’m supposed to have gained by cloning my laptop’s internal hard disk. I have a backup that I can’t safely boot to. 🤷

I continue to be grateful to anyone willing to try to help me understand how to do this. It’s literally the only thing that stops me from feeling 100% comfortable with a Linux distribution as my everyday OS. I feel like I’ve been living with a ticking timebomb for the past eight years.

UPDATE: I booted to Pop!_OS, then used chroot, but this is not what I was expecting.

Thank you for the warning. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes this not at all just as easy as creating a bootable backup of a Mac! And it’s the kind of thing that makes “this is easy” difficult to take seriously.

Now I know what to search for and I will probably be able to piece it together.

First, thank you for trying.

There’s what I want and there’s what I’m trying to do. 😉

Waving my magic wand, I’d like a bootable backup of my laptop’s internal hard drive. This is what SuperDuper does. I would like it to be straightforward: I issue one command, then I can boot from the external hard disk to which I have backed up. For bonus points, restore is merely backup in the other direction.

That is what I’d like.

I’m cloning a drive with Clonezilla and tomorrow I’ll try to boot to the backup drive. I would like to understand how restore works, but frankly, I’m not optimistic and I’m not currently eager to risk screwing up my laptop’s internal hard disk.

How curious.

I am now trying my first backup. There were extra steps and I think I did it correctly, but the web site inundated me with details in a way that Shirt Pocket did not do with SuperDuper.

I haven’t used Mac OS regularly since about 2018, so I take you at your word that backing up isn’t as easy on Mac OS as it used to be.

With any luck, this just works. There is room for a simpler and gentler introduction to this. Maybe I can publish one.

Easy? Is this the kind of easy that’s “easy once you understand”?

I want to be able to back up, not earn an undergraduate degree in how to back up.

Yes, but to folks accustomed to using SuperDuper to create bootable backups, it does not seem so straightforward.

Possible, but not popular, and therefore strange. Because strange, rare. Because rare, strange. Repeat.

Hofstadter, Le ton beau de Marot. For anyone who wants to read deeply about this kind of translation problem.

Count the "r"s in the word “strawberry”.

It just answered 2.

People want connexion. What they (tend to) get is a thin facsimile. Real connexion feels wonderful to me. Superficial, forced social performance feels awful to me. For example, I get nothing from small talk. Either talk about something real with me or go about your day.

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