Yeah, South African embassy will probably get some nice upgrades

Win - win ?

Hm… Strange I was very much of the opinion that I had the option, when I bought the laptop, but (at least on mobile) I can’t see it now.
Because I remember, that I was so happy to be able to choose CoreBoot

But checking my BIOS, it’s from insyde
And I’ve no idea what exactly those guys are and what they build up on - or if it’s a completely other UEFI BIOS

That’s a bit of a bummer now, actually

Edit: or maybe I’m mixing it up with the StarLabs StarFighter order, I had to cancel.
That would make at least sense, and my memory is just scrambled, but not completely creating fictional stuff ;⁠-⁠)

I’m having a Framework 16 and chose during ordering to set it up with coreboot

Not sure about libreBoot, and haven’t really looked much into coreboot as well, to be honest, but everything seems to work and I’m happy

Edit: nah, I think, I’ve talked shit and remembered it wrong.
Seems framework currently doesn’t give the option to use coreboot.
Sorry for the misinformation…

Faries are fairies that are really far away

Well, for backups this still sounds kinda nice

Tape backups are rather slow as well - at least as far as I know. The professional stuff was always out of my league monetary wise.

If someone has a good alternative, I’m absolutely up for it.

Currently I’m using a local server with just a RAID1 to mirror important files on my workstation and those (incremental) backups are getting encrypted and uploaded to a cloud drive.

But for really large data amounts, this isn’t really practical. So I only use this route for business documents, invoices, etc.
But for large data like code, I’m currently only doing a local mirroring (although on multiple devices), so if my office burns down, I’ll lose quite much - at the moment I’m lucky, because I can push my code changes to a customer git mirror, so I should be fine on that front for now.

But still, I loathe the day, I really need to restore from my cloud backup.
Maybe I should do some dry runs periodically, to verify my restore path works. But just like server stuff, I really don’t like to touch it that much o⁠:⁠-⁠)

I’m currently using BORG (with Vorta) to backup everything locally and distribute it to my server and the cloud.

If anyone has a better idea, I’d be really grateful…

Doing periodically hard disk backups and giving them to a partner company (while I keep theirs in my safe) seems to not really work out in the long term, as I’m often on business trips and our exchanges got more seldom over time…

With a HDMI-CEC Adapter it could be, that you can even use your TV remote to control your PC/Kodi

Not sure if your TV supports it - as I’m not much of a TV guy and don’t know, if you need any higher standard for that

But I’m quite happy with an old laptop + Kodi, linked up to my TV. Works quite well.
Only have to go through some audio settings for modern movies, where the sound mixing is usually not nice for dialogues…

Important long term storage in short video clips?

I waited ages for their StarFighter laptop and needed to finally cancel, as my old laptop was dying.

But I’m pretty happy now with a Framework 16.
I guess Framework also provides quite long support, as re-using stuff is their thing, but I don’t really have looked into it

I’m always making big plans on my business trips about all the stuff I’ll do, when I’m back home
Back home I usually just crash for 2-5 days and can’t do much anyway - and then work starts again to stress enough, because of all the postponing, to get me up again

Not really a fun cycle…

Somehow it really ended…

Meh attitudes to ww2, puts it lightly.

Hitler loved him and afaik Ford was also invited over and got some medal or something

The USA was a fan of Hitler for quite some time. So if course there were people sympathetic with Nazi Germany

At that point, why still bother with Ubuntu?

Ah yeah, did that during business trips.

There are also some laptop remote control apps in the store
Not sure what is hip and secure currently, years ago I used unified remote, which worked quite well.

Or did you find a better solution and use a real remote with USB receiver?

Also perfect for my back pain. Everything relaxes after an hour in a hot bath.

I even put in dimmable multi colour light in my bathroom and some nice background music.
Sadly the LED strip broke quite soon…

That’s how it should work:
https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/Tips/How-to-setup-language-custom-formats/

But somehow I can’t get it to work correctly.
Maybe I’ll just try again and check if I missed something

Thanks, that makes sense

But also newly added/searched stuff only appears in English
Not sure, if they really are only available in English or if I did something wrong…

Yeah, put Oracle on that list

Correctly it would be ‘Holz’ and not ‘Holtz’
The latter I’ve heard as a family name sometimes. But you’re probably right, that it historically referenced ‘Holz’

Edit: only found a German page about the origins of the name, and yes, it is very probably coming from forest, woodland, wood

https://namensherkunft.info/namensherkunft-holtz/

Sometimes I work on a larger project that is split up in different sub projects, that were sold separately and are maybe paid by different departments. So I need to at least spilt those up.
Also it’s often easier to follow what exactly was done, when I differentiate more between my tasks and not just put a collective line there - just like small commits are more helpful than one large one.

But maybe I understood you wrong…?

Because you can’t easily borrow it your friend or bring it with you to a game night?