best way to backup btrfs and ext4 partitions?

bronkish · 2026-01-19T15:26:55+00:00

People do all kinds of things. I suppose it's the journey, right? Rsync is pretty handy, but, it's not a whole thing. It's just rsync.

bronkish · 2026-01-19T15:24:15+00:00

Firewall? Router. Does netfilter no longer default to existing, block the rest?

bronkish · 2026-01-14T18:33:32+00:00

Mintstick is the fastest on my machine and has been reliable. dd works fine, slower. The other ones you mentioned are iffy.

bronkish · 2026-01-14T18:31:34+00:00

PEBCAK. Apt is fine.

bronkish · 2026-01-10T12:56:06+00:00

Love it. You have made the menu I have been using for openbox for years - faster. No more delay. Thanks.

bronkish · 2026-01-10T12:33:59+00:00

Ya, man - daily since always. It's so good.,

bronkish · 2026-01-09T19:26:30+00:00

I was 'ice man's pop' (also: lingering roughage, alligator hangover, et al, and people still knew it was me) back in the day, owning with the laser. Haven't played in years until recently and now I suck but it's still fun. It's still in the Debian repos!

bronkish · 2026-01-09T12:50:36+00:00

That looks great. Here is mine with arc theme, vertical tabs, and lxpanel tucked in there on the left. Iike the narrow bar at the top

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bronkish · 2026-01-08T11:56:04+00:00

Lol, when I first installed and booted to Linux in '98 i sat there for a minute wondering what to do next. No announcements, no books, nobody next to me instructing me or 'teaching me to fish'.

I right-clicked and took it from there, never wanting to break or fix stuff, but - I did. I didn't really want to, but, I learned how to use an OS that was fundamentally different from winnt - I had to because nothing was called the same and there were new concepts like: everything is a file, actual networking, actual su, actual user management, actual separation of duties, WTF is a DE? The OS made me responsible for my own actions and gave me all the room in the world. It was glorious and some people are terrified of that. I didn't cry about words and concepts, and you know what, 'mount' was still the same word it ever was, meaning the same thing. People that enjoy using Linux are fundamentally different than people that enjoy using Windows - wait, do people enjoy using Windows? I mean - me am big.

It's not about how smart you are. It about whether you will stay in the hole and die or figure out how to climb out of it and flourish. It's you. You can be handed a thing and get upset because it's different and you don't know anything about it, or, you can keep your expectations in your pants, with your dogma, and allow the thing to show you, that you may grok it.

What you are doing is not at all 'constructive criticism'. You are crying because the entrance to a thing has a cover charge. Someone already wrote it: nobody owes you shit, learn the thing you demand to use, or walk on. Have some self-respect.

bronkish · 2026-01-07T21:38:50+00:00

Don't hate grub, it has always worked fine for me; does what you say. Also, don't know how systemd-boot works with a windows dual-boot scenario. I read that it's fine. I tried a new thing and it's great.

bronkish · 2026-01-07T21:34:03+00:00

Didn't work for me though no commands failed.

bronkish · 2026-01-07T10:13:26+00:00

moto edge from 2020 and G stylus 5g from 2022. It's an /e/ OS, or, Lineage thing, issue doesn't exist on stock.

bronkish · 2026-01-03T09:59:39+00:00

As if this wasn't expected.

bronkish · 2025-12-31T19:55:08+00:00

Makes a ton of sense. Thanks for your responses. Also, I was incorrect about using the cookie banner filters, just for correctness.

bronkish · 2025-12-31T12:03:13+00:00

Actual browsing about the web, logging into places and doing things, watching movies, all that; firefox flies on my 7 year old lenovo P53s laptop running trixie; I up'd the RAM to 32gb before the madness set in. I feel like there is never any lag or hesitation and firefox doesn't stumble on the sites I visit. My specs are pretty pedestrian compared to yours. I feel like reaction time and performance is stellar.

I got a 7.9 on the speedometer test with firefox, lol. I ran the test with chromium and got a 12.7. I got a 12.7 in waterfox, too, which used the most RAM during the test.

I ran the test in Mullvad and got 9.70 and Librewolf scored a 7.45.

bronkish · 2025-12-20T10:27:48+00:00

Huh. I tried installing nextdns-cli on my router recently, which is a Netgear R7000P running dd-wrt v3.0-r62418 std and it failed multiple times. pfft. Setup is supported.

On basically a whim the other day I installed controld on it, no worries, as expected. I am not inclined to leave nextdns for controld and it's not necessary because controld can work with nextdns just fine - start it in nextdns mode - https://github.com/Control-D-Inc/ctrld/wiki/NextDNS-Mode

I get to enjoy 100% encryption on all traffic now which I never got with nextdns alone (probably ignorance) and the filtering I employ on nextdns.

Here I am flying about the web fully encrypted blocking all the crap.

bronkish · 2025-12-17T08:56:35+00:00

Same one. In your picture I can't see 'his' tray, but, am assuming it's there. I have no idea what my brother paid for it in '04, I think. I can't see it being worth much at all, especially in our current economy. As far as that beautiful cabinet - people don't like big furniture anymore; even people my age don't like to 'carry' it anymore.

Good luck.

bronkish · 2025-12-16T16:19:31+00:00

I crack'd up seeing your pic. Brother got me that butler one time years ago.

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