The process manager lets you kill any process.

You can also click the do it anyway button when it’s waiting on shutdown, but I’ve had less consistent success with that.

Ah I guess it’s that it shows what they want then they have to install the app to buy it?

Maybe this article is intended for advertisers to convince them of the value.

Isn’t the idea that if you advertise you will get more people looking at/downloading your app and therefore rank higher?

It doesn’t make it not paid product placement, but I don’t think it implies that people are buying spots on the ranking.

It does imply the rank is almost useless because most high rankers are just spending a lot on ads.

Yeah, they do ship to Oz. But you can’t pay with an NZ card so you’ve gotta do a whole thing where you send money internationally to a friend then they pay and order and receive it then ship it to you. It seems like a big ask for contacting a distant relative out of the blue and asking them to do that.

Same here! I have one but can’t get components any more because they locked down freight forwarding 🙁

My kids use Chromebooks at school. What I call “Word” they call “Docs”. It’s very clear why Google gives this operating system away for free.

Lucky for me I don’t have any Nvidia so things sail a bit smoother.

Thanks for all the advice 🙂

Awesome, thanks for the explanation! I’d been put off Bazzite and other immutable distros because I had seen threads saying you basically needed flatpak for everything, but it sounds like that’s not true.

I don’t need a project at the moment but I will give this a go once I am ready for one!

How does Bazzite fare when I want to do something a bit different. Install docker, Python, PHP, sqlite, etc. I’d normally just install them, but does this work for Bazzite and other atomic/immutable distros?

Eh I don’t even need to think about this anymore. I have a cron job that backs up every March 31st.

No, they removed that clause some 2 or 3 years back.

I use Borgmatic for my scheduled backups, and sync to Backblaze B2 with Rclone. Works great!

My data doesn’t compress as well as yours though.

Holy hell, Napster is a (legal) subscription music streaming service! Crazy times we live in.

Docker wants you to use volumes. That data is persistent too. They say volumes are much easier to backup. I disagree, I much prefer the bind mounts, especially when it comes to selective backups.

Yes that’s what I do too!

Overnight cron to stop containers, run borgmatic, then start the containers again.

I occasionally have had permissions issues but I tend to be able to fix them. Normally it’s just a matter of deleting the files on the host and letting the container create them, though it doesn’t always work it usually does.

I don’t know if this is naughty but I use bind mounts for everything, and docker compose to keep it all together.

You can map directories or even individual files to directories/files on the host computer.

Normally I make a directory for the service then map all volumes inside a ./data directory or something like that. But you could easily bind to different directories. For example for photoprism I mount my photos from a data drive for it to access, mount the main data/database to a directory that gets backed up, and mount the cache to a directory that doesn’t get backed up.

Haha I knew what this was even before I clicked 😆

This reminds me of a toy one of my kids got given from my mum.

Apparently it was a giraffe. A giraffe without the one defining feature of a giraffe.