Quazatron

Thank you for mentioning what it is/does. Too many announcements I see don’t do that.

Yep, Zip drives only had 100MB, the disks were clunky and were prone to get the Click of Death (not that LS-120 disks were any better in that sense, of course).

I’ve never encountered another LS-120 user before. When it came out I assumed it would be the future, because 120 megabyte freaking laser assisted floppy, am I right? Turns out I was very much mistaken, and CD-R took over.

I also made the same mistake regarding CF vs SD cards.

Playing some smaller, chill games: The Unfinished Swan and Sludge Life.

Heroic launcher. This is what you need, my friend.

You’re probably right, I get triggered when the blame is assigned to the wrong people.

It’s Nvidia’s fault for not caring about their customers, and it’s the customers fault for buying their products and not shouting at the vendor for poor user support.

The awesome people who volunteer their time to bring you the free operating system that you’re whining about would love to support your card, and in fact do so despite the best efforts of the vendor to be a complete ass and ignore their Linux customers.

Same, Manjaro with kernel 6.6.65, all AMD Thinkpad E14 Gen 3.

As someone who grew up when you could physically count the bloody pixels on the screen, this whining about a miserable invisible miniscule artifact makes me palmface very hard.

Why does loving something automatically imply hating something else?

It’s about choice. You can use Cinnamon today and switch to Gnome, KDE, XFCE or whatever desktop you feel like using tomorrow and your apps will still work.

It’s all good software, made available to you for free. Drop the hate.

You can backup to an external USB drive (that’s what I do), or setup a small backup server (with RAID if you want).

If you use Borg it will do the right thing out of the box with minimal configuration - compression, deduplication, encryption, and incremental backups.

The first backup will be full and take longer, but subsequent backups will only target changes and will be quite fast.

Restoring is very straightforward, even if you only need a single file you deleted accidentally.

Raid can protect you from a single drive failure in case you need an “always on” setup. Even then, if the drives are identical, they can fail within days from each other. If you don’t have monitoring, you’ll lose everything before you can react. I feel that’s not your use case.

You need backup. You can use something like rsync or even better borg backup. Keep the backup offline and backup often. You’ll be safer that way.