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  • the inability to manage my own system would be a solid “yea never mind this isn’t what I wanted” and shipping the device back. it probally wouldn’t be a full refund but, that’s the cost for me making a mistake like that. I’ll be damned if in not going to be able to access my own alarm panel. I would be firmly against any setting not being in a user accessible location regardless if it’s a time thing.

    Hopefully op had the tech enable all settings on the main panel cause that’s such a shitty money grabbing practice. Just lock the ability to change time behind a service code on the main panel. incorrect code = alarm is triggered.







  • Pika@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.mlHow do you backup?
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    3 months ago

    for my server I use proxmox backup server to an external HDD for my containers, and I back up media monthly to an encrypted cold drive.

    For my desktop? I use a mix of syncthing (which goes to the server) and windows file history(if I logged into the windows partition) and I want to get timeshift working I just have so much data that it’s hard to manage so currently I’ll just shed some tears if my Linux system fails




  • Mint is another good one, I would probably recommend against their Debian Edition(LMDE 6) though, it sounds good but, it’s their newer system so it doesn’t have all the bugs ironed out yet. I struggled with LMDE when I tried it last summer, which granted a lot of time has passed, but I rarely ever have an issue with their standard Linux Mint releases.


  • Pika@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.mlPlanning to switch to Linux for my next PC
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    4 months ago

    if you liked the design of older style windows (think like windows XP), you could look into Q4OS. I use it for my laptop and it’s Debian based so you will have pretty decent support applications wise and it has a pretty simple UI. I had never heard of it prior to a few months ago but I have had no issues with it.

    Being said, I can’t remember if it has UnattendedUpgrades by default, but that program can be configured on any debian based system to allow for automatic updates. It does take a little bit of configuration if it isn’t pre-installed though.




  • my only complaint about it is the lack of clear “hey this is going to be a major update” on the webUI. I did the update command and was met with a different UI. Which wasn’t difficult to figure out, and I have to blame myself for not actually checking the patch notes first, but I wasn’t expecting a major update from the webUI as it only said “new version available run this command to upgrade”

    the upgrade as a whole is all and all a great improvement