Agreed, but most people don’t backup at all. Then complain very loudly when they lose everything and blame everyone else other than themselves. Saw it daily fixing people’s phones.
I’d love to back up my phone locally, if there was an option, but AFAIK there isn’t, so I’m stuck. This is a problem with companies forcing you into their cloud ecosystem and removing your ability to bypass it and control things yourself. It’s only getting worse.
Fun fact, Edge still has this stupid behavior even on Linux, so highlight and middle click doesn’t work properly since as soon as you highlight it pops up that stupid menu. You have to go into the menu and disable it before highlighting works correctly again.
Signed - someone who is fortunate enough to be able to use Linux on my work machine (yay!) but is still forced to use Edge on it (boo!)
How about XPipe?
It can even auto-configure itself by parsing out your ~/.ssh/config so you can keep everything defined there for easy CLI access but also use the GUI when desired.
Just FYI - you’re going to spend far, FAR more time and effort reading release notes and manually upgrading containers than you will letting them run :latest and auto-update and fixing the occasional thing when it breaks. Like, it’s not even remotely close.
Pinning major versions for certain containers that need specific versions makes sense, or containers that regularly have breaking changes that require you to take steps to upgrade, or absolute mission-critical services that can’t handle a little downtime with a failed update a couple times a decade, but for everything else it’s a waste of time.
How about Dawarich?
https://github.com/Freika/dawarich
I haven’t used it myself, but I have it in the backlog of things to try out
I had something almost identical to this happen to me on Friday. Last year our company moved to a super locked down version of Teams, to the point where I couldn’t even open images that people put in the chat because of security issues, instead the image they posted would be replaced with an error image saying that I wasn’t allowed to open images, blah blah blah. That problem was resolved a long time ago though.
On Friday I was trying to send an image of some data processing to a colleague, and every time I put it in Teams, it would show up as that stupid error message. I spent a solid hour trying to figure out why that problem was back, was my computer not authenticating with MS properly, etc. Turns out my file browser was sorting by time order instead of reverse time order, and the screenshot at the top of the list from May 2 2024, was a screenshot of the error message that I used to send to IT when they were investigating the problem.
I’ve never understood this. You guys know you can have multiple Firefox windows, right? What’s the point of tab groups when you can just group related tabs in a different window? Between multiple workspaces, multiple monitors, and multiple browser windows, I never feel the need to have more than 5-10 tabs open on any one of them at a time. More than that and I’m clearly doing something wrong and need to clean up anyway.
They likely streamed from some other Plex server in the past, and that’s why they’re getting the email. The email specifically states that if the server owner has a plex pass, you don’t need one.
I got the email earlier today and it couldn’t be clearer:
As a server owner, if you elect to upgrade to a Plex Pass, anyone with access to your server can continue streaming your server content remotely as part of your subscription benefits.
I run all of my Docker containers in a VM (well, 4 different VMs, split according to network/firewall needs of the containers it runs). That VM is given about double the RAM needed for everything it runs, and enough cores that it never (or very, very rarely) is clipped. I then allow the containers to use whatever they need, unrestricted, while monitoring the overall resource utilization of the VM itself (cAdvisor + node_exporter + Promethus + Grafana + Alert Manager). If I find that the VM is creeping up on its load or memory limits, I’ll investigate which container is driving the usage and then either bump the VM limits up or address the service itself and modify its settings to drop back down.
Theoretically I could implement per-container resource limits, but I’ve never found the need. I have heard some people complain about some containers leaking memory and creeping up over time, but I have an automated backup script which stops all containers and rsyncs their mapped volumes to an incremental backup system every night, so none of my containers stay running for longer than 24 hours continuous anyway.
People always say to let the system manage memory and don’t interfere with it as it’ll always make the best decisions, but personally, on my systems, whenever it starts to move significant data into swap the system starts getting laggy, jittery, and slow to respond. Every time I try to use a system that’s been sitting idle for a bit and it feels sluggish, I go check the stats and find that, sure enough, it’s decided to move some of its memory into swap, and responsiveness doesn’t pick up until I manually empty the swap so it’s operating fully out of RAM again.
So, with that in mind, I always give systems plenty of RAM to work with and set vm.swappiness=0. Whenever I forget to do that, I will inevitably find the system is running sluggishly at some point, see that a bunch of data is sitting in swap for some reason, clear it out, set vm.swappiness=0, and then it never happens again. Other people will probably recommend differently, but that’s been my experience after ~25 years of using Linux daily.
Something I haven’t seen mentioned yet - if you’re in the US, lock down your credit at all 3 agencies. It takes 10-15 minutes and is free, it’s easy to do.
The issue is that many of these leaks include things like your full legal name, phone number, parents’ full legal names, your social security number, and your entire address history. This makes it trivially easy for somebody to steal your identity and start opening up credit accounts in your name. You need to lock down your credit before that happens. If you need your credit run in the future (opening a bank account, getting a credit card or loan), just ask them which agency they pull the report from and temporarily unfreeze it so they can run the report, then re-freeze it when they’re done. It adds 5 minutes of work once or twice a decade, but could be priceless later on when someone tries to steal your identity.
2-4G for swap (more if you want to hibernate), the rest for /. Only add a boot/EFI partition if needed.
Over-partitioning is a newbie mistake IMO, it usually causes way more problems than it solves.
I don’t like the fact that I could delete every copy using only the mouse and keyboard from my main PC. I want something that can’t be ransomwared and that I can’t screw up once created.
Lots of ways to get around that without having to go the route of burning a hundred blu-rays with complicated (and risky) archive splitting and merging. Just a handful of external HDDs that you “zfs send” to and cycle on some regular schedule would handle that. So buy 3 drives, backup your data to all 3 of them, then unplug 2 and put them somewhere safe (desk at work, friend or family member’s house, etc.). Continue backing up to the one you keep local for the next ~month and then rotate the drives. So at any given time you have a on-site copy that’s up-to-date, and two off-site copies that are no more than 1 and 2 months old respectively. Immune to ransomware, accidental deletion, fire, flood, etc. and super easy to maintain and restore from.
Personally, I just have a couple of cheap CyberPower UPSs for my servers. I know I know, but I’m waiting for them to get old and die before I replace them with something better. My modem, router, and primary WiFi AP are on a custom LiFePO4-based UPS that I designed and built, because I felt like it. It’ll keep them running for around 10 hours, long past everything else in the house has shut down.
Anything on a separate disk can be simply remounted after reinstalling the OS. It doesn’t have to be a NAS, DAS, RAID enclosure, or anything else that’s external to the machine unless you want it to be. Actually it looks like that Beelink only supports a single NVMe disk and doesn’t have SATA, so I guess it does have to be external to the machine, but for different reasons than you’re alluding to.
This is a great tool, thanks for the continued support.
Personally, I don’t actually use dockcheck to perform updates, I only use it for its update check functionality, along with a custom plugin which, in cooperation with a python script of mine, serves a REST API that lists all containers on all of my systems with available updates. That then gets pulled into homepage using their custom API function to make something like this: https://imgur.com/a/tAaJ6xf
So at a glance I can see any containers that have updates available, then I can hop into Dockge to actually apply them on my own schedule.
Syncthing could be used to replicate a directory somewhere, but that doesn’t address backing up the phone itself (apps, settings, SMS messages, etc.). Only option I’m aware of is iCloud. You can connect the phone directly to iTunes on a computer and back it up that way, but that only works with a hardwired USB connection and can’t be automated, so it’s a non-starter for a regular backup system. Android probably has more options, I’m referring to iOS specifically here though.