Ah!!! Gene!!!

Worth noting that Kodi is available as a flatpak. You could just try it on nearly any Linux distro.

I was actually testing a Vero V earlier this evening!

The Jellyfin integrations with Kodi are (in my opinion) bad.

There’s the veraion that syncs with Kodi’s library, but the sync is super brittle.

There’s the version that is more “Jellyfin app” (JellyCon), but it might be the slowest UI I’ve ever seen.

For me, Jellyfin just does not work well with Kodi.

So that’s where they put the front after it fell off? Space?

Appreciate the suggestions.

I have to run Ubuntu for our security software (Vanta), and I did thr upgrade early mostly hoping they’d finally ironed out the issues with the ipu7 camera on the Dell XPS 13 (9350).

It’s otherwise fine (although I get a touch irrational about snaps…)

Reinstalled my work laptop earlier today.

1. IPU7 camera still doesn’t work out of the box. Hoping there’s an OEM driver released at some point.
2. Switching away from snap-based Firefox means a firefox that won’t start up. I’m now stuck with Firefox in a Snap, which can’t manage gnome extensions. Annoying paper cut requiring installing (ironically) a flatpak to manage extensions.
3. They removed the “Software and Updates” package from the default install, making for a worse experience for new users trying to fix driver issues
4. The dash-to-dock plugin that Cannonical default installs overrides some keyboard shortcuts (particularly super+q - my preferred shortcut for closing programs)
5. ptyxis is fine as a terminal, but all configs only go through dconf, so any changes you want require a pile of searching
6. sudo -E doesn’t actually bring in environment vars, breaking at least some scripts.

Some of these come from Cannonical switching away from GNU userland tools. Some of these may be more Gnome choices. And some just suck.

If I wasn’t stuck with Ubuntu because of software requirements, I would use nearly anything else.

I was hoping to hear “I am moving away because the JVM sucks to administer”…oh well. A man can dream.

Java 8 was a thing for a long time (source administered Hadoop clusters that were - and possibly still are - stuck on Java 8).

Java 8 was analogous to 1.8…for reasons.

I wanna say Java 11 (the version after 8) came out around 2011? After that the release cadence was somewhat steady. I think Java 21 landed around 2021?

(Note: I refuse to actually look any of this up.)

Edit: my refusal to look anything up immediately bites as someone else pointed out:

1. There was a Java 10
2. It was released in 2018.
3. Both of these facts helped me remember Java 9 being released.

(Note: I continue to refuse to actually look anything up)

This sign won’t stop me! I can’t read!

I don’t understand… It wasn’t even an Arch-based distro!

btrfs can pool disks just fine. Create a RAID nice and quick.

There’s also btrfs send and receive. Which may be what you need for shipping the data? You can use SSH for a secure write…

If this is a one-time copy, I’d strongly consider just syncing the data vs. shipping drives (which, as people have pointed out, may have serious reliabilty concerns).

Otherwise, if you must ship, I’d say the best move is two copies of each piece of data, so any single drive failing in shipping isn’t a big deal. But not a RAID. Just two literal copies on two separate drives. Simplest way to ensure some redundancy.

You can even have like…40 taskbars floating in the middle of the screen!

I mean…has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Kasts is decent. And it integrates with gpodder, which means you can sync with mobile pretty nicely.

Check for mounts hiding the underlying drive?

Sometimes du . -x will help, too. (-x doesn’t cross mount points).

It’s wilder when it works in the installer, but not on first boot.

I think a reasonable quorum already said this, but NFS is still good. My only complaint is it isn’t quite as user-mountable as some other systems.

So…I know you said no SAMBA, but SAMBA 4 really isn’t bad any more. At least, not nearly as shit as it was.

If you want a easily mountable filesystem for users (e.g. network discovery/etc.) it’s pretty tolerable.

I remember having to compensate for the Pentium float bug in the Turbo Pascal programs I was writing back then. I really didn’t understand what I was doing at the time, and the 90s version of StackOverflow (A Tripod blog?) wasn’t that enlightening…

This is how someone cracked Okta a few years back: https://medium.com/@rajat29gupta/bcrypt-and-the-okta-incident-what-developers-need-to-know-9d13a446738a

It supports Rosetta2, so yes.