Or… <using package manager of choice> install immich

Done.

No need to map internal & external ports, wrestle with permissions (or… good grief, run the container as root!), etc, etc.

It’s just… less faff.

Plus I save all that additional disk space, not having to install docker! 😉

Don’t get me wrong; Containers, chroot jails, Type-1 & Type-2 hypervisors all had their place in the history of my systems, I just don’t see it as a necessity.

The additional software required to run it in a container plus its configuration, on top of Immich’s configuration.

Just install & configure Immich, done.

If you’re using Arch, the AUR package works well

I’m fully aware of the joy of containers, but I just don’t want all that extra faff

I setup a media PC with an SSD for boot / OS and spinning rust for the videos, music, etc.

So, I thought LVM would be a good idea… put the whole lot into a logical pool and then carve out large parts for the media which could be adjusted in the future.

No.

Resizing actually just chops up the drives even more (so, partition fragmentation)

Gparted can’t see it, so adjustments are terrible CLI commands

And my favourite system backup tool (clonezilla) cant backup the OS without backing up the entire system.

Depends on your usecase… for a single user laptop, maybe… for a multiuser device or a server… nah.

I prefer partitioning away the user data for all usecases as that will fill up one day, and I don’t want that to down the machine.

Agree.

Years ago, I was troubleshooting something (can’t remember what) on Ubuntu and realised the package had fixed the bug, but it wasn’t in the repos yet… like months behind.

Looked at Arch with it’s up to date repos, moved over and never looked back.

I’ve reported bugs since, watched the package get updated and seen the improvement on my system… now that’s what it should be like.

Ah, I see what you’re asking now.

I have a Hauppauge TV dual-tuner card for terrestrial TV.

Dual tuner so we can watch one thing whilst recording something else, or record 2 things at once.

Myth picks up the card and also uses that for the schedule guide, so we can just set up the scheduler with a TV series or some key-words and leave it to it.

We’ve not watched live TV for ages and it’s weird sitting through adverts now when we’re at friends / family

We also have GBs of films and music on the same machine, so it’s our central AV device. The Audio is sync’d off to other devices from here rather than having a 2nd NAS for it.

I had a 2nd MythTv frontend on another box in another room for a while and that worked well too.

TV programs…

Similar here.

MythTv + Firefox + VLC - all on Arch

Used to be easier when Myth was in the main repos, now I have to compile from AUR, but it’s still ok

Thanks for the TL;DW, I can go about my Arch updates without fear now…

Never heard of it, but still, sad to see something ending… seems like it was a good learning resource.

So, just spear-phishing then, but I do agree, it’s novel to have a dynamic target site.

It does seem like a hardware issue to me too…

It might be a driver issue… Windows does have the resources to test them more than Linux community, so - kinda hardware related - but Framework should be able to help here.

And as others have said, try memtest, I did on a laptop with similar issues to yours and found the RAM was the culprit. Personally, I recommend using this version, not the passmark version: https://memtest.org/

It’ll boot from a USB stick

It will take hours.

For Linux use ‘sudo journalctl -xe’ (from memory) - it’ll explain the issues it finds, as best it can. You’ll probably see something in there

If you’re dual booting with Windows open the event log viewer and check under System (from memory) and see if there’s any red X warning logs… esp. Hardware ones.

On the up-side, at least you have a chance of fixing it… If that happened on a Windows box, you’d be reaching for the gun / installation media by now

We were aware of these vulnerabilities and exploitation risk prior to these reports and promptly developed fixes for Android.

So… they’re aware of the vulns, but won’t fix until reported? 🤔

Yeah, my reading speed has decreased a lot as I’m continually trying to assess if what I’m reading is true or not

Like, maybe the AI was the true story and the April fools story was the April fools? 🤯

Are you saying I could get Linux running on my Fairphone 3+?

Mind you, yeah, 3G switch off would then make life difficult…

Enterprises just lease desktops / laptops and replace them with the latest version of Windows… my team used to be after reasons to get the latest OS / laptop, now IT have to prise them out of their hands

🤯 I can generally follow the gist of that, but, wow, how the hell do these people work this stuff out

Ok, so setup a DC (in a VM on your linux laptop), install Win11 joined to that domain, create a local user, then leave the domain & destroy the VM…?

Or install Linux 👍🏻