Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world’s landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo’s.

Personally I’ve found online banking, medical and travel services rather hard to resist.

Those new mobile phone things the kids are using also have biometrics and internets and look pretty handy to have around.

Thanks, I do have backups of important stuff.

I think bcachefs is what I’m looking for, but I’m gonna wait a bit until development calms down a little and keep on the way I am at the moment.

Thanks,

bcachefs could be the answer but I don’t really want my data on a fs I need this week’s kernel to access properly. Maybe I should just hold off for a few months.

I’m not monitoring the drives, I have backups of important stuff…but would be nice to tag more important stuff amongst the mediocre stuff on the off chance both drives don’t fail at the same time.

doh

will just keep on keepin’ on then

I’ve been using the ‘Open With’ extension on Firefox to play video through mpv with a click

Is it reasonable to advise someone who is new to this stuff on MacOS to just installl Ubuntu on VirtualBox?

thx

New to linux, think she needs a gui. I will look into UTM.

I’m not sure there is a need to run linux on bare metal, or carry around a second laptop.

Thanks, good to know it still works

Sounds good, is there a simple guide to UTM on MacOS?

yeah, it plays 2160p x265 media nicely. Doesn’t do Dolby Vision tho, play smooth but colour is off.

I’m using a pi4 as a media center so 265 as it can cope with 2160p