I think what becomes clear when watching a lot of videos is that Linus is more of a tech fanboy that is good at all the high level stuff and can sell it in an entertaining way. He is not however someone who is super into the weeds of a specific technology, tool or system beyond applying his „I’ve worked with technology before“ knowledge.

They have other folks on the show for that.

It that being said. I wouldn’t fault him for his experience with PopOS!. That was totally on the OS and not his fault.

One thing though: I’m likely not to stop and consider looking closer at an app if I can’t judge if it’s going to be what I’m looking for. I’m not going to go over random GitHub repositories and create screenshots for their projects. So if the assumption is that the user contributes screenshots I don’t think it will ever change anything for the majority of projects.

I don’t see those as alternatives. Skype was always really buggy, sometimes it worked, other times it didn’t. Didn’t have great cross platform support and wasn’t suited for meetings without 500 - 1000 people. I used it in the past and it was always a huge pain to deal with.

Hangouts is nice for 1:1 chats, but it feels lacking. Last time I tried to have a screen share in a separate window it already failed to do so.

Discord isn’t really an enterprise tool.

Like… I don’t really want to defend Zoom, but the one thing they do just works.

What were the alternatives? One thing I can say about zoom is that it’s easy to use, barely ever has any issues and handles a huge number of participants without a sweat.

I recall having used MS Teams before. But it often wouldn’t work, had server issues and couldn’t handle large audiences well.

I’ve been using F5 in the past. Not doing that anymore though.

TIL there are people configuring firewalls via GUIs. Okay … I‘m do that too on my private equipment because I’m lazy. But it feels wrong doing so in an enterprise context.

Ah. Feels similar to the relevance discussions on the German Wikipedia. Gatekeeping at its finest.

I don’t care about stuff working OOTB - half the fun is messing around with things IMO.

I generally agree. Backups for me are just something I don’t want to tinker with. It’s important to me that they work OOTB, are easy to grasp and I have a good overview.

The web interface is important to me because it gives me that overview from any device I’m currently using without needing to type anything into a terminal. The OOTB is important to me since I want to be able to easily set this all up again even without access to my Ansible setup or previous configuration.

To each their own. I’m not saying your way of doing this is wrong. It’s just not for me. This is just my reasoning / preferences. It’s also the reason something like borg wasn’t my chosen solution, even though it’s generally considered great.

Features that are important to me are things like an easy overview of all backup jobs (ideal via a web UI), snapshots going back every day for a week and after that every month. Backup to providers like Backblaze or AWS and the ability to browse these backups and individual snapshots.

I’d assume that you can build all of this with git annex in some way. But I really want something that works out of the box. E.g. install the backup software give it some things to backup and an B2 bucket and then go.

What I’m curious about is that the git-annex site explicitly days that they aren’t a backup system, but you describe it as such.

Somehow “took me a while to wrap my head around it” doesn’t make me feel comfortable. Apart from git-annex themselves saying that they aren’t a backup system and just a building block to maybe create one, a backup system should imho be dead simple sind easy to understand.

Paid for the web interface as well. I really like that it’s super simple and just does it’s job. That would be the one I’d also recommend.

Look into Veeam. The free version should be enough for this workflow.

I’ve bought one and sent it back again. I felt like I’m not utilizing most of the space since I had to move my head too much to see windows on either side.

I’m now using two 4k Screens. In in the middle and one to the side, but rotates by 90 degrees. Can recommend that. Though for gaming… I can imagine it there.

Personal preference I guess.

Awesome!

It would be awesome if it could also support older iOS versions similar to how Apollo did it. I’m on an older iOS version (for reasons) and Mlem can’t be installed here. So I’ll going to jump on the first App that can :D

Meanwhile I’m using the website. But it’s UX is kinda not so great for mobile.