How do you connect your disks to your host machine? Are they in an external cage w/ SATA-to-USB adaptors or mounted internally to SATA ports?

Yeah, I’ll definitely be rinsing off (in the cold shower of course) and changing my clothes before I go to bed. Thanks for weighing in!

Wexit? Windexit?

Being able to boot into previous snapshots from the boot menu sounds ideal, and I’ve seen a lot of mentions of CachyOS lately, so maybe I’ll check it out next time I do a fresh install. Thanks for the tip!

In your case, how do you roll back? Do you just reboot and select the previous image from the grub menu or do you do something manually and then reboot?

Regarding the specific btrfs subvolume setup and grub/systemd-boot integration, are you talking about how some distros show the btrfs snapshots on the boot menu? Or something else?

When you want to go back, do you just reboot and select the previous snapshot on the boot menu, or do you restore the snapshot manually and then reboot?

Thanks for the tip on storing the kernels on the btrfs partition. I found a video tutorial for installing Arch w/ btrfs snapshots in which the guy demonstrates this approach, except that he sets the mount point to just /efi instead of /boot/efi.

After some more digging, I believe “Computerized Battery Analyzer” is how they are called, based on this battery testing video by Lumencraft (at about 48 seconds in, he shows his testing setup). Thanks for chiming in!

I’d heard of Framework, Tuxedo, and system76, but not the others. Thanks for the pointers!

raspberry pi and an HDD with family (remote)

Is this the way to go for off-site backups w/ family? In terms of low power draw, uptime, etc.

I’ll have to look into these. Thanks for the tip!

This was my thought as well, but I figured I’d put it out there anyway just in case there’s some kinda workaround/magic that I hadn’t heard about yet.

Thanks for the tip about JetKVM. Does the JetKVM device itself require an ethernet connection to the router or can it connect over wifi? (from what I can tell, it’s the former)

Thanks for confirming. Your understanding is correct, I just want a way to grab some “clean” screenshots or videos of the laptop while it’s in boot or BIOS parts of the system. I have a video capture card in my “cart” but thought I’d put this out there to the lemmyverse before I smash that “Buy” button.

EDIT: I ordered this video capture card, we’ll see how it goes!

Correct, they’ve been sealed since I filled them three weeks ago. Thanks for explaining a little more around how gas degrades.

Thanks for weighing in. It would be going into a Mazda 3 or a Honda CRV.

Very handy - thank you!

For those who don’t feel like clicking that link, it’s a web page where you enter your home instance’s URL, and then it lists other instances in four categories:

• Dead instances - Instances that have not been seen for 2 days (I believe this is where other instances that have defederated with the home instance show up)
• Failing instances - Instances where the last outgoing event failed to send
• Lagging instances - Instances where send is working but last send was at least 10 minutes ago. This is also the case if no activity has happened on your instance in the last 10 minutes.
• Up to date instances - Instances where sends are succeeding as expected

It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.

I hope you’re right b/c right now feels like the classic “market can stay irrational longer than we can stay liquid” type situation.

you can use one of a million Jitsi instances (Element has a publicly available one)

Is there a list of public Jitsi instances? I know about https://meet.jit.si/, but otherwise I’m stumped. Searching DDG for jitsi instances returns a bunch of results about self hosting.