so if the battery is dead […] and you drive away.

what do you mean?

Because as you suspect, an image backup cannot be done while the partition being imaged is live.

can’t it, though?

macrium reflect’s normal operation is to run when the ststem is running normally. it creates a volume shadowcopy of your filesystem, and backs that up. a BTRFS/ZFS snapshot is basically what a volume shadowcopy is on windows, but with a less fancy name. if you make a snapshot, you can back that up, either with zfs send, btrfs send, rsync, borg backup, whatever. the difference is that on linux it’s not possible to notify programs that a snapshot will happen please sanitize your databases, while windows does that too, so if you restore on linux that’s like if your computer crashed because power went off

sure, it can’t be done with other filesystems, but OP said they have BTRFS. I think the boot partition can be safely imaged too: remount as read only and make a normal image.

you forgot to post your sources

any normal music player works/can work that way on windows and linux

And I hate it too when it goes to the next song and this banner slowly fades in at the top of my screen to tell me what song it is and it also just pauses everything for a moment just for that. There’s other ways I can tell what you’re playing, I don’t need that.

you can turn that off in the settings. Actually I was pretty happy that it works on linux through wine. but if you can’t find the option, let me know, I have managed to find it recently I think

you can choose whatever email provider you trust, and then they apply encryption on the transport level. but there is often very few phone companies, and zero encryption. they don’t have to install any kind of wiretaps, they can just record everything automatically that passes through

I did it accidentally with my UPS. It didn’t like it and zapped me a little

Possibly helped somewhat for older machines where pressing the button made the fans spin for a little, but modern systems are somehow smart enough to not even bother doing anything

why use a case at that point, lol

is it a good idea to microwave that plastic container, though?

but that depends on the vendor. highest chance to do it is with Monero, even considering that basically no one knows it

no, it isn’t for

• matrix, because if the servers ever connect again, the message will get through. this is what’s called an “eventually consistent” system
• any mainstream and semi-mainstream messengers, where there is a single server (from the users’ point of view), and the message just can’t get lost (randomly)

the client shouldn’t be dealing with issues between servers. that’s the servers responsibility. if the server has told the client that it got the message, what is there anymore for the client to do?

The issue with AP objects not making it to other clients / servers is more about federation discovery.

I don’t think so. if you know the recipient, you know it’s servername too. and then your server can forward it to theirs.

I think the problem here is that messages are not always delivered.

I’m not allergic to emails, I use them a lot, but I think a mailing list is not a federated github, but a mess.

Forgejo is a much better choice in my opinion.

AP would actually work fairly well as a messaging protocol

except when a temporary disruption in the connection results in new posts/comments/etc to not get delivered

github is not just about git though.

who the fuck needs google’s suggestions? It’s not a necessity

it still can enshittify, but we can save it with the help of git and the fork button

It’s not only the results, though, but other features too

well they don’t need to fight for new users anymore. Everyone uses it already, and children are basically indoctrinated to it: all schools have that as search engine, often they even use google classroom and drive and whatnot on the classes. if they have chromebooks, the chrome browser automatically starts after login even if you don’t want to use it, and you can’t unpin it from the taskbar either

it gained 14k+ stars on github in a year (development started in 2023 july).

isn’t it a bit suspicious?

maybe it’s nothing, but this just caught my eye