I like your thought so I wondered if there is a site to help people pick a distro and found this:
For a windows gamer type of person it came up with Linux Mint
https://distrochooser.de/en/d59f9b3e7b9b/
…at the top of a long list of other choices. Not bad!
NY is next
New York Senate Bill S8102A goes further. It “requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance” to check all users’ ages, and provide this info to “all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications” – as well as app stores.
At 5mbps it should take about 1 hour for 2GB. It sounds like your actual speed is 2-3x lower. Can you take that up with your ISP? Are you certain your machine has the best connection within your control, i.e. directly wired into the router? Network equipment is not faulty? Have you tested with iperf within your network? Just in case there’s another issue beside the slow external speed…
Another thing that springs to mind is to use a backup tool like restic that will not only compress but deduplicate your data into hundreds of small files that might make upload faster. Dedup can save significant space and you can try it out locally first. Just do restic init then restic backup PATH.
Restic can use rclone as a backend also and upload straight to google: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#other-services
Finally there’s sometimes nothing faster than physically moving data. A person jogging with a 100gb drive has great bandwidth! Is there a location with better internet within reach? A library or school perhaps?
The danger being raised with the licensing is that you can’t license something if you’re not considered to be the author. There are growing examples of courts and lawmakers determining AI output to be public domain:
The US Supreme Court recently refused to reconsider Thaler v. Perlmutter, in which the plaintiff sought to overturn a lower court decision that he could not copyright an AI-generated image. This is an area of ongoing concern among the defenders of copyleft because many open source projects incorporate some level of AI assistance. It’s unclear how much AI involvement in coding would dilute the human contribution to the extent that a court would disallow a copyright claim.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/
This is an evolving, global situation and hard to know what to do right now. I think what you’ve got is fine though - you’ve made it clear your intention is to license with AGPL. It’s just that depending on the jurisdiction it might be public domain instead.
This is another reason to be clear about the use of AI in the README so your users can make an informed decision.
Don’t encrypt the drive, encrypt the backups and put your keepassdb alongside. Use restic or similar that encrypts backups.
The contention is that Mattermost say it’s licensed under AGPL but then they add conditions which are incompatible with that license. So it seems they want to give appearance of AGPL but not give the actual rights that come with it. So therefore it’s not AGPL.
Presumably that can’t handle things that the app adds like run conditions for wifi/mobile data though? I realise some may not care about that as much.
Thank you for introducing me to FairScan! Great app. I have a scanner but being able to snap stuff on the go is so much quicker.
You’re welcome!
This reminds me of RSS, designed for reading and pared back to the minimum required to deliver the message and nothing more.
Deedum has fallen behind and doesn’t support recent android it seems. Same for the only other client in fdroid, Pocket Gopher.
Gopher guarantees readers that there will never be anything other than text and media served on a site. They don’t have to trust the publisher, the protocol enforces it.
MarkStack looks ideal for publishing docs for family
https://github.com/KineticEnforcer/MarkStack
Fast, minimal static site generator that transforms markdown into searchable documentation sites. Built to run anywhere, even on a Raspberry Pi.
https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/boot-partition-usage-limit-is-exceeded/21452
This seems to be not uncommon problem with default setup of cachy. Recommendations there are that 2gb default for /boot is too small and some other tips to slim it down.
I see this with flatpaks, the solution might be to grant permission to the app to the part of the filesystem your dragging from with flatseal/cmdline.
HOWEVER I do think the desktop is missing a pop-up which offers to do this for you when it happens. This is how android does it when an app needs access outside its own files, you just get a prompt to allow it.
This is the sandbox future - it’s safer and you can trust that apps can’t go snooping around your system but users shouldn’t need to fiddle with perms all the time to get stuff done.
This is my thought too. Your screenshots don’t show cpu freq. Everything can appear normal on other measures but if your cpu has throttled right back it’ll run slow with no obvious cause. I have seen this on certain laptops when external peripherals are added/removed after waking from sleep. Sometimes forcing sleep/wake or a reboot will fix.
Use lscpu at the cmdline or better yet install gnome extension ‘system monitor next’ and put the cpu freq graph in your top bar to watch it in realtime.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3010/system-monitor-next/
Check the app’s own docs first, there is something here about automating backups:
https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/user/manual/en/download-backup
The EFF have a page on this, setting out the threats:
https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-16-years-under-dmca
…which is mostly a link to:
https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2014.pdf
…whose summary reads as follows.
The “anti-‐circumvention” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. The law was ostensibly intended to stop copyright infringers from defeating anti-‐piracy protections added to copyrighted works.[1] In practice, the anti-‐circumvention provisions have been used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities. As a result, the DMCA has become a serious threat to several important public policy priorities:
The DMCA Chills Free Expression and Scientific Research.
Experience with section 1201 demonstrates that it is being used to stifle free speech and scientific research. The lawsuit against 2600 magazine, threats against Princeton Professor Edward Felten’s team of researchers, and prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have chilled the legitimate activities of journalists, publishers, scientists, students, programmers, and members of the public.
The DMCA Jeopardizes Fair Use.
By banning all acts of circumvention, and all technologies and tools that can be used for circumvention, the DMCA grants to copyright owners the power to unilaterally eliminate the public’s fair use rights. Already, the movie industry’s use of encryption on DVDs has curtailed consumers’ ability to make legitimate, personal-‐use copies of movies they have purchased.
The DMCA Impedes Competition and Innovation.
Rather than focusing on pirates, some have wielded the DMCA to hinder legitimate competitors. For example, the DMCA has been used to block aftermarket competition in laser printer toner cartridges, garage door openers, videogame console accessories, and computer maintenance1 services. Similarly, Apple has used the DMCA to tie its iPhone devices to Apple’s own software and services.
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