To be fair, the link’s just to git comments, so the headline captures the main point.

There’s BeyondCompare and Meld if you want a GUI, but, if I understand this correctly, rmlint and fdupes might be helpful here

I’ve done similar in the past - I prefer commandline for this…

What I’d do is create a “final destination” folder on the 4TB drive and then other working folders for each hdd / cd / dvd that you’re working through

Ie

/mnt/4TB/finaldestination /mnt/4TB/source1 /mnt/4TB/source2 …

Obviously finaldestination is empty to start with so it could just be a direct copy of your first hdd - so make that the largest drive.

(I’m saying copy here, presuming you want to keep the old drives for now, just in case you accidentally delete the wrong stuff on the 4TB drive)

Maybe clean up any obvious stuff

Remove that first drive

Mount the next and copy the data to /mnt/4TB/source2

Now use rmlint or fdupes and do a dry-run between source2 and finaldestination and get a feel whether they’re similar or not, so then you’ll know whether to just move it all to finaldestination or maybe then use the gui tools.

You might completely empty /mnt4TB/source2, or it might still have something in, depends on how you feel it’s going.

Repeat for the rest, working on smaller & smaller drives, comparing with the finaldestination first and then moving the data.

Slow? Yep. Satisfying that you know there’s only 1 version there? Yep.

Then do a backup 😉

My choice is Arch Linux purely because it’s bleeding edge

I’ve no idea if Arch actually has newer drivers than Debian / Fedora, but if they are you’ll (usually) get better support from the developers of whatever application / package - or in your case - drivers that you’re facing.

It’s more involved than “just” installing Debian, etc… but reading through the Arch Linux wiki as you install will (should) ensure you’ve got the correct drivers setup and you’ll know why they’re working.

So… it’ll be more effort, but you might get “better” results.

** SOMETIMES IT IS **

(Sorry, couldn’t resist)

+1 for Ansible

1. Install an application
2. Do all the updates at the same time ( - after automating all the backups of course 😉)
3. Removing games 😈

True, but they’ve answered your question.

Maybe raise a bug report with Firefox (Mozilla) and see if they can look into it further and that might help others too

His complaint was it was different.

This is the absolute core of everyone’s reluctance… and 99% of (domestic) stuff is browser based…

That says that upgrades won’t enable it… the user can still enable it.

Yes, I feel your pain.

Encryption drives sound like a good idea until the subject of unlocking them comes up… and automatically unlocking the drive for the OS isn’t really helping.

But, for user data, it can be unlocked automatically during login. The Arch wiki covers this.

But backup your data 😉

It depends on your use-case.

Encryption of data at rest (this discussion) is mostly helpful for physical theft, so a device that never leaves the house, there’s little reason for encryption.

Similarly, on a lower powered mobile device, maybe you only want / need user data to be encrypted, and there’s no need to encrypt the OS, which keeps the performance up.

Maybe you want the whole thing encrypted on your high performance laptop.

So, it’s difficult to define a sane default for everyone, thus making it an option for the end user to decide on.

Linux has more choice than Windows - and the encryption algorithm(s) can be verified - so it’s definitely the better choice.

For which OS?

It can be enabled at any time on Windows & Linux. It’s just optional.

It’s dumb and inexcusable IMO

No, it’s a choice, because:

1. History… encryption didn’t exist in the beginning. Upgrades won’t enable it.

2. Recovery… try telling the people that didn’t backup the encryption key - outside of the encrypted vault - that their data’s gone.

3. Performance… not such an issue these days, but it does slow your system down (and then everyone complains)

So, please continue to encrypt your data as you choose and be less judgemental on others, esp. anyone new

No excuses.

Or… <using package manager of choice> install immich

Done.

No need to map internal & external ports, wrestle with permissions (or… good grief, run the container as root!), etc, etc.

It’s just… less faff.

Plus I save all that additional disk space, not having to install docker! 😉

Don’t get me wrong; Containers, chroot jails, Type-1 & Type-2 hypervisors all had their place in the history of my systems, I just don’t see it as a necessity.

The additional software required to run it in a container plus its configuration, on top of Immich’s configuration.

Just install & configure Immich, done.

If you’re using Arch, the AUR package works well

I’m fully aware of the joy of containers, but I just don’t want all that extra faff

I setup a media PC with an SSD for boot / OS and spinning rust for the videos, music, etc.

So, I thought LVM would be a good idea… put the whole lot into a logical pool and then carve out large parts for the media which could be adjusted in the future.

No.

Resizing actually just chops up the drives even more (so, partition fragmentation)

Gparted can’t see it, so adjustments are terrible CLI commands

And my favourite system backup tool (clonezilla) cant backup the OS without backing up the entire system.

Depends on your usecase… for a single user laptop, maybe… for a multiuser device or a server… nah.

I prefer partitioning away the user data for all usecases as that will fill up one day, and I don’t want that to down the machine.

Agree.

Years ago, I was troubleshooting something (can’t remember what) on Ubuntu and realised the package had fixed the bug, but it wasn’t in the repos yet… like months behind.

Looked at Arch with it’s up to date repos, moved over and never looked back.

I’ve reported bugs since, watched the package get updated and seen the improvement on my system… now that’s what it should be like.

Ah, I see what you’re asking now.

I have a Hauppauge TV dual-tuner card for terrestrial TV.

Dual tuner so we can watch one thing whilst recording something else, or record 2 things at once.

Myth picks up the card and also uses that for the schedule guide, so we can just set up the scheduler with a TV series or some key-words and leave it to it.

We’ve not watched live TV for ages and it’s weird sitting through adverts now when we’re at friends / family

We also have GBs of films and music on the same machine, so it’s our central AV device. The Audio is sync’d off to other devices from here rather than having a 2nd NAS for it.

I had a 2nd MythTv frontend on another box in another room for a while and that worked well too.

TV programs…