We recently had a funny problem. Our service ran fine, but a postgres upgrade failed because some pg internals were broken (broken ref ids). Dumping the DB also failed for the same error. Reading and writing was still fine, though. So we restored backup after backup… no dice. They all had the same issue: it was working for the service but we couldn’t perform any maintenance. Ultimately we had to “manually” dump the data of the service and replay it into a fresh db. That took quite long. But that was interesting, since even the verification of the backups didn’t help us notice that kind of corruption.

I am also a former TeX addict, but I was always more in favor or ConTeXt over LaTeX. And Typst is basically ConTeXt, but a lot faster (as in you get real time preview as you type).

Huh? What’s wrong with Overleaf?

If you “only” need beautiful PDF and it doesn’t have to be online, you can also use Typst with vscode and tinymist as editor locally. Not as powerful as TeX, but I know few people for use TeX even remotely to its fullest. The upside of Typst is, that the “core” syntax for content writing is very markdown-like, so you can focus on writing instead of the underlying language.

Backblaze B2 using Kopia

The linked ticket also references a merge request that went stale. So I would assume this is a good starting point (I haven’t looked at the MR though, so I don’t know how far off from the potentially accepted solution it is).

I don’t think there is a technical reason. Simply no one was interested in implementing it yet. See Nate’s answer over at reddit and the associated ticket.

So once someone is motivated enough it will happen. But without contribution or extreme boredom by the core mainteners (haha) it won’t happen.

btrfs because it was simple

Personally I found ZFS far more simple. The userspace tools make more sense to me. Also I like, that volumes can have a default (relative) mount point attached. So in a recovery scenario, I simply have to open the zpool with a relative base path, and then have all my volumes ready to go. If I want to recover a btrfs system with multiple subvolumes, I typically need to know exactly which ones and where to I have to mount them (each individually).

Also I go really used to zfsbootmenu.

Microsoft really has a knack for that. I also like WoW64, which contains the binaries for running 32 bit applications on Windows 64 bit. For historical reasons, the 64 bit binaries live in system32, obviously.

The shopping list alone is beautifully done. Glad that I could help 🙂

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

– Leon Bambrick

Regarding your requirement, you might want to take a look at KitchenOwl.

If you prefer freestyle notes/lists, Joplin can share and sync note collections as well.

KDE is one of the main reasons for me to use Linux. I immensely like the performance, silence and battery lifetime of MacBooks. But if I have to work with anything but KDE, it’s not worth it for me. The only thing OSX does better than basically any other desktop out there, is the ability to drag whole virtual screen between monitors.

Bitwardens local cache does not include attachments, though. If you rely on them, you have to rely on the server being available.

I don’t understand how that hybrid is supposed to work. Monospace is a binary attribute; either all chars have the same width or not. So what is the font now?

Why? What did Zenimax do to you?

Most people in my company use OSX, followed by a few dozen Linux users (various distros; whatever each one prefers), followed by a few Windows users (whyever they want that). So essentially: we can choose what we want to use.

They also fuck over their own OS. I don’t think they deliberately broke dual boot installs, they simply don’t put enough effort in QA. (See their recent problems with BitLocker after an update. Or that one update that fails because some internal partition is too small. And so on.)

Fli4l is still around?! Crazy. I used that back in 2002 or so to turn an old i386 with 3 ISA HP 100Mbit network cards into a router + fileserver combo. Good times.

glibc’s malloc increases the stacksize of threads depending on the number of cpu cores you have. The JVM might spawn a shitload of threads. That can increase the memory usage outside of the JVMs heap considerably. You could try to run the jvm with tcmalloc (which will replace malloc calls for the spawned process). Also different JVMs bundle different memory allocators. I think Zulu could also improve the situation out of the box. tcmalloc might still help additionally.

I ran Arch on a convertible laptop around 2006-2010. Most notes I did using OpenOffice Writer, with hotkeys to quickly add formulas. Drawings were done with the pen. Homework (where speed didn’t matter as much but where I wanted high quality) were done in ConTeXt.

Programming was done in FreePascal using Lazarus IDE or Java using Netbeans IDE, depending on the course and my personal preference.

I think I had no complaints from anyone. Quite the contrary, one professor even gifted me a book as a thanks for the high quality typesetting in my homeworks, since most students didn’t give a shit and had no fucking clue how to really use their beloved MS Word.