WSL or bust

IIRC apt actually does support external media (because back in the day, not everyone had fast internet).

Belgium has them

I believe if you create a crontab on a systemd system, it actually synthesizes systemd timers from the crontab entries

Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There’s those jokes on the Windows side too (like the ‘delete system32’ one).

“And so the Gods (also known as the W3C) spoke down to the Programmers and said: ‘You shall not use tables for non-tabular data.’ And so it was.”

Yeah Synology is pretty good with that kind of stuff (we use one at work). They’ve really just got a Linux system with custom management tools on top. Of course for DIY purposes, self-building is still cheaper and more flexible though.

Interesting blog!

Clicked on your NAS article (one of the first linked ones) and spotted an error… you write that Synology NAS boxes don’t use standard RAID, but they do. They have official docs up on how to hook them up to a standard Linux system for disaster recovery (it’s just Btrfs or ext4 on mdadm RAID).

Probably not super relevant for you or most readers, but just thought I’d point it out :)

Ah, but have you heard of our lord and savior, CSS Grid?

Sheriff? Yes, this commenter right here.

Thanks!

Interesting, any experiences with this? How well does it work?

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GNU’s Not UNIX

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

WINE Is Not an Emulator