Dammit I’ll be the one. What’s the first?

What I am understanding from the atomics are that your view is right with caveats. Flatpaks only write to /home. But not all apps or software are flatpak. There is no standard for where apps write in Linux so some apps get wrote to system, some apps write to /home. Which allows creep and data scatter throughout a system.

It seems with traditional systems you gain good backups that are easy to redeploy should you need them. But config drift can creep up, updates break more easily, and rollbacks require up to date snapshots.

Atomics make rollbacks easier, but backups harder and more complex during restorations due to fragmented backup locations for different types of files. Also apps don’t always play well with say SElinux on fedora but it’s rare take Mullvad for instance its not a flatpak and they primarily update as. Deb or similar. Requiring distrobox or toolbox. Which is a whole other level of complexity.

I am basically trying to discern if I should go immutable or traditional OS install. Things sound great on paper. But daily driving is a different story.

I want security by default, sandbox/containerized apps, Wayland native, with solid backup support infrastructure. So not if but when and I do it often testing backups or re-deploying a machine. I can boot back in as close to never left as I can.

So continuity is paramount. I been eyeing fedora kiniote, fedora workstation KDE, Debian likely KDE. Only because cinnamon isn’t Wayland native yet and likely won’t be for a while.

Edit: Currently I been running NIXos. It’s been great but config only backups up system apps and not data or app state. However even under /home backups you’ll still lose system files unless their manually tracked and synced as well. It’s one giant hassle. I used to clonezilla but my search for other DEs and OSes that scratched the itch for stock Mints flaws has still evaded me.

What about bleach bit?

Your using pop os cosmic? Its still I alpha stage.

Pop os wasn’t the best distribution to start her on. It’s new. Unstable and updates often. Linux mint, Debian, fedora.

Fail fast and fail forward. Don’t be afraid to start, be afraid of looking back having never done anything. Regret is poison.

Learn what the pareto principle is and live by it. Be efficient.

When life gets hard focus on what’s in front of you not on the world, ideology, news, thats all distraction. Learn to stay in the moment, what’s right here, right now, infront of you.

Cherish loved ones. Focus on your health now. Your health can be gone at a moments notice, life is about balance. Every action has a reaction.

Focus on your strengths not your weaknesses. You have infinite weaknesses. Your strengths will be your lynchpin at times.

Always be curious. Don’t lose the will to learn and ask questions. Knowledge is everything.

Always stay moving physically. Stay doing something productive.

Listen to your gut during times of uncertainty. Trust very little of others. Words mean nothing. Actions never lie.

Nixos do be nice though. I’d consider LFS is for the true neckbeard nerd.

I know. And they do it now days with no warrants in the US which is supposed to be illegal. All other points are very valid.

But generally lights don’t equate heat with modern LEDs is all I was saying unlike old halogen or sodium bulbs.

A lot of growers use basements which obscures a lot of thermal imaging. Including under ground shipping containers, cellars, and more. But your example images are spot on from real people that got caught. I still think profiling should be illegal and there should be some strict laws in place to catch criminals the right ways but rant for another time.

Most modern people don’t have access to all that advanced tech, don’t care, feel it should be legal, poor, average. Not some criminal enterprise. Thanks for uploading the photos though for others to see.

Fuck those people, we wasn’t talking about those people. Common sense something or another.

Of course modern criminals are smart. /s

The good ones are. The poor ones suffer the consequences of their own actions. With modern tech crime advances faster under no regulations than laws can. The problem is uneducated criminals lol

You’d think with modern LED setups this would be null and void. It’s quite wild to see a lot of older schooled growers still using sodium lamps and other high heat, high energy lighting fixtures and getting caught, wasting energy, etc.

Now days modern LEDs are multi fold more efficient. You’d also think that if someone was doing bad deeds illegally they’d be more inclined to stick to a more strict standard.

I guess criminals never did have much standards… Organized crime excluded and even then some organized crime syndicates aren’t fully organized in a manner that detection is impossible. They just aren’t a nuisance enough to warrant the big league agencies. Local LEOs are definitely picking up new tech and evolving faster as the money rolls in these last 10 years.

I had this same issue and I was about to tweak out. I love mint and it really is the best OS out of the box with no tweaks but damn. Debian edition mint for the win. Ubuntu shit is nice but it introduces breakage every few updates and I hate debugging or fixing issues. I want shit to just work at this point. So I jumped ship to NIX and I really love it but there’s still some debugging occasionally. I guess that’s the norm with Linux. Pick your poison.

NIXos is a cross-platform package manager for Unix-like systems, and a tool to instantiate and manage those systems, invented in 2003[6] by Eelco Dolstra.

Nix Original author(s) Eelco Dolstra Initial release June 15, 2003; 22 years ago

From Wikipedia.

Its been supported since the early 2000s.

To some degree I totally agree. If you don’t find 3rd party lab verified then I’d be skeptical. Not just any 3rd party. It has to be from legitimate Orgs and trusted vendors.

I’m unsure how much people look at labels now days, unless you have a health issue requiring it. The levels of say vitamins manufacturers add to even like biotin or other vitamins/supplements. Thousands and sometimes 10s of thousands more than a daily dose your body can consume. Which means your kidneys or liver have to process that out. Things are toxic in high doses.

Its all about balance. A lot of these supplements are way way out of balance. It’s a shame, businesses or people can’t be reputable.

Seems like a labelling issue due to california laws rather than legitimate ingredient flaws with toxic or heavy metals.

I see and I’m going to check some of those out. There’s so much software in the open source world it’s hard to keep up, identify what is used for what.

I use conky for most stats on desktop, the default editor, default cinnamon terminal likely gnome, I’m going to look into the waybar though to see if it fills anything different that conky. I’m unsure why someone would need a window manager instead of tiling or dual monitor. Perhaps I don’t fully understand or I’m missing out on something, I’ve seen a lot of posts recently talking about window managers.

I use my PC fairly traditional. Nixos running cinnamon, I’ve tweaked it a bit but nothing outrageous as that’s when shit breaks or you go error hunting more often than I care too. My moving to nix was graduation from mint looking for even more stability through immutability and cutting out system drift with impermanence. I swap hardware as deals come along, so nix allowed for the most customization and ease of backups. Much more friendly for swapping hardware than a traditional OS.

I do the same thing. Keep multiple profiles and just run sandboxed play services. It works fairly well. The only exception to not having play services is if you allow the app to run unrestricted in the background to always stay connected and fetch notifs. But it does drain battery 10 to 15 percent for just signal throughout the day depending so I can imagine it grows as you were to do that with more and more apps.

Only certain apps require play services, aurora store itself requires no play services. Just the potential for the apps you are trying to use. I’ve used F-Droid and aurora for years.

Aurora store front end works fine no Google account needed.