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Thanks

Do they know what it does?

I had extra time during the pandemic and used some of it to permanently migrate to Linux.

False. I’ve been using the same drive for years without issues. Just make sure you use separate boot sectors, and handle which OS boots through the BIOS boot manager, not some linked boot manager.

You can do it with a partitioned single disk too. Just use different boot sector partitions for each OS, and don’t use a boot manager. Just set Linux as the default boot, and use the BIOS boot options if you want to boot into Windows.

I actually logged into Windows for the first time in 3 years a couple nights ago. I couldn’t get Arch to recognize my Kindle, so I needed to verify it was a hardware issue, and not a software issue. Booted into Windows, verified it wasn’t recognized, logged out. Fuck those bajillion updates it wants to install. I’m not installing them, especially since it’ll just try to trick me into installing Windows 11 again. It can stay 3, 6, or infinity years out of date for all I care. I’m never going to use it for long enough for security to be an issue.

Anyways, I digress. Use separate boot sectors and a single partitioned drive is adequate.

Turn off automatic updates for Windows. There is no reason to allow it to automatically eat up an hour of your time when you just want to run some local program for 5 minutes and log the fuck out again. Just run security updates before doing any crazy web stuff.

Can’t you just use snapshots from the btrfs filesystem?

Ah yeah that TV definitely didn’t have that option. My CRT computer monitor did though

It’s a little late now, but I’m curious, how do you fix it?

Before you learn about overclocking, you must first learn about cooling.

My kid stuck a big ol donut magnet on our TV and ruined the screen.

LOL. Yes, but add an E at the end. Like this::

As a regular user of both, I’m able to accomplish custom stuff faster with Linux, but Mac is pretty hands off once you get it set up. That said, it’s a garbage OS out of the box. It’s 2024 and it doesn’t even have windows snapping or back button support. You have to install and configure 3rd party tools to make it behave like something created in the last two decades. I’m pretty sure Apple doesn’t give a shit about their Mac OS anymore, since most of their money comes from iOS and store purchases/subscriptions.

You will never make me pronounce the G. Never!

The Evolution email client is pretty great, and FairEmail for Android.