Re: [GTALUG] "a web page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop that page."

2021-12-22 Thread Stefan Kloppenborg via talk
There are probably folks on this list who know a lot more of this subject that I do. But, I'd start with opening up Firefox developer tools (press F12). The "Performance" tab lets you record a profile showing the time spent on the various JavaScript function calls and DOM events. You could also

Re: [GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

2021-05-20 Thread Stefan Kloppenborg via talk
I haven't used a reMarkable, but there does seem to be a fairly active community dedicated to hacking reMarkables. This might be a selling feature if you're planning on doing something that's not officially supported by the vendor. There's a listing of many reMarkable-related projects her: http

Re: [GTALUG] Which NAS harddisk? -- Seagate or Western Digital

2021-03-07 Thread Stefan Kloppenborg via talk
Backblaze, which is a cloud storage/backup provider, publishes drive failure statistics for their roughly 160,000 drives. They mostly use fairly large drives (lots of 12-16 TB) from a few different manufacturers (including lots of Seagate drives). Their stats may or may not be of use to you when

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu update 19.10 -> 20.04?

2020-05-02 Thread Stefan Kloppenborg via talk
My understanding is that Canonical maintains two branches of releases. The even numbers are the LTS releases, the odd are the other ones (I'm not sure what they call them). When you're on a LTS version, do-release-upgrade will by default only look for a newer LTS versions. Similarly, when you're

Re: [GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

2020-04-25 Thread Stefan Kloppenborg via talk
I've been using duplicity for backups. I use the CLI, but I'm pretty sure there are GUI front ends available too. For storage, I've been using Backblaze B2 for the last few years. It's supported by rclone, which duplicity uses for data transfer, so it's pretty easy to configure duplicity to wor