Only the Hardest Links

At home I use backintime as my backup software (a FOSS clone of Apple’s Time Machine). It works fantastically (and has saved my ass several times). It’s a Python framework around some very clever rsync magic; daily incremental snapshots are light on space because it uses hard links on the backend storage if a file …

Ubuntu 20.04LTS is Pain

Migrated my workstation this weekend from Ubuntu 16.04LTS to 20.04LTS (by way of 18.04LTS), and I don’t like it. A lot can happen in 5 years, and much of the software I’ve come to rely on in my daily flow is no longer around. Stuff that I’ve learned, used, integrated, trust, put all my eggs …

Make Me Krazy Very

Sometimes, I really, really hate software.I installed this copy of MakeMKV from the source tarballs two weeks ago. Two. When I attempted to convert a disc this morning, I got this. This is the second time this software has “expired” on me. Funny, it worked just fine before the expiration date.