Not for smartcards

I used to use Thunderbird, but their PGP integration always crashed the whole program. I now use Evolution.

All the important login information should just be present somewhere in your home folder. If you back that up and restore it later you should be fine, no need to save the dropbox binary.

If that is no option and you only want to back up dropbox files and nothing else follow the instructions below (I can’t guarantee that they will work, but they should):

Back up the whole system, if something goes wrong you can at least restore to a working state. Read the instructions at least once completely before following them.

Look at the documentation for dropbox to see which files are relevant and need backing up. Its the Dropbox folder with all the files, but will probably be some folders/files in your $HOME too, which store login information. Lets hope that they don’t store some metadata there that will invalidate the config if it’s running on a different machine (to prevent what you are trying to do).

If there is no documentation, you can stop dropbox completely. Look for dropbox processes that don’t get stopped when you stop the GUI with something like pgrep -f -i dropbox.

Once you are sure all dropbox processes are stopped run inotifywait -r -m ~. That command wont exit unless you stop it by issuing ^C. It will list all filesystem events in your home directory. Now start dropbox and see which files it accesses, those are the files you need to back up. It will probably be one or more whole directories in ~/.config and ~/.local.

Add those files to a tar archive using something like this: tar cvJf dropbox_config.tar.xz [list of folders...]. Savre the resulting tar file somewhere else, reinstall and extract it using tar xvJf dropbox_config.tar.xz. Take care to run those commands from the same directory.

The dropbox login secrets might also be stored in your system’s keyring, if you are using GNOME, then that will be GNOME Keyring. Open your system’s credential manager and look for stuff related to dropbox. Look for instructions on how to back up and restore those secets. I don’t use that often enough to be able to give you more detailed instructions right now though.

References

• https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tar.1.html
• https://linux.die.net/man/1/inotifywait
• https://linux.die.net/man/1/pgrep
• https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/

Edit:

• backups
• keyring

That number seems very low compared to Discords users, my guess is, that those are the photos of not yet verified accounts. Contrary to some commenters speculating that they lied in their FAQ. On another note: You can think of Discord what you want, but your politicians mandated age verification, not them. Direct your anger/outrage/whatver at them.

To check your system for those packages (assuming you are using bash):

comm -1 -2 <(pacman -Q | awk '{print $1}' | sort) <(sort vulnerable_packages.txt)

With vulnerable_packages.txt containing one package name per line.

I’m using a SBC and put LibreELEC on it. That boots to Kodi. I then installed the Jellyfin plugin and am mostly happy with it. Sync and subtitle selection is sometimes weird.

Google: Laughs in “Everybody else you communicate with who has that shit enabled”

Did you waive your rights to the code anywhere? If not then it’s still your code and they used it without obtaining the rights to using it - depending on your jurisdiction ofc.

I usually start inotifywatch with read events, open the program, close it and see what inotifywatch dumped.

I have a feeling for that to be effective they should be spread-out and not appear one after another though.

Hmm. The first section about cloud service providers is a bit weird to me. There are providers which “keep my best interests in mind” as part of their business model, backblaze would be one. Their whole idea is to provide a good backup services. Encrypting my data before transit also doesn’t make me worried that it will be accessed by them or any of their employees because they will only get some garbled mess.

Compare that to google, another cloud service provider. Their business model is to make money by selling me ads (foremost), they do that by gathering as much data as possible. Here all my answers would be negative.

This puts me in an awkward spot where I nearly every time answer with “Neither agree nor disagree”, because there is more to it and not because I don’t have an opinion.

The whole deployment is done via ansible, so the ansible source is my documentation.

postmaster@domain is always fun

I think I remember some weird power bugs in the 2700x, though I never encountered them myself. The best thing I could find was this reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/apw8im/ryzen_freezes_in_linux_even_if_linux_is_in_vm/

Do you still have the live iso you used to install arch? Does it work? Do other distros work (just the live systems are enough)?

Edit:

Some more things: Did you try disconnecting the pc from mains, pressing the power button (to discharge all capacitors) and reconnecting. Reseat the button cell for the bios?

I’m using Concourse CI

Docker container can’t read a bind mount. Permission issue? No, it’s SELinux, again. And I didn’t even install it explicitly, it just got pulled in by another package.

And to be clear, the issue isn’t SELinux really, but unexpected non standard behaviour which I never asked for (never explicitly installed it).

It’s really only downloading the executable and java, starting it and opening the required port. See the official documentation for instructions.

If you want to get more involved there are some convenient docker containers which automate some stuff:

• one for running the server
• a proxy

Well, I was hoping they would take care of that themselves

Looks good, I use a lot of the stuff you plan to host.

Don’t forget about enabling infrastructure. Nearly everything needs a database, so get that figured out early on. An LDAP server is also helpful, even though you can just use the file backend of Authelia. Decide if you want to enable access from outside and choose a suitable reverse proxy with a solution for certificates, if you did not already do that.

Hosting Grafana on the same host as all other services will give you no benefit if the host goes offline. If you plan to monitor that too.

I’d get the LDAP server, the database and the reverse proxy running first. Afterwards configure Authelia and and try to implement authentication for the first project. Gitea/Forgejo is a good first one, you can setup OIDC or Remote-User authentication with it. If you’ve got this down, the other projects are a breeze to set up.

Best of luck with your migration.