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@neil I have a full text feed: https://kedara.eu/blog/index.xml I do limit it to a maximum of 10 articles; on the one hand, to make it a tad harder to scrape all of my site in one go. On the other hand, I once came across a feed that contained roughly 300 posts. That's a bit too much to process for an unsuspecting new follower

@kev great post! I didn't know about Bubbles—that looks really nice!

@drajt great to hear that it's working well for them!

So... My plan to build a Linux laptop for my mom didn't go exactly as I hoped, BUT: my mom is using Linux, and she's very happy with it!

I had an elaborate plan prepared to install Debian root on ZFS, setup remote access, automated snapshots, remote backups, etc. See my two previous polls for the idea; thanks again for your valuable help! It did give me a lot of ideas, and also made me realise that it's okay not to have the "perfect" setup right away.

On install day, a few things happened: a) I wasn't having the best day (thanks long covid!), b) the drive configuration was less ideal than I had hoped (dual boot with Windows on same drive, instead of separate disks), c) there was more data and programs to configure than anticipated, and I had some trouble there as well. d) of course, I had to explain how it works as well.

Basically, I ran out of time and energy.

So I went with plain ext4 in the end, but was able to configure a functional setup for her at least. All in all, not too bad. If she continues to love it, I can always make small (or big; perhaps FreeBSD is ready next year?) tweaks in the future.

But the key takeaway: my mom is a proud Linux user now!!

#Linux #Debian #LaptopLinux