Wexit? Windexit?

Being able to boot into previous snapshots from the boot menu sounds ideal, and I’ve seen a lot of mentions of CachyOS lately, so maybe I’ll check it out next time I do a fresh install. Thanks for the tip!

In your case, how do you roll back? Do you just reboot and select the previous image from the grub menu or do you do something manually and then reboot?

Regarding the specific btrfs subvolume setup and grub/systemd-boot integration, are you talking about how some distros show the btrfs snapshots on the boot menu? Or something else?

When you want to go back, do you just reboot and select the previous snapshot on the boot menu, or do you restore the snapshot manually and then reboot?

Thanks for the tip on storing the kernels on the btrfs partition. I found a video tutorial for installing Arch w/ btrfs snapshots in which the guy demonstrates this approach, except that he sets the mount point to just /efi instead of /boot/efi.

Noice. Can you tell us more about what soil you’ve used? For example, did you buy some potting mix at the store or something else?

Thanks, so 5.33% in March 2026 against 2.33% for the same period in 2025, which represents 128% growth year over year if my math is correct. I’m impressed!

Does anybody have a year-over-year comparison instead of month-to-month?

In this case, I wonder how the year-over-year comparison looks as opposed to month-to-month.

Thank you for clarifying that!

I saw “Germany” in the title and instantly assumed it was a pilot program at a local government level because I thought I’d read somewhere that in Germany, the regional governments do most of the heavy lifting in terms of legislation, with a very limited federal government, but according to the article, I was wrong:

Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement.

The official document has been published by the IT-Planungsrat, the central political steering body comprising the federal government and state governments, which promotes and develops common, user-oriented IT solutions for efficient and secure digital administration in Germany: https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/b-2026-03-it.

Thats pretty neat! Excerpt from the source article:

What’s happening at the end of that street? Pictured here are not auroras but light pillars, a phenomenon typically much closer. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting sunlight from the upper atmosphere. Usually, these ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground. During freezing temperatures, however, flat fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground and are sometimes known as a crystal fog. These small ice crystals may then reflect not the Sun but ground lights. The featured image captured not only numerous light pillars but also the iconic constellation of Orion, and was taken in Mohe, the northernmost city in China.

After some more digging, I believe “Computerized Battery Analyzer” is how they are called, based on this battery testing video by Lumencraft (at about 48 seconds in, he shows his testing setup). Thanks for chiming in!

This post is very timely. I’ve recently gone down the USB cable testing rabbit hole. Wish it weren’t needed, but alas.

Also just learned about GaN charging hubs. I’ll take “Things I didn’t know existed until a few days ago that I absolutely need right now for $1,000, Alex!”

I’d heard of Framework, Tuxedo, and system76, but not the others. Thanks for the pointers!

I just meant like if Joplin ever stopped working or vanished overnight. I know it might seem like a contrived scenario, but I’ve always been a little skittish about apps that don’t store files in plain text in case I want/need to use a different editor. Sounds like that hasn’t been an issue for you, though, which is cool.

I see Logseq recommended a lot, but does it still try to force you to use bullet lists only?

Do you ever regret that Joplin does not store notes in plain text? (meaning you couldn’t edit your notes in a plain text editor if you wanted to)

I’m running Linux Mint Cinnamon (X11) on a laptop w/ Tiger VNC Server, and I’m connecting to it from another laptop running Fedora Silverblue w/ Gnome (Wayland).