Back when, after the world didn't end after Y2K got patched and saved it, I was getting tired of Windows and none of my Macs were up-to-date enough to handle my writing workload, I gave Caldera OpenLinux a shot. Ended up compiling everything myself and used that for two years. Had a copy of MetaFrame laying around from a completed project, so I installed it on Windows 2000, and served Office apps over the network so I could use Word in Linux. I've had something running Linux since.

If I might gently offer an alternative suggestion for how to fund ST:WEB, check out my post on Medium (link below). It's the first in a series on my ideas about how to reshape the internet for better human survivability with tools we've had in our open-source toolkits for years. tl;dr: reduce the friction between the consumer and the content by focusing on cost and cutting out the ridiculous proliferation of middle-men while eliminating the need for advertising revenue.

https://medium.com/@tylerknowsnothing/saving-the-internet-for-humanity-dollarnomics-101-a27bbba0abca

And hilariously enough, my wife JUST sent me this post: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-delay-600-reporting-form-venmo-paypal-1099k-2024/

This means that with my plan, no tax burden... :)

Oh yes! Thanks for reminding me. The ~ is a shortcut to the active users home folder? Thanks!

dd duplicates directories. It's a terminal app. Built into all Linux distros. For more details, do a man dd in a terminal session. Clonezilla is a distro that runs a live system from USB or DVD which lets you backup and restore entire systems. Both are powerful, but have a learning curve.

Definitely take your time and soak up more info from other sources :) I hope all of this turns out to be at least marginally helpful :D

If you don't encrypt the drive, yes. Some things you will have to reauthenticate, however, like your online accounts, but when those are reconnected everything should work as intended. That you should confirm, however. I don't encrypt, though I should ;)

I'm utterly useless with base arch 🤣 If it works for you, who'm I to complain 👍

I guess I should have made that clear. Your /home directory is where everything user-related is stored in invisible folders. All your settings for the OS and applications are kept in there. So, if you copy that directory and restore it to a fresh install of the same distro, all of your settings will be restored. It's been years, but I've done it a few times.

The only thing you'll really need to do after that is re-install all of the apps you installed. Once you have, however, every apps settings are restored.

Aha! I figured it out. Comments are sequestered to the instance the user is commenting from. Federation :)

Thanks and sorry! I'm getting it fixed now :D

Sorry about that! My first time with Lemmy :D

Hmm. I can't see any comments, though I seem to be able to comment myself.

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