Great idea!

Whoever did this is an absolute legend.

When I’ve thought about this is in the past I’ve concluded that my expectations of Linux are actually higher than Windows or Mac. It’s given me the expectation that if something doesn’t work the way I want it then it will be possible to make it do that, whereas with other operating systems I have been more inclined to just accept a limitation and move on.

OK, I’m guessing that term has some extra baggage around here which I’m not privy to… I spent too many years chopping wood and growing corn, so someone will have to fill me in!

I thought I’d just slip it in and see what happened! I like making things in GIMP as well

Amazing, thank you so much :)

What’s that? GIMP?

When I was a kid I thought grownups were out of touch when they used slang and it made me cringe.

Now I’m a grownup I know that they did it to make me cringe.

Found it! I’d missed that - thanks!

I’ve been ricing my GNOME DE.

Only joking. I had a bit of fun in GIMP for to illustrate this post. You’re welcome to use it if you want :)

Yeah I guess Nvidia have had to grow up pretty fast recently.

Fuck yeah! Go GIMP! Also announced on Mastodon fwiw:

https://floss.social/@GIMP/112995553132226800

I’m super excited about 3.0 🪇

it will, yes. Which is good if you want to keep everything from from the source drive but bad if you want to keep everything from the destination drive.

Have you looked at Clonezilla?

I think I’ve found a workaround. In the Fossify Contacts app on my phone, in the settings I checked the box marked ‘merge duplicate contacts’. I then used the AOSP Contacts app to export them as a .vcf which I imported into Thunderbird, which is now showing no duplicates. I don’t know why the AOSP app is able to export without duplicates, even though it’s the Fossify app which has the ‘merge duplicate contacts’ option but there you have it…

Yeah, after importing contacts back and forth between my android phone and Thunderbird I’m in the same boat. Trying to avoid manually selecting the 400 or so duplicates to delete them… The duplicates aren’t visibly listed in my phone’s app but when I export a .vcf file from it and open it in Thunderbird or Gnome Contacts they are. I’m surprised that my desktop apps don’t have something inbuilt to deal with this.

Their website does make security look like a big priority. I wonder about the security of my YUNOhost server but am not really sure how to evaluate it.

That’s cool. I think I’ve been using it for nearly two years. I had no prior experience with servers and got a bit confused at times in the beginning but these days I hardly need to touch it. How come you’re thinking of switching to Cosmos just out of interest?

FOSS remote camera control and fine art printing software is top of my agenda currently. Got a few avenues of enquiry but any recommendations would be welcomed, particularly on the printing side. I’d also like to become expert at using my current programs, especially GIMP and Ardour, for my own use but also so I can teach others.

Have a look at Starlabs. You can choose coreboot