u/cdysthe

I have used btrfs as my daily driver file system for a very long time. I have restored my system with snapper and snapshots numerous times through grub.

I have one issue though and it may just be me, but I feel that btrfs is very sensitive to every day mishaps like system freezes and hard reboots. It seems to me that it's much easier to get a more or less corrupted file system on my btrfs powered machines after a freeze or power outage than on my ext4 or even ntfs ones. Sometimes i am able to repair things but most often if there's some corruption it's not much I can do.

Is it just me or is btrfs more sensitive to hard reboots than other file systems?

I'm not a developer, just a Linux user since 1998 kind of guy so I ask here since I recently had my main laptop freeze beyond reproach and did a hard reboot. After that my monthly scrub has been complaining about corruption.

One of the things I really like in Kubuntu (in addition to all the other things) is that it uses the Calamares installer which gives me good brrfs setup out of the box. The Subiquity installer Ubuntu went with does not for some reason.

I'm a heavy user of snapshots and have been using btrfs on my machines for many years and I won't give that up. With Ubuntu I now have to do the move to a sub volumes setup after install. It's just annoying having to go through that every time.

Does anyone know if there are any plans out there in Kubuntu World to follow the mother ship in this regard?

I sure hope not!

Hi,

OsmAnd is a phenomenal app and service. I've been off Maps for a couple of weeks and it works, at least mostly. Remaining issues:

There are locations OsmAnd just doesn't find so I have to add them by address and favorite-name them. One example:

> Schooner's Market Essex Massachusetts.

Other nav apps find it by search, not OsmAnd.

OsmAnd often doesn't choose the best route to a destination and doesn't seem to "learn" even after I have been redirected numerous times for the same route. Other nav apps seem to "learn" over time based on my actual choice of route.

Settings aren't searchable. This is a biggie issue for me.

I'm a big Android Auto user and I wish more of the phone app settings and preferences were transferred to Android Auto like the navigation position icon and other details set in the phone app but not replicated in Android Auto.

Otherwise I'm so happy to have found my new nav and mapping platform.

For me Android Auto integration is a must have. If a nav app is to take the place of Waze/Maps it has to take the place as the default nav app and show up automatically in Android Auto like the Google apps do.

I think it's a big mistake to not have Android Auto integration available in the free version. It has chased off several users I have recommended the app to immediately.

This is a great nav app but there are issues. There are so many features and settings that settings and preferences should be searchable. For instance, I cannot take the constant "Pedestrian Crosswalk" warnings while driving. How do I turn it off? I should be able to search for "crosswalk" and find that setting, but on my drive through town today this crosswalk noise was totally taking over! Did the developers actually try to drive with that on through an urban area? Doesn't seem like it.

All in all, aside from an app name that is impossible to remember and say, all the features and cluttered settings without search is close to a showstopper for me. It threw my son and several friends off the app immediately.

Learn from Waze how to do settings!

I'm using YT Music more and more for podcasts but I've hit a roadblock. I want continuous playback of the new episodes. In all other playlists that's how it works. Move on to the next entry when one is played.

Is there away I can set continuous playback for this generated podcasts playlist. The whole continuous playback function seems hard to find and convoluted to use in YT Music.

På kosmetikk og rengjørings produkter står det ofte "ny formulering". Sjelden "ny formel". Hvorfor er det sånn? Hva er forskjellen mellom en ny formel og en ny formulering? Det blir enda mere komplisert på norsk siden formulering også brukes på en gruppe ord.

Jeg er norsk men har vært bosatt i USA siden 1998. Diktet En Hustavle er en skatt jeg tok med meg hit. Jeg har forsøkt å oversette det til engelsk i årevis uten å få det til. Så jeg gikk systematisk til verks. Det har tatt meg et halvt å komme fram til dette:

A House Tablet

There is a happiness in life
That never turns to rue:
The joy you give to someone else—
That is the only joy that's true.

There is a sorrow in the world
That tears cannot relieve:
The sorrow that it was too late
When you this truth perceived.

No one can stand beside a grave
And mourn the whole time through.
The day has many hours, friend,
The year has many days—it's true.~~

Er det bra nok? Det er så nære jeg kan komme. Uansett, det har gitt meg enda mere innsikt inn til en norsk poet Superstar!

Kjære Arnulf Øverland. Du er en av mine favoritt landsmenn.

Hi,

I have an Office 365 account and want to add all my email accounts to Outlook for Android. The one that I just can't add is my Google/Gmail account. It gets to the final steps where I get the screen where I give access to in a browser window, but there it hangs and my Gmail account is not added. I have tried many times, uninstalled Outlook and started from scratch, but it hangs at the last step even without an error message.

I have five other mail accounts added but I need Gmail as well. On my laptop it's not a problem but on Android no go regardless of what I do.

Anyone here with ideas as to where and how I can get my Gmail account added to Outlook for Android?

I bought a SHARP SMO1754JS microwave. The cooktop light went out and I expected being able to remove the little cover and put in bulb. That was easy on my old 10.year microwave. Not so on this one. The bulb is connected with two of those flat connectors, the screw to n type.

I have found out that I have to remove the bottom cover and then it should be easy to replace the bulb, except I cannot source the replacement bulb. I've done Ebay, Amazon and a bunch of the parts replacement sites I have used in the past. Even did AI. No go. So this is my last resort. Anyone know how I can source this little bulb that is so essential for an OTR microwave oven?

Eye allergies are my main problem when trees like oak and birch spread pollen in the spring like they are now.

I have found that olopatadine is the best remedy. Olopatadine eye drops come in either 0.2% for once daily application or 0.1% for twice daily. Does anyone here have recommendations with regards to once or twice daily?

I have opted for twice daily and it seems to work better, but I'm not sure it's this season being less severe or if the twice a day is the wtg for me.

Last year I did 0.2% and it worked but I woke up with burning eyes. Now I don't.