jbrains

Why? I don't know. Very very remote or rural places? Not exclusively.

Need? I don't know, but it would seem to avoid the things we've been talking about: race to the bottom with cost cutting, catering primarily to addicts, wide disparity in quality between affluent areas and low-income areas.

There is certainly a feedback loop there.

Indeed. Unsurprisingly, the one privately-run liquor store I have loved is in an upscale (but not wealthy) plaza in un upscale part of the city. It's very clean and has a loooooong fine wines fridge. The rest are underwhelming, frequently dimly-lit, and even difficult to walk around in (very narrow aisles).

I'm waiting for lazygix. 😉

In Canada, we have provinces with government-run liquor stores and provinces without.

I live in a province with government-run liquor stores and frequently visit two that have privately-run ones. The privately-run ones are typically dingier, have less selection, and the selection they have is lower-quality. So far I have visited only one privately-run liquor store that I actually like. Out of ten.

Yes, that could just be bad luck, but I've only visited one government-run liquor store that felt depressing and where I disliked the selection... Out of dozens.

Draw whatever conclusions make you happy.

Among people who trust you, I would expect no problems. Among those who don't (yet), I would expect a variety of interpretations, ranging from "That's just their opinion" to "They seem to think their opinion is the only one that matters!" and "I guess since I like it and they don't, they look down on me".

Folks routinely conflate directness with self-importance, even though I value directness for its clarity. They often see directness as self-assuredness, then mistake that for self-importance or self-absorption. 🤷

In a conversation where we are talking about our respective preferences, I wouldn't find such a comment offputting. Outside that context, I might wonder what you want me to do with that information. And especially when such a comment seems to come out of nowhere, it can come across as entitled or selfish in the "I'm the main character" vein.

If you can state your preference without intending to declare it superior to my preference, then I find little to criticize about it. If you don't intend to imply that my liking what you dislike is somehow wrong, then I don't mind.

Stating this kind of preference boldly could be interpreted as trying to be authoritative on the subject, and especially in matters of taste, your opinion is no more valid than anyone else's, nor is it any more important. You might not intend it that way, but I could easily imagine a listener interpreting you that way.

To answer your question more directly, stating a preference somewhat tentatively or meekly can convey an appropriate amount of humility. That tends to make it safer. As with most of these situations, the more your listeners already trust you, the more boldness you can safely get away with.

I hope this helps you somehow. Peace.

Libraries raise errors. Applications choose how to handle them. 🤷

It's a joke: they'd never return a sensible exit code.

Ugh. No. I still don't know how to just boot this backup. When I try it in an older laptop, the keyboard and trackpad stop working once I log in. I presume this is a hardware driver problem. Presumably that's unavoidable.

I am, of course, not eager to screw up the BIOS settings on my daily laptop.

I couldn't figure out how to boot the cloned drive in a VirtualBox VM. The tutorials seem to assume that I have a virtual disk image or enough internal hard disk space to copy the cloned drive locally in order to run it locally. That defeats the purpose.

So I'm stuck. If I can't just boot to the USB external drive because of UUID clashes, then I don't know what I'm supposed to have gained by cloning my laptop's internal hard disk. I have a backup that I can't safely boot to. 🤷

Thank you for the warning. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes this not at all just as easy as creating a bootable backup of a Mac! And it's the kind of thing that makes "this is easy" difficult to take seriously.

Now I know what to search for and I will probably be able to piece it together.

First, thank you for trying.

There's what I want and there's what I'm trying to do. 😉

Waving my magic wand, I'd like a bootable backup of my laptop's internal hard drive. This is what SuperDuper does. I would like it to be straightforward: I issue one command, then I can boot from the external hard disk to which I have backed up. For bonus points, restore is merely backup in the other direction.

That is what I'd like.

I'm cloning a drive with Clonezilla and tomorrow I'll try to boot to the backup drive. I would like to understand how restore works, but frankly, I'm not optimistic and I'm not currently eager to risk screwing up my laptop's internal hard disk.