Fair enough. Be aware timeshift default settings only image the system config, backup your home directory separately to a usb or cloud drive

Dude you’re not changing any configs by trying it, it’s already installed. You’re just selecting an existing option.

Far be it from me to discourage good backups though.

To answer the question no timeshift won’t roll it back because there is no change to rollback.

Think of it as grabbing your tv remote and switching the input on your tv from hdmi1 to hdmi2 to swap to the ps5/xbox from the cable box. You’re not changing the config you’re choosing an alternate input that was already there.

Now if it goes badly (I’ll be shocked if it does) then there is a simple way to revert, use your ctrl-alt-f4 (or f3 or f5) keys to swap to a fresh terminal login, login, then type

shutdown -r now

And hit enter

You’ll be back after the reboot at the login screen, click on the little mountain icon and choose x11 again (it remembers your last choice) and you’re sorted back into x11

Now just to close the loop for when you do need to restore a timeshift backup. Yes it is best practise to boot from a live mint usb & run timeshift from there to restore your last snapshot however in an emergency it will work to initiate the restore from the boot itself (it will initiate a reboot and do it on reboot).

Lastly if it’s an AMD gpu I’m betting on hardware, changing that cable and swapping physical connection ports would be top of my list.

If you’re going to do that why not just install Debian ?

why is it that going into ctrl+alt+f1 and then ctrl+alt+f7 to go back, resolve the issue?

I suspect when you swap between the terminal screens you force a resolution input to the screen and/or force the GPU to define what it is expecting to the screen.

If it’s not wayland / x11 then try changing your display cable and also which of hdmi/dvi/display port you are using (ie if using hdmi swap to a display port out of GPU and into monitor for example) if you can.

I’d also check what video drivers you’re using and see if there are any known issues - I vaguely recall early NVidia GPUs (umm 10x0 series I think ? I run AMD and so dont pay a lot of attention) have been deprecated from the latest kernel (don’t think that has flowed down to Mint as it runs older/stable kernels but worth checking).

In addition to the info throwaway403 provided, the practical step you need to know is - at the login screen you can choose between wayland and x11 (although most people never notice the option),

• reboot your machine, or just logout

• on the standard version 22 cinnamon login screen you should see a little picture of a mountain in a circle click on that and it will give you a couple of options (cinnamon default, cinnamon software rendering, cinnamon on wayland)

• choose one of the three you’re not currently using and then login

Try the other options if that doesn’t fix it. If none of them fix it then it prob isnt an X11/wayland issue

Note where you choose the x11 vs wayland changes depending on which display manager you’re using and whether you’ve installed any themes - so if it doesn’t look as described then click on stuff on the login screen until you find it - the only other things will be accessibility options and virtual keyboards unless you’ve installed something really left field

Yeah, that’s the simple answer. Install a VM, don’t give it network access. Probably quicker to install a distro with a ready rolled installer (Ubuntu/Fedora etc) than to install Arch

VirtualBox is quick to install and easy to use (but the owner of Oracle, Larry Ellison is evil so not the moral choice). Qemu-KVM is a bit more of a faff but is FOSS.

MS Teams app lost its native linux build a few years ago (worked fine just M$ being M$) but the in browser / out of office 365 version still works fine for me.

Yeah the updated/edited version works for me, nice one.

I’d replace “be prepared to explain to others” etc with

“Please ensure it is clear in your post how it relates to selfhosting”

Be prepared is a bit vague. Your preceding explanation calls out that what is in the poster’s mind is often not clear to others, and the rules are there to remind people of the standards required. My suggestion is still a little vague, but I suspect anything blunter might cause offence.

Not a noun, my dude.

Huh ? General usage is both as a verb (to email someone) and a noun (several usages- the system as well as the message), dictionaries seem to agree

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/email

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/email

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/email_1

I’m a bit puzzled - I have literally gigabytes of emails downloaded to thunderbird and I don’t get any freezes on searching - there’s 15 years of emails from my personal domain, plus 2008-2012 of active use and then passive amounts since on gmail, PLUS 3 work domains over several years in that set and I’ve never had it freeze.

My machine is adequate but not top end (32GbRam, Ryzen 7 3700X, 2Tb NVME/M2 SSD) - it was “good” 4 years ago when I assembled it, it’s probably bottom tier by now. Running Arch, but also dual boot Mint - both are fine with it.

Just checked -there’s 10.3Gb in the personal domain alone. Have a look at your PC config - unless you have tiny amounts of RAM or are running on a super slow HDD there’s something wrong with this picture

It looks like some FAQ answer has leaked into their main website. At a quick dig it seems that Winpinator is the original name for the windows port of warpinator

https://github.com/swiszczoo/winpinator

I have sftp setup on my 2 main PCs and a client on my phone (it’s not a server). For the rest of the family who have dual Mint/Windows boots I also have warpinator installed on mine and theirs - it’s point to point for the enrolled devices but is currently only setup to work within the LAN.

https://warpinator.net/

Primary filesharing is simply the NAS which is visible to all devices on the LAN (can be made available externally but I haven’t). This is a recent addition and no one uses warpinator any more.

Edit to clarify I don’t have sftp server on phone

Thank you so much for the quick reply, I have somehow managed to totally break the installation altogether (it’s now bootlooping), so I’ll kill it recreate and try the above and report back.

Much appreciated

It can be considered slightly inferior depending on your viewpoint. Debian tends to have older versions of software components than Ubuntu, and there’s some Ubuntu tools that are quite handy (the graphics driver management tool is one I believe).

So, in my understanding there are good reasons they don’t just pivot to Debian. I am not on the Mint team so you’d have to talk to them, but my recollection of a press realease or interview from a few years ago was that bringing all the ubuntu stuff into LMDE and maintaining it would be a massive effort

LMDE exists as the DR plan for if Ubuntu loses the plot again and Mint can no longer rely on Ubuntu as the upstream. Yes it does create extra work, which is one of the reasons why LMDE releases tend to lag behind the primary Mint Cinnamon, but it’s worth it from the Mint perspective to have an alternative route immediately to hand.

You do realise that the Linux Kernel has Rust in it, right ?

You’ll need to go to BSD if you want to be Rust-less

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes

" Linux 7.0 also declares the Rust for Linux effort as “here to stay”"

Nah we don’t know that either way on the available facts.

I had one outage which started on a Sunday and ran about 10-12hrs, 3 commercial VPNs were throttled down to 250Kb, but if you turned off the VPN or split tunneled full expected speed was reached (100Mb +). It wasn’t the VPN servers as disconnecting from wifi and going over 4G/5G worked normally.

The “outage” ended and hasn’t happened again. On the monday at least 2 of the commerical VPNs plus my work VPN were all working fine at the expected speeds and have been since. So we don’t know either way whether my work VPN was or was not affected as I didn’t think to test it.

Hypothesis 1 - I was sinbinned for too much torrent d/loading on sat night with a lock down against the VPN addresses that would have come up as the top couple of sources of large data requests (because obviously the tunnel IP address is what the ISP sees)

Hypothesis 2 - they trialled blocking popular 3rd party VPN services as you suggest (but 1 of the 3 is very obscure and def not main stream) and I was just one of those caught in it

Hypothesis 3 - Packet inspection captured torrenting activity and throttling was done because of that.

Clearly 3 is the worst scenario, 1 & 2 are quite probable - the govt is currently trying to create legislation to control VPN usage and as the largest(?) ISP Virgin would be an obvious candidate to do some tests on, and their service is so shite their customers are used to it getting shitty for random reasons.

Thanks for the input. I do a lot of remote work over a VPN for work (Azure one I assume as they’re an MS house, I’ve not checked), which they don’t block, but they also only blocked the always on VPNs myself and the rest of the household had in place for that 12 hour window on a Sunday. It is currently working fine for the personal VPNs. I didn’t think to test the work laptop given I’d tested 3 VPNs by that time, but I’ll try next time

Ahh. That’s bad. What exactly did they do that made it feel like a data collection scheme ?