Hey SteveTech

I dont use internal or external SSD’s.

It maybe because I am an old greybeard, but I prefer to suffer the slight loss in speed of a HDD, so I can dd/erase/wipe them and reuse them again and again.

Though I have been using “disktest” to erase SSD’s and HDD’s recently and it has been working great. Much faster than zeroing with dd /dev/zero, shred or wipe.

https://crates.io/crates/disktest

https://github.com/mbuesch/disktest

However, I digress, I had not heard of f2fs before.

Ive been having an intersting read online.

It appears that it is a default for android phones.

I do have a few SSD’s laying around from when I replace them with HDD’s. So I will test f2fs on one of those.

Thank you

My niece, same age. no problems so far

I installed linux mint xfce on an old laptop for her.

we set it up together and she loves it. Themes icons and all that jazz.

I have hidden and removed items from the start menu. Just to keep it simple.

I also set up some aliases so she just has to open a terminal and type “update”. she loves that. Thinks she’s a hacker now and impresses her friends.

I have set up an alias to call bleachbit, so she just types “cleanup” in the terminal, types her password, and she can watch bleachbit do its thing. I explained to her how important it is to keep her machine clean, like housework at home.

I must say, Kids are a nighmare for attracting viruses and malware using windows, its not the best age to suddenly be thrust into the slop of the internet.

They are young and excitable and will click on anything and everything that catches their attention without giving it a second thought.

Its a big plus not worrying about viruses and malware on linux.

To stop her having free reign and accidentally seeing porn on the internet and protect her from the worst crap, I installed Mullvads DNS on linux and in the librewolf browser.

Mullvad have a fabulous family dns filter; https://family.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

here are the options:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

I have set the search engine to Startpage

I have also taken advantage of Ublock origin and added loads of these is the: my filters list

just a few of many to stop access to certain websites from the search pane

This one stops amazon links appearing in the startpage search

startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“.amazon.”])

startpage.##a[href=“.amazon.”]:upward(1)

This one stops ebay links appearing in the startpage search

startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“ebay.”])

startpage.##a[href=“.ebay.”]:upward(1)

I spent more time on this than anthing else;

Hey pitiable_sandwich540

Thank you

I dont know why I have been so focussed and stuck on exFAT for all these years.

It must have been something I read somewhere that led me to it.

from all the decent feedback i have gotten on here, ext4 seems the best way to go.

I should have known this being a linux user for over 20 years.

Thank you nyan

I will look into the dmask and fmask mount options.

Definitely a no! in regards to attaching my drives to any windows machine.

The last windows machine I turned on was a Windows 95 machine when they first came out.

I thank god, That I wouldnt even know how to turn on a windows 10 or 11 surveillance machine.

Thank you Eugenia

Compressisng the files sounds a great idea.

I have in fact compressed a 12Gb file that I split into 10Gb chunks that still decompresses without problems.

This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.

Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.

I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives. I will test it this week

Hey arsus5478

There are instructions to install with wget on the git page as you mention and you seem to have folowed that guide, but the easiest way is to use APT.

For debian I would add the PPA repo:

There are clear instruction on the git page to install from apt.

About half way down the page you will see APT.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

APT

You can download and install yt-dlp for recent Ubuntu and other related Debian-based distributions by adding this PPA

Add ppa repo to apt

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/yt-dlp

Update package list

sudo apt update

Install yt-dlp

sudo apt install yt-dlp

Your system’s package manager will now automatically download the correct dependencies and keep the package updated with the rest of your system whenever you update:

Done

this is a good introduction to adding an external PPA repo to apt and getting to know debian

Hey Novocirab

Thank you

Thank you

I shall update the post to title to [Solved]

new user learning

Hey BCsven

We definitely do.

“Some people go their entire lives without hearing news that good” – Neo