I was pretty busy the last days.

Heaps of emails, again IT work, and boat jobs.

The IT work I knew it will come. But there was an additional work for my PC. It took more time than I anticipated.

In Linux Mint, there is a very interesting and excellent application called “Timeshift”, which makes automatically backups of the system. System means the Linux OS, all application SW and their settings. In the case of an crash the system can be restored. If needed even with Linux image stored in USB stick. One of the great features of Linux.

As a while ago, someone told me that my settings of Timeshift are wrong, I wanted to know more about it and posted a question on the Linux Mint support forum. Within an hour to two the first answered came. 3 answers 5 opinions. Timeshift is extremely easy to handle, but the guru who wrote it, is a pretty smart guy. It’s said he worked 10 years to develop it fully. So there were very interesting discussions triggered. Updated posts came in every hour. The whole discussion in the forum dragged on for more than 2 days. The end of the story for me was that my settings are perfectly right. However the discussion were very interesting and I have learned a lot about Timeshift but also on the way people reply in forums.

Concerning boat jobs, I could get some more maintenance work done. Among them, oil & oil filter change at the generator’s diesel engine.

Disposing of the used oil was easy because there is a tank just at the little harbor. But when I asked at the shipyard where I can dispose the used oil filter, I was shocked about the answer because I was told to throw it in the normal garbage. Considering the number of cars on Hiva-Oa, there must be quite an environmental problem just with used oil filters on this beautiful island.