I think I can see the confused part; but I don’t get mean.

My comment was an overall anecdotal estimation of my experiences of using windows and Linux on the same laptop. I noticed that the battery life while using Linux was significantly shorter than using windows on the same laptop. My battery life experience w my first core boot laptop seems to be on par w my windows laptop.

Also I get mean a lot; I tend to commit a lot of faux pas and people are usually too angry w me to let me understand what I said/did. I have no idea what I did for the label this time around as well and I hope you’ll tell me.

chrome enshitification made me switch back to firefox after 7ish years of using it as my daily driver and likewise was true for netscape.

those two previous experiences tell me that i need to start making preparations to switch away from firefox; but i can’t bring myself to do it because all of the other viable alternatives are chrome based. since google already has begun publicly enshitifying chrome further i think i’ll end up going with just about any other browser project that i can find and i think that these two are the two most likely candidates.

are you aware of any others?

i’ve never seen a workflow like that so i don’t think i can help you with the container.

if getting it from the host os an option, then it makes sense to see if it’s possible and something like a sudoer rule or selinux could prevent that; my last question was my attempt to ascertain this.

so the drive isn’t mounted when the container starts; but you execute it after it started and then the drive is mounted?

that implies that you’re not using the binary anymore since you’re in a container; is it using an overlay fs?

Servo

what’s servo?

user_id=0,group_id=0

do you have sudo access and are there any rules in /etc/sudo* that match your username or any of your groups? which distribution?

what are your boot options listed in your firmware/bios? is usb included among them?

if it applies to your situation: system76 has support options.

sshfs might work if your fuse drive is mounted with options that will let it be shared and you have sudo access to enable sshfs. also ssh access is a requirement.

how is it mounted now? it should also be in that same mount printout and usually at the end of the line inside parenthesis.

What do you mean by intermediary? Do you mean syncing the files with the VM and then sharing the synced copy with the host?That wouldn’t work since my drive is smaller than the cloud drive and I need all the files on-demand.

that’s one way. do you need them all at the same time? are they mostly the same size and type?

i didn’t know that the sovereign tech fund was a thing and now i wonder how common something like that is; thanks for sharing.

then strace might help if we’re lucky enough to get something like memory addresses.

strace can be very verbose and requires a lot of knowledge that i doubt i can share through comments back and forth.

is creating an intermediary like others have commented on in this post an option? they’re automatically easier and faster than strace and there’s no gaurantee that strace will show us the information we need.

fortunately we won’t have to bother w strace; but i think i can see where you’ll be blocked.

do you have to provide a username/password or token when you try to access the drive now?

if yes, then you should be able to mount it like you’re trying to do using instructions like these and you can use the information from the last printout to fill in the blanks.

if no, then its access is controlled outside of your guest instance and you’ll need to ask your admins to enable access.

i bought a linux laptop a few years ago from a linux company to take advantage of things like coreboot and it’s had a dramatic impact compared to my windows laptops onto which i installed linux.

i’m in the initial stages of creating a new daily driver and i want to consider compatibility with other projects like this to help me re-acclimate to the general public’s linux user experience, so thanks for sharing and your guess; responses like this are really helpful in getting me back into this groove.

run the command mount with sudo access and if you can see it enumerated in the printout then you should be able to proceed with either a container overlay or separate mount point.

if not, then it’ll get very advanced very quickly; do you know how to use strace?

fwiw: if you go w the container strategy with docker or podman, you should be able to use the storage overlay based on how i’m reading your question.

it’s hard to ascertain any path forward w/o knowing more details on the cloud drive and how’s it’s currently mounted on the guest instance.

do you know how well it fares comparatively with alternatives like coreboot in arenas like power management?

there are cheaper alternatives; tuxedo and kfocus immediately come to mind.

The only thing that matters to me is the ability to assign colors to keys.

i hadn’t occurred to me to use an alternative; are you aware of any linux compatible ones?