@Mordikan @Maroon A lot of people _don't know what their ISP does_. Many seem to think that the ISP is selling them the entire internet as a product, and so from that logic why shouldn't the ISP be liable for whatever mayhem they get into online?

Source: worked for a little while as dial-up ISP support.

@Used_Gate I suggest getting this in f-droid if you want to see more usage.

Also, it looks like the actual development happens in private and then is thrown over the fence; https://gitlab.com/here/_forawhile/onionphone/-/commit/2c4afc462a42852f0d54dda0b333db9019f3d69e

@iii @KarnaSubarna Looks like syncthing-fork already updated to 2.0: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/releases

It's not in f-droid yet, though.

@ECEC Good lord the number of replies here from people whose brains have been destroyed by "planners"...

1. Trees lower the urban heat island effect.
2. There's plenty of room for trees in dense places, so long as "density" means efficient housing and efficient transportation rather than parking lots and stroads and single-family homes.
3. Someone said "trees require maintenance", as if asphalt & pretty much everything doesn't require maintenance?
4. Trees harm cars. But cars harm cars too!

@MimicJar @moseschrute *touches finger to earpiece*

...hang on, I'm getting word that the most recent edition of this book will crash your nvram's firmware

@tabular @Ek-Hou-Van-Braai They are lying. Debian supports Secure Boot and remains open.

Although "related platform integrity" stuff might be something they're being forced to include by a government agency or paid to include by another company.

@synapse1278 I recently bought a used 8tb drive off ebay for $45. Manufacturing date on the drive was 2016, but Power_On_Hours was 4 (four!). I asked the seller if they reset SMART data; his response:

"We do not reset power on hours, as we could get in a ton of trouble listing used drives as new bulk etc after altering the power on hours. This one likely was used in/for testing an array etc. "

So I'm pretty pleased with that..

@SmoothLiquidation @Telorand They also claim up to 8x speed improvements with HAMR. Obviously that remains to be seen, but if they could roughly match capacity improvements, that would keep restriping in the same ballpark.

@claralistensprechen5th @ECEC Sounds like the problem is cars, not trees.

#FuckCars

@wildbus8979 @Bahnd Yeah, XMPP checks all the boxes. That said, I don't know how well encrypted group chats (MUC) work with various clients.

Also, while message contents are encrypted, metadata is not. Self-hosting ameliorates that, but if your "self-hosting" involves a VPS or whatever hosted by a giant corporation, then that's something to be aware of.

@semperverus @possiblylinux127 No, this other person has a working 'e' key on their keyboard.

@ItJustDonn @486 Hang on, this runs chromium as root? That seems like a _really_ bad idea. And unnecessary, since there's a hoarder user installed later in the script...

https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/blob/main/hoarder-linux.sh

@rook To be fair, that's an extremely zen attitude ChatGPT has - "Focus on the 5 healthy SAS drives." Therapy goals! 😏

@claralistensprechen5th @ECEC *sigh*

City streets are _not_ specifically for cars. Freeways aren't even specifically for cars (buses, trucks), but city streets in particular are definitely not just for cars.

Tree roots are a solved problem. Lots of city master plans and similar documents have a list of trees allowed in the public right-of-way that have root systems compatible with sidewalks and roads. Some trees have roots that buckle concrete, others have roots that don't. Choose wisely.

@Bazoogle @1hitsong First of all - when it comes to creating programs, you want the output to be deterministic. Stochastic program output is a serious problem, as you _will_ get unreproducible bugs. Second, plain language is _not_ easy except for the simplest of tasks. Actual programs need to handle all kinds of corner cases and hardware weirdness and human weirdness. Your "plain language" goes from "do a thing" very quickly to "do a thing. but not that thing. or that other thing. and and and.."

@Fmstrat @veeesix Since there's two very diffrent questions there.. The first, "where do the failures happen?": anywhere. It could be the controller dying (in which case the platters themselves are fine if you replace the board, but otherwise the whole thing is toast). It could be the head breaking. It could be issues with a specific platter. It could be something that affects _all_ the platters (like dust getting inside the sealed area). So basically, it very much depends.

@BackYardIncendiary @ProdigalFrog If you have an old latitude, newer kernels also allow you to set min/max charging thresholds. My syncthing server (and NAS and a few other things) is an old 2013/2014 dell latitude e7240. It's not the original battery, but I do keep it in decent shape via charging thresholds.

@jerrimu A usability suggestion, having just tried it out - save the username and room password in the export file to make it more like a traditional chat experience. So when you import the chat file, the username and password are pre-populated along with the room name.

@exu @Wahots Yggdrasil, too.

@Dust0741 Check out jmp.chat (i can provide a referral code if you'd like a free trial). Your number would be ported there, and then SMS would go over XMPP/jabber to any device with a client running. Your phone can stay home, and you'd get SMS messages on your laptop or whatever device you've taken with you.