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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Is that really a problem though ? Unless you’re doing something special, you can be fairly certain that universal binaries will behave well on both platforms, that’s what Apple guarantees. They expose one API, which can be executed on multi
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Its fairly new, as in June/July 2025, so I imagine they want to iron out the bugs before letting opening the floodgates. If you check dns0.eu (free dns service for EU provided by the company behind NextDNS), it says they’ve closed down
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
You got it wrong. Rosetta is the technology that allows Apple Silicon hardware to execute Intel software. When they introduced Apple Silicon with the M1 processor, not many binaries existed for Apple Silicon, so Rosetta2 was a bridge for th
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Interesting article, i will have to dig around some more. I want to say though, that the initiative is sponsored by the EU and has privacy preservation as one of it's main objectives, so until proven, i will assume that this is all cir
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
of course it can, it's all TCP/IP anyway, and the DNS has no clue about your transport layer.
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
If you're in Europe, there's the newly launched DNS4EU project which is free for personal use, and also includes adblocking at the DNS level like NextDNS. I use it in conjunction with Adguard and secure DNS, but they also publish
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
There has been proven a link between smoking cessation and an increased risk of autoimmune diseases [1]. Maybe something related is going on when you quit working with something like asbestos, and once you "settle down", your body
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
I have an old lifetime license, so I’m still using it. No issues at all. I also have a lifetime license for Emby but plex is way more polished.
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
yes, but before you "panic", look into if it's really a problem. Kopia is a fine tool, and while it's a bit lacking in native integration, it works well, and for some things even better than Arq. Arq wins on system integ
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
There are plenty of NAS boxes out there with better specs, lower power consumption, faster networking, and half the price. Synology has marketed their NAS boxes as “application servers”, replacing Google Drive/Dropbox/Whatever, as
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Can’t say anything about UGREEN, but UNAS with Unifi identity endpoint is magic on a Mac. You install it, sign in with your UI credentials, and it automatically mounts all shares you have access to whenever you’re on a network where the NAS
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
This works as long as you have enough storage locally. Our photo library is ~3TB split over 2 users, and while you could theoretically use an external SSD for storage, that kinda cuts down on mobility. You could leave the drive attached and
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
It depends. Do you use iCloud optimized storage, or do you download originals to your machine ? Kopia only backs up what it can see, and in case of iCloud optimized storage, it only backs up size optimized miniatures and not the original fi
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Apple uses a mix of Google Cloud and AWS, as well as their own data centers. As for Google and AWS, they are using multi geographic redundancy, and I can only assume they do that for their own data centers as well. The data in the 3rd party
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
> More philosophically, life got busy, and I no longer have the mental capacity and willingness to maintain something like a Synology. The only large content I back up are my family’s photos and I just pay Apple for iCloud monthly, I con
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
The decision to restrict 3rd party harddrives may be part of the reason why sales (allegedly) plummet, but i'm guessing lack of innovation also plays a big part. Synology has been resting on the laurels for years. They had a "hit&
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Because what makes it glow is actually solar wind from our sun as it passes through the solar system. For possibly billions of years, it has simply been an inert lump of ice passing through the universe.
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Everything has a "day and age". I'm not saying COBOL is a bad language, far from it, which the billions of lines of code running production proably also attests to. The first COBOL program i ever edited, in 2008, was last edi
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
except for some countries, the right to privacy is also written in the constitution, which would require changing said constitution, which is probably a lot harder than just implementing a law. I can't say what it takes in every countr
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
ChatControl proposes "on device" scanning, meaning before/after encryption, thereby making encryption useless. You could still have an airgapped computer where you encrypt your messages with GnuPG or similar, and then send th
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Java is the new COBOL. The financial sector, insurance sector, healthcare sector all jumped on Java a couple of decades ago, and they have massive repositories of Java code, and are actively migrating their COBOL code to Java.
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
What I meant was, I don't subscribe to a public VPN service, so routing all my traffic through my wireguard tunnel back home would merely mean it went through a different ISP. I already use SDNS with Nextguard, and all traffic is https
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
Wireguard is amazing. I have an "always on" VPN routing back home. Anything destined for my home network gets routed that way, and there's literally zero battery drain. I'm not paranoid enough to route everything through
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
The rant feels more like "old man yelling at cloud" than an actual valid complaint. The "issue" is probably more like smartphones are yesterday's technology. They're no longer the shiny new toys they were a dec
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
> Tbf, the Finder is still crap (if only it would be nearly as good as Windows Explorer was in its heyday I would probably use it more) I have the exact opposite opinion. I loathe Windows Explorer, and relatively simply stuff like presen
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
It's fine. Water companies will build new resevoir capacity, but since the extra money they already bill your for, for maintaining the infrastructure, has been paid out to shareholders, it will of course require an additional fee on yo
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
It may not be theft, but it is stealing : --- Stealing: the action or offence of taking another person's property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it; theft. --- Regardless if there is anything physical
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
So i decided that Spotify/Apple Music/Tidal/whatever doesn't pay enough money to the artists, and instead i decided to pay none. gotcha.
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
I remembered wrong. I’m fairly certain that Synology, at some point, allowed you to store the encryption vault on an external (USB) drive, but apparently not anymore.
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by 8fingerlouie 1y ago
The filename limit comes from ecryptfs ( https://www.ecryptfs.org/ ) which is what Synology uses for encrypted shared folders. As for full disk encryption, you can select where to store the key, which may be on the NAS itself

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