kiririn

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by kiririn 5y ago
The official client has a limit of 3 machines for free users. I would have probably converted to paid, or another service, if not for unofficial clients (on mobile where smart sync is irrelevant) allowing me to stay under the limit
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by kiririn 5y ago
It’s gzip that caused your issue, not tar. The lack of index in tar is actually a strength for surviving corruption, as there are no critical areas, ie you can lose any parts of a tar archive and recover useful data from the rest Tar.gz and
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by kiririn 5y ago
Lack of support for shrinking in XFS is one reason that regularly comes up for me
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by kiririn 5y ago
> I wasn't the one who signed up for a Microsoft account using my email address! How did they let that happen? Have they no validation on email addresses, but want blood work to recover an account? Speaking as the owner of a popular
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by kiririn 5y ago
The degraded mounting is a valid concern. Rebooting while in a degraded state is problematic (from a ‘might lose ssh access’ standpoint, not data loss) The other concern seems to be the auto mounting of stale disks, which is by design and w
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by kiririn 5y ago
> btrfs doesn't have stable support for raid-like modes, and has exactly the same kind of vertical integration that this author doesn't like about ZFS. Btrfs raid 1/10 is rock solid and offers similar robustness to ZFS, ie
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by kiririn 5y ago
In the early 2010s for a couple of years all Cloudflare websites would sometimes fail to load on my home connection - 20% or so of page loads would hit a strange error, some sort of tcp or ssl issue It’s good to see others experience the do
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by kiririn 5y ago
If you want full skin customisation (including menus/layouts) via GUI, Amber is a good choice. It is the most customisable skin, and one of about 2-3 skins that seems like a UI designer has had a hand in it
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by kiririn 5y ago
This is one area that really grinds my gears: the trend in UI design to reduce contrast because full black on full white text is too contrasty. Whatever minor improvement in readability on their quality 3000:1 contrast ratio monitor pales i
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by kiririn 5y ago
> my big question is whether this phone is password enabled I read all the comments before it was deleted. In one of the replies the OP stated the phone had a smashed screen and would not turn on*, but had no screen lock/password *h
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by kiririn 5y ago
Annnd it’s gone >we have closed the site as of November 30, 2021
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by kiririn 5y ago
Apple will also bend their strict rules if you have enough money, for example YouTube partially blocking control center in fullscreen (on home button devices), and background playback. And McDonalds being able to force background location a
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by kiririn 5y ago
> And ZFS has dynamic block sizes which works really great together with compression This is not just a nice-to-have but is the reason why it is viable at all. In comparison, compression in Btrfs for this sort of workload produces insane
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by kiririn 5y ago
Proxychains is a good modern (maintained) alternative to tsocks
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by kiririn 5y ago
The main benefit for me is protecting password services like HTTP basic auth, ftp, mailserver, etc. It’s pretty pointless for SSH when keys are involved
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by kiririn 5y ago
Pulseaudio is opinionated in favour of quality. For example if attaching an input to an output in pulseaudio it will resample by a minuscule amount to sync the clocks (eg 47999hz to 48000hz). This sort of thing does not come for free, and a
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by kiririn 5y ago
The tables turn if you consider ownership of your app settings and internal data On Android it is locked down in an inaccessible /data partition, unless rooted. (Ignoring /sdcard and the iOS equivalent Files app) On iOS you can a
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by kiririn 5y ago
This build would be simpler, better and probably cheaper overall with a server grade motherboard and ECC RAM
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by kiririn 5y ago
>Not sure what the options are for Apple, but I'm sure they exist Strongbox is fantastic on iOS
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by kiririn 5y ago
OTOH it is the reason I moved to iOS. Privacy is important, but so is having full access to your own data. You don’t get that on Android these days without rooting - adb backup barely works and more than half of apps opt out
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by kiririn 5y ago
You get way more access on unjailbroken iOS than on unrooted Android. The equivalent of the entire /data partition is available to both read and write via iTunes backups with very few exceptions. On Android, you used to be able to back
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by kiririn 5y ago
>look at your data directly and back it up >backup and restore the entire device including apps Ironically these areas are where iOS shines. Despite being a heavily walled garden, it grants you full backups and full user filesystem ac
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by kiririn 5y ago
rclone mount does a better job - it’s designed to handle high latency and flaky http apis, so the sftp backend with none of these limitations is a joy to use. Night and day compared to sshfs
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by kiririn 5y ago
The whole concept is questionable - single board computers, even x86, commonly have flawed USB implementations for isochronous devices (used for high quality audio). Each individual setup will be rolling the dice on whether it works and&#x2
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by kiririn 5y ago
I can speak only for the Pebble Time Steel, but it is leaps and bounds better than the gameboy color. I would kill for an equivalent display in a laptop - saturated colours and eink readability in direct sunlight with 30hz refresh
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by kiririn 6y ago
At times like this I wish I had a downvote button
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by kiririn 6y ago
It does for extreme static videos. E.g. test patterns for monitor/TV calibration are commonly distributed inside zip files with substantial compression ratios, even though they are already in compressed (h264/h265) video formats
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by kiririn 6y ago
I’d settle for login forms that don’t hide the password box until you enter your username/email. I don’t see how they benefit real users in any way, and my password manager can’t understand it, requiring manual copy/paste entry
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by kiririn 6y ago
I’ve always been confused by the popular choice of compression on tar archives. If a small portion of a gz, xz, zst, etc archive is corrupted you lose everything after it, defeating the purpose of using a stream format like Tar. The algorit
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by kiririn 6y ago
Option C: OS installation and write amplification

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