BearOfaTime
@BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
- Comment on good replacement options power efficiency and affordable "large" storage 1 day ago:
Good points.
Also, SSD isn’t always necessarily more power efficient than spinning disks. It depends on the specific disks, and the use-case.
I’ve seen a table posted on Lemmy with data on different drive power consumption for idle, Read, and write. Sometimes SSD consumed more power.
- Comment on Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus 1 day ago:
But hey, I am sure it will be completely different this time.
Exactly.
- Comment on In general, people on Lemmy don't want high effort or high quality posts that take longer than 30 seconds to digest. 4 days ago:
TL:DR
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 week ago:
Exactly!
If you need external access, use an external access infrastructure that’s designed for that purpose, with controls and monitoring.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 week ago:
So what you’re saying is I should be able to pickup one of these used for a song?
- Comment on Is there a gesture length/speed slider in Android settings? I'm frequently having to double/triple swipe for a single action (as a new Android user). 2 weeks ago:
I’d think smooth display could be it. Sounds similar to the Lineage setting.
Chech for a touch sensitivity setting. Maybe your phone needs the option to increase turned on.
Have you checked with Graphene forums/chats (I forget where they have rooms, XMPP maybe?).
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Can you just flip it over and leave it upside down? Cause I certainly would.
- Comment on Is there a gesture length/speed slider in Android settings? I'm frequently having to double/triple swipe for a single action (as a new Android user). 2 weeks ago:
There’s a setting in Lineage for swipe speed, sort of. I forget what it’s called and where it is (always have to look for it). Not sure if Graphene has it.
It may be in Developer Options: go to Settings, About, and tap Build Number 5 times. Now go back to Settings, System, and you’ll have a Developer Options. In there, Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animator Duration scale affect how quickly windows are drawn and animated. None of which affects swipe speed.
Just found my notes for this issue in Lineage. Go to Settings, System, Touch Screen, Smoothness. Higher setting is faster. Not sure if Graphene has this, looks like Divest doesn’t (and it’s based on Lineage).
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
Look at it this way, $30 per machine is a helluva lot cheaper than mitigating whatever 11 will break.
Not to say don’t update, but Enterprise works on this stuff in advance, testing their systems with the newest versions as their Betas are released, to develop their mitigation strategies (including staged deployments).
Even there, $30 is cheap insurance if they need a little extra time to address issues.
For the home user, fuck that. Just ensure your security model includes layers, e.g. Don’t run as admin, isolate systems that are at risk, etc.
Hell, at homeI run different VLANS for my own stuff (cause I do risky things), one for TV (because those things are terrible about security), another one for everyone else, and a guest network.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 weeks ago:
The contacts were surprisingly robust. Mine just died, sadly.
New ones are crappy knockoffs, but they’re cheap enough.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 weeks ago:
LaCie IAmAKey. No longer made. Current ones are made from aluminum and bend easily. Originals were stainless and rigid.
My 2006 one just died, and I’m so frustrated with the new ones. Fortunately they’re pretty cheap, so who cares.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 weeks ago:
And making mayo shelf stable (pasteurizing), makes it dull in comparison to fresh too.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 weeks ago:
Because mayo suffers less when being pasteurized.
Though I suspect most people don’t realize how dull jar mayo is (even the best) compared to home made.
It’s really not the same thing. And the crappy brands are just white goo.
Helmans/Best and the other brand from Best are about it. Though someone mentioned a regional from the south east that’s apparently really good.
And again, even those are dull and flat compared to home/fresh made. Takes me less than 10 minutes, including prep and cleanup, to make mayo.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never had store bought mayo go rancid. Is your fridge temp right?
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 weeks ago:
What? Pasteurized mayo lasts a really long time, even after opening. I’ve never had a jar go bad.
Unless you’re dipping a spatula back into it after stirring some food.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 weeks ago:
You can’t even buy good mayo.
The difference between the best jar of mayo (pasteurized) and what you can make at home is shocking.
Like the best mayo out of a jar is flat and dull in comparison.
Op’s clearly never made mayo.
- Comment on Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish 2 weeks ago:
Power consumption? Takes more power to make a net connection to go to another site, and takes a LOT longer.
- Comment on You have a bad friend if he isn't willing to help you bury a dead body or if he is willing to help you. 3 weeks ago:
Read into that what you will…
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 3 weeks ago:
Here here!
Best mouse I’ve ever had. Lasted 10+ years. Just can’t justify $100 for a new one
- Comment on How annoying is it to connect to VPN/use Tailscale instead of being able to access the service directly? 3 weeks ago:
It still exists! (Or did about a year ago).
When I got my first Android (2009 ish), I searched high and low for a way to run Hamachi on it. There have been solutions, but always clumsy and difficult to implement.
I miss Hamachi, it was so simple to use.
- Comment on How annoying is it to connect to VPN/use Tailscale instead of being able to access the service directly? 3 weeks ago:
Tailscale is wireguard (it uses the wireguard protocols, even says so on the box), just with a centralized resolver to make things easier to setup and manage.
I’m not sure what you’re saying with the rest of your comment, as Tailscale is a mesh network, not a VPN as most people think of it.
It encrypts your traffic, but only into the network of which your device is a member. You can’t even see any devices, or networking, outside the Tailscale network, unless a device is configured as a Subnet router. Then you can see devices n the network which the Subnet Router links together.
For example, you have 3 machines, a laptop on mobile data, and 2 desktops on your home LAN. One desktop and the laptop have Tailscale, they can communicate over Tailscale to each other, but the laptop cannot connect to the second desktop because it’s on a different network, since there’s no routing between Tailscale and your home LAN.
You then configure Subnet Routing on the desktop that has Tailscale, now your laptop can connect o any device on the home LAN, so long as the desktop is running and Tailscale is up.
- Comment on How annoying is it to connect to VPN/use Tailscale instead of being able to access the service directly? 3 weeks ago:
I’d consider 5% to be trivial, for what it does.
My battery consumption really depends on how much traffic I send over it.
- Comment on No Google Cloud for 12 hours due to power outage. 3 weeks ago:
I was just thinking about this a little earlier.
People simply can’t be bothered to learn how systems work (any kind, technical, financial, political), then bitch when it doesn’t work the way they want.
I’m as guilty as anyone (especially finance). At least I try to not bitch about it too much, and work at keeping away from more complex stuff that I just don’t understand well enough.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the summary, it adds great clarity to seeing how it could happen
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
It definitely gets better once it’s all caught up.
But it’s still much harder on battery than ST when folders have changes.
It’s kind of not Foldersync’s fault, it’s really because of the protocols - it’s all connection-based, and FS has to compare each file at sync time.
Syncthing keeps an index so it knows what files have changed. Very different tools with different use-cases and approaches.
I used FS for years until I found ST, and had to do a lot more tweaking to get sync to work the way I wanted with FS. FS doesn’t have sync conditions like ST, so I had to use Macrodroid to trigger it when on WiFi, for example.
FS can be a solution, it’s just a lot more work for anything beyond basics.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
It’s stupid easy to setup, even has a built-in photo backup job.
I use Syncthing-Fork because it moves all the sync conditions into each job.
So my photos sync regardless of charging state or network (I’m willing to pay for the data to ensure photos are instantly synced). While other things only sync while on WiFi and charging (e.g. Neobackup).
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Only one I can think of is Resilio, but it’s hard on RAM and battery for large folders.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
That takes a lot more effort.
With Syncthing, I don’t have to setup a server, poke holes in my firewall/expose ports, etc.
Plus Foldersync is way harder on battery, I’ve experimented a lot.
And I’ve used Foldersync since at least 2010 - it’s great, really has it’s uses.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m misremembering, but I thought they used Syncthing as part of a business not directly related to Möbius - as a vendor supplying data management solutions to other companies. I suspect Möbius came out of need for their clients.
I can picture the vendor website in my head, just wish I could remember who it was for sure.
I would eagerly pay for syncthing, it’s that important to me. I keep hundreds of gigs moving around using it. It’s on my annual donate list already, but clearly that’s insufficient.
Maybe the Syncthing-Fork dev will keep it going.
iOS is already more restricted on app sandboxes, and Möbius can handle it in the paid version.
On Android, Resilio somehow has more file access than Syncthing, even without root (it can read/write to either SD card root, while Syncthing can only write to a subfolder of SD0, and can’t write anywhere of an external SD). So there’s something going on.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
I can only hope the company makes the iOS client (Möbius) decides they need syncthing to continue and decide to get behind it.
As I recall, they use Syncthing as a solution in their business, this would be a big-break for them.