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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My HDDs run 24/7 without spin up btw. I'm just talking about the costs. My drives don't fail that much as yours. The recent drives that failed were WD Blue that were very old and only used for backups. And yes, all backups were still readable, even the drive was reported as failed. Compare it to SSDs that often fail "spectacularly".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a lot of power to waste for the savings you made, when not buying expensive SSDs (20€ a year is not much). Where we use HDDs, we don't care about noise. Durability? We use huge RAID systems with lots of redundancy.

  I personally like to swap new drives after 5 years to avoid failures. So when you find a 16 TB SSD for 350€, you send me a message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Situation..⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was getting better after the circuit board came off. (also: gifs that end too soon)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I doubt that Google wanted to destroy XMPP. They simply needed a chat then noticed it's crap for mobile devices. They wanted to offer their users seemless migration to the new proprietary protocol.

  I was sad that Google stopped to use an official standard, but there are many better free options left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never needed iMessage in my life and I haven't even seen it. Proprietary messaging apps are not trustworthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 1.9 just came out!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know enough about XMPP or earlier called Jabber to not to run it anymore, after years of self-hosting Prosody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 1.9 just came out!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just need a client like Element.io or other clients. If you don't want to connect to the main server matrix.org which is quite slow, you choose one from the federation.

  People who own a server and know how to do administration tasks can install their own instance and attach it to the federation. You can use one of the Matrix server applications for self-hosting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 1.9 just came out!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  XMPP needs a connected network socket which is pretty bad in a time of mobile services. The 90s are over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the lesson.. haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, but OP wanted to implicate that this worm stays local in a network. You need an USB stick to carry it over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Google Calendar isn't safe from hackers any more | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly hear the first time about this. Who sends you share requests?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You're 27 years late, according to my watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US immigration agencies read visa applicant's social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's especially a problem to explain that you don't have any particular popular social media account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - MbinOrg/mbin: Mbin: a /kbin fork - By the community, for the community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the explanation. Since KBin is more fragmented and does not build up enough steam for further development, it's maybe a better option to move to Lemmy at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - MbinOrg/mbin: Mbin: a /kbin fork - By the community, for the community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes sense to approve things and keep navigating in one direction. What was the original problem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Verge is back publishing bullshit.. like in good old times. "Secret algorithm". So prices have been raised and? No one told us... yeah... wow.. is it unusual? They used a tool to do that and it was secret. And wallmart publishes their IT on Github? Prices usually grow, if they can't or goods sell bad, they need to reduce them again. That's how market works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Element X: Ignition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you use spaces. I tried it in Element and it was very confusing to me, so I removed them from my setup again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 17-08-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I play Baldur's Gate 3, too. But I don't know what I'm doing... I found out I lost Laezel somewhere.. I don't even remember where and thought it was just a tutorial... I'm too weak to fight Nere and cannot move on in the main quest, because "it's too dangerous" and I don't know where to go to get stronger. I'm wandering along the old areas and try to find out what to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What antivirus software should i use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The only case where I'd use a virus scanner is when I'd host a file server for Windows systems.

  Btw, ClamAV is slow and generally awful. It has many false positives and negatives that you get spammed all the time. It's also buggy and it's not a good sign for security product.

  I'd still recommend Linux, if you want to be safe. Windows has never been designed with security in mind. It's not even a proper multiuser system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Jitsi Meet. And it's not only free, but it can be run be everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Self-Hosted Single Sign-On (SSO) do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used plain Kerberos. I stopped, because sometimes I don't want to be logged in automatically. Privacy and multi-account systems get more difficult.