nakal
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- Comment on Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters 11 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 11 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.. 11 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. 11 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.