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  • jollyroguetoFediverse@lemmy.worldHappy #GlobalSwitchDay
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    4 days ago

    How is the puppy?

    As for interoperability between services… Monetization of surveillance data. The social media companies are Ad companies, and they make their money surveilling people and selling access. It’s harder to build an accurate model of a person when only pieces of data is available, and they need to have more data then the other Ad tech companies they’re competing with.



  • jollyroguetoFediverse@lemmy.worldHappy #GlobalSwitchDay
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    5 days ago

    Matrix servers keep a copy of any remote room an account on the server has joined, and it’s possible to recreate a room from the copies held on different servers. There are more details I don’t remember, but at a high level that’s how it’s distributed.

    Storing messages of remote rooms in addition to local rooms is why people complain about the storage requirements of Matrix servers. They don’t realize it’s distributed.











  • jollyroguetoProgrammer HumorTankieDB
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    16 days ago

    This would be great news if it would happen, and especially if it brings back allowing the engine to be embedded.

    Postgres is better, but embedded Postgres isn’t something that’s going to happen.



  • I do encrypt my drives, and it’s not as transparent in Linux as it is in the others. I’m sure I could get a TPM setup for seamless boots, but I haven’t done that yet.

    For mobile drivers, I still encrypt, but that locks them to one OS since LUKS isn’t cross platform. There is VeraCrypt for cross-platform encryption, but that’s one more thing to manage and install.




  • Random peripherals get tested against windows a lot more than Linux, and there are quirks which get worked around.

    I would suggest an external SSD for any drive over 32GB. Flash drives are kind of junk in general, and the external SSDs have better controllers and thermals.

    Out of curiosity, was the drive reformatted between runs, and was a Linux native FS tried on the flash drive?

    The Linux native FS doesn’t help migrate the files between Windows and Linux, but it would be interesting to see exFAT or NTFS vs XFS/ext4/F2FS.



  • jollyroguetoLinuxImmutable Distro Opinions
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    24 days ago

    I need to run immutable distros more, and I need to figure out how to roll my own images.

    Desktop side, I need certain things in the base image rather than adding more layers or using a container. Things like rsync, nvim, git, curl, lynx, etc.

    Would immutable distros help reach more desktop audiences? Perhaps. It’s more about applications though. The biggest help has been electron apps and the migration to web apps. The Steam Deck is successful because it has applications people want.

    Server side, they look really promising for bare metal servers. Provided, there is an easy way to compile custom images. Being able to easily rollback to a known good image is very enticing, as you point out.