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.
Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can’t be, either.
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.
I mostly use lightweight virtualization with containers and jails at home. I have one BHyVe VM, but I plan to eliminate virtualization completely. It’s a waste of resources for my setup.
Wait, I thought the terminal/shell was the modern UI…
I’ve been using vim/neovim for more than a decade. Here are my favorite plugins (ranked):
I have never needed iMessage in my life and I haven’t even seen it. Proprietary messaging apps are not trustworthy.
I know enough about XMPP or earlier called Jabber to not to run it anymore, after years of self-hosting Prosody.
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.
XMPP needs a connected network socket which is pretty bad in a time of mobile services. The 90s are over.
Thanks for the lesson… haha
Of course, but OP wanted to implicate that this worm stays local in a network. You need an USB stick to carry it over.
I can only use Xmonad as a window manager, so I’d like to avoid Wayland. But what Mozilla enables as default is fortunately not relevant.
Linux distributions compile stuff by themselves. No one uses vendor-provided software if there is a way to compile it.
Sooner or later everyone will find their way to Debian. It’s boring and it works.
(My opinion) No, you aren’t paranoid. I’m thinking a bit like you, but I also consider probabilities. You need to download the checksums from the official website and the ISO from mirrors. Two different sources would need to be hacked. This is where I say, it’s hard and secondly someone would notice that hack very quickly.
Signing the ISO or the checksums with a well-known signature is still important. I verify it, if a signature available. It’s just a couple of seconds and doesn’t cost anything.
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.
It makes sense to approve things and keep navigating in one direction. What was the original problem?
Also to train Microsoft to be more annoying.
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”.