ShortN0te @ ShortN0te @lemmy.ml

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I use full disk encryption for every server (and other computers).

Encrypting your data drives is a must for everyone imho. Encrypting the OS is a must for me🤷‍♂️

I would not say that distributed is federated. But i could not find a widely accepted definition of it.

For example i would call FTP also not federated🤷‍♂️

Git is already federated.

New to me. Do you mean decentralized instead of federated?

That argument is not valid. Just because it has moving parts does not mean it has a higher power draw. Look at your CPU for example.

They are now a small fraction cause this trend is already 8 years old.

I hate when i have to go 4 links deep to get an explanation of what it even is.

The simple point is, no one forces you to use wires. Bluetooth has been a thing for decades.

But basically every (yes some exceptions) company that makes phones forced you to use wireless ones.

And in the case of Fairphone it is just simply hypocritical.

Let's not forget this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdL0StldJM

Wired headphones do not have the need for replaceable batteries.

Qubes is not mentioned at all.

We talk about software that is considered stable. That has verification checks for the backup. Used by thousands of ppl. It is unrealistic.

The new German Microsoft headquarters will be in Schleswig-Holstein i guess.

Until they hit a hard bug or don't support newer transport formats or scenarios. Also the community dries up eventually

That is why you test your backuo. It is unrealiatic, that in a stable software release there is suddenly, after you tested your backup a hard bug which prevents recovery.

Yes unmaintained software will not support new featueres.

I think you misunderstood me. You should not use unmaintained software as your backup tool, but IMO it is no problem when it suddenly goes unmaintained, your backup will most likely still work. Same with any other software, that goes unmaintained, look for an alternative.

I agree with you here. It is similar to "my phone is listening to what i am talking about and it shows me topic related ads" which has been basically disproven many times over the years.

One of the main reasons why I avoid softwares such as Kopia or Borg or Restic or whatever is in fashion:

• they go unmantained
• they are not simple: so many of my frienda struggled restoring backups because you are not dealing with files anymore, but encrypted or compressed blobs
• rsync has an easy mental model and has extremely good defaults

Going unmaintained is a non issue, since you can still restore from your backup. It is not like a subscription or proprietary software which is no longer usable when you stop to pay for it or the company owning goes down.

The design of restic is quite simple and easy to understand. The original dev gave multiple talks about it, quite interesting.

Imho the additional features of dedup, encryption and versioning outweigh the points you mentioned by far.

The conversion to metric is way to easy

Meanwhile sitting here with 50 Mbps that costs probably more then the 50Gbps in Hong Kong

Mindfactory is a good store for middle Europe. But not sure where they ship to.

With the right timing/deals you get them even cheaper. Mindfactory had 20 TB Seagate exo drives on a deal for 219€ (~11€/TB) The 18 TB Seagate exos were often on 239€. (13.2€/TB)

I am actually surprised how many did not get it.

Guess there is more interest for those drives. Much more ppl need 4 TB drives. Only lunatics buy drives over 10 TB.

But just guessing