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Don't think it's generational. I've had a gmail account for about 15 years, and use youtube a lot, and I'm in my 50s. I watch a lot of repair, will it start, restoration and motorbike videos - there's some amazing content on there, far better than anything available on my tv. And as an educational tool - need to repair something in your home, or change the brakes on your car? Within seconds you have multiple instructional videos of real people actually showing you how to do that exact thing - the world's never known such a thing.

Linux wasn't /techically/ specified...

Same.

The anti-adblock warnings only lasted a few days for me too, not seen them for a couple of weeks now.

Yeah - that's not going to be possible.

Glad we (UK) are not the only country with politicians who make dramatic statements about online policies in the hope of gaining notoriety, without knowing what the merry fuck is involved or even if it's technically possible.

One problem is... when you want to allow a blocked domain. It can be time consuming and confusing trying to track down which one of those things is actually stopping you.

the sales person at GitLab ghosted me on 3 consecutive calls that we set up to discuss our needs).

I'm guessing they looked at your company and decided you weren't worth enough to them.

We found Gitlab's pricing to be, frankly, ridiculous for the number of seats we have. Shame, the product is nice, just the sales team and pricing structure blows goats.

Sounds pretty similar to what I do now - but never needed the -x. Guess that might be quicker when you're nested somewhere there is a bunch of nfs/smb stuff mounted in.

Suse forked Redhat's Spacewalk just before it turned into Foreman + Katello.

Then worked an absolute crapload on it to turn it into a modern orchestrator. Part of that was to adopt salt as the agent interface, gradually getting rid of the creaking EL traditional client.

To say "it just runs salt" is to rather miss all the other stuff Uyuni does. Full repo and patch management, remote control, config management, builds, ansible playbook support, salt support, and just about everything else you need to manage hundreds of machines. Oh, and it does that for Rocky, RHEL, Alma, Suse, Ubuntu, Debian and probably a bunch more too, by now. Has a very rich webui, a full API and you can do a bunch more from the cli as well. And if your estate gets too big to manage with one machine, there are proxy agents, as many as you want. I only run a couple of hundred vms through it, but there are estates running thousands.

And it's free and foss.

Honestly, it's pretty awesome and I'm amazed it's not more widely known.

Really unpopular opinion: Windows.

No difference to Google then

Yes, and I despair only at this steaming pile of trigger bait having got so many upvotes. I expected some degree of critical thinking on Lemmy, not the same sort of knee-jerk conspiracy bullshit that abounds on Reddit and Twitter. Silly me.

Fair enough!

It's just worked out of the box for me - and TIL it actually existed two years ago, I hadn't heard of it until about six months ago.

But yes - it's great to have choices and pihole deserves some extra credit for blazing the trail in this area.

du -xh --max-depth=1|sort -hr

Interesting. Do you often deal with dirs on different filesystems?

Two points here:

1. If they still have OPs data. It's entirely possible Google is using this technique as a blind because they've just expired the account. There are big headlines for "Google deleted my data", and much smaller ones for "I couldn't log into my Google account because I lost my phone"

2, To make a SAR (Subject Access Request), which is what you're referring to - you need to be able to prove your identity beyond reasonable doubt. Google would obviously refuse that if you can't log into your account. It would actually be illegal for them to provide that data without such proof, which is why you need to log in to access the Google Takeout features that provide most or all the data a SAR would include.

Main tool is Uyuni, but we use Ansible and AWX for building new vms, and adhoc ansible for some changes.

Don't forget that OP expected Google to hold onto their data forever, without paying them, despite not logging in "for a very long time".

For all the hills to die on about Google, this is a pretty strange one to choose.

In Europe you own your data.

Er, that's not quite what the GDPR means and doesn't apply in this case. In fact, Google could cite the GDPR in making sure that OPs data doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

The GDPR gives you a bunch of rights if you're a EU or UK citizen, including the right for data /about you/ to be forgotten or disclosed. It doesn't mean google have to hold onto stuff indefinitely (quite the reverse) or provide OP access if they can't meet Google's security requirements.

With sort -hr, the biggest ones are generally at the bottom already, which is often what most people care about.

Almost the same here. Well, du -shc *|sort -hr

I admin around three hundred linux servers and this is one of my most common tasks - although I use -shc as I like the total too, and don't bother with less as it's only the biggest files and dirs that I'm interested in and they show up last, so no need to scrollback.

When managing a lot of servers, the storage requirements when installing extra software is never trivial. (Although our storage does do very clever compression and it might recognise the duplication of the file even across many vm filesystems, I'm never quite sure that works as advertised on small files)