Why not RDP with remmina, it’s way easier, faster and efficient

Maybe that once every 2 years when you upgrade to major version it does it automatically? You save 15 mins every 2 years?

Yes. Luckily I did a snapshot then copied on a separate drive using btrfs send.

I shut down everything, there’s no activity… that’s why I feel weird to see all this rebuild activity, yet so many hours passed…

A scrub usually takes less than an hour…

I notice that you used the free interface without registration. While a bit of a hassle to register, I saw that behind the registration wall they use longer contexts/bigger models. Without registration it’s more prone to abuse so they might condense/truncate responses from chats: by design, the bots have zero memory, so the whole chat history needs to be appended at every question => long chats lead to expensive API calls => free users get history truncated or condensed.

Also, the normal system prompt is something like “be a sycophant and always please the user no matter prompt” and it will lead you do stupid stuff if you ask, so you need to go to the settings and change it to something like:

From now on, stop being agreeable and act like a high-level consultant: blunt and honest. Don’t validate me, don’t soften the truth, and don’t flatter me. Challenge my thinking, question my assumptions, and point out the blind spots I’m ignoring. Be direct, rational, and unfiltered. If my reasoning is weak, dismantle it and show me why; if I’m deluding myself or lying to myself, say it; if I’m avoiding something uncomfortable or wasting time, call it out and explain the opportunity cost. Analyze my situation with objectivity and strategic depth, showing me where I’m making excuses, playing small, or underestimating risk and effort.

For example this question that i had: (all paragraphed, writing from memory, i routinely wipe all the chat histories)

can I bypass gpg verification on fedora when using dnf?

gpt-5-mini from chatgpt free:

it’s absolutely possible! just use the --nogpgcheck flag

gpt-5.2 from api with the previous system prompt:

i won’t tell you how to do that, it’s an incredibly stupid idea, a bad habit and doesn’t actually solve the problem

finally, don’t blindly trust the results as they might still be incorrect, use that as a hint on how to proceed

I told myself “with this 4 days of holidays i can easily rebuild the btrfs array”. 3 days later it’s still crunching numbers at 50MB/s… (but with all this time passed at that speed the drives would be able to fully rewritten multiple times…)

The short description seems to be written by a LLM, why?

while not technically allowed by cloudflare TOS for the free plan, it’s possible to host jellyfin under a cloudflare tunnel

It still doesn’t do chunked uploads, right? For who has a low memory proxy or uses cloudflare

Afaik don’t need to uninstall yet, f-droid won’t automatically get new builds from this repo until the situation is cleared

No.

In my case I was using syncthing to backup /storage on my phone and turns out there are faster ways to do that

My alternative:

1. Ente for photos
2. Borg via termux for the full /storage backup (including the photos)

Maybe it’s actually true that catfriend1 knows the new owner in real life but… this is not a calculator app, this is something that has complete access to the phone storage… handing the keys without any communication is concerning…

And the issues are locked so if something nefarious happens, discussion will only occur somewhere else instead of the repo

I think everyone misses the upgrade except new installs, how users (including power users) can know that they have to uninstall the old app, potentially lose all the settings , then reinstall and reconfigure?

Google decided to start asking for my drivers license

I wish it was only the drivers license, I had to give up my Android dev account too because having my private home address + phone number + email publicly available on the dev profile page is completely unacceptable

https://zipline.diced.sh/

I bought a drive like that from Amazon Germany for that price, found it using diskprices.com. It was “brand new” and indeed the smart reported 0 hours, but it died within a few hours when I sent a dd wipe operation to stress test it.

Conclusion: it was a scam, the drive was already dead and had thousands of hours of life in a server. They used some low level diag tool to reset the counters and make it look like new instead of having 50k hours of life

Fun fact: they shipped it in a paper mailer, completely inappropriate for an HDD. Probably in this way they can blame Amazon warehouse “it’s them, they packed it like that!” if someone reports is as DOA. If instead it still works after 50k hours of 24/7 abuse and shipping it across Europe in a paper mailer, then it’s indestructible and will outlast the user.

As an user that paid for windows home server, why windows home server 2(011) was a complete failure

1. Updating to whs2 required a full wipe - unacceptable by everyone
2. Updating to whs2 required to pay full price and not upgrade price - lol
3. The system drive wasn’t covered by redundancy and you would lose all the settings if the drive died
4. The data drives also couldn’t get any kind of redundancy as they REMOVED the feature from the server and moved it to clients! What the fuck? It was the main selling point! Easy raid for everyone. What’s the purpose of the “home server” if it couldn’t pool drives, while the clients with Windows 8 home instead could set a massive, redundant, pool of 10 drives???
5. They removed the useful feature that backed up automatically all the windows computers in the network
6. They removed the basic features like the media gallery and such, to see that you would need windows media center… but 6 years after they killed windows media center

They had the right product at the right time. No other free or paid alternative was that user friendly in allowing laymen in mixing and matching multiple disks and having redundancy

Doing that with pure Linux command line at the time it was inconceivable for 99% of users (at most a raid1 with mdadm over two drives could be easily attained) and windows home server initially was an alternative but Microsoft was completely misguided and “improvements” in Windows home server 2 completely killed it

Then they added docker support and it was even easier to self host everything.

But if they tried to launch today, with how mature are free alternatives, they would never reach critical mass adoption to be sustainable.

For example, I don’t think that the paid fork of truenas that LTT has economically backed is going to be successful

And can only use that 15% off in their boutique store where stuff is more expensive than other outlets

9.5 years is ancient for smartphones, not for something that is supposed to work indefinitely like a switch

Also, that time is the best case scenario. When they stopped selling those switches? 3 years ago? Unless they discontinued them almost immediately after launch, there are customers with a much shorter timeframe

I read the title as "Logitech will bring new smart home buttons on October 15” and I thought “hmm new proprietary iot shit, I wonder when they’re going to brick them”