We’re going to hold this song back from you and ask for a bunch of your details so you can listen to it once we’ve generated some extra hype. Pretty cool huh?!
Burnout Paradise (pre-remaster) is an amazing game where just driving around between races and exploring the map is fun… until you lose a race. You then spend the next 5 minutes going all the way back to the start only to try again. It’s especially infuriating when you lost the race due to something completely unpredictable. You know who handles this well? GTA: Vice City Stories. Yes, you travel between missions, but if you die in a mission, there’s a taxi right in front of the hospital that takes you back to the start immediately. Exploring is fun until you are forced to do it. Even DayZ doesn’t force it. You die, well, you might as well start from scratch because your gear will probably de-spawn before you can get back to it.
I could’ve sworn there was backlash to the idea of using Snap as a workaround for Canonical removing 32-bit libraries (the Snap being proposed by Canonical) for exactly these types of concerns…
The article seems to indicate they are using to reduce the amount of work that have to do in writing prompts, but still have translators review what the AI spits out. I think that’s different to SuperDuo which I believe is mean’t to use AI to be more conversational.
Personal and business are extremely different. In personal, you backup to defend against your own screwups, ransomware and hardware failure. You are much more likely to predict what is changing most and what is most important so it’s easier to know exactly what needs hourly backups and what needs monthly backups. In business you protect against everything in personal + other people’s screwups and malicious users.
If you had to setup backups for business without any further details: 7 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly (or as many as you can). You really should discuss this with the affected people though.
If you had to setup backups for personal (and not more than a few users): 7 daily, 1 monthly, 1 yearly.
Keep as much as you can handle if you already paid for backups (on-site hardware and fixed cost remote backups). No point having several terabytes of free backup space but this will be more wear on the hardware.
How much time are you willing to lose? If you lost 1 hour of game saves or the office’s work and therefore 1 hour of labour for you or the whole office would it be OK? The “whole office” part is quite unlikely especially if you set up permissions to reduce the amount of damage people can do. It’s most likely to be 1 file or folder.
You generally don’t need to keep hourly snapshots for more than a couple days since if it’s important enough to need the last hours copy, it will probably be noticed within 2 days. Hourly snapshots can also be very expensive.
You almost always want daily snapshots for a week. If you can hold them for longer, then do it since they are useful to restoring screwups that went unnoticed for a while and are very useful for auditing. However, keeping a lot of daily snapshots in a high-churn environment gets expensive quickly especially when backing up Windows VMs.
Weekly and monthly snapshots largely cover auditing and malicious users where something was deleted or changed and nobody noticed for a long time. Prioritise keeping daily snapshots over weekly snapshots, and weekly snapshots over monthly snapshots.
Yearly snapshots are more for archival and restoring that folder which nobody touched forever and was deleted to save space.
The numbers above assume a backup system which keeps anything older than 1 month in full and maybe even a week in full (a total duplicate). This is generally done in case of corruption. Keeping daily snapshots for 1 year as increments is very cheap but you risk losing everything due to bitrot. If you are depending on incrementals for long periods of time, you need regular scrubs and redundancy.
When referring to snapshots I am referring to snapshots stored on the backup storage, not production. Snapshots on the same storage as your production are only useful for non-hardware issues and some ransomware issues. You snapshots must exist on a seperate server and storage. Your snapshots must also be replicated off-site minus hourly snapshots unless you absolutely cannot afford to lose the last hour (billing/transaction details).
If it isn’t on fire yet don’t fix it, probably. I’ve heard of people still using Vista, which is certainly a choice.
Windows 10 is free
It’s not free legally in Australia, the US and I’m guessing the EU (I think Portugal is a. exception here). The rest I have no idea. The legal free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8/8.1 ended some time ago even though Microsoft will still accept those keys. That said, if you’re willing to deal with the activation watermark you don’t even need to crack Windows to make it work without a licence. 😉
Linux is a great idea for tech savvy users.
I was never able to get past the “I need a Windows partition stage” because there would always be obe game that I couldn’t play. It’s making great strides though and is one hell of a rabbit hole to jump down!
I wish XMPP had stuck around. I used to run a Prosody server and it worked well enough but I think the E2E keys would occasionally need to be fixed. I used Conversations on Android as a client at the time. The things that makes me hesitate to dedicate too much effort to Matrix are:
the supposed funding issues they're having (which is part of why I paid for hosting)
the FOSS' communities seeming tendency to keep jumping messaging platforms and so there's never a chance for one to gain critical mass
how buggy the web client and Element iOS client have been.
When I stopped running an XMPP server I switched the only other user over to Signal and we've stuck there since. With how buggy the
Element iOS client, Fluffy Chat and web client have been for me (app crashes when joining rooms, rooms don't exist when they in fact do), I don't want to risk an upset by trying to push people there since Signal is good enough. And these are all issues that exist when the company who makes Matrix (plus contributors of course) are the ones running the server.
At this point I'm just inclined to grab the export they provide and switch to matrix.org for the 1 or 2 rooms I care to have a presence in.
Glad to see I’m not the only one getting affected by this. Running your own instance was the only way to get Libreddit to work reliably for a while and then even that started breaking.
Unless I am mistaken, the total number the other comment is raising is how much power the entire network spent calculating the transaction, not how much the winner (the one who got paid out) spent. You calculate the energy consumption of the entire network because that power was still spent on the transaction even if the rest of the network wasn’t rewarded. I have no idea if the numbers presented are correct but the reasoning seems sensible. Maybe I’m wrong though. :)
Ah I was getting it confused. At one point Steam stored everything in ~/.local/share/steam and symlinked ~/.steam to it. Doesn't appear to be the case on Ubuntu 22.04, though I used to use Debian and grab the .deb from Valve's website. My bad! :)
So this nullifies Bitlocker when the key is stored jn the TPM right? The whole reason that works is the TPM verifies that the OS is secure before boot and so the OS can then be trusted with the Bitlocker encryption key. But if the TPM believes the OS is secure when it isn’t, you can modify the OS to just dump the encryption key on boot. Am I missing something here?
Fair. But I would say they have a disincentive to lie about E2E because it’s a selling point of WhatsApp and if they didn’t care they could just roll WhatsApp into Facebook Messenger where there is no promise of E2E.
WhatsApp claims to be E2E/not readable by Facebook and to my knowledge, all we have to the contrary is speculation provided you verify the keys on both ends (same as Signal). Facebook might know who you’re messaging but that’s also true for Signal. I’d still 100% trust Signal over WhatsApp given Facebook’s massive conflict of interest, but SMS has been known-bad and collected by the NSA for a decade now. US telecommunications companies also have a terrible reputation for privacy. The only advantage it has over any other platform is portability between providers but even that falls to the side since you can have multiple messaging apps at once.
It is a checkbox in Rufus. Ventoy will also do this for you.