Why smaller attack surface? Bigger attack surface. For an attacker is way easier to hack a single developer and publish a malicious APK on their GitHub (or alternative) rather than hosting malware on the official fdroid repository.

The first just requires a phishing email (trojanize a random Dev with poor opsec, get his apk signing key and his browser cookies) while the second is way more complex (get full access to fdroid build servers)

it completely negates the usefulness of a site like that

why on their website they still link their (now abandoned) xitter account instead of the active bluesky account?

edit: their xitter account is dead, right? The latest post that it shows without log in is from 2022

it’s a number that i pulled out of my ass but yes, it’s about annualized failure rate. If the average battery breaks after 9 years, then it means there would be a lot of free replacements under the 8 year warranty. Like for hard drives they give 3 years warranty but it’s normal to assume that it lasts 10-15 years and not break immediately after 3 years (exception: [western digital inserted a timebomb[(https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/13uyk41/wd_red_pluspro_issue_drive_being_markd_as_warning/) to mark their drives as faulty via SMART as soon as the warranty is expired)

for the mitsubishi imiev most batteries are still working (different chemistry from modern ones) even if the last ones have been made in 2013

I’m not surprised at all.

Almost all automakers are offering a 8 years warranty on the battery. That means who made the battery (=the one that would ultimately pay the bill if it lasts less than 8 years) is expecting an average of 15 years or more

Can you say the same for a normal engine? After 8 years it will start to give lots of problems. Oil leaking, compression problems, dirty injectors, and so on

There are a lot of websites that pretend to give you a hacked version but all the download button does is to show more ads. They just automatically fill pages with automatically stolen content from play store

“for sale in Asia except Japan” => they wrote all the text in Japanese (and latin for the Lorem Ipsum on the back)

you connect your PC directly out of the link that the ISP is giving you (if allowed), for example via PPPoE

The challenge didn’t ask to disable ipv4 but it was (jokingly) daring people to expose all ports to public to see how long the system would last before being exploited by bots. It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously 😆

the reason OP was thinking of doing this, was saving disk space and avoiding buying another hdd. So if it’s a 1:1 full disk image, then there’s almost no difference with the costs of raid1. Setting exclusions, avoiding certain big files, and so on. In this case he’s talking about restic, which can restore data but very hard to do a full bootable linux system - stuff needs to be reinstalled

i was also thinking like this, then i had to restore everything from a backup when the ssd suddenly died. I wasted so much time setting everything back as before

Gave him a favor, delete his account and move somewhere else.

Anyone should delete their xitter account

They are doing it because they need to cut expenses and not because they care about the situation (having a factory there doesn’t necessarily mean they have forced labor from prisoners, just ultra cheap labor from ultra low wage workers)

Shareholders first

When I did it, I did it manually with thunderbird, which is a great way to delete clutter meanwhile

Just select 1000 emails at a time and drop them in another IMAP server folder

In the gbatemp thread they wrote that this guy flew too much near to the sun:

1. Reused his username everywhere to the point that his name and the fact that he was from Arizona was public

2. Sent back to Nintendo multiple switches to repair using that name with an Arizona address

It wasn’t hard for them to dox and sue him as he literally gave them his real address multiple times…

It’s dangerous and you can blew it if you don’t know what are you doing but by shorting two specific pins, it’s possible to turn on the PSU and see it it’s working or not

Did you use a vacuum on the fans and let them spin during the clean?

Yes, it depends. In my case my server is underpowered so I didn’t like how much resources other galleries used (not only immich but also librephotos, photoprism)

I really like Ente.

Disadvantages:

• the photos that you’re self hosting are encrypted so if you want to have good sleeps you need to do daily exports
• Videos are also encrypted so no transcoding is possible. Client needs to download whole file before starting play (they say they have a solution coming for this)
• ML stuff is done client side so if you had a beefy server it will sit unused
• Exact duplicates are catched immediately (hash comparison before upload) but visual duplicates detection is trickier. Clients have a feature to find duplicates but it’s not as good as other software

Advantages:

• requires very little resources. The web album is static HTML and you can host it anywhere, even on GitHub pages, for free. Photos are saved in any S3 server, I chose garage. Then it has a postgresql database and a very light coordinator service. In total takes like 100mb of RAM.
• All the ML stuff is done on the client side when you’re browsing your photos so you don’t need a powerful server (on mobile devices it’s disabled by default in order to not kill the battery)
• Desktop client can be set to automatically backup all your photos in background
• Desktop client can be set to bidirectional sync a directory. Add or delete files from gallery automatically
• Mobile client takes track of what’s uploaded and can remove local files if a cloud backup is present (not automatically, need to press the “free up space” button
• Because it uploads to S3 and S3 natively supports chunked uploads you can upload files bigger than 100mb if using cloudflare free (immich uses a workaround for this but only works on desktop)
• Uploads are resumable
• Doesn’t have breaking changes where you need to use specific docker images like other galleries

If you pay them, they host it for you: one copy on B2, one copy on wasabi and a backup on scale way.

If you don’t pay them, you need to provide a S3 compatible endpoint for storage, a postgresql database and a coordinator. Doesn’t need fancy stuff

I think 5 years ago, on Ubuntu