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aksdb ,

Look on phoronix for benchmarks. Plasma consumes less RAM and CPU than even XFCE.

aksdb ,

All good, but I think it's really often a misconception that a DE like KDE, which is big and brings tons of features, must be more ressource intensive than a (feature wise) smaller DE. Which, as the benchmarks show, is surprisingly not the case.

aksdb ,

I counted 68 so far, but I fell asleep in between, so I may have missed some. I am also starting to believe, the cats just go back inside to jump out again.

aksdb ,

4 million.

2 million would be 1%.

aksdb ,

That is - IMO - what critical thinking is meant to be .... thinking about alternative explanations and evaluating their viability or probability.

Unfortunately a lot of people use the term "critical thinking" as just another way to rationalize why they are against something, without actually weighing the options.

aksdb ,

They should have code-named this release "Brooklyn".

aksdb ,

As with every software/product: they have different features.

ZFS is not really hip. It's pretty old. But also pretty solid. Unfortunately it's licensed in a way that is maybe incompatible with the GPL, so no one wants to take the risk of trying to get it into Linux. So in the Linux world it is always a third-party-addon. In the BSD or Solaris world though ....

btrfs has similar goals as ZFS (more to that soon) but has been developed right inside the kernel all along, so it typically works out of the box. It has a bit of a complicated history with it's stability/reliability from which it still suffers (the history, not the stability). Many/most people run it with zero problems, some will still cite problems they had in the past, some apparently also still have problems.

bcachefs is also looming around the corner and might tackle problems differently, bringing us all the nice features with less bugs (optimism, yay). But it's an even younger FS than btrfs, so only time will tell.

ext4 is an iteration on ext3 on ext2. So it's pretty fucking stable and heavily battle tested.

Now why even care? ZFS, btrfs and bcachefs are filesystems following the COW philisophy (copy on write), meaning you might lose a bit performance but win on reliability. It also allows easily enabling snapshots, which all three bring you out of the box. So you can basically say "mark the current state of the filesystem with tag/label/whatever 'x'" and every subsequent changes (since they are copies) will not touch the old snapshots, allowing you to easily roll back a whole partition. (Of course that takes up space, but only incrementally.)

They also bring native support for different RAID levels making additional layers like mdadm unnecessary. In case of ZFS and bcachefs, you also have native encryption, making LUKS obsolete.

For typical desktop use: ext4 is totally fine. Snapshots are extremely convenient if something breaks and you can basically revert the changes back in a single command. They don't replace a backup strategy, so in the end you should have some data security measures in place anyway.

*Edit: forgot a word.

aksdb ,

What if he's a gynecologist?

aksdb ,

It depends on what you were raised with. For me I have all these relevant points in my head for C. 25 is nice, under 20 you slowly need to dress longer stuff. Over 30 is hot, over 40 sucks hard, over 50 can become deadly soon. Body temp is around 37.

aksdb ,

As if there are equivalent and small phones with Android.

aksdb ,

Where did you look at? The backend had a commit 2 days ago, the frontend rewrite 2 weeks ago. Looks active.

aksdb ,

Damn, I never saw it that way. In that regard the EU regulation could actually harm the browser market, because it lowers the incentive for service providers to support anything but Chrome. At the moment that would exclude all iPhone users (which hurts business, because that's a lot of users with large pockets). But then they could simply shrug and tell their users to install Chrome. 😐️

Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead ( beehaw.org )

I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app....

aksdb ,

Is their messenger still a 150 MB monster that gets updated twice a day?

Looks like finaly there is a decent alternative to Google Photos ( stingle.org )

When I was looking to replace my google tools, I couldn't find an easy to to alternative Google Photos. Things that were suggested like immich or Synology or ente required some level of technical know how or dedicated hardware. I ended up buying a Synology drive but I have issues with loading images/videos (it's extremely slow)....

aksdb ,

Immich is the only viable alternative, IMO.

aksdb ,

Typically the point of de-googling is to get independent. If you just go to another SaaS solution, you trade one dependency for another dependency. They can lock you out from one day to the next, increase their prices, change their terms of service, etc.

Also if one of the reasons to turn your back to Google is that they should no longer have access to your data, then look up what the SaaS provider you are turning to is hosting with. Chances are high they are using Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. So your data still ends up on machines of the big three.

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