WhyJiffie

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[–] WhyJiffie 3 points 5 days ago

what happened in 1903 that made you say enough?

[–] WhyJiffie 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

yes but they make it hard to access, and it has legal issues too so you maybe shouldn't use it in a business setting

[–] WhyJiffie 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

then they can better protect your account, force regular password changes, force password complexity requirements..

if that was the goal, they wouldn't be saying on the password input screen to "choose the most simple password", and especially they wouldn't accept that field to be left blank

if you are not logged in, they can't setup onedrive to automatically steal all pictures and documents of the unsuspecting user, and they can't setup bitlocker with a cloud key that they could use to lock you out of all your data when they think so.

windows update has zero reasons to not work without an MS account, and actually it does work that way.

[–] WhyJiffie 3 points 5 days ago

I guess this does not apply to Enterprise editions, but only to filthy peasants like us

[–] WhyJiffie 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because as you suspect, an image backup cannot be done while the partition being imaged is live.

can't it, though?

macrium reflect's normal operation is to run when the ststem is running normally. it creates a volume shadowcopy of your filesystem, and backs that up. a BTRFS/ZFS snapshot is basically what a volume shadowcopy is on windows, but with a less fancy name. if you make a snapshot, you can back that up, either with zfs send, btrfs send, rsync, borg backup, whatever. the difference is that on linux it's not possible to notify programs that a snapshot will happen please sanitize your databases, while windows does that too, so if you restore on linux that's like if your computer crashed because power went off

sure, it can't be done with other filesystems, but OP said they have BTRFS. I think the boot partition can be safely imaged too: remount as read only and make a normal image.

[–] WhyJiffie 4 points 6 days ago

limit?? WTF??? they were already basically immeasurable!!

[–] WhyJiffie 1 points 6 days ago

they have paid features, but it is very useful even with just the free features and limits

[–] WhyJiffie 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

how do you use it with proxmox, and for what kind of notifications?

[–] WhyJiffie 2 points 6 days ago
[–] WhyJiffie 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This requires the likes of Samsung to move with them to their then propiatary solution. Google is not going to win this just with their Pixels.

I don't see why samsung wouldn't accept this change. do they make use of the AOSP project? if they do, wouldn't they be able to make a deal with Google to have access to the code?

[–] WhyJiffie 1 points 1 week ago

we were worried about android being sold off because of what bad things the new owner would do with it

[–] WhyJiffie 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

and google will be doing everything they can to grow incompatibility and make maintaining an open fork impossible. don't forget that google employs devs for pay, but fork maintainers are doing it as a hobby, out of passion, while already working somewhere. It's a bit similar to matrix, its homeservers and clients. the spec and the software evolves slowly, but its still too fast for alt implementations

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