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Good post; kinda surprised sshfs is outperforming cifs and makes me need to take a second look at that because, boy, do I ever not like how samba performs, though I'm willing to chalk some of that up to configuration weirdness on my end since I have samba configured to allow any version of Windows that could ever connect to smb/cifs shares to be able to. (Retro computing yay.)

Also, I'd also like to toss in iDrive e2 as a cheap S3 blob storage provider.

I'm paying ~$30 a year for 1tb, with "free" egress. (They operate on the IT'S ON SALE! pricing nonsense so your price will certainly vary because well, it's always on sale, but always different amounts but $30 is the usualish price.)

You get zero useful support, less than the best performance I've ever seen, but it's shockingly cheap and in the last ~2 years (out of the VA datacenter) I've had exactly ONE downtime where it wasn't working, for about three hours.

Good enough to stuff server backups and object storage for a couple of websites.

Oh, and "free" egress means up to 3x the amount you have stored, so it's probably bad if your majority use is going to be public downloads, but if it's not, it'll probably never be an issue; I have like 600gb of backups sitting there so lots of buffer.

What I get for saying something without googling first. I was expecting the hypergolic fueled mess of older rockets, but this is just a mess, but like, not THAT bad of a mess.

It's me, I'm the boomer.

Wonder how much toxic waste that rocket dumped everywhere.

Man, Futurama was shockingly prescient, wasn't it.

Yep.

The first time I read it when I was a wee child, I really didn't get the whole Boots Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory) but boy, is that ever the most succinct description of how modern capitalism works.

I mean, I don't much care either way; I don't expect privacy if I'm doing something on a computer owned by someone else so if they want to log everything that's great.

It's just that, personally, I don't want to know what my friends and family are posting, or watching, or listening to (unless we're like, having an actual conversation about it) and keep as much logging as remotely feasible turned off.

I'd be a LOT happier if the tools to do logging were just aggregate stats: in your case, you don't need to know WHO watched it, just if it was watched, which is still very privacy respecting.

But uh, mostly all these analysis tools/log analyzers/metrics api endpoints are designed to log every single detail of every single interaction and that just.... makes me feel skeezy.

Went to a "dollar store" recently and as it turns out, not a single damn thing in there was actually $1.

$1.50? $2? $5? $10? Absolutely.

So just more corporate greed under the guise of inflation aimed at people who are "financially constrained".

(Also the rich go great with a nice red wine.)

...the US government is being backdoored by the Tickler?

Uh, well, okay then.

Since I haven't WELL ACKSHULLY'd anyone today: /mnt is for temporary user mounts, and /media is for removable storage like USB drives and stuff.

To be fully Linux Nerd(TM) compliant, you probably want to actually just mount the drives anywhere you want to mount the drives, because for some really goofy reason, there wasn't and isn't an Official(TM) filesystem location for mounting permanently attached storage.

Yeah I don't know either.

Not that I doubt you, but where are you seeing them talk about it AT ALL?

I'm maybe just looking in the wrong places but beyond the occasional adverpinion piece, it's not even brought up.

That's not even 3 yachts!

Won't someone think of the poor starving yacht builders!

Oh hey, Mirai is back!

Maybe we can get it and Gameover Zeus together for a greatest hits reunion tour.

eventually “un-stupids” computers for regular people again

The problem isn't that people are dumb or don't want to learn or whatever, it's that the vast vast majority of them simply do not care.

They do not care what OS runs Chrome, because it doesn't matter. They don't care about privacy, they don't care about ads, they don't care about AI, they don't care about enshittification, they don't care that Linux or OS X might be better, it doesn't matter.

The computer is a screwdriver, and nobody gives a shit who makes your screwdriver. Hell, a lot of Windows users don't even know who MAKES Windows, because it's just "the computer".

I'd wager that Dank Pods didn't care all that much either - or, at least didn't until the point that something happened that DID make him care, and the real incentive here should be making people actually care that their screwdriver is shoving ads at them and stealing their data and that's somehow worth action from them - even though literally everything you do on a computer does that now.

How you do that I do not know, but the user has to have a solid, definable, clear reason for their change that'll get them past the transition period, or it just plain won't happen.

Ixion

I don't know how I missed this game but holy crap that looks entirely my thing.

It's now in my Steam library, thanks.

Man, Kennedys end up with a shocking number of dead things in their cars.

We're talking about a man who has a cult running around wearing diapers outside of their clothes with 'real men wear diapers' shirts, right?

They'd pay triple for the shit stains.

100%. The risks of running fedi-services that veer off SFW content is immense in a lot of places.

The really terrifying thing that people misunderstand because TV drama is that the feds knocking at your front door is the last step of an investigation, not the first.

If the FBI is knocking on your door wanting to talk about illegal content you're hosting, they've ALREADY served warrants/subpoenas to your hosting providers and ISP and anyone else they think might have useful data, had a PRTT on you for a while watching everything you do online, and have had a prosecutor decide you're someone that they want to prosecute and lock the fuck up.

They're there to see if they can scare you into saying something against your interests, and could maybe change their mind if you can explain what's going on in a way that's protected. Of course, they're much more reasonable than local cops, but seriously: the FBI at your door is the last stop BEFORE you end up in federal prison for the next decade.

It's also the only real good method of KYC for when the feds come knocking on your door asking why you're letting people who are posting pictures of minors onto your service, and asking-but-not-really who they are.

Yeah, it took me FOREVER to finally land on a useful search result for WTF was going on (thanks Google, you pile of junk!) because the impact was that everything looked perfectly fine, you just... couldn't download anything?

No errors, no faults, nothing in the logs, just adding anything resulted in absolutely nothing happening.

Really freaking weird.

Yeah, I too am glad that the worst I had to deal with were crudely drawn stick figure pictures implying things.

Too bad AI is turning 10% (or more, I guess but the article wasn't entirely clear) of our kids into sex-offending felons.