30 years of data and no backup system, sheesh.

It’s just YAML, if you do FILEBROWSER_CONFIG:"/config/config.yaml" instead it might work with quotes.

Any community that is open or allows public signups can be very easily scraped.

Disappearing messages won’t help either, since things can be archived in real-time.

The only things that can’t be scraped by AI are encrypted private conversations where everyone knows everyone else and there are no public/unknown members. Or stuff that is just not on the internet in the first place.

It’s not something I worry about, I don’t post things on the internet unless I intend everyone to see them, and there’s not really anything I can do about AI scraping.

It’s interesting because you’re not the first person to complain about getting ISOs in Proxmox, but on my instance if I click on my local storage it has an upload ISO button, and a download ISO from URL button right there, so it’s really simple.

It can also mount network storage with existing ISOs and just pull from that.

I don’t use ISOs very often though, either a Debian 12 container template, or a custom Debian 12 cloud-init VM I made and backed up, so I can just hit restore and it gives me a fresh VM with new networking config and everything through cloud-init automatically.

Is it all automated with versioning intervals and stuff? Or is restic required as a third party step and maintaining a duplicate of data on the server for it to grab?

Overall it sounds like a decent VM manager but is meant for enterprise stuff where they’ll be building their own backup systems.

Yeah I mean even if it was trained specifically for that, they often will still be incorrect because they don’t actually understand the concepts they’re presenting.

Yeah, running a 240V 50A outlet in a garage in most homes would be fairly cheap, since it’s usually not going very far from the main panel. So might as well do it if you’re already spending a huge chunk of change on an electric car.

The last time we hired an electrician to run about 30 feet from a panel to a new 50A sub-panel across the shop for a project was around $800 IIRC.

Oof, contacts being leaked is a bad one.

The one that comes with your DE is generally just fine, unless you’re a serious terminal user.

One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such

I think that’s a quick way to nuke your install, LLMs are generally wrong about what commands to run and don’t understand enough to know when something is dangerous. All it takes is changing one wrong file and everything breaks.

If you’re a casual privacy user, then accepting monero and making accounts with no personal info isn’t really something to be concerned about having.

Instead I would use a well known VPN with audits done that is shown to not hold logs, like Mullvad.

If you uninstalled the app or disabled it, then it can’t run in the background.

makes me wonder what “services” are running in the background on my mobile.

A lot unless it’s a degoogled ROM, especially on non-Pixel phones like Samsung, they add a massive amount of background processes.

The forks won’t last long without firefox.

I guess the next best thing is a cheap used Pixel and flash it yourself, then you’re recycling!

I’d say if you have a relatively clean phone such as a Pixel or another one with minimal bloat, and install a ROM that comes with all the google apps and everything, then the benefit is probably fairly minimal.

But if you do a degoogled ROM then it’s a huge difference. Stuff like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS.

Or if you have a phone with a ton of bloat and additional crap added like Samsung or the many Chinese brands, then even a ROM like LineageOS with google apps would be a big improvement in where data is getting sent.

Yes but it should always be opt-in. Just present a nice message telling users how it helps development with a checkbox they can hit.

I’ve been using Zen which is nice and has some stuff removed that we don’t want.

But it’ll only be around as long as Firefox is around.

That’s what proxmox has too, but snapshots aren’t backups and aren’t being sent to a remote backup server… You’re also not supposed to keep snapshots around for very long, whereas I have backups going back several months.

Or are you sending snapshots to a remote server? I think ZFS can do that, so maybe that’s an option I can look at.

That’s also how you know it’s a cheap chinese phone lol, because all the high end flagships don’t have headphone jacks (other than Sony I suppose).

This looks interesting, how do you handle automated backups of all the VMs/Containers? Their docs kind of seem to say “stop everything and figure it out”, but with Proxmox I’m used to it handling everything automatically to my PBS server every night.

That’s what I’m wondering as well, how do we differentiate cooling towers and the heat from those vs actual exhaust emissions…