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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Your btrfs snapshots are possibly counted separately by all the regular tools. They simply go into every directory they can find and add up the size of the files they see. They do not care if they are looking at an identical snapshot of the folder next to them, they simply add it all up.

    Use sudo btrfs filesystem show (and maybe add a path behind it, I am not sure). That will give you the true usage.



  • WhatsApp IST Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselt und benutzt (fast?) dasselbe Protokoll wie Signal!

    Bei Telegram sind die Nachrichten nur transportverschlüsselt, liegen also beim Anbieter frei lesbar rum.

    Signal ist nicht nur E2E verschlüsselt, es versucht sogar die Metadaten (“wer schreibt wem und wann?”) zu vermeiden/für die eigenen Server unsichtbar zu machen.





  • I’ve always been on android, so take this with a grain of salt. In my opinion Samsung phones have come a very long way. They used to be slower and bloated in comparison to other brands, especially while the market was still moving fast. I used to have a Sony, a ZTE, a Motorola, an Umi and a Jiayu - I tried quite a few over the years.

    The recent generation are all fast enough and performance wise last 4+ years before they get noticably slow and an upgrade becomes necessary. Software support on Samsung is now phenomenal. I had so many bugs and hitches on other vendors’ phones and they were rarely fixed - the absolute opposite has been the experience on my Samsungs. Updates are frequent, smooth and stable.

    I know this reads like an ad, but I was honestly positively suprised after I bought a Samsung tablet a few years back and have slowly switched over to Samsung devices. The same happened with all other members of my family. Samsung simply won.

    I suppose the iPhone is very similar in that regard, both simply work and are great for everyday use. It’s almost boring!

    I do advice you to look at the upper end though, they simply have more performance reserves. If you are a display menace and battery destroyer though, you won’t notice any significant slow down from the cheaper range in the 2 to 3 years you have before it becomes uneconomical to repair the device anyways.





  • That all sounds great, but it’s hard to mine the stuff we do no not have. We can either extract from less rich souces at a price at least one order of magnitude more expensive and subsidize that, or buy it cheap from elsewhere. There’s an argument to be made for keeping a small local production going to prevent the worst case, but it’ll be expensive nonetheless and won’t significantly reduce the reliance on ressource-rich countries.