Lineage will likely wirk with random phones, that dosn’t mean it’s quality. I say, if a phone OS works on LG, Samaung, Nokia, and a Chinese company phone, I don’t trust the stability of the OS.

that’s just plain bullshit with at most zero backing knowledge. supporting various brands really won’t make the software that complicated. the software you install won’t need to include compatibility patches of all the supported brands and models, it’s routine that system images are customized for the phone, with patches specifically for that phone.

I mean yeah LOS is not the best in quality, but the remaining part does not make sense

not just too expensive, but designed to be hard to repair too. just look up the ifixit disassembly guide, it’s horrible

Graphene can be installed on your phone via a web browser

sorry but that’s misleading. it only works with chrome (and honestly better keep it that way). do we really expect in the privacy community that people use chrome?

don’t forget the list maintainers

for music what I use is AIMP. I only hope it can work with wine because I don’t want to run a VM for it

So unless your usecase requires 2TB+, SSDs are a better choice. Or if it needs 1TB+ and also has immensely high rewrite rates.

that’s good to know, it’ll keep this in mind. thanks!

I have multiple complete disk images of various defunct installs, archived on my nas. That is a prime example for stuff to put into network storage. Even if you use them, loading them up would be comparable in speed to doing it off of an HDD.

does this also stand for when shares are done with SMB? I’m mostly worried about random access there being worse than with a local HDD

Maybe you see a usecase that would see someone without knowledge or equipment need tons of cheap storage in a single desktop pc?

Personally I have 4 TB and some in the PC, and it’s almost full. a few VMs, a couple of snapshots, music because I prefer a local player over jellyfin, almost all programs that I didn’t want to keep on my small SSD, and a bunch of other data.

I know someone who wanted to save his dashcam recordings to his PC. I could not get him to tell why does he want it, and figure out if it would be important enough to get a big drive, but currently he can only store 2 days of recordings on the SSD. People around me are often on a tight budget, and I didn’t want to buy him an SSD unnecessarily big (before I got to know he wants to do this…), both for the cost and the lower lifespan

that’s good to be aware of, but using nvme drives for lots of storage does not seem to be economical. (I assume) in most cases large amounts of storage like this is used for archival and backups, where speeds don’t matter over what good HDDs can do.

So unless you have old hardware, I see the remaining use for sata as hdd-only.

how many M.w slots do current motherboards have? a useful property of SATA is that it’s not rare to have 6 of them

does that mean that you dont use hard drives at all? how many storage have you got?

I’m all for open source, but being open source does not mean that it cannot be, or even that it is unlikely to be malicious

that’s interesting. do you perhaps also know what the si param contains?

switch to firefox and install the ublock origin. it should get rid of it

it only works for hiding ads, it is powerless to protect any of your privacy anymore. ublock origin is much more than an adblocker, but ubo lite is basically just google’s mockery

oh, that’s good to know! iirc that’s the same reason it happens on windows too

oh, that’s good to know! iirc that’s the same reason it happens on windows too

oh yeah now that you say, SMB/CIFS mounted share if connection is no more. when I experienced this, it was temporary though, because there’s a timeout which is half (or double?) of the configurable reconnection timeout. but now that I think of it, I’m not sure if it made it unkillable.

killall just kills all instances of a program, not everything.

and also, long pressing the power button should just shut it down, no?

on windows a process can get in a state so that it is impossible to make it go away, even with process explorer or process hacker. mostly this also involves the bugged software becoming unusable.

I encounter such a situation from time to time. one way it could happen is if the USB controller has got in an invalid state, which one of my pendrives can semi-reliably reproduce. when that happens, any process attempting to deal with that device or its FS, even the built-in program to remove the drive letter, will stop working and hang as an unkillable process.

I suspect that the JSON file is for the Nix package manager

the only game I have that has cards are the portal series, the others I haven’t experienced because I don’t play with games that have them. Are hats and loot boxes Valve’s fault, though?