Free returns with Prime? I hope so

I love Firefox and it’s my main browser on laptop and mobile.

But as a KDE user, seriously, fuck it. It’s a mess.

I don’t. I love Pixels and like many of their cloud services, although I’m pissed at them for killing some of them (the usual list, you know: Inbox, greader, play music).

And although I’m a big advocate for FOSS, I can’t see myself giving up the camera prowess by switching to something like Graphene, for example.

But I’m well aware that I’m sharing plenty of data with them (some of which I find useful, like location history allowing me to go back in time), and that they can disable my account anytime. That’s why I’ve started doing regular Takeouts of data, and backing them up on a separate hosting provider. My Google Drive holds ALL my documents and files, so on top of keeping a local copy on my drive, I also incrementally backup the entire folder on a separate host provider everyday.

My 16GB XPS running Linux almost fills up entirely when running several docker containers, IDEA, Firefox, Teams, Postman and a few other, smaller apps, but it fits still, and I can work with it (tho I can’t wait to get my 32GB framework laptop)

Now gimme a 8GB MBP and I’ll show you that I wouldn’t get shit done on that configuration. And at 1600 it’s just crazy.

I don’t wanna repeat myself, but: 7840u for the next few years, then I hope RISC V will be mature enough to kick some ass (and that framework releases a board for it).

That’s all I dream of.

X Æ A-12

I’m definitely expecting they do once RISC-V is mature enough (something I can’t wait to happen!)

They need to have certain margins to survive. These first years are crucial, if they gain enough market share I’m sure they’ll stick around and will be able to apply better prices.

Right now I know that I’m overpaying, but part of that extra money I’m more than happy to give it to send a message to the entire industry: consumers WANT right to repair, upgrade and fully own the electronics they pay for. And our planet needs this as well.

Linux is a thing, you know?

Embrace the freedom it gives

Anyone said framework 13"?

(Mines shipping in a couple of weeks)

2600 is dirt cheap even by Euro standards, trust me.

Here in Italy a single room split would cost you around 1k to 2.5-3k depending on the brand.

A whole house system you’re probably looking at 10k and then some.

Not that I’m aware of, I’m doing the Takeout part by myself.

You can however request the Takeout to be recurring, e.g. once every N months. Or you can just request a one time takeout.

I did the latter just to know how much space it takes, but I’m going for the recurring ones from now on. Google will send you a mail once the Takeout archive(s) is/are ready for download.

Starting 2024.

Let’s see in a couple of months. I’m on Apple France and the magic mouse is for sale (85 frigging Euros, are you kidding me?). With lightning.

I was accused of being dumb last time I said Israel is a Nazi state. 😌

History repeats itself.

Probably if you Google it or search on the Vorta website.

The short version, after some research, is that Borg is better suited for Linux users as it involves ssh key based authentication to the backup server hosted on borgbase.com.

Whereas restic is maybe simpler to setup if you’re on Windows.

The good news is that, whichever “protocol” you use, borgase.com provides cheap cloud storage supporting both, for as little as 24€/year for 250 GB. It’s the plan I have and it fits comfortably my ~130GB of Google Photos + all the other Gapps exports (~10GB gmail + 15GB gdocs being the biggest offenders after photos).

You can read a lot about this by just Googling Borg vs restic.

Both Borg and restic are just the backend apps, you’ll want a frontend as well, be it a CLI or a separate GUI application. Since I use Borg on Linux I paired it with Vorta, simple GUI and has scheduled backups and alerts you if they haven’t run in a while, plus you can mount your backups to local paths to inspect their contents and extract data selectively.

Dunno if the same is possible with restic, but there are also GUIs for that, for sure.

Enjoy!

Folks, get regular Google Takeouts (you can schedule them) and back them up using something like Vorta + borgbase.com

Mentour Pilot

Not sure it fits the niche definition, maybe not by subs count, but by topic I’d say it does.

My hopes for RISC V are higher than I like to admit.

I really hope it goes mainstream and gives us ARM benefits with the open nature awesomeness

Get a Pixel.

It just works

For real tho…

I tried oh-my-bash with some fancy theme, but went back to plain old bash from my distro since suggestions for autocomplete had suddenly started to lag. Went back to default and it’s as quick as ever to suggest.

I’m not willing to trade efficiency for bells and whistles