maiskanzler

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep! (finally)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If only modern kernels weren't a problem. I wish you could just install new OSs like on PC.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Btrfs snapshots/subvolumes can now also be deleted with rm. It's no longer necessary to use 'btrfs subvolume delete'

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I use Firefox on all my machines and I enjoy having my Sync account available everywhere. If I were to get an iPhone, I'd absolutely choose Firefox again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, has anyone ever actually tried restoring from then? I only remember one disgruntled redditor posting about it, but that's about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Depends a lot on what backup software you use. Blackbase B2 ist just an S3-like object storage service. It's the underlying software stack of many different things, one of those can be backup software. They do have their own backup solution though. But in that case B2 is the wrong product for you to look at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not exactly a charity per se, but many open software projects are in dire need of funding. If there is a piece of software you really like that makes your life easier, consider donating.

Otherwise, stuff like the Trevor Project or similar sound great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am very happy with mine and have only ever had one hiccup during updating that was due to my Dockerfile removing one dependency to many. I've run it bare metal (apache, mariadb) as well as containerized (derived custom image, traefik, mariadb). Both were okay in speed after applying all steps from the documentation.

Having the database on your fastest drive is definitely very important. Whenever I look at htop while making big copies or moves, it's always mariadb that's shuffling stuff around.

In my opinion there are 2 things that make nextcloud (appear) slow:

  1. Managing the ton of metadata in the db that is used by nextcloud to provide the enhanced functionality

  2. It is/was a webpage rendered mostly on the server.

The first issue is hard to tackle, because it is intrinsic and also has different optimums for different deployment scales. Optimizing databases is beyond my skillset and therefore I stick to the recommendations.

The second issue is slowly being worked around, because many applications on nextcloud now resemble SPAs, that are highly interactive and are rendered by your browser. That reduces page reloads and makes it feel more smooth.

All that said, I barely use the webinterface, because I rarely use the collaboration features. If I have to create a share I usually do that on the app because that's where I send the link to people. Most of my usecase is just syncing files, calendars and contacts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That might be due to your ISP's routing and interconnects. They usually have good routes to big services and might lack good connections between home users in different countries or on different continents.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take it one step at a time and don't look to far ahead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She might even argue for significantly more hours if she wipes out an entire blood line at once.

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