It’s especially frustrating because I don’t think I’ve seen a single app store on a distro prominently show when the last update was for a flatpak app. Even flatpaks own website requires scrolling all the way down to the bottom of an app to see that info.

Plus the app store interfaces/apps are terribly slow and bloated, gnome software will sit in the background doing nothing useful and consume 700MB+ of RAM, searching for an app takes forever, and it will lock up sometimes while installing so you can’t continue browsing/searching for more apps. I’ve tried other stores and they all share the same issues for the most part.

Overall the whole situation is just pretty bad and frustrating. I use the terminal for flatpak updates and such, but it’s not any good for finding new apps.

Sync is E2EE, but also you can sync bookmarks without history or whatever works. I’m always a little confused how people manage using multiple devices without having bookmarks synced across?

That’s fair, shutdown service + backup everything is certainly more guaranteed to work properly.

With Immich I’m not too worried about the DB potentially being off since it can rescan the filesystem, but I also backup at 3am when nothing is happening on Immich because I’m asleep!

If you have someone far enough away, with fast/reliable internet, and a safe spot to put it.

Immich uses user/YYYY/MM folders on my setup, and I exclude any thumbnail directories from the backup too. So not many dirs/files to check for the backup software and it’s very quick.

You don’t need to shut it down, pg_dump works fine while it’s like if you want to make sure it’s a good database backup. The files side of things are fine either way.

I have a storage box with hostbrr for my ~800GB of files. They have deals sometimes with 4TB boxes for like $9 a month or so. Hetzner storage boxes are also sometimes on sale.

People abusing cloudflare workers.

I think it’s worth it, but you could move to one of the VPS deals on racknerd (or another lowendbox.com deal), for like $10-20 a year and save a bunch.

Most application data is stored in %AppData% on windows, stuff like preferences, accounts, etc…

It’s also entirely possible they just didn’t delete the old app data folder before a re-install, as those are normally left behind when uninstalling software, and the new install just picked up the account from there.

Most people using Brave have no idea of those facts I’d bet.

I guess? They advertise it as blocking bots and bad actors and such but it doesn’t really do that.

IMO on-demand isn’t going to protect you much. Malware these days typically runs and does what it needs to do so quickly that only a system with solid real-time protection is going to have any chance at stopping things.

They do talk a lot about security and their WAF on their home page, it might be secondary but they mention it a lot.

I don’t believe there are any logs being transferred, just the abusive IPs are shared with the central DB.

So if an IP starts hitting a ton of rules (like .env access, repeated 403s, 404s, 429s, etc… Or specific AppSec rules) then that IP is blocked and sent to their central DB where it’s pushed out to everyone running crowdsec.

On my setup crowdsec has been more effective than cloudflare at stopping scanners and bots from overloading things, cloudflare just lets basically everything through so I stopped using it.

That said I’m curious if you remember the source of the real world tests, because I’d love to see what’s actually better.

Not really, there are some AV scanners for Linux but they are more an on-demand thing to scan specific files when needed.

I’m not sure I follow why this would be a big concern. If your drive is encrypted the worst they can do is wipe your data, which would require restoring a backup image. A hassle but it won’t give them access to your data.

Pangolin would work, it’s still wireguard underneath but with a webUI to set up things and simplify it. It’s fairly easy to install on your server with their docker compose examples.

SMB often has much better performance in my experience. Plus it’s just a lot easier to use as it supports basically every kind of client.

The built in windows defender is very good, no reason to pay for or install anything else.

The people using free davinci resolve are also most likely to be working with h264 and h265.

It’s bizarre that I can just install those codecs and have resolve pick them up from the system like other media players do.