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Same. Database corruption hit me after ~1.5 years and I could never figure out what the cause was or how to fix it. Which is a shame, because Duplicati looks like a great open source project with a lot of dev time and effort invested into it. But when it comes to backup software, your core functionality better work reliably, and Duplicati just isn't there. I since switched to Duplicacy and couldn't be happier.


I'm not too familiar with Zen, but questions like these are often meant to be nonsense questions with no answer. They push you to think harder and harder until you realize the futility of doing so, at which point you've found the "real" answer.


Not OP, but Pop OS is a great Ubuntu derivative.


Is that not for desktops? What is the alternative for servers?


Anything bad for Ubuntu Server? I find some bad points for Ubuntu Desktop, but Ubuntu Server is fine.


If you want to set it up and forget about it, just use any RHEL clone (AlmaLinux is by far the fastest with updates: it took them like a week to ship RHEL 9 after the official release). You set up the system, install & enable `dnf-automatic`, and forget that it exists for the next 10 years.

If AlmaLinux (or any other clone) dies for some reason, you can always move to another clone without re-installation (using their tool `elevate`).


We switched our base server build OS to Debian. Has been great so far and runs with very low resources / extra fluff.


I'll dig it up for you. This is from Feb 2020, and is much more straightforward than what's on the site now. https://web.archive.org/web/20200229081345/https://www.digit...


This is why I host my own personal streaming service. I'll buy music, copy the files to my server, and use Airsonic to stream it to my laptop, phone, etc. It's a lot more work, but I'd rather have full control than use something like YouTube Music, where I can only hope that the songs I like don't get pulled or the service itself doesn't get shut down.


Personal anecdote: I've been using BTRFS on my laptop running Manjaro for the past year with no issues. Originally I had it running in an encrypted LUKS partition on a single Samsung NVMe, but for the past month I've been running two NVMe drives in RAID 0 with a LUKS volume on top of that and BTRFS inside of that. In both cases I've had no performance issues, no reliability issues or data loss (even when having to force shutdown the laptop due to unrelated freezes), and have been able to save and restore from snapshots with zero issues.


I wouldn't leave this up. Maybe create a retrospective post once the case is over if you want to help others, but don't share details (even minute details) publicly until you've talked to a lawyer first.


If you email hn@ycombinator.com, they may be willing to take this down for you, assuming you can't currently delete it on your own. I understand they do this very occasionally, when there is good reason to do so. Good luck!


Interesting dichotomy between the people upvoting and the people recommending deletion. Surprisingly, no one has flagged this.


it's because this type of situation is interesting, and is often not talked about much publicly.

The cost of information leak is borne by the poster, but the value of the information is gained by those readers. Thus, there's asymmetric benefit.


It's very similar for sure, but it's worth nothing how this is different. WASM is much more accessible as it doesn't require additional downloads or tooling. It also supports a wider range of languages. I can take my Qt desktop application written in C++, run it through emscripten, and have it running in Firefox or Chrome in just a few minutes. Instead of having to build and release binaries for Linux, Windows, Mac, and Android, I can make a single WASM build, host it on my website, and run it anywhere. It's honestly incredible


Just like the Common Language Runtime.


Running an intermediate/middle node is generally safe. You want to avoid running an exit node.


Running a middle node got my IP banned from some services, even services provided by my ISP.


Indeed, some CDNs like Akamai do not bother distinguishing relays from exit nodes and just ban everything.


Does this apply to snowflake relays?


The whole point of Snowflake relays is that nobody knows about them. If Akamai knows about it, then it failed.


I've never heard of snowflake relays. What are they?



You can do the same by pressing and holding the power button on the lock screen to pull up a menu, then press Lockdown. I'm not sure if it's enabled by default, but it is a security option on at least Android 11+.


At least 10+, and I think it may have been introduced in 9 if I remember past upgrades correctly. I don't think it's something enabled by default, but it is available to turn on in the default security settings page.


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