personal backups over torrent? and who would download that?

Why would anyone opt in 😭

Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition

I have good news. I have just read the Proxmox 8.4 changelog, and they added support for using virtiofs with VMs, so now using it does not seem to require hacks anymore! But the limitation with databases probably still applies.

@RedBauble@sh.itjust.works unsure if you have read it already so tagging.

I run proxmox, and proxmox manages the zfs pool, there are VMs for important and convenience services, where important only hold things needed for the machine to work (so networking related) and metrics. I also have a desktop VM for the occasional use, and you can install opnsense later if you want an advanced firewall for VLANs and maybe internet too.
the storage is made accessible through virtiofs shares, but setup is quite hacky, and some things don’t like it (like it can’t store any kind of databases) because virtiofs works technically like a network filesystem, and does not support some consistency features (yet?). maybe ceph would be a solution, it is natively supported by proxmox.

if I were to build a new one, I would try out TrueNAS, it’s newer linux based version. I heard that can run VMs too if needed. I suspect that it can be more user friendly, but I haven’t used its web interface yet ever.

no, they only allow the app to capture its own screen content. to make a regular screenshot of the whole display, the app needs a permission that the user has to approve every single time, at least on most phones. that API is actually for continuous screen recording, but of course usable for this purpose too. this also means that after getting approved by the user, the app can keep its recording sessions to keep more screenshots, but that ends when the app gets killed by android. I think the system also shows a notification when an app is recording, but as anything that too could vary with phones.

Out of over 17,000 Android apps examined, more than 9,000 had potential permissions to take screenshots. And a number of apps were found to actively be doing so, taking screenshots and sending them to third-party sources.

this is a weird paragraph. no permission is needed for an app to take screenshots of itself. all apps can do that.

just an example: the Element matrix client has a bugreport feature that allows you to submit an automatically created screenshot of the previous menu.

it seems there are several ways to accomplish this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2661536/how-to-programmatically-take-a-screenshot-on-android

every police officer in the UK should shove up their cameras into their own asses. literal china developing over there for quite a few years now.

oh the find with the hash sum is good advice! I would have done this but manually, maybe with the double commander sync dirs tool.

but also, for configs this might be the best time to move your custom config to ordered dropin files for all things that support it.

aaand those and the usere will be punished when found

thats like saying a CPU cannot be used to run malicious code and be used against you, because all it does is maths, and maths cant hurt you, and would you really outlaw maths just because someone uploaded a picture of you to facebook?

TPMs have a use, that can be good for users too, I don’t doubt that. but because of its capabilities it enables so much user hostile shit. and frankly the tradeoffs are not worth it. just look at what happened, and still is evolving by the way on android, but iOS too. bootloaders that are not possible to unlock were bad already, but this is terrible, that they are literally making it impossible to take ownership of your own devices, to get rid of all the factory malware, if you need to use certain services that most people don’t want to or simply just aren’t allowed to give up.

Quick glance on my installed programs, and I count 7 apps I heavily use in windows 11 with no linux version, nor a clear equivalent that could replace them without extensive hacks that may or may not work and be a total waste of my time.

if you tell us the names, maybe someone can help

Also a funny thing: I installed Debian with KDE and then GNOME last year on another PC, and guess what? KDE & GNOME came bloated with a bunch of apps, games, office suite, code editor and other shit.

that’s the decision of the distribution, not KDE/Gnome. often it is configurable in the installer, even in debian to some level.

The same cleanup & customization did for windows 11 I had to do to Debian KDE and then GNOME.

to be fair if uninstalling unneeded programs is the only thing you do on 11, you’re leaving in lots of things.

Let people use what they want.

I agree that insufferable jerks are insufferable jerks, but I don’t think most people want to use windows 11, but that’s what they can use, for one reason or another, some of which have a solution, some of which not yet. if anything, I would bet money most would rather just stay on 10.

TPM has nothing to do with any privacy invasion, AI, or anything bad really.

are you living under a rock, or have you been not using an Android phone in the past decade? that’s exactly what is happening! through the use of the TPM, apps can verify whether you run a google corporate approved operating system, or something else, even if just slight differences, but also if you use a real clean and respectful system.

plenty of apps do this. including banking apps, while banks are restricting their web banking sites to not work on phones (because that “gives us security from hackers”, no I’m not joking this is what my bank told publicly 2 months ago, in the EU), pps that use some form of DRM, and even work related apps that show you your current working hours and needs to be used for work related manners!

it is “automated” by some “peasants” they are already paying “too much”. maybe they want to reduce those costs too.

also AI serverparks may consume so much power that they are more costly (for now?), but at least they don’t question your commands. maybe that’s how they see it.

windows update is known to force updates down your throat, even when it is just not appropriate right now. that’s not how things work on linux.

on the tablet it should work fine in the browser. maybe that would also work on the TV, that’s exactly what most TV apps do anyway.

what? It’s not like everyone needs to run jellyfin at home. the only thing you need to use is the jellyfin webapp, which I don’t understand how is it more complicated than netflix or any other similar service. you log in, pick a movie and hit play. that’s it.

URL into bookmark, username and password onto paper. Dont tell me they can’t do handwriting anymore.

TV? how did they log into their google account to begin with?
but also: they can log in first on the phone or anywhere else, then use quick connect for the TV… added bonus: phone is now a remote.

several ways

• screen recording
• accessibility services
• ADB

Fine, assuming you are right, what’s the alternative ?

that’s easy, you even said it out loud:

And if the kid is educated well, he would refuse alchool from an adult that is not his parent or relatives. If not maybe you should educated your kid better than that.

now just replace alcohol with porn, and its done. just like they would drink your alcohol, they are using your internet access, its your job and responsibility to limit their access to both of these.

Well, I don’t need to lock my liquor cabinet because I educated my kids.
And now that they are old enough they know that they can simply ask instead of stealing.

Congratulations, you have found the solution to kids accessing inappropriate content on the internet.

if the kid is educated well, he would refuse watching porn on a website. If not maybe you should educated your kid better than that.

use education instead of invasive age verification systems.