The only way to do a truly full backup of apps and their data is to have root access. Unfortunately, many phones these days have “security” features that good the warranty and/or break apps like banking, Google Wallet tap-to-pay, etc. Or even some apps like games that rely on that for anticheat will break. And some security features make that last even if you relock the phone. So be careful to read what your phone has and what you’ll be permanently giving up.

I have a Pixel 10 and installed GrapheneOS which has some backup capabilities built in, but I can’t use Google Pay, some banking features, a bunch of games, the official UPS app, etc.

Brooke Autumn Fields is my favorite. It just rolls off the tongue really well and gives me the most warm fuzzies for whatever reason lol.

You look amazing. I love the purple and black goth looks. And you look so femme!!!

Devs should be “dev managers and executives”. Real developers know LLMs are basically just a tool for finding examples and helping with syntax. Sure they’re useful, but I’d never let them write code, much less compile it. Who knows what they’d inject into a build.

If the tape drive attaches with SATA like a regular DVD drive or HDD then just get an adapter that connects USB to SATA. USB is unlikely to be a bottleneck with how slow tape is anyway, so having it internal isn’t that important.

But tape drives are only worth it if you need a heck of a lot of cartridges or absolutely need 30 year storage rather than maybe 10 years for an offline physical hard drive (assuming they’re both stored properly). Though I have drives decades old that still have readable data. But even if you copy out the data every 5-10 years to a new HDD, you’re likely to spend less than just the tape drive itself. And drives get larger over time so you’ll need fewer of them whereas the tape drive will have a set maximum storage space. And what if the tape drive dies and the company is out of business? You may end up not being able to read your tapes. SATA on HHDs has continued backward compatibility for decades.

Anwyay, for a home user with a few hundred TB to store, I’d be surprised if the cost would be better for tape. It’s really useful for places that store a few hundred TB per day, though. That’s where tape can be a boon. The primary advantages are it takes up a lot less physical space per TB and lasts longer. And once you do get past the cost of the drives, it does eventually start to be cheaper.

Also, remember it’s way slower than a physical HDD much less an SSD. Even an HDD connected via USB.

Should specify, I need it exposed to the internet as well so I can sync it to those multiple devices when I’m at my partner’s place or traveling and so my partner can use it from her place.

And I’d prefer something that allows some type of SSO or external authentication mechanism so it can handle multiple logins with different calendars and I can put some layers of security in front of it. Radicale requires addon applications to do that and most aren’t maintained.

Supposedly Radicale can do it with a WSGI server, but I never found one I got working.

Only one that came close was Baikal, but it had some issues and development has been really slow on it. It’s been quite a few years though, maybe I will try that one again.

Definitely easy, but not really a relevant response given the community we’re in. Plus there’s a lot of use in having your calendar synced to multiple places, not just your phone.

I never found an easy solution to set up for caldav and carddav yet personally. Most are either very complex to set up or they are no longer maintained which is bad for security vulnerabilities. So, I’m still stuck with Google because I need my reminders everywhere I go…ADHD.

Free is rarely free. As the saying goes, “if you’re not the customer, you’re the product”.

Is your first name common, at least in your area of the world? Or is it exceptionally rare or unique. That would be the determining factor for me at least.

Apple has never embraces privacy. They’ve been selling user data as long as it’s been profitable to do so just like all the big tech companies that people give their private information to.

Traditional conservatives don’t like it, the problem is that most of the parties that call themselves conservative or liberal (in US terminology or the equivalent terms in other countries) are actually all just right wing authoritarian parties with slightly different tactics to convince people to support them. Authoritarianism needs to control the narratives and to do that have an easy way to crack down on dissenters. Heck the term “rednecks” used to originally refer to left wing, labor rights activists. They just got manipulated into becoming sheep for the far right using single issue politics.

Do they present very obviously as masculine or feminine? If so, then treat them no differently than you’d treat anyone of that gender. Let them use whatever changing room they decide to go into and don’t beat them up or have them jailed for doing it. That’s all most of us want. Treat us like anyone else. If we need something special, just like anyone else, we’ll ask for it if you treat us with respect and thus we feel safe doing so, just like anyone else.

Safety is usually our main concern, so create a space where we don’t feel singled out or treated like we’re trans at all, treat us like our gender like anyone else.

Based on a quick read it sounds like the issue will be that the bad actors won’t get dropped immediately. Meaning whatever servers and services are in front of the firewall that fail2ban configures, will still receive the performance hits. But your backend services will still be protected.

I have a server specifically set up as the ingress server. That runs fail2ban and Traefik and I have crowdsec set up with a Traefik bouncer plugin. So fail2ban runs in front of everything to catch the worst, most obviously bad stuff and drop the traffic very quickly and efficiently so it doesn’t get any further including things trying to access services other than the web services. Then crowdsec is focused on more complex threats as they flow through the reverse proxy. Seems to work the most efficiently for me, but I haven’t had a chance tondo any real analysis on how much improvement it might be over any other configuration.

You’re just feeling the cycle. For cis-women it’s one month, for those of us on HRT it’s time between doses. If those doses are daily, then the fluctuation is less and has little noticeable effect. If the time is weeks, then it is more of a fluctuation and more noticeable. It’s totally normal. I was using patches which had very little fluctuation as they were twice weekly and continued to give at least some dosing the whole time, and switched to weekly injections and I started to feel more of a fluctuation. The drug does take a while to dissipate into the blood but it’s not an even amount the whole week, it’s more like a half-life (though not as precise). And it the speed it absorbs will vary slightly based on how deep the needle penetrated the muscle (assuming IM), diet, weight gain or loss, and lots of other factors. For example if you dont get the needle very deep one week you may find a surge in emotion the following day and a significant drop off by the end of the week or even a slight surge in testosterone rage depending of your other meds and transition choices.

I do blood tests every few months and I try to choose a different day of the week each time to get the average. You’ll find that the day after your injection will be higher than the day before and half way between it will be somewhere in the middle. Just average them to get your actual levels.

Hormones fluctuate and with them emotions. I personally have enjoyed the change. I prefer feeling things like love and sadness more fully and anger and frustration less so. It’s not that they’ve totally gone away or suddenly appeared, so it’s not new, just more or less than I was used to. You’ll get used to it just like you got used to quelling the testosterone rage during your first puberty.

That said, see a therapist if it’s affecting you a lot. Although women (and thus we) are definitely more permitted to express emotions, socially, cis-women also often have support systems and coping mechanisms in place to help them that they developed during their puberty. Having a good therapist to help you develop those is a real boon.

I didn’t look too closely at details, but generally that’s relatively normal the more individual applications you have running, especially with the overhead of them all being virtualized. Often the overhead of running that many virtualized operating systems can be problematic depending on how the container author chose and configured the container’s OS. A lot of people seem to just randomly pick an OS for their containers just so they can distribute their application with docker as easily as possible, without considering the consequences.

Here are the options off the top of my head if disk wear is your primary concern:

1. Turn swap off at the host level. Note, though, that you may end up in bottlenecks if multiple of them do very memory intensive tasks at the same time, like image and video processing, and docker can’t swap out the VMs that are idle to the disk and be able to use the RAM fully for those active tasks. For some of those apps you can configure when they do maintenance tasks and reduce the likelihood.

2. Look at each individual VM in docker and see which are using the most swap and force docker to limit their allowed resources. You can even tell docker to make an application not use swap by setting the memory and memory-swap values to the same value or reduce their swap usage by setting memory-swapiness to a low number, or you can install those applications to the host system and configure the host to reduce swap or disallow swap usage through systemd or whatever rather than running them in docker. You may also find one of the applications you’re running has a memory leak issue. Good OSs often handle that, but who knows what IS the container is running and the docker layer is concealing from the host kernel and not handling quite as well as it being installed on “bare metal” might. Virtualization adds a lot of variables for these kinds of low level resource control scenarios. So just trying it on the host directly might reveal something if you’re interested in digging like I usually am, lol.

3. Get a second, small, inexpensive drive and set that up as the swap partition for the host.

4. Look into what database systems these are using. Often if they each are running their own separate DBMS containers, the DBMS maintenance overhead can cause some additional churn. I have a single instance of PostgreSQL and one of MariaDB running on a separate server that all of my applications connect to. Some of these applications may be not only spinning up a whole VM for the application, but an entirely other VM for their database server. Though I think some of these probably use sqlite which is just a file, I think manynof these use PostgreSQL and/or MySQL/MariaDB by default. This also helps because I only need a single backup for all of my databases. The negative is that if that DB server goes down, then all the apps go down too, but if you already have everything on one server that might not be as big of a deal. I have a lot of smaller servers running smaller subsets of applications based on their resource needs. Helps me conserve electricity rather than running one or two big servers that are almost always highly active. But I enjoy optimizing that kind of stuff, it’s tedious.

I mean that’s what all prejudices are about. Women weren’t allowed to use public restrooms “for their safety” because men didn’t want them to be able to be outside the house for too long until “Women’s restrooms” were invented to “solve the problem” rather than just making public restrooms have more private stalls. Same with “colored” vs “white” restrooms. Same with all the other rights repressed people lose in the name of “safety” or “fairness”. There has never been a good reason to have gender based sports teams. It should be ability based leagues just like minor and major league baseball. Gender has little to do with it except that women were originally excluded because “sports are for men” was what men said until “women’s leagues/teams” were created.

Self-hosted isn’t as unstable because you don’t end up getting blocked by throttling as often if you’re the only user. Public instances tend to get hammered by bots and LLMs these days. Just put it behind a reverse proxy with a login or a VPN to keep others out. I use keycloak SSO in Traefik on a VPS, but pangolin works well for my web apps in my home. That said, it requires setup and maintenance. But no tracking since you own the server.

But TBH no generalized search engines are really good these days. They all mostly all overrun either by monetization schemes and ads or have been manipulated by SEO, so rarely give good results. I’ve been exploring lots of alternatives, but not many are any good.

That’s odd, never had that issue and I’ve used it a long time. Even for my own domains changes propagate as quickly as any other DNS server I’ve used. Were your changes propagated to google, cloud flare, and the rest? Anyway, very weird since DNS propagation is pretty automated usually unless something is not propagating to any DNS server.

Quad9 is only a DNS server and I do use that for all of my servers as do many others. It doesn’t provide domain registration, domain dns configuration, proxies, tunnels, etc, that Cloudflare does.

Yeah, thanks for the clarification. I know I infodumped a bit, but when it comes to safety I tend to like to make sure to mention the worst case scenarios.

If you will have additional support and a shelf below it, it might be ok to use, but yeah without a drill to make some new holes in some ears meant for another device it’s hard to say if they’d be compatible. Hole patters like that which attach on the device as opposed to the rack or standard components can really be any pattern. They have to account for both the structural integrity of the case of the device as well as what is underneath and thus would be exposed by the holes.