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  • PetteriPanotoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat is your linux backup strategy?
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    My desktop, laptop and homelab all synd my important stuff over syncthing. They all do btrfs snapshots three months back in case an oopsie would propagate.

    The homelab additionally fetches deduplicated snapshots of my VPS weekly, before syncing all of the above to an encrypted hetzner storage for those burning-down-the-house events.











  • I’ve recently switched from Firefox’ vault to bitwarden.

    I’d say it works 50% of the time. On desktop Firefox it just doesn’t manage to autofill things some days and I end up copy-pasting my credentials.

    On mobile is happy to present me with suggested logins for a page. If I have one, pick or generate one, then it’s all dandy. If I decide I’d rather not, then there’s no way out of that view. I end up force-killing Firefox mobile. Maybe the app works better than the browser extension.


  • PetteriPanotoLinux@lemmy.worldCommunity thoughts on BcacheFSEnglish
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    Let me quote the Wikipedia page.

    Bcachefs describes itself as “working and stable, with a small community of users”. When discussing Linux 6.9-rc3 on April 7, 2024, Linus Torvalds touched on the stability of bcachefs, saying “if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you”, and in August of 2024 that “nobody sane uses bcachefs and expects it to be stable”.

    It’s been being for a long time. It finally got merged to mainline in Linux 6.7. Sounds like they started a lot of renovations after that. It’s still a bit too much in motion for me to consider it.

    Performance and features look promising. I’ll revisit in 2030 if things have calmed down and they still have maintainers.

    I’ve been running btrfs for 14 years. It has similar features and a proven track record. It doesn’t move as fast. That’s a good thing for a filesystem.



  • Did I misunderstand something about the scenario here?

    Wordpress foundation is a non-profit that develops and hosts installation packages and updates.

    WPengine is a for-profit company that sells wordpress hosting.

    All WPengine installations constantly look for updates and download these from the wordpress foundation. I’d bet they probably rack up half of their bandwidth costs.

    WPengine can of course freely use wordpress’ GPLv2 licensed stuff, but it sounds like their leeching of resources was the main pain point.

    To either contribute or host their own installation packages sounds like a fair request at the scale WPengine has been operating.

    Hetzner, for comparison, sells virtual private servers running Debian. Debian is free, under a similar license as wordpress. Hetzner is a Debian partner and coughs up dough. Hetzner hosts their own mirrors to reduce load on Debian’s repositories.

    Be like hetzner. Stroke the hand that feeds, or are least don’t tug at it.