There’s an app called Termux in the iOS App Store, but I’m guessing it’s not the same thing?
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My android phone is a Pixel 8 and that sounds cool :-)
Not being snarky - genuine question! I am not from the US :-)
Sometimes I like to remind myself we are living in the future. A future that seemed like SciFi when I was a kid in the 70s!
Sadly I don’t think we will ever see Warp Drives, Time Travel or World Peace. But we might get Jet Packs!
We were told this was because it used to be that they could only do the hip replacement surgery once, and the replacement joint would only last around 20 years max.
So basically it had to be for the expected life span of the patient!
But now this is no longer true. Well, in Australia at least with access to modern replacement parts, surgical techniques and specialists!
I could be muddling it up a bit, so happy to be corrected :-)
Discord is what it is, and my teenage kids love it. However I'm constantly baffled by it LOL.
Anyone know how it automagically sorts out connecting to the hotel WiFi?
Hotels often want some combination of my room number and surname I've found, or some combination of hotel name and floor password.
This was not the case for the Internet or the World Wide Web;
Having location data is very desirable, and searching my library without it would be painful!
I'm also a huge fan of how iCloud and Google Photos can search my photos just by a description. (not sure if One Drive can, never tried).
I'm horrified when I talk to people who only have their photos on their phones, with no additional iCloud storage. They have no additional backup at all.
Also, to be clear, I’m saying to install One Drive and Google Photos on your iPhone.
My approach to this is based around having the least amount of things to manage.
In my scenario, I’m looking for the most simple out of the box systems to backing up that don’t require any self hosted solutions or NAS management and so on.
Just throw money at it!
Hence my suggestion to get a Mac, say a Mac Mini, with a decent sized drive and just sync everything to it.
Fully sync so it downloads the lot and need off loads.
The backup the internal drive with Backblaze.
I appreciate this advice isn’t for everyone, and it may not be the best solution.
But it’s a way to a least have some ultimate disaster recovery in place!
It may not be the cheapest, and cheapest doesn’t mean best. It may not be the best by some other measure of features, but it works and requires zero knowledge and additional hardware.
At least with some kind of backup, everything is not lost!
You don’t have to manage it or think about it. The services will sync for years without intervention until you upgrade your devices. For most people, that’s the important factor in having multi backups of their photos and documents!
Google and MS don’t charge as much as Apple for storage, and you probably need you need to pay beyond the free limits, but it’s not a huge expense.
Once your installed Google Photos and One Drive on your iPhone, just tell the apps to sync all your photos all the time!
Now I appreciate that isn’t for everyone.
But it works, is reliable, and requires no technical knowledge of running your own service.
The other thing to do is setup a Mac that synchs all your iCloud data, One Drive documents and Google Drive.
Then back up that device with Backblaze.
This gets expensive as a Mac with decent levels of storage isn’t cheap!
I live in fear everyday or my primary Apple and Google accounts getting locked!
I’ve had accounts since day one of iTools and very shortly after Gmail launched….
Also, I’m curious and in case anyone that knows reads this comment:
Apple say they can’t get the performance they want out of discreet GPUs.
Fair enough. But yet nVidia becomes the most valuable company in the world selling GPUs.
So…
Now I get that Apples use case is essentially sealed consumer devices built with power consumption and performance tradeoffs in mind.
But could Apple use its Apple Silicon tech to build a Mac Pro with its own expandable GPU options?
Or even other brand GPUs knowing they would be used for AI research etc…. If Apple ever make friends with nVidia again of course :-/
What we know of Tim Cooks Apple is that it doesn’t like to leave money on the table, and clearly they are right now!
Apple clearly takes a 'Measure Twice, Cut Once' approach.
It seems to me that tech and business analysts mostly supply uninformed nonsense opinions around whatever the popular rhetoric of the day is to generate more clicks :-/
How many times do we have to listen to tech and business analysts talking about lacklustre iPhone releases and how Apple hasn't done anything interesting since the original iPhone? But yet the iPhone 17 is flying off the shelves in China.
Which should go without saying…
Slightly absurdist non-sensical humour I’ll admit, but none the less, a joke :-)
I'm running a TrueNAS box with 3x cheap shucked Seagate drives.*
The TrueNAS box has 48GB RAM, is using ZFS and is sharing the drives as a Time Machine destination to a couple of Macs in my office.
I can un-confidently say that it feels like the fastest TM device I've ever used!
TrueNAS with ZFS feels faster than Open Media Vault(OMV) did on the same hardware.
I originally setup OMV on this old gaming PC, as OMV is easy. OMV was reliable, but felt slow compared to how I remembered TrueNAS and ZFS feeling the last time I setup a NAS.
So I scrubbed OMV and installed TrueNAS, and purely based on seat-of-pants metrics, ZFS felt faster.
And I can confirm that it soaks up most of the 48GB of RAM!
TrueNAS reports ZFS Cache currently at 36.4 GiB.
I dont know why or how it works, and it's only a Time Machine destination, but there we are those are my metrics and that's what I know LOL
* I don't recommend this. They seem unreliable and report errors all the time. But it's just what I had sitting around :-) I'd hoped by now to be able to afford to stick 3x 4TB/8TB SSDs of some sort in the case, but prices are tracking up on SSDs...
Labubus just happened to get a wide appeal and had a moment in the US for some reason..
And Beyond!
I'm not defending Apple here, but have you seen how people feel about Windows 11?
I don't mind the Liquid Glass UI so much as what's happened to the macOS UX :-/
How is it not? :-/
I thought it was just me!
The image scraping bots are training for generative AI, I'm assuming.
As to why they literally scrape the same images hundreds of thousands of times?
I have no idea!
But I am not special, the bots have been doing it across the internet.
My main difference to other sites is that I operate a Tourism focused SAAS for local organisations and government tourist boards. Which means we have a very healthy amount of images being served per page across our sites.
We also do on the fly transformations for responsive images and formats. Which is all done through Cloudinary.
The Bytespider bot (Bytedance / TikTok) was the one that was being abusive for me.
Still can't load the Turnstile JS :-/