TFO Winder

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Cake day: February 6th, 2024

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  • The backups with time shift are incremental, hence most of the time the backup is taken within seconds and it only stores changes over time, something similar to git.

    I used to do it exactly for that uses case, the backup was quick because there generally are not much changes outside the home directory.

    I used to have Daily backups and monthly backup like 20 different dates stored in a relatively small space.

    Like if my system is 30 gb then a 50 gb backup partition would store months of daily backups.


  • Not answering your question but I had installed btrfs on my fedora install, thought I would use it for backups and system restores using snapshots.

    But I felt there was always a performance tradeoff when doing a lot of writes like npm install and stuff.

    Eventually replaced btrfs with ext4 and backup solution like timeshift.

    I would say if you want system recovery then tools like timeshift make it really really simple and straightforward taking backups and restoring them.

    Sometimes you just don’t need a Swiss army knife to do most basic stuff.



  • the Orb as a powerful tool to verify people’s identities and prove someone is really human at a time when artificial intelligence deepfakes are becoming more convincing.

    My goverment ID ( India aadhar card ) already has my my biometric taken using eyes.

    And I can verify my identity using eyes.

    I don’t understand how this is anything new except it’s private company.















  • Although we are heading in the direction the article says. We are definitely not there yet. Instagram and Facebook have huge amounts of contents and users consuming mindlessly, my dad uses facebook to watch manufacturing videos of factories in china all day and my mother looks at recipes and wedding dresses on instagram. These lurkers are not going anywhere and they are majority of the users on these platforms, X being an exception.

    Being on lemmy you might mistake yourself as there is a wave of social media downfall but if you truly look at big picture we are a small pond compared to huge lakes of users around the world with different age groups and interest.