Looked at this before and forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder, I’m going to try it.

I love the honesty and boundary-setting of their Annual Hiatus wiki page - I really feel for OSS devs dealing with user entitlement : https://docs.lubelogger.com/Misc/Annual Hiatus/

https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Pick your default level from reject through to accept, and it’ll click through the boxes automatically. Works on the consent boxes for about 95% of the sites I visit.

Some bastard sites still insist you click through each of the 1000 partners.

SD cards aren’t forever. I found out after backing up a bunch of files to the card in my android, ready to move onto a new phone. Those writes were enough to kill the card - not even read only, I had to run recovery software to salvage files. My card was about 4 years old like yours. After that, I’ve paid the extra for high endurance cards even for normal usage.

Not seen that on Lemmy, but it’s definitely been a problem on reddit for years. Agree with you - the questions and answers (and even the wrong answers) are valuable to anyone else searching for the same issue. “I got my answer, now fuck y’all”

If you buy from Amazon or Argos but NOT marketplace sellers on there, you should be fine.

Test cards are the stated capacity with https://h2testw.org/

Lastly, there could be other reasons your cards are corrupting:

• interrupting the power during write operations
• using a normal micro SD card in a dashcam, doorbell cam, raspberry pi. These make frequent writes to the card which wears out the memory cells. For purposes with constant writing of data, buy high endurance SD cards.
• using too small a card for the frequency of write operations. Again, the memory cells wear sooner than in a higher capacity card where the writes can be more distributed.
• when the price is too good to be true.

If you provide more detail about the card brand, capacity, and what you’re using it in, people can give you a better idea of where the problem originates.

I hope the author of that click bait headline stubs his toes every day.

To save anyone else wasting a click: Pihole.

Your system is a POS.

Someone reported it, Samsung understood their concerns and thanked them for their feedback. But that’s about it.

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Suggestions/Implement-Auto-Delete-Clipboard-History-to-Prevent-Sensitive/m-p/3200743

For anyone still reading, urlcheck allows forcing a link to open incognito in a browser:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

(Also available at Google Play)

Exactly as you’ve said… I’m now seeing low effort news articles posted by a 6 day account.

Thanks, I’m using “hot”… I’ll try your suggestions to at least downgrade the visibility of those posts.

I also learned the hard way: beware of SD cards! They have limited write endurance and will end up corrupting. With the amount of logging a system does and that the SD cards writes in pages, those writes add up soon enough.

Using a SSD boot drive over USB has been reliable and faster for my use. Alternatively, get high endurance SD cards or higher capacity to spread out the writes. At some point though, with the higher price of high endurance/capacity SD cards, you might as well get an SSD.

Oh hello, this looks very compelling. Thanks for the suggestion!

Looks like @rimu@piefed.social / @rimu@lemmy.world has also had enough of such accounts and implemented auto-delete: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/22241904

Good point about the unintended consequences for genuine new accounts, and how spammers will find another way to spam. I guess that’s why a toggle for filtering new accounts would allow the end user to decide what they want to see.

“When you’ve got a phone, every problem is an app”.

Agree, just buy an alarm clock.

It’s pretty much this…

I’ve listened to the excellent weekly PC Pro podcast for years, it’s by the various writers and editors of that magazine.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-pc-pro-podcast/id563487808

(available on various platforms, not just Apple)

Also the ITPro podcast, which focuses more on industry

https://www.itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast

Are you running docker?

UFW is a popular iptables front end on Ubuntu that makes it easy to manage firewall rules. But when Docker is installed, Docker bypass the UFW rules and the published ports can be accessed from outside.

https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker

The Map Men explain it better than I could:

How do you start a new country? https://youtu.be/hX4s1ZLW_PI

There are NOT 195 countries https://youtu.be/3nB688xBYdY

And just for fun…

The mystery of the squarest country https://youtu.be/8mrNEVUuZdk

(Yes, I’m a big fan!)