None of my banking apps or my government ID 2FA app work in GOS, not eben with sandboxes google play services. I had to go back to stock androidaince these are essential to my everyday life. Huge bummer since I replaced my old broken phone specifically with a pixel for GOS.

Oh god no they suck tremendously…I’m using helioboard and live with the somewhat janky performance.

If you only leech and you’re not a hoarder, it really doesn’t require much. For most people there’s not really any need to store every single piece of media they’ve ever consumed or hope to consume…some day…maybe. Or setup tools to automate their uncontrollable hoarding.

It was the exact same om my oneplus 9pro i had before this one.

And it hasn’t been any different between android 14 that I was on until a few days ago and 15 I have now without improvement.

Its a pixel 8a with plenty of ram and vanilla android…

That’s weird. When I install keyboards I don’t notice slowdowns but rather improvements due to the mainstream solutions being extremely bloated.

I use heliboard, and it’s definitely lagging compared to default google KB when typing on my phone.

If you live in a high energy cost area the ROI on going SSD can be as low as 3-4 years

~$800 on two 8tb SSDs

2 x 8tb HDDs is roughly $200USD

I don’t know what kind of electricity prices you’re paying, but to hit a 3 year ROI on your SSDs, you’re paying at least $2.2USD/kWh, assuming the full 15W (232kWh/year total) consumption of the HDDs and assuming negligible power consumption from the SSDs.

Edit: average power consumption for HDDs read/write operation is usually around what you claim them to idle at, with actual idle consumption below.

Edit2: and to be fair I did take refurb HDD price. a refurb SSD is around $300 USD for 8tb, bringing the minimum power cost per kWh down to ~$1.7USD/kWh for a 3 year ROI.

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If i haven’t specifically agreed to, or asked for, promotional content I consider it unsolicited.

Unsolicited Ads are poison. I don’t give two shits who’s behind them, if you spew that shit in people faces, fuck you.

So it is actually just an advertisement…yuck 🤮

Because the EU is a diverse group of different interests, and while some intend to do good some are also fucking psychopaths.

Why not just run the torrenting stack behind the VPN in a separate docker container? Then the rest of your media server is completely unaffected by the VPN and no need for any split tunneling.

due to some technical considerations I don’t like to run a VPN on my media server

What’s the reasons against using a VPN here?

I use hard linking to manage my library. It’s far from ideal, because the actual files are still stored in the jumbled shit show of files that is my downloads folder. But at least it let’s me browse an ordered library of file names.

Should you really be concerned about a system that can be physically ruined by malware? I would say definitely yes…

Of course there’s a financial reason, they’ve probably done a cost/benefit analysis and decided that it’s financially better to screw over those customers than to spend money fixing it. But that’s exactly the issue!

I think what most people disagree with, is that the active choice from AMD to not fix a very fixable issue, is a choice they know leaves customers is a seriously bad position. This is something they choose to do to their customers, because they could just as well choose to help them.

what I meant was that apparently only compromised systems are vulnerable to this defect.

That is not correct. Any system where this vulnerability is not patched out by AMD (which is all of gen 1, 2 and 3 CPUs) is left permanently vulnerable, regardless of whether or not they already are compromised. So if your PC is compromised in a few months for some reason, instead of being able to recover with a reinstall of your OS, your HW is now permanently compromised and would need to be thrown out…just because AMD didn’t want to patch this.

Ryzen 3000 series CPUs are still sold as new, I even bought one six months ago, they’re no where near being classified as “old”, they’re hardly 5 years old. And this is not only an issue for already infected systems because uninfected systems will intentionally be left vulnerable.