The unfortunate problem with eSIM is that you can't swap it between phones.
You absolutely can. But it does need an internet connection for that. Which actually makes eSIM more secure than regular SIM.
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POP3 is outdated and should've been withdrawn years ago. IMAP provides everything POP does and more.
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Site seems to be down?
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Systemd hardening is great, but each service needs its own bespoke config and that takes a bit of time and trial & error. Here's the override I've been using for Jellyfin: https://gist.github.com/radupotop/61d59052ff0a81cc5a32c92b3b...
Some references:
- https://docs.arbitrary.ch/security/systemd.html
- https://gist.github.com/ageis/f5595e59b1cddb1513d1b425a323db...
I would love if they implemented a feature to prune media files larger than ~10MiB from the existing backup file. This way the file size would not grow to astronomical proportions so quickly.
Hi @greysonp
> Once you’ve enabled secure backups, your device will automatically create a fresh secure backup archive every day, replacing the previous day’s archive.
So IIUC backups will not be incremental and I will have to re-upload my 15 GB backup archive every day? Why is that? What's the security risk here? (Obviously I'm not suggesting encrypting & uploading each message & media file individually but splitting things up into same-sized chunks, like e.g. borgbackup does.)
> At the core of secure backups is a 64-character recovery key that is generated on your device. This key is yours and yours alone; it is never shared with Signal’s servers. This key is different from your Signal PIN, which serves different purposes.
Both recovery key and Signal PIN seem to serve the exact same purpose, though, namely restoring data (conversations, contacts, account, …)? Why not unify them?
I'm assuming the backup format uses a container (like Veracrypt volumes), which grows in size forever, and cannot be backed up incrementally. I ran into the same issue when backing up loopback LUKS volumes. An elegant solution in this case was switching to Gocryptfs which encrypts each file individually, but then can mount the entire folder as a whole with fuse. This means only modified files need to be synchronised to the remote.
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On Gnome user interface, the Nokia Sans Wide is off-centered. Especially visible in buttons and list. I wonder if there is a way to adjust it.
Nokia Sans Wide: https://i.imgur.com/6nrYOeP.png
Noto Sans (default): https://i.imgur.com/SgxI2qO.png
Give Lato a try. I've been using it as the default UI font / sans-serif in Xfce for years and it worked well for me.
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Zoho Mail is very good, priced well, and available in multiple zones- EU/US/etc.
Is it? I hadn't followed news of the new Pixels.
I don't like the idea of modernizing this and going full eSIM. It will introduce a lot of new friction, somehow I don't doubt it. Just now arrived to Mexico for a quick trip and grabbed a prepaid SIM from a 7-11 in the airport. All quick and simple. I doubt things would be so seamless when not having a SIM tray in the phone. Having to go through an official process to register a new card, ID oneself, hope to not have any incompatibility with the eSIM slots in your phone (admittedly I don't know how this works)... vs. just paying MXN100 and leave the store with a ready to use number.