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  • E-mail is horrible for privacy, spam, instant messaging, etc. PGP “works” in very limited scenarios, and e-mail is not really one of them.

    Plus these two statements seem unplausible for me:

    we can assume you’re protected by PGP when writing to most users,

    and

    and with the added effect of not needing to convince anyone to install anything since from their end it’s just an email.

    I disagree with the first statement, most users don’t know what PGP is and therefore don’t have keys, so you can’t encrypt anything to them. The only way most users would use PGP is if something sets it up for them, alá protonmail or my using some special client. Since you’ve said that from their end it is just an e-mail, how does Deltachat add any meaningful encryption?





  • An Amazon Fire Stick is far smaller, much quieter, draws less power and is simpler to use than a general-purpose PC.

    Plus, if I’m using a PC I’d probably only use Linux, so I’d have to deal with lower quality streams because DRM… so overall the experience would be worse.

    Using a more ‘normie’ Windows box as a streaming box could work, but that doesn’t solve the noise(!) and power draw issues, that feels like a compromise rather than a choice.

    I’ve recently bought a Fire Stick and don’t regret it one bit. It’s doesn’t fell janky and doesn’t have ads as far as I can tell. The provided remote inclues an IR emitter than can turn the TV on/off and change volume (why isn’t this provided by HDMI itself is beyond me), and it’s much faster than any smart tv so you can watch content without having to wait



  • I’d mostly focus on scrub, but I’ll also recommend that you keep an eye on your unallocated blocks, running out of them can get you into out-of-space situations that are non-trivial to fix. My general recommendation is about 5G per device, that should give it enough breathing room that it won’t -ENOSPC on most workloads. Also, please note that unallocated space is a subset of free space, that is, all unallocated space is free space but the inverse isn’t true.

    Getting more unallocated space is as easy as running a balance with a filter, say “btrfs balance start -dusage=10 /mountpoint”. Just don’t balance metadata unless you want to convert it.

    Regarding defrag, I still defrag databases, system journal files, etc, even on SSDs. Those workloads tend to cause a lot of fragmentation that can impact your performance (try reading your journalctl logs before and after a defrag, as an example).