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I’m sure Linux has something for that too, but I don’t know what it is

fuser

“Hey Linux, can you just delete this file please?”

“Sure thing bud, a program is using it, it’s ok, I will just unlink the inode anyway, the program can still access it until it closes the file”

Nevermind the donation pop-up, how can people use gnome? It’s unusable, it interface is literally the worse UI I’ve ever had the displeasure of using only second to macOS.

I believe that gnome is actually what is keeping many people away from gnu/linux, since it’s default on many distros, people install “linux” and they get gnome and gnome sucks so they hate on linux instead of hating gnome.

The number of keystrokes needed to type an underscore is the same that you need to type backslash space, so I don’t see how underscores are in improvement

For now, everything is speculation and there’s no way to know how google will implement the new restrictions, for example, google could disable installing apk from the OS, but still allow sideloading from adb, and then f-droid and helper apps could somehow use adb to go around it. It’s still too early to tell.

One thing I can be somewhat certain is that custom roms won’t have this restriction so if you get a phone that supports graphene OS, lineageOS, /e/is, etc, you shouldn’t have to worry with it.

Which leads to another question, do you need google services? I personally don’t but some people are tied to it for some reason, banking apps? Gladly my bank works on the web browser, or else I would just switch banks.

Alternatively you can keep your iphone as a banking/government machine on your other pocket.

As for what phone to get, if you can afford an iphone, you can afford the latest pixel and install graphene OS on it, graphene OS offers the most privacy and security, in certain cases a slightly older device can be cheaper, but note that newer devices offer 7 years support, rather 5, so you have to calculate the cost by dividing the price by the remaining years of support.

Alternatively if you can’t afford a pixel the cheapest (but not so good) solution I think it’s a nothing CMF phone one with /e/OS, but do your own research.

I don’t know, never tried anything like that, I just plug the fans to the 12v voltage rail and leave them full power all the time.

Maybe you can use the raspberry pi gpio to control the fan and get drive temperature via smart to control the fan speed.

I used to run my nas from a raspberry pi with an USB to Sata bridge, but I found that USB cables are as always super unreliable and keep disconnecting and eventually I get filesystem errors, had to format and restore from backup.

I ended up repurposing an old i3 computer as nas. Which worked well for few years until I was scrubbing the harddrives this summer and one of the harddrives died, when I took it off it was super hot. So I learned that having front fans blowing air directly to the hardrives is important so they don’t overheat. I’m not sure if external cases have enough air circulation.

So maybe you could consider the overall reliability of the system and temperature of the harddrive, electricity can be expensive but an 8TB harddrive surely is more. Also you say you want no fan, so that makes things harder, maybe you can use the raspberry pi just as a client and have a big noisy NAS made from some old computer somewhere else in the house? And maybe have it so it wakes up on LAN when it’s being used and powered down when it’s not to safe power?

OMG! I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time!

I will try this as soon as I have time. Thank you!