Remember when Word and Excel Autosave did what you expected it to?

Same. Even when I have a sub for something I want to watch (like Prime), it’s just easier to let *arr sort it out and tell me when a new episode is ready.

Because it was also the best show of 2023?

Fair enough!

It’s just worked out of the box for me - and TIL it actually existed two years ago, I hadn’t heard of it until about six months ago.

But yes - it’s great to have choices and pihole deserves some extra credit for blazing the trail in this area.

du -xh --max-depth=1|sort -hr

Interesting. Do you often deal with dirs on different filesystems?

Two points here:

1. If they still have OPs data. It’s entirely possible Google is using this technique as a blind because they’ve just expired the account. There are big headlines for “Google deleted my data”, and much smaller ones for “I couldn’t log into my Google account because I lost my phone”

2, To make a SAR (Subject Access Request), which is what you’re referring to - you need to be able to prove your identity beyond reasonable doubt. Google would obviously refuse that if you can’t log into your account. It would actually be illegal for them to provide that data without such proof, which is why you need to log in to access the Google Takeout features that provide most or all the data a SAR would include.

Main tool is Uyuni, but we use Ansible and AWX for building new vms, and adhoc ansible for some changes.

Don’t forget that OP expected Google to hold onto their data forever, without paying them, despite not logging in “for a very long time”.

For all the hills to die on about Google, this is a pretty strange one to choose.

In Europe you own your data.

Er, that’s not quite what the GDPR means and doesn’t apply in this case. In fact, Google could cite the GDPR in making sure that OPs data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

The GDPR gives you a bunch of rights if you’re a EU or UK citizen, including the right for data /about you/ to be forgotten or disclosed. It doesn’t mean google have to hold onto stuff indefinitely (quite the reverse) or provide OP access if they can’t meet Google’s security requirements.

With sort -hr, the biggest ones are generally at the bottom already, which is often what most people care about.

Almost the same here. Well, du -shc *|sort -hr

I admin around three hundred linux servers and this is one of my most common tasks - although I use -shc as I like the total too, and don’t bother with less as it’s only the biggest files and dirs that I’m interested in and they show up last, so no need to scrollback.

When managing a lot of servers, the storage requirements when installing extra software is never trivial. (Although our storage does do very clever compression and it might recognise the duplication of the file even across many vm filesystems, I’m never quite sure that works as advertised on small files)

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Strange we’ve had differing experiences. I’ve only been using Adguard for a couple of months, but the reason I left Pihol was because of its instability! Or at least, the database would constantly get chowned elsewhere when running in docker so I couldn’t whitelist any domains.

Adguard’s been 100% stable so far for me.

Quite a lot is right with the UK - it just doesn’t get reported because the world’s media focuses on negativity. That’s pretty much the case for every country - people are people even if religion and politics differ. The day to day lives go on with a thousand acts of kindness and consideration. Your attitude is no different to someone in the UK saying “America’s shit” because of a few key points that get bounced around the internet constantly, ignoring the many positives.

History is full of examples of politicians wrapping up bad ideas in pretty paper.

Kinda hard to do that if it won’t turn on, though.

I often use maps.me in the UK, which sources the same mapset as OSMand, and it’s… Good? Very useful when you’re out of signal. The OSM dataset is about the best I know of for walking, even compared to Ordnance Survey, which many consider the best. I find their online maps, even on dedicated GPS devices, cluttered and not very zoomable. I’ve spent many hours adding to OSM over the years and it’s quite wonderful to see local features that I added popping up in all kinds of places - it’s amazing how many commercial mapping options source data from there.

I do agree that Google Maps is the best at routing, especially for traffic and re-routing options. I often have it on even for commutes and more than once it’s saved me getting stuck in bad traffic because a road was closed.

Depends on what lists you add to pihole (or adguard).

The default lists for both are primarily advert or tracking related, and very safe to keep. The only time I whitelist is when I’m following some kind of shopping deal that uses a tracker. Most linux related things are free from that.

I ran Pihole for many years, but a few months ago moved my home to Adguard. Both as docker.

My main issue with Pihole was that the database get going readonly which prevented my from whitelisting domains. It got progressivly more irritating when a 10 second operation would take a quarter of an hour and this randomly happened over at least two of those years with seemingly increasing frequency. A secondary reason was curiosity - what does Adguard do differently?

Piece of cake to set Adguard up in docker - even though I have two servers running with primary/secondary failover. In terms of features, it “just works”. User experience is identical. The lists seem equally as effective. Adding a local dns entry was a little more complicated, but not difficult by any means.

Is pihole bad? No, it’s great. I don’t think many other people encounter my specific issues.

Is Adguard better? Not by any massive margin. Both do what they claim to do without fuss.

Is browsing the internet without either of them considerably more awful? Yes.

I did, but still encountered issues with the databases going read-only meaning I couldn’t whitelist without going into the container and chown/chmodding them before restarting it.