If you google Ulephone and alarm clock, you’ll find some more people complaining. It’s likely something the manufacturer did to save battery. I’d say the preinstalled (native) alarm clock app is most likely to work, maybe they tested their own apps. Everything else is likely to be nuked on inactivity during the night.

I think about 8 years. I’m not sure. I bought it when 6TB drives were the best value for money. I’ve managed a few other storage systems in my life and usually they fail soon, ideally while still under warranty, or they last quite some time. But there are exceptions. And I’m not entirely up to date anymore. I wouldn’t recommend skimping on backups. At some point in time they will fail. But in my experience it’s completely random. You can’t expect a drive to last like 2 or 5 years. They’ll do whatever they want. And on average last way longer than 2 years or whatever refurbished drives have lasted when they get re-sold.

I’ve had one of my 6TB drives fail this year. And I occasionally hear from my friends or extended family that they have harddisks fail. Sometimes I help scrape off the data on it, if it’s someone who doesn’t do backups. So it definitely happens. Just not super often. And SMART also didn’t warn me this time. All these drives were purchased new. I’m not sure about OP’s question. Maybe I’ll try a refurbished drive myself.

Follow the white rabbit.

Spend more public money on it and hire some more intelligent people to help.

Everything has pros and cons. I’ve seen 3 laptops (of my family) with batteries that looked like a baloon after several years. I’ve subsequently removed or replaced them. I’d definitely check on them every now and then. A UPS is nice. Burning down a house isn’t. I haven’t seen them catch on fire (yet), they supposedly have at least some protection. But definitely get them out of the laptop once they’re dead anyways or don’t look alright. Everyone is responsible to make that decision on their own. Take care.

I usually do the expert install and don’t install a graphical environment in the first place. But your solution should be fine, too. I think you can show running services with systemctl and then disable unneeded ones. For example systemctl disable gdm but there shouldn’t be that much running on a plain Debian anyways.

For powersave I run powertop in auto-tune mode as a systemd service. A description is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Powertop

Unfortunately, the Debian Wiki doesn’t seem to have a lot on laptop power saving. The Arch wiki has some more (random) info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management

I’d say do the powertop systemd service on startup, set the multiuser target or disable the login manager and that’s it.

Yeah, as I said it’s clickbait and not “proper” doxing. What I’ve been annoyed with are old newspaper articles. Sometimes you’ll find some articles with a picture and a full name citing some sports achievements from when you were 17 or did some public activity with the boy scouts or some other club. Usually including pictures, full name and location. Which isn’t great and you have less control over that than over a facebook or linkedin profile…

Sometimes an employer also has a “the team” page on their website with mugshots of everyone. That can be used to annoy people, stalk them or call the employer and so some nasty stuff.

I usually don’t tell people my last name. Or I write pseudonomously on the internet, to make doxing a bit more complicated. And I don’t post pictures of myself. That’s all I can do. And quite some years ago I tried contacting some reverse image search providers. But it was difficult to get them to get rid of the pictures.

It’s not necessarily just the information out there. Being able to connect it also makes people more vulnerable. I wouldn’t call it doxing, though. That term has a meaning. Usually it has to include at least an address or an employer or some private information that isn’t readily available.

they do some reverse image search on the internet and find your facebook profile or similar things.

Idk, I’m not distro-hopping that much these days. The Laptop that annoyed me had Debian Testing. I think with the unattended-upgrades (badly) configured. Fortunately you can change that in less than a minute…

Yeah, they mention that it’s unsuspicious glasses by the look. We’ll have to see what this comes to… When google introduced their Google glasses, people got yelled at on the streets, at least as far as I remember.

Clickbait warning. This has nothing to do with the Meta smart glasses. They’re just a means of taking pictures of people without them noticing. But you could do the same with any internet connected camera / phone etc.

The applying updates on shutdown is another interesting thing… Where did that come from btw? In the old days, my Linux machine used to apply updates in the background. Or ask me. And now a few distros have switched to doing it on shutdown (or worse: restart and start some systemd task and shut down again), which is mildly annoying if you want to shut down your laptop, throw it into the backpack and catch the next train.

As I said in a comment on one of your previous posts, you might want to read the papers on “Chain of thought” prompting. This has already been studied and you’ll find some more ideas and estimates of what it can do. It is a good approach to make the LLMs a bit smarter. And recently it was popularized by OpenAI.

Ja gut. Wären jetzt nicht meine Lieblings-Urlaube, aber das ginge wohl. Und der deutssprachige Raum ist jetzt auch nicht so klein und notfalls kann man sich auch mit Händen und Füßen verständlich machen. Also irgendwie kann man sich immer durchwurschteln. Ich glaube aber trotzdem, dass man abseits von den übersetzten Museumsführern und organisierten Touren dann doch eher eingeschränkt ist. Und abends im Irish Pub oder so kann man auch nicht mit fremden Menschen labern. Kommt dann drauf an was man von seinem Urlaub so will.

Wird aber auch mal Zeit. In meiner Beobachtung sind die Englisch-Skills der jungen Menschen nicht immer herausragend. Ich frage mich immer, wie Menschen ohne Englisch durch’s Leben gehen. Ich mein von Internet über Youtube bis zu Urlaub machen kann man ja an vielem überhaupt nicht teilnehmen, wenn man diese Sprache nicht versteht.

I think that’s what the Satanic Temple regularly does:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/08/florida-satanic-temple-ron-desantis

And who has better sex? And is more happy in general? I mean the egalitarian couples could also spend their time differently and thus have less sex? Maybe they spend their nights in the bar, in the cinema, playing Super Smash Bros. on the Switch or going to the amusement park… And boarding the beef bus every night is not that important to them?

I’m not super impressed by just looking at the quantity. It’s not what I’d have expected… But I think more research is needed.

Where I live (Germany), it’s fairly common to buy the generics. Not everyone does it, but enough people. They’re available and oftentimes it’s the exact same ingredients inside, just a different packaging and brand name on it. And a third of the price or so. I think it’s more that people buy what they’re used to. And if you just ask for Aspirin (which is a brand name here), the pharmacist is going to hand you that, and not the generic. So it’s a bit more effort to add half a sentence to deliberately ask for the cheap one.

I don’t like these only men / only women questions. Why don’t you judge an answer by if it’s well reasoned? You shouldn’t judge by if it’s coming from a person with a certain set of private parts.

I mean there are exceptions. »How does it feel to be a woman? I’m interested in the woman perspective.« is a valid question. But I think if asking for broad concepts like in this case, it should be avoided.

Regarding the OF creator question… I’m not sure. I’d date first and see if it’s a nice person before marrying. And live together for maybe half a year to assess if that’s working out. Basically the same as with any other person with regular hobbies/jobs. If that’s alright, everyone loves each other, enough boxes are ticked… I’d marry anyone. Disregarding if she’s a plumber, OF creator or computer science professor.