In more frustrating news, I did something to my primary laptop, and now it crawls along like a 2005 Celeron trying to run Windows Vista.
My laptop is nothing too special (a Lenovo powered by an i7-1255U (4+8) @ 4.70 GHz with integrated “Iris Xe” graphics), but I’ve been running Manjaro Linux (with KDE Plasma) on it for the past couple of years, and apart from the odd pamac / pacman / “Add Remove Software” inconsistency (or Plasma widget issue), it’s been running pretty well.
Then, a few days ago, it started bugging about updates, and yesterday it added complaints about an unsupported kernel, so I finally pulled the trigger on it, and boy do I regret it.
I initially kept having issues downloading all of the updates (it was trying to download some kind of non-existent Quake-related library, which I had to remove), and I also had issues getting rid of the unsupported 7.1 kernel (due to some “meta” packages that had been installed), but in the end, I resolved both issues, got the kernel removed and the updates installed, and everything seemed fine after the post-update reboot… for about 10 minutes.
And that’s when the machine just decided to start moving at 1/3 speed: typing, moving the cursor, changing windows - everything started acting like it was 2008.
When I first tried to diagnose it, top showed kwin_wayland eating 50% of the CPU, and plasmashell another 10%, but it wasn’t consistent (they both came and went). I disabled all of the desktop effects, which helped some, as did blanking my plasma config (setting my desktop back to default), but things are still noticeably laggier than they were a few days ago.
Someone online suggested freeing up 25% space total on my root drive (which typically runs 90-95% full), so I’ve been cleaning up (and offloading) as much as I can. If that doesn’t work and I don’t find a solution by the end of the week, I’ll probably have to backup my data, wipe the machine clean, and start fresh. 🙃
Ford’s Most Affordable EV Will Offer Built-In Bidirectional Home Charging
Ford’s upcoming $28,350 Fathom electric truck will include a built-in inverter capable of supplying up to 10 kW of AC power to a home, bringing bidirectional charging to a significantly cheaper EV. Owners will still need additional Ford home hardware for features like outage backup and peak-rate energy management, but the com … ⌘ Read more
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There just was a fire alarm.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I need to switch to something like restic or borg. And probably a big storage server at a hoster like Hetzner. 🤔
I do have several layers of backups already, even offsite ones, but it requires me carrying external HDDs around. That used to be acceptable for me (or maybe I was just being naive). But now I’m living in a 20-story building and there are SO MANY IDIOTS in close proximity who might fuck shit up … Fire is a real threat.
There just was a fire alarm.
Again.
I didn’t expect this to happen so often. My strategy for making backups of my data isn’t good enough. The risk of all this shit actually burning down is real.
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Oh, OpenBSD 8.0 has been released today? Has it been 6 months already? Man, time flies this year. 😲
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Maybe it’s a sign 😏 I’m just too lazy to backup my Home dir …
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Q: Would you pay $2 AUD / $1.40 USD per month for a micro container service that let you run up to 3 containers with up to 64MB of memory per container, shared CPU and nVME backed Disk? 🤔 Then $1 SUD $0.70 USD / month per additional 64MB slot/slice? 🤔 -- Assuming you can also run smaller containers where cost per container linearly scales, so $0.50 / $0.35 for 32MB containers.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Potentially, but 64 MB is kinda small. I haven’t run a host with < 512 MB in quite some time, and it would take 8 @ 64MB to match that, although that would only be $1.40 (for the first 3) + $3.50 (for the last 5), so still under $5 a month…. Yeah, most likely, even if just for a couple of off-site services and secure backups.
I’ll be honest - I’ve had a VPS at DigitalOcean for years, but I barely use it anymore because I got big into “owning my own servers” (hence my interest in Self Hosted, which I just signed up for), so now I run a few repurposed old desktops throughout my house. But I trust you way more than I do some other random VPS provider, so again…. Yeah, most likely. 🙂
Releasing Palm OS Archive, Developer Rediscovers Working Virus After 25 Years
Long-time Slashdot reader ardiri remembers his days writing applications for the Palm OS. And he’s now released approximately 1.5 GB of historical Palm OS development resources, “accumulated during the early days of handheld computing and preserved on hard drive backups for more than 25 years… to preserve the tools and … ⌘ Read more
openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups
OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption all via this single open-source utility… ⌘ Read more
Faugus Launcher 2.4.0 adds a backup system, new game overviews and more customization
Faugus Launcher is easily becoming one of the absolute coolest looking ways to manage games from different launchers on SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/faugus-launcher-2-4-0-adds-a-backup-system-new-game-o … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler
Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release… ⌘ Read more
GOG expand their Preservation Program with more games and now 3D scans of box art too
Making it easier than ever to backup your DRM-free downloads and make them look cool - the GOG Preservation Program has expanded with some fun stuff.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/gog-expand-their-preservation-program-with-more-games-and-n … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 KSMBD Adds Interoperability For Apple Time Machine Backups
KSMBD as the in-kernel SMB3/CIFS server for higher performance and lower resource usage than user-space SMB/CIFS protocol implementations is becoming even more useful with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel… ⌘ Read more
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The original twt is unavailable. It may have been edited or deleted, or is from an unknown or muted feed.
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@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Both 😅 Just shipped: Settings → Backup & restore. Export everything (or follows only) as a JSON file and import it back — or feed it any twtxt.txt and it’ll harvest the # follow = lines. There’s a copy-paste # follow = block in there too if you’d rather hand-edit 👌
Did Virginia Regulators Downplay Data Center Health Concerns?
Politico reports that in the Virginia area alone there’s dozens of data center projects “that altogether need 70 gigawatts of power — equivalent to 70 nuclear plants” — currently seeking connection to their grid. But there’s also concerns about a Virginia data center powered with natural gas and backup diesel generators:
When Virginia’s top environ … ⌘ Read more
Spain To Require Carriers To Keep Mobile Networks Live During Power Outages
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Spain will require mobile networks to have backup systems that maintain connectivity when power outages occur. Per a royal decree that will be approved by the end of 2026, mobile network operators (MNOs) and infrastructure companies will need to install batteries or other … ⌘ Read more
Backup-Panne in Japan: Datenträger mit Millionen von Kundendaten verschusselt
Eine SSD mit gesicherten Daten von fast elf Millionen Einwohnern Japans ist auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden - und seit Wochen nicht auffindbar. ( Datenleck, Back-up)
Power prices easing but investment risks remain, Infrastructure Commission says
New Zealand’s electricity problem is no longer the cost of building renewables, but whether the market has enough confidence, competition and backup capacity to build new supply fast enough, the Infrastructure Commission says.
A new report from Te Waihanga, Shifting currents: Energy infrastructure in transition, says the market has been out of balance since 2019, with … ⌘ Read more
(g+) iCloud: Von notorisch unzuverlässig zu technisch höchst anspruchsvoll
iCloud ist ein eng verzahntes System aus Synchronisation, Backups, Dateiablage und verschlüsselter Datenreplikation. Ein Blick unter die Oberfläche. Ein Deep Dive von Florian Bottke ( iCloud, Apple)
Used Waymo Robotaxi Batteries Become Backup Storage For Power Grids
Waymo and B2U Storage Solutions have struck a “strategic supply agreement” to repurpose used batteries from Waymo’s electric robotaxi fleet into stationary storage for California and Texas power grids. The arrangement could give robotaxi batteries a second life storing renewable energy after they’re no longer suitable for vehicle use. I … ⌘ Read more
pgBackRest will continue
In April, David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for
PostgreSQL, announced that he had archived\
the project and it would no longer be maintained due to lack of
sponsorship. On May 18, he announced
that a number of sponsors have stepped forward to ensure its continued
development:
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So apparently this is the default when making a new Matrix account, which makes me wonder why we’re even doing this whole crypto dance in the first place … ?
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So, it’s plenty good enough for them.
Yeah, but on the other hand, you can’t even log in normally to a Matrix/Element account. I mean using username + password. It’s not expected that you ever log out or lose your browser session. If you do, you must use a one-time backup code (that you must create and save beforehand) to log in again.
To be fair, I can’t say that I fully understand what Matrix is doing in the first place. The text that I quoted reads like they have your keys. But they also claim that they only store this stuff encryped: https://element.io/en/help#encryption5 So … encrypted with what? Only option here is my password, isn’t it? (But if my password was good enough to reclaim an account … why do all the other stuff …)
Matrix takes end-to-end encryption seriously. When I ran a Matrix server for the family, the family members would regularly lose their keys, because they didn’t pay attention to something. That’s on purpose! Or rather, that was on purpose. Maybe it’s different these days?
No clue.
Incus 7.0 LTS released
Version\
7.0 of the Incus container and
virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this
release include the inclusion of a low-level backup API, the addition\
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Telehealth Abortion Is Still Possible Without Mifepristone
Courts may restrict access to the popular abortion medication mifepristone in the United States. Telehealth providers have backup plans in place. ⌘ Read more
pgBackRest is no longer maintained
David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for
PostgreSQL, has archived\
the project and announced that it is no longer being maintained.
After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did
not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for
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🍉西瓜备份 – iPhone 相册自动备份工具：可备份至 NAS、外置硬盘、WebDAV、SMB[限免至4.30]
如果你不太想把照片放在 iCloud 中，那其实还有一种更“本地化”的方式，就是放在外置硬盘、NAS、支持 WebDAV 的网盘，甚至通过 SMB 备份直接到电脑中。@Appinn 西瓜备份就是专门干这件事的，目前正在限免，截止 2026年4月30日。 来自发现频道，开发者自荐：https://me ⌘ Read more
Startup Pitches ‘Brainless Clones’ To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies
MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey “organ sacks”: creating human “brainless clones” or replacement bodies for organs as part of an extreme life-extension agenda. From the report: Imagine it … ⌘ Read more
I almost lost my email archive by messing up a server configuration, but luckily I had a local backup made through the amazing Pikabackup. I sent their open source collective some money to show my gratitude.
The European Commission Is Testing an Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Teams
The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams.
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Anna’s Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension
Anna’s Archive lost control of its primary .org domain after it was placed on registry-level serverHold – “an action that’s typically taken by the domain name registry,” reports TorrentFreak. Despite mounting legal pressure and speculation tied to its Spotify backup, the site remains accessible via multiple alternative domains, underscoring t … ⌘ Read more
Let’s hope that the two cakes turn out better than last week: 
Got some gingerbread as backup. Yeah, best lighting…
Signal Private Messenger Rolls Out Secure Backups for iPhone
Encrypted messaging platform Signal now offers secure backups on iPhone, letting users save and restore messages if they lose access to their device.
There are free and paid versions of Signal’s secure backups. The free version lets users store up to 100MB of text messages, including photos, videos, and files from … ⌘ Read more
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** Encrypt & Decrypt Database Fields in Spring Boot Like a Pro (2025 Secure Guide)**
“Your database backup just leaked. Is your data still safe?”
[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://infos … ⌘ Read more
No I don’t want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
Article URL: https://idiallo.com/byte-size/say-no-to-onedrive-backup
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559023
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NIRS fire destroys [South Korean] government’s cloud storage system, no backups available
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Fire destroys S. Korean government’s cloud storage system, no backups available
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFS…
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483386
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DietPi September 2025 Update Brings Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access
The September 20th release of DietPi v9.17 introduces smaller and more efficient system images, faster backups with reduced disk usage, and a new toggle for Roon Server’s early access builds. The update also addresses SPI bootloader flashing issues on Rockchip devices, improves Raspberry Pi sound card handling, and includes multiple bug fixes across tools and […] ⌘ Read more
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hey yall i accidentally nuked my main hard drive for the second time ever yesterday. spent the rest of the day setting up my PC again. thankfully i didn't lose anything super crucial, i have most of that on another drive
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de WE NEED MORE BACKUPS!!!!!!!!!!!1
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hey yall i accidentally nuked my main hard drive for the second time ever yesterday. spent the rest of the day setting up my PC again. thankfully i didn't lose anything super crucial, i have most of that on another drive
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh no. 😨 Backups! We need more backups!
linode’s having a major outage (ongoing as of writing, over 24 hours in) and my friend runs a site i help out with on one of their servers. we didn’t have recent backups so i got really anxious about possible severe data loss considering the situation with linode doesn’t look great (it seems like a really bad incident).
…anyway the server magically came back online and i got backups of the whole application and database, i’m so relieved :‘)
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Running monthly backups…
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync
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@xuu@txt.sour.is or @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Do either of you have time this weekend to test upgrading your pod to the new cacher branch? 🤔 It is recommended you take a full backup of you pod beforehand, just in case. Keen to get this branch merged and to cut a new release finally after >2 years 🤣
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All these remind me of the "blog" ability once existed in Yarnd. I hate to be the party pooper, but little to non interest from me. LOL. I am up to increase the length of a twtxt, though. It is rather limiting right now.
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@bender@twtxt.net Lemme look at the old backup…