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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • That actually sounds great then. It probably also depends on how the phone is used, but that likely applies just the same to play services. I mean comparing if you’re always in WiFi, mostly on mobile or often on bad mobile.

    But if it barely shows up for you, that’s good to know. I just remember when first setting up notifications that the options without play services had semi-scary warnings associated with them, which stopped me from using them (and having play services running anyway, it didn’t seem to make sense to not just use them).


  • Home assistant by default uses and relies on play services for notifications. It’s what allows instant and reliable notifications without also causing significant battery drain.

    This can of course be turned off, but it comes with significant warning labels that battery and reliability will suffer. It has to hold a web socket connection, or frequently poll for updates/status.

    From my understanding system level support is needed to make this efficient and low battery, but I don’t know if graphene or similar roms provide something like this (or if they even can)? I would also be very interested to know.





  • CachyOS is the most stable distro I’ve ever used. It’s been like 20 months or so, and I’ve had exactly a single issue, which resolved itself in like 3 days (kde bug that got fixed quickly and wasn’t a big deal either). I have zero problems with only having outdated software in the repo, which is something I can’t say about any other distro I’ve tried. It’s the ONLY one where that’s the case (obviously would apply to base arch as well).

    I have no idea what kind of problems people keep having that leads them to calling it “unstable”. I certainly haven’t experienced this at all.











  • But that’s exactly the problem. Those that were the target audience for the article do not have well managed passwords. For them the passkeys arguably do increase security, while having a bit more “lock-in”.

    For those that have well managed passwords (like probably most in this community), they are perfectly fine to use because they don’t have lock-in either. I have full control over my used passkeys.

    Basically you’re not getting the “normies” to use proper password management, and for them they do provide additional security and convenience. They can always add more passkeys on different vendors, you’re not limited to just 1 per service. Yes, adding them is a hassle, but so it’s managing passwords and following higher security standards in general.


  • My various servers, firewall and nas are relatively power optimized. Everything including switches (most with some 10g ports) and access points is 160 W or so combined. I can’t give you monthly usage, as I’ve got solar+battery so it’s frequently just 0 kWh for some days. It’s also rather hard to separate from the other power usage in the house when solar doesn’t fit cover it.