If you look at the output of ls -l , you’ll see a number on the left which tells you how the pointer counter. Folders are usually rather high, as both the parent folder, and any child folders point to it.

For files it counts the number of hardlinks.

Yes you can do this. Two problems:

It isn’t fast. Watch your MTU.

Youll have to make sure return packets come through the VPS on their way back. You’ll have to set up those packets to masquerade on their way out, otherwise you’d see internal IPs on the internet (they get dropped immediately). You can either masquerade them on the inside so they appear to be coming from your VPS (internally), or if you want the destination computer to see the real Internet IP, you’d need to set up rules on the destinarion computer which routes packets through the VPS otherwise they’d return via the default gateway.

Files on a hard drive aren’t directly files. Folders, for example, are just metadata things which contain pointers to things like the previous directory and files within it (along with names) AND other metadata like owner, group, and permissions. Files have a similar metadata thing (they’re called inodes) which things like owner, permissions, and a block manifest (where the data is stored) and critically: a count of how many things point to it.

This count is needed because of hard links. A hard link is two folders pointing to one of these file metadata blocks as different files. The count is used to ensure that a file that is still in use isn’t deleted. This also means a hardlinked file must share at least some permissions. Most systems are also set up to only cache one copy of the file in RAM if such a situation were to come up.

So what I assume time shift does (can’t use it because it has an aneurism when it sees a RAID drive for some fucking reason) is store independent “copies” of files per each backup, where only changed files are stored and the rest are hard linked. There is still storage used for the new folders but its on the scale of hundreds of KiloBytes. The software can purge one of the backups safely without affecting another, including the first backup.

A soft link is just a file that contains a file path. Like a shortcut.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_days_of_american_crime

Seems like it’d be a kind of okay option if you were really stoned and actually spent the whole movie on your phone.

Yeah its a predator thing not a pedo/ebo/ebiphelia thing

Aren’t the vast majority of child sex abusers not pedophiles (or variant)? Isn’t it more of a vulnerability thing?

Oh

What is this?

Its Microsoft they’re not that smart.

Its all just hard links I see no reason why you can’t.

There’s a movie called “The Last Day of American Crime” which has this premise. It has a 0% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

What’s that

That’s the kind of shit Donald Trump would say.

Edit: in case there’s any confusion I mean the string literal in the comment above.

Haven’t heard of it

What happened to Edmund Fitzgerald?

Everything on Android is half-assed but that’s not Graphene’s fault.

Of course.

And yeah carrier locking is already illegal [if the phone is fully paid for].

But I can use a non Verizon phone on Verizon? Are they just trying to dissuade it because the people doing hotspot bypass are likely gonna do the research.

Edit: oh yeah ads. Of course it’s ads.

Oh. Its a 5.25" drive bay thing. I don’t have one of those :(

Mobilism?