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There’s always DVDs of this stuff… Doesn’t have to be online.
There’s always DVDs of this stuff… Doesn’t have to be online.
Never forget, there was only a single key for DVD decryption, once found, DVDs could be copied. There were lawsuits trying to suppress the knowledge, but people started printing the key on tshirts… It was out there and DVD copy applications became common
I use it on reclaimed hardware … Works great for me. Has all the features you’d want for a home lab, and I run a few production hosts there as well
I can honestly say I learned something from the comment section. I was always taught the .9 repeating was not equal to 1 but separated by imaginary i … Or infinitely close to 1 without becoming 1.
I liked the one where they tested it you could stop a sword by slapping your palms together to stop the swing like in ninja movies They actually built a machine with rubber hands to simulate it. Long and short of it … No you can’t
I have a rack in my garage.
My advice, keep it simple, keep it virtual.
I dumpster dove for hardware and run proxmox on hosts. Not even clustered, just simple stand alone proxmox hosts. Connect to my Synology storage device and done.
I run next cloud for webDav contacts and calendar (fuck Google), it does photo and do. Storage. The next client is free from F-Droid for Android and works on debian desktops like a charm.
I run Minecraft server
I run home automation server
I run a media server.
Proxmox backs everything up on schedule
All I need to do is get off-site backup setup for Synology important data and I’m all set.
It’s really not as hard as you think if you keep it simple
They make you buy the machine… The data is collected for doctor review, but instead of letting me use the open FOSS reporting, it’s encrypted so that I can’t see my own data.
After that experience I’m certain sleep apnea machines are a huge insurance racket. 45 dollars for a replacement plastic tube…lol
For example, my sleep apnea machine had a wifi for home and a LTE modem. Data gathered by the machine was sent off-site…no reports available on the host. Privacy policy read it would gather info, run diagnostics on itself and the local network without explanation of what it was doing.
My sleep data could not be viewed by me, only through the 3rd party, so I ripped out the wifi board and LTE chip. I haul the machine into my doctor office so he can cycle through data on the tiny display.
He hates it, but I remind him he picked the machine without asking me if I agreed to to the data collection.
So many devices come with those now… I open up my products and remove the card, the antenna, or the whole board if possible.
We had that, but people knew what the delivery driver looked like or maybe reception had a secret list of buddies to notify …whatever. When breakfast was delivered, within 10 seconds, all the vultures in the office pounced in it, leaving nothing.
Anytime pizza was given on Fridays, same vultures would rush to be 1st in line then walk out with a plate stacked with a whole pizza… Rest of us usually got nothing.
I bought a sager laptop, matching the models that system76 uses. Loaded pop os and away I go.
So far, very stable. I am forced to use Nvidia performance mode if I want an external monitor which is slightly annoying, but I can reboot into normal mode when on battery.
Its the poor battery usage that irks me. The battery life gets me 90 min of use, so not great.
I got steam for some gaming, guitarix and ardour for music, libre office, IDE and git tools all good to go.
Worth it
The problem with 6 is that the play mode is too structured… Especially early on. Theres not much room for custom play… Every game takes on the same form. Civ 4 was the best in series
I used to work for a data broker. The main problem here is that profiles are created and compiled from public data. There aren’t any P.I.s at work here… Just massive amounts of data dumps that anyone could access. If you include PII data like socials, then there are limitations on who can view it… But not really that hard to circumvent. A human could not possibly compile profiles from terrabytes of public data, but our programmers could… And this is the real problem. much of this data was public before current computer logic existed and no one foresaw the huge privacy implications.
For my company, only requests that come from persons living in California were honored…and only the person could request removal, not a 3rd party on behalf of the person. Sux.
And FYI, any searches for certain people would be reported to the authorities… Like if you searched Donald Trump with SSN Inclusion, we had to report it to secret service.
Depends on the area.
The Far Side is strong with this one.
I mean, I get it, it’s a wolf and can pose a danger to livestock and or people. But if you are aiming to kill it, then just shoot it in the head for a clean kill, if you miss the clean kill get up and put it out of it’s misery.
What demented kind of fuck gets pleasure doing this. The poor animal is just doing it’s thing and being what nature made it. It didn’t have a choice to be born a wolf instead of a Chihuahua.
Can’t you just snip the OnStar wires?