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On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.

I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690’s and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple’s walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.

“Pro” stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.

I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.

I’m totally in the same boat. Haveibeenpwned is useless to me since the change.

Bookmarked the thread for future reference.

I lost a beloved cat a few months ago that ran into the road. My security camera caught the whole thing.

“What if?” Is its own torment for us, but analytically, she simply wasn’t visible and there was nothing the driver could/should have done to prevent the horrible outcome.

There are in life no-win situations. It hurts, but it’s an adult realization. Cats go under cars to hide - to avoid being seen - and can’t grasp danger the same as humans.

Yahoo! Congrats to the Immich teams and developers!

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Bingo. I’ve used Synology for ages and while they dont last forever, I get a lot of use out of them and re-buy them usually with an upgrade in mind.

But the new hard drive policy broke that cycle. I don’t put up with that. I replaced one with a UGreen NAS last month. It’s too early to tell how I feel about it. Docker is there and containers spin up pretty easily. Rumor has it there is hardware support for video encoding too, though I haven’t gotten around to testing it.

This is absolutely the gatekeeping and control Trump’s dictatorship wants to wield over companies and people. I’d be surprised if they stuck to precedent; their whole shtick is to rewrite application of law to their objectives, sidestepping Congress.

Even though there are some cloud services like remote server management, proxies, and 3rd party integration, I do actually have to run the software myself on my hardware. Hence, self hosted.

Man, I would. I am 100% the target demographic, jumped in the 3D TV rabbit hole and loved it. Totally knew it was a gimmick, but didn’t care. Would have friends over for 3D movie parties.

But adding them to my Plex server sucked. TAB or SBS files were half-assed and the PlayStation I used took sooooooo damn long to freaking start the movie and skipping was an issue.

Why stop at chrome. Break off Android too. They are shitting all over that now.

I get what you are saying, but in the case of the internet, you need an IP address to connect rather than simply exist with a computer. Someone needs to know where to send the data.

There are however free connections: unsecured neighbors wifi, city wifi, hotels, and even busses/trams. Lots have limitations to hogging bandwidth though.

Welcome to the secret internet when all your neighbors stop hogging it! (Well, less of a thing these days)

I was an early adopter of a cable modem with AT&T before download bandwidth caps. When the neighborhood went dark, I jumped to my computer and beeping UPS to download everything I could to find my max speed.

First thing that comes to mind is a mechanic’s stethoscope.

like this

Edit: basically 8adger’s screwdriver trick but I have one in my Kit of Resourcefulness™

I used to think that too, but it’s day 144 and still no tomatoes!

(Referencing a meme for those who are confused)

That’s the route I took too. NAS for storage and simple docker containers, Minipc for compute/GPU.

I just got a cheap minipc to tinker with and it had windows 11. Not bad and unexpected.

First thing I did was wipe and install Ubuntu of course because that’s what I wanted.

Bitwarden/vaultwarden is a popular option for selfhosters.

If it takes a whole 60 seconds for this glorified camera-carwash contraption to scan a vehicle and generate a report, they are charging $11,400/hour.

Hertz, I will personally sit on a roller stool with a camera and make beep boop sounds for that dough. Take my resume.

Personally, I think IPv6 is not a good choice for any service you don’t want associated with a specific device. As I understand it, the prefix delegation comes from the ISP, but often the interface ID is derived from the machine’s MAC address which is a link to specific machine hardware, can reveal information about the host, and possibly deanonymoized across networks.

I’d stick with IPv4 because NAT gives a tad more anonymity. Just my $0.02 though.

While I do think CoveredCA needs a healthy (pun intended) fine, tech companies need need a serious grilling for taking this info. Not just the cost of business crap that’s handed out for getting caught.

More importantly, WE need resources to notify, find and curate or revoke data about us! Start putting that in settlement clauses; I don’t care about my $3.20 gift card left over and split from a class action win.