Threw them over the wall.

Done! I’ve been selfhosting for over 20 years now.

I would argue that it adds a new failure point, and a catastrophic one at that.

Yes, many hunans don’t monitor their oil properly. I’ve seen some destroy engines because they thought the low oil light could be ignored for a week.

Even if you still had the dipstick, owners would become reliant on the sensor and grenade the engine when it gets it wrong. Remember how Teslas had hoods that flew open while driving? The problem wasn’t the latch. The problem was owners relying on a crappy sensor.

It’s the “Plex Remote Watch Pass”. A new charge for something that used to be free. https://www.plex.tv/plans/

And after you install your monthy server update, things break because Grandma’s client is suck in the Obama era.

They won’t even get to the login screen.

All my relatives seem to have Hisense VIDAA TVs. There’s a plex app on the store. Jellyfin would require an external device like a Chromecast or HTPC to use it.

But now telling then it’s $3/month to watch my pirated movies? No bueno.

And on topic, I develop a commercial app and there is no way I am dropping a rating or review on it.

So, all the family phones that are using this feature for handset backups. They’re just gonna stop backing up?

Thanks, Google. Thanks for protecting me from free software that scans files on my own phone and transmits it across my own network to my own server. Such a privacy nightmare. /s

Android without Google services is basically taking the capitalism away.

Install LineageOS or GrapheneOS without installing Google Play.

Slap on F-Droid for apps and you have a phone that doesn’t talk to Google at all, and is completely beyone their control.

I have a job, and the office is 35km away. I get a locker in my office.

I have two backup drives, and every month or so, I will rotate them by taking one into the office and bringing the other home. I do this immediately after running a backup.

The drives are LUKS encrypted btrfs. Btrfs allows snapshots and compression. LUKS enables me to securely password protect the drive. My backup job is just a btrfs snapshot followed by an rsync command.

I don’t trust cloud backups. There was an event at work where Google Cloud accidentally deleted an entire company just as I was about to start a project there.

I stopped reading when it started suggesting VPNs. Your’re far more likely to be profiled by a VPN provider than your ISP.

Privacy is not a product you can purchase.

I’ve set my phone so it will erase if someone enters the PIN backwards (GrapheneOS duress code). It would be fun to watch the authorities wipe the phone.

I’d probably get deported over it, but whatever.

Leave the battery in and you have a free UPS. Perhaps set it capped at 80% charge to increase its lifespan.

My server is always my old desktop hardware. It’s a 4th-gen i5 with 16GB RAM and it’s keeping up fine. I have thrown quite a lot of work at it too. If you avoid containers, you can serve 20 services off it no problem.

I too, was worried about power costs. Every time I do the maths, the new hardware will be obsolete by the time I make the money back in savings. If you’re concerned about environmental impact, the initial manufacture of hardware does more damage than running it over its lifetime.

Dedicated (1U rackmount) servers are always loud and power-hungry. I they idle at 130w and sound like a hairdryer that’s been left on.

Find secondhand on Facebook marketplace. Dive into an e-waste bin if you have to.

Update KB5053598 is a very simple update that includes “miscellaneous security improvements to internal OS functionality”

Removing Copilot wasn’t unintentional at all. They said so right there in the release notes.

If making the PRNG on your CPU predictable can compromise your whole system, then your kernel is not doing its job.

I still remember the mass migration to reddit. Digg had an old website that didn’t scale to their userbase. They deployed a new site, and everyone hated the design. They couldn’t continue on the old website because it would crash and burn.

The important part is that Kevin, Alex and all of Digg were quite open and honest about the situation. At no point were they being jerks. They just couldn’t keep manage the technical hurdles.

OMG Hypnotoad HTPC is so much better! Why didn’t I thnnk of that?

Server (big iron): Bender

Desktop (main character): Fry

Laptop (for accounting): Hermes

Netbook (small and dumb): Nibbler

Phone (held to my head): BrainSlug

HTPC (one big viewport): Leela

Are you talking about Betamax, ATRAC3, MemoryStick, Video8, Digital8, UMD, MiniDisc or BluRay?

The single biggest attack vector for SSH is IPv4. Disable it and 99% of issues go away.