I’m in the Android ecosystem and I bought some compatible with the Google Find My network.

I use them on my keys, inside my kids backpack (both in elementary school), one hidden inside my car, a spare that I put inside the bag I use that day when commuting (laptop bag, backpack, luggage) and another one attached to my dog’s collar.

The last one ended up being useful a couple of times, I couldn’t find my dog in the house and he was sleeping under our bed, and another time he was sleeping on a white blanket the kids left bunched up on the floor and he was basically invisible on it (he’s all white) 🤣

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Eufy cameras linked to their HomeBase for storage, or you can send the cameras recording to your own NAS through RTSP.

Basically a nothingburger…

Optical disks. It was almost a necessity on laptop to have an optical drive, now there’s maybe one or two models out there that comes with one.

Some niche stuff that I can’t find a sizeable community elsewhere, but that’s about it.

I just want a decently sized hatchback with a spacious trunk.

It’s mostly to avoid a lossless capture, recording it will lead to quality loss.

Most people don’t care, so they’ll download whatever they can.

Your best bet for quality dubbed content is to find the raw blu-ray torrent (check for the included audio tracks), and retranscode to x264, x265 or AV1 with Handbrake and the audio tracks you want to keep. No need to tinker with a/v sync from there.

You either have

• Easy to use
• Will eventually lose support
• May remain unpatched or
• Require more maintenance
• You can run the OS of your choice
• It’s your responsibility to ensure it remains patched

I decided I wanted something long-term, and bought a NAS appliance I can boot my own OS onto it, so I went with the Ugreen DXP2800.

I’m running Ubuntu LTS, with Cockpit as the webUI to manage parts of it, and my web services are all running through podman containers (aka quadlets).

There’s a bit of a learning curve, which is the price I was willing to accept.

If you want absolute control over the content, you don’t want a community, you want a blog.

You certainly don’t build a community by packing up your stuff from a major instance and do your stuff on your own small turf.

Anyway just my 2¢.

I’m sad that Sam Lloyd (who interpreted the lawyer Ted) isn’t with us anymore :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZR0r7VsUR8

Every instance have their own ToS, each of them with their own threshold of tolerance with having to deal with potential piracy inquiry on their server.

I host a couple of encrypted snapshots in the cloud (stuff that I can’t afford to lose), but it’s still vastly cheaper to host a massive amount of data locally.

The stuff I have locally is mostly stuff I can recover elsewhere (yarr), so redundancy without backup is good enough cost-wise.

Cloud computing I agree, at least until we figure out homomorphic encryption.

For cloud storage it’s not as bad, as long as you control the keys and the provider doesn’t see them then you can be fairly confident the data is safe.

As true as it may be, saying that while you’re not the current CEO is different when you’re not accountable to the board and the shareholders.

But even then, they’re only liable if they distribute it themselves. Why go the extra mile of blocking the addon being sideloaded, as it’s solely done by the user?

I would have to do a one-for-one comparison, I haven’t checked that.

You can also use this filter list in uBlock Origin as an alternative

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/blob/raw?file=bpc-paywall-filter.txt

Even worse is that they try to gaslight society into thinking the poors are leeches and parasites on society, while it’s been them all along.