I’ll try this, thanks. but to fill in some missing context from my part, this is what I have been experiencing for the little more than a year I’m running an I2P router.
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I’ll try this, thanks. but to fill in some missing context from my part, this is what I have been experiencing for the little more than a year I’m running an I2P router.
oh, I see now, sorry! from mechanical I instantly thought you mean an HDD
the catch is that you don’t own that camera, only the manufacturer does. besides requiring an account and a connection to china to be able to use it, they have access to both your network, and to the camera feed. they’ll use the network info to gather info about you, and the camera feed to train their face and gait recognition AIs, possibly also for intelligence
oh that was it, the account requirement was what I wanted to remember but couldn’t! was sure it was something even worse, thanks for the help.
yeah if I would buy such a TV by accident, I would bring it back within the return period and tell that it was faulty, because it is.
the available outproxies were very much overwhelmed
honestly that’s still my experience. it’s not rare that websites like a DDG results page does not even load, I think from time to time I even have unable to connect errors, even though as I have stormycloud as my outproxy. probably something on my end, though, it seems then
yeah, but for OP’s amount that’s an overkill, the drives are very expensive
unless you span multiple boxes of discs which is a pain in the ass
FTFY
with two drives (preferably different brands/age, HDD or SSD doesn’t really matter) in it using a checksumming filesystem like btrfs or ZFS so that you can do regular scrubs to verify data integrity.
an important detail here is to add the 2 disks to the filesystem in a way so that the second one does not extend the capacity, but adds parity. on ZFS, this can be done with a mirror vdev (simplest for this case) or a raidz1 vdev.
went with an ssd in this idea since its more durable than a mechanical, better price for storage capacity
how? sorry but that does not add up to me. for the price of a 2 TB SSD you could by a much larger HDD
and most likely to be compatible with other computers in the future in case you need it for whatever reason.
both of these use SATA plugs, it should be the same
I remember that roku TVs refuse working until you connect it to the internet. their values/intentions are clear, I wouldn’t give money to them
edit: they also require registering a roku account
regardless if that’s true, it had a lot of improvements across a long time, and they did not stop coming
Totally. For now, I’m only running I2P though. But it maxes out my uplink so it’s probably better this way for now.
yeah, and more generally, Tor is optimized for light services both in-network and through outproxies (because there are many of those), and I2P is more optimized for large transfers and many connections in-network, and very unsuitable for internet access because there’s only a few overwhelmed outproxies, among which load is not even attempted to be distributed by the default I2P router configuration.
the reason for why I2P is more suitable for torrenting is unclear to me, though, other than the maintainers telling that. possibly because almost everyone who wants to use the network will participate actively in routing traffic, and so there is relatively a lot more routers than on Tor
I’ve never seen hardware die because of repeated shutdowns
then why do you recommend to keep the computer on for a longer life?
but in the case of hard drives, this is a real thing, just not at that scale of shutdowns. if you don’t find sources on this let me know and I’ll show some.
For updates you need to be turned on for them to install. That’s why shutting it down isn’t good practice. Just set a maintenance window and put the computer to sleep.
of course, the installation will get prepared while the computer in on. it will have plenty of time being turned on.
but most updates, including a lot of security updates only apply when restarting the updated software, like shutting down the operating system.
while having a dark design may be “cooler” or something, I think it might deter some newcomers as it would slightly give off a mood that we are doing a shady business here.
also, rimgo.hostux.net is down, but an other imgur frontend can still be used (e.g. imgur.artemislena.eu)
The figma design though cannot be viewed in any private way, though. It’s resistant to archive sites and the tor browser. If anyone could post a simple screenshot that would be appreciated.
i remember reading that tor maintainers don’t like it when people use the Tor network for torrenting, because it harms the network from a performance perspective
What do you think of all this?
I expected this from ExpressVPN and PIA, and I think Kappe was already known doing very shady things, but it’s a good reminder, and also there are most probably people who didn’t know yet
i don’t really think so. unplug the power to your PC and the lights will turn off soon
you aren’t. to me this is just PR