Blue Fish

Literally watched 1 man take his 5 or 6 wives onto an international flight. Upon boarding ground staff holding up passport to face lvel and matching picture to face for every passenger. When it got to the man and his wives they were just waved through without any check or knowing who they actually were. This was a muslim country but I don’t remember whether it was Malaysia or somewhere in Middle East. I never knew Muslims were able to travel internationally without even showing their face to an official.

that’s actually an epic idea for consumers. Not so epic for companies wanting to sell games though I guess

I’ve been using it on both mint and arch for probably almost a year. Generally works great apart from a couple of small things. On mint however it did voice typing and on Arch it just goes to clipboard and needs to be pasted. I haven’t looked for awhile but I think Anthropic have something to do with the coding of it. Article is blocked so can’t read that.

This is bullshit. Pros: saving a lot of plastic. Better for enviroment. Cons: The “you own nothing argument” I can’t resell my discs anymore, which is my main reason for buying actual discs.

Yes you’re right. When i did the math at the start i calculated it would pay for itself in a few years. However it’s kind of like a car. You get a car and you always want to add new rims, new turbo, new subwoofer etc. I added more ram which was needed anyway. Upgraded the SSD. Want to replace the old SATA. Bought a new HDD to backup too. Then it started to add up. My server is really small and basic too. Just a pre 2020 lenovo thinkcentre. Of course everyone is different too. If I were just hosting my data and not using it as a media downloader and player as well then I wouldn’t have really needed any of that extra stuff. Also you have to consider that liberating your data is a huge benefit even if financially it the numbers don’t look as good as you want. You can’t put a price on that.

A dumbass question maybe - Is this what the “keys” category in Bitwarden is meant for? I always thought it was for SSH related keys. I don’t encrypt by backup HDD as I don’t really care but this is kind of a good idea.

Getting sick of google having a degree of control over my data and the increasing AI being jammed down everyones throats. Combined with the keylogging keyboards and OS’s which are becoming more and more invasive by the month. Time for some liberation. I also enjoy learning coding, docker, networking etc. Cost is another factor. Although I could lie and say a 1 time fee for a server will be cheaper than Google One. Yeh it was at the start on paper but realistically after you upgrade drives and ram and buy backup drive etc it does start to add up.