Back when Craigslist had personals ads I answered one saying that I had 10 laptop computers and no facebook account, and I actually got a couple of dates that way. Not everyone wants corporate media.

I’ve been chatting (non romantically) with someone I met on another forum, who is about the same way. No facebook or reddit or anything, not even Lemmy, just a few niche forums.

I will never tire of pasting this:

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

10-15 meters might be good enough to conduct the attack from a neighboring office or apartment, while actual eavesdropping is not so easy.

So glad I use wired earbuds and refused to buy a phone that didn’t support them.

I guess it’s a question of how much hassle it’s worth. I did a messy data recovery of a crashed database for a work client once, but it involved a lot of trial and error and writing special purpose code, plus considerable luck that some things worked better than I had a right to expect. Cost of something like that would be in the multi kilobucks, maybe low 5 figures. We got almost all the data back, though not 100%.

Maybe just put that HDD aside and replace it with a new one, and deal slowly with recovering the data as you get the time to mess with it. Also don’t do any write operations on the old drive. Maybe copy it entirely to someplace and work on the copy. In fact better do that anyway, HD’s physically crash all the time.

I think of cloud storage as meaning automatic synchronization to a phone app and crap like that. If you just want plain storage, I’m happy with Hetzner Storage Box. The one I have is in EU so that adds some network latency. I don’t think they have it in the US yet.

You could also go on lowenspirit.com and look at storage offers. servarica.ca has some nice ones that are supposed to be good, but I haven’t tried them myself. They are in the Montreal area.

No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.

The Geotrust queries might be OCSP checks which is somewhat legitimate. OCSP is a scheme for checking (via a server query) that a TLS certificate is still valid (hasn’t been revoked) before accepting it. It is or was somewhat mandatory for EV (extended validation) certificates that were fashionable for entities like banks for a while. Without OCSP (like if you disabled it in your browser preferences), EV certificates worked like ordinary certificates instead of showing the company name on a highlighted green background.

Today, people are mostly ignoring that stuff in favor of shorter and shorter expiration periods for certificates.

Sometimes they are on a remote server that I sshfs mount and play the same way. Multiple people could use the server at the same time if desired, though for me it hasn’t been an issue. It’s audio, I don’t need a visual UI for it. I still have a fair amount of physical media too including LP’s, though my record player is long gone.

Anyway, be happy that I didn’t mention FORTH :).

I just don’t get it, I’ve seen people struggle with itunes, that stuff is way too complicated and I don’t see any need for it. Maybe I’m missing something but if I want to play some music and it’s in a file, saying “play this file” seems about as direct as it gets.

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

I just have a bunch of media files (.ogg, .mp3, etc.) in directories and play them with mplayer from the command line. Playlist = shell script that plays some group of files. I use old school track numbering (01-whatever, 02-whatsit, etc.) though, so most of the time “mplayer *” is how I play an album and the tracks play automatically in the right order. I don’t understand the purpose of anything fancier. Now get off my lawn.

strip out the HDCP

Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn’t kept up with what was actually around.

But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you’ll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.

We’ll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven’t made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.

I think I’ve seen some things like that, but you can never stop them from taking a screen shot, with a camera if necessary.

can’t stop us from HDMI capturing

Look up HDCP.

Reddit probably beats Facebook but it’s getting worse all the time. If you want to use Lemmy you might consider running your own instance. Lemmy as far as I can tell has usable photo uploading. Maybe the new thing you mentioned will be better, but idk anything about it. There is also Threads which is a Facebook thing, right?

If you have the time for it I’d say run an independent site. Lemmy is ok for posting photos though.

I didn’t understand the original post. It seemed like someone whining about a switch to AGPL. But that switch certainly sounds like a good thing to me. I didn’t know the old license was Apache but it still seems like a good switch. Redis (with a misstep in between) did something similar.

This almost seems like a leopards ate my face situation. I remember Plex supplanted some other proprietary media server that went evil. I couldn’t understand why people burned by the first one switched en masse to another one like it. Once wasn’t enough? If you’re going to switch at all, go to something that is 100% libre.

I never heard of ircv3 before. TIL. But, some parts of it don’t seem irc-like, and sacrifice the aspects that have made me stay on irc all this time. Hmm. I’ll look at it more later.

https://ircv3.net/

Maybe nextcloud? IDK I just use Borg. But Nextcloud allows that type of syncing that you describe, I think. I run a small nextcloud server for other purposes and don’t use that feature.