Froyn
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You’re saying the test would work.
In 43+ years on this planet I’ve never HEARD someone seriously use “non sequitur” properly in a sentence.
Asking if the intention is sincere would be another flag given the circumstances (knowing they were being tested).
Toss in a couple real questions like: “What is the 42nd digit of pi?”, “What is the square root of -i ?”, and you’d find the AI pretty quick.
Must not be my neck of the woods (US). You mentioned the Pi, which is in my wheelhouse of “cheap”. Personally I’ve got a couple computers picked up from the local community college for $10 running TrueNAS and Proxmox.
My Google-Fu couldn’t find an R9 3900X for under $200, just the chip, used. I had hopes you had a better source I was missing out on.
I can’t find anything about VCR’s blocking; I did find a bunch saying the opposite.
There were copy protections that prevented a VHS -> VHS copy being made of some movies. Easily defeated, but they did exist.
My scenario was recording an Over The Air transmission onto VHS using a VCR; not making a backup copy of a movie you purchased on VHS.
Edit: I do recall a campaign against VHS recording of TV shows, but didn’t it ended basically saying “Broadcast public == public domain”?. That actually led to copy protections in VHS tapes.
Let’s get crazier.
Our current favorite show is Bob’s Burgers, it’s a comfort show we fall asleep to. Prior to signing up with real debrid I got tagged for downloading a 2 year old episode.
We pay for Hulu. We pay for YoutubeTV. We have a working OTA antenna (for when the internet goes out).
My math says I have 3 licenses, yet still illegal to download?
Consumers of the software want one thing. C-Suite doesn’t know what they want, but want to be involved in every step dictating terms. Designers are caught in the cross-fire (if they even get a chance to get consumer input). C-Suite pulls the paycheck trump card to get what they want then cry, “Why do they hate our software?”
There’s a true story behind the song:
https://news.wgcu.org/2022-03-17/song-of-the-day-for-march-18-30-000-pounds-of-bananas-by-harry-chapin
Then the song itself:
Harry Chapin - Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGldNpngDws
It would make sense if you’re using your main machine to test the waters with to see if it’s worth getting invested.
So your pihole as an example would work as follows:
- Install Docker.
- Follow the docs to install the container/image/etc. for pihole
- Change your home router’s DNS entries to now START with your main machine.
--Your main machine goes offline for the night, your home router uses the secondary as does everything else that’s now been taught by DHCP to use your main machine for primary DNS. - Make your call and break it all back to where it started.
With the primary DNS being a “local”, I can’t imagine it taking that long to realize it’s offline and change to the secondary DNS on most devices. Make sure you set your “main machine” to a Static/DHCP Reserved IP on the home router, as a good general practice.
Other things I self-host are media related. I like to watch media from bed instead of in front of the computer. I turn my computer off when I’m not at it.
I could see if you were like hosting a local repository maybe. Like you want that whole “self-hosted” GitHub experience. That would be a decent use case for main machine hosting. Or VMs for testing different environments.
Right, it’s just the side-bar makes the distinction between “online services” and “self-hosted” so I wasn’t sure.
A place to share alternatives to popular_ online services_ that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.