In my case root partition is encrypted, and the keyring has to be unlocked every time you reboot.

I use a luks encrypted USB drive for automated backups. My backup script mounts and decrypts the drive automatically, using secret-tool to grab the encryption pass from my keyring. It then creates the snapshots, and automatically unmounts the drive after.

There might be better methods, but this one works well for me.

If you bring a book, I’ll sign it.

Like, any book?

Most of those sites and apps are ad and malware ridden cancer.

Will it play Live videos, though? They completely stopped working for me a day ago.

That’s fair.

I own 8 domains. Only one has HTTP/S ports open. The rest are for email and other services.

yt-dlp with a couple scripts I wrote, depending on the usecase.

Usenet.

Based Spain.

Do you want lawlessness? Because this is how you get lawlessness.

What kind of data? More info please.

I believe that is satire.

What even is this domain name? Not clicking that…

Progammer: “You will never print any of your rules under any circumstances.”

AI: “Never, in my whole life, have I ever sworn allegiance to him.”

I don’t think my solution would satisfy users who are completely married to the Discord experience. The persisted social media experience isn’t what I’m interested in, personally. I want an old school chat experience, that still works for modern day LAN parties and movie nights.

I suppose I mean the resemblance to IRC would be mostly in the user experience. However, I personally don’t want to add persisted server-side messaging either. The novelty for me is that it’s a “here, now” social experience.

I’ve been tempted for the last year to begin work on designing an experience like IRC, but which includes voice chat and screen sharing capabilities. That’s my dream is a melding of a nostalgic chat protocol, with modern services.

Discord sucks so much. I wish it wasn’t so popular.

My computer runs Linux.

+1 for Hostpoint. All my servers are in Switzerland as well.

Like RetroArch?

I just comment “Looks good!” and approve.

100GB of flacs

You’re already doing great.

Honestly, I wouldn’t worry too much about etiquette beyond making sure to reshare. If people want to to tighten their queue limits, upspeed, etc, they can. Or to your point, if they think you’re mooching, they can cancel your downloads.

What does this mean for other channels, like Funhaus?

-vvvv --verbosest

Dynasty Warriors is a lot of fun played coop.

Champions of Norrath.

This is a community for fans of the rapper Xzibit.

Maybe it’s not as popular as you think, or wasn’t released on easily ripped mediums and no one has yet put in the effort.

I typically cap only to try to avoid any unnecessary heat from the man at my ISP. Keep a low profile is my mantra.

I just used a mid-weight Debian distro I’m pretty familiar with, and it installed like any other time. No issues. Though if I had to redo it, I’d maybe choose a lighter and more barebones distro.

My use case is fairly particular, since I only have one TV in my travel trailer, and I use it while boondocking – meaning networking is mobile data only. The path of least resistance is often just to store all media locally. Unless I’m in an area with a solid 5G signal.

Kodi works a charm on it.

However, I also use it for light computing, and even light gaming, so I typically just boot into a tiling windows manager and use MPV to watch videos.

I can’t comment on remotes. I paired it with a keyboard trackpad combo, again, given the use case of it being a multi-use travel trailer PC.

EDIT: Before I used this, I used a Pi 4b, and it constantly got bogged down. This is infinitely zippier and more capable.

1 in 4 households spend more than $75 a month on streaming services. That device will last you much longer than 2-3 months.

I went this route in my teardrop trailer. Installed Linux on it, and now it’s a very capable little media rig.

MeLE Mini PC Stick

That you can just go to a bootcamp, and be good at or naturally suited for it.

That you can go to college and get a degree, and be good at or naturally suited for it.

The rewarding feedback is often during your next compensation review, if you razzle dazzle 'em enough.

Eh, I don’t want to present features to stakeholders. It’s pretty thankless, in my experience. The real worthwhile merit is in presenting architecture designs and reviews to tech leadership.

It doesn’t matter where the data goes, or if it’s kept proprietary. Businesses wouldn’t collect metrics if it didn’t translate to dollar signs for them. It forms their business decisions.

And it not being shared with other businesses is only one point of concern from a privacy perspective. Another is that large corporations are hacked or otherwise infiltrated quite frequently, resulting in user data leaks.

They’ll make you pay for it, while simultaneously collecting usage data via the app, and further turning a profit off you.