Peer to the best f****** amazing, But your average windows user isn’t going to be able to mention the hosting. And your average ISP blocks standard hosting ports. Then it also requires the users to manage their own monetization.

It’s not undoable but it is kind of a steep slope.

For years they’ve managed to keep their indexing (think html, not torrent) online by separating out the indexing from the actual storage. They’ve only changed URLs once in recent memory. Throughout the years they’ve stored content in various places. Protected safe havens, compromised websites, and ipfs.

There are still a lot of places in the world where hosting a link to data is not illegal.

Well through whatever methods required it looks like the publishers finally managed to shut down the search/hosting on wherever .is was pointing to.

There is a static IPFS index laying around somewhere so technically the content’s still quite available. Along with Torrents.

Well they finally managed to bring it back up somewhere and I don’t even care to go and figure out where that is. Just glad they’re still around.

Inside the nominal return period for a device absolutely.

If it’s a warranty repair I’ll wait for an actual trend, maybe run a burn-in on it and force its hand.

Shit, that might get you banned here as well… /s

Trump says Putin says

Looks like Crude Oil Tax would be FAR more effective.

This sheer irony of that on boring dystopia

• Rlyeh -host/nas
• Cthulhu
• Yog
• Yibb
• Hastur
• Hotep
• Cylitha

They’re red flag, but even if their stayed purpose is correct at the moment, it sets the stage. All it takes now is a want to sell the data and there’s nothing to slow them down or tell us. Nothing to make them keep the setting to not share telemetry. A little baked in ai, some hooks to monitor …

Jumping ship to a fork is our only recourse. It’s that or ride it out and see if the gun is loaded.

I do have some concerns about polarizing the light. If I can get a hold of some cheap filter material I might be inclined to do some tests. Maybe I can rescue the polarizer out of an old LCD TV.

Polarizing’s not completely magic, It does seriously reduce the amount of light coming in. There’s just usually enough light around that it doesn’t affect us, our pupils dilate a fraction of a fraction and it’s no big deal.

But at night when there’s already relatively little light out, It does reduce the overall light amount.

I’m also concerned that any light that bounces off something but maintains the polarization will be blocked, so there will be a higher chance of you not being able to see some percentage of your own headlight illumination, I would think that the average diffraction off everything in front of you would thoroughly destroy the coalescence of polarization but I don’t really know for sure, it’s possible that would make your own headlights less effective to you.

I suspect if we were thinking about this in the '50s if it were viable somebody would have pulled it off by now. But we only have had windshield sized polarizers in TVs for maybe a decades so maybe?

But check the date this is a very old idea. Would probably make a very interesting YouTube video or two

https://www.polarization.com/land/land.html

And we drive all LED elements at 100% of their rated value, no matter what. there used to be a Youtuber that rewired electronic things and dimmed all the lights as he was going through them, it’s been ages since I’ve see him tho.

Geographically perhaps…

I remember going to Niagara. It was summer and kinda not all that hot. Home was in the 90’s. It pinged my brain, this is like a heatwave to these people…

I don’t think we should be doing this in the middle of winter. Plus it’s going to affect blue states

US citizen here, in a blue state. Do it, you’re doing us a favor. Let’s get those guys up there to get out the pitchforks, let’s see people freezing on the news.

The current blue is purple, let’s make it blue again.

Libs need to be in the streets. The Maga viewpoint will fall as the stock market shutters and their kids are in danger of getting drafted to fight a war on two sides.

Quite a few model years of Synology were stricken with a network transceiver issue where they would just stop talking randomly.

I have two WD-EX4’s and the six bay Synology, and none of them have the kind of uptime I get out of my unraid.

If you want something rock solid I would probably scratch build a box with truenas

The opposite of self-hosted would be managed service.

You run it yourself at your own location however you want it

Vs

Someone runs it for you at their location. However the want it

VPS is someone loans you a VM at their location that you run yourself however you want to.

It’s still relevant to self-hosted because you still have to do all the work, you were just using their network, power, air conditioning, hardware and fire suppression. You’re still in the hook for installs and patches, configuration, and software issues.

Most likely themselves…

I’m only dealing with desktop browsers in this and trying to type with autocomplete from an uncomfortable position. I’m fairly certain privacy doesn’t really exist in OTC Android.