This is the best way. My locker at work has my offsite backup on an encrypted+compressed portable drive. I have two drives that alternate offsite so they are never all in the one spot.

I use sound juicer. I used it this month.

I did use AudioGrabber at the turn of the century though.

Yeah. I’ve got friends that I’ve met through LAN groups. There’s even heaps of people who hang around in the same discord channels as my friends. Every now and then, we’ll find ourselves at the same BBQ and I’ll happily add them after that.

My raid has an nvme bcache on it, so it’s still fairly quick.

$100USD is just what it costs in Australia, because we get screwed for price over here.

Haha remember when CD burners came out and a $5 CD-R had the capacity of a $200 HDD?

The kid with access to a CD burner was the king of the playground.

It’s $100 for 4TB right now.

But once you factor in RAID and alternating offsite backups, it’s really $400 for 4TB.

I go through all the older stuff I pulled from the internet. A lot of it can’t be found now.

The DRM on Blu-Ray was too harsh so I skipped the format entirely. If I couldn’t put a disc into my HTPC (Linux) and press “play”, I wasn’t interested.

My biggest rule is not on your list:

• Only add friends that you have met in person.

Also, be sure to apply Richard Stallman’s privacy rules. To summarise, all data that leaves your device is effectively out of your control. Assume all of this data is captured and stored, and will be used against you at some point.

Sweet. This will likely mean extended GrapheneOS support too.

Strange. I have a displaylink box ar home. My Ubuntu machine works first time every time. My wife’s Windows 11 PC takes 10 minutes of stuffing around every time I try to connect it.

I’ve been running a relay from home for years. I think I’ll have a shot at this. I’m not sure we want Russians on tor right now though.

The client APK that I’m running appears unaffected.

It once played perfectly fine under WINE, then Roblox explicitly blocked it for no good reason.

Don’t get short with me, buddy!

Where I’m from, “dragged” means to be removed against your will.

You know, like “the pitcher got dragged after the first inning”.

I think you will find that VoLTE is neither wifi nor data. It’s a LTE voice connection. A VoWifi will fallback to it.

I’ve set mine up so that entering my PIN backwards will nuke it. At which point I can ask for my phone back.

Law enforcement have tools to bypass lockscreens and access the data on the device. They use backdoors and exploits, so older phones are more vulnerable. Most exploits only work if the phone has been unlocked at some point since it was booted.

This is why law enforcement keep them powered-on, and in a faraday cage. They are in a state with a better chance of unlock, but have no signal so nobody can remotely find/lock/wipe it.

18 hours by default.

You mean “Microsoft Terminal Services Client”?