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Lemmchen, to privacyguides in Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads

What are you talking about? Which phone has parental control abilities like that?

Lemmchen, to linux in Looking to switch to Linux in the somewhat distant future

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Lemmchen, (edited ) to datahoarder in A dozen or two TB of storage for media on the cheap?

Unfortunately I’m not familiar with the US market, but in Europe we have sites like Geizhals (“Skinflint” in the UK) that are excellent at listing electronics, so you could source them for cheap: internal drives, external drives

If whatever you end up doesn’t have enough 3.5" slots, you can get these things on ebay to use them as a hacked together external housing:
https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/d34e7bd0-5f78-4e3c-a5b7-56430e8482fb.png
You’d need to get the SATA cables out of your case though.

As for what drives to use: If you don’t need redundancy/parity, then a single 12 (14, 16, 18, whatever you need) TB SATA drive will probably beat everything else pricewise. I’d say that leaves you with roughly $300 for the system itself, if you need to buy a new one.

but doesn’t have any way of adding a bunch of drives

Well, you only really need one or two drives. Are you sure it doesn’t offer any SATA connections?
What about PCIe? You could use a cheap HBA card then.

Lemmchen, (edited ) to datahoarder in A dozen or two TB of storage for media on the cheap?

I’m running a Ryzen 7 2700X without any GPU acceleration and I can transcode any media just fine with Jellyfin.

Lemmchen, (edited ) to linux in Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

What system are we talking about here? The –no-preserve-root option is part of every modern release of rm.

Edit: Never mind, I didn’t read the post properly.

Lemmchen, (edited ) to linux in What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop?

I’d probably try a minimal Debian installation with the Openbox WM.

Link, in case you’re having trouble locating the .iso: …debian.org/…/debian-12.2.0-i386-netinst.iso

Lemmchen, (edited ) to privacy in Eleutheria, for more enjoyable private, and secure communication

I’ve used Jami recently to show my desktop to a family member that only had access to an Android TV. Worked surprisingly well.

Lemmchen, to piracy in I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

That’s what I meant to imply.

Lemmchen, to piracy in I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

can’t get on steam anymore

Can’t buy or can’t install anymore? Because that’s a huge difference in my book.

Lemmchen, to piracy in I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005)

Man, I loved that game. It was the last NFS I played, everything after that sucked donkey balls and required an Origin installation.
Any tips on how you got it to run? I have the ElAmigos release and I think I tried it once but didn’t have any success on the Deck.

Lemmchen, to piracy in I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

Also, slowly, their catalogues are removing some tracks due to licensing issues and I’ve already lost 20 songs from my library.

Honestly, this is what will eventually bring me to abandon Spotify. It sucks so hard not being able to listen to that one weird niche song you stumbled upon, but instantly fell in love with. And they never tell you “Hey, our license for this song is running out in six weeks and we won’t renew it. Better listen to it again while it lasts.”.
I wish I could just buy all the songs I favorited on Spotify and not have to deal with any of this absolute nonsense.

At the same time their recommendation engine is extremely good and that’s what makes it hard to abandon Spotify completely for me.

Lemmchen, to piracy in Uhhh oh

In software posted there, not in the forum software itself.

Lemmchen, to privacy in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly

Huh? You need an open port and a TLS certificate, that’s about it. If you’re CG-NATed you need some form of proxy in front, but that’s not Jellyfin’s fault.

Lemmchen, to privacy in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly

Ah sure, blame the victim.

Lemmchen, (edited ) to linux in How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?
  1. Use alternative that is FLOSS
  2. Use alternative in the browser
  3. Try WINE/Proton
  4. Use Windows VM
  5. Use dedicated Windows machine
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