And definitely!

This is your way out of America’s big tech nightmare. Take it. Run with it. Never give it up.

Honestly every networking company that couldn’t be bothered to ship with randomized creds physically embedded/etched somewhere on the device should’ve probably went out of business. The cost has always been minimal and the increased security value has always been readily apparent.

Since you clearly plan on keeping this equipment for the long-term, you may be better served by a newer lower power option that will likely be more performant for less long term cost.

Annoying as well. Goodluck convincing anyone to change it.

Please, please win out. Microsoft is a fuckin scourge on computing. They deserve nothing and get everything with their monopolistic bs.

To be honest, this shift in our politics has been brutally quick and more federally far reaching than anything that happened while I was growing up. People used to be able to just exist. Camp in parks, sleep on benches, etc. This authoritarianism is… Somewhat new.

My word, those bots at the bottom of the chain… What’re we doing to our societial mental… I feel so cooked after raading that.

Bringing non-disposable technology to China is a mistake in most circumstances.

Zero tier. I went tailscale originally, and they’re good, but their mdns support doesn’t exist and several services rely on it. (For me, the showstopper was time machine backups)

About to be 6.0000001% when my Kubuntu download finishes. I’m finally taking the dive boys, linux on main here we go.

The year of the linux phone is almost upon us…

Tape drives will be expensive and likely beyond overkill for this. I’d recommend you grab a blue ray DVD writer and use that instead. The discs are generally shelf stable for 25 years and hold about 50-128GB depending on the disc. Duplicates are cheap, storage is relatively easy, and it doesn’t require constant upkeep/power like a hard drive would. Downsides? They just stopped making the discs, so they’ll grow in cost over time. That’s about it that I can think of.

To be fair to bottles, they cité that even their hosting costs are usually barely covered, so I imagine it’s running on a pretty lean/Foss dev budget already.

Actually, that depends on the llm product, as it’s very very rare to interact with a raw llm these days. Most use programmed toolsets now to perform certain tasks, chatgpt for example uses a Bing api to retrieve and link urls, so it’s as good as Bing for validation in that case. Which still is not very good. Most search engines actually suck at providing a secure experience for the end user. Google has gotten better, if not downright brilliant, but they don’t vet their ads (cashflow) like their linked urls so it’s a moot point to the end user in that case imo.

People use Google for urls and it continues to deliver malware to them, often even sponsored as “ads”. Not sure why chatgpt would be any different.

Depends on the drive too, I have some insanely loud Ironwolf drives and you would never guess they’re from the same manufacturer as my practically silent Exos X18s.

Looking at the network activity of a pixel device vs an iPhone at rest broke my soul.

I think of it as a lab because it’s my sandbox for me to do crazy server stuff at home that I’d never do on my production network at work, and I think that’s why the name stuck, because back when systems were expensive as heck it was pretty much just us sysadmin guys hauling home old gear to mess with.

The mountain of tech debt, cultural debt, and real debt this country has built up over the past few decades in service of the billionaire has allowed for a lot of insanity. Kind of feels almost intentional.