I can eject USB drives in Linux! You click the button to unmount it, and it unmounts. This is some crazy technology right here, maybe one day Microsoft will catch up

Well will it run Winamp because I inadvertently read the title as Winamp and now I need it again

It’s worth it to include a couple extra points on the current ‘meta’ of seed boxes. A lot of these servers that people set up to serve as an inbetween to torrent then watch via jellyfin etc - they are being set up with weak security. Usually read access is left wide open to get all these services working on the same directory where the movies are. They assume there’s a little security through obscurity, but Google WILL manage to index this folder, and now when someone searches for that obscure 90s movie you torrented (with a few fun search arguments like intitle:), they’re now able to access all your downloads.

Sometimes these seed boxes have bandwidth use limits, where they might charge you if you suddenly use a few dozen TB, which will happen if you’re showing up on Google!

If they don’t have bandwidth limits, you still might land in hot water with your hosting co because you’re being a little loud with copyright infringement. You’re showing up on Google.

If you’re not too worried about either of these things, go ahead and be a hero, leave that shit wide open because…

If hosting a seedbox is way over your head or budget, just know a lot of them are left wide open for you to grab bits and pieces with near zero risk.

I heard the cartels have a sale this weekend on NVIDIA cards

Uninstalled uber last week when it told me to take a photo of my ID to ride. Next week I’ll hear about some Brazilian hacker that has 100 million US IDs from an uber leak. No thanks. Lyft will probably do the same thing soon, and I’ll unceremoniously dump their ass too.

Jellyfin. The HDDs were only ~$110 each. Seagate 5400s but w/e it’s mass storage. No raid, drives will just be filled, cloned, and the clone dropped into a second system, also with no windows 🤬

The magnets in HDDs are some of the strongest magnets you can find. I rip those out when I can, but I’m a packrat

Just finished building a new PC last night, 64GB RAM, 8GB vRAM, 2TB m.2, 8x8TB HDD, and windows will never goddamn touch it. It feels weird, but so far so good.

Imagine getting a bud light ad while you’re blowing into your ignition interlock device

What’s your best guess at how whatsapp manages to generate AI summaries of your private messages without ever reading the private messages?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-ai-summarize-your-whatsapp-chats

Even a cursory attempt at defending these companies is a bad joke.

to develop a customized and segregated area within Azure that has facilitated the army’s mass surveillance project.

Keeping with the example, the bus company spun up a separate assembly line to make busses specifically designed to rob banks.

Anyone that still uses any Facebook services are flatly a fucking moron. I don’t care about who you want to chat with once a year, you are a fucking moron.

How do they know its a scam account if they aren’t able to read your messages?

Soulseeks recommendation algorithm is top notch, almost organic. You click the ‘browse users files’ button.

I swear I’m not a tesla fan boy but I’m going to sit here and pull baseless excuses out of my ass for two paragraphs in order to defend this terrible company headed by a literal nazi.

— this entire fucking comment section

Don’t these keep a video record of every time a squirrel gets too close to the parked car?

Another m.2 under the dash isn’t going to kill the electric vehicles battery, this isn’t an excuse.

“Hold on, you gotta wait for another picture of a bus to load. Nevermind that it now inexplicably takes 10 seconds to load the fucking picture”

This shits already used by xfinity

https://www.xfinity.com/hub/smart-home/wifi-motion

Oh boy, I can’t wait for this new wave of paranoid customers claiming their wifi is watching them. Thanks, comcast.

Sim swap your parents. Nuke their social media.