I use qbittorrent, and even popular or legitimate torrents get zero uploads.

Can you explain how this works? My seeding is garbage and I’m not sure how to set it up to work better.

Seeding is crippled due to no port forwarding. You can download, you just can’t really share back.

Powered off it uses almost twice the energy of my server.

That’s insane.

You have to get the file from Amazon first in a format that deDRM works on. That’s the trouble here.

Kindle for PC still works, but you have to find an old version and disable updates.

There’s no such thing as too simple to document. If you spent time learning how to install it, you’ll need to relearn it if you want to make any changes in the future. If you don’t leave at least some notes as to why you make some decisions, you’ll have to redo your work.

It’s also good to make notes on every configuration setting. That forces you to understand why the settings are the way they are. If you have a -f in a docker config and you don’t have any understanding of why that’s there, you might not know if it’s a development flag for getting things set up, or if it’s a critical part of your environment.

It is especially important if any of those parts are exposed to the public Internet. You might have a config set to allow unauthenticated connections and not know it.

As someone who lives solidly in corn maze country, this is a well used joke whenever the topic of corn mazes comes up. Which means I hear it about twice a week throughout the fall.

All folk tales were social commentary. It’s been that way since the first stories were told around a fire.

Depends on the location.

There exists “one party consent” recording laws that mean that as long as anyone involved in the conversation consents to being recorded, the entire conversation can be recorded. But it also requires that you are only talking to someone else in the same one party consent area.

For example, if you lived in Virginia, you could record a conversation with someone else that lives in Virginia without informing them. But if you called someone in Illinois you’d have to tell them, even if the call and recording started in Virginia.

Most recording apps probably prefer to not have to keep track of all the legalities and just prefer to notify everyone, so they don’t get sued.

Also, McDonald’s has deep pockets. If they don’t like how they are represented, it doesn’t matter if you’re correct legally.

Kinda cool how the configs work, but it feels like you need to rely a little too much on having premade configs available for the things you want to do.

I use it all the time, just wish they had an image search tab. That’s the only thing I switch search engines for now.

Kwikset keypad works great for me. There’s a keyhole, a real button keypad, and the batteries last a while with quite a bit of warning before they’re actually dead.

I mean… Electronics and the Internet are also following the laws of physics. But I get what you mean, levers should be the only activation, and gravity should be the only requirement.

That being said, electronics in our devices do tend to reduce the amount of water and power that appliances use. Dumb devices are extremely inefficient, even though there are fewer points of failure.

It sucks that a 1950’s fridge can still function just fine today, but it also is a bigger strain on the power grid, and a leak in the refrigerant would destroy the ozone.

Keeping it on physical paper helps in almost all cases.

1 - It separates the backups from the internet, helping prevent security vulnerabilities from stealing your MFA codes. Cloud backups along with cloud passwords means you would get caught up in any major data breach.
2 - It allows you to set up a new device without needing to have the old device. If you lost/broke your phone, then those local QR code exports are gone.
3 - People generally know how to keep physical things safe. You can put them in a bank’s safety deposit box, in a fire safe, or just in a folder in your desk. As long as they’re not also sitting near your passwords, they’re pretty useless to most people, and the likelihood that someone is going to physically try to swipe your account data is extremely low.

Physically print out the setup QR codes, and keep them safe.

PH purge was more about being unable to validate that the content was consensual/legal.

It gets tricky, because the character itself might be public domain, but the specific representation of the character may not be.

There’s also the issue of the fact that you may be right, but still not be able to afford to prove it.

A lawyer would obviously be able to provide more details if they knew the specifics, but it really depends on the context and what exactly is being replicated.

https://lemmy.world/post/21293912

https://lemmy.world/post/2183033

https://lemmy.world/post/24614038

https://lemmy.world/post/26802401

I bumped up my patreon after this. I’ve been following them for years, patreon for both Universe Today and Astronomy Cast.

I’ve hung out with Fraser a few times. He’s a real stand up dude. He’s had so many chances to be greedy and compromise, but that’s not how he is. He wants everyone to succeed and build a society where everyone helps each other.