The payment processors are far, far bigger that a few online game stores. Even Steam isn’t big enough to change their minds alone.

You can usually grow a partition online, even the one you’re booting from.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Grouping

I don’t see any mention of only being allowed to use a semicolon. I don’t have a test system handy unfortunately.

Ideally you’d simplify or separate your logic so that you’re not relying so much on bash. If you need complex logic, I’d use another language, depending on what’s available in your environment.

Yeah “bricked” means it’s as useful as a brick. If this is accurate, you can still use all the offline features, which is less bad than it’s previously been described.

It’s been a while, but ^S suspends output to the terminal and ^Q resumes, I think. I don’t know if it’s really supported in the modern era.

Let’s say there is no master server. How do peers find each other?

And you ripped and shared it, right?

There are options other than streaming sites. Your local library is a big one.

If it’s really obscure, I’ll often buy a copy and rip and seed it myself.

Don’t forget to seed your rips!

It sounds like you’re describing federated software like Lemmy, and tracker RSS feeds.

There are at least three VHS copies on ebay right now that I found pretty easily. Radarr found it on rutracker for me as well (though it looks like it might be dubbed).

edit: yeah it’s dubbed

If secure boot is off, and you run malware on your pc, it can change the boot process to escalate privileges.

This probably requires root or admin in the first place, but if they can install a malware loader, they can establish persistence so that even if you remove the os-level components, they’ll be reinstalled on reboot.

Not just old insecure, but current insecure too. Plenty of stuff runs fully current but still vulnerable code. Put it behind a firewall.

I’ve kind of wanted to do this: https://imgur.com/haxorus-created-from-broken-cds-Uot1FSF

Erythritol.

Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40459966/

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Yeah, residential ISPs do that because if they don’t, spammers will just turn every botnet member into a spam host. You’ll probably have to get a business connection or change ISPs.

Or just don’t self-host email. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re a masochist.

Even better would be to automatically install vlc-plugins-all for people upgrading, so that it preserves the existing behavior.

You can browse reddit logged out.

If you need to restore it, back it up.

How do you plan to restore if the whole drive dies?