Bullshit article when they make claims like this:

Critically, Apple TV boxes are also an easy recommendation on the privacy front.

Apple is no more privacy-friendly than anyone else. And while you may not see all the ads you do on other platforms, try booting an Apple TV with no account on it - immediately goes to ads for Apple’s own streaming.

Apple TV boxes don’t have automatic content recognition (ACR).

They may not, but your smart TV still does, and still runs it against anything the AppleTV sends to it.

One word: tracking

That still means all your chats are identifiable to your phone number.

For an org that claims they’re interested in privacy, that’s a major contradiction.

I just loaded it, goes to the website linuxupskillchallenge.org

Meta wants to scan all your messages

There’s a free, 30 day program for learning Linux that may help, The Linux Upskill Challenge.

I like that it walks you through doing stuff, step by step, starting with foundations and building on it.

Depends on how old.

By the late 20-teens, stuff got a lot more power friendly. I have a 2017 Dell desktop that idles at 18w with an 8TB drive inside. Marginally more than my NAS.

Though I’m not disagreeing, you definitely need to check that first. It’s why I retired my really old desktop that was my prior server - it idled at 100w+. Ouch.

They addressed a single-user OS at the time. Abstraction like this at the time worked. It wasn’t like these machines were expected to be able to do more.

Legacy stuff just kind of sucks.

I’d say we probably have 86DOS to thank for it.

A short summary at the start would be helpful, otherwise this is a wall of text that isn’t inviting.

Great info, just too much at once. For example, I’ve tried most of these, so I don’t feel like digging through all this to figure out if you found the same things.

We don’t even know at the beginning how many, or which ones you tried, or what high level requirements you worked with.

Just go outside (if you’re in a zone that has enough annual sun). At least in the summer months.

That’s the best source, as it helps your body produce the specific form it needs (because there are a few).

Supplementation only works when there’s a massive deficit, as it’s not necessarily the exact form a given person needs.

An automatic centerpunch is a better tool for this by a long shot.

I couldn’t see a port like that without magnification, and it’s hard to get light with magnification just right.

I can see this being useful for things where I just can’t get the magnifyer, light and my head in the right spot. Though it would be better as a borescope connected to my phone (via USB rather than this thing’s WiFi). Which you can get for about the same price.

I should fucking hope so.

Ya all got suckered into this stuff because admin is a bunch of complacent people.

I was telling about this in the late 90’s,and everyone called me a crank.

Suddenly you realize you got in bed with the wrong person… Ffs

I mean, yea, have you never had deep-fried turkey? You’re missing out!

We can thank eastern Europe for schnitzel (which is fantastic, I make it all the time) - deep fried turkey is essentially the same family of cooking, just using total immersion frying, like we do for so many other foods.

But I’d set this thing up outside, on concrete, using a metal table, with a good extinguisher handy. (Which is how deep fried turkey should always be made).

Part of why I root is to block them using Ad-away.

Neat approach to dealing with the clean out.

Glad you went with concrete, it really is the best answer. Even if it was imperfect, it’s would still be better than wood, since it’s not structural.

I’m not seeing a strongly worded “we don’t collect your data, all your data is encrypted and we can’t access it”, so I’m calling this Yet Another Massive Data Collector, unless they say otherwise, and show how they aren’t.

Funny, they’ve been doing this since long before the Trump admin.

Not really.

They all now have computers with data connections to report car metrics.

Rule 2 of car ownership: never take it to the dealer for maintenance. Find a local shop and build a relationship with them.

Rule 1 is never buy a new car/buy a car from a branded dealer. Cars lose up to 30% of their value when first purchased. Several years ago I bought a 3 year old car for half it’s new value - that’s how much they depreciate (a Honda no less). Brand dealers are pros at screwing you over.