I've found that for single person purposes, a RAID array is unnecessary. I just buy beefy 8TB drives. If it dies, just download any recent torrents again or pull a backup

So, you can work around these things but you're going to run into problems if you do:

-If you reset the router, you need to restore the original password else they'll know

-if they notice you using these devices when you wouldn't have access, they'll remove them further from your reach. Possibly permanently.

-If detected, a larger conflict is likely to be escalated. This includes a loss of the benefit of the doubt in the future.

I'd suggest that this is not the battle to fight. They're likely fighting your apparent obsession with tech. Let them have this battle and continue your fun later.

Try the Stormlight Archive, wheel of time, or mistborn books. Maybe the redwall books if you're younger. Fun and focus can still be had without a computer!

I've been spending some time considering the future technology stack of Beehaw. I'd love to work on some kind of moderation tools, especially because I know that they could be inserted alongside the existing codebase - even if in an exceedingly hacky way. Heck, even client side site scraping with content matching is an option if for some horrible reason we had to.

The fun part is not being able to ask those who run the server about specifics for what's needed.

Computer Science student here.

Forking Lemmy does fork its bad habits but doing so would at least give us the option of making direct improvements to the mod tools.

From what I've read, causing deleted content to get deleted quickly is a smaller change. Advertising that shortened deletion delay and giving the admins a "these keep our shit, yeet their federation privileges but check again every day and notify me when that changes" script wouldn't be too hard to create.

We might even be better off ignoring the Lemmy codebase for mod tools altogether. If we outright ignore cross-platform compatibility, we can make a mod tools API independent of Lemmy-proper that does what's needed and a JavaScript-controlled interface to sit on top or a separate toolset altogether.

I'm pretty busy right now but I rely on Beehaw for decent social media. I'd be willing to put a bit of time into it.

I'd act like it never happened. If they recognize that they got weird, then they deserve some dignity. If they don't, then I don't want to get into that hot mess.

This is the most bougie hamster I've ever seen

It's pretty easy to just not put the AI tag on things, or to strip such things away from an image.

The point of a digital signature is to announce that you made this document, as it exists at the time of writing. Once a change is made it should no longer identify as signed.

Most institutions don't use this functionality, despite the usefulness of it. At present, I'd recommend using it for publicly distributed files to protect against bad actors publishing a document that pretends to be yours.

As for legally binding, ask a lawyer. Generally, things are legally binding if they're signed by all parties. The specifics get funky, but a digital signature is a solid step for announcing that you did this thing at this datetime and a judge should recognize that if it comes down to it. Bonus points if all parties attach their digital signatures.

They do more than just tie hard drives together with a string. They build custom server hardware, maintain data center infrastructure including cooling and networking, pay their employees (the biggest cost), and all the overhead of running a business.

20% increase in one go is rather normal. Business tend to do one big price increase instead of constant small ones because our brains don't see them billing efficiently relative to their costs, they see only a bunch of tiny price increases.

Sounds like you're not familiar with driving in the US. Passing along the shoulder is both illegal and incredibly dangerous. These long roads without passing lanes, often with frequent curves making a safe line of sight for passing impossible, create a situation in which courtesy is suggested: if traffic builds up behind while you travel drastically below the nominal speed of traffic with no opportunity to pass coming up, pull over to let them pass.

Unfortunately, the middle of nowhere exists and that's where people tend to vacation when they want to exist outside of a concrete jungle. The middle of nowhere also lacks funding for significant road infrastructure; that will not change and changing it would be so inordinately expensive that doing so would be foolish. The answer here is simple courtesy as a driver.

Also, emergency vehicles aren't going to be stuck behind am RV - they obligate everyone to pull over by law. The issue is that emergency vehicles do not exist in these areas. None. No help available. No funding, no people to do the job. The US is vast and significant portions of land exist with barely any residents.

You can also be sure that hospitals are at least an hour's drive away in these locations where no opportunity to pass exists. There's no way around it: someone impeding the flow of traffic significantly without allowing faster traffic to pass is dangerous, both because of emergencies and the inevitable human tendency to pass in risky situations due to frustration.

Easy! Being stuck behind a slow moving vehicle over significant distances, especially on long stretches where passing is not viable, results in notably greater travel time; often increasing trip duration by 25%, more if RVs cover the entire stretch.

An RV driver can stop anywhere in the comfort of their RV to eat food, use their restroom, stretch on their mattress for a nap. A driver in a car often deals with unsanitary and often broken facilities along those long countryside stretches. I have IBS; an RV can extend the time I have to experience gut-stabbing pain by half an hour only to reach a clogged toilet with blood smeared everywhere and then I'm stuck behind them again or I have to go use leaves in a bush.

Point is, sometimes people are in situations where getting somewhere faster is important and we've not even considering medical emergencies where every minute counts and emergency services are too far distant to intervene, if cell signal exists at all to reach them. RVs usually won't pull over to allow a person to pass despite their signals. It's just a shitty situation and the alternative presented by most who are free of disabilities, not going out to enjoy one's life in the fullest manner possible, at best lacks empathy.

Terminal isn't over complicated, it's the most basic interaction with operating systems and was the first mainstream UI to ever exist because it's a natural extension of what interacting with a computer truly is.

Terminal has very basic, particular syntax: Command [required parameters]

It has some useful additions as well, like

| to pass the output of the precious command to another command

> to write to a file

< to read from a file

This basic structure allows additional tools to be installed and run without having to learn a unique GUI with all the quirks of the GUI designer for each application. You just add new commands and move on with your life, maybe referencing the manual page to check which parameters you need.

Windows has a very particular GUI design that everyone knows because of the way Microsoft captured the market in the early days, before laws prevented them from doing so. Windows is esoteric, it has a variety of GUI philosophies all jumbled together. Explorer/control panel exists next to "Metro" apps, now "Windows apps" and they both do separate things without ever integrating the two properly.

Windows is arcane and understanding it fully is thousands of hours of practice, if you actually try new things. Linux is perfectly usable from command line with just a few dozens of hours of practice.

I say all this as a primarily Windows desktop user who uses Linux when it comes to actually getting things done. If we taught Linux to our children in schools and if businesses provided as much Linux training to workers as they do windows training, the discussion we'd be having would be about how windows is too complicated and just needs a UI similar to the ones available with Linux.