I bought my first TiVo back in… 2002?

I had to use my work landline to do the initial setup, but then I used a USB Ethernet jack for the rest. You had to do some fancy remote secret code, but it worked just fine.

Also was able to use disc mirroring to make a new, much larger, hard drive, so we could record essentially unlimited TV.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/product_id-17153/Microsoft-Windows-7.html

There’s always going to be vulnerabilities, that’s why they’re ending support. They don’t want to spend time updating an OS they don’t want people using.

Windows 10 is probably fairly secure… today. In 2 years, someone might discover a new vulnerability, and you won’t get the update. If there’s a new way to do web security and the browsers need OS support to implement it, you’ll be stuck on legacy security settings.

I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.

Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.

They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.

I use rsync to backup, I can delete and restore the whole drive if i want at any time.

I use watchtower to keep things updated. If you schedule the rsync and watchtower correctly, you can get the backup done before the upgrade and there’s basically no lost data with the rollback.

I use uptime Kuma for monitoring, and it shoots me an email with details on what failed.

I automate my upgrades, but I also automate my backups, and monitoring.

If an upgrade breaks something, my health monitor lets me know and I can roll back to the previous day.

You can also manually add or remove search engines (at least in current Mozilla releases)

Mozilla VPN, which uses Mullvad on the backend, is cheaper if you do the annual plan.

Yeah, for $1,000 with no memory or hard drives, plus it idles at 50 watts.

Well, for one, some YouTubers made a cheap, open source VR headset. That was pretty neat.

I run it. It’s good if you want to just host the books. Share my 2k size ebook library with my group of friends.

No, this is completely different. Incognito mode deletes all browsing data (locally) once the window closes.

This allows you to say, be logged into Facebook on one profile, logged into Google on a different profile, and logged into your daily browsing in a third profile. Or you can have multiple logged in YouTube sessions in case you’re a content creator, you can have a profile for each of your channels.

This way the cookies for each aren’t intermixed, and it would make it (slightly) harder to correlate browsing habits from embedded cookies or logged in sessions, or just to keep tabs and browsing history separate.

BNC connections were used on professional level video equipment, if you were rich enough, you could get an extremely high quality computer monitor and video card that used those.

Older computers, especially early home computers sometimes just had composite connectors to a TV. Older computer monitors often had a composite input, but SCART was also an option.

Higher end computer monitors sometimes had similar inputs to early HDTVs, there’s a lot of crossover.

If you were rich enough, could have only used displays with RGB-BNC.

Or maybe they’re kinda crazy and used Component video with a TV screen. (Or composite…)

Or maybe they’re just not that old.

They also don’t have that data. Who you talk to and when it also concealed from them.

Check out their blog article about “Sealed Sender” from back in 2018.
https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

Also note that the EFF encourages the use of Signal.
https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal

Ok. The answer is yes.

But the context is what makes it interesting.

With the AnyAustin videos, it’s the journey, not the answer.

If you just want a yes/no, this isn’t the video for you.

This is the technology community. If you’re not interested in reading about new and groundbreaking tech, maybe you should block this one, start a consumerism community, all about stuff you can buy.

The rest of us are quite happy reading about potential ideas and research that may or may not become something profitable.

There’s a lot to be said for the late 90’s. Post Cold War, but pre 9/11.

It’s not perfect for everyone, especially if you’re LGBT+, but it’s got a lot going for it.