I was an idiot and bought a high end TPLink router, I can’t even use Vlans without signing up for their back door service.

Hm, at least with their enterprise equipment you can completely disable Omada.

Enshittification is inevitable for all free services (services as in with a server component).

No, it is not that bleak. It is only inevitable when there is an active push for a short-term maximization of user base monetization (which is very much in the nature of VC). It can usually be avoided with products that are wholly under the ownership of all users (such as a cooperative or a government-provided service) or - only if one is lucky - with products of financially independent private enterprises under vaguely benevolent and unhurried leadership (such as Steam, to some extent)

I used to have a (high-ranking and well-educated) foreign colleague who used to think that the “Main” indeed signified that this was the bigger and more significant of multiple Frankfurts.
I honestly can’t blame him, it was a deceptivley plausible misconception.

You have met your sq quota

At this point you’re only adding to the pile of questions I have 😜

Because it would remove the offending information from being viewed by his sensitive eyes.

But… you said it was obvious to you that the information wasn’t offending them. So what problem would this solve?

Thank you captain obvious.

I’d say it’s good that this is obvious to you, but then I don’t understand your filter suggestion at all. Is it a reference to something?

You could filter it on your end

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suspect that the implied problems with holocaust denial and Nazism aren’t that they’re offensive to individuals but that the ideas are allowed to continue to exist, be practiced and eat away at society. “Filtering it out on one’s end” wouldn’t really address that.
@[email protected] may correct me if I’m far off.

Watching this post. I still don’t fully understand how Usenet works.

It’s ok not to understand something, that’s always the default. And I’ll try to support that sentiment by admitting: me neither! 😅

Monetary needs and all that. If it’s a startup with VC then there is either not enough people paying or not enough private users supporting by other means like bug fixing, support, etc. Or greed by VC.

Well, VC is greedy by design. A VC-funded business will never be optimized for longevity, a good product or happy customers. They may achieve those things en passant, but they’re never the objective.

For example: Any case of “there is not enough people paying” can also be rendered as “the scale and moving speed of the business is way off”.

Hm, so usenet might be a bad idea if I were looking for old RPG rulebooks and adventure collections for Das Schwarze Auge, for example? That’s too bad, I had considered signing up just for that, as the selection on Anna’s archive is most incomplete.

Kind of offtopic: Can we call something offline if you need a server to run it?

Sure, you could run it on your own PC and that’s it, but I don’t think that method fit well with this community

Er… maybe I am misunderstanding your post but this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.

Complete Das Schwarze Auge (role playing system) Adventure compilations. There are individual documents floating about, but most seem not be available.

The Microsoft account holds a backup of the recovery key, which you need to use to restore access in if you do something like significantly change the hardware or move the drive to a different system (which are effectively the same thing).

You don’t need it for day-to-day use of the system, and you can also just get the recovery key and print it out or write it down somewhere, which is usually how it’s handled on systems that don’t use a Microsoft account.

Not as disastrous as I assumed then, thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks!
As I understand it this shouldn’t concern me if my backups are full disk images via Clonezilla, as those should already include the LUKS header, correct?

Some of the things mentioned in the OP don’t actually happen in real life, though. Bitlocker is only automatically activated if you use a Microsoft account to log in, and why wouldn’t you know the account credentials if it’s what you use to log in?

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here, but does this whole thing not mean that the moment you use your Microsoft account for logging in, you immediately tie the permanent accessibility of your local files to you retaining access to a cloud account?

TPM is optional (but recommended) for Bitlocker. Practically every computer released in the past 10 years has TPM support. Secure boot is needed to ensure that the boot is secure and thus it’s okay to load the encryption key. Without it, a rootkit could be injected that steals the encryption key. You generally want to use TPM and secure boot on Linux too, not just on Windows. You need secure boot to prevent an “evil maid attack”

You have different opinions on TPM and the prevalence of evil maids than me, fair. But please don’t disregard the central premise of my last comment: One is already using a different encryption solution. Say, Veracrypt is churning away in the background. Why would one leave Bitlocker activated?

Could you elaborate?

I know, I just meant why would someone willingly disable Bitlocker?

I mean… the premise of the thread seems like a good enough reason, doesn’t it?
And even if it doesn’t, if one is already using a different encryption solution that doesn’t rely on TPM and secureboot silliness, what possible reason could there be not to disable Bitlocker?

Not using Bitlocker is not the same as not encrypting your stuff.

So, uh, what’s wrong with that?

… with damaging infrastructure? Well, presumably the infrastructure will no longer be as good at serving its original purpose once it is damaged.