I get you, but the fediverse is small enough that you can get by with just blocking accounts that do stuff like this. Complaining about it is just pissing into the wind, unless you want to start another resistance movement spamming corn. Probably overdue for it again.

Do your part! Reduce, reuse, recycle!

They’ll refill it forever too, even if it was supposed to just be a recovery aid. Seen more than one elder become addicted.

You mean HUNK-ules

Not that it sounds like you or your friends would, but plenty of non-profits still manage to funnel absurd amounts of money to their owners. So you may want to lean less on saying it’s not possible because of non-profit, but instead not possible due to how you’d run it.

Notably, OpenAI was originally non-profit.

The switch supports usb ethernet adapters. Look up the supported list. They plug into usb ports on the dock.

It’s pretty much mandatory for any online gaming on it.

Just another trillion dollars guys! Just another year and a half! I swear!

Isn’t Mint still effectively Ubuntu with no Canonical, and less worried about open soirce purity? Could be wrong, been a long while.

That’s disgusting! What are you, some kind of pervert?

Not a problem if you already walk around Costco full mast. Got some wondeful memories of many moments of passion in the Costco restrooms finding out just how many $1 hotdogs I could fit into my rectum. Just try going soft with half a dozen of those delicious meat tubes all up in you.

If you power the NAS off completely, do the network issues disappear? Wi-fi can be effected by all sorts of things and it sounds like you’re currently just going off of a gut feeling.

Honestly, my first step would be to get as much as possible on wired connections. This could be as simple as wireless spectrum congestion due to a neighbor getting a new wireless AP.

Then I’d be checking network logs for the synology. I would expect it to have some way to do that.

Beyond that, “network issues” doesn’t give a lot to work with. Is it complete loss of connection, slow speed? And can you quantify it with any network logs or diagnostics?

If it was just from adding one more piece of hardware to your network that is sitting idle, I would expect you to have seen it before now with say, an extra cell phone on your wifi.

Or that he approves. Don’t kink shame.

To be a bit more direct, you shouldn’t download “pre-cracked” isos. Just download the real install media and use mas-grave to spoof activation/licensing.

There is an in-game map, but there’s no “magic quest destination arrow”.

Nope. Ring cameras are part of Amazon Sidewalk which is effectively an automatic, invisible, and not end-user-controllable wireless mesh network “meant to keep devices working during wifi outages” or in other words to ensure the data makes it back to the cloud at any cost.

Their are more and more device manufacturers starting to use techniques like this to ensure connection regardless of owner intent.

Damn, I had figured this had simmered down, but this is some damning stuff.

That’s one of the things I like about yt-dlp-nis on android. You can select all the options you want through the UI and grab the resulting yt-dlp cli command.

Yeah, pipes was awesome. The LTT shop has a button up with it as the pattern, but I can’t justify $50 + shipping for a single button up shirt. And the drama from years ago as reported by GamersNexus etc makes me hesitate to give them money anyway.

Another one I love is the old 3d maze from Windows 95 or 98. I swear I remember details about it that it doesn’t actually have though.

What were your favorites? I feel like we lost an entire genre of art now that nobody uses screensavers anymore.

Edit: And music visualizers too, but a good chunk of those have been saved by (I think it’s called) Milkdrop, so you can still use them in modrrn FOSS music programs.

Decade and a half ago I torrented all the time and didn’t get caught until I stupidly downloaded something from the top 100 torrents on pirate bay.

Not sure how safe torrents are now.

Never have had any issues with direct downloads and streaming. Just use your head, adblock, and virus scan your downloads (knowing that keygens or cracked exes may show as viruses).

For safest option and free: Use an up to date web browser with a good adblocker (ublock origin is the current best), stick to direct downloads using a download manager to manage the 12+ parts, and virus scan everything that you download. Download from trusted sites from the megathread. Direct download is generally safe, unless you live in one of the few countries cracking down on fitgirl repacks specifically. Then that site is off limits for you.

You can use torrents without a VPN, it’s just not safe. You could be caught and the penalty will vary based off of what you’re downloading, where you live, and who you use for an ISP.