Then I guess I’m not looking at those pages. No skin of my nose.

That works until every website starts doing it.

Fuckers want to colonize my property (my computer). that’s what’s illegal!

Now Taiwan is stuck with the official stance of “one China” because China’s (PRC) Anti-secession law of 2005 promises war if Taiwan changes its name

Except they’re not stuck with anything, since that PRC law has no jurisdiction over them, being a separate sovereign country. It’s just a threat.

high resolution, high bitrate video files are pretty large.

Can it actually transfer data fast enough to save or play them back in real-time, though?

That’s a use-case for a fuckton of total capacity, but not necessarily a fuckton of per-drive capacity. I think what the grandparent comment is really trying to say is that the capacity has so vastly outstripped mechanical-disk data transfer speed that it’s hard to actually make use of it all.

For example, let’s say you have these running in a RAID 5 array, and one of the drives fails and you have to swap it out. At 190MB/s max sustained transfer rate (figure for a 28TB Seagate Exos; I assume this new one is similar), you’re talking about over two days just to copy over the parity information and get the array out of degraded mode! At some point these big drives stop being suitable for that use-case just because the vulnerability window is so large that the risk of a second drive failure causing data loss is too great.

What does that have to do with anything I wrote?

If boycotts actually worked, we wouldn’t have these sorts of problems in the first place.

“Just don’t buy it” is a cancerous thought-terminating cliche, not a solution!

These product descriptions are likely being generated by the delivery companies themselves without the knowledge or consent of the restaurant owner.

With computer stuff, you can do even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

TL;DR: your documentation and your shell script (sequence of console commands you run to accomplish the task) can be the same file.

(Dunno what kind of chemistry you do, but you may have already come across this concept in the form of Jupyter notebooks or something like that.)

While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention Ansible and Git, for when you really want to keep good records and have a reproducible setup. Don’t worry about them immediately as it’s probably too overwhelming to learn all at once, but keep 'em in the back of your mind for later.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.

Buy military surplus equipment, I guess?

That’s because Ace Hardware is franchised. It’s essentially a bunch of small businesses that use the same branding.

Not economic decline; spiraling inequality. Which is even worse, in some important ways.

Could very well be. I’m using OpenWRT and basically did the bare minimum to get it to work.

Yeah, it’s only anecdotal but I feel like hobbyists like us, who do slightly unusual things without nefarious intent, who are the ones who get hit with these sorts of issues the most. For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)

Check the part about misinformation.

What Linux infrastructure? The wikis and torrent links?

Package database mirrors (i.e. the things you’re downloading from when you install new software).

It feels like that should be illegal in Europe

If you’re in Europe you need to STFU because your experience has fuck-all in common with the vast majority of Windows users.

Unless there’s a miracle, it would be:

4 consumer are relegated to DRM’d-to-Hell-and-back smartphones

And that’s honestly why this story isn’t the good news it appears to be. An entire generation growing up used to (or rather, used by) locked-down devices designed for consumption is a goddamned disaster!