Wasn’t sure either, looked it up quickly…

In this context it’s probably referring to Deep Packet Inspection, some technique to determine traffic type, and then blocking specific (Wireguard and/or OVPN) traffic.

I truly love the freedoms of my htpc.

Do you have any idea what your hardware is actually pulling from the outlet? Maybe it’s not that bad after all?

Mine is pulling around 55W from the wall in its “normal” state. Meaning two 3.5" HDDs spun up, and a bunch of light services running. Which is squarely in “not great, not terrible” territory.

Apart from flipping the power saver switch on the mainboard I haven’t done anything to save power. I haven’t checked if that’s doing anything either. It’s a 3rd gen core i5 iirc, which isn’t great at idle power consumption, so maybe that switch is doing something…

I also haven’t had any luck with getting the drives to spin down reliably anyways, and afaik it’s better for them to just stay spinning so I haven’t bothered much to change that.

I still think that they’d make for a terrible meal.

Maybe they’d make for good fertilizer instead?

That’s why I hate video games - they appeal to the plebian fantasy.

/s

I’ve yet to ride a carbon frame for any amount of real distance, so idk how good they actually are.

But having a less harsh ride can also be archived by not using the thinnest pizza cutter tires at 10 bar. Especially if we care about time ridden and not avg. speed.

And it’s going to be slightly harder to get the same speed out of comfy tires, so that’s also more exercise.

Only the one on the power supply though…

Back in the day that also was the only power switch. And when the one stuff works I quite like the convenience.

What does my mouth taste like?

Not really, the writing has been on the wall for quite a while…

If at all it’s the realisation that average people can’t really flee from it.

That would only work if I’m the only one using my hosted stuff, but can’t really expect non tech ppl to deal with stuff like that.

They already struggle with the little 2fa they have to use. Introducing yet another system is too much to ask.

Still feels like I’m doing too little, but kinda hate 2fa.

And I kinda don’t want to know if complex passwords and low retries before an account gets locked out are enough.

Only if you care about security, which you should ofc.

Sometimes the worry about future things is necessary though. It’s just unfortunate that not doing that all the time is so difficult.

That’s only true if thinking stuff over is already worrying about something. It’s a fine line, I guess.

They can grasp it, but they do not care. Sidewalks being cleared doesn’t affect you if you are driving everywhere.

Or privileged enough to WFH/pause working when there weather turns.

They’re already spinning up fabs since a few years ago, and they’re not that far behind. Gamers Nexus did a video on that topic a few weeks ago…

There’s definitely two stroke/cycle motorcycles out there. They’re less popular nowadays due to emissions but have lasted quite a bit longer than 2 stroke cars or trucks have…

It doesn’t solve the album art issue, which also really annoys me. I spent a lot of time adding art back in the days of using that thing…

It probably also feels less premium than the newer offerings. It’s pretty old, irc I bought it in 2014 or thereabouts.

I still have a FiiO X1 (not sold anymore) it has very robust navigation for a device without a keyboard, and does gapless playback.

The newer budget offerings kinda feel like a downgrade.

So there’s no sky bears in Antarctica then?

They must’ve really done a number on you, huh?