That sounds… ill advised.

Sorry, I had thought that all apple products had an app store of some kind. It would seem that the 3rd gen doesn’t though. Sorry. Does it have a web browser? Might be able to use Jellyfin’s web interface.

If you have , or have access to, a Jellyfin server, there is a Jellyfin client called Infuse (paid app). From there, you can do pretty much whatever you want, on the seas or on high street.

I believe a Plex client is also available.

Beyond that, I’m afraid I don’t know much about AppleTVs. Sorry.

The only way is to completely disconnect from the internet and never share media with anyone. Doesn’t matter if you’re running Windows, Mac or Linux.

Even then that only makes it less likely.

So wildly off topic question.

How are you seeing a reputation score?

Enforcement against Linux distributions, however, is likely to be problematic. Distros like Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo have no centralized account infrastructure, with users downloading ISOs from mirrors worldwide, and can modify source code freely. These small distros lack legal teams or resources to implement the required API, so a more realistic outcome for non-compliant distros is a disclaimer that the software is not intended for use in California.

V2X Inc was formed in July 2022 following a $2.1bn merger between Vectrus and the Vertex Company. The company holds a LOGCAP V contract supporting US military operations in Kuwait, providing logistics and base operations services, including roles such as mechanics, warehouse staff, dining facility workers and IT personnel.

“It almost seemed like [the Pentagon] evacuated the soldiers so if anything would happen safely, for instance, that base was hit it would be less casualties on the military standpoint,” said the second American worker. “What about us? Are we just considered casualties of war? How did they leave before us?”

“Everybody talks about the military but nobody talks about us,” said the first American worker. “We are stuck here and treated like we are expendable.”

The two American workers said the only communication they received from a supervisor during the attacks concerned a new payroll code to enter into their timesheets, which would reduce their pay. The Guardian has reviewed the message.

You are mercs. You are expendable. In what world did you think that working for the military (any military, but especially the US military outside the US) was a safe occupation, regardless of what you do. If you work for the military you are likely to get shot at or bombed. During a war, which this is, you’d be safer running a gas station in the bad part of any major city.

Shit takes like this are why I hate the term contractor when it comes to working with the military. That said, V2X are a bunch of shitbags for cutting their pay during this.

I had forgotten how much I miss that style of website. Well written too.

Sometimes it’s handy to be able to share larger files with just a link, but for the most part it’s just syncing folders on my desktop and laptop, and giving me access to those files my iphone. I don’t generally use it for off-system storage.

Mainly just Nextcloud. I have it setup pretty lean as most of it’s capabilities is just massive overkill for my needs. I mostly just have it handling file, calendar and contact syncing as well as it’s news reader.

I’ve largely ignored most of Proton’s offerings as it feels like they are trying to become Google 2.0. I lived through that once, that was enough. When Proton started they were very much “Don’t know who you are and don’t want to”. Now I’m not so sure what their ambitions are. Creepy vibes from them lately that remind me of Google.

Well, since I’m not doing that, that would prevent me from having to install the apps that every damned company seems to insist I install rather than having a website. Kinda makes me wish for this nonsense to come to the US.

Basically what you want is to turn the linux laptop into a router. Thats doable. I believe Ars did an article on a similar build a couple years ago.

And here it is: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-building-a-linux-router-from-scratch/

It’s an old build based on an almost 10 year old version of Ubuntu, but quickly glancing through it, I didn’t see anything completely out of date. Version numbers will have changed and perhaps some package names will have changed but it will give you a starting point for further research. You won’t want to cargo cult this build.

I think the main difference is that your internet would be coming in from the wifi interface and going out the ethernet interface rather than the other way around.

Well, I’ve been using Ubuntu for the last 20 years (god, it hurts to say that) and only started playing with NixOS, 3 years ago.

Between the two I like NixOS better, but if I had to choose only one it would probably be Ubuntu. When things break, I know how to fix it. Usually without having to spend 2 hours of reading and trying to understand the documentation.

Publicly acknowledged as real? Maybe 2 years. Fairly good evidence something was out there, maybe 30- 40 years. The evidence has been good enough to say something is out there, but it was never good enough to say it was more than highly probable. I remember being shocked when there was a Senate hearing about it a while back.

The idea that aliens might exist goes back a long time though. Here in the US, first major incident I remember was Roswell, back in the 1940’s. There were depictions of strange things going back a lot longer though, vast majority of which can be explained by our modern understanding of science. Some though, not so much.

And yes, it is a distraction, but at this point I’d have to ask “From what?”. Is this (aliens) important? Doesn’t seem like it at the moment, there are bigger problems. Like the administration ignoring orders of both congress and judges. The Epstine files are one example , DHS’s behavior is another.

Not really. There are gps trackers that have a cell modem, used for tracking animals for research, but they are probably very expensive. Both to purchase and operate.

What would you advise i do?

If you can afford to and if what you are looking for is even available (for non-DRM’d download) through legal channels, I advise purchasing the content legally. (Yes, I know what community I’m commenting in… :D ) Doing so supports the artists that make the content.

Otherwise, I would check and see if what you are looking for is on Youtube or in Anna’s Archive. You can download things from Youtube using either yt-dlp (give it a Youtube link) or spotdl (give it a Spotify link and it will download the song, album or playlist from Youtube and tag the songs using Spotify or Musicbrainz metadata). The current addresses to Anna’s Archive can be found on their Wikipedia page.

I also like Usenet, currently, for a lot of the more esoteric, hard to find elsewhere things (like TV shows that don’t have DVD releases and aren’t on Youtube). Just a heads up if you go this route, the Usenet provider “Eternal September”, while free, does not provide access to the groups where binaries (things like video, music, epubs, and pdfs) are posted. They only provide access to the discussion side of Usenet, which has been largely dead for the last 10-15 years. Generally, Usenet access is fairly cheap, as are the nzb trackers needed to download binaries from Usenet.

Torrents don’t require a VPN, however, torrenting does broadcast your IP address for all the world to see if they decide to look. A VPN is used to obfuscate your IP address to minimize the odds of trouble with your ISP, the rightholders (who might sue) or depending on where your are, law enforcement. Just don’t ever use the “free” VPNs that are out there. They tend to be honeypots or malware vectors.

People not seeding things has made bittorrent pretty much useless for anything not currently popular. The only thing I use bittorrent for nowadays is speeding up the download of larger downloads, like Linux install disks. Works well for that. But if there’s not at least 15 seeders for the file your looking for, you may never actually be able to finish downloading the thing.

what did you do when starting out?

I’m getting to be an old fart. I was using Napster (early predecessor to bittorrent, now long dead), IRC and random ftp and gopher sites on a dialup modem in the late 90’s and into the mid 2000’s. Dial-up BBS’s were fading out into obscurity, and I hadn’t really heard of Usenet (even though that was during it’s hayday) and Bittorrent hadn’t been invented yet.

What the actual fuck.

I’m sure there are flakes that can do that, but I just use the config file, adding things as I find I need them. Flakes weren’t really all that well documented when I first installed it so I never messed around with them. Out of box though, it was fairly decent for relatively simple needs. If I remember correctly, the graphical install could set you up with any of a half dozen different DEs out of the box.

One heads up. While NixOS is a Linux distribution, it is radically different design philosophy from every other Linux distribution I’ve ever used. In some ways better and far easier to setup and maintain, and sometimes, as headache inducing as Gentoo or Arch. Once you have it setup to your liking, though, it has proven incredibly solid and hard to break.

Here’s a redacted copy of my configuration.nix file. I really need to clean it up, reorganize, and remove things I’m not using anymore, but it’s what I’m running on my desktop. Basically hasn’t changed since KDE6 came out something like a year ago. I think the last change I made after that was when I finally added flatpak support.

https://pastebin.com/8G7Hv4y2

Might take a look at NixOS. Releases every 6 months and you can pick your DE.

Nice! I hadn’t thought of that.