Friend of mine got one of the Kingsman movies and before the opening credits was what I could only guess was the Russian pirater’s homemade rap video; he was injecting his own ads into the media.

I don’t think the durability of data is affected in your examples. All of my external USB disks are kinda old but they run on type-B; the ones with additional power will probably have a faster spin. If running on USB type-C then that may not be an issue either.

Welp, looks like another container is going on my server.

If you do not sync your bookmarks and such, and you do not install malicious plugins, then this information is as safe as your device itself is.

Firefox claims to use E2EE so It should be pretty safe to use their built-in sync as well.

It’s open source so if you feel like verifying all this, or compiling it on your own, you can.

Or you can use a completely separate instance or browser (perhaps ice weasel or even the Tor browser) just for the activity you want to keep separate.

Happy birthday!

Looks like you pled not guilty to practically unrelated charges, no other updates

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/army-veteran-who-burned-u-s-flag-near-white-house-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-charges

What happened to that one vet who burned the flag The day of that proclamation?

Xbox game pass is the only way

Feel like this is one of those weird generational things, but isn’t happy hotel TV just regular cable TV?

My understanding is that roku sideloading is limited, at best, but adding a raspberry pi or cheap Google/Android TV box and telling the TV to just boot to that screen (and keep the TV itself off the web) is a good bypass for this.

Not necessarily on topic,but I use Moonlight more than anything. The TV has bluetooth so I can sync most any controller and play my desktop games remotely through it.

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