Bizarroland

I vaguely remember reading that terms of service that violate basic rights are not going to be upheld in court.

I’m not a FUNimation subscriber but I hope that the people who are take Sony to court

Proof?

I read 15 different sites about DNS and not a one of them claimed anything like this. They universally all stated that your network attached devices would use the 1st one unless it didn’t respond and only use the 2nd one if the 1st one did not.

So once again, I ask “Can you send me some more information on this” and not just claim it without any backup information?

I apologize if I am coming off rude, just my BS meter is getting close to the red zone and I would really appreciate some reliable evidence.

Yeah, looks like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

The second ipv4 DNS address is for redundancy and every network connected system will use the first one as long as it responds.

It’s perfectly fine to have a single pihole and use something like quad9 as a failover in the unlikely event that your pihole goes down unexpectedly.

Can you send me some more information on this because this is the first I’ve ever heard that it would not automatically pick the fastest closest and most responsive DNS system available.

No remote DNS server will ever be as fast as one that is local

If you’re router has a failover DNS option, usually listed as DNS 2, I would set something like quad 9 as your backup DNS. Address is 9.9.9.9.

If you don’t want to do that, then having a second instance of pihole running as the secondary DNS is pretty much your only good option

I have 4 home servers. 1 running pfsense, 1 running truenas, 1 running proxmox, and 1 is a cloud key gen2 for unifi that I got for free

I keep a copy of ruckzuck on a flash drive so I can directly install Firefox without ever touching edge

It doesn’t affect it that much. It’s very easy to separate out the bands and to put your iot devices far away from your regular Internet devices.

I’m installing a new Wi-Fi setup soon and I will be putting all of my iot devices on an iot network that is segmented from my main wifi.

I will also be jailbreaking them from tuya and running a local home assistant.

Bit of a hassle but it’s a fun experiment to get my “smart” home set up just for me.

Elitedesk 800 g4s can be picked up for ~$130 or so depending on where you look

Very much this. The allure of raspberry pis was that they were $30 toys that could actually be used to do things that were equivalent to much more expensive computers and computer control systems.

Somewhere along the way they lost the plot, probably when supply chain issues drove their prices sky high along with the compute modules being used for home lab servers, and now cheap knockoffs based off of Rockville chips or ESP32 are just as capable as raspberry pis for a fraction of the cost, and at the same time actual desktop computers in miniature form factor have become so cheap on the second hand market that they are incredibly competitive with the raspberry pi.

Don’t get me wrong, pi is a great platform. But the use cases in which it leads the pack have become incredibly narrow.

Actually I can’t think of anything that raspberry pi does that can’t be done better by a less expensive alternative.

Even the pi5 with the nvme hat is not currently price competitive with a 4-year-old HP ultra small form factor as far as I know.

Just tell me your username and password and I’ll tell you if you’ve been hacked

As an alternative to what everyone else is saying, a multi terabyte external drive has become very inexpensive lately.

If you look around I’m sure that you can find a good deal to vastly expand your storage without spending a lot of money.

They were neighbors!

I’ve used my 3090 with Nvidia super resolution just watching old shit I downloaded back in the LimeWire days that for some reason I was still holding on to and the result is not perfect but it is pretty decent.

For instance I had a copy of chobits that was probably in hell 240i resolution or something, and with Nvidia super resolution it looks only vaguely indistinguishable from the 720p stuff you can stream online.

Of course, when you use Nvidia super resolution with the 720p stuff it looks stellar, so higher resolution by default wins over AI up resolution but it works in a pinch

One of the greatest evils of capitalism is locking access to society behind a paywall.

Not so simple solution, because other people are using meta products and using them on you without telling you about it.

Use firefox, and install the Facebook container extension so that meta cannot read your data on the internet.

Oompa loompa doobitdy doom, you fucked up and now you’ll go boom

Look what they’ve done to my boy

Is that an XLR in and a spdif out on the back?

This is definitely something I would buy for $300 if I encountered it randomly in a pawn shop or something.