Is there an easy method to know the self assigned IP address of the other machine if it’s run as headless?

The only methods I can think of is using something like Wireguard to see what IP addresses are talking, or ping all 32k IP addresses to see which responds.

I think this method should be the top answer.

I connect directly to devices without a router most working days for work and this is the method we use because it’s simple and effective.

I see no difference between most big tech companies and Reddit in terms of selling user data. Reddit is just being more forthcoming with it instead of allowing users to figure it out eventually.

Boost hasn’t stopped working. I’m still using it and I’ve used it everyday.

I have Boost for Lemmy and Reddit. Their icons are identical.

Do you use your email addresses on websites? I find it hard to believe you don’t see this when you look at it in the security page of Outlook if you use your email address for more than just emailing friends and family.

This is normal. All of my accounts have looked like this for years. So I imagine every account with Microsoft will see this bombardment of someone trying to get in.

It’s not just Microsoft - every server on the internet with an open port gets bombarded all of the time. It’s just the way of the internet. So if you move your account to another platform it’ll see the same bombardment as it does now.

My country is probably different to yours. But I just visited their store. You can order them online from their stores too.

PAYG is a little confusing these days because every network provider is advertising it as if it’s a pre-paid monthly plan. Ie. Top up $10 every month to get x bundle. But they’re just the same as back in the day; they just massively emphasize the deals you can get when you top up every month because they want as much money as possible.

If you read their terms and conditions, they state that the regular price for a text, a call, a MB of data is y when you haven’t qualified for a bundle. Don’t get me wrong, the out of bundle prices are shockingly expensive but if like me, you want it to mainly receive and very rarely send it’s not that bad at all.

I use my PAYG SIM as a secondary SIM. It would be too expensive to use as my main SIM. For the same allowance, the best PAYG bundle I could find was twice the price as my regular monthly contract.

You could always get a PAYG SIM as a secondary number.

This is what I do. It costs me 50 cents every few months to keep alive. I only loaded it with $5 of credit, so I can ditch the SIM and get a new one at any time. The provider I went with didn’t ask for any personal details and only wanted payment.

The craft computing guy on YouTube said in a video that he runs at 7-8khw/day at idle. :O

Lucky you. I definitely have.

I stopped paying when they started serving adverts in 2020. Why am I paying a subscription fee to be served adverts? Especially during a period where I was only listening to a few hours per week. Fck dat greedy piggies.

I think corporations are doing quite well if your example is from 19 years ago.

In the same era, we had things like LimeWire where files were frequently viruses, CP, or similar masquerading as innocent files like the latest song from your favorite artist.

I’ve never tried closed trackers, so I can’t speak on that side of pirate life but I think it’s naive to trust pirates on public trackers.

Unless you inspect every line of code and/or monitor your computer activity to a super human level then you’ll never know.

Viruses don’t behave like a neanderthal like they used to 20 years ago, so just because you don’t notice a virus doesn’t mean you don’t have one. Let’s be honest, viruses are still a thing and botnets have become a thing. These don’t magically appear from nothing.

You shouldn’t be blindly trusting anyone on the internet, especially those not abiding by the laws. People and entities can be impersonated. They can behave differently at any moment.

Personally i would do one of three things, run pirated content, in a VM, on a separate drive, or on a dedicated computer - because why take the risk when you don’t have to.

I don’t use Reddit as much as I used to since the API change. I also don’t use Lemmy much either. It feels different since that moment to me. Both feel quite divisive and don’t get me wrong, Reddit was divisive before the change but it feels like it’s got a lot worse.

Gibberish

Read the original comment again. They didn’t state what this person is claiming at all.

And yet I’m the one who can’t read…

Anywhere where you’re a repeat customer is probably selling your data. Any service you repeatedly use could also sell your data. Unfortunately it’s just a way of life these days.

Who says that no-one is sucking up all of the Lemmy data right now and selling it to some entity? There is no way of knowing and there is no way to combat it.

You have yet to show where your statement came from

Linuxist… I’ve not seen that term before; I like it. I suppose it’s for the super hardcore Linux user?

Interesting you lumped them with the other two. XD

The only way I can see them serving adverts is by using submissions as the mechanism. But I assume there is no feedback to show how many impressions those submissions have made. So how can Meta sell those advertising spots without any data to flaunt to advertisement buyers and how do they appropriately charge them.

No one said such a thing. Where did you get it from?