Piss poor polling accuracy over the last several elections has me questioning the premise of this article.
Been able to use rPis as a desktop for a while now. The 2s and 3s weren’t particularly pleasant but it was doable. The Pi 4 8GB with an USB3 jump drive as root partition was a lot more pleasant, at least until you hit thermal throttle.
Right now though, there are more powerful options in the same price point, once you account for power, storage and optionally, a case. At least for desktop and home server use.
The Raspberry Pi’s just aren’t the go to hardware for the home lab anymore. Probably won’t be again unless the price comes back down on the Pi’s or the price on new and used amd64’s goes back up.
Last time I needed to do this was 2006ish. Like I said it’s been a while. Worth checking into though. Might need the cd burner installed (or emulated) for the option to be available.
I also seem to recall that thee were a couple of projects attempting to strip the DRM off of Apple’s proprietary music format. Not sure how those turned out.
And no, as far as I know, it is not possible to go straight from Apple Music to mp3, or whatever format you prefer. It has to be downloaded to iTunes first.
Not sure if it is still possible, but the work flow for this used to be to use iTunes to burn the tracks or album to a CD and then rip the newly created CD to a format of your choice.
If you don’t have a CD burner, I seem to remember it was possible to emulate a cd burner on Windows and create an iso instead. I don’t remember how I did that though. I was running XP back then and that was a long time ago.
Edit: adding link to iTunes software
To figure that out you'd first have to decide how you want to define "mercenary". Depending on how you define the word, either almost everyone was a mercenary or, if you use the current Geneva Convention definition, almost no one was.
The truth, as usual, is probably somewhere in that murky, uncomfortable middle ground that no one likes to look at or acknowledge.
30 seconds in and I’m checking out. I can already tell it a propaganda piece intended to make me angry. Apparently they think the use of mercenaries in war is new or has somehow exploded in use. Mercs are maybe the 2nd or 3rd oldest profession. Not interested.
Depends on what you are trying achieve.
You can send sms via foss no problem as long as you know what carrier the recipient uses. All of the carriers seem to have email bridges to the sms network. Receiving sms is another question entirely. To receive sms, the network needs to know where to send the message. There are commercial platforms that can link you into the sms network.
Another option is KDEConnect which can link your Android device to your computer and you can send and receive sms that way.
https://simpletexting.com/blog/how-to-text-from-computer/
Pirate Bay? I don’t know. I haven’t run that sea in close to 20 years. Went open source instead. Might check the Mega Thread for more up to date info.
Without knowing what you're looking for? Might try archive.org. They've got a large collection of archived disk images. Might find what your looking for there. Otherwise you might try a public torrent search engine.
I’m not familiar with the software in question but generally your options are (in order of my personal preference):
If you’re intent on option 3, Virtual Box is a decent (though not great) free software for hosting VMs. Windows can be obtained from microsoft.com and doesn’t actually require registration or a license key (At least Win 10 didn’t, not sure about 11). Once the OS has been installed and the software has been downloaded you can easily disable the network interface from Virtual Box’s interface. From the VMs perspective it will be as if it suddenly doesn’t have a network interface anymore. You can then safely install and run whatever. Things cannot phone home if there isn’t a “phone” available.
Another Boeing mishap? Why am I not surprised. I’m beginning to believe all Boeing aircraft should be grounded, and then dismantled.
I’m inclined to say screw Reddit. Lemmy may be less private overall but at least we have more control over things in the Fedi.
I have a similar thing with how my house was built. What I do is open all the windows that will open and setup small box fans in the windows on one side of the house to push the inside air outside. Seems to work fairly well.
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left.
Here’s a link to the actual press release which contains links both to the actual budget as well as paragraph by paragraph summaries.
http://rsc-hern.house.gov/media/press-releases/rsc-releases-fy25-budget-proposal-fiscal-sanity-save-america
Yes actually. I know it’s usually said as a meme, but I actually do have a drive that is nothing but Linux ISOs. Generally it’s a far faster download that way. Really wish more things would give me that option.
I don't see where it claim to be open source, but it's permissions are.... Interesting.
Most of the drug laws are due to back door racism, at least here in the US. They couldn't make laws that directly targeted minorities and so they made laws that targeted things that were part of the targeted minorities culture. Opium and heroin laws seemed to target Asians and the weed laws seemed more to target "beatniks" and Native Americans. It's an interesting (if depressing) research topic of you've a mind.
You might try Tailscale or Wire Guard. Either can be used to create a mesh VPN that can include any device you want. Connect your devices to the VPN then you just access it like it is on your local network. Of the two I use Tailscale. Dead simple to setup on pretty much any device.
I looked into Nextcloud, but that requires paying for a domain
Depending on what installation method you choose to go with, you don't need a domain. It's just very much helpful to have one. Especially if you decide to have it public facing. Plus domains are cheap. A bigger issue for us self hosters is dealing with dynamic IPs. Most of the time you can buy a static IP from your ISP, but if that is not an option, most domain providers provide a way to deal with variable IP addresses.
And yes, Tailscale does ignore dynamic IP addresses. I think Wire Guard does as well as Tailscale is built on Wire Guard.
First OS was DOS (I think) on an Apple IIE at school. I think there were a few Commodore 64’s there as well. A couple years later we got our first home computer running Windows 95. Good times playing Doom, Jane’s Apache, an MS Flight Simulator.
My first personal computer was running Windows XP and I switched to Ubuntu sometime in 2004. Ran Ubuntu for the most part till a few months ago when I switched my desktop and laptop to NixOS.
Started self hosting services in 2012 and started with Ubuntu as base OS. Now though most of my servers are Proxmox with the VMs usually running Ubuntu LTS, though NixOS is starting to creep in there as well.