It really depends on how much you value your time and how good you are with configuration

A QNAP or Synology will work and be pretty simple to configure out of the box. Installing custom software is possible, but can be tricky as they require you to enable sideloading and custom apps can be hard to find. Both have supported app stores with available apps to do what you’re looking for (QNAP has apps for both torrents and Plex. Not sure about Synology)

However, you will get way more bang for your buck by building one from scratch using something like TrueNAS and the Arr stack, but this can require a fair bit of technical knowledge about configuring containers and securing network services(Especially if you want them to be accessible remotely)

Most people here do selfhosting as a hobby and as a result, the time spent trying new configurations is negligible as it wouldn’t be much of a hobby otherwise.

As with most things of this nature, it’s presented in a way that makes it difficult to argue against, but the evil will come with how it is enforced.

Basically everyone agrees that harmful content should be harder for children to access, and reigning in social media’s exploitation of psychology is laudable.

Right now, there isn’t a good way to control access without handing a ton of personal information to a 3rd party agency with questionable oversight. When you want to access porn in meatspace, you share your name and age with the store clerk, who will promptly forget it. The system doesn’t translate to a digital medium with permanent records.

IIRC, they only do this if you’re logged in with a Microsoft account.

Bitlocker is disabled by default if you only use local accounts

Not that it helps now, but you can also dump your bitlocker recovery key through powershell and save it independently.

(Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint “C”).KeyProtector

There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don’t remember what it was called.

Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

Time to restore a whole machine backup to a VM with no network connectivity, and manually pull the command?

Mortal Kombat 1

Similar enterprise-grade SSDs go for around $16K

Hollow Knight fans were, of course, let down with the lack of a Silksong appearance again, but I hope they expect that by now.

I’m already wearing my clown makeup, you don’t have to be so hurtful.

WB doesn’t seem to know how to release any media post 2010.

They keep trying to shoehorn IP into trends, years after market saturation to try and capture nostalgia, and then wonder why they didn’t meet sales targets. See MK1, Space Jam 2, or anything related to HP or LotR.

The other thing they do is when they do have an interesting or original idea with the IP, the executive team seems too risk averse to put any capital behind it. See the two new Loony Tunes movies, one was in theaters for less than a week and the other was scrapped entirely for a tax writeoff.

Just bin some more already completed projects for another tax break. I’m sure it’ll happen

As relevant now as it was 10 years ago

Usually yes. In some cases, companies will block access to known VPN IPs outright.

But most of the time, the cost of policing that is way higher than the revenue they’d get from the handful of VPN users that decide to go through proper channels rather than decide not to engage, or worse, spread word of their anti-consumer practices and potentially lose legitimate business.

I mean, this doesn’t really change anything from a practical perspective. It just highlights that the verbage in the press release was alarmist.

It’s still a security concern that most users will be unaware of.

When do we start needing active coolers for our drives?

You can get spinning rust all the way up to 32 TB in a single 3.5" disk and 8 TB in an NVMe drive. The tech is out there, but it takes time for the price of stuff like that to come down when there isnt much demand for it.

The Beekeeper was the most Steven Segal movie I’ve ever seen. It’s kind of ironic that he wasn’t even in it.

The entire movie is just scene after scene making sure you know that old people are better than those dang kids with their phones. While every scene featuring the antagonists is either them whining about losing or talking about what a badass this beekeeper character is.

Damn, there’s like $900 worth of PS2 games in this image

Nah, they’ll just brand it as “Next Gen AI” or “True AI” or something. Kind of like how antivirus became “Endpoint Detection and Response”

Against this specifically?

• Don’t ever expose your firewall/router management access to the Internet.
• Install firmware updates asap.
• Don’t be a an attractive target for nation-state hackers.

Additionally, ensure that you are following best practices for your own data by enabling MFA wherever you can and dont re-use passwords for any service.