and that even is just circus

regardless if that’s true, it had a lot of improvements across a long time, and they did not stop coming

Totally. For now, I’m only running I2P though. But it maxes out my uplink so it’s probably better this way for now.

yeah, and more generally, Tor is optimized for light services both in-network and through outproxies (because there are many of those), and I2P is more optimized for large transfers and many connections in-network, and very unsuitable for internet access because there’s only a few overwhelmed outproxies, among ehich load is not even atyempted to be distributed by the default I2P touter configuration.

the reason for why I2P is mpre suitable for torrenting is unclear to me, though, other than the maintainers telling that. possibly because almost everyone who wa ts to use the network will participate actively in routing traffic, and so there is relatively a lot more routers than on Tor

I’ve never seen hardware die because of repeated shutdowns

then why do you recommend to keep the computer on for a longer life?

but in the case of hard drives, this is a real thing, just not at that scale of shutdowns. if you don’t find sources on this let me know and I’ll show some.

For updates you need to be turned on for them to install. That’s why shutting it down isn’t good practice. Just set a maintenance window and put the computer to sleep.

of course, the installation will get prepared while the computer in on. it will have plenty of time being turned on.
but most updates, including a lot of security updates only apply when restarting the updated software, like shutting down the operating system.

yeah take it up with a blackholed email address, while being locked away from public transport and a lot of otherbasic services that’s literally needed for life, for saying hard no to literal malware on my phone? I think you’re a little backwards.

my employers have never specified any requirements for my phone, sorry but wtf is that?

you are totally right, it was created for the baby, in the name of her

I understand you. But I think what I recommend can be implemented very simply: not uploading anything anywhere. that’s really the simplest, and friends should not feel entitled to anything, because they aren’t. if they (the friends) don’t understand it, that is a people problem of selfishness

Obviously I didn’t talk about the wife’s age, but of the newborn for whom the wife has made a google account

yeah. the reason is that they can get away with that.

this change was bundled with another one that was kind of good to have: building apps to an .aab file and making split apk’s out of it.
but in this scheme the dev builds the .aab, and google makes the split apk’s, and google needs your signing key to make the signed split APKs. the reason they need your formerly used signature’s keys is because if they would have started signing apps with a new one, users who had your app already installed would have had to first uninstall the app and lose their data, because android has a security feature that does not allow an update that has a different signature.

of course, while at first it was an option, the play store has soon made it a requirement that you upload your apps as .aab files.
developers basically didn’t have a choice, other than not releasing any more updates to the play store and letting google delete “outdated” apps when they want, like they’ll have a sweep soon.

while having a dark design may be “cooler” or something, I think it might deter some newcomers as it would slightly give off a mood that we are doing a shady business here.
also, rimgo.hostux.net is down, but an other imgur frontend can still be used (e.g. imgur.artemislena.eu)

The figma design though cannot be viewed in any private way, though. It’s resistant to archive sites and the tor browser. If anyone could post a simple screenshot that would be appreciated.

i remember reading that tor maintainers don’t like it when people use the Tor network for torrenting, because it harms the network from a performance perspective

What do you think of all this?

I expected this from ExpressVPN and PIA, and I think Kappe was already known doing very shady things, but it’s a good reminder, and also there are most probably people who didn’t know yet

i don’t really think so. unplug the power to your PC and the lights will turn off soon

Also it is not great practice to totally shutdown at night as that’s the time when update happen.

updates can be installed when it’s turned on, though, and it well consume much less power.

It also could theoretically wear out hardware but chances are that’s not a problem on newer machines

what do you mean? I don’t understand.
if you mean the HDDs spinning down and up, then

• if it only happens at shutdown, it shouldn’t wear them out, additionally as I know HDDs (consumer models at least) don’t like endless spinning either
• windows probably shuts it down regularly when it’s not in use. this is a setting in the power profile
• as I know, frequent spindowns only increase wear out if it happens very often, like every 10 seconds and such because of the drive’s garbage internal power saving setting. that’s why I always keep it at least 30 minutes or more

from google play? on my degoogled phone?

its a relatively recent development. possibly it only applies to when you open it up, replace something inside but even if they are not searching for software modifications, the distinction is very small and you’re not likely to hear it in the news before experiencing it

does the USA have such a law? Honestly I would be surprised.

I’m talking with the EU in mind. Probably GDPR, but there may be other laws affecting it

wow this got to be quite long. sorry for that!