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I have never seen that much rust on an active USN ship! That’s insane and indicative of serious neglect.

I served on this same ship during the extended deployment in support of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was not even close to being this bad.

What the actual fuck did they do to that ship?

I use 3-2-1 backup strategy.

In the past I used google drive as a cloud backup. Periodic checks showed that the files stored on google did not have matching hashes. The files were changed somehow. Furthermore, the hashes changed from one month to the next.

I redownloaded the files and they were corrupted. Pictures had the wrong colors, videos had sections missing.

I kept the files on the drive and retested monthly. (I had paid for the year) They degraded every month.

I don’t know how or why but google drive is not worth it, even at a free level. They will corrupt your data.

I have not tried onedrive because, in my mind, microsoft is even lower than google on quality.

My point is… Linux with multiple offsite backups. Buddy backups recommend over trusting any corp.

You can self host a copy a stack exchange and many other sites offline using kiwix. https://kiwix.org/

You can browse the availabe sites for self hosting at https://browse.library.kiwix.org/

What is recommended for a TV box?

I have tried google/android TV but the ads are everywhere and I don’t trust google not to track everything.

I have tried a raspberry pi running Kodi but it’s not very good for anything except jellyfin. I still want to view streaming services on occasion.

My next attempt will be an apple TV but i don’t trust apple and despise their walled garden.

I would like something FOSS and optimized for TV viewing. I thought about using a linux OS and using the browser for streaming, but it does not look good from the sofa and requires a keyboard mouse.

So what do you recommend?

The power increase in demand is primarily due to all the data centers being built. Some requiring their own power plants.

The data centers also increase humidity in a few ways. The big one being the exhausted warm water from cooling and power generation is more easily evaporated.

Just because you pay a subscription to avoid ads does not mean your data is not still being harvested and sold. The big exception is now they have a payment method tied to a specific person not just an ad profile.

You can create a second partition on the usb stick and use that to store data. The following link is not for your distro but it should give you an idea of how to do it.

https://www.kali.org/docs/usb/usb-persistence/

You can also encrypt your second partition to keep it more secure.

This does not enable persistence on your distro, but you could write and save scripts that make all your desired changes every boot.

This is the way all corporations work.

1. Gain market dominance.
2. Cut costs.
3. Use lawyers to stifle competition.

Step 1 requires creating a product or service that is better than other options. Step 2 Enshittify the product or service. Bonus points for increasing the price at the same time. Step 3 Either sue or aquire competition to maintain market dominance.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the wheels fall off.

Intel did this until the wheels fell off. Then AMD took the top spot. Now AMD will do it until it all falls apart. Then Intel or perhaps a newcomer will regain top spot.

Yes you can. However, if you are not familiar with systems administration then you will experience much more difficulty than just using the USB method.

Whatever you do, backup all of your important files and data from Windows before you attempt anything. To be extra safe create a Windows recovery USB.

After you have backed up important things then just read as much as you can regarding your OS of choice, like MX, and then try it. Having a second source of internet for any problems that may arise is recommended, like a smartphone.

And then try it. My first foray into Linux dealt me about a week of struggles before I got ot working. That was 20 years ago and thing have gotten better since then.

You will struggle at first. You may even fail a few times, but the feeling of accomplishment and the freedom of having an OS that allows you to do what you want and not what a corporation deems profitable is priceless. You will enjoy that feeling.

I started with a Raspberry Pi connected to an external hard drive. As my collection grew I built a server. It has NAS rated drives in RAID with a low end CPU and modest GPU. Now I have a large collection and everything is transcoded on the fly.

I also use the server to host Immich. So I no longer need to use Google photos or drive.

I wrote a bash script to check for updates to channels I like. It runs nighly via cron. If there is a new video it automatically downloads it using yt-dlp to my Jellyfin library. There is a yt-dlp flag that incorporates sponsor block. Since I download videos overnight large channels have already been included by sponsor block. So I get videos completely ad and sponsor free.

Everything is done behind a VPN. This approach allows me to completely bypass using a browser further protecting me from tracking.

When I wake up in the morning I have all the new videos from my favorite channels ad and sponsor free. I can watch from my computer, phone, or TV. If I’m away from my home network I use Tailscale to stream to my location.

The only downside I experience is not getting to watch the video until the day after upload.

I use ublock origin for my browser and use Mullvad DNS with content blockers. I don’t know what VPN you use but as long as you can set your own DNS then Mullvad servers should work.

If your router allows you to set the DNS server you can block ads network wide.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

Do you mean Lion’s Mane?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hericium_erinaceus

No, it was to distract from the Epstein files. The benefit to Russia was not even considered by the pedo if chief.

Does anyone know a VPN that allows port forwarding that also is truly anonymous? I’m looking for something like Mullvad that does not require email and accepts monero.

I’m also open to recommendations for a seedbox that accepts monero.

I had one and only put gas in it when taking a trip out of town. On a road trip I would get about 38mpg. Not great for what is was but better than anything else I owned before. I had that car for 5 years and 120,000 miles.

The fact that I used 0 gas for my daily use brought the cars lifetime mpg to 163mpg!

Also, I learned the hard way that gas can go bad fairly quickly.

Person who’s job is to examine evidence finds no evidence despite overwhelming evidence.

What worked for me was to mount with fstab by UUID and set the group ID to your video group.

UUID=“your uuid” /mnt/external exfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=“your group id”,umask=002,nofail 0 0

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They were dried. I estimate there were about 30 tiny mushrooms in that 2 grams. I ate about 20 of them.

I have read that an abort contains the same amount of psilocybin as a full grown mushroom. If so, I overdid it by 18 mushrooms.

I knew they would be potent but didn’t think they would be that strong.

I once had APE aborts. I bought 2 grams and within 2 minutes, while I was still eating them, I began to feel it. I only ate about 1.5 grams and it broke my brain. It was not my first time with psilocybin but it was my last. I’m afraid of it now.

All that to say it does not take half an hour in all cases.