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Basically, they’re already spying without a warrant. This just allows them to use it as a primary source instead of making up bullshit to say they found evidence a different way.

For a little perspective, if you have 7200 RPM HDDs, they each only have a throughput of about 1.5 Gbps. USB 3.0 is 5 Gbps, so you can have 3 drives attached without maxing out a single USB connection, and that’s the older 3.0, not any of the newer USB specifications that can go up to 20 gbps, and this isn’t including thunderbolt specs. If this data is mostly sent over the network you’ll never see any impact from this unless you have a 10Gb home network. Getting things onto the drives might take a little longer than a direct connection, but if storage is more of a concern (I’m assuming it is, since you have HDDs instead of SSDs) that’s a perfectly fine trade off in my mind.

You’re ISP probably provides some overpriced really crap hardware that they probably have a back door to, that I’m also not about to screw around with. I’ve always had a router behind their modem/router combo for many reasons, the first being that I have had a 100 ft Ethernet cable since 2005 that let’s me put my router where I want, I can place my wifi where it works best, not just within 6-10 feet of wherever someone 20 years ago decided to drill a hole. Second is because a ddwrt router is so much better than anything you’ll get from your provider, and you can find pretty good compatible ones on eBay or at your local thrift store for cheap.

I’ve always begrudgingly purchased rather than rented from my provider because after a year or so it is usually paid for. So far I’ve purchased four modems over almost 20 years so it’s worked out for me. As for the device itself, I don’t trust it, but I’ll still set some firewall rules just because. I have my router behind it where I do the real stuff. If I’m ever given a device that I need to connect for some sort of monitoring, like my solar panels or something like that, it can connect to my ISPs crap and do whatever sketchy shit it’s gonna do.

XMPP is ancient. So is email, the internet, and the wheel.

I’ve moved my homelab twice because it became stable, I really liked the services it was running, and I didn’t want to disturb the last lab**cough**prod server.

My current homelab will be moar containers. I’m sure I’ll push it to prod instead of changing the IP address and swapping name tags this time.

Hmmm. My pi{VPN,hole,dhcp,HA} has a little bit of overhead left…

Saturday morning: “Incus and podman seem interesting. I bet I could swap everything over while the family is out this afternoon”

Sunday evening: “Dad, when will the lights work again?”

“Damn, I’ve got this Debian server shit down. I wonder how an opensuse server would work out”

*installs tumbleweed*

True story

And yet I need 2GB of free ram and a 4 core processor to browse the web.

Connect her computer to the theater system or TV. Give thumb drive.

Alternatively, get am HDMI to rca output adapter if things are real bad for the theater system

You put that with everything else similar into a folder, which is backed up. Mine is called “Files”. If there’s something in there that I don’t need backed up. It still gets backed up. If there’s something very large in there that I don’t need backed up, it gets removed in one of my “oh shit these backups are huge” purges.

I’ve found that around 70% of my connection’s max upload speed is the sweet spot for keeping things speedy, but I only do that if I want something fast and there aren’t many seeders. I typically download at 20% of my bandwidth and upload at 10% so when it’s rocking I don’t affect anyone else on my network. I don’t have symmetrical up-down so my upload limit is a little above 10% of my download limit.

For Linux ISOs, of course.