Science is not valid if it is not expensive. Gravity does not exist unless Adobe gets their cut.

This will be true in the future, but you are absolutely incorrect today.

Putting a gun to my head. Even then, it’s a 50/50 I choose to starve to death instead.

Oh no, who will leak my phone number now?

Source? Can’t find anything about Twilio being owned by FB/Meta. Looks like they’re publicly traded.

The playlist:
Beer - Psychostick
100 in a 55 - Pop Evil
Oops!.. I Did it Again - Britney Spears

BAH BAH BAH!!!

Yeah, like I said. No benefit to me. If anything, lots of these ‘features’ are things I want to actively avoid in my closed-source operating systems.

There is not a single thing Windows 11 does better than Windows 10 that benefits me. I’m sure I’ll get a good chuckle out of that list.

It was unfortunate, but not unexpected. Neo Launcher is a decent alternative, though it’s not quite on par with Nova, and their development has been very slow the last year. Benefit of GrapheneOS, I can just disable Nova’s network access, so I don’t really have to compromise here thankfully.

That’s exactly what a chatbot sophisticated enough to be an existential threat would say.

Yeah. Music, movies, and TV.

I’ll have to watch a video later I guess. I know it’s possible to lose a drive while it’s rebuilding, but it’s improbable, and I figured it takes more space, I’m okay taking that risk since I’m not handling irreplaceable data, just my personal TV/movie archive for now. But if it can save space, I’ll have to consider it.

I’ll have to watch a video on it later, I assumed having a 1:1 backup was the most efficient backup method possible without compression. I don’t plan on utilizing every drive at once, and I don’t plan on having more than 20 to start with, but it won’t be much more than I already have, so I should be okay to start. I just want to make sure there room for expansion in the future. I don’t need all 40 immediately. My UPS will tell me how much power I’m drawing, right?

Doesn’t that keep more than two copies? RAID 1 is expensive enough as is. I just need to be able to pop in a replacement drive if one fails so I don’t lose data.

The data is currently stored on external drives, but once I’ve got the new setup with RAID I’ll erase the drives and sell to friends, or use in other projects like an emulation station. 15+ wall plugs is excessive.

I only have 140TB atm, but I plan to expand. I want to backup all my Blu-rays, which will be at least 10 more HDDs. 2TBs used to be a lot. Lol

With 140TB+ of existing data, I would need 16 18TB HDDs to have RAID 1, and I also need the ability to expand. Really, I just need to have all the data accessible over the network so I can manage it from my main PC and stream it via a Plex/Jellyfin server. Maybe 4 smaller DIY NAS systems accessed by a separate system? I would really prefer no proprietary software if I can avoid it, and enterprise is out of my price range after I’ll be spending $3,000+ on HDDs.

Wow. I’m totally shocked that Facebook would launch a free VPN out of nowhere and then use it for nefarious purposes. I was sure they just wanted to help humanity. /s

To be resumed at the end of the month, I’m sure.