you aren’t. to me this is just PR

I’ll try this, thanks. but to fill in some missing context from my part, this is what I have been experiencing for the little more than a year I’m running an I2P router.

the catch is that you don’t own that camera, only the manufacturer does. besides requiring an account and a connection to china to be able to use it, they have access to both your network, and to the camera feed. they’ll use the network info to gather info about you, and the camera feed to train their face and gait recognition AIs, possibly also for intelligence

oh that was it, the account requirement was what I wanted to remember but couldn’t! was sure it was something even worse, thanks for the help.

yeah if I would buy such a TV by accident, I would bring it back within the return period and tell that it was faulty, because it is.

the available outproxies were very much overwhelmed

honestly that’s still my experience. it’s not rare that websites like a DDG results page does not even load, I think from time to time I even have unable to connect errors, even though as I have stormycloud as my outproxy. probably something on my end, though, it seems then

I remember that roku TVs refuse working until you connect it to the internet. their values/intentions are clear, I wouldn’t give money to them

edit: they also require registering a roku account

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 which load is not even attempted to be distributed by the default I2P router configuration.

the reason for why I2P is more suitable for torrenting is unclear to me, though, other than the maintainers telling that. possibly because almost everyone who wants 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.

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

It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.

do you mean that it does not have a prompt for the SMS code anymore, and it reads the code only from the received SMS?

In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM

that’s a weird choice, I thought a main goal of them was user freedom

there isn’t, but as others have replied you can hide it from yourself

and all the things you find on this list, too

is this a serious question? the weather forecast is the question

but how will that solve the bot problem?