In this case, it might not involve the surveillance company selling or sharing anything. All an insurance adjuster has to do is knock on doors in the area and ask the home owners if they are willing to share any video footage they have.
And yes, people do this all the time. I work in this industry.
I really hate to stand on the side of the data hoarding conglomerates, but there’s a significant chance they were not involved in the release of that video.
I’ve been meaning to do something like a portable library myself. Your version of that sounds interesting.
Do you mind if I ask what the AFAQ is? A Google search didn’t lead me to a concrete answer.
How much storage does it have? Google search indicates it may just be 32GB. With a small distro, you just maybe just barely fit text only Wikipedia on there with Kiwix (or whatever the Wikipedia archive reader is called.)
Alternatively, you could put some books from Project Gutenberg on there. Throw in some public domain music recordings, a freely available movie or two (like the ones from the blender project), and maybe some light weight open source games… Then, you could have have yourself a portable offline library which could be shared with no legal repercussions.
Honestly, the news is probably preventing a lot of suicides.
I use “Beelink” brand mini PCs for this purpose. (They are the same form factor as your photo.) I have three, and they’re all good. I’ve used multiple distros on them with no compatibility issues, but MX Linux is my daily driver.
They have fans built in, but the cases on the higher end ones are metal, which helps with heat dissipation. The only downside with that is that sometimes USB peripherals get super hot while plugged in, and I had a mouse dongle that would overheat and malfunction. A simple USB hub fixed this problem (the hub itself apparently didn’t mind getting hot).
I use a “Mini Keyboard with touchpad” on the ones connected to TVs. I recommend those as well. Rii brand is decent.
I feel like you don’t understand the meaning of the word “ever.”
How about a project Gutenberg “best of” CD full of free public domain ebooks?
Download page: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11220 Link directly to download: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11220/PG2003-08.ISO
They also had a dual layer DVD download if you want something bigger. They don’t seem to host it anymore, but archive.org does.
I love that website. I’m considering getting the printed volumes to support them, even though I’ve read most of the articles already.
Could be! I have no idea.
I’m not an expert, but I believes he codes the Linux Kernel on Asahi these days.
If you know the model of your motherboard, you could look up the user manual. Then you don’t need to open it to see if you have two slots. Also, I don’t know your setup. If you have a slot for a physically bigger hard drive, then it might be a good idea to get a bigger storage drive as your second drive. If you like Linux, then reinstall it to your main drive and keep the second drive as storage drive.
Blu Ray players too. I have a Sony BPX 370, and it will play any (non 3D or 4k) Blu Ray or DVD from anywhere in the world.
How funny, I only recently learned of 9Front after trying to find out if there’s still a fork going of the original UNIX OS from Bell Labs (which is exactly what 9Front is… I think.)
Anyway, nice article. Thanks for posting.
Also, libre office has randomly crashed for me on multiple distros now, while doing really mundane things like… resizing a window or trying to save the document as PDF.
I will second only office. It’s more stable for me.
I’ve had no problems compressing Blu Ray MKVs into MP4s with handbrake (using MX Linux). My drive is a branded, internal one (I want to say LG or Asus.) I am at work right now, by I can look at the model number when I get home if you want. Interestingly, I have actually used it on both German Blu Rays and North American ones.
I was born in 1990, and I had a Teddy Ruxpin bear.
Anybody have any idea what’ll happen to those of us already gay married?
Speak for yourself. I have ISOs saved for my virtual machine “OS Museum” full of all kinds cool stuff like Damn Small Linux, TempleOS, Haiku, Hannah Montana Linux, the version of Mandrake Linux that came with the Sims 1 installed … Etc.