Maybe you see a usecase that would see someone without knowledge or equipment need tons of cheap storage in a single desktop pc?

Personally I have 4 TB and some in the PC, and it’s almost full. a few VMs, a couple of snapshots, music because I prefer a local player over jellyfin, almost all programs that I didn’t want to keep on my small SSD, and a bunch of other data.

I know someone who wanted to save his dashcam recordings to his PC. I could not get him to tell why does he want it, and figure out if it would be important enough to get a big drive, but currently he can only store 2 days of recordings on the SSD. People around me are often on a tight budget, and I didn’t want to buy him an SSD unnecessarily big (before I got to know he wants to do this…), both for the cost and the lower lifespan

that’s good to be aware of, but using nvme drives for lots of storage does not seem to be economical. (I assume) in most cases large amounts of storage like this is used for archival and backups, where speeds don’t matter over what good HDDs can do.

So unless you have old hardware, I see the remaining use for sata as hdd-only.

how many M.w slots do current motherboards have? a useful property of SATA is that it’s not rare to have 6 of them

e-ink is the screen technology. even if you could replace its OS, that most probably wouldn’t help

does that mean that you dont use hard drives at all? how many storage have you got?

I’m all for open source, but being open source does not mean that it cannot be, or even that it is unlikely to be malicious

https://tosdr.org/en/service/624

steam and valve has also been generally more respectful with users than mostly any other online business, not even just in the space of online software stores. of course it’s not all rainbows and glitter but the point stands.

Valve kills physical ownership of games: I sleep

kills? most of them work with a steam emu, even offline. that’s not even cracking. most of those that don’t have a different limitation.

with a steam emu you can do whatever you want with the game files, often you can put it on your pendrive and play it as a portable game (the right goldberg emu settings allow game data to be stored near the game files instead of appdata)

free lol. did you look at the privacy policy, or just accepted it hastily?

you don’t need to expose it. set up wireguard and have fun much more safely

sorry what, it can keep a location history? how?

sorry what, it can keep a location history? how?

that’s how it works on desktop too regarding DNS, but when it receives a response from a new IP, it should send future traffic there as I know

that’s interesting. do you perhaps also know what the si param contains?

Don’t forget that even if you can disable its network connection (which is still an important step to avoid remote control shenanigans), the data collection may still continue, and if that’s the case the make’s diagnostic software will forward it to the cloud the next time your car is at service. I’m afraid that can’t be avoided.

but I found I spent way too much time trying to manage RAM and tuning it,

I spent none, and it works fine. what was your issue?

you don’t have to be imprisoned to have your life ruined. there are many relatively subtle ways to do that

scraping bots are expected to visit it, nowadays more than in previous years. a few of them are search engines, but there’s a lot of scraping for AI training, both on text and image data.

And I wondered who in their right mind would buy just half of that best friends forever charm.

anyone who would like to joke with their depression. I can imagine doing that.

now I actually want something like this