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And don't forget how they beat that one police officer to death with a flagpole.

Some people prefer to not have their every action watched and observed by some anonymous Big brother.

The people who do not get that are the people who profit from the watching, and the people that are, best case, inconsiderate of the desires and feelings of other people.

It is not normal nor is it natural to claim ownership of other people's activity.

It is normal and natural to wish to exist without being observed. Privacy is a fundamental human right and companies are taking advantage of the fact that it is not legally enforced.

Hopefully the laws will catch up and make it so that each and every individual opportunity to directly observe a person must be explicitly approved beforehand with a set time limit on the observation, and that all telemetry must be made publically available and transparent, not only during the original acquisition of data but also in each and every single usage of that data after the fact.

It is only fair after all that should accompany wish to observe you that they must also be equally observed.

I vaguely remember reading that terms of service that violate basic rights are not going to be upheld in court.

I'm not a FUNimation subscriber but I hope that the people who are take Sony to court

Proof?

I read 15 different sites about DNS and not a one of them claimed anything like this. They universally all stated that your network attached devices would use the 1st one unless it didn't respond and only use the 2nd one if the 1st one did not.

So once again, I ask "Can you send me some more information on this" and not just claim it without any backup information?

I apologize if I am coming off rude, just my BS meter is getting close to the red zone and I would really appreciate some reliable evidence.

Yeah, looks like you don't know what you're talking about.

The second ipv4 DNS address is for redundancy and every network connected system will use the first one as long as it responds.

It's perfectly fine to have a single pihole and use something like quad9 as a failover in the unlikely event that your pihole goes down unexpectedly.

Can you send me some more information on this because this is the first I've ever heard that it would not automatically pick the fastest closest and most responsive DNS system available.

No remote DNS server will ever be as fast as one that is local

If you're router has a failover DNS option, usually listed as DNS 2, I would set something like quad 9 as your backup DNS. Address is 9.9.9.9.

If you don't want to do that, then having a second instance of pihole running as the secondary DNS is pretty much your only good option

I have 4 home servers. 1 running pfsense, 1 running truenas, 1 running proxmox, and 1 is a cloud key gen2 for unifi that I got for free

To a certain point I agree with you, mild psychedelics have been used for millennia to help people uncover their own issues and work through them.

The other side of that is that it is not a cure-all, and most of the people that habitually use psychedelics tend to check out from reality.

So, even if they can be used medicinally and be helpful, they are a double-edged sword in that just because you've seen through some of your own assumptions doesn't necessarily mean you've pierced the veil of the greater illusion of Maya.

The other thing is it's not exactly like the matrix is made to be broken. People have been talking about the concept of Maya, that the world as presented to us is nothing but an illusion meant to keep us trapped, for thousands of years.

They claim that the enlightened people the bodhisattvas the jesus's and Muhammad's have broken through the illusion and stayed back to help guide us along the way.

Which is all well and good but that does not mean that breaking the illusion is easy. It doesn't even mean necessarily that it is possible because first you have to prove that an illusion exists and then you have to prove that there is a way to break it, and most people, I believe, go mad along the way.

I said all of that to say, if you find a way to break out of the matrix please for the love of God show me the way.

The reason why I said 7th gen is because the built-in graphics card can do some pretty good quality transcoding.

It's also nice because on the used market there's quite a few i3 and i5 based 7th gen PCs available for a hundred and change.

Aside from the fact that they were being condescending in their reply, that 900 some odd million dollar fine was only a small fraction of the profits they made from doing crimes and misdemeanors.

If you can rob a house and the only penalty is that you have to give the cops some of your loot then there's not really a reason to not rob houses.

Anybody with a lick of sense would say that if you do a crime you don't get to keep any of the profit.

So while 900 million looks really good on paper and it really looks like you're sticking it to the big bad Microsoft, when they made tens of billions of dollars off of those crimes it's a giant nothing Burger.

Now that Microsoft is a 3 trillion dollar company, any fine that isn't over a hundred billion dollars is something that they can easily ignore.