Ebby

I loooove bad movies. Not religious-bad, more mystery science theater bad.

I rip everything and plunk it into it's own library just for me.

If you have the space and time, go ahead and limit access to her. She's already seen them or will anyway. You hosting a file for one individual isn't going to tip the grand scale of anything.

If you have a moral issue against it, don't host the content. You've already made up your mind, it's just taking you a while to realize it.

Just spitballing, but a new part number means new variations to account for, new testing, new code, new hardware (balance/charge rate/cooling system), and new safety verification.

It's cheaper to hire a lawyer and programmer to screw a customer than a team of engineers to appease government.

Reminds me of CD/DVD drives. Manufacturers build/test one model, and make 3 firmwares with software limits to market to low, middle, and high price users. All models make profit, but segmenting the market gets those who can pay a little more. The advanced users buy the cheapest drives and reflash them with the best firmware to restore function.

A lot of the infrastructure is provided to ISP's free for local caching/deployment. Netflix has the Open Connect program to greatly relieve stress on interconnects and backbones.

If memory serves, ISP didn't like this and would rather profit from fees for the internet traffic. I feel like those fees and licensing fees account for a significant increase in subscription costs.

Oh, to me it sounded like you could access the video, it just had DRM so you couldn't save it.

Different problem

I assume you don't need the absolute best in quality, but I'd try a screen capture utility.

On a Mac, QuickTime player can record sections.

OMG what if Google moves to India/Mexico permanently and is subject to the TikTok ban.

Oh, I can dream. Haha!

Immich was my first donation too. It's grown so much, implemented features from user suggestions, and is quite polished.

It started as a Picasa/google photos copy, but is so much more now.

Can't wait to see where they are headed.

Syncthing is very, very good at syncing, but I get the sense the developers are very specific about keeping to the core objective. There have been other features that would be nice, like have one device sync and archive old/removed files, that many have asked for but rejected. (There is a way, but it's clunky and sometimes gets out of sync.)

I don't think a cross-user sync solution would ever come to this app. You'll have to create a unique folder and "device" for that.

At first, Pi-hole was enough, but some devices had a software update a year or two ago that used Google (if memory serves) DNS as a backup. It was sneaky, but adding a block rule closed that loophole.

Not all devices had that change though. I'm hoping mine is old enough to be ignored for the new video ads.

Currently, yes and no.

Yes, in that pihole can filter ad servers, but no because backup DNS servers are hard coded in the software; you have to block those too from your router.

Not sure about the new changes planned.

"Oh shit, what's happening? NO NO NO!"

Yup, can confirm.

I zoomed in to see why the back row was standing on people's shoulders and I SOOO WISH I DIDN'T