They’ll sometimes have issues but I haven’t ever heard of an actual attack against any of them.

You’ll need a Usenet server but at least two is preferable - one following DMCA and one following NTD.

Then you’ll need indexers. There’s no limit on these that you’ll want. Each will have different content and you can use some services to track how often you actually get good results from them or how much overlap there is.

Then get a download client. I like SABNZBd.

After that, you can automate it. Sonarr is gold standard for TV shows and Radarr for movies. Lidarr exists for music but it’s pretty hard to automate good music since there are so many different versions - radio edits, DJ, live, samples, remixes, etc.

Best part about Usenet is that it’s much easier to get what you want. With Torrents, you’re relying on seeders for each file you’re downloading. These mostly end up being newer media and usually the shittiest quality someone can produce (looking at you, YIFY).

With Usenet, it’s all coming from the servers. If it’s been uploaded, it’s almost always still there and you can usually download it as fast as your Internet connection allows. Sometimes you’ll find missing parts, almost always due to either DMCA/NTD requests or because the uploads were old and not downloaded recently enough. The former is the reason I recommend at least two servers. However, you’ll still usually have multiple other versions of that file uploaded elsewhere. If you’re using Sonarr/Radarr, they will mark it as a failed download and try another matching item instead.

Yeah something like that should be doable but it would require that programs provide a schema and the OS to have a way for the programs to “announce” themselves so it can be aware of the configuration files and the schema.

I’m sure some project could create a GUI that could cover the most common applications, though.

It’s always fun trying to set up a program, learning the config syntax, running it, having it fail, and then spending an hour debugging before you realize it never even read your config changes because you were supposed to use one of the other half dozen conf files it has spread all across your drive. Is it under /etc/, /usr/local/etc/, /opt/, or your home directory?

And, in the meantime, you’ll only destroy your OS maybe a few dozen times!

There are existing standards. The issue is that there are too many different standards and some programs will choose to make their conf files half standardized, half unique.

There’s INI, YAML, JSON, XML, TOML, etc.

Honestly, the Linux team needs to just choose one of these formats, declare it the gold standard, and slowly migrate the config files for most core components over to it. By declaring a standard, you’ll eventually get the developers of most major third-party tools and components to eventually migrate.

No - the US and Europe developed two different methods for handling salmonella.

Starting in the 1970s, the US chose to wash the eggs. The upside is that it eliminates virtually all risk. The downside is that it requires refrigeration throughout the entire supply line, but since they are refrigerated, US eggs last a lot longer; unrefrigerated eggs last about three weeks while refrigerated eggs last about 50 days.

Large portions of Europe didn’t have the infrastructure to support this so the regulators instead chose to vaccinate the chickens. The upside is that no extra steps are required and no extra equipment like refrigerated trucks. The downside is that they don’t last as long.

Both methods work about equally well and are both considered acceptable.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why-the-u-s-chills-its-eggs-and-most-of-the-world-doesnt

https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/stories/articles/how-we-store-our-eggs-and-why

I mean, Washington wanted 2 terms to be the norm.

He didn’t, that’s just a whitewashed version we tell ourselves.

He just didn’t want the President to be viewed as a monarch or a lifetime appointment. He turned down a third term because he feared he would die in office and the public would believe that’s the norm.

If you want a smart vacuum but don’t want to lose your privacy or be reliant on a cloud service, Valetudo is the way to go.

Also got GLaDOS on my Z10 Pro!

Love Valetudo - it integrates so well with HA and is entirely local.

Apparently it’s Athena Linux. At least, that’s what the hackable vacuums use.

It’s not a guarantee, though, but it should be. If you serve for, say, 5 years and have not been dishonorably discharged, you should be automatically eligible for citizenship.

As of now, serving only exempts you from the continuous residence and physical presence requirements. You still need to be a permanent resident, know English, understand the US government and history, and demonstrate “good moral character” for at least a year out of the military.

Permanent residency shouldn’t be mandated for soldiers. They’re choosing to serve for the US - isn’t that enough? The English and US government/history requirement should be waived under the assumption that they understand all of those well enough after training and serving in the military. Good moral character really is just that you haven’t committed any serious crime which is fine.

Man, don’t you know? The law ain’t made to help earthy cats like us. Here on our planet, back in the old days – back in the real old days – it was just every man for himself, scrooblin’ and scrat-scrotlin’ for the good stuff, the greenest valleys and scrat-scroblin’. And the strongest, meanest men got the best stuff. They got the green valleys and were like “The rest of you, y’all scrats get sand.” And that’s when they made the laws, you see. Once the strong guys got it how they liked it, they said “This is fair now. This is the law.” Once they were winning, they changed the rules up.

Completely agree.

These are some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. And they bent their knee for Trump, some more willingly than others.

It’s clearly a warning for the rest: fall in line now or face the consequences.

I quit a long time ago without even meaning to.

There was just less and less content to keep me interested while more ads and “recommendations” kept taking their place. At some point I was just forcing myself to open the app each day and just stopped.

If an app, website, or game won’t respect my time, why should I give it any?

WebRTC could be used to provide peer-to-peer streaming. The load on the servers would be very minimal since the feeds would be sent directly from the host to the viewers. A lot of live streaming and video conferencing apps already use it to keep their hosting costs down.

The downside is that the IP address of the viewers will be exposed, even over a VPN unless precautions are taken by the user or the application.

Back when it was 90% junk, 5% okay, 4% great… But also that 1% that was absolutely worth it.

Back when Schwarzenegger and T-Pain were basically the highlights. Victoria running the AMAs - I mean that had to be one of the biggest losses. That bird scientist dude and then the drama after he was caught alt upvoting.

Y’all called people daddio.

Yes.

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