Luckily, the service doesn't have the bandwidth for video or images. They could still use it for user tracking and text ads if it can get a signal indoors though.
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Iridium Promises an Easy Path to Satellite IoT with Its Arduino-Compatible Certus 9704 Developer Kit
Iridium Promises an Easy Path to Satellite IoT with Its Arduino-Compatible Certus 9704 Developer Kit
Wow, that's some expensive data plans. Let's hope you don't need more than a few KB of data.
There are browser addons that hide youtube shorts.
Piracy never got anywhere close to dying. TV and movie piracy dropped a bit when there were decent streaming services though.
Lots of people got used to watching what they want, when they want it. Now that the streaming services have all enshittified, loads of people are turning to piracy because it provides better service.
You don't need a static IP address, but you do need a public IP address. You can use dynamic DNS to avoid having to keep track of your IP address. FreeDNS will work fine for a basic setup.
Wireguard is one of the easiest VPN servers to use. If you're not using your ISP's router, it may even have Wireguard built in.
Don't give the tech companies any ideas.
Ads used to be static text in the sidebar that the site owner manually put there. They didn't have any tracking and didn't slow down the loading time. Once they started adding images, I started using an ad blocker. I was stuck on dial-up until 2008 and a single, small image could add 10 or more seconds to the page loading time.
You can find used Thinkcenters pretty cheap with AMD CPUs. I recently got an M75s Gen2 with a Ryzen 3 4350G for around $100.
It's fairly minimal compared to the amount of microplastics that go down the drain every time someone washes a load of laundry made from synthetic fibers. At least PLA dust will break down a bit faster than many of the other microplastics.
Normal DVDs are not good for archival. Cheap ones can degrade in less than 10 years. You want to get the M-disc ones for long term storage.
None of them look very practical. There's lots of plexiglass that will get scratched up the first time you clean it and a major lack of drive bays.
802.11ac was a huge improvement over 802.11n. The later versions have only given a small performance increase unless you don't have neighbors and can run wide channels.