Posts by The Dogs Meevonks 579 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Aug 2017
So the person who created and paid for a fake Nintendo account that got verified pretty much immediately without being checked for authenticity... is an anomaly and isn't going to be a perfect example of why this is a shitty idea from a shitty human being who'll always shit on everyone else with no regard to any morals, ethics, or even laws.
I know it's not efficient... But I have 2 systems running in my office... both churn out a fairly decent amount of warmth... and if I keep the window and door closed. It's enough to make about a 2-3ºC difference in ambient temps... Maybe a little more if I'm pushing the systems a little harder... Well, one of them if I'm doing a bit of gaming... the mediaserver is actually an underclocked and undervolted Ryzen 2600X but with 7 rather large HDD's in along with some chunky 200m noctuas and a few 140mm corsair ML fans.... no RGB lighting of course.
Seeing as they're running all day anyway, I might as well make use of the extra warmth... one system runs 24/7 the other for about 14hrs a day. The more time I spend in the office, the less time the heating needs to be on in the rest of the house.
That's kinda important at this time of year, in this current energy crisis... and just booked to have a 4kw solar system with 8kwh batteries installed in the new year.
Muskrat is not a Bond villain... they had a plan and the ability to carry that plan to fruition... they didn't rely on other people to come up with ideas and then steal them and market them as their own.
He's more like one of those B-movie type villains from a kids movie... one that's so inept he gets beaten by a couple of 9yr olds
Unless they are Eon or The AA... who I've been calling utterly incompetent for the last 6 weeks over their failure to do simple things... as well as ignoring complaints.
If Eon haven't sorted it by next week... it's getting submitted to the regulator... they're no better than thieving scum who are literally trying to steal from us after they screwed up and have admitted it was their mistake.
The last date I went on a few years ago (not the current partner) asked me ' how long I took to masturbate.
I replied between 1-2hrs.
She was shocked... and kinda speechless right up the point I finished the sentence.
'Because it can take that long to find the right bit of porn'
She didn't get the joke... and I didn't ask for a 2nd date.
I'll be honest... ease of access to internet porn has kinda ruined my enjoyment of porn.
I think I created an account about 10-11yrs ago... used it for a few weeks. Mainly to communicate with an ex who used it as her preferred platform. But I quickly grew tired of the toxicity and stopped using it around the same time I deleted my facebook account in early 2012.
I picked it up again, briefly about 3yrs later... again to communicate with said ex... and dropped it once more shortly after.
I again picked it up in 2018... guess why?
But it was at a strange time, I was suffering from a medical condition that led to a B12 deficiency... which can have some quite severe side effects if not kept in check... and I wasn't keeping it in check having skipped my blood tests and boosters for about 7-8 months. I was also dealing with the recent high functioning autism diagnosis... and was a little odd and angry.
Basically... made an arse of myself... tried to apologise and explain but ghosted... figured the ex would never speak to me again and deleted my account entirely as she was the singular reason I used it, just to catch up and check in every few yrs.
Kinda never want to go back... but created an account recently just to tweet at a few companies who were dicking us around and ignoring complaints... looks like they ignore twitter too... So off to the regulator it is next week.
Signed up to mastadon the other day... awaiting approval as apparantly there's been a huge influx.
I also used diaspora about 4 or 5 yrs ago... but it never really appealed to me... was a bunch of displaced G+ people who didn't want to use facebook either... But as with all cliques.... power goes to a few peoples heads and you'd end up with people making complaints about posts where you simple stated 'I don't like cats'.. because some precious little fuckwit couldn't bear the thought of anyone having such a hideous opinion... but the crazy part of that story... was that I actually got a talking to from one of the mods/admins about it, she even stated I'd done nothing wrong but she wanted a chat.
I used the old Stephen Fry response to people being offended...
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
Not used it again.
My first job as an apprentice engineer after school... they tried a few of those on me without any success... Long weights... line manager came looking for me after I came back and said they didn't have any and then disappeared down there again 10 mins later for a cup of tea with the stores guys... when he asked what I thought I was doing... I replied... they didn't have any long weights, so I thought two short ones would do instead.
They tried 'sky hooks' and I laughed at them... then they sent me down for some Shell No 13 'pneumatic oil'... which back then... didn't exist and I only heard 'shell No 13'... apparantly they did actually use a 'Shell No 12' oil... stores took pity on me and offered a cup of tea... and that's where my line manager found me... again.
They stopped trying after that.
But when I went to another dept for a few months... they got me good. Sent me down to the other end of the huge site (about 2/3 of a mile from one end to the other) lugging a massive cart to pick up a crate... Something about '2 parstels for a 209 compressor)... I had no clue... just was told to go somewhere and pick something up and did so... I was the apprentice, I got the grunt work.
So I lugged this huge crate back on a hand cart for 2/3 of a mile... and they ask if I checked it.... 'I don;t even know what the fuck it is, how am I supposed to know if it's what you need, or in the right condition?' was my response.
Handed me a crowbar... told me to check it.
What I found.... several breeze blocks... the ones with 2 square holes in them... and a note that said '2 Post Holes for a 209 Compressor'
had to laugh at that one... they learned I wasn't easy to fool with the usual pranks and came up with something better.
Congrats on being judgemental without having the facts... thought I'd share the story just for you.
1: had a fling with a woman at the place I worked... I knew she 'had' been seeing some one, didn't know who, just that it had ended because he wouldn't leave his wife. It lasted a couple of weeks.
2: A couple of months later, he leaves his wife and shacks up with her.
3: he was an utter incompetent cockwomble, his only skill was creating division amongst the team to distract from how useless he was.
4: He was a liar and a cheat (not just with his wife), he altered paperwork submitted by others, removed booked holidays, was a male misandrist who seemed to hate other men and tried to promote an 18yr old with huge tits over the far more experienced person who had already been marked for the position through experience and seniority. He sabotaged job applications that people made to other depts and had complaints made against him, whilst encouraging everyone else to try and make complaints against everyone else.... for stupid things like a person eating a bag of crisps whilst waiting for a kettle to boil to make cups of tea for the team....
5: On the day I'd had enough and quit, he still tried to cause drama and made all sorts of outrageous claims so that HR in the end decided to let me leave that day, with full pay for the entire 2 month notice I gave.
6: He approached me in the foyer of the building as I was saying goodbye to some people and with the smuggest look on his face... held out his hand and wished me well... along with the 'no hard feelings' bollocks.
7: That's when I grabbed his hand very firmly... pulled him towards me a little and quietly said 'Of course not... and I'm sorry I shagged your mistress' with a huge shit eating grin on my face.
8: That's when he went purple and decided to take a swing at me... in front of witnesses.... it was barely a glancing blow to my shoulder... but damage done to himself.
9: That's when I asked the receptionist if she'd care to call the police... and I popped back upstairs to talk to HR.
10: Guess what happened to him?
11: Guess who tried to brush it off until I actually spoke to the police and guess who tried to force staff into not being a witness after they had already spoken to the police.... I guess shitty behaviour was just normal in that company.
12: Guess who tried to convince me to return to the job... taking over one of the teams... but after promoting the other shitty person who made a complaint about the one eating crisps whilst making cups of tea... into his role.
Rather than treating anyone like a 'piece of meat' as you ignorantly claimed... I'm damn fucking proud of my petty act of revenge that saw a shitty person get some karma.
I've done this a little myself... cannot and will not divulge more... but the 30hrs a week I am contracted for, takes me about 15-18hrs on average. I even make sure that I do around 5% (random figure between 2-10%) more work than I'm required to, so that they just think I'm a very hard worker who goes the extra mile.
I hardly even play games anymore... I'm too busy with bits of DIY in between bouts of work on the house we bought last month. Trying to find contractors, accepting deliveries.
I'm not taking on another job in my free time... it's MY free time and I'll enjoy it.
When I was younger, and before I ever entered the world of IT employment (was just a tinkerer), I worked 5 part time jobs. All of them between 3 and 8hrs a week. I was theatre manager at a local community arts project, manager at a youth club along with music rehearsal spaces, a youth worker on 2 projects and assistant manager at a childrens after school centre (full time during holidays).
Back in the later half of the 90's when I learned to drive, I had one that went over the handbrake and around the gearstick, and another that was put through the steering wheel.
Then one day, the key to the handbrake one fell of my keyring due to a crappy ring that bent or got snagged.
I could remove the steering wheel one... thankfully, It was parked close enough to my ground floor flat to be able to run an extention and get my grinder out.
Unfortunately... I lived just 200 yards from the main police station in the city... and cars would often go past the block, as well as beat officers walking past.
Cue a car passing by... stopping and backing up... and two large officers getting out to enquire what I was doing.... in a car park next to the city centre, with doors wide open, music blaring... and sparks flying out one door.
Once I'd told them, and proved ownership of said vehicle... they chuckled and let me carry on.
I had a friend who'd had a new alarm system installed... remote engine start and anti car jacking and so forth.
Well... he was showing it off to us one day, and lifted the bonnet to show us some mods he'd done.
The wind blew the drivers door shut and because the anti jacking was enabled... locked the car... with his keys in the ignition.
He was 70 miles from home...
Had to call out the AA, who had a good chuckle, instered an inflatable back into the frameless window and B pillar, to create just enough of a gap to thread a hooked wire into the car to pull the door release.
I've still got the pictures of him at work with my friend looking on sheepishly... and the rest of us with huge shit eating grins on our faces.
He disabled the anti car jacking mode after that.
My first car was a Vauxhall Cavalier... A 1983 1.6L that I owned around 1995.
The door handles kept breaking, as did the window winders... So I was always at the local scrap yard looking for spares.
One day the key broke... and because of a break in a few months earlier... I'd had to replace the ignition barrel... Which meant I had 2 keys, one for the doors, one for the ignition.
I tried the ignition key in the door lock, and it opened.
As a curious little bugger... I tried other items... all of them worked.
The final item I tried to unlock the car... an ice cream lollypop stick.
It worked.
Currently the worlds second biggest narcissist is having a tantrum because he got called out by the people for his whiny, pathetic, please worship me bullshit.
A quick timeline of last week....
1: Wanted to stop funding starlink for Ukraine
2: Posted poll on twitter asking people to vote on 'peace' options that included ceding territory to Putin, did not include driving Nazi Russia out of Ukraine
3: Got annoyed that people didn't vote the way he wanted them to and called him on his bullshit
4: Tweeted that it's unfair that companies get billions in subsidies and tax breaks and that spacex has to fund starlink for Ukraine... whilst his companies like SpaceX and Tesla get billions in subsidies and tax breaks.
5: Finally had enough of people calling him out and hurting his fragile ego
6: Decides he is going to carry on funding starlink for Ukraine and desperately posts for attention
7: Waits to see if people will start loving him again instead of despising him for the toxic, waste of air that he is
Meanwhile... the BBC is about to start airing some kind of Muskrat propaganda program worshipping the ground he walks on... instead of doing an expose on him.
I've been calling it a 4070 ever since the announcement... but there's actually an argument that it's a 4060 really.
When you look at things like the CUDA core count... the 12GB 4080 had 46% of cores as the 4090.... so did the 3060 compared to the 3090. The 3070 actually had more like 58% of the cuda cores against the 3090.
It'll be back shortly... as a 4070, they'll probably knock $100 of the MSRP which is suicide for a xx70 class card at $799... and leaves such a massive gap between the xx70 & xx80 class... that I can't see how they'll maintain the price of the higher cards now.
Massive blunder on their part... such greed and short-sightedness has led them down this path... they still think there's a shortage and a cryptoboom... or are banking on another one coming along shortly.
Time for AMD to shine and not try to jack up their prices... if they can compete with RDNA3 within 5% on average of the 40 series... at a similar price to their last gen... they can do to nvidia what they've been doing to intel.
As for intel... they're targeting that lower to mid range market... sure they're not competing with nvidia at all except on price... and if you're interested in playing older games.... not worth it. But if you want to make use of AV1 encoding/decoding... right now, an ARC GPU even as a secondary card to compliment your existing one... could be the right call to make and save a lot of money.
It's time the 'gig economy' was eradicated entirely, along with 'zero hrs' contracts... they only exist to punish those most desperate for an income, by denying them their rights and a living wage.
Back in the 90's, I worked 5 part time jobs in my late teens and twenties... didn't earn a huge amount of money and probably still only worked an average of 30-35hrs a week... But I had better rights then than these people do now... and I probably earned more too.
Picked up a 6900XT back in June for £785 and then sold my 5700XT for £150 to a friend (£100 below avg prices at the time)... So a 6900XT for £635 was a great deal... I got it from Amazon warehouse deals and the only issue was a slightly damaged open box... Contents were mint and unopened.
Sure, if I'd waited I could have saved some more money... But I'd already been waiting nearly 2yrs to replace the old card that I got for less £80 than MSRP new... and that was fine for 1080p 100fps gaming, but I now had a 165hx 1440p HDR monitor... and wanted to push it further.
Tried raytracing and wasn't hugely impressed... Far more impressed with FSR 2.0 and am using it on almost every game now... 1080p to 1440p, maxing out settings and getting well over 100fps on every new game released in the last year that I've tried... and maxing out monitor in a lot more.
Happy with the purchase... and it cost a lot less than a 4070... sorry... shitty 4080 will
It's worth considering a budget ARC GPU as a secondary card just for the onboard AVI encoding/decoding as even the lowest spec cards have it.
it's locked behind the 40xx series paywall on nVidia cards... no idea about AMD as yet.
So if you are any kind of content creator, streamer and any related fields that require excellent hardware encoding/decoding abilities... It makes far better sense to go ARC and keep an existing card than it does to fork out for anything from nVidia anymore.
Used to use paypal a lot, especially for buying things from overseas so as not to give out CC information.
Had lots of items that failed to ever show up, and had refunds from all of them...
Then I made the mistake of ordering something a little larger and more expensive from ali-express.... arrived missing a load of parts. Seller refused to respond. Ali-express dealt with the issue by ordering the seller to refund me... seller ignored them.
Submitted to paypal, provided all of the info from ali-express proving they found in my favour... Paypal instead listened to the lies of the seller and found in their favour.
I ended up doing a chargeback through my bank to recover the funds... paypal put my account into a -£££ state and suspend it... Start making demands of the money... I tell them to shove it.
Not heard from them since, refuse to use paypal ever again... and once I make a stand like that on something. I never back down. I still hold grudges against companies from 20yrs ago and will never give them a penny of my money ever again... nVidia, Bensons for Beds, Ebuyer, EA, Ubisoft to name just a few.... all of them are worthless companies... and because of their shitty attitudes and basic failures to deal with problems they caused... It's cost them 100 times more in lost sales than it would have if they just fixed their fuck ups.
Currently having to deal with Eon and AA Insurance over basic uselessness and ineptitude... Eon have basically stolen over £800 from us, complaint filed and currently being ignored. Whilst the AA are failing to fix an emergency repair that they agreed to fix, sent out an engineer to secure and are now failing to authorise the actual repair and they can't even answer a phone... Seriously... I spent 80 mins on hold to them just yesterday and they fuckers went home and left me on hold... 3.55hrs on hold so far and I've spoken to 2 people and one of those for about 30 seconds who 'transferred' me to some one else who never picked up.
But hey... at least they 'have' a number you can call... unlike paypal who make it even more impossible to deal with issues.
Fuck em... fuck em all.
My house I sold 6 months ago, wasn't due to get FTTP until at least 2026, it did have virgin but their service was atrocious and when I was on a 100Mb service, it was as low as 172Kb and the average was about 18Mb... (not a typo) due to their oversubscribing pipes and actively degrading the service of anyone who 'dared' to use a VPN. I ended up getting out of that contract early without penalty as well as having refunds.
Moved back in with family for a while, and they do have FTTP in their road... but not worth signing up for a new contract for 6 months, as we are literally moving again in 2 days... Movers packing the house tomorrow.
New house is still only FTTC but at least close enough to get close to the upper limit with a guaranteed 59Mb limit from the ISP... Openreach claim FTTP is coming in 2025 to that street.
Also... everything is moving to VOIP... no one is actually doing landlines at all anymore... and if you don;t have a mobile, or live anywhere with a decent signal... or have any kind of medical device that communicates over a landline. They simply won't offer you a service at all.
I'd love a gigabit connection... I'm wiring the new house with cat6 to all bedrooms and lounge at the same time as running new aerial cabling, and getting a new switch with 2.5Gb as my server and main rig have onboard 2.5... streaming from my mediaserver around the house is an issue if I have to use wifi from the server, to the access point and then out over wifi to devices... it just gets swamped streaming 4k media at far higher bitrates than anything any streaming service offers.... 10x better in most cases... hence the need for 2.5Gb
I'm always amused when some rich twonk, tries to tell those without excessive amounts of money that it's not the answer to everything.
They're right... money cannot buy happiness... it just buys you access to the things that can make you happy... It buys you time to pursue your passions, it makes those passions affordable.
It can't buy you a happy marriage... can it... ole musky... can it Bezos the clown...
In short... fuck these arseclowns and their utter failure to understand their privileged elitism.
Here's the first one I found from the economic policy institute,,, literally the first item at the top of the search page.
https://www.epi.org/press/union-workers-are-paid-11-2-more-and-have-greater-access-to-health-insurance-and-paid-sick-days-than-their-nonunion-counterparts-policymakers-must-strengthen-workers-ability-to-form-unions/
A quick breakdown.... in case you don't want to read... or can't read... or can read and can't comprehend.
Unionised workers (across all spectrums) earn on avg 11.2% more than non union workers.
Black unionised workers earn on avg 13.7% more than non union ones.
Hispanic unionised workers earn 20.1% more than non union ones.
White unionised workers earn on avg 8.1% more than non union ones (because they're already paid more than POC due to the inherent bias and racism in society as a whole)
94%% of unionised workers have better access to employer sponsored healthcare
91% of unionised workers have access to paid sick leave compared to 73%% of non union workers.
But sure... you keep spouting your anti union bull... you're either ignorant of the facts or a shill for some company trying to stop people standing up for themselves... or a basic white male who doesn't understand that he's already in a position of privilege vs his non white co-workers.
Found the Amazon employee, or at the least the person who's swallowed the anti uinion garbage hook, line, sinker, rod and copy of angling times.
On average, unionised workers earn up to 15% more than non union workers do. They have better benefits and working conditions.
This costs a measly portion of that extra pay... say about 1% of it.
But you carry on believing the lies that companies try to spread, they don't want workers to have rights, they don't workers to have better pay, or breaks, or health plans... it affects the billions of dollars in profits they earn every year. They'll lie, cheat, steal and do anything to intimidate gullible works into believing that only they know what's best for their slaves... I mean employees... and what they want is... literal slaves.
I bet if some one drew up a spreadsheet of all the failed projects, cancelled projects against the ones that have actually worked well and are still going strong to this date... One list is going to be long and the other very short.
and I don't include projects that simply involved them buying up some one else's IP/idea/company and pretending it was theirs.... google are good at that... just like every other tech company
I've been around long enough to have been a 3DFX customer, my first Voodoo II and then Voodoo II SLI set up back in the later half of the 90's. I had the top end Voodoo 3 and then a Voodoo 5 (6500?).
I remember when they went out of business and nvidia bought them out... promising to provide support and drivers for 3DFX owners... and then once they had that SLI IP... went nah... fuck you lot.
Never owned an nvidia GPU since and likely never will. My whole process of buying my PC stuff is one of value for money vs performance. nVidia have always fallen way down the list in that regard.
trying to sell a 4070 for 200 more than the last gen 3080 whilst 'pretending it's a 4080 is a bullshit move.
I paid £635 for a 6900XT a couple of months back after I sold my 5700XT to a mate for £150 (about £100 below avg used prices). You couldn't even get a 3070 for that price in the UK.
nVidia admitted to with holding stuck to try and keep the prices of 30xx series cards high as the market became flooded with used mining cards. I've seen used 3090 cards going for 500 now.
This only further cements my position that nvidia are a scummy company... who are deluding themselves that they artificially high prices of the previous 18 months during the shortages, crypto boom and scalping... are here to stay and I hope they suffer because of it.
Fingers crossed that RDNA3 can help AMD do to nvidia what they've been doing to intel... and that they stick as close tot heir previous pricing as before... a 7900XT for the price of a 16gb 4080 would certainly send a message, and still increases the price of previous gen by 200... even better would be to stick with the same 999 price tag
They recently admitted they were with holding 30xx series stock from the market to keep the prices higher because they didn't want them to drop and risk harming the extortionate prices they wanted to charge for the 40xx series.
They seem to think that we're still in a shortage and scalper market kept inflated by a crypto boom.
899 for a 4070... sorry.... stripped down 4080. 1100 for an actual 4080... what is that... about a 40% price bump over 3080 original prices?
I too am hoping AMD can do to nvidia what they've done to intel... and I'm rooting that over the next few years intel GPU's mature and provide more competition.
Let's hope EVGA can also be convinced to start producing cards for AMD and maybe even intel down the road.
The most I've ever paid for a 'smartphone' is £236 and for that I got a Motorola One almost 3yrs ago.
2 OS updates and 3yrs of security updates gauranteed and delivered upon... A near vanilla android experience. Decent fingerprint reader, NFC, taller than average screen, 128GB storage + mSD card slot, dual sim (not if mSD card is used)
Cannot fault it's reliability, it's not slow it's not plastic and cheap looking... there's no shitty overlay that ruins the experience and there's no baked in apps that cannot be uninstalled.
It's basically nearly as good as a pixel device for less than half the cost.
For the last 8 or 9 yrs I've bought all of my phones from Amazon warehouse deals. I've never had one that's damaged or even used... just open box. I pay on average 20-30% below retail prices and I keep them for around 2-3yrs unless they break.
I've had a...
Motorola G2 (given to my mum after about a year because it wasn't powerful enough for my needs and too low end for me), replaced with a Wileyfox Storm (great phone, fantastic privacy features, I miss that one. Replaced when battery started to bloat) ... next up a Motorola G5 which was a reasonable little phone.... Fixed the Wilefox with a new battery and gave it to my mum (she gets all my old phones)... Then picked up the Motorola One Vision towards the end of 2019 (gave mum the G5 which she's still using and is around 5yrs old now).
I cannot fathom the mentality of people willing to spend 5x the price or more on a device that's no better than my current phone in real world usage... has less storage, and IO... all for the perceived status of owning an 'insert brand name here' phone/wearable.
Sure... I like my tech stuff. And yes... I will spend extra on PC upgrades. But I tend to do a ground up rebuild of my PC's every 5yrs or so... It's smaller upgrades inbetween. But those PC parts get handed down to other family and friends. My old AMD FX system I got rid of 4-5yrs ago and replaced with a Ryzen 2600X (that now resides in my mediaserver) was given to a friend who is now using it as his mediaserver.... that FX8350 is close to 10yrs old and still being used.
I built my current rig on an X570, 3800X 32GB DDR4 in April 2020... I've upgraded the storage and GPU... and will probably upgrade the CPU to a 5800X3D... But that's it until at least 2025.
Wearables are a niche within a niche... and 107 million sold... that's about 1% of the worlds population... and like tablet sales, are falling of a cliff
£54 a month for upto 80Mb with an 800GB data cap... no thanks. I can burn through that in a week. We stream everything, barely ever have live broadcast TV on. Netflix, Prime video, iplayer... and others.
They may be a decent company and they may have great customer service... But their pricing is atrocious in comparison.
Even Zen who I used to be with for years until I sold my house a few months back had really dropped the ball with reliability and poor customer service. In the last 18 months I was with them... I had around 6 or 7 months free because of problems with the line that lasted about 13 months... that eventually resulted in Openreach replacing the conk in the exchange, rewiring from the pole to the house along with some extra box added to my house for something and all new wiring from the exchange to the cabinet.
Moving in less than 2 weeks... and trying to decide on a new ISP.
Has it really been that long? I remember starting to read El Reg about 2001 and BOFH around the same time.
So assuming it's the same PFY that entire time, and assuming that the PFY started either straight from sixth form, or more likely university. He'd likely have been in the 18-22 age range in 1997.
So he'd be between 43 and 47 now.... a middle aged codger with greying hair and a hankering for pine kitchens
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Or... the 1st thing I do with any new android phone, is disable chrome and install firefox and duckduckgo privacy essentials.
I'll use googles search only if I happen to forget and do a voice search instead of typing my search in.
I may not be able to block 100%% of these fuckwits tracking and harvesting... But I'm pretty sure I'm getting rid of a good 80% of it across mobile and desktop.
Even back in the 90's I used Netscape instead of IE, from the early 2000's I switched to Firefox and have used it ever since.
I used Chrome once... I used edge once... for very specific reasons.
Chrome was the only way I could get google+hangouts to work back in the day when it was popular, before they spun it off and killed it's ease of use. They broke it's functionality within firefox so you couldn't use the videochat.
Edge... well, that was down to Sky being utter cockwombles and only allowing their Sky-Go service to work on Edge due to refusing to use anything by MS silverlight. The only reason to use that was because I used to watch the F1 races via Sky Go after I got rid of my Sky subscription and logged in via my mum and dads Sky account... I refused to pay the extra 30-40 a month for a tv sub just for 18 races a year... and later on they started charging an extra £18 a month just for the F1 channel... So yeah... FUCK SKY.
Stick with firefox, some privacy enhancing plugins such as ublock, noscript, privacy badger, https everywhere, ghostery and others to make the web experience better.
Sure, you have to train a few sites first time out... some sites will be broken because they demand you to turn off all privacy enhancing plugins... those websites are never visited again.
It's on the list eventually, my mediaserver contains every single ripped movie and TV show from my own DVD's and Blurays of the last 24yrs... It's not backed up at all.
When I can afford it, I've been buying 14TB Seagate or WD externa drives as they contain WD archive or Seagate Ironwolf drives.
They're about 30-40% cheaper than buying the bare drive
The plan is to set up some kind of array with parity... I figure I'm going to need at least 5 drives... I currently have 2... in use.
Raid/Jbod arrays are not a strong point of mine... in the 25yrs I've been building systems, and the 30yrs I've been upgrading them. I've built two raid arrays on personal systems... One was a mirror array to backup a drive (10yrs ago) and the other striped to increase speeds on an old HDD based system some 15yrs ago.
Got some research to do before then... I figure I can buy a drive every couple of months.
Had an 8TB HDD fail a few weeks ago, the one containing my entire steamcache as well as others.
Try downloading some 3.5TB over a 70Mb FTTC line without completely swamping the bandwidth. Where I could, I was limiting download speeds, but that's not always possible. Before anyone asks... I've got literally hundreds of games... some 350-400 across places like steam, gog, ubisoft and epic... Sure a lot of them are small and only a few GB, but almost any AAA title released in the last 6-7yrs has been in the 60+GB range, it soon adds up.
Took about 10-12 days to complete running 24/7 and I'm betting my ISP was wondering WTF was going on.
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