We tried the owls in some of our meeting rooms and we scrapped those.
What’s the point of having a 360 camera in the center of the room when everyone will stare at the big TV anyway? All the people at the other end see is everyone looking sideway to the camera.
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I decided I wanted something long-term, and bought a NAS appliance I can boot my own OS onto it, so I went with the Ugreen DXP2800.
I’m running Ubuntu LTS, with Cockpit as the webUI to manage parts of it, and my web services are all running through podman containers (aka quadlets).
There’s a bit of a learning curve, which is the price I was willing to accept.
Every instance have their own ToS, each of them with their own threshold of tolerance with having to deal with potential piracy inquiry on their server.
You may want to have a dead man’s switch so that the server shuts down without your intervention, or there’s the possibility that a forensic team could retrieve the encryption key in RAM through some physical attacks.
I host a couple of encrypted snapshots in the cloud (stuff that I can’t afford to lose), but it’s still vastly cheaper to host a massive amount of data locally.
The stuff I have locally is mostly stuff I can recover elsewhere (yarr), so redundancy without backup is good enough cost-wise.
Good thing the fediverse is decentralized :)
Up yours, fascists!
Look at me owning an Xbox even less.
Me too, but they’re all on my Plex server for all my homies to see.
Cloud computing I agree, at least until we figure out homomorphic encryption.
For cloud storage it’s not as bad, as long as you control the keys and the provider doesn’t see them then you can be fairly confident the data is safe.
Even worse is that they try to gaslight society into thinking the poors are leeches and parasites on society, while it’s been them all along.
Age-gate
Aurora is my go-to nowadays
Under that rationale, you could be violating copyright law by changing the color balance on your monitor’s settings. 🥴
And for Linux handhelds there’s PortMaster to easily use some of them on the go.
Handling payments like this puts the responsibility of dealing with fraud at Valve’s level and significantly increase their workload, instead of being the payment processor’s responsibility.
I don’t blame Valve not wanting to deal with this.
IPFS with MFS to ensure you can update your website after publishing and your choice of static website generator could be a way of doing it.
Leaving a shopping cart in a parking space instead of bringing it back to the cart shelter.
I use Bazzite on a different SSD in my desktop, and most of the game I play works as expected. I mostly play single-player and coop stuff, nothing competitive.
I also had all the Pebble, and technology has come a long way since.
The incoming Pebble revival uses the nRF52840 chip, which they estimate the battery life to around 30 days, from the usual 7 days.
I settled on something a bit more classic, I bought a Casio GBD-200 which has bluetooth connectivity, can display basic notifications and do some step counting. It works on a CR2032 battery that lasts about 2 years, no recharge needed.
Still, most people will look at the TV during the meeting, so all you see is one side of their faces.