Sorry, you’re probably right. It’s a thing I expect to be problematic if the future. Of course all problems will burn up in the atmosphere…

and isn’t that a nice thought, but no, it raises orbit fairly naturaly…

Yup, but scatter might be bad…Still, in principle, better satellites live…

Not wrong, and yet small parts of that ‘orbit’ would kinetically increase, in a Kessler sort of way…

Don’t worry, greed ensures that Kessler Syndrome will get them in the not too distant future. Sure hope you aren’t reliant on GPS or other satellite services, but at least, for a shining moment, shareholders got some value. /s

As it should be, don’t do that.

Doctor, when I do this it hurts…

Also, you’re creating a disk image…

Pass it on…

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin

governments and surveillance, name a more iconic pair

Thanks muchly, I appreciate the long term view so much more, media gives us a week or so then the cycle is over (and from a fellow Oz linux dev pundit, also I speak from a T580, upgrade your desktop…, so there’s that as well). It seems like my next laptop (but likely an AMD 16, I’m in no hurry, but the potential for a 8xOculink for LLM is highly attractive, have you been keeping an eye on that, local is king…, )

Umm, if I understand you, it should be fine, you’d have the app and also proxies available on 8388 and 8888 or whatever you prefer on a different tunnel… It’s pretty much the VPN swiss army knife. Use wireguard if you can, it’s a lot faster (but more CPU intensive).

rclone supports lots of services

including Proton Drive …

Spin up a gluetun instance, which will give you your proxy. I use two to have a local exit node and an international one.

Thanks for that, worth knowing.

True, but OP refers to ‘some cherished items’

I assumed the context here was torrenting rather than streaming, download blu-ray remuxes and encode to your liking.

A 16Tb manufacturer recertified drive is USD160 which should sort storage (and later get a second for offline backup). I’m actually holding out until I get GPU encode (apparently CPU is somewhat better, but power considerations, maybe next gen). Do wish the scene would get on with switching, though, are we dinosaurs?

No idea, I was just using it to illustrate the existence of compromised exit nodes, which to my mind are a pretty fatal flaw in TOR, perhaps someone knowledgeable can chime in.

RetroArch doesn’t have Xbox/PS2/switch

No, but EmuDeck does, along with RetroArch… Best have a look before starting.

More power to you if you want to strike out on your own, but you may find it quicker going to join a larger project at this stage, you’ll have people to ask questions to, if you choose well you’ll learn best (or good) practices, etc. Maybe EmuDeck itself? In the end the language doesn’t matter much (maybe avoid Perl, PHP and JavaScript at the start), once you get the concepts down it’s easy to switch to another. You’ve got time, take some to skill up.

Compromised ? Maybe, but this guy doesn’t provide any evidence one way or the other. He’s using at least 7 other possible vectors (apparently Calculator Photo Vault just hides the gallery, no encryption, so it’s over right there) which is way too many for good opsec.

With Tor the question has always been compromised exit nodes as I understand it.