Sucks that vendors can keep such a tight control on what you can do with your device. Would be nice to have the possibility to safeguard your device with any OS of your choice.

Even when using another OS? Been trying to find info on relocking my /e/ OS install on my 1+7P and haven’t had any love luck.

Many can be easily unlocked

Using K-9 and quite liking it, otherwise just browse F-droid everything there is Foss.

Great to know! Thanks!

Maybe! I’d start checking dmesg logs and check the smart info provided you do regular tests. Otherwise do some SMART tests and check the results after.

Why? They are built for datacenter environment, with the right drives for high density storage they should be just as fine as in a regular server.

could try finding a cheap jbod

Interesting!

Narcissism and confirmation bias runs rampant in our governments and top executives.

I guess you’re right, it’s just frustrating this world.

Current world politicians are so tech illitirare it’s bewildering. Supposedly they have experts and think tanks at their disposal to help them in these sorts of endeavours, for what? It’s insane how much survailance has been ranked up in the past decade.

Check you ISP connections limits, remember that uploading from an external device will be downloaded by your home router and vice versa.

Unfortunately, there’s a majority of people posting without exhausting their research so unless you mention in your post what you have done, anyone else can’t assume anything at the risk of providing unhelpful info. “Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.”

I’m sorry, why can’t people put in a bit of effort before asking a question, first search and if you don’t find the answer ask, but you’re already on the web so it litteraly doesn’t take that long to search.

it’s been asked, pls search the community and the documentation before asking.

Let’s see, Apple might take the upper hand, maybe.

Moved to Fediverse to get away from the data hoarding and selling that those types of companies partake in. Really hope most instances will defederate from threads and prevent Meta from collecting more data.

easy enough to spin up an instance on your PC and try it out

Maybe not the right community, and not sure whether to congratulate you or just say tough shit.