I mean they didn’t specify which PIN they wanted, just that he hand over the PIN for his phone and that he could not speak to anyone (lawyer, someone that knows his rights, etc). I don’t know your definition of duress, but that situation fits mine and I would have given them the same PIN.

The border bitches asked a poorly worded question, made assumptions about the answer, and proceeded to wipe his phone and blame him for it.

Thanks for the encouragement! I bought a couple mini pc’s and one server seems fine going from a lot of memory to just 16GB. Now I guess I need to start parting that one out to pay for a more efficient storage server.

I don’t mean to draw attention to it but Usenet never went away, it’s still the best place to find a lot of interesting articles in my opinion.

Hmm… Well, if that is the way you respond to actual facts, I suppose have a great day my man.

Not always, it was half based on the 30KW ‘Silent Hunter’ they bought from China. While it is a really cool idea, that one used close to 100kW just to produce the 30kW beam. It requires more than that to operate the chillers and pumps that must be ran to keep the whole system from overheating.

I would have to make the asumption that they upped the power significantly as Silent Hunter was only capable of 4,000 meter max range (the ‘killzone’ is only listed as 1500 meters), if they upped the power all of the requirements go up. If they managed to up the power too much, it’s going to cause grid power dips that will thankfully bring down their other systems that depend on it.

So you spend $10k+ (totally just a WAG) in energy costs to take down a $200 drone, I suppose it works but I don’t think Russia can keep it powered long enough to be effective against swarms of drones.

True, but while I have access to something I back it up by nature. They can probably take it off of something they can access but those devices don’t have access to my whole network so I’m gonna stick with my original thought, Sony can fuck right off.

(Really good points though)

If the button said “Buy” or “Purchase”, ownership of that item is transferred (obviously not the IP itself). After you buy it, the supreme court has weighed in that you can make your own backups of “media” previously so Sony can fuck right off.

DrunkenSlug is another great indexer, invite only and about $30 USD per year for their top offering.

Definitely have to check this out, thanks man!

I honestly need to learn your ways and sell the rack of stuff in my basement. Right now I’ve got an old R720XD with 12 spinning metal drives and 2 SSDs, then another old Intel box the local government used for VOIP (I’ve only got 7 spinng rust and 1 SSD in there), then the R610 that I use for homeassistant and a few VMs…

I’ve also got a smaller desktop for jellyfin/Plex and an old MicroServer (gen8) for a firewall…

I could 100% save some power I just need to learn what I actually need.