In Canada, external hard drives of 8-20TB capacity show up every now and then for a rate of C$20/TB (US$14.50) so it won’t take more than 3 months to offset that cost. As a backup, online s3 storage might be reasonable.

E - Speak of the devil: https://lemmy.ca/post/23948873

Right now I just play with things at a level that I don’t care if they pop out of existence tomorrow.

If you want to be truly safe (at an individual level, not an institutional level where there’s someone with an interest in fucking your stuff up), you need to make sure things are recoverable unless 3 completely separate things go wrong at the same time (an outage at a remote data centre, your server fails and your local backup fails). Very unlikely for all 3 to happen simultaneously, but 1 is likely to fail and 2 is forseeable, so you can fix it before the 3rd also fails.

Woohoo! Always great to read a success story!

Disclaimer I don’t know the ins and outs of HA nor have I used it.

I’m not sure if you have the automatic lock/unlock part figured out but that’s the part I can’t help with.

In terms of detecting when kid comes home, some ideas:

A low power esp32 board coded to connect to your home network, then if the device name or MAC address is discovered on the network, or have the device send a message every 10 seconds or when a button is pressed.

NFC card and reader in front of the door, can be “hard wired” rather than over wifi if you prefer. The card doesn’t run out of battery but access still can be assigned or revoked if lost.

A passcode: many hardware store doorlocks offer this, if the main problem is your kid losing keys. Then just do automation inside the house as you see fit from motion detectors or whatever your heart desires.

E: a few people ITT don’t like to have fun thinking of ideas how to use home automation, even if it’s unnecessary.

Thanks for trying to bring an alternative perspective to the table.

Neither argument is very compelling. A) is like “if I can’t have nice things, no one can”, and think about those arguments against loan forgiveness or healthcare. B) is wishful thinking game companies will charge what people are willing to pay no matter how many copies are sold. And unlike physical goods, the cost per digital license doesn’t really much if more copies are sold so expected sales volume doesn’t affect costs much in that sense. Piracy itself also doesn’t incur any cost (other than mythical lost sales), while Denuvo and other anti circumvention technology does.

Firebox to run my Firefox. Other servers I’ve dedicated to hosting that I don’t interact regularly with I have been less creative with, usually my username and something to do with the server.

I lol’d at Evergreen. Excellent choice.

It’s hard not to laugh when “Microsoft Windows” and “secure” are in the same sentence.

Mullvad has an open source client. It can also be set up usung OpenVPN too.

Bear in mind they don’t have Port Forwarding anymore.

https://spotpassarchive.github.io/ has instructions for 3ds and wiiu if you scroll down.

The instructions are different based on your software version and if you have CFW/softmodded your console.

The Listmedia endpoint and deleting user uploaded images on deletion of account were longtime requested features and I’m glad it’s coming!

See my comment

I get ya, American anti-communism indoctrination is involved. Thanks for the treatise. Back to the topic at hand.

One big difference in Japan vs. North America/Europe is that second hand music, videos and video games are waaaaaaay easier to find at reasonable non-scalper prices.

Warner Bros. is an example of a movie company that gives zero fucks to any of the artists producing their movies, not sure what good supporting them will do.

Don’t be ashamed! This is a post on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com after all.

Yes the LibDems there are right wing neo-liberals but it’s not just corporations driving it. Insofar as I’ve talked to actual people in Japan whom I know personally and consumed Japanese media this is the basis of how I know what the overall politic is like. A lot of apathy, care about tax cuts above all else, and nationalism.

Louis’ list comes from the perspective of moral in the sense that “were the people that provided you entertainment value provided appropriate compensation” which is why the list is ordered this way.

Looking at it in the lens of preserving items for the common good, this could take form of #1 or #3, where you bought a copy but you don’t want it to degrade or fade into obscurity, but it could also be #15 where you just don’t want to lose it and it doesn’t matter to you whether the creator should have benefited.

It’s important to be cognizant of various worldwide perspectives, considering the part of your comment on political discourse.

Some countries don’t care that everyone pirates everything and anything.

Others, like Japan for example, have copyright ingrained both in the laws and in the culture. Some think “right clicking and saving an image on a public website” is theft. It’s part of the reason Sony and Nintendo are so anal about copyright and how there are no Manga sharing sites located in Japan.

So not only the laws different everywhere what is legitimate discourse changes too.

Thanks for engaging with the scenarios listed. The point of the exercise is to see where people land personally, there’s no one size fits all ethical principles but a lot of overlap. The RIAA, MPA, Irdeto (the group that makes Denuvo) etc. could argue that all of these cases are piracy and unjustifiable. Others see everything as justifiable, just because they’re used to it, it’s simply not financially accessible to them, they don’t care or they just want to subvert the entire concept of capitalist ownership, as evidenced in replies downthread.

see my other comment