I generally use the Raspberry Pi Imager, It works just as well with USB’s as TF cards.
Any platform that believes it should be their choice whether the user can opt-in to any part of the fediverse, is a big no from me.
I’ve found Usenet backbone+indexer to be the same price as VPN while being significantly faster to download, no seeding required.
It allows more complicated setups like radarr+sonarr which download episodes as they come out, at around your internet speed.
Given the decline in service quality and the increase of 8.8 million subs in a quarter, they can continue being worse for more and the general public will support it.
The only thing I care about is quality shows being made from good networks, still getting their funding, but streamers are turning into trash TV from the 2000’s.
I ripped out all my portable drives, had to make a cable without the energy management line for inside a PC.
Big ATX case with 8 3.5’ bays, mobo with 6 Sata ports, last two ports will require a SATA-PCIe expansion card.
1x 4TB (shucked)
2x 6TB (shucked)
1x 8TB HDD
1x 16TB Ironwolf Pro
40TB across 5 bays, 1 left without expansion card, 2 more with the card, following that the 4TB will get dropped for a bigger drive.
I’ll likely be buying no less than 12TB per drive going forward, no RAID configuration yet.
FrugalUsenet via old sale page $4/m & NZBGeek $6/6m.
My Usenet backbone & indexer cost 5 USD per month as well.
AntennaPod is available on F-Droid.
Install official version from Microsoft website.
Open PowerShell;
irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex
This authenticates Win and/or upgrades version Home/Pro
Venues will just need to implement infrared checks at the door.
Hetzner VPS
Lately I’ve just been playing FTL & Stardew Valley on an old Linux machine.
I intend on playing New Vegas soon, with the intention of finishing it before Fallout Season 2.