Sony decided to put rootkits on their CDs to stop people from ripping them. They got sued for that.

Sometimes that works, it depends on how the server is set up. For DNS blocking, you just switch to a different DNS server or run your own DNS resolver.

It would have to be a very old version of Minecraft. The recent ones take a lot of CPU power and RAM, even without mods.

It would probably work great for something like a Quake III or Unreal Tournament server though.

If you need to charge LiFePO4 batteries below freezing, you can add a heater to the pack. There are even some batteries available now with built in heaters that come on automatically below freezing.

I thought they would have been pushing for sodium ion batteries instead. Lead acid batteries are a bad choice for anything that needs to be cycled frequently.

Try booting from a live disk. If it works there, it’s probably an update or config change that’s causing problems.

Just putting the products in a locked case is enough to get me to shop elsewhere.

Just press Control+Shift+U, enter the unicode value in hex, then press enter.

Pumped hydro is much better than battery storage, but it’s only possible if you have the correct geography for it.

The fire risk can be reduced by using safer battery types like sodium ion and LiFePO4.

There are 24 function keys on the IBM 122 key layout.

Luckily, there are other ways of watching their content without having to pay them.

qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.

The speed usually increases with capacity, but this drive uses HAMR instead of CMR, so it will be interesting to see what effect that has on the speed. The fastest HDDs available now can max out SATA 3 on sequential transfers, but they use dual actuators.

You can’t get SSDs that big except for some extremely expensive enterprise drives.

Just keep in mind that you can’t wipe the bad sectors that have been remapped. That’s unlikely to be an issue for a personal drive, but something to consider if it held particularly sensitive information.

Video hosting is too expensive for a platform that’s not run by a big company.

The web interfaces use SDRs. They can listen to an entire band at one time rather than just a single station.

You will only be able to listen to transmissions that are within range of a web SDR. They work great for HF since that propagates a long ways when the band is open. For VHF and up, you will likely need a local receiver unless there happens to be a web SDR near you that covers the band you want to listen to.

The web SDRs may have better antennas than you do and they are probably in a place with much less RFI than you. You can use them to listen to far away places.

LiFePO4 batteries are safer and harder to ignite, but they can still go into thermal runaway and can burn. If a fire started in a battery that big, it would still spread and it wouldn’t be practical to extinguish it.

I encrypt everything that leaves my house since it could be easily lost or stolen, but it is rather inconvenient.

If someone breaks into my house, I’ve got bigger problems than someone getting their hands on my media collection. I think it would be more likely for me to mess something up and loose access to my data than for someone to steal it.