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Might be a dumb question but how would these go for storage? Can you plug a lot of drives into them?

I'm a nerd with a thing for punishing myself so setting up a small fake corporate environment that I can hack or configure would be fun. There's a tool called velociraptor that you can use to hunt over multiple devices which I want to learn.

Also just learning how to configure a domain, group policy, etc. I'd do like an 8 computer network if I had a machine that could run it. Setting up something like network segmentation, then "hacking" in and configuring attacker infrastructure sounds fun if not, again, totally overkill for what I want to do. I'd be phishing myself at the end of the day but it'd be fun to try.

Came here to say this. Maybe we're too silicon valley and she's too whatever the other valley is in valley girl.

Are they the same valley? Am I having a stroke?

I retook 6 classes and finished 2 years late. I'm regarded by my colleagues as a good person to work with and they think I'm good at what I do.

Don't let school define you, some people excel, others don't. Also, working for money is completely different than intrinsically motivating yourself to complete assignments.

I had mental health issues that I probably should have dealt with. If you feel like you're struggling, talk to a counsellor or a therapist, mostly because the college or uni has to listen when they say you're struggling. Also because they can look without judgement and tell you what you might be doing wrong with motivation and study habits. For me, I needed someone to remind me I mattered even if I didn't do well. That's just my 2c worth.

I'll preface this by saying I'm not as informed as some so if I get something wrong, apologies.

We don't have first past the post.

Australia has federal, state and local government elections. This election was federal. Each state is subdivided into large federal regions, and we vote on representatives for our area (green ballot and lowe house). We also vote on which party we want to see in control (white ballot and upper house).

The green ballot is just counted up, and the person with the most votes wins. The white ballot is harder to explain, but basically you need a majority of seats to take government and have to win 76 seats. There's a transfer system you can read about on wikipedia.

Idk about Albonese being a cunt but every politician in Australia is considered a bit of a dickhead. We don't worship them here. So we vote out the biggest dickhead (Peter Dutton) most of the time (some could be lovely but most people are aware how many do very little and earn $400k salaries).

Dutton ran a campaign on nuclear power and other things I won't go into. Nuclear power has 0 infrastructure in Australia so we'd be starting from scratch. It would take 15 years to begin powering Australia. We will have a crisis in 5 years due to population growth. This is extremely easy to point out as stupid, and hard to argue against, especially when half the country already has solar power on their roofs. They also told everyone they'd make fuel cheaper and buy more military equipment even though we have a deal to get military equipment from the US and UK. It'd be nice to have but stupid to run on it.

They didn't have many other policies that made it to me, but I largely block ads so you could go read more about it online.

Conversely, Albonese ran on things like healthcare, the housing crisis and affordable living. Things people actually care about given the times.

Parties:

• Labor is pro union, and commonly quite centred with a slight lean left. They won the election in a landslide.
• the coalition is two parties, they're supposed to be centred-right and conservative but they were going off the deep end and going with America/trump style politics. They ran a bad campaign is what I can say with stat's to back me up.
• greens party is very progressive, sometimes a little to aggressive with that stance.
• there's the trumpet of patriots who were meant to be Aus MAGA and are just annoying.
• there's one nation who are basically racists who want white Australia to be strongly enforced again.
• independents will vote with whatever they think is right, but will often align with one party more than the others. They can win seats in government and work with all parties as they want.

TL;DR Most people would probably say the liberals ran a bad campaign, hence they lost badly. Albo is likely a cunt but he's better than the guy we voted out who wanted to force the country to go with nuclear power, which would start producing energy 10 years after we had a shortage. At least Albo is going to do things with healthcare and affordable living. And if he fails, we'll vote him out and get someone who will because we aren't a cult.

Yep sorry, I said a dumb thing.

My point is probably more to do with the marketing around VPNs than anything else. As you very nicely put, there are a thousand ways to track someone without having their IP address. VPNs don't cover all bases but the marketing teams talk about them like they do.

Amazon can still sell your info to data brokers without having your home ip address: they have your email, name, delivery address and search history as a start.

I am not OP, I just decided to reply.

Oooo close. It's a shit algorithm that favours the company that paid the most for the spot. So people rely on paying for a good spot to get promoted on the most minor fucking chance of someone buying their shitty item. I heard someone say the average best item you search for is found 17th place.

They're scamming the buyer and the seller and profiting off of being terrible for everyone.

There are definitely some VPN providers to worry about.

VPNs are a security tool but they don't protect people as much as they think. They hide DNS traffic your ISP would have received, so that your ISP can't tell everyone which cuckold or affair site you access (except you probably forgot to turn the VPN on one time or another so...)

~~Your ISP can still see IP addresses you connect to, they forward all your traffic~~ [I need to proof read before I press post - this is just misinformation]. Good opsec is a nightmare. Ad blocking does more for less cost than getting a VPN will ever do (except for certain human rights circumstances but I'd wager they're actually going to be careful).

My personal tip is use DNS over HTTPS/TLS where possible, and don't use Cloudflare or Google. Add an ad blocker and it's far easier to setup and way more cost effective than VPN.

I've got no experience with it but at first glance it seems like a very positive direction for the project:

Collaborate, not Compete

We are proud of our community and closely interact with projects around it. If we build a platform feature that can be useful in an upstream project, we prefer to contribute it to that project, rather than keep it in the platform.

You don't hear that often enough these days, everyone seems to be siloing information.

Parma sounds like a phrase uttered by the absolutely deranged. Even the children here know it's parmy

Counter point, set the 'swappiness' lower than the default 60. I've set mine to 30 and the system boots a lot faster. You could research and consider 10-20.