When we start decent seeing vehicles at a decent price again

These exist, they’re just not in the USA. Look at what companies like BYD, MG, and Xiaomi are doing in practically every developed country except the USA. The entry-level BYD Dolphin EV is just under AU$30k (US$19k) in Australia, including taxes. Xiaomi have a sports car for around US$40k.

Ah, I forgot that some VPNs don’t have good port forwarding support. AirVPN does! Older AirVPN accounts can forward up to 20 ports, and you pick the port numbers out of a list of available ones. I think they limited it to 5 ports for new accounts.

You don’t need a provider-specific Docker container. Gluetun (https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun) supports a lot of providers, but you can use any provider through a custom config.

If you’re going the Docker router, I’d run separate Docker containers rather than an all-in-one. You get the same functionality, but you can route more than one app through the VPN.

Create a Gluetun container to use for the VPN, then have other containers configured to use the Gluetun container as their network.

All you need to do for the other containers is use network_mode: "service:gluetun" if you’re using docker-compose, or --network=container:gluetun in the Docker command line otherwise.

https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/connect-a-container-to-gluetun.md

Works great in Unraid especially, since the option to route a container’s network through another container is available in the Unraid UI.

and firmware and BIOS updates, too.

Legally they have to tell you to delete all copies you have of it, but it’s rare for companies to actually check, and they usually consider removing the torrent as sufficient. You should probably delete the file from the seedbox just in case.

This seems like overkill compared to just running it on a VPS and having a second VPS as a hot spare.

Add a second SSD, if the motherboard has a SATA port (I assume your current one is an NVMe drive). A SATA SSD is still more than fast enough as a second drive.

Moving to a bigger SSD also isn’t too difficult, as long as you have a system where you can have both the old and new SSD connected at the same time. It can be a different system if needed. Download Clonezilla onto a USB stick with Ventoy on it, and boot into it. Just make sure you have backups and do the clone in the correct direction (don’t clone the blank new drive onto the old one!!)

Aren’t they at least hashed, so WinGet can verify that the package hasn’t been tampered with?

Technical users that are comfortable at a command line often use WinGet these days. It works in Windows Sandbox too; you just need to manually install it.

In addition to this, a lot of movies and TV shows are going to use the same DRM mechanisms, whereas with games it’s different for every game. The developers (both of the DRM systems and of the game) learn what works and what doesn’t work and adjust the system for their next game.

Edit: Also, games often have anti-piracy measures hidden throughout the game, so whoever is cracking the game likely has to play the game quite a bit to ensure they’ve caught them all.

This is how I handle it for most software: Read (or at least skim) the changelogs for all minor and major versions between your current version and the latest version.

If you’re using Docker, diff your current docker-compose to the latest one for the project. See if any third-party dependencies (like PostgreSQL, Redis, etc) have breaking changes.

If there’s any versions with major breaking changes, upgrade to each one separately (eg. 1.0 to 2.0, then 2.0 to 3.0, etc) rather than jumping immediately to the latest one, as a lot of developers don’t sufficiently test upgrading across multiple versions.

Take a snapshot before each upgrade (or if your file system doesn’t support snapshots, manually take a backup before each upgrade).

…or just don’t read anything, YOLO it, and restore a snapshot if that fails. A lot of software is simple enough that all you need to do is change the version number in docker-compose (if you’re using Docker).

In addition to backups, consider using snapshots if your file system supports it (ZFS, Btrfs, or LVM).

I use ZFS and have each of my Docker volumes in a separate ZFS dataset (similar to a Btrfs subvolume). This lets me snapshot each container independently. I take a snapshot before an upgrade. If the upgrade goes badly, I can instantly revert back to the point before I performed the upgrade.

Meta’ s Edits app

This is a phone app. OP is asking for an app that can run on Linux Mint.

Oh yeah that’s a great point I didn’t consider. Thanks.

I get that, but a lot of people are already using a VPN to access their home server or VPS.

Passmark isn’t that useful for measuring transcoding performance, as as far as I know it doesn’t benchmark iGPU performance? Transcoding is done nearly entirely on the iGPU.

I recently watched a video about Beelink’s factory and was surprised as how high-quality their production process is. Great video. https://youtu.be/ohwI3V207Ts (and if you enable captions, it explains what each process is).

I haven’t watched the video yet, but it’s generally not worth the hassle of setting up mutual TLS if you’re already using a peer-to-peer VPN like Tailscale, as the VPN software is already doing mutual authentication.

Edit: A peer-to-peer VPN (or mesh VPN) is one where two systems that are connected to the VPN can directly communicate with each other, instead of needing to go through a central server as with something like OpenVPN. With Tailscale or Wireguard, the peers need each other’s public keys to communicate.

The legal system in Australia is better because if you win a lawsuit, the losing side usually has to pay your legal fees. As a result, there’s far fewer frivolous lawsuits, and companies don’t drag out lawsuits hoping the other party runs out of money (which is a common tactic in the USA), since they could be on the hook for all those costs.