To go a little further, I used the example of heroin and machine guns in my other reply, but there are lots of countries where people licensed to use these (or technology that’s similar like oxycontin) are allowed or there exist analogs (like bump stocks or binary triggers) that avoid the law.
Heck, in the us any knucklehead can get on the good boy list for heroin or machine guns they just need to pass a bunch of checks and submit to a series of audits and inspections.
The point of banning vpn use would be to keep people from using the technology to skirt identity laws, not to prevent the use of the technology altogether, so it’s likely any ban would take the form of legal wording that looks like “use of computer networking technology to conceal ones identity or aid or abet or perpetrate any crime is unlawful under this section.”
So again, yes they absolutely can do it and no it wouldn’t mean corporations would suddenly have to turn in all their edge devices.
I’m really surprised that on this instance no one has replied with the “laws are threats made by the dominant social economic class” copypasta. Fake ahh anarchists…
Set up some computer with a pair of nics to run pfsense. Get two wireless routers that are supported by openwrt/tomato/whatever. Get a switch that operates at the highest link rate in your network. Plug it all up and configure the two wireless routers to operate their wireless network as either access point&wds or wds, I can’t remember which.
If you have the money to buy a synology of some sort squared away, here’s how to make something better(?) for a fraction of the price:
Buy a used drive shelf. It’s the part in a server rack with all the drives in it. It plugs into a sas card to move data around and into a network switch to be managed. Get one with all the drive sleds present - $2-3 hundred for one that can take about 24 3.5” drives.
Buy some cheap sff pc. These things are everywhere and they have all you need for a little server. Favor cores over threads, 16gb of ram is more than enough but you can easily add more later. anything in the seventh or eighth generation of intel chips or later is fine. ~$30
If your sff pc has a second Ethernet port, that’s cool! It’s okay if it doesn’t, but if you want the option of a management subnet then you can add one in a half height pcie for almost no money.
Another option is a video card to handle decoding media. When you stream some crap to your tv or set top box or whatever, it needs to be decoded. Most of the time those CPUs are tough enough to do the job but for 4 or 8k media using recent encoding schemes, a half height video card is useful. What’s nice here is media decoding is insanely solved as a problem, so a $50 card will be overkill as long as it natively supports your target formats.
Buy a hba card and the wires to connect it to your drive shelf. You want a half height hba with external connectors that are the same or later in spec than your drive shelf. You can get sas wires that are terminated for 80xx on one end and 86xx on the other end. $50-100 for the card, $20 for the wires.
Plug it all up, put in your drives, install whatever dumb software you wanna use and you’re off to the races with the capacity to use 24 disks for 300-450.
The downside:
You have to have somewhere to put it. You’d need somewhere to put your synology too, but a relatively quietly humming shelf of drives that would look more at home in an industrial environment belongs in the closet, not on the same credenza some people like to put their synology.
You’re actually responsible for it. There are fewer guardrails and if you don’t make backups you can just lose data or end up with a broken system. You’re already using a system you’re responsible for though, so this would just be a bigger better version of what you have that doesn’t go into conniptions like rpi type beats does.
Pick something and go: you want to move away from capture one, but don’t want to lose the functionality or access to in process edits. Think it over with pen and paper in hand, figure out what you could live without and what you could stand to lose and then choose a piece of software and Just Do It. You’re trying to find a way to keep going the way you’ve been going even though you just said you don’t like it and have prior experience that informed your dislike. Kick the bad habit for yourself.
It’s not as hard as you think: anything on Apple silicon supports running other oses in built in virtualization environment. The thing you feel is too complex literally has first party support. I can say from experience that it works.
You aren’t resilient: it sounds like you don’t have a plan for if your computer were compromised. This is actually a bigger deal than the above. When you get a chance, take the time to figure out how you would recover from some kind of bullshit. It’s worth it.
No worries. It’ll be interesting to see how cert based overlay network setup develops after this, I bet there’s some people willing to leave the plex world and willing to add the polish to it.
If it sounds like data access and not a failure, be at peace my brother, hard drives are at least as complicated as your computer and just do things sometimes.
Yes they can ban it, you will face repercussions if you violate that ban just like if you violate the ban your country probably has on heroin or machine guns.
You can get around it by using doh and a http proxy configured in your web browser, not at the os level.
They have a tos that lets them collect data. There have been some high profile breaches where users didn’t run firmware updates and got their employers wrecked.
You might have a bigger problem than the rpi4 if you can’t decode an mp3. What’s your system like?
If you cant trust the software, make plans to use something else.
Macos is really good. Linux is really good. If you can’t figure out one, try the other.
E: just read this thread on its native instance. Disregard the input of @[email protected], if you want to repudiate their implication that vulnerabilities remediated in security updates aren’t important, just look at cisa and shodan. Also if they’re not French then lol.
You can use the easy, step-by-step process on this website to change to the version of windows you want, activate it permanently and if you choose 10 iot ltsc 2021 then you get security updates till 2032.
Upnp is not recommended for router and switch setup, it’s the normal way for devices on the local network to advertise and discover each others functionality though and is definitely the way off the shelf doodads do it.
It’s like how anyone in the house can open the refrigerator door but people outside can’t.
Man, they out here spackin any old game nowadays.