Thanks for saving us a click!

That’s China’s regulation at this point, it’s how their governing body rules the country. Nothing we can do. Meta is harmful to society but this is above board.

I got one recently by B&H Photo Video, may have got lucky but the drive was brand new and untampered, and was in plastic cushioning, in a fitted box, inside 6" of airbags, inside another box. Delivered by DHL Express.

Sometimes DuckDNS goes down partially, their servers breaking for about a week is why I purchased a domain and now host via Cloudflare.

Edit: One of my DuckDNS domains works internally, so at least it’s not a systemwide issue. Perhaps one of their relays…

Amazing scavenge! I’ve got a server for my partner and I, vanilla+. One mod we have pauses the entire server if nobody is online, it works fantastically and only RAM is held, minimal CPU usage. Vanilla server runs perfectly fine for my case.

Apple’s datacenters have been untrustworthy for a long time, at this point any breaches or data sales of user data is as much the user’s fault. But yeah, from what I’ve seen, corporations never make moves to primarily benefit the consumer, society, state law or otherwise. Only self profit. Sometimes aligning with demand improves profit.

YSK that Google Photos will not work unless you give it access to all your media. The privacy-respecting ‘Allow access to some photos’ results in an immediate rerequest for all media.

I use Matrix and this is possible via several encryption keys. They just probably cba. How Matrix E2EE works