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Some years ago I burned a quadrophonic bootleg version of Dark Side of the Moon, the original Alan Parsons mix (which sounds much better then the official version) so a friend can listen to it on his 5.1 home cinema.

Besides that I haven’t used DVDs in more than a decade, harddrives are cheaper, reliable, always online, run btrfs with realtime checksums and are easy to backup. Besides last time I checked most DVDs don’t read anymore.

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Just suspend overnight, it’s what I do when drives or fans annoy me.

Very anonymous, it routes all traffic though the tor network and blocks all direct connections except for the unsafe browser.

Of course tor cannot protect you from bad opsec, the user installing malware on it or a powerful enough opponent that can analyse both entry and exit nodes (or just owns 0 day exploits). But for most common people it’s pretty damn anonymous I would say.

Youtube is pretty much unusable now, more than half the videos are low effort Ai slop, and the rest is just irrelevant, leaving the real content buried deep down in the algorithm.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I don’t use an YouTube account and haven’t used for years for privacy reasons. I’m mostly speaking about using the search function without an account.

Avc (h264) 8bits video, with AAC audio, hardcoded subtitles and .mp4 container.

That should be warrantied to work on every dumb device built this or last decade.

I use Quik, idk if it’s the best or the worse, but it works well enough to receive login tokens which is what I use SMS for.

I used to upvote anything I agree with or that is somewhat midly interesting, but then I realised that if I do that, then the truly good content gets drowned in a sea of upvotes.

(For example let’s say I upvote a comment in a thread that I think it’s really good and exceptional, but then I also upvote other comments that ya I kinda support even tho it’s nothing exceptional. Then I’m drowning the exceptionally good comment.)

Because of that I now tend to limit my upvotes so when I actually vote they weight more.

As for downvotes I personally think they are rude, and usually try to only downvote when something is factually wrong or downright reactionary.

Instead I prefer to upvote comments disagreeing instead.

Sometimes I tend to upvote a comment when I think it was down voted unfairly.

And also down vote commercial posts of commercial products that I see as nothing but advertisement.

It’s just that society has much bigger problems than the price of ram sticks.

Like the price of housing, the price of food, transportation…

I don’t find this even worth mentioning, that’s just it.

So just another day in capitalist society. Nothing to write home about imo.

Thanks! So literally a nothing burger.

I hate YouTube clickbait.

Better if they don’t leave your device in the first place, encryption should always be considered a last line of defence, just because some encryption is unbreakable today, it may be easily broken in the future as breakthroughs in computers and mathematics advance.

Instead of paying for cloud backups just buy some hard drives, it’s cheaper in the long run too.

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if you’re using proper encryption it’s going to be difficult or impossible to decrypt the files on the drive, so the data should be secure even if the drive is stolen, copied, etc.

Encryption should always be the last line of defence, encryption that is unbreakable today may be trivially broken tomorrow. Which is why I also I still prefer to overwrite drives with random data instead of just trusting the sanitise command (Even though I know that a big chunk of the data stays unoverwritten as part of the drive’s “provisional area”.

(Which raises another issue that “deleting” a luks keyslot or the whole header doesn’t actually warranty it’s deleted, may have just be moved to the provisional area. So if a key somehow is compromised it becomes nessesary to physically destroy the drive.)

However, when you’re actively using the drive and have files decrypted, and then you lose physical access to your devices, you have a problem. IIRC that’s how they got Ross Ulbricht’s files - monitored him until he unlocked his laptop in a cafe and then grabbed it (and him). If you’re worried about that specific threat profile it makes a little more sense to have an easily accessible physical DELETE EVERYTHING NOW button that only operates when the drive is running.

In that case I rather use something that will reboot the computer and shred the ram as it would serve the same purpose with the bonus that contents can’t also be recovered from ram. Something like an usb drive with a string wrapped around the wrist.

Now, in the situation that the keys have leaked somehow, (like recording the keyboard from afar while the user types the passphrase) then the self-erasing hard drive makes a lot more sense, assuming the user has time to trigger the mechanism.

Now the issue is, that overwriting even a fast ssd takes time, so I’m assuming the device works by destroying or erasing a security chip that holds the keys for the main storage, however the data is still there if the adversary cuts the power before overwriting the whole drive. Ofc encrypted, but like I said before, encryption may be broken tomorrow. A physical or chemical solution that grinds or dissolves the chip somehow seems to me a better option, with the bonus that it can be made to work without electricity.

So, let’s see if I understand, the device only destroys the data after it’s connected to a computer.

So an adversary can just not connect it to a computer and extract the data through alternative means (like unsoldering the chip and reading it directly.

The device should be able to destroy itself either from an internal battery or some physical or chemical mechanism.

I tend to abandon all my online accounts from time to time and make new ones for privacy reasons, and IMO everyone should do the same, together with using different names for every website.

Unfortunately the trend is for people using the same accounts that they made when they were 12 for the rest of their lives.

If people were more conscious about their privacy and pseudo-anonymity then I think there would be less bias against new accounts.

I haven’t seen this on lemmy, but on reddit there are whole communities that you can’t post if you don’t have an old account.

Give up. I refuse to pay for artificially scarce goods.

This same applies to public transport tickets, end up either staying home or walking for hours so I don’t have to pay for the damn tickets that should be free.

Always look both sides before crossing the road, if you wear headphones take one phone off before crossing too.

Crossing red lights is fine, but make sure you have time to safely get to the other side before a car comes, if your tired just play it safe and wait for the light to change.

When it’s raining try to stay away from poodles on the road, or drivers will just splash you with water.

Be aware of dog poo on the floor.

And bikes and electric scooters on the sidewalks, almost got ran over them several times, they are supposed to use the road.

My first car, a full tank of gas, insurance, a better camera, lenses, a better computer and a Google pixel so I could install graphene OS.

It’s a myth that headphones cause more ear damage than speakers.

95dBs measured at the eardrum are 95dBs independently if the source is 10m away or inside your ear canal.

Now most people tend to blast louder on headphones than they do on speakers, I tend to do the opposite, so in my case speakers cause more damage.

If you “just turn it high enough to hear it” then there’s no damage. In fact if you listened to speakers you would have to probably turn it louder to overcome the environment noise than you do on headphones that muffle outside noise.

If you search “OSHA dB chart” you should get a basic idea of how loud is loud, note than ear damage is cumulative, so it’s OK to blast super loud for few minutes a day, on the other hand if you listen to music all day you need to play at lower levels.

Also, listen to your body, if after a listening session you hear tinnitus (ringing in your ears), then it’s too loud. (That doesn’t mean it’s OK just because you don’t hear ringing)

I usually listen around 100dB(A) but I don’t recommend it.