I’ll try this, thanks. but to fill in some missing context from my part, this is what I have been experiencing for the little more than a year I’m running an I2P router.

oh, I see now, sorry! from mechanical I instantly thought you mean an HDD

the catch is that you don’t own that camera, only the manufacturer does. besides requiring an account and a connection to china to be able to use it, they have access to both your network, and to the camera feed. they’ll use the network info to gather info about you, and the camera feed to train their face and gait recognition AIs, possibly also for intelligence

oh that was it, the account requirement was what I wanted to remember but couldn’t! was sure it was something even worse, thanks for the help.

yeah if I would buy such a TV by accident, I would bring it back within the return period and tell that it was faulty, because it is.

the available outproxies were very much overwhelmed

honestly that’s still my experience. it’s not rare that websites like a DDG results page does not even load, I think from time to time I even have unable to connect errors, even though as I have stormycloud as my outproxy. probably something on my end, though, it seems then

yeah, but for OP’s amount that’s an overkill, the drives are very expensive

unless you span multiple boxes of discs which is a pain in the ass

FTFY

with two drives (preferably different brands/age, HDD or SSD doesn’t really matter) in it using a checksumming filesystem like btrfs or ZFS so that you can do regular scrubs to verify data integrity.

an important detail here is to add the 2 disks to the filesystem in a way so that the second one does not extend the capacity, but adds parity. on ZFS, this can be done with a mirror vdev (simplest for this case) or a raidz1 vdev.

went with an ssd in this idea since its more durable than a mechanical, better price for storage capacity

how? sorry but that does not add up to me. for the price of a 2 TB SSD you could by a much larger HDD

and most likely to be compatible with other computers in the future in case you need it for whatever reason.

both of these use SATA plugs, it should be the same

there is 0% risk until your country makes a law that prohibits any and all P2P communication. That would not only break torrents, but would thwart signal/telegram/whatsapp calls too, Jitsi meetings, probably google meet and zoom too, as all those use P2P traffic for performance.

So far there are only such laws in far east countries, and the official java I2P router is smart enough to not participate in routing when you are in such a place.
Also, I think for routing to work you need to open a port, without it that won’t be done.

as a node

• you are unable to see the contents of traffic you route thanks to layered encryption
• you wont be routing traffic to the internet (unless you specifically set it up), but only to other I2P routers

I know nothing about seedboxes, but on a computer you can point multiple torrents to the same directory. If you make it read-only, by permission or mount options or whatever, the torrent client can’t even fuck it up

I can guess too! With my guess, AI is already using 420 TWh annually!

What if we wouldn’t guess anything like this? This is not just not meaningful, but straight out misleading.

I remember that roku TVs refuse working until you connect it to the internet. their values/intentions are clear, I wouldn’t give money to them

edit: they also require registering a roku account

and that even is just circus

regardless if that’s true, it had a lot of improvements across a long time, and they did not stop coming

Totally. For now, I’m only running I2P though. But it maxes out my uplink so it’s probably better this way for now.

yeah, and more generally, Tor is optimized for light services both in-network and through outproxies (because there are many of those), and I2P is more optimized for large transfers and many connections in-network, and very unsuitable for internet access because there’s only a few overwhelmed outproxies, among which load is not even attempted to be distributed by the default I2P router configuration.

the reason for why I2P is more suitable for torrenting is unclear to me, though, other than the maintainers telling that. possibly because almost everyone who wants to use the network will participate actively in routing traffic, and so there is relatively a lot more routers than on Tor

I’ve never seen hardware die because of repeated shutdowns

then why do you recommend to keep the computer on for a longer life?

but in the case of hard drives, this is a real thing, just not at that scale of shutdowns. if you don’t find sources on this let me know and I’ll show some.

For updates you need to be turned on for them to install. That’s why shutting it down isn’t good practice. Just set a maintenance window and put the computer to sleep.

of course, the installation will get prepared while the computer in on. it will have plenty of time being turned on.
but most updates, including a lot of security updates only apply when restarting the updated software, like shutting down the operating system.

yeah. the reason is that they can get away with that.

this change was bundled with another one that was kind of good to have: building apps to an .aab file and making split apk’s out of it.
but in this scheme the dev builds the .aab, and google makes the split apk’s, and google needs your signing key to make the signed split APKs. the reason they need your formerly used signature’s keys is because if they would have started signing apps with a new one, users who had your app already installed would have had to first uninstall the app and lose their data, because android has a security feature that does not allow an update that has a different signature.

of course, while at first it was an option, the play store has soon made it a requirement that you upload your apps as .aab files.
developers basically didn’t have a choice, other than not releasing any more updates to the play store and letting google delete “outdated” apps when they want, like they’ll have a sweep soon.