Internode used to be a high quality home internet brand
Back when Simon ran it, sure. That's a looooong time ago though. iiNet also used to be a really good home internet provider. Like Internode, they were an ISP built by techies, for techies.
So far, I'm still happy with Aussie BB. But, they're listed now. That means they have shareholders to keep happy. That said, on my FTTP, they (very quickly) passed on the nbn price cut to me, which was nice.
As many others have said, AWS have a pricing calculator that lets you determine your likely costs.
As a rough calc in the tool for us-east-2 (Ohio), if you PUT (a paid action) 1,000 objects per month of 1024MB each (1TB), and lifecycle transitioned all 1,000 objects each month into Glacier Deep Archive (another paid action), you'll pay around $1.11USD per month. You pay nothing to transfer the data IN from the internet.
Glacier Deep Archive is what I use for my backups. I have a 2N+C backup strategy, so I only ever intend to need to restore from these backups should both of my two local copies of my data are unavailable (eg. house fire). In that instance, I will pay a price for retrieval, as well as endure a waiting period.
I'm pretty certain these ones use visible light, with ceiling-mounted LEDs. They flash at specific frequencies that are imperceptible to the human eye, but can be interpreted by the electronic shelf label. Here's a whitepaper explaining the concept.
Source: for 20 or so years, I worked in technology for some of Australia's largest retailers, and we tested a lot of these sorts of things in our labs. Very cool stuff.
You're oversimplifying. What we're talking about is censorship that attempts to control what people think and the freedom to express their thoughts.
Neither of the things you just mentioned could be considered the free expression of thought or speech - they are acts that result in the harm of others, and should be prosecuted as such.
Causing a stampede by shouting fire in a crowded theatre is not the same thing as expression of free speech.
Likewise, as disgusting as it is, having paedophilic thoughts is not a crime in and of itself, but searching for, distributing, and downloading CSAM are most certainly criminal acts. And rightly so.
Death threats, shouting fire in a crowded theatre, child porn?
You're confusing freedom of ideas and speech with freedom of action.
Censorship is about limiting freedom of thought and speech.
As much as I think it's a waste of mental energy, you have the absolute right to wish someone dead. Acting on that thought is where the line is drawn, and crossing that line is where it becomes a crime.
Yep, and the active development is really impressive. I've messaged on the Discord server from time to time, and the primary dev has often responded within minutes to help me deal with my query.
I have mine sitting in my garage (currently saving for a rack to hold everything), so noise and heat aren't a major problem.
You're right re a consumer-grade router doing the same job, but my setup wasn't only about OPNsense. I spent many years running a low power setup - RasPis, etc - but then found I was frustrated by the lack of real grunt in the compute department. Plus I wanted to play with Proxmox.
Yeah, I hear you. Took me a while to put a little cash together for my setup too. I ended up keeping my eyes peeled on the ex-enterprise auction sites, and picked up for cheap a couple of HP DL360s.
Yes, I now have the problem on the other side of managing my power bills, but I'm nearly ready to add a battery to my solar setup, so hopefully that's not a problem for too much longer.
I'll be the one that says it: just about anything the Catholic Church preaches about humility and sex.