Good point! I just checked and apparently there's several. Yet another rabbit hole to look into.
EDIT: Yeah, I looked into it, there's actually only a few. rss2ap doesn't support mastodon, which is kind of a deal breaker. Mastofeeder wants its own DNS to run locally, I can't see their proxied feeds from my instance, and some sites just straight up don't work. rss-to-activitypub seems fairly robust, but really wants its own mastodon instance and hasn't been touched in four years.
Good suggestion but all of that seems like more hassle than I'm prepared to deal with.
There isn't much. Not that I can find easily, anyway. Depending on your actual hardware, you might be able to get away with just using an old case. mATX has been around since the late '90s. Only thing I'd watch out for is ventilation.
Different financial goals. Movie series are designed around a hype cycle to put out a major blockbuster every few years or whatever and produce massive ROI at the box office. Word of mouth and reviews matter; if it isn't widely liked, it'll get less revenue.
Series are produced by streaming providers primarily to entice new customers on to their platform and rake in subscription fees. Once they have the customers from season one, there's less incentive to keep pumping money into the series. They rely on customer inertia and make it difficult to cancel a subscription to keep you around.
They do, but differently than us. They trade some sharpness and colour perception for field of view, low light vision, and speed / motion tracking. 30fps to a cat would look like a series of stills. Source via Archive.org
Not that they won't try, but it's very difficult to blanket ban VPNs. There are very legitimate business reasons to use them and it isn't necessarily easy for ISPs to distinguish between a "recreational" VPN connection and an employee VPN'ing into say, a work datacenter. Industry will kick up a massive fuss about it.
It's worth it to get on the pmOS matrix if you haven't already. I had to do some troubleshooting with the u-boot port developer to get this up and running.
We don't. The point is to reduce attack surface relative to target value. People use a VPN for piracy, for example, not because it's totally secure, but because rights holders generally aren't going to bother going after a single person when they'd have to go thru a VPN provider as well. OTOH someone doing it on clearnet is being logged by their ISP and the data is right there. OTOOH, the three letter agencies are absolutely going to bother if they have a tip that you're doing something really dangerous to the status quo.
TL;DR: It's like IRL security. If somebody really wants your shit, they'll find a way to get it. The point is to make it generally not worth it.
Obligatory winRAR mention. Technically proprietary paid software, trial never expires.