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I'm very glad I didn't buy one of their printers. The RFID tag thing was enough to keep me from buying anything from them. This is even worse.

Video hosting is too expensive for a platform that's not run by a big company.

Aaand… IPv6 is great. But unfortunately the way things are now means that giving everything on your network a publicly routable IPv6 address is a very bad idea.

A publicly routable IPv6 address doesn't mean publicly accessible unless you specifically open a port in the firewall. IPv6 privacy extensions, which basically everything uses now, means than the address changes frequently so individual devices can't be tracked by their IP address.

If you are worried about it, put them on their own VLAN with no internet access. Set a firewall rule so that only the computer you use to control it can talk to that VLAN.

Unless you added a firewall rule allowing inbound access to the printer's IPv6 address, nothing will be able to make an inbound connection to it from the internet.

The web interfaces use SDRs. They can listen to an entire band at one time rather than just a single station.

You will only be able to listen to transmissions that are within range of a web SDR. They work great for HF since that propagates a long ways when the band is open. For VHF and up, you will likely need a local receiver unless there happens to be a web SDR near you that covers the band you want to listen to.

The web SDRs may have better antennas than you do and they are probably in a place with much less RFI than you. You can use them to listen to far away places.

LiFePO4 batteries are safer and harder to ignite, but they can still go into thermal runaway and can burn. If a fire started in a battery that big, it would still spread and it wouldn't be practical to extinguish it.

I encrypt everything that leaves my house since it could be easily lost or stolen, but it is rather inconvenient.

If someone breaks into my house, I've got bigger problems than someone getting their hands on my media collection. I think it would be more likely for me to mess something up and loose access to my data than for someone to steal it.

None of the scanners on VirusTotal picked up anything. What makes you think the PDF if malicious?

You can buy from multiple stores and mix in a bunch of other stuff to make it hard for someone to figure out what you're building.

You can get power strips that will sense the load on one outlet and shut all the others off if the load is below a certain amount. They are handy for shutting off those annoying standby LEDs automatically.

My laptop has been up for 123 days. It gets put in standby when it's not in use. I should probably reboot into a new kernel soon.
My desktop gets shut down at night because it's power hungry.
My server gets shut down about once a year for cleaning and hardware upgrades.

If you want to tinker with it, stay away from that DJI crap and build your own. Then you can get more than a flight or two without something burning up.

If you let the laptop sit for years, the battery will be dead and there is a small chance that the SSD may be corrupted. They are only rated to retain data for a year without power.

Debian will have updates, but apart from the browser, it will typically only be security and bug fix updates.

It's better to just put the display to sleep when it's not in use anyways. We only used screensavers because CRT monitors took so long to fully warm up.

It looks cool, but I'm worried about durability. It doesn't even make the screen that much bigger.

That's still significantly better than having no markings at all.

A decent lipo can charge at 5C, but it significantly reduces the cycle life. They are claiming 1000 cycles at that charge rate.

The lack of physical media will just drive more people to piracy.

If the game doesn't run on Linux, there's a good chance it's using a rootkit and should not be installed on windows either.

The Motorola DynaTAC. They had a big Ni-Cd battery that is also the back of the case. You would need often need two batteries to get through a whole day, so they were made to be easily swapped.