Depends on how much you download. You can pay a once-off payment for a block of data and it lasts indefinitely. I've got a 5TB block I've had for over 10 years. I think it was maybe $25 when I got it?
Edit: If you need more data, there's plans with unlimited data for a few dollars per month.
They recently started developing it again, after being silent for a long time. They released Amarok 3.0 in April 2024 which migrated it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
What's crazy to me is that some of the big internet companies in the USA are rolling out symmetric 2Gbps over cable using DOCSIS 4.0, by upgrading their equipment. In theory that should be possible over the Optus and Telstra HFC networks in Australia too, yet I haven't heard of any attempts to do this.
I really wish Australia had rolled out the proper NBN instead of the worse, cheaper initially but more expensive over the long run version. I'm Aussie but I live in the USA now. I've heard that even gigabit NBN plans aren't symmetric? Crazy for a network that's supposed to be "modern".
I had ADSL2+ "up to 24Mbps" in Australia back in 2013. In reality it synced at around 7Mbps. I moved to the USA at the end of the year and my apartment had a 600Mbps connection. It was... an experience. So many sites were hosted in the USA at that time too (much cheaper servers and bandwidth than Australia) so latency was much lower in the USA too.
Not everywhere in the USA is bad, especially in metro areas. I've got 10Gbps symmetric for US$40 where I live (San Francisco Bay Area, via Sonic.com), and there's a few providers throughout the country (mainly smaller ones) that have similar price points. Some cities are lucky and have municipal internet, where the city provides the internet as a non-profit.
we’ll have to create a new SSN system and everyone will need new SSN’s after spending our whole lives remembering the same one.
Hopefully the new one would have proper security features, rather than having one single number that every bank, lender, employer, etc has. It desperately needs the ability to revoke access for just a single entity, which is impossible if they all share the same number.
I see that in some cases on Linux, for example JetBrains IDEs use paths like $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/JetBrains/Rider2024.1. I agree that it's more common on Windows though!
I use Borgbackup, with borgmatic to configure and periodically run it. I have two storage VPSes "in the cloud", and back up to both of them. My main storage VPS is a HostHatch one with 10TB space for $10/month. I got it during Black Friday sales in 2021.
If you do back up to multiple destinations, Borgbackup's devs recommend configuring two separate backups, rather than doing a backup to one server then syncing it to the second one. This is to handle the case where one of the backups becomes corrupted.
Hetzner have decent deals on their "storage boxes". You don't get root access, but they support Borgbackup, restic and rclone in addition to the regular protocols (SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV, SMB).
Make sure you configure the SSH key to only allow it to run borgbackup in "append only" mode, so that malware/ransomware on the client system can't delete the backups. This is a common issue with other backup solutions like rsync - the client has full access to the server, so a malicious user/code could delete the whole backup.
I usually use the "scaled" feed sorting algorithm instead of the default "active" one. It does a better job of showing a larger variety of posts, including posts from small communities.
There's command line options that work with BSD or GNU but don't work with MacOS, or some options that have default values on some platforms but not MacOS. Here's one example I had to fix a while back: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/1984
I'm not sure if they're open source. Apple used to release "Darwin" which was an open-source OS that only contained the open-source parts of MacOS. You could actually install and run it on a PC. Over time, the repo slowly degraded until the point where it was impossible to build it any more (it started depending on code only available in Apple's internal repos), and eventually they stopped publishing it.
This isn't strictly true because most games do still have a playable version on the disk
At least on my Xbox, there's games where it wouldn't let me play them unless some updates were installed. "day one patches" are very common in the video game industry these days.
legally transferable due to doctrine of first sale as I understand it.
The first sale doctrine applies to physical goods. The game companies are moving towards the games always being digital goods, and the disc simply being a physical license key for the digital games. I'm not sure if the doctrine would apply in the same way in this case.
The only difference between a physical and digital copy of a video game is the format of the license key (on disc vs attached to your account). In either case, you're buying a license key that can be revoked by the manufacturer at any time. A playable game isn't even on the disc any more, since games aren't finished by the master date any more (so you need to have internet access regardless of if it's a disc or digital copy)
For one, some of the coreutils are weird. They aren't BSD coreutils, but they're not GNU coreutils either. They're like an old version of BSD coreutils with some GNU features added.
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Depends on how much you download. You can pay a once-off payment for a block of data and it lasts indefinitely. I've got a 5TB block I've had for over 10 years. I think it was maybe $25 when I got it?
Edit: If you need more data, there's plans with unlimited data for a few dollars per month.