My machines are old enough to not have that, so no. But, there are a lot of tpm implementations and I don't think they are backdoored in general. I know of some industry projects to use them in data centers. Otoh they often have vulnerabilities.
If I wanted a hardware token I'd use a dedicated one but that's just me.
The Geotrust queries might be OCSP checks which is somewhat legitimate. OCSP is a scheme for checking (via a server query) that a TLS certificate is still valid (hasn't been revoked) before accepting it. It is or was somewhat mandatory for EV (extended validation) certificates that were fashionable for entities like banks for a while. Without OCSP (like if you disabled it in your browser preferences), EV certificates worked like ordinary certificates instead of showing the company name on a highlighted green background.
Today,, people are mostly ignoring that stuff in favor of shorter and shorter expiration periods for certificates.
No it likely wouldn't make them explode if they hypothetically were there.
It's reasonably certain that Iran didn't and doesn't have any usable nukes at the moment. The claim is that they were working on building them and that the bombing was to stop them from completing any such projects.
There are conflicting opinions about whether they were really working on building nukes. One might reasonably also say that if they weren't working on it before, they are NOW.
IIRC there was some kind of religious fatwa against Iran building nukes, which made the claim somewhat credible that they weren't building them. It looked to me like they were instead getting the precursor materials together without doing the final refining and assembly, so that if the fatwa was lifted and the clerics said build the nukes, they could do so relatively quickly. That's just me though, and I don't have any special sources of info.
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Sometimes they are on a remote server that I sshfs mount and play the same way. Multiple people could use the server at the same time if desired, though for me it hasn't been an issue. It's audio, I don't need a visual UI for it. I still have a fair amount of physical media too including LP's, though my record player is long gone.
I just don't get it, I've seen people struggle with itunes, that stuff is way too complicated and I don't see any need for it. Maybe I'm missing something but if I want to play some music and it's in a file, saying "play this file" seems about as direct as it gets.
I just have a bunch of media files (.ogg, .mp3, etc.) in directories and play them with mplayer from the command line. Playlist = shell script that plays some group of files. I use old school track numbering (01-whatever, 02-whatsit, etc.) though, so most of the time "mplayer *" is how I play an album and the tracks play automatically in the right order. I don't understand the purpose of anything fancier. Now get off my lawn.
I mostly have old Thinkpads with snap-in batteries. They're nice. They do need replacement now and then. The one I have with an internal battery was still not too bad. Take out some screws, open computer, swap battery. No adhesives or soldering or anything like that. Conclusion: avoid Apple stuff and you'll be ok
Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn't kept up with what was actually around.
But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you'll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.
We'll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven't made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.
No idea about internet integration or "arr", but the Inkplate series are completely open. I got an Inkplate 10 because of an app that I wanted to write for it at the time. The hardware is nice, software is lacking, but I'd buy it again if I wanted a basic e-reader. It has an epub reading app and I'd just download epubs to it from my PC by wifi or USB.
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