In a distant post-apocalyptic future, the survivors will use hard drive platters as a currency.

Own the temporary license.

If you want to be very secure, host a VPN and don’t open any ports besides the VPN port. Then access anything as though you’re on LAN.

Use it to make a webcam server. You could probably afford to plug in multiple webcams since it has USB 3. Great for checking on the home when you’re away.

Make it into a router and access point. Connect your phone to the AP and use tcpdump to capture packets from your phone for a few minutes. Look through the packets with Wireshark and see how much data is being leaked.

If you use it for work, now you can count your commute as part of the work day.

ChatGPT, summarize this for me like I’m a geriatric politician.

Someone forgot to tip Sony 20% for providing them with DRM

What is their reasoning?

Wait a year and your $1000 $650 Pixel 8 Pro will look like an even cheaper camera.

Imagine routing all your traffic through a google server.

Well adjusted ex reddit user

This is the first and second step in the EEE cycle. They are embracing Mastodon by allowing instances to connect to theirs, and they are extending it by providing a verification service for all Mastodon users - a service which is conveniently dependent on Meta as a centralized authority. Eventually every celebrity will rely on Meta to get verified and Meta will use this to extinguish independent Mastodon instances.