George Takei

That's a shame since literally everyone should distrust Edge, given Microsoft's history with browsers (and everything else). I don't think anyone matches Microsoft's caviler attitude of "We know there are hundreds of gaping security holes that allow attackers to take full admin control of your computer, but we're just going to mark those bugs as will-not-fix and blame the users when something goes wrong."

Maybe because we've been paying them a tax since the early 2000's to provide fiber broadband to the majority of Americans, which they have pocketed and refused to actually build any infrastructure to support this?

It may not be a hazard in your area, but around here there's about a million bicyclists who have no objection to riding out into the middle of the road in front of fast-moving traffic to go around parked vehicles. Also that parked vehicle could be someone changing a flat tire and walking around their vehicle, or present some other type of hazard. You don't know why they are parked there, and if you're driving at night you might not even see them until it's too late. Obviously other people in your area want to know about these parked cars or they wouldn't be reporting them.

If you want less information, why not switch to Google maps or OsmAnd?

Seriously... If this were actual "bombshell" news it wouldn't be on a youtube channel.

I was sent an invite to participate, I assume just because the age of my account, but there's no way I'd jump into that unless I already knew how to actively play the market. I'm guessing there could be an initial surge from people investing who recognize the name but haven't been paying attention to the site in the past year, and then everyone is going to start jumping ship when they realize the stock isn't going anywhere or is going to lose money.

My current setup is eight 18TB Exos drives, all purchased from Amazon's refurb shop, and running in a RAIDz2. I'm pulling about 450MB/s through various tests on a system that is in use. I've been running this about a year now and smartd hasn't detected any issues. I have almost never run new drives for my storage and the only time I've ever lost data was back when I was running mdadm and a power glitch broke the sync on multiple drives so the array couldn't be recovered. With zfs I have even run a RAID0 with five drives which saw multiple power incidents (before I got a redundant power supply) and I never once lost anything because of zfs' awesome error detection.

So yes, used drives can be just fine as long as you do your research on the drive models, have a very solid power supply, and are configured for hot-swapping so you can replace a drive when they fail. Of course that's solid advice even for brand new drives, but my last set of used drives (also from ebay) lasted about a decade before it was time to upgrade. Sure, individual drives took a dump over that time, this was another set of eight and I replaced three of them, but the data was always safe.

Something thing to keep in mind when getting started is to manage your expectations. You've spent all this time using Windows so you already know where everything is -- for Windows. In a lot of respects you are going to be starting over from scratch, learning new ways to install software, get around the desktop, and doing simple things like changing your settings. Don't get discouraged, you've done this before, you can do it again.

One way to cope with the initial frustration is to start out loading up something like VirtualBox on your Windows desktop, and installing a linux distribution there. Then you can play around, take your time to find a desktop that's right for you, and learn how to actually DO things in linux that you already do daily in Windows. That way you eliminate the pressure of trying to figure out how to do everything at once.

Another reason to start with a virtual machine is that there are a LOT of possible linux distributions to choose from. There are also quite a number of different desktop environments to choose from. It pays to take a bit of time and play around with different options to find out what you like. You also need to decide if you want something running the cutting-edge releases, or if you prefer stability with slightly older software. For example, Ubuntu is a good choice for the absolute latest releases but can introduce bugs that the devs refuse to fix. On the other hand, Debian (which is actually the base system that Ubuntu is built on) only releases slightly older software that has been tested over the past few months. However in all cases, you will always get immediate patches for security issues.

As already mentioned, any old computer laying around is a viable candidate for Linux. Until last year I was running internet-facing web servers on 1GB of memory and a single core. If you have something built in the last 20 years it will work for your purposes. Hell my desktop is someone else's throw-away because under Windows they considered it "too slow to get email or browse the internet". I use it for writing arduino code and building models for my 3D printer.

Thank god. If Trump is forced out of the race from being in jail, DeSantis was the next leader, and at this point I really don't know which one of them is worse.

I agree that a static IP address is an absolute requirement for a mail server to send messages these days. You also need a host of checks in place like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, along with a strong set of blocklists and spam filters. My own setup includes dual ISP connections from two different providers, and even with all that in place, Microsoft has always been a thorn. They will block me for no apparent reason, their own tools don't even show any detected spam activity, and sometimes they don't even block the same IP address (or provider) that my emails were sent from. Every other spam service on the planet behaves in a rational way, but of course Microsoft has made a point of locking in so many businesses to their own spam-ridden service that you simply can't run a mail server any more without being able to talk to them.

Overall, yeah it can be a pain to run your own mail server. I can't imagine trying to use a pre-built mail server and expect it to run, there's so much that you have to configure to each specific setup. It's not like a web server where you load up a docker container and it just works.

"The suspect obviously killed themself with the officer's gun, before the officer arrived."

Isn't it funny how they are so quick to cry that they're not fascists, but when you ask them why they use "anti-fa" as a derogatory insult they still have trouble putting it together?