gaylord_fartmaster

This has no relevance to politics and I'm not attacking anything by saying forcing sign ups is a barrier to content or that you're wrong about it having anything to do with bots, you dork.

No it isn't, they are letting bots scrape the articles just like every other news site for that sweet, sweet SEO. Why do you think the archive.is link has the full article?

Still a wall between people clicking the link and the content.

How? The only way to prevent the site or the postal service from potentially being used for sending CSAM is indiscriminate surveillance.

Do you also think the government should be reading everyone's mail? Should they be scanning every device capable of storing data ever shipped?

Here a little late with some certified bangers in no particular order:

Bomberman Hero - Redial

Deus Ex - VersaLife

Monty on the Run - Main theme (Commodore 64)

Sonic CD [JP] - Quartz Quadrant (Present)

System Shock - Executive

System Shock 2 - Engineering

Jet Set Radio - Sneakman

Max Payne 3 - TEARS

Mega Man 3 - Shadow Man Theme

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Wandering Ghosts

Sparkster [Genesis/MD] - Stage 1-1

Kirby 64 - Rock Star

I really liked it at first but they've been slowly stripping away everything that made it stand out from other MOBAs and I've started losing interest. The one thing it still has going for it to me is the fast and technical movement, but if they scale that back I'll probably be done with it.

Though they seem secure behind a paywall, swiping content creators’ explicit photos and videos from subscription-based platforms such as OnlyFans, Patreon, and Fansly is relatively easy. People can download third-party apps for the task, and if those don’t work, a few basic coding tutorials can teach them how to surpass anti-theft technology. These images and videos then proliferate across the internet, on niche forums, Reddit threads, Discord servers, and Telegram groups with tens of thousands of participants. Today, a growing legal consensus considers this activity to be sexual abuse.

I think you deliberately skipped this part.

Damn, I can't believe I accidentally sexually abused Kate Winslet by pirating Titanic.

I think the risk of losing data naturally leads to people seeking out the most robust storage solution possible when 90% of those people would probably be better off with something simpler with less that can go wrong.

I can't answer each bullet (and a couple are dependant on other things like drive speed, activity, and network throughput) but I've been using shucked external HDDs for over a decade and would recommend it. I used to use OpenMediaVault running in a VM on Proxmox and briefly tried TrueNAS, but I've since migrated all of my VMs to LXCs, so now I just have the drives mounted on the Proxmox host directly combined with mergerfs (not managed by Proxmox's storage pools) and I pass it through to a Turnkey Linux file server LXC via bind mounts to share over SMB/NFS. Less overhead and LXCs can share CPU/memory dynamically while VMs can't.

You should be able to replace that /mnt/external directory with no issues as long as the structure is the same within.

I'm playing through Morrowind for the first time right now (past a few hours in at least), and I've been blown away at just how much more interesting of a plot and setting it has compared to everything Bethesda ever made after it. The miss chance, spell fail chance, and non-regenerating magicka were always enough to scare me away before, but I finally understood what a huge impact fatigue has on everything, and how much more terrible you are at low-level skills compared to their later games.

I also like the progression of my character walking around slow as shit at level 1 taking forever to get anywhere vs running around at 30mph jumping from canton to canton in Vivec like it's nothing now.