I can’t post reviews on apps. I get a network error message. I assume this is from my DNS level tracker and ad block lists.

How would they ever dry out?

Oh yeah like that one that does a percentage discount based on the daily high temperature in their home city.

I am no expert but I learned enough to set it up with my *arr stack and it’s my primary ship for sailing the seas. My use case is English language popular content. So YMMV.

Search for the Usenet backbone map or usenet provider map. You will see that there are only a handful of companies providing different “backbones”. Content may be different on different backbones and the copyright takedown notices may be different (DMCA or NTD).

I pay for an unlimited subscription from a provider on one backbone and purchased a couple of 500gb blocks (on sale) on another backbone. (A block is a one-time fee that allows me to download a specified amount of data, from a provider, and they don’t expire).

My understanding is that content on Usenet is broken into multiple parts and the file names are obfuscated, making it more difficult to take down. If they are taken down, it might only be a few parts. Your download client can be configured to download the missing parts from multiple servers (in my case the blocks).

I don’t recall finding something in my indexers that wouldn’t download because of takedowns.

My recommendation would be to try it with blocks or the cheap €2 providers to see if you are happy. If you struggle to find content branch out.

I don’t use VPN with Usenet. I don’t want to bottleneck those sweet 500/600 Mbps download speeds. Never had an issue. Edit: because I setup the SSL servers)

people need to parachute out

Y’all think flight attendants are just regularly jumping out of planes when things go wrong?!

independent organizations can verify accounts directly. Bluesky will review these verifications as well to ensure authenticity.

But isn’t it still one central entity approving?

The old one isn’t getting any updates and won’t see this change.

Thanks. I hate it.

I have the next word suggestions option turned off. Previously I would see a question mark, exclamation mark and semicolon in the top strip. Now, with this new feature I get only the undo box (if my last word was autocorrected) and I now have to backspace and push and hold the M key to get a question mark.

I can’t figure out how to remove the option, so now I’m looking at replacement keyboards.

I thought that was format incompatibility more than rights management.

privacy protection for Dolby Vision

How so?

Does it get slippery if it becomes too wet?

A tip I found that works is to search for a song in the album you’re looking for. I like to use the most unique sounding title from the album. Then if you get a result, browse the user’s collection and you’ll likely find the rest of the album.

I guess the “just buy an iPhone” philosophy doesn’t apply here.

Takes flight to Detroit Airport, starts heading south: “Canada here I come!”…

LEDs kind of blow me away in general. People will look back at this period and be like, “they sure did love putting LED lights on top of and on the sides of their skyscrapers just for show”.

I scheduled a bunch of text to go out at midnight and they were fine. I do remember a time when both calling and texting would be delayed!

I mean I primarily use Usenet to find anything I want.