

Knowing how paranoid Putin is, I’m almost sure this is a body double
As always, I got the username wrong…
Knowing how paranoid Putin is, I’m almost sure this is a body double
If you are speaking about soundproofing I’m assuming you live in an apartment and have neighbours, I will be making my recommendations based in that assumption.
Also, note that I value audio quality more than video, so if I have a limited budget to setup a home cinema most of it will go to the audio.
For home cinema surround systems are usually the standard, however in my personal and subjective opinion surround adds much to the cost without really proving much value to the experience.
Cheap surround systems like those trendy soundbars will sound like shit comparable to a stereo system for the same price. Yes, they come with a subwoofer so they have bass and provide that wow factor, but you may notice it to be unbalanced the middle or upper frequencies to lack clarity.
If you have a small room and plan on watching films just yourself (and maybe an occasional friend)I recommend a setup similar to mine, a small LCD TV (32" or a bit bigger) and a pair of 8" studio monitors.
From my understanding cheap projectors have quite a substandard image quality and brightness, I understand that you prefer a projector for easier transport, but a small TV is also easy to carry it, you can literally carry it in the backsit of a small car. And will look much better than a cheap projector.
So with your given budget you can get a quality TV for about 500 dollars and a quality pair of near field speakers for another 500 dollars.
This is the perfect setup for a single person intimate setup, however fails short when you put multiple people in the room.
However if you have a big room with many people on it then you will need to compromise on quality, a bigger screen, maybe a projector and maybe a pair of loud used pair of HiFi speakers, since studio monitors aren’t really meant to fill the room and 32" TV will look tiny from a sofa.
I would spend the money on a VPN instead because:
DLL links are always down, torrents can die too, but overall they are much more reliable, you can just have your torrent search engine to organise by seeders.
Much more content on torrents
Much higher quality, DLLs at least back when I used those had terrible quality.
Much easier to manage 100 downloads at the same time, sure Jdownloader exists, but…
RSS downloaded, you can get your favourite anime torrent or RSS and qbittorrent will download it for you every week.
Security, if you download software, popular torrent websites are much more trusted and moderated and you have less probably of getting malware.
If you subscribe to a DLL site you can use that single website, if you torrent you can download from many websites.
You can use the VPN for other stuff.
There’s ffshare on f-droid, but I’ve never tried it, don’t know if it works.
Interesting, but this technology seems really scary, imagine being interrogated with a machine that translates thoughts into words, now try not to think of a sandwich.
The issue with hard drives is that they tend to fail even on ideal conditions and even when powered down. Yes I’ve lost very important data to a powered down hard drive.
While it’s possible to recover information on a hard drive as long as the plates themselves aren’t damaged, that requires very expensive specialised tools and skills. Which probably wouldn’t be available in a scenario where the information on the drive would be of any value.
DVD-R (and probably consequentially Blu-Rays) aren’t any better in my experience, I’ve lost more data to DVD-R than to hard drives actually. Even when stored in low light conditions they tend to just stop reading.
However optical media has one big advantage here, is that the discs themselves are cheap, so instead of having all your digital eggs in the same basket, you spread them over several discs and while some information may be lost, others may survive.
Now, here’s an interesting thought, with digital data, the data either reads or doesn’t read, the so called digital cliff, may become partially corrupted and other parts still read, but after the corruption gets past a certain threshold all information is lost.
With analogue equipment even after severe signal degradation the contents while very deteriorated may still be perceptible, forwardermore an analogue signal is much easier to decode in the event that you need to restart civilisation building tech from scratch and don’t have access to the very very specific specifications of something like the audio codec or the filesystem.
You can probably hack a rudimentary cassette player together from very simple components, all you need is a tape head (a coil), a motor (a coil and a magnet), and an amplifier (a transistor or vaccum tube). (I’m probably oversimplifying here).
Overall I think the most important thing is having redundancy, or if redundancy isn’t possible at least don’t have all eggs in the same basket, instead of having everything in a single 8TB HDD, to try spread them into smaller 512GB ones, or DVDs or flash drives or all of the above. And don’t store them all in the same location, if an area gets flooded or someone builds a building on top, you’re only losing a small part of the information.
And they are still missing the most important menu item “Stop after this track”
If you were the one being underpaid to do his job, you would do the same.
Isn’t that true for most models until someone destiles and quantises them so they can run on common hardware?
In my opinion, IRC is much easier to join than any meta slop, generally speaking you can just /connect check the /list and /join a popular room.
Meanwhile to join meta you need to first make an email, then create an account, fill a bunch of forms (and then I always get automatically banned after acc creation without posting anything lol)
I can’t think of many things you can buy for a dollar, maybe a bottle of water and 2 pieces of bread.
Chewing gum maybe, back in the days those were cheap, doubt that’s still the case.
Photocopies, those are cheap, you can get like 7 copies with 1 dollar.
Can’t think of anything else, really.
Also earning more? That’s not possible, unless you’re willing to beg, but then that’s completely unrelated to your initial dollar.
OMG! I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time!
I will try this as soon as I have time. Thank you!
I don’t think they are as stupid as you think them.
I mean, back when I was younger I learned pretty much all I know about IT by admining my own computer, and I pretty much did it by trial and error yes. However nowadays kids talk to each other over popular chat applications, eventually one tells another “hey just install this browser/vpn” the same way they install mods for their videogames.
Tho in the end I don’t think they will become techy savy tho, I guess just that tor and VPNs will become commonplace in UK.
Meanwhile the old boomers are the ones who are going to forced to shrug “just how it is”.
The quickest and dirtiest and least secure way to copy text (or files) between machines is using netcat. I always end up resorting to this method when in a hurry.
As soon as he stops being president all that Epstein shit is going to fall over him, he knows that so he’s going to try to use his power to stay in power.