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Well finally a tolerable and much warmer day here. Oddly, my cable upstream is behaving noticeably better.   Getting 2/3rds of that I pay for. Amazing how some warm weather gets people out of the house and frees up the inter-tubes. I don't expect the fun to last though.   Been nice though.

Yes all of this is spot on. You can spend money on ads and get traction.  However, your ads will have to be essentially giving things away, opting people into crazy giveaways and similar.  Never underestimate the public's voluntary participation in getting something freely or deeply discounted...

One of the reasons I don't turn my workstation down / off is because Debian LXDE doesn't seem to bundle and make apparent and clear where such features are. I can manually start bar hibernate or suspend, but that's not sufficient.  Often when I sneak off to bed I have things downloading...

I've ran an exit node prior.   I definitely received a bunch of this IP is downloading pirated / unlicensed stuff.  This was a few years back.  Upstream DC was a bear to deal with as hadn't SWiP'd things fully -- abuse was still hitting their inbox.  They were not entertained.

Those Asus and similar brand Chromeboxes aren't bad, especially if you shop wisely and make some upgrades (i.e. more RAM aftermarket and a real SSD of larger size). They were mentioned, I think, on other related thread. Nice thing is they support dual displays natively.

That's not bad :)   I like those numbers. 10-20 watts during use, 10 low side idle, .5W suspended.  Expecting this is a real CPU and unit with real connectors and all also. Plus an alright sized screen.    Refrigerators are really power thirsty due to compressors in them.  For many folks the...

Entire power efficiency and conservation idea floating here lately - figured I'd ask folks: Does your computer ever sleep?    Do you have your main desktop set to use sleep, suspend, etc.?  Do you normally have the computer go off and how have your later resume cycles been?  Everything work...

While solar usable watt per dollar has come down, you have that inevitable issue of batteries and related plumbing which haven't come down.  You could always run high wattage stuff off grid, just had to get enough battery, right wire gauge and large enough inverter. With computing and audience...

Let's address that, since I am of similar beliefs. Tablet and lagging equals cheap, old or inferior stuff.   I have a HP Slate 7" I just picked up.  Quite a cost bargain @ $80~.  Quad core, storage in it is pretty fast, RAM isn't too big sadly.  It works superbly, too well.  Similar really to a...

Problem with Tor isn't even the well intentioned operators.  The problems are from the random users who are engaged in every activity.   Higher density of really problematic usage since it's free and as-advertised gives this idea of being anonymous. I like Tor conceptually.  But the law...

Clearly @DomainBop things for ARM have really advanced since the DEC days :) Problem with ARM is going to be some quirks on things folks might use and more limited library of stuff compiled for such.   It's fairly robust though at least on the server side at this point.  Rather impressive...

There has to be a slew of ARM set top boxes with rooted wild running Linux installs at this point.  Some fairly decent really cheap boxes out there for $80 or less. There was a teaser of an Intel powered SOC running Ubuntu portable OS, but zero delivery so far. Can always try this: Complete...

I'm with you MannDude on the tiered computing approach. For the hanging out mode, why not just plunk < $100 for a semi alright quad core tablet running Android?   Decent mail apps out there, browser works fine, Skype works fine, have audio and video capabilities. Definitely low power all said...

See my post above about the latency.  If you need something specific, toss me a command to run and I'll give you the output data.

Gets mentioned quite a bit - mega popular.   Appears to be siphon up to their servers though....   That's a model I am blah about - if it can be disabled and local/LAN/own remote server ran, then it's promising.  I'll look since it's overdue to see from my end.

I've never looked at companies that specifically allow Tor.   There is a prior created list for this, but it probably isn't 100% current or correct, as sentiments about Tor change about the time abuse hits and feds show up looking for information or to seize things...

I've been using Tomboy for notes and snippets for a long time.  Used derivatives in Linux land and on Android, Tomdroid. See: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tomdroid&hl=en Tomdroid is alright, but some ugly sucky bugs in it.  Second time in a month that my notes got wiped. I...

Hard to say to what degree powerline adapters work on newer electric breaker boxes.   If box were to include filtering and power regulation (higher end stuff does), very well might end up not working unless same circuit. Encryption is indeed a concern.   I don't think these do enough, but I...

Which is odd here in the States I'd say since I've had multiple DCs require such self-insurance to place gear within their facility.  DCs clearly want no legal liability for anything that could happen. With that noted, I've prior modified business insurance to cover such.   Insurance is iffy...

Bumping this.... I finally went with some TP-Link's. Impressed with the smaller size compared to prior powerline adapters.  Configuration was 2 button pushes, plugging it in and connecting the ethernet cable. Interestingly these too leak out onto public utility pools.  In fact I've connected...