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  • I don’t know where exactly you live, but if your in the EU customs/taxes + shipping will make the deal worse, but better than expected.

    E.g. for Germany, this drive would cost 382€ with UPS Saver Duties & Taxes included, instead of 273€ for the drive itself.

    I’ve found the same drive with a local commercial eBay seller for 420€, including taxes and shipping.

    A new 24TB drive would cost 485€.

    Edit: IMO a better deal would be 22TB drives, which have the same price per TB but are new. But then again, their used/recertified price is also ~10% lower than new.









  • Google could add a feature to their OS to upload all pictures to their servers, but that’d likely violate laws and is easy to detect (unusual network traffic).

    Thus it is extremely unlikely they upload your pictures to their servers if you disabled their cloud backup feature.

    What’s more likely is that they hash your pictures locally, and upload the hash to their servers, like some government proposals want to make them do (to find known CSAM, they say). Or they could track metadata of the pictures (location, date/time). This would be hard to detect and some of the info they likely already have through other features in the OS. Whether they do those things or not I don’t know.

    This data wouldn’t reveal the content of the pictures, so nobody can see your images.









  • Nintendo didn’t put legal pressure on emulator devs for decades at this point, which made devs less cautious about preserving their pseudonymity.

    Now it’s too late and they can’t stop Nintendo from finding out who they are and which mistakes they did at some point over the years.

    Maybe a new generation of emulator developers will be more protective of their identity, by using hosting providers like Njalla or privacy networks like i2p. The latter would limit access (as it requires i2p), which isn’t desirable for most users.


  • Da die Löhne der meisten Menschen erst nach Jahren, wenn überhaupt, zu den aktuellen Preisen aufgeschlossen haben, wird sich mMn. nicht viel verändern.

    Es ist gut, dass die Inflation nicht mehr stark steigt, aber Aussagen wie “der Mindestlohn wurde ‘erst vor kurzem’ angehoben, dementsprechend reicht das für die nächste Zeit”, obwohl die Erhöhung nur die Verteuerung der Jahre zuvor kompensiert, wird viele Arbeitnehmer nicht zufriedenstellen.

    Letztendlich hat die AfD ihr neues (altes) Thema bereits gefunden.