TIL Sid Meier’s Pirates was released on Wii.

Aren’t old games pretty small though? It’s new ones that you may need a huge volume to store many of them. Depends how much we are talking of course. 2TB or 50TB?

Well let’s start with how much you need.

Then we can all cry. Currently looking at replacing HDDs with SSDs and significantly cutting down on my data storage requirements - basically uninstalling all those games I haven’t played in a long time and probably won’t. Plus it’s easier to avoid getting sucked into playing ESO and wasting money on it if it’s behind a 100+ GB download. Majority of games I actually play are under 5GB so I could go pretty heavy. Couple second hand 512GB SSDs perhaps? Under £100…

After walking through CEX on the weekend I don’t know if you will beat second hand laptop pricing. The significantly higher availability of laptops seems to make them prices that just can’t be beaten.

Unless you can get away running a pi zero of course. Sorta tempted to get one but not sure how much I could get it to do. Would do data storage just fine, depending on how much space you need.

Time to do some crime. Let’s go to a remote location. Turns router on, does crimes, turns it off. Goes home.

So it’s easy to find me living at home doing nothing, and hard to track a determined criminal who would just move it when doing crimes?

I can pay for internet in cash and the only details I gave them are fake and a random username. 4G internet isn’t even tied to the same location as I can move freely.

As I’m not bothered about doing cybercrimes I don’t bother doing that much about security though.

Let them waste their time investigating, actually how do they even know your address?

Running an exit node is perfectly legal though. There would be no evidence you have done anything wrong very quickly.

First scenario is no different to running a TOR exit node. The second is why it needs to be built securely, which can be done though probably isn’t in these cases.

Wouldn’t even mind the option to let someone else use my connection a bit for a free VPN tbh, that is just like running a TOR node. What I dislike is the dishonesty side of it. Be open and honest then it’s all good.

Now wondering if there are alternatives that are similar to Gutenberg but for countries with more relaxed public domain laws. Like Orwell is public domain in the UK but not the US and Gutenberg doesn’t have it.

Could look at mirroring Project Gutenberg.

VLC, I just rsync my library to my phone with a script when at home

Any tips for trying to catch fish for food? UK here and everything is written like it’s a sport instead. Plus it’s usually for freshwater where you need licensing and permissions but I live by the sea.

Caught a couple of crabs before but that is about it.

In most of those situations I have bigger problems to deal with and can always restore from backup later.

If it’s so serious I don’t even have backups left then it doesn’t matter anymore.

Never even heard of them and I work in a related industry…

Around £100 a year from 50w, if you run this for several years then you tell me if that matters.

I was looking at bee-link a while back, shame prices have gone through the roof on everything though.

N100/N150 doesn’t use that much more power and going for x64 instead of ARM could be a pretty big benefit too. Depends on what you want of course.