It’s understandable, sure. It’s also a little more complex up front. For me personally, the pros outweigh the cons and I’d much rather use Usenet over torrenting, even with the cost.

I definitely think it’s DMCA, unfortunately.

That’s not the problem here unfortunately. This is usually a complete take down on the server side, and has nothing to do with their location.

Usenet, while way better than torrenting, still requires multiple indexers and providers for this reason. I have 3 of each and rarely ever run into this issue except for very niche releases.

What benefit would a VPN give for OP’s problem?

I probably won’t be going for commercial use, just hobby stuff mainly. It would be neat to do some nylon stuff but that’s probably as crazy as I’d get.

But yes, ideally my budget is $450-1200 (wide I know, but I’d like to explore my options).

Crontab to just auto reboot daily is probably better - if your PC becomes unresponsive I doubt it would be able to execute another script on top of everything. Ideally though, you’d do some log diving and figure out the cause.

What does your mount look like for that nozzle cam?

If they eventually do have a search engine, it definitely can’t be trusted. GPT-4 loves to hallucinate.

“it works on my machine”!

Sorry, edited the title to not be abbreviated!

I haven’t used Google for awhile now. It just became an ad-ridden hellhole.

But no execs, I assume.

It’s definitely new, look at how close the total users and active users are. Seems pretty shady.

Is there any benefit for using this as opposed to a normal standalone host?

Unfortunately, because of him being a billionaire his PR is self sustaining and posts about him aren’t going anywhere.

You might try adding :rw after each of your volume paths, like this:

volumes:
      - /path/to/appdata/config:/config:rw

My honest suggestion would be to ditch Duplicati for Duplicacy. Duplicacy is one time payment, but it’s much more polished than Duplicati. I actually had major issues with recovering files from Duplicati; sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn’t. Not ideal for something as critical as backup software.

Cameras connected to the public internet are such a bad idea.

Many cars connect to the internet via cell, even if the owners didn’t specifically pay for that, and many times it can’t be disabled.

This brought back so many memories. Late night DarkOrbit, CS…

Probably because he’s sad that people are blocking him.