Good luck getting any of them to actually crawl it though. Most models are trained on datasets like reddit comments, not by crawling sites like search indexers.

And that’s why net neutrality is important!

OEM license keys have been stored in the BIOS for several versions now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Locked_Pre-installation

For 99% of drivers, the on-disc ones are enough to get up and running, and as long as you have an Internet connection you can download any that aren’t on-disc. The remaining 1% can be obtained directly from the OEM. Modem Windows is very good about this.

You can just reinstall base Windows at that time, either plain or your OEM version if they provide it. There’s not much use in preserving the current image.

The OS isn’t really the deciding factor here.

No, a dd image is just a raw stream of bits. It doesn’t care about filesystems, neither inside nor outside the file.

Manipulative algorithms, yes.

Don’t worry about it, nobody says that any more. It died out with Gentoo.

Uptime is for services, not individual servers.

Use iperf3 if you can.

You could also just use dig, ping, and traceroute to check the path.

my router should know it’s own IP and not bother sending things out into the world just for them to come back

This is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation#NAT_hairpinning

If it’s not working, check the configuration on your router. (Your ISP should also be doing this at their edge, but maybe not.)

Also, you should really not be exposing services to the Internet that you don’t have to. Put it all behind a VPN.

It depends on whether the services are compatible. They don’t all implement activitypub quite the same way.

You can try pasting something into the Lemmy search field (a Mastodon user, pixelfed feed, etc.) and see what comes up. But it may take a minute to federate the first time.

Is it possible to put freedos in a VM and pass through whatever it needs to be connected to? I assume there’s some piece of equipment it runs.

I don’t think there’s enough traffic to warrant it.

Nor Boost. It does in Raccoon, though.

Yeah we know. But it’s not really anything we can directly control, it just has to organically go viral. Marketing would help, but isn’t guaranteed.

I wouldn’t make that comparison. There are too many differences to list.

You’re not going to be looking at them. If one is quieter, get that one.

Also, be prepared to buy a replacement when, not if, one of them fails. It might be years from now, but it’ll happen.

It’s Whisper.

Translating a transcription should be easy.