you aren’t. to me this is just PR

I’ll try this, thanks. but to fill in some missing context from my part, this is what I have been experiencing for the little more than a year I’m running an I2P router.

oh, I see now, sorry! from mechanical I instantly thought you mean an HDD

the catch is that you don’t own that camera, only the manufacturer does. besides requiring an account and a connection to china to be able to use it, they have access to both your network, and to the camera feed. they’ll use the network info to gather info about you, and the camera feed to train their face and gait recognition AIs, possibly also for intelligence

oh that was it, the account requirement was what I wanted to remember but couldn’t! was sure it was something even worse, thanks for the help.

yeah if I would buy such a TV by accident, I would bring it back within the return period and tell that it was faulty, because it is.

the available outproxies were very much overwhelmed

honestly that’s still my experience. it’s not rare that websites like a DDG results page does not even load, I think from time to time I even have unable to connect errors, even though as I have stormycloud as my outproxy. probably something on my end, though, it seems then

yeah, but for OP’s amount that’s an overkill, the drives are very expensive

unless you span multiple boxes of discs which is a pain in the ass

FTFY

with two drives (preferably different brands/age, HDD or SSD doesn’t really matter) in it using a checksumming filesystem like btrfs or ZFS so that you can do regular scrubs to verify data integrity.

an important detail here is to add the 2 disks to the filesystem in a way so that the second one does not extend the capacity, but adds parity. on ZFS, this can be done with a mirror vdev (simplest for this case) or a raidz1 vdev.

went with an ssd in this idea since its more durable than a mechanical, better price for storage capacity

how? sorry but that does not add up to me. for the price of a 2 TB SSD you could by a much larger HDD

and most likely to be compatible with other computers in the future in case you need it for whatever reason.

both of these use SATA plugs, it should be the same

there is 0% risk until your country makes a law that prohibits any and all P2P communication. That would not only break torrents, but would thwart signal/telegram/whatsapp calls too, Jitsi meetings, probably google meet and zoom too, as all those use P2P traffic for performance.

So far there are only such laws in far east countries, and the official java I2P router is smart enough to not participate in routing when you are in such a place.
Also, I think for routing to work you need to open a port, without it that won’t be done.

as a node

• you are unable to see the contents of traffic you route thanks to layered encryption
• you wont be routing traffic to the internet (unless you specifically set it up), but only to other I2P routers

I know nothing about seedboxes, but on a computer you can point multiple torrents to the same directory. If you make it read-only, by permission or mount options or whatever, the torrent client can’t even fuck it up

I remember that roku TVs refuse working until you connect it to the internet. their values/intentions are clear, I wouldn’t give money to them

Totally. For now, I’m only running I2P though. But it maxes out my uplink so it’s probably better this way for now.

yeah, and more generally, Tor is optimized for light services both in-network and through outproxies (because there are many of those), and I2P is more optimized for large transfers and many connections in-network, and very unsuitable for internet access because there’s only a few overwhelmed outproxies, among ehich load is not even atyempted to be distributed by the default I2P touter configuration.

the reason for why I2P is mpre suitable for torrenting is unclear to me, though, other than the maintainers telling that. possibly because almost everyone who wa ts to use the network will participate actively in routing traffic, and so there is relatively a lot more routers than on Tor

i remember reading that tor maintainers don’t like it when people use the Tor network for torrenting, because it harms the network from a performance perspective

What do you think of all this?

I expected this from ExpressVPN and PIA, and I think Kappe was already known doing very shady things, but it’s a good reminder, and also there are most probably people who didn’t know yet

Also it is not great practice to totally shutdown at night as that’s the time when update happen.

updates can be installed when it’s turned on, though, and it well consume much less power.

It also could theoretically wear out hardware but chances are that’s not a problem on newer machines

what do you mean? I don’t understand.
if you mean the HDDs spinning down and up, then

• if it only happens at shutdown, it shouldn’t wear them out, additionally as I know HDDs (consumer models at least) don’t like endless spinning either
• windows probably shuts it down regularly when it’s not in use. this is a setting in the power profile
• as I know, frequent spindowns only increase wear out if it happens very often, like every 10 seconds and such because of the drive’s garbage internal power saving setting. that’s why I always keep it at least 30 minutes or more

there isn’t, but as others have replied you can hide it from yourself