*before* you tell someone you're going to fire them.

With alot of users moving away from desktops and going for mobile devices, I'm not sure why anyone would still care about such a target. Given the amount of Android devices out there, Linux seems to be doing pretty damn well in that market, and I'll bet Android devices outnumber desktop computers these days

There's a big difference between 'ok, so the NSA knows who I've been having phone sex with and multiple people know what kind of porn I look at' and 'what do you mean I can't buy my dreamhouse? where the fuck did all these maxed out credit cards come from? I never opened those!'

This isn't privacy, this is identity, and folks will care alot more when it starts to effect them negatively.

They've said in the past that there are alot of factors that go into it. For example, the Seagates may fail more often, but they're also cheaper. And sometimes it comes down to simple availability. If they can't get the HGST drives in the capacity and quantity they want, well, they're a data storage company, it's not like they're *not* going to buy hard drives, even if they are more likely to fail.

That's why you buy the iCar instead of the Surface Roll

For me, car travel time is wasted time. Even when I'm stuck in traffic, I still have to be paying attention.

Bring on the automated cars, I say. I'd much rather be able to read a book, take a nap, or do some actual work while in the act of traveling.

I used to use all that crap until I found out about PiHole. Now I just have my networks clients use it for the primary name server. The DNS requests to the ad servers never make it out of my network, so they never see any requests from me. For the few things that do make it through, uBlock Origin gets those until the PiHole lists get updated. It's also pretty damned effective at eliminating telemetry data from making it outside the network.

Now, PiHole is basically just a glorified hosts file, but it allows me to handle things for the entire network instead of a device by device basis, as well as protecting those devices where I can't get at a hosts file (ie, mobiles)

Of course, this doesn't do anything about websites that set cookies and share their own data with advertisers, but there are other tools for dealing with that.

The Roku app has their equivalent of AirPlay (Play on Roku) where you can stream content stored on your device directly to the Roku

I'm up to three of them in the house now, and I wouldn't be surprised if another 2 or 3 got added in the next couple of years as the kids get older and want their own TV's in their rooms.

For my family, it aggregates the platforms we use to consume media (Plex for local, Netflix and Amazon Prime for non-local) into a single device that's simple to use and just works.

And after I figured out how much data they were sending back and Pi-Holed their telemetry domains, all was right with the world.

I do something like this. I have a Synology that's dedicated just to backups. All the important stuff gets backed up there, and from there, gets synced up into the cloud. The exception being my media library (cost prohibitive) and my linux servers. Since I use duplicity to backup my Linux servers, I back them up to the NAS and then kick them directly into B2. The biggest pain in the ass is the sync of full backups, since I have crappy upstream from the ISP

The duplicity backend is for their B2 service, which is cost per GB. The unlimited backup is for the personal plan, 5$/month per computer, and there's no Linux client for that

I'm actually wondering if this is a red herring. If I see them remove the PlexPass Lifetime subscription and then offer to let PlexPass users still opt out of the collection, then I know it is.

Doesn't Kodi have a Plex plugin? That should say something by itself about the quality of Kodi

Or, you know, just pi-hole their telemetry domain (metrics.plex.tv)

I've found that using a Pi-hole and adding the domains they're trying to call to the blacklist to be useful.