As much as anyone could rely in the sticks on a service that requires relatively high bandwidth and where the "offline maps" are a joke (as in both reduced functionality and not possible to download even a large country). However surely I'm far ahead as much as prepping goes compared with most of the (multiple? many?) billions of GMaps users by having the whole world downloaded offline and ready to go in OSMAnd (they can be easily distributed and the app sideloaded offline to mostly any Android) and the whole continent in the (aged but functional) Here Maps. I have also the Wikipedia in all the major languages in Kiwix format (starting with the ~100GB English including pictures one, yes I still have a phone with a microSD card and I have a 1TB one).

I also have scheduled Google Takeout (although annoyingly you actually need to go and click and download it whenever it's ready) and they make quite nice jsons for the Location History but I doubt there is anywhere else I could use them easily to be worth the trouble. While there are always discussions about tracking, and tons of less than half baked apps the ones that are useful and usable are nearly non-existent. I'm literally waiting for 20 years now for a decent photo organizing software that has GOOD support for GPS tags and can handle your whole collection (not just show you a track from an album or just metadata for single pictures or something small like that). In fact we're kind of going backwards, Lightroom which was somehow usable (barely with a large collection, but let's say usable) has broken the Map module and the last workaround of a workaround isn't working anymore: https://github.com/astuder/lig... . We're talking about the last (mostly) offline Lightroom Classic, non-cloud, non-subscription, etc. (which is conveniently out of support too by now since a long time for sure).

I like the functionality and I used it many times, both to check the places visited at a particular time, or to confirm the date I've been here or there or to confirm this is where I want to go (GMaps has a very nicely integrated feature that just tells you for a particular place you've visited on these dates). I've been doing GPS logs since the days of Windows mobile 2003 and serial GPS pucks but there never was something just as useful and friction free as Google's implementation. Yes, I'm aware about NextCloud Maps and that I can save the data myself and that there are risks with Google (including some that didn't make the news yet and some I don't even imagine). I still want it. Oh, I'm using Gmail and Google Photos too, boo me.

Well given that this "standard" was "established in 2003 and revised in 2010" so it started when digital cameras and the format they're using were already at multiple generations, and it died ages ago in terms of "the entire point - the camera processors were weak" I'd say it should be irrelevant for any current decisions.

I've got multiple "Your PC could import the files from the camera storage and rename them appropriately while importing." answers already but they fail to capture both a less complex and a more complex workflow. Everything works very well when a single well organized person comes to the mothership PC/laptop and unloads all the time all the pictures from the camera and puts them through that single algorithm. It doesn't cover people that might not even own a PC (and you're getting pictures in bulk in them, sometimes even without EXIF), it doesn't cover you when you're on the go without a PC for a longer time and you're backing up your stuff to anything from a Digimate II (look it up if you don't know it, that was cool) to the latest iPhone with USB-C (saying that just to touch for sure 3 decades, of course one would use a cheap Android with microSD slot). It doesn't cover the paranoid workflow I actually do have, to not touch the pictures from the cards until I can compare them with the mounted very last backup in the chain of backups I have (this works even better with dual cards, where you compare the second card with the last backup).

Camera manufacturers really lost the train, and it's only half "the world" and being eaten by smartphones. The other half is entirely their doing. The super-premium RX100 Mark VII (that 7th generation, starting YEARS after the last revision of the discussed standard, 1300 $/EUR compact camera ...) for example will let you edit the first letters of the file name but there's no option to somehow auto-change them once the XXXX counter overflows, which is beyond annoying. We're talking about a camera that does 20 fps at full 20Mpixels, with auto-exposure and eye-tracking auto-focus in between! With WiFi, Bluetooth and so on ... but with microUSB! And that's not the USB you don't usually use as for other cameras but it's used for charging (no fast charging of any kind BTW).

"The file naming system on a standard digital system will repeat every so often" - and who's fault is that? Everyone who wasn't born yesterday knows this nonsense, even with the lastest cameras (or at least including from the last 5 years or so and going back to before Y2k).

There's nothing to silence, it's already open source on GitHub. Also they might not even be able to DMCA it because reverse engineering for interoperability is allowed. They could of course improve iDevice detection to make it useless if they care enough.

For that matter try to ask it about last 5 digits of 2^64. For me it gets it wrong. And then when asked for the last 10 it answers "The last 10 digits of 2^64 are 51,616.".

Yeah, that's just stupid policy, I mean sure some specific authentication methods like TOTP might go out of whack as they rely on precisely the code for that 30s interval but existing VPNs, with proper pubkey crypto shouldn't be affected in any way. Maybe if the clock is out by years or decades they might not accept a certificate as being in its validity range, but that's a different issue than the local clock drifting a little every day and week and month

You hit "reply" on the wrong post, I'm just answering the GP, who is ASSUMING the disk is unencrypted and then fiddling with this or that is more or less secure, when in fact everything is just widely open.

Nowadays you can get pawned by something that looks like a USB drive but it's emulating a keyboard, which you don't need to authorize in Windows, it "just works" when you plug it in and it runs whatever it's set to run by giving some sequence of keystrokes.

If you can see and edit files under Windows\system32\config (and in particular the SAM db) it's game over, local account or not. If your attack starts with the assumption "I can just boot anything and then do what I like to the main OS disk, which is unencrypted" there is no defense for that.

Actually I've been noticing it with grayjay (YES, YOU NEED TO CHECK IT OUT!) and I blamed it on anything from being on the wrong WiFi, local WiFi bandwidth being exhausted by some rsync, or the meager uplink being congested - but neither were extreme so I just shrugged.

In short, you will get it with NewPipe or anything else.

That won't help, as very often the offenders don't even have the rights to the IP (if there is any at all to speak of). One of the most outrageous examples was taking down NASAs transmission from Mars from their own official YouTube channel.

Just give them the penalty for perjury or similar, and actually follow through with real, serious, jail time. And no, it won't be a denial of service on the criminal justice system, it would literally take one case and little publicity to make sure this is radioactive enough so it isn't touched anymore "by mistake" (hundreds of thousands of times...).

Except that you won't be trusting your telekom provider(s) which are at least tangible and somehow regulated with your messages but whatever company Nothing Something subcontracted. Not a great plan!

In this hypothetical situation, how would you order an Internet access subscription for the PC without using a phone?

Maybe you just don't need one, especially if you want to somehow fly under the radar and you'd just use free wifi that you can find in tons of places nowadays? Or it might come as part of your lodging arrangements? Or of course as someone else answered already just over internet or in the shop.

WhatsApp is also mobile-only (and at first there wasn't even the web interface that went through your phone anyway) and there is no option to just close the program without signing out completely or uninstalling. None of the other IMs at the time, from Skype to really anything had this "anti-feature", but it also meant you could reach someone on Whatsapp as opposed to getting them on Skype whenever they feel like logging in, possibly months (!) later.