Pika

This is a sticky situation if you try to implement it. At best you temp hide it from the uncle, at worse you double down the ideology because of conspiracy theories and end up hurting your relationship with your uncle, plus Anything you can do locally he could find workarounds for if he wanted to, especially since his friends will know the sites still exist.

He would likely accuse you immediately though as the last person to touch the system is always the one at fault, and you are the one setting it up.

To answer the question though, you could edit the host file to block known propaganda networks(by directing them to invalid ip's which would make it look like its down) but, that setup is not very effective and unless you can block all of them, hes just going to find ways around it or alternatives, and this system likely wouldn't survive most current day browsers that are pushing secure DNS such as firefox since cloudflare is going to know how to access it still.

I still don't think it's a good idea though, too many things that could go wrong out of it, plus hard pushing an agenda has never been a good way at convincing someone their mentality isn't right, this will just re-enforce his mentality out of spite.

It's referencing the type of operation being done on the drive. A write operation being changing the information on the drive, a read operation being reading something from the drive. A write few read many indicates that most operations on the device are read operations/not changing the data on the device. Some examples of this would be a thumb drive being used for presentations or being used as a source to copy files to another system. These setups are fairly low write count when compared to read count. An example of a write many read many would be using the drive as a swap drive, or as an OS drive such as tails where the intent would be keeping the OS on the drive instead of just copying it to make the actual file system

Honestly, this vastly depends on the type of drive, and who made it. I have had cheap drives fail after 6-7 months of usage before but, that was because I was using it for external storage for an RPI so it was doing a lot of writes.

Using it for a write few read many style system(like bootable OS images via ventoy), I had had flash drives that have lasted 10+ years now. but I wouldn't recommend using them for anything that was super write heavy.

I'm in this same boat as well. As someone who ran an XMPP server in the past, then stopped and eventually moved onto Matrix. I have to hard agree, in my experiences, XMPP was so much better administration side than having to deal with matrix, and its quite a bit more fleshed out(not to mention the sheer amount of clients available) Being able to just log into a management panel and have the panel do everything administration wise for me was super nice, instead of having to ask "is this only available via the API or is it available via a client or is this config only", these types of tools from what I've seen don't really exist for matrix.

Honestly, I'm waiting for Wikipedia to just decide "this isn't worth it" and start banning countries that are trying to restrict it's usage. The organization is large and used enough that I feel that threat alone would usually suffice in at least causing a moment to think about if it's worth it. Especially considering the volunteer based system it is. This isn't a company that has a bunch of money to throw at changes and stuff. It's a non-profit that runs mostly on donations from it's peers.

Like I'm all for freedom of information and all but, I hard agree removing the anonymity of the platform will stifle the information on it more than just straight blocking the countries trying to overstep. Worst case scenario is that people will use some form of Proxy or VPN to access it afterwards if they really wanted to keep access.

Honestly valve mishandled this issue. This sounded like a solid opportunity to be like "Okay, AO and NSFW games are no longer able to be sold via third party merchants" and then disabled the ability on the payment page.

Like they already offer an ability to pay directly, just require funding to be from steam wallet, then the transaction records are only "add funds" or "wallet payment" or whatever they use for steam wallet funding. Or if it is just paypal, make it so it has to be a first(wallet) or a second(credit cards) party instead of a third party(paypal)

+1 to that. Consumables are always either missing or gone bad by the time you need them, I am trying to not fall for the "well this larger quantity is only 1$ more" instances because I lose that savings because it goes bad before usage!

this is dependent on the model. Like for example the s20 snapdragon US branch is unable to be unlocked period consumer side, you used to be able to pay someone to exploit it for you but that was patched out.

This is both my sister and mom. They will hard rush you every step of the way, and then it is always them that forgot something.

Delta airline is already using premium if not more prices, if anything I feel this network is going to bring the price /down/ because as is every time I look at their booking, I look up a different company right after lmao

sadly this is probably not the case if they are green-lighting the program. Unless it's showing more flights since they are offering cost effective tickets

they are also fading out physical gaming media as well. They started this a few years back(they sent the news down my old works intranet) but, was met with flak with covid when everyone wanted to game at home instead of go out with friends, but since life is normal again they resumed it. I didn't think they would be able to myself but I went to my local walmart the other day and sure enough they no longer have an XBOX section for video games, only their hardware and digital gaming card sections.

I disagree as it's still on topic and to do with the down vote button, but that's your merit, I can't see it ^^'

from my POV it only re-enforces my point that it's misused more than not and not a reliable metric to use, and the option to just not use them as a whole is there.