Unfortunately, that’s probably not gonna happen without some new hardware.

You could setup a wire guard at the router (can you setup tail scale on a router? idk). If she’s renting the ISP router, replacing that could save a 100+ a year, depending on how much the isp is scamming her for it.

or you could repurpose a minipc/nuc from bay and set up a jellyfin streaming box with tailscale.

If you have the extra hardware, you could also setup a local server with her jellyfin and use wiregaurd/tailscale to remotely connect to it and run backup/sync during off-hours.

The scariest part about this is realizing there was less time between 1985 to 2005 then there is from 2005 to now (2026).

Arch is a challenge, be prepared to spend more time learning and tinkering than using your computer for the first few months (and forever). It’s not impossible, but you will most likely have to reinstall a few times as you learn. If thats what you enjoy, great. Go for a distro made for the lay person like Mint or Bazzite. There’s a backup program called Timeshift, it will replace windows snapshots and can help you recover from mistakes without having to start over.

If you put your home drive on a separate partition/drive it will be easier to distro hop as you try different ones. Still, make sure your data is backed up, ideally put the backup on an external drive that you can unplug while installing new a OS.

Well, there’s a big difference between “knowing” something and knowing something (i.e proof your intuition is right).

Because what Bamboo has done is screw over existing customers. People want their printers back to the way they baught it. They shouldn’t have to throw their printers in the trash because the manufacture decided to changed the conditions.

If you buy a car with heated seats and 3 years later, the manufacture decided to disable your heated seats unless you paid a subscription, you’d be pretty upset.

For when I need Chrome, I use Vivaldi. Its probably over bloated for what I need, but it works.

Only 1 camera? That’s so last decade.

Yes, sell the card for a fraction of the value, and buy a new one at full price. After that, we can tell the person that bought it, it’s their fault for buying a nvidia card.

We should make cars with same break as the saw stop.

It’ll be fun to watch.

Hey, what’s the point if it’s blackout inducing? That’s what I’m trying to stop!

Not as bad as seeing “Zolo” in the wild

I mean…if it stops the exploitation of the “stars”, that’s a net positive. There’s some horror stories out there.

Launch took them all with her when she disappeared.

Someone will probably find a massive vulnerability that affects every version of windows, because why not?

Accountable advertisers? In this economy?

Its gonna have to be case specific. -which as you said, is why it’s not so easy to make law.

If a Taylor Swift doppelganger started claiming to be Taylor Swift and making a scene, then sure the real one should be able to shut that down.

If the doppelganger started her own music career with her own name and music, then Taylor Swift can’t do shit.

If the doppelganger is somehow artificially created (computer generated or elaborate makeup/costume) than it does not have the same rights, and can be shutdown (unless its falls into the parody category, but even then it should be obviously not real).

Great, the phone will be charged and my pockets will be warm.

I agree, if an IP is abandoned then someone else should be allowed to do something with it.

For this post I was talking about the game that was already made and distributed, not just the idea or characters.

I’ll use Mario Kart 1 for example, if Nintendo doesn’t sell that game anymore, then the game is made publicly available.

If the IP is still in use that A) doesn’t exclude Mario Kart 1 form becoming available, B) doesn’t allow competitors to sell modern Mario Kart games (trademark) and C) prevents someone from taking a 30 year old game and just reselling it on their store.

IPs are much more messy to handle, as it’s less a final product and more of a concept. Creative rights should stay with the creative people not a publisher.

If Nintendo decides to drop Mario, but the actual creator of Mario still wants to work with a different publisher, they should be able to do that before the IP becomes freely available for anyone to take over.

I like it. If the publisher no longer sells/supports the full game as purchased, then they no longer to get to complain about people pirating it.

I don’t like instantly throwing it public domain, that’s the wrong license to use. I think Creative Common CC BY-NC-SA would be more appropriate. (Credit the original, no commercial use, and any modified/redistributed version must follow same license).

This will prevent xbox from taking all the old PlayStation games, stealing an emulator, and selling them under game pass to people that don’t know those games are freely available.

I’d also add the game must be available as an individual 1-time purchase. If it’s only available as a bundle or subscription service (like game pass), that doesn’t count.

Nah, but if never stop talking about the absurdity of it all, we’ll start to think it’s the way things should be.