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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • That seems legit to me.

    DRM content is usually encrypted and only decrypted through some proprietary plugins, so you have to agree to use these plugins if you want to watch these videos.

    This is the same mechanism that Netflix and Disney+ use and it helps them by not letting you download movies to your computer.









  • Take a look at the IODD ST400.

    It’s a hardware solution to your problem: you put multiple isos on an ssd, plug your ssd into the ST400, then plug the ST400 into the computer you want to live boot from (through USB).

    From the ST400 you can quickly swap the active ISO, and it acts like a virtual DVD drive to the target computer, and you’re basically ejecting and inserting a new DVD every time you do so.

    You can also mount it for RW operations (ie. for inserting new ISOs without having to remove the SSD), for which it acts like a regular usb disk - but I recommend using it usually in RO mode to avoid data corruption.

    It’s not that user friendly, but once you get used to it, it’s a perfect multiboot tool to have in your belt.



  • Not that OVH’s reputation was much higher to begin with.

    They had another fire in a different datacenter in Germany I believe, going back about 3 years, in which the business I was working for had lost only emails but was also renting a dedicated server with them in a different datacenter.

    Looking at how they handled the situation (slow response times, not offering us space in a different datacenter to at least keep receiving emails), plus after constantly experiencing IO slowdowns in their “Performance” web hosting pack (in 2 out of 3 different hosting packs), our business (and me too, personally) changed providers in the coming months for basically everything.

    I suppose that was the right choice.

    The only thing I didn’t care to switch was DNS, but this last event makes me think whether I should also switch DNS providers.

    Edit: I just realized that this post is NOT today years old but was actually the event that I had experienced.

    Whatever… I guess I’m gonna leave my experience over here anyways.