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"After some investigating, I found that the Chrome default settings had been altered so that something called "naviwithus" was the actual search engine, and opening a new tab actually brought up something called "UpSearches" rather than Google. I did a quick Bing search and saw that UpSearches is flagged as a virus software. My repulsion at these settings turned to disgust when I found that attempting to change these defaults didn't do anything; the original defaults would just come back. I even uninstalled Google Chrome and reinstalled it, but the defaults remained. "
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File permissions are also all sorts of farked up. Just flash your own drive and install from your own iso.
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also, they own all the data you store on their drives. go ahead, read through their disclaimers, I'll wait. Same goes for all other storage providers.
"We do not claim ownership in any of your content, including any text, data, information, and files that you upload, share, or store in your Drive account"
wow that's like exactly the opposite of what you claimed. right at the top of the page too.
"We do not claim ownership in any of your content, including any text, data, information, and files that you upload, share, or store in your Drive account"
wow that's like exactly the opposite of what you claimed. right at the top of the page too.
This has significantly more horsepower.
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Single thread performance is way better than the N100 and it supports up to 64GB of RAM, so you can put together a pretty beefy setup for things like Proxmox running tons of VMs.
As for NICs, the one I picked up has 4x Intel i226 Ethernet ports all running at 2.5Gb, so it avoids some of the issues and configuration quirks that are required with the i225-v.
Also, a lot of these mini PCs with multiple NICs have trouble with sustained throughput on concurrent connections, so they can hit a wall if, for instance, you have fiber internet.
So they all suck, but there are ways to mitigate risk and by installing the OS FRESH you know there are no 3rd party changes to the image. Personally I don't use Windows anymore but for those who do, take the precaution so that only Microsoft is scooping up all your data.
It comes up when searching "mini firewall Pentium Gold 8505" and it has a blue chassis with active cooling.
Apparently they're now offering the same configuration with a 7505 for $20 less, which might be worth it if you're only going to run it as a router.
Additionally, the same configuration is offered with i3, i5, and i7 11th gen processors if you want more power. But the i7 configuration is $300, which starts to put it more in line with the refurbished Dell desktops that are always up for sale.
also, they own all the data you store on their drives. go ahead, read through their disclaimers, I'll wait. Same goes for all other storage providers.
There's a reason researchers don't trust their services. When you're working on something that takes years of your life, you don't trust companies that may have an interest in "using" your data. imagine a company catches a whiff and patents your ideas.
But I'm guessing you're not the kind of person who will ever need to worry about this. Probably not worried about having ideas worth stealing either.
edit: didn't even know this wasn't the original commenter. this joke keeps writing itself
Patent Trolls found out how to use all of this to their huge advantage, as did the mega-IP lawsuits involving conflicts like the Apple-Samsung imbroglio over appearance patents after the legal criteria for determining infringement were changed in 2007. Now there have been a bunch of decisions in the last decade, and the ever-changing landscape is why IP Lawyers can do VERY well.
But this is not just alarmism by the poster. My wife and I had trouble having children, and then a reproductive health practice determined it was in part due to her missing part of the X-chromosone. If a male fetus gets that, they will die right around the end of the first trimester, and my wife almost bled to death from the resulting miscarraige.
We were still trying, and back when I was a dual Biology/Chemistry major a required course on proper research techniques, citations, ad naseum. That was old school, as in no internet as we know it. Dial-up modems and Mosaic. Journals, interlibrary loans, the earliest word processors, etc. So I sat down, and combined getting access to the University of Louisville Medical School system, plus the internet, and the locus of the missing genes, to track down the four cutting edge researchers working on it.
Only one was small enough to even bother responding, and he wanted to know how I found him. He was very nice, and offered if we could get to him early in the next pregnancy (she was already pregnant again and we got lucky and have a wonderful teenage son - yes that's oxymoronic) he would make a custom test up for her. DNA sequencing was still EXPENSIVE. I explained the publications and research that had led me to him, and when I asked if he would like me to post some reviews, he pleaded for me not too.
He stated large companies will wait until the research leading to a marketable product is completed, swoop in with a poor or mediocre patent that they can venue shop into a lawsuit, and then proceed to drag in on until the smaller company goes bankrupt. Sometimes these predatory companies will use the lawsuit and bankruptcy to pick up the original patent from the now bankrupt small company at a bargtain. The researcher who had offered to help us was trying to stay under their radar as long as possible. Patent trolls are simply private equity or unscrupulous lawyers (or both) exploiting those same loopholes that large corporations have created via lobbying and legal cases.
Look up the entire BRCA oncogene testing fiasco. It took close to a decade to get the bad patent overturned, and many women did not get tested for that gene associated with early onset very aggressive breast cancers, because the patent was used to stop other companies and let them ridiculously overprice it. Or look up the overly broad Harvard patent on any transplanted oncogene into any mammal. They locked up research into cancer for nearly two decades.
When my FAA job was contracted out to Lockheed-Martin, one of the requirements was signing a waiver stating that any IP I developed in ANY area of business of Lockheed-Martin was their property, and since the only areas I MIGHT know enough to develop a patentable IP are Aviation, Programming, Biology, or Chemistry - that would have been ANYTHING I did. In fact it acknowledged that on my death my estate, and anyone inheriting from me, had to notify Lockheed-Martin of this if any IP was involved.
I ended up not signing it due to glitches in the contracting out process. But it was eye-opening. So it's been going on for decades, and gotten worse. There are indications that Google has copyrighted ideas that people searched, and since Google had no other connection to that area, there was probably some kind of data-mining of searches being done by Google for that express purpose. There just been an appeal to the 9th Circuit, that that if you let your car have access to your phone to make just one phone call, not only can it download your contacts but all of your call history.
You cannot compel these companies to then delete any of it, ditto for if you give it access one time for one text because you are expecting something really important. You can revoke privileges afterwards, but the software company and the auto manufacturer get to keep all your retained text data up to that point (it was downloaded the first time you gave it permission) your shut down the permissions.
As Richard Nixon proved, just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...
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