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    @DownPW said in From VPN to Spyware: The FreeVPN.One Chronicles: With rare exceptions, if it’s free, either you’re the product or it’s no good Yeah, you got that right!
  • Virgin Media Pricing

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    @phenomlab some good savings there Mark. I’ll post mine once my new deal changes over.
  • Why Forums Are Still Relevant in 2024

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    @JAC wow. Thanks for the great comments. They are truly appreciated. I tend to agree with the social media comments you’ve made. This is made all the more prominent in relation to recent events in Southport for example, and toxicity is a huge issue. Just look at some of the comments from trolls - they are truly disgusting, and the perpetrators seem to take great delight in the anonymity the Internet affords them. forums in general are much more subject focused, easier to moderate and users are less likely to be banned because they are there for a specific interest or reason, not to cause trouble. Agreed, although discussions can still get out of hand and quite often, these are left to run riot and quickly spiral out of control. A great example of that is here https://sudonix.org/topic/141/how-to-destroy-a-community-before-it-s-even-built there’s something much more calming about coming to a specific page at your fancy, posting and taking part in healthy debates over the real mishmash of social media. Yes, I personally prefer the atmosphere of a forum against the backdrop of unwanted noise via social media.
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    See enclosed article from Sky News https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-largest-botnet-taken-down-as-alleged-chinese-mastermind-arrested-and-29m-in-cryptocurrency-seized-13145394
  • Recall to take screenshots every 2 seconds

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    Updated, but still a privacy nightmare https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3xjrj7v78o
  • Goodbye OnePlus, hello Samsung

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    @phenomlab yeah and that makes sense. I wish I would have noticed it before i wiped the old phone and packaged it up to send back. Then I could have tried a different method for transferring the data. Oh well, ya live and ya learn I guess
  • Linux vs Windows - who wins ?

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    @phenomlab LOL ah yes, I remember all of that. The good ole days!
  • what is the reason for choosing node BB over flarum?

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    @jac @Hari my thoughts around this are that with any platform - be that WordPress, Flarum, or NodeBB, there is an inevitable “lock in” - very much like Hotel California (“you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”). What I mean by this is that you are buying into an ecosystem that offers no easy or readily available path out. If you plan to stay for the long term and there is a clear progression path from that project meaning it’s a viable route, then great. However, all of these platforms (except WordPress perhaps) have a way of ingesting data from other sources, but little to no way at all of taking that data somewhere else. This is nothing against any of those platforms, but the fundamental issue here is that whilst it’s probably easy to move into another product, it’s a different story altogether when you want to leave and take your data with you. Most FOSS based platforms can realise this and make money out of migrations. I know for certain that wpForo does this, and I also know that it’s something that one of the developers at Flarum has been touting for some time.