The keyword here is “modern”. Some people use older hardware, like DVRs with ancient firmwares.

Most people, nowadays, use cloud services instead of USB sticks, so I guess it’s preferred to focus on supporting legacy devices.

The real problem may be external hard drives. Those are commonly used by media creators. Unless they know that they should format to exFAT when buying, they will learn it when it’s way too late.

I may be on the later category. It was ~15 years ago, and little Jimmy (me) got his first external hard drive. However, he didn’t know about formats, and that he couldn’t copy 4.5GB movies to his new toy.

Back then, it was either 4GB file size limit (FAT32), or it only works on one platform (NTFS, ext2, whatever Apple was using, …)

They said National Geographic, not Discovery Channel

You could theoretically host a Piped API instance, and use it to get channel info. I guess you are already using your own SSL certificates, judging by what you are trying to accomplish.

This is the Piped org btw: https://github.com/TeamPiped

It is a YouTube frontend/proxy.

Edit: I made a post on Piped’s community, so we can discuss it there: https://discuss.online/post/16448014

At least they cens0r€d their username

We trust our medical records to insurance companies, that hire big consulting firms, that don’t know how to protect data or promote affiliate services. I love this world.

I work in another big4 company, and I have a strong feeling that your claims apply to us as well.

It’s funny though that before joining the company, employees are forced to sign some documents about anti-corruption policies.

I don’t understand this mindset.

In open source, both malicious actors and contributors will try to find problems.

In closed source, the development team is paid by hour (and probably don’t care about the product quality) and the only motivated people to find real issues are malicious actors.

But people still consider closed source safer.

Tin-foil hat on. So, with CCP/GSP, secret agencies are free to find backdoors on the system.

I didn’t know about those programs. I thought the Windows source code is kept secret from everyone.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyvwacFNPxc

That smokescreen argument makes a lot of sense. Both the company and our clients, tend to opt for ready out-of-the-box proprietary solutions, instead of taking responsibility of the maintenance.

It doesn’t matter how bad or limiting that proprietary option is. As long as it somewhat fits our scenario and requires less code, it’s fine.

Pinky promise

I got pooped by a bird just 5 hours after 2025 came

I remember watching a video from Linus demonstrating a WiFi router. I don’t remember if it was WiFi 6 or 7, but any obstacle could cause connection drops.

I don’t know if things have improved since then, but I usually bond WiFi and PowerLine for rooms that Ethernet cannot reach.

WireGuard supports mesh as well, but it requires to manually configure all the keys and all the IPs on all devices.

There is wgsd, which supposedly makes WireGuard mesh networking easier, but I haven’t tried it.

Is this like Tailscale? Maybe closer to Headscale, as tinc seems to be completely self hosted.

I think the OP is looking for a decentralized alternative to something like Nord/Express/Mullvad to hide their traffic, and not a way to connect their devices together.

I have Signal and microG with push notifications. Signal still uses websocket on my device. So, I guess it would be fine without microG push.

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1598