No, power on/off is much worse for components than running due to the transients involved.

Windows is my daily driver and all my PCs run 24/7/52 unless they’re sleeping while I commute with them 🤷‍♂️

(I also run Linux, BSD, and macOS.)

True, but if server owner pulls the plug, all the content you have there is gone. They can also unilaterally delete your posts.

I guess my point is ownership isn’t as important as control.

SoundCloud vapes content and entire accounts all the time.

No reason given?

Mine is fully backed up.

Lol no. That said, I’m on Threads too so whatevs.

A Texas independence would not only violate the Constitution, it would sink the GOP in the remaining states due to the loss of Texas’ electoral votes, thus ensuring a Republican president would never be elected again. This is the biggest reason Texas will never secede, regardless of the state’s conservative nativism.

Each instance has complete control over what is posted on it. The only way to truly own your posts is to set up your own instance and interact only with communities on it.

I doubt the president who lives on the internet & relies on it to connect with his superfans would disable it.

Yeah I’ve done that before.

I can’t imagine any law that would preclude the status quo, as Microsoft doesn’t own a controlling stake in OpenAI anyway. It sounds like the FTC is picking its targets based on market cap only.

The FTC tried & failed. They’ll most likely fail here too. It’s tough for courts to rule against what the FTC sees as unfair competition when even the judges are likely Amazon Prime & Big 3 ecosystem subscribers.

what’s my best bet for a set & forget situation?

Deploy WingetUI and set it to automatically update everything as administrator. The nice thing about this solution is it scales to whatever 3rd party apps the user installs in the future.

It’s about as close as you’ll get to Debian’s venerable automatic-upgrades on Windows.

That’s classic British humor.

You don’t have to go looking for evidence, but I think you’re within your rights to ban any underage interactors you know of.

Research: it still exists.

I use Termux + Tasker for this exact functionality. I can provide the scripts and setup to anyone who’s interested.

I used to subscribe to this blog. The takes were so bad I’d deliberately share the links the author was railing against.

To no one’s surprise.

Great news for folks in Jamaica where I’m from. Pretty common there.