Why wouldn’t it be possible?
The phone is providing the client app connection, you just need an interface from the client to the POTS system, or just the hardware you’re using as a phone.
Years ago I had a cordless phone that connected to the Skype client on a pc - you could call a phone number, or a Skype contact with it.
This is no different - you just need to establish the interface between the hardware and software.
might need to respawn
Haha, dammit I snorted. Fine, enjoy the upvote
Ah hell, I don’t know anything about it, but figured I’d go ahead and download it to watch later.
The violation they target users for is sharing a video, and that’s usually through a file sharing service like torrenting.
Think of it this way - whatever you watch online via a browser you’re already downloading. Or via an app.
You know, it really tweaks me that torrenting is associates with piracy, when it could’ve become the defacto way to share files between users, if OS devs had just included the protocol in the OS (looking at you Android, but Windows and Apple too).
I’ve often questioned why it wasn’t…
I do think it’s target audience was kids. I had a younger family member (about 12) introduce me to it at the time. I got a kick out of the gameplay and styles. It was sort of a spoof of a 90’s video game (name I can’t recall) with a common theme then - sort of over-the-top, “we’re both in on the joke” kind of thing.
I’m sure they will. It’s always a cat-and-mouse game.
It’s been a while since I read about DRM, but what I recall the challenge is not being able to control end-to-end, which is what really drives trusted boot efforts in both Android and Windows.
If you don’t control the hardware and OS, then someone can use it to sidestep DRM.
Oh, I get what they’re doing, but I resent their approach.
So many just introduced the subscription to sucker the naive.
I don’t mind paying for software. So let me pay for a major version, and if I want a major update, that costs too. I have so much software where a given version works just fine (FolderSync for example, and Office 2016),that I see no need to upgrade.
It was about being fun, not to be a serious game, so approach it that way. It has a bit of silliness.
Remember it came out around the time the Austin Powers movies were a big hit.
Which one? 😁
Are you looking for selective sync, and just over the LAN or over the internet too?
If just LAN, there’s many Windows sync tools for this with varying levels of complexity and capability. Even just a simple batch file with a copy command.
I’ll often just setup a Robocopy job for something that’s a regular sync.
If you open files over a network connection, they stay remote and remain remote when you save. Though this isn’t best practice (Windows and apps are known for having hiccups with remotely opened files).
Two other approaches:
ResilioSync enables selective sync. If you change a file you’ve synchronized locally, the changed file will sync back to the source.
Mesh network such as Wireguard, Tailscale, Hamachi. Each enables you to maintain an encrypted connection between your devices that the system sees as a LAN (with encryption). If you’re only using Windows, I’d recommend starting with Hamachi, it’s easier to get started. If mobile device support is needed, use Wireguard or Tailscale (Tailscale uses Wireguard, but easier to setup).
Policy doesn’t count for anything. So what if they claim they won’t sell data about you? They still can, and companies do.
Or they sell the entire company, like 23AndMe just did.
Ah, yes, another person who goes through life smelling like ass and foisting their stench on the rest of us.
Deodorant isn’t Axe, but nice strawman.
I feel like this would do better in Dad Jokes
Me too
I don’t believe the ISP would have legal standing to take you to court, as they don’t hold the copyright.
They’re in the middle, being told hy copyright holders that someone using their service is violating copyright, and they must “do something”.
Eventually they may shut off your service, but I haven’t heard of it happening since the early 2000’s.
I refuse to subscribe to apps. Devs doing so for no good reason get 1 star, and I delete the app.
Screw em.
Now, if an app has a back end, or has to host a resolver (Resilio Sync, Tailscale, etc), or provide other necessary services, that’s different.
Anything in a can is not going to be good for us
Self-centered? Hahahahaha
While it’s the extroverts that never “shut their pihole”.
FFS, being self-centered (in the selfish sense) occurs in both groups/all along the spectrum.
What maroon wrote this drivel?
Even better, email the school with a well-referenced correction.
Scans for open ports run continuously these days.
Ten years ago I opened a port for something for a couple days - for months after that I was getting regular scans against that port (and others).
At one point the scans were so constant it was killing my internet performance (poor little consumer router had no defense capability).
I don’t think the scans ever fully stopped until I moved. Whoever has that IP now probably gets specifically scanned on occasion.
And just because you don’t run a business doesn’t mean you have nothing to lose.
DMZ should be enough… But routers have known flaws, so I’d be sure to verify whatever I’m using.