You got several TLDRs

Here’s a longer play by play, with most of the details, if your interested:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-drama-explained/

I had call recording on my Samsung devices for years, up until the beginning of last year when they broke all the third party recording apps…

It would be really nice to have that back.

…also if GoFundMe takes a page down, what happens to the funds already donated?

Automatic refunds. Something something ‘donor protection program’… That’s also in their terms.

/edit:

People who contribute to these accounts won’t lose their money—GoFundMe’s giving guarantee ensures donors a full refund in case of misuse or other problems with a fundraiser.

GoFundMe’s terms and conditions, however, are pretty clear. Users agree they will not use the platform for, among other things “the legal defense of financial and violent crimes, including those related to money laundering, murder, robbery, assault, battery, sex crimes, or crimes against minors.”

(S)

https://www.fastcompany.com/91243533/luigi-mangione-gofundme-campaigns-suspected-ceo-shooter-removed

Pulled off the site by GoFundMe.

Santa is real; he comes to your bedroom to give you wishes and take your soul…

I think I spelled that right…

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

At that age; magic does exist.

Lots of suggestions for MKVToolNix, but I prefer automated solutions:

Tdarr is a highly configurable automated conversion tool. You can use it to just remove extra video audio or subtitle streams, change containers, transcode streams into different codecs, or all of the above.

I’ve got it set to automatically convert all media that gets added to my libraries into hevc/mkv while stripping out extra audio/subtitle tracks. This leaves me with less clutter and 30-40% smaller file sizes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZXT

Bit[dot]ly

Is an obvious clue. Companies/Entities like USPS don’t use 3rd party url shorteners…

If you want and have somewhere to store it.

I’m not all that concerned about the media drives; I don’t have a spare 30tb to stuff that backup in, and that can be re-acquired if push comes to shove. I tend to just backup metadata + server config/database files along with everything in /home, /root, and /var.

As a note: while UDP is preferable for stability/power usage, UDP VPN traffic is often blocked by corporate firewalls (work, public free wifi, etc) and won’t connect at all. I run OpenVPN using TCP on a standard port like 80/443/22/etc to get through this, disguised as any other TLS connection.

I run nightly archiving backups using Borg Backup.

It’s compression + de-duplication algorithms have me able to store 18 historical backups of about 422gb ea, in only 367gb of disk space.

That then gets mirrored to a cold storage drive manually every few months.

Seems to be a tool for taking an image and Geo-locating it, even in cases where other sources of data like Googles street map cars are insufficient.