I would love to have the EFF chime in, but there are some protections for you as a host under the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) - or safe harbor provision in the USA.

As to how that has been tested legally on federated content, I don't know. Perhaps another elder of the internet can tell me how Usenet servers handle it.

This is an old post, but a feel-good post that makes me smile each time. I'm glad to see the statue is still there 7 years later (minus the brief theft).

What are you implying here? That @gabe should never have bothered with running a server? What about the server you are connected to right now? Should they shut down because of what may travel across it?

No.

They're protected under the same rules as somebody running a WiFi hotspot at a coffee shop. As long as they are doing everything within reason to be a good steward of their local network (which is what Gabe is doing) then they are protected.

Don't spring the bear trap!

I picked up an old Dell Optiplex tower and slapped 4 cheap 4 TB drives in it. Setup as RAID 5 I got 12 TB of "redundant" storage for cheap! Perfect spot to keep all the p0rn torrents.

But I used OpenMediaVault for that deployment. It's been OK.... but I kinda feel that I am missing out on some of the more active developments of other distributions.

Despite that, I would absolutely suggest grabbing an old office computer and throwing some drives into it for a home NAS.

What press? A competent school district would expect to operate the hardware for 2 or 3 years at most. And those tablets were nothing more than $200 Chromebooks with a touchscreen. Compared to textbook pricing they came out ahead.

Agreed. It seems like the "Hub" mode is just a fancy screensaver which is a placeholder for something more.

I do like the tablet but the "hub mode" is nothing more than a fancy charger with a speaker. I have to keep a Nest Mini next to it for my smart home things to work in that room when I take the tablet to another part of the house.

Did somebody just reinvent the Knork? https://youtu.be/pFG03EJOhcQ

If the trash panda hasn't taken them all, I'll take the mix pack with the Doritos and Cheeze It knockoffs....