Well it sucks that I can’t handle the entire thing without getting rid of stuff, but at least I can grab a few tbs of the ones that need seeders the most.
Horrifying that this even needs to be a thing, but I’m glad there are folks out there doing it.
Global population? Iirc it was around 70k years ago that something (or some combination of things) nearly wiped out all of our ancestors, down to a few thousand. I believe that was initially thought to be an event started by volcanic eruption, but other data contradicts that (or at least points to it not being the only problem).
Smaller scale? The great plague was only a few hundred years ago, that was 100k people pretty localized. Same with Marseilles a few decades later. A few decades after that was a plague in Moscow, twice the toll. Late 1800s was another Russian flu, with a million casualties.
Covid we were able to have enough people not be morons about to not completely (or near totally) wipe us out, but there was also competent leadership after it began (but not early on).
Then now we’ve got bird flu, mpox, not to mention the ridiculously stupid returns of polio and measles.
I’m not a historian or expert in infectious diseases, FWIW, just noting that there have been some bad times for the general population both small and large scale over time.
Please dont bend and pinch your cables. Make a loop as shown in the bottom middle.
Add a piece of string to tie it.
And no zip ties. Zip ties are for attaching cables to other things, and should never be tightened fully.
Tiny/mini/micro.
You can grab a used box for under $200. Most I’ve picked up have been around $100-$125, then I drop in a new m.2 for the host, maybe add/change ram depending on what I got it with.
Data lives on the NAS (really multiple for me, but besides the point here), and you’ll get waaaayyyyy more compute with a usff PC like that than you will with a pi or what a NAS can offer. They also run really light on power when you aren’t putting the CPU to work, so budget friendly in a bunch of ways.
I’ve got a goal after a move my wife and I are planning to run the whole shebang on solar, with battery and a switch to utility power. I’ve got 10 of these little monsters now, after a recent addition, and its quite doable from my measurements of actual power usage.
Which is a really long way of saying you may want to look at some tiny/mini/micro PCs.
Unfortunately they also go out of date pretty quickly.
OSM is a great option, and you can host it yourself.
Honestly nothing needs to be pirated really, you can find some great stuff on YouTube. Many of the programs are all the same stuff in different wrappings, so find a program you like and go for it.
For weight training, check out MidasMVMT (videos on YouTube, full programs on his website, all free).
For yoga/pilates, you may like Ashley Freeman and Saturno Movement.
If you want to keep them for your local media server, yt-dlp and off to the races. You’ll also find some weightlifting, cardio, and general fitness communities here on Lemmy with great information as well.
The reason you didnt list, but is the most likely answer in my experience - by spamming the user who was compromised, they will miss the orders placed using their account info, or the password reset, or other such emails.
You aren’t the target so much as the distraction tool for their other efforts.