Free now isn't free forever. If something has inherent value then folks will be willing to pay for it.

Well, if they suddenly changed the license, we'd get a new Redis --> Valkey situation. Or even more recently, look at minio no longer maintaining their core open source project!

If you dismiss and respond something like "proceed" it resumes. Takes a fair while to actually run out of usage.

There would be so much subjectivity to this. I like the idea but executing in a reliable, repeatable way would be very challenging imo.

I'm in the same boat as you, even with a botched migration about 12-14 years ago and am really passionate about this stance. I've lately been getting further enjoyment from thrifting CDs and ripping FLAC upgraded tracks to my library, overwriting old 128kb/s fuzz. Actually have been at this for about 3 years now and around 1200 ripped. I try now to only listen to those albums + bandcamp, etc purchases where possible.

FYI the ticketing time is showing incorrectly out of Pacific time, e.g. here in Eastern all recent activity shows as 3 hours ago. Not a big deal as almost all users would be in Pacific, but wanted to mention.

Great work though, this is rad.

Safety and privacy are so closely linked for this usage to be feasible, especially with how available and identifiable anonymised data can be.

This is mentioned in the link.

The headline makes this out to be deception by Seagate but the article reads as if it's just one shady, but approved distributor who's sneaking these out as new drives.

I thought that part was unclear, too. This seems to be a particularly big issue on Amazon in Europe. So much so that certain NAS communities, like r/synology recommend to avoid Amazon for HDD purchases.