Honestly there are so many ways pdfs can hold unique information that retaining the same format is probably not going to work.

The 2 options I suggest are . . .

1. Use a tool to extra the text into a plain text fromat then paste it into word along with screen shots of any images you need.
2. You could try converting each page to a JPG image using something like Gimp. You could then desaturate it or convert it to pure black and white so it reveals any hidden text which you can paint over. If you want the images in colour just crop them out from the original file and paste into the new b&w copy. This is a crap description but hopefully it makes the point.

I thought the EU said that Google and apple have to permit other app stores? If that is the case they’d have to allow side loading in effect.

My torrenting level is very casual and (sry) I only leech. Also my ISP is a small one in the UK. Our Government seems to only force the big ISP to tattle on its users and block pirating sites. At least that’s how it has been for the last 10 years.

I have qbittorrent and Plex on my server. It is tempting to setup a VPN just for qbittorrent just to be sure.

Using FTP (I assume you mean SFTP) will buy you some performance, as would other protocols that are faster and requiring less compute than SMB.

I predict whatever solution you use will only buy you time. Usage is bound to increase so you’ll still hit the performance limits for the hardware platform at some point, unless you can constrain the simultaneous connections. File sizes will impact scalability a lot as well.

You can’t guess this one. You need to test.

tl;dr - I suspect you can’t win.

You know, there was a much shorter range version of this that was predominantly used in offices and college computer rooms. It was called FrisbeeNet.

Damn it. Beat me to it. I’ll be first ext time.

I’m at the point of looking to pay for a good usenet service. I’ll definitely probably start looking next week.

Not ONE government, but I’d accept something that lots of governments sign up to and share responsibility for. E.g. funding and making sure it is not giving any one country preferential treatment.

Indeed. Needs to be run by an independent non-profit organisation.

There needs to be a registry service that allows people to show they have a license for any digital media we purchase.

It is actually how my teenage daughter avoids calls with me, and only uses IM, when she is out with her friends.

Definitely. Got to be something that will come up.

I wondered what was going on when Steam said Counter-Striker 2 successfully updated.

They go for good prices on eBay.

Boot Drive could be immutable and not contain any form of log?

Also confirmed.

In some cases the cow has died and they are trying milk the ground where there the cow stood.

In some cases the cow has died and they are trying milk the ground where there the cow stood.

You monster!

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