drnick1

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by drnick1 5d ago
> Given a choice, would most people prefer a Lenovo/PC or an Apple product? I certainly would, because I demand Linux on all my computers. I can't stand the idea of being forced to sacrifice x% of my disk for things like "
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by drnick1 5d ago
Why not an old school case with an HDD cage that can hold anywhere between a few and a dozen drives? It would be cheaper and more flexible.
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by drnick1 6d ago
> So the NAS runs Kubuntu 24.04 with ZFS My experience is similar. I no longer use dedicated NAS, firewall, or other exotic distributions. I run plain Debian, and add what I need through standard repo packages. My "NAS" is simp
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by drnick1 6d ago
> How much do you know about Graphene? Enough to know that it is as fingerprintable as any other phone. Disabling Javascript JIT will not change that.
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by drnick1 6d ago
The easiest off-the-shelf option would be a router running OpenWrt. IIRC, it natively uses dnsmasq, and the relevant blacklists can be obtained from here: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists My own setup is DIY: a
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by drnick1 6d ago
My DNS server (which uses Hagezi's excellent blacklists) returns NXDOMAIN for bzr.openai.com. Serves OpenAI right.
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by drnick1 6d ago
An would always be wrong here, in the U.S. at least.
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by drnick1 6d ago
This is governed by the following word. "Thee" can also be used for emphasis anywhere.
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by drnick1 7d ago
And this is why you should always carry while hiking. That being said, the primary reason is two-legged predators.
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by drnick1 7d ago
OsmAnd does have live navigation as far as I understand it (turn-by-turn directions), but no live traffic status, because for that you a lot of drivers willing to surrender their location/sensor data. Anything "live" cannot b
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by drnick1 7d ago
There is no such thing as extreme privacy; it isn't something any phone can provide, especially if you are going to rely on third party software and services like email and instant messengers where the likes of Google and Facebook are
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by drnick1 7d ago
This. Also, use OSM for maps and run your own SMTP server, if you can. Nobody should need Google.
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by drnick1 7d ago
Pixel a-series with GrapheneOS is already the "minimal phone" for hackers: cheap, reasonably small, hardened OS without Google spyware and bloatware. Compatibility with Android is fully retained so you can run things like Wireguar
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by drnick1 7d ago
Same thing here, I use Graphene for the sake of user control. All the security features and hardening of the Pixel phones and of the OS are good to have, but they not the main reason.
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by drnick1 7d ago
Some of us have been using it for two decades more or less.
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by drnick1 8d ago
Yes, sure, let's pretend we are back in 1995 and write C by hand on a beige Pentium tower.
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by drnick1 8d ago
When is a PDF not sufficient? I write all my reports/letters in LaTeX and if someone complained about receiving a PDF, I would send them the source and wish them good luck.
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by drnick1 9d ago
> Containment worked WAY WAY better than "doing something about it" and surrendering the strait to them. We haven't surrendered anything to them. It's an open secret that the U.S. has been moving oil out of the Strait
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by drnick1 9d ago
> What's you point? Not the OP, but the point is that decentralized infrastructure is a lot more resilient to attacks of any kind.
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by drnick1 10d ago
If Apple open sourced its drivers this issue wouldn't exist. AI at last gives the "community" a chance to use the hardware they bought the way they want. It's unreasonable to expect anybody to code this kind of stuff &qu
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by drnick1 11d ago
> Iran has shown how utterly pointless and ineffective these expensive weapons are. Make no mistake, the US has exercised incredible restraint when it comes to Iran. If it wanted to, they would be nothing left of Iran at all.
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by drnick1 12d ago
> Just allow monero payments or something. This is the right solution. A one-time payment in crypto, say $5, ought to be enough to prevent spam. That being said, Signal has demonstrated (when presented a warrant) that they do not store p
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by drnick1 12d ago
It seems like this is not enough: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/simpler-solution-for-dis... The most reliable way to permanently silence the cellular modem is to pull the relevant fuse. In the above case, this al
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by drnick1 13d ago
> turn off remote access services, dig through the infotainment to turn off what I could This is never enough. You can't trust a software switch. You need to remove the hardware capability if you want to make sure the car isn't
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by drnick1 13d ago
> You can do stuff like like turn it on to heat or cool the cabin, live track it's location, lock/unlock doors, open/close trunk, and updates are mostly for the infotainment systemn and driving assists. Are any of those th
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by drnick1 13d ago
If you want true, verifiable privacy and control, it's not an Apple TV that you need. Any old laptop or desktop computer can be used to stream content from the Internet using a Web browser or other "apps."
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by drnick1 13d ago
> I think it depends on the device. If I buy an iPhone, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that necessarily involves a relationship with the app store provider (ie. Apple) I bought my Pixel from Google an
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by drnick1 13d ago
> But what scares me is when every device comes with their own esim and cellular radio. Cars already do, and the solution is well-known: find the bug, and squash it. Yes, your car will still work, and you cannot be denied warranty becaus
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by drnick1 13d ago
Linux generally presumes that you run trusted software, not some proprietary program that is approximately malware. If you want a "sandbox" run that program as a separate unprivileged user or use bubblewrap.
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by drnick1 14d ago
If you have one of those TVs, disassemble it and unplug or remove the microphone, camera and the wireless adapter. Use it as a (rather nice) 4K monitor for a Linux box with Plasma in Bigscreen mode. Pair that with an airmouse remote and you

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