drnick1

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by drnick1 5mo ago
You need GrapheneOS to sever the link to Google. You can also deny specify apps and services Internet access.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
What makes you say that wars are unnecessary? You don't get to see what would have happened in the absence of a war. Keeping some countries like Iran in check by restricting their arsenal, or weakening their economies and military cap
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Maybe you can install Linux on one of these things, and turn it into something useful and not choke-full of spyware.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
I self-host an email server and can definitely send email to Gmail addresses.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
Not very often at all, but it did happen at least once. Note that even email sent from Google itself can be marked as spam depending on the message.
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by drnick1 5mo ago
> They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free. In exchange, Google gets to surveil half of the world's population, extract personal information from their email, and resel
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Came here to say that. It's just easier to write C++ in the first place, and LLMs now make this easier than ever.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
I have access to a commercial (non-residential), fixed IP. You could also use an outgoing relay as a compromise, since presumably the issue you are facing is other servers rejecting email that you send from a disreputable IP. That being sai
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by drnick1 6mo ago
So Stallman was right, after all?
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Android yes, but Graphene is the answer.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
My setup is similar and nearly 100% self-hosted, including email, files, AI. If something does not work on Graphene, I will do without it. I also have a Google profile, mostly for testing purposes.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
What makes Samba annoying? I think it's perfect for its intended use (LAN). If you need to share files externally, Nextcloud works very much like Google Drive and allows the creation of sharable links.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
No one cares about that idiotic law here. HackerNews is hosted in the US of A, and Europeans who don't like some aspect of it are free to go elsewhere.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> Regardless of where they are located. This is clearly nonsense. There is nothing the EU can do to enforce this.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> You Linux freaks should just buy a MacBook Pro. Absolutely not. I want to be in full control of my machine, which means a FOSS operating system, and ideally FOSS firmware too. When Apple will request age verification, you will have no
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by drnick1 6mo ago
The Arctic fans are known to hum at certain speeds. This may, or may not matter to you, and certainly depends on how low the "noise floor" in workspace is.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
It's probably easier to run your own DNS and blacklist the offending domains. There are good blacklists with millions of telemetry domains, e.g. https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists .
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Removing Maduro was absolutely the right thing to do in America's interest, and was relatively inexpensive. Millions of barrels of oil are now flowing out of Venezuela into America, and, as a side effect, other enemies like Cuba are st
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Clearly, it wasn't working if they needed to hide their activities in underground bunkers. The plan for the Iranians has always been to buy time and obtain sanctions relief while secretly using the money to fund nuclear technology and
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> The US people have just offered an object lesson in why deterrent weapons are useful. It's easy, we don't let them have nukes, period. Bombing their underground facilities was absolutely the right thing to do and can be repea
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by drnick1 6mo ago
> They either make you install rootkits on your computer I am aware that some banks require apps on "certified" phones, but I haven't heard of rootkits on PCs, yet. Do you have an example of that?
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by drnick1 6mo ago
They could conceivably lock the bootloader, but Graphene now has a partnership with Motorola.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
If that happens you could buy a cheap Android like a Moto G for that indispensable banking app and keep using your GrapheneOS device for everything else. Not ideal, but many of us have old devices lying around that can be used for that.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Oil money flows back into the U.S. economy as a net exporter.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
Free or "libre?" Brave Origin seems like a good idea, but I wouldn't use it until it becomes part of mainstream Linux repos and can be built independently.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
I don't care, I run Graphene, and my phone is definitely mine. Most Android apps just work, and the ones that don't are the kind of malware I am happy to do without.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
I would rather use Ethernet where possible. I used SFP28 for a while, but this meant an extra networking card was needed in each PC. Ethernet is universal, and now that bandwidths are catching up, I no longer see SFP as necessary in a typic
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by drnick1 6mo ago
The "no food in other countries" is because of failed/corrupt governments, not because people use AI to generate cat pictures in the West. The economy is not a "fixed pie" that needs to be allocated among people of
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by drnick1 6mo ago
You can't build capacity overnight, and even with that in mind, it's hard to say if it is sensible to increase capacity now that we are in an AI bubble. For all we know, the bubble might burst.
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by drnick1 6mo ago
This just highlights what an utter failure and self-inflicted wound the green policies of Euro countries have been. Europe has already lost the AI race to the U.S. and China.

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