drnick1

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by drnick1 7mo ago
You could not pay me to use any of these apps. All of my own devices run some form of Linux (Debian for servers, Arch for desktop/laptop, GrapheneOS on phone). I generally refuse to use non-free software, the main exception being Steam
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> While it may seem appealing, I would highly recommend against installing loads of software right on the router, and instead forward traffic to a device in a DMZ or VLAN. Why not? I use an old gaming PC as a "router" (machine
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Absolutely not. My 8700k is able to saturate a 25Gbps link without breaking a sweat. It could still push more than 4Gbps of encrypted traffic (Wireguard tunnel).
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Not necessarily at all and a huge security risk.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Not necessarily. For one, the BSD has, or at least used to have much worse driver support for wireless adapters. With a regular server/desktop Linux distro, it's also easier to run other services on the same device. For example, n
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I personally stick to iptables. nftables does not seem to be an improvement at all. iptables is terse but logical.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
An alternative if you are using Graphene would be to build your own image with the changes that you want, without or without root.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> An official United States government app is injecting CSS and JavaScript into third-party websites to strip away their cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login gates, and paywalls. I wouldn't run a non-free government app on my
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Electric cars aren't cheap, and electricity prices are very high in Europe.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> Aren't these the same people who apparently used Signal with a journalist in the chat, and had military conversations in that very chat? Signal is one of the most secure communication platforms out there, but it is obviously not i
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by drnick1 7mo ago
This makes sense, for that kind of money you could always build a beastly workstation in a real ATX case with standard components. Install Linux and the Mac looks like an expensive toy in comparison.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
People should not use proprietary formats for obvious reasons, but XLS has been largely reverse engineered.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
That little PC should be able to run a lot of additional stuff in addition to the packet filter. My setup is similar, but I use an old gaming PC instead, and run dozens of services including email, nginx and various game servers on it. It d
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> These are definitely worth avoiding most of the time. They may not be ideal for desktops, but they are great low power home server CPUs. In fact, they are much better than ARM alternatives like Raspberry Pis for the money.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I do in fact game at 4K, but actual measurements tend to place the overhead of Proton in the single digits. Going from, say, 100fps to 90fps is completely inconsequential as far as I am concerned.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I am not sure I follow. I can't watch porn on YT because YT decides not to host it. But I can absolutely use a VPN and access porn in a jurisdiction that does not block it. I can also, and in fact do, encrypt my hard drives. Even China
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Then guess what, criminals will use Linux phones running semi-custom apps for their encrypted business while honest citizens will be spied on.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> The "Chat Control" proposal would legalise scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. How would this be enforced in practice? In other words, what would prevent E.U. users from us
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Yes, I think so. Another analogy is firearms. They can be used to commit or facilitate crimes, yet nobody is suing gun manufacturers.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Wrong, because then that government knows exactly what services you have accessed. It's a huge and extremely dangerous privacy violation. The real solution to the age verification problem is not to have one. The Internet has existed fo
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I don't care about my Steam profile. I do care about the convenience of having all games in a single "launcher" and seamless Linux compatibility through Proton.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
This is not true at all. I game on Linux (Arch, btw) on my 3090 and every game not using some kind of kernel-level anticheat just works. I have never made formal comparisons, but my experience is that I can't notice a difference in per
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Out of curiosity, why would any business with an IT department choose this over an in-house solution built from standard open source components. Think email server on premises or in the cloud using postfix/dovecot/LDAP, maybe Next
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> Hell, the older generation HP EliteBook 840 G10 that Micro Center sells as a business laptop makes a bunch more sense in a lot of ways. And the best thing is that you can format the drive, install Linux, and be completely free of Micro
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by drnick1 7mo ago
The trick is to use the TV as a monitor and not connect it to the Internet.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Source available with various arbitrary restriction is non-free software. What the "open source warriors" take exception to is presenting a project as "open source" or "free" when in reality it is not.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I don't think this is true, AFAIK Android Auto works on Graphene. Google Play isn't FOSS either and also works in a sandboxed mode.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
The modern Web is truly unusable without an aggressive DNS filter and/or uBlock.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Estimates suggest that between 1/3 and 1/2 of all Internet users in the U.S. use an ad blocker.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
You should be able to install Android Auto, Google Maps, etc. in a separate user profile with Google Play on and no autolock.

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