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by drnick1 8mo ago
Web apps like Home Assistant are very light, things like game servers are heavier since they have to load maps etc.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
This, or simply expose a VPN (Wireguard) port on a public IP. I don't see why you need to involve any third parties in such a setup.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Not impressive at all. I run just about as many services, plus several game servers, on a Ryzen 5, and most of the time CPU usage is in the low single digits. Most stuff is idle most of the time. Something like a Home Assistant instance use
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> Capitalism gonna capitalism. Then respond with more capitalism and don't buy devices that are not user-serviceable. - Buy a PC instead of a PS5/Xbox - Buy appliances that are compatible with Home Assistant, or stick to "
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by drnick1 8mo ago
You can stop Iran now or try to when it has nuclear weapons.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> We're talking about paying to get IPs delisted from spam blacklists, choosing arbitrary geolocations with no validation, buying "unattributable" white-labeled address space, and renting residential IPs that make traffic
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by drnick1 8mo ago
You can use an airmouse remote for that.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Don't buy such a TV, or mod it by removing the cellular modem. Same problem with cars, but generally quite easily solved.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
If enough people do this, and refuse to buy TVs that do not work without an Internet connection, manufacturers will get the message and not make such TVs.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Firefox, and airmouse, and an adblocker are the main tools to free yourself from commercial streaming services.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Get your videos from other sources.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
I wouldn't call mainstream LLMs "woke," but they are definitely on the "politically correct" side of things. There should be NO restriction on open source models. They should just reflect the state of human knowledg
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by drnick1 8mo ago
This is just a DE for Linux, it does not solve the problem that DRM is incompatible with a free platform. Get your content from another source than Netflix.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
This is easy, don't connect your TV to the Internet and use it as a monitor for a mini PC running Plasma Bigscreen.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
For streaming, any mini-PC (e.g. N100 or a used thin client) paired with an airmouse remote (I use a Pepperjobs remote). If you want to use Steam on that machine and play modern games however, then you basically need a gaming PC and an Xbox
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Bigscreen is just basically a DE. To run Android apps on Linux you can use Waydroid. But yes, you can absolutely combine Bigscreen, Waydroid and a few other apps such as VacuumTube and Steam in fullscreen mode to create the ultimate free&#x
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by drnick1 8mo ago
My suggestion would be an airmouse remote, possibly with an built-in keyboard. This is because sooner or later you will want to use a web browser to stream content, and a mouse is incredibly convenient for that.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> but this most likely isn't quite Kodi just yet. Kodi is incredibly limited though, and does not come close to the flexibility of Plasma Bigscreen. The latter is just a UI optimized for using a PC from a couch, which means that yo
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> technically yes, but if those features have to come, for instance, in all kernel distributions It isn't the kernel's role to verify ages. The whole issue with FOSS is that it isn't even clear which component (of a Linux
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> There are literally 100k deaths in Europe that can be prevented if they lifted restrictions on AC so that they can feel good about making a negligible effect on carbon emissions. Which restrictions on AC? I know that Europeans don&#x27
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by drnick1 8mo ago
You really need to start using an ad blocker. I don't see any ads at all, anywhere on the Internet. It boggles my mind that someone who reads HN does not use an ad blocker in 2026.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
This is the correct answer. Anything proprietary phones home and inserts malicious metadata into pictures that allow others (social media) to know who, when and how the photo was taken.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
When it comes to free software, I don't see what prevents anyone from patching out such undesired "features." This is why free software is more important than ever. Official distributors like System76 may have to comply, in C
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by drnick1 8mo ago
California may be able to target companies like System76, but it will be completely powerless against modular and decentralized distros like Debian and Arch.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
I wouldn't call that meaningless privacy theater. For one, you can buy a SIM anonymously, and make the cell location data essentially useless. Second, protection at the DNS level prevents other types of data exfiltration (such as cross
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> you can't prevent fingerprinting from inside apps on android/iOs.. Another good reason to run Graphene without proprietary apps.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
You can do what Signal does: store basically no data, so that you don't have any data to hand over.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Same thing here (Firefox + Arkenfox + uBlock Origin). Need to change the IP to beat the fingerprinter, but that is just how the Internet works and the browser itself cannot do anything about it.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
It does not have to be that way however. There are plenty of phones out there running free/libre operating systems, including GrapheneOS, LineageOS, and various Linux options. I use GrapheneOS and wouldn't carry a phone running a
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Silent.link, jmp.chat

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