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by drnick1 3mo ago
I like building my own keyboards. I get to choose the keycaps, switches, PCB, foams, cases. If some component fails or does not feel right, and can replace it. Building won't be cheaper, but there is an enormous quality gap between mas
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by drnick1 3mo ago
> Do you have any cameras that support openipc you’d recommend? I don't, unfortunately. My suggestion would be to use cameras that stream over RTSP, an open protocol, so you don't need to use any proprietary tools/apps. Ma
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by drnick1 3mo ago
> Routers, IP cameras, etc. Those already exist: OpenWRT, OpenIPC. I wish more hardware was available though, especially for cameras.
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The author seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill, to be honest. Linux has never been a "political project" like the author asserts. GNU is closer to that, but even GNU has a purely technical component (the software itsel
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You must be fun at parties.
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> rarely had people's real names & photos on it This is a feature, not a bug. There is nothing worse for a society's collective privacy than a surveillance machine where people willingly post every detail of their lives. St
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Scientific computing/statistics.
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> My RTX 5070 lives across the room in a Windows gaming machine. Running Linux bare metal on that PC would be much better and make the whole process at lot more transparent. Most games that don't rely on some kind of kernel antichea
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by drnick1 3mo ago
The issue is deeper than than. Even if you buy, not lease, the iPhone, you don't control the software. Apple is still the effective owner, and tells you what you can and can't run on your own device. Worse, Apple is able to remote
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This kind of business model is just another manifestation of "you'll own nothing and be happy." Unless you are happy with Apple or Google literally owning your phone and everything in it, the solution is to buy a Pixel, with
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by drnick1 3mo ago
The upside of that ISP-enforced bans can be trivially bypassed by using your own DNS or a public DNS like Quad9.
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Fortunately, those can run Linux. I recently installed Arch on an Intel T2. The only issue is that it does not have a TPM module, so the LUKS password needs to be manually entered at boot.
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I have never heard of something like that.
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Bubblewrap.
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Frontier models like Opus 5 are also extremely good a "research" in an academic sense, including combining elements from different fields or literatures and creating something quite novel sometimes, publishable even, from vague&#x
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by drnick1 3mo ago
The 2080 is really getting long in the tooth. You're probably better off buying a 3090/3090Ti with 24GB, if you can find one.
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by drnick1 3mo ago
> these days most of them are limited out-of-the-box in ways that are intended to drive you to paying a subscription service This is why open protocols like RTSP are needed. A camera should never be allowed to communicate directly over t
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by drnick1 3mo ago
That's nice, but a cell phone isn't a viable gaming platform for anything but very basic games. And Android, at least in its typical Googled form, has its own set of problems; it's a privacy nightmare.
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I sandbox Steam itself for simplicity. My experience with Nvidia and Wayland has been good. I simply exposed /dev/nvidia*, a few networking-related files in /etc and system binaries like /usr.
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by drnick1 3mo ago
Dedicated hardware is definitely the most secure option, but realistically it is even less convenient than a separate user. You can't realistically play graphically intensive games on a Deck, and separate workstations are very unafford
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by drnick1 3mo ago
This underscores a major issue with commercial software like Steam and games obtained therein. You cannot trust that software not to maliciously scan your device for secrets such as crypto wallets or other information. Ideally, you want to
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by drnick1 3mo ago
Rootless is definitely the way to go. You can forward ports manually on the host if you really need to use privileged ports. I generally expose my containers through a reverse proxy, running bare metal on the host, and that completely bypas
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by drnick1 3mo ago
> Firefox supports Widevine Level 1 on Windows 11 devices with the requisite hardware and has for a year or so. I am not familiar with the way Widevine works, but if that is true, there must be a way to hack that support into the Linux v
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by drnick1 3mo ago
I am not familiar with this particular project, but generally speaking, you don't want a USB camera for CCTV. You want an IP camera with POE and RTSP support.
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I think so yes, but Firefox is probably still better.
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What is the difference between this and Frigate? Before clicking the link, I thought this would be a hardware solution (build you own camera from open components).
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But this system is probably tied to Google and Apple's "device attestation." Don't worry, it's in the name of security!
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> I am wary that I could be targeted at a border just for having a google pixel with grapheneOS. Is that likely to happen at all in a civilized (Western) country?
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You can already do most of that with GrapheneOS or even an iPhone. My contacts, files, photos, etc. are on my home server, accessed through a VPN. My GrapheneOS phone only runs a handful of open source apps. If I were to lose the phone, I w
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Apple can at any time push a hostile "upgrade" that will remove or disable the claimed security features. You don't control the operating system, and can't trust that it isn't backdoored, especially given Apple&#x27

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