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by elagost 7y ago
This looks quite nice. Are you outside of Japan? If so how did you acquire the kit?
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by elagost 7y ago
Upon seeing this project I immediately searched the HN thread for fellow PocketCHIP owners. Mine's still on my shelf next to a few other handheld Linux portables that showed promise, but ended up with poor support and no updates. The r
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by elagost 7y ago
That is what prompted me, actually! My coworker alerted me to this sale and I jumped on it. Something about Absolute OpenBSD spoke to me, and I had to pick it up first... maybe it's the "Practical Paranoid" part.
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by elagost 7y ago
This weekend I started digging into OpenBSD. I'd never used a BSD - been a Linux user for the past decade. While the table linked might show OpenBSD as the "least complete", what seems to be the case is that they pick one too
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by elagost 7y ago
The way to do that is just to use Tor Browser as your regular browser.
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by elagost 7y ago
Quite insightful - thanks for writing this. I'd love to see evidence otherwise, but I do think that desktop interfaces are pretty "done" at this point - you can have a couple different paradigms and layouts, but usually it&#x
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by elagost 7y ago
Although older software usually does what we need it to do, I question the wisdom of running an Internet-connected machine with software that no longer receives security fixes. If the various Linuxes might give you what you need, I encourag
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by elagost 7y ago
I apologize for not being clear; I was referring primarily to 4.4 "KitKat". Still have a tablet that I run with that on it (offline) to read ebooks. Quite nice. You are correct though - pre-4.0 was pretty rough.
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by elagost 7y ago
Yesterday a coworker was frustrated with his computers, and said something insightful: "When software gets past a certain age it just gets bad." He was referring primarily to Android and Windows (10) but it applies to every piece
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by elagost 7y ago
I run all Linux at home (and LineageOS on my phone). For things like this I keep an old Windows laptop (Core2Duo) in the closet. For IOT/app-based stuff (none are mine - they all belong to my parents/relatives), I have my brother&
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by elagost 7y ago
There's a third kind of person - one who doesn't want their personal data beholden to a bunch of faceless for-profit companies who have proven they care less about security and privacy than they do about money. I don't self h
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by elagost 7y ago
Using Eclipse, any jetbrains stuff, android studio, and xcode (even GNOME builder!) is super helpful for me. They have completion features, a robust set of build tools, and everything in one window with all the controls visible. I love the
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by elagost 7y ago
I'm convinced that people who use solely vim/emacs started off before there were any good GUI editors and now have too much momentum. I'm not that old, but I frequently spend time on headless *nix boxes, so I use vim all the
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by elagost 7y ago
Official support page: https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032577632... Well that's not too bad. I could live with 3G personally, given what I use my phone for, but I doubt many others cou
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by elagost 7y ago
I've wanted one of these for years, but live in the US. Would importing it work, or would my provider not support it?
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by elagost 7y ago
The second sentence is "This does not include accidental errors" but then an accidental error and a bunch of third-party program are cited as primary examples. Things are cited multiple times - the recent "battery DRM" n
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by elagost 7y ago
A tablet, built on open technologies, with a wide variety of ports, and replaceable parts? Count me in. I would replace my laptop with this.
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by elagost 7y ago
So does anyone know if this actually works?
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by elagost 7y ago
You are correct. Thanks for pointing that out; I tested it out this morning and verified I was able to send/receive messages on the desktop program with my phone in airplane mode.
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by elagost 7y ago
With the rapid churn of various chat clients it's hard to get something to stick, and I attempted to settle on XMPP+OMEMO (or OTR), since it's a protocol, not an "app" (eww). Not a single person I know still uses XMPP, a
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by elagost 7y ago
I use stickers to differentiate two laptops I have that are otherwise externally identical. I also like to cover the logos with other things instead. At my previous company we all had stickers on the laptops that showed they were company pr
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by elagost 7y ago
Running Arch as well and I use the Calibre Flatpak to manage my Kindle. I plug it in every month or so and haven't had any failures in the last year. I've found that Flatpaks solve the problem of some older programs not working we
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by elagost 7y ago
I use a ton of flatpaks on my system and don't notice the difference between them and "real" packages. I use Signal, Telegram, a few games, and the Steam flatpak, which is a great way to use Steam without enabling multilib o
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by elagost 7y ago
I personally don't. A lot of the same crowd that uses ancient Thinkpads uses Coreboot or Libreboot. I used an x220 for 3 years before buying an x230 last month, and I flashed Coreboot (plus me_cleaner) on both of them.
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by elagost 7y ago
wpa_gui does come with wpa_supplicant in many distributions and is easy enough to configure. This helped me configure it: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-953484-start-0.html
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by elagost 7y ago
If necessary I can SSH in (if the pi is on) and troubleshoot. No one runs a business out of my home so Internet isn't super critical, and the smartphones have data connectivity if need be. I have a couple fresh SD cards in storage and
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by elagost 7y ago
If yours has wi-fi (Pi 3 and above or Pi Zero W) you can always just leave it plugged in somewhere innocuous as a pi-hole. It's super useful and takes almost no time to set up, provided you can change the settings on your router to use
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by elagost 7y ago
I used mine as a NAS for a while with an external USB HDD and a samba share. It was also set up to be a VPN and pi-hole. I have a pi zero that I use to flash coreboot on laptops. My PS3 isn't doing so hot as a media server client for m
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by elagost 7y ago
It's an actively-developed, secure, professionally-usable distro that uses musl libc and doesn't have systemd. It's not super easy to configure as a desktop system, but it's very small and I like to keep it around for VM
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by elagost 7y ago
If I asked my dad what the technical merits of Chrome or Firefox were or why he used what he used, he wouldn't have an answer for me. He'd say "I use Chrome because you told me a few years ago to use it and it still works.&qu

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