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Did not even consider encrypted IRC as an alternative to Matrix or Signal. Or even running my own search engine. Good writeup! Very much for the 1%ers in tech skills.

"In the United States, if you’re lucky enough to have fiber, you might get 1 Gigabit. But often it’s shared with your neighbors."

Hey this can be good for privacy in a way at least. Your traffic can be from any of your neighbors. I wonder if you can sniff packets from other households?

"A striking example of his forward-thinking occurred years ago on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where George-sitting on the sand with a laptop connected via his cell phone-became one of the first people to read email over a mobile connection to a computer at Purdue. As a friend noted, "This was a real bit of history… At the time Apple had a whole engineering team trying to do this and here's George on the beach making it happen.""

Amazing. RIP.

Why I love NixOS 4 months ago

I almost switched back to Fedora Bazzite to get a working gamescope, but realized I can get HDR in sway and its actually more stable than Valve's mess of gamescope. Even though I have to use "--unsupported-gpu" flag, my Nvidia card works wonders in Sway, where as gamescope gives me a blinking cursor and segfaults.

Why I love NixOS 4 months ago

Some things are not that simple and nix options come in handy automating other packages and services needed.

1. Makes no sense. 2. not true. 3. You can turn features you don't like off, like the AI 4. False. The bootloader is not locked. Linux does work, but it would be nice if they activly worked on kernel modules for their hardware. 5. Macbooks have the longest shelf life of any consumer PC. Period.

DOJ are technically breakng the law by releasing a heavily moddified "reproduction" of the original files, not the "actual" files. The software they used "OmniPage CSDK 21.1" removes all usefull metadata and any encrypted files if any where stored.

I have a hybrid approach with GrapheneOS. 99% of the time I only use WiFi on my phone via a Tor router. I have an anonymous KeepGo ESIM with global data that does not expire and use it when I have to when Im away from home.