I haven’t used Windows in so long that I’m genuinely excited at the prospect at getting a new computer w Windows on it. Lol

Also, I’ve been buying Linux hardware so long that I was surprised how much bang you can get for your buck nowadays.

… That’s assuming that you don’t calculate in how much all the ads and mandated spyware will cost your sanity and future. Lol

something like this happened to be too circa 2005 and it made me switch to debian; which stayed rocked solid until 2016 when the motherboard died.

what’s ESO?

google suggests it’s elder scrolls online, but i’ve never heard this before

it’s impressive to me too since it’s free: i used to use the vpn feature heavily when showing up to work in the office was still a thing for me.

i still use the ssh server with sshfs as a cloud-like storage for uploading things from my phone and work computers like pics and for downloading media like music and videos; although i’ve been gradually weaning myself off that via social media content so that now i barely use it at all besides as an ssh tunnel.

the add blocking alone makes the effort worth while for me and i’ve gotten so used to it that i can no longer tolerate adds when i have to to use other people’s rigs; it’s makes me strangely angry somehow. lol

i created this post about how i have it setup; but this time around i’m going to replace the windows vm behind the pfsense vm with a physical AP since that’s the part of the stack that’s the most proned to breaking. i’m not to enthused about doing so because i have a high gain antennae attached the internal wifi nic that i was using as an AP, so i got GREAT signal for really long distances and even into the underground parking lot of my apartment building and the beach nearby, but i rarely ever us it as such so it’s hard justifying the headache to myself.

i’m also a pfsense user and didn’t notice this.

or atleast i was; i have to fix my pfsense router again so i’ve temporarily switch an ancient router for now.

then you’re in luck because it’s old news. (circa 2016 iirc).

tldr: they decided to pull away active development on some foss projects because they conflicted with their profit motive.

it’s easy to appreciate why a for-profit company would want to protect its revenue stream and it would seem that the waters would get really murky when their products rely on free and open sourced work; but i know from personal experience that much bigger fish like google and oracle have made it work REALLY well for themselves and in much better fashion (atleast publicly) than system76 has.

At this point in history, it’s too late to implement identity protections. Your profile is already built, stored, and backed up. They even know your deleted edgelord MySpace account and that you unfriended Tom (you monster). I guess if you were born in a ditch without a SSN, and never signed up for anything, not even a house/apartment, you could go under the radar.

i was going to say something along these lines and also that the data they have on you has life long implications.

i used to work for a data broker and the tricks that their data scientists were able to cook up to track and predict people’s behavior was really unnerving to me.

the company’s clientele was mostly high end retail & real estate and geared towards predicting the likelihood of your next “lifetime milestone purchases” (that’s what they called it). i had access to the product; so i looked up its portfolio for me and it predicted that i was ever going to buy a house or car.

i chuckled at it back then because my salary as a software engineer at the time was a very comfortable 6 figures so it didn’t seem likely to me. 8 years later i’m scraping by working for a local non-profit, i’m still driving the same car and home ownership has never seemed further away.

how does it compare to using firefox in private mode set to delete all cookies/history before and after i start the session?

i was going to argue that there’s no way that it was ten years ago before i realized that the tropico i liked was released 11 years ago. lol

afterall: 1999 was only 15 years ago too. lol

yes and not the way you’re probably thinking: the last windows rig had a dedicated nvidia card (i forget which) while the linux rig had a cheapo integrated intel gpu and the intel gpu it performed MUCH better like i described.

it could also have been the maturity of the nvidia driver back then, but then again it was the same game on both machines so it wasn’t that far apart in age-wise.

not if my destination was any place far away from everybody else, as i mentioned earlier. lol

one possibly expensive way to find out is to add an expensive cooling solution to it to see if it stays active.

Everyone you knew would just be dead for thousands of years.

i’m still waiting for you to share the down sides of doing this. lol

i stopped using mine because i kept accidentally trigger it every single time i intended to type something.

i was a software engineer at the time, so it was particularly annoying to me.

Oh cool, guess which age group I’m in:

same here and i wish i could use it for aid somehow. lol

cctv can be free if you’re use free open source software like motion or linux.

happens to me on random websites and it wakes me tf up when i’m surfing just before bed. lol

conservative german politicians in particular continue to pursue their shady dealings.

and will push their gov’ts back into the microsoft/google fold when they approve purchase of the next big system; and you can only hope that palantir isn’t it.

this was so surprising to me; my favorite game (tropico) didn’t have blinking tiles/polygons on my linux rig than it did on windows.

it was super strange because i put linux on my old windows laptop and it also got the blinking; but the game got better when i bought a linux-only laptop with zero proprietary stuff on it (not even the bios). go figure.

this is one of the reasons why i’ve only purchased systemd w libre/coreboot

i’m aware that it doesn’t completely mitigate it; but it’s the only viable step in the right direction of choices that we’re allowed to have.

i sometimes wish i could go back to buying american, but the likes of system76 have already made their allegiances clear.