crypto is useful too, without monero i wouldnt have hrt. place i live in is a shithole and doctors are highly restrictive and far too expensive

but monero is the best one in terms of privacy and it is unprofitable to mine it unless you have the latest and greatest green processor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_Linux_distributions

heres a pretty good resource, bit of a tangent but i got a ton of shithouse computers with very low ram and i think alpine/postmarketos is the best choice. ive gotten kde, cosmic, and so on running on tons of terribly old computers with it, typically with no more than 1-2gb of ram. its also good for computers with only 256mb or so. after a certain point you need to just load your OS into ram entirely in order to have any ability to handle modern applications on very old hardware, in this case you should consider buying ram for your very old hardware (it comes cheap for the top compatible tech when its 90s hardware) if you like to use it as a sort of display piece for visitors to use. there are a couple of distros in that list that can handle being stored in ram. but obviously youre a bit different because you can just run it all on a vps. still probably best to go with alpine despite the operational differences

of the mainline fully featured modern desktop environments i feel cosmic de works the smoothest on old hardware, strangely enough.

Shockingly high quality, wow

yopmail, adguard, mailhole is open source and intermittently works

theres a gmail spoofer too idr what its called

you can use certain temp mail providers for protons secondary email verification, money involvement makes it more insecure

its when you kinda half ass it and make a bunch of bumble bees very happy by doing so, unfortunately america hates bees and biodiversity so they outlawed clover lawns in nearly every hoa despite it being the 1950s ideal lawn and requires basically no water or fertilizer to look great

yeah i might just load up one of my old phones and replace its default launcher via adb with https://github.com/LeanBitLab/LtvLauncher

maybe i can 3d print some sort of housing that makes the cable mess less of a nightmare, and i’d certainly need a usb hub of some kind to increase its compatibility with remotes.

kde’s plasma bigscreen also piqued my interest but it just doesnt look as simple to set up on bad hardware

basically the issue with this method is i like to travel light and I use my other devices for other things e.g. work, kvm switches, etc which all require their own setup and unplugging and replugging and interrupting my SO’s tv isnt great. ive used a usb-c to hdmi cord to get things going via my phone but this whole idea is cumbersome whereas an hdmi stick and remote is a very elegant solution.

wtf is going on in france

i think itd be useful for something simple and single use, like you can hang it on a wall near your door to see when the next bus or train is arriving. itd use barely any energy

for reading a book though, idk why he wouldnt just get something like the bigme highbreak. sure its more expensive but its a smartphone too

Synthesis: snails are cars

The decision was made according to the report after the Commission became aware of the group’s existence last month and deemed the risk of compromise too high. While there is no evidence yet that communication has actually been intercepted, the threat situation has escalated. Just recently, a private phone call between a journalist and an EU official was intercepted and published. Insiders also report sophisticated phishing attempts. These were intended to trick cabinet members into revealing their Signal PIN codes, thus causing them to lose control of their accounts.

looks like theyre concerned about targeted phishing attacks and organizations being unable to control user accounts from the top down (and thus read their communications) in order to reinstate and do damage control surrounding a negligent user after an attack. ultimately the user is getting tricked into revealing their password, so… human element. perhaps matrix would be best for large organizations like this, for individuals however simplex chat has no identifier tied to the account and in order to compromise a chat theyd need direct access to the computer or the simplex database export afaik, but all programs are vulnerable in that way.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Signal-Takes-threat-of-targeted-phishing-attacks-very-seriously-11205329.html

im an employed security professional, grapheneos is the way

i like bazzite/fedora atomic a lot, i also quite enjoy vanillaos (if you like debian). if you have an issue on any of them its trivial to rollback to a previous patch and pin that patch until someone does something about it

actually this is what the captain wants to see in his gay lover, mulan

1/1/1

every linux user is jesus confirmed

your friend terrifies me

Eventually: must be in Antarctica to use this distro

I really want simplexchat to evolve and get more features. If they ever make a lot of mod tools and the possibility to make giant servers with thousands with chatrooms like discord I could see it having mass appeal due to the ease of “signup”

yeah with billions of people on the internet idk how you separate the noise on this, especially if you dont mention your location ever