(my files are in one big folder, so albums are jumbled)

This doesn’t give you anxiety?

I’m pretty happy with Proton.

Don’tcha think?

Dang near every model laptop has a teardown video on YouTube. If you had some models you’re interested in, look for a teardown video and see if the wireless module is socketed.

I can’t think of a modern laptop I’ve owned that didn’t have a socketed wireless card. Maybe one Alienware I owned.

DigitalOcean has droplets that only cost $4/mo. I use one for a small, static site and a gopher server.

Sorry, I laughed. Did it do damage? What was the outcome?

How does boot taste?

Things losers say, even if the rest of their argument is sound.

Gaylord fartmaster makes an excellent point.

This is relatively low on my privacy concerns, being that it seems to be patrolling and surveiling privately owned property.

Fair points.

The biggest motivating factor for my use case was that it was more than happy to run off a USB C cable tapped into my solar bank’s 12v line. So for boondocking, it was a great solution.

I can confirm that the one I used 3 years ago could stream Netflix and HBO from browser, no problem. It also handled local files in VLC like a champ.

I even installed Steam and played a handful of non-resource-intensive games on it.

I’d buy another in a heartbeat for use as media rig. This time I’d install barebones Debian on it, instead of med-weight MX like I did prior. It’d probably perform even better.

There are some really wicked PC “sticks” (for lack of better word) available these days. I used one from MeLE flashed with Debian as a mobile entertainment center in my travel trailer.

NewPipe is broken for me. When I go to try to open the videos in my mobile browser, YouTube gives me the same error. So, YouTube itself is pretty much bricked to me on mobile, since I refuse to register an account.

I’m unsure if the behavior would persist if I disabled my VPN, but fuck that.

I use a password AND passkey.

Don’t even use a computer, talk to your friends in person.

Don’t even use HTTP, only Gopher and BBS.

Don’t log into their services.

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Nah, I’m good.

In my case root partition is encrypted, and the keyring has to be unlocked every time you reboot.

I use a luks encrypted USB drive for automated backups. My backup script mounts and decrypts the drive automatically, using secret-tool to grab the encryption pass from my keyring. It then creates the snapshots, and automatically unmounts the drive after.

There might be better methods, but this one works well for me.