Yeah I’m not mercantile enough to go around doing stuff like that, but I understand the thought. I don’t NEED another laptop. It was tempting, but I can keep making do with what I have now.
Added: I probably should buy a new SSD if there are still some affordable ones out there. I could use it, will probably need it, and prices have been going up since even before the tariffs.
There is still some Lenovos on sale at bestbuy and it’s a little bit tempting to buy one due to FOMO if the prices might suddenly go up. I considered it earlier in the year, but moved my stuff to an old Thinkpad T520 instead and am using that right now. I think I can stay with the T520 for now.
Why should anyone care about the gumroad code anyway? The software is the least important part of running a service like that.
Can you keep the paper journal in a locked drawer? Will your homies seriously try to break in or pick the lock? Could you use a non-networked computer (old laptop) to encrypt the files, and lock that in a drawer?
Wikibooks might be ok for that.
For howto guides there is wikihow, though its license is noncommercial only iirc.
Wikibooks might also be suitable, as someone said. The other editors there are less insane about rule enforcement than wikipedia’s, anyway.
If you can say what your topic is, that could help.
You can but it kind of sucks and you would only normally do it on a very temporary hacky basis. Otherwise use OpenVPN or Wireguard or whatever. If you want to do it with ssh, see the VPN instructions on the man page. But I mean it’s janky.
Please go on. I’m not sure I understand you fully.
There are significant features being added too. Like satellite messaging in areas with no cell coverage can be pretty worthwhile. You’re right though, most other stuff is meh. I’d like wireless charging for my current phone but can do without it. I have a $250 phone from 2023 and don’t understand why anyone buys a flagship.
New PC hardware is mostly compatible with the old stuff or at least somewhat standardized except at the lowest end. Phone stuff is much worse about that. Idk what a Linux phone would mean anyway.
Yes the HW isn’t comparable to a modern phone though.
It’s worse. Linux desktop is only possible because of the relative consistency and openness of x86 PC hardware. Phones are nothing like that. At best we will have retro Linux handhelds with phone functionality.
Good luck, phone hardware changes very fast though.
For high value accounts, use 2fa with hardware tokens if you can, and maybe use a dedicated computer (old laptop) with a bare bones software installation to minimize the likelihood of malware.
You can bridge it through e.g. Twilio but it will add latency that makes the voice calls less pleasant. You’re better off with a phone that has a microphone kill switch, or physically remove the microphones (hack the hardware) and only use an external mic. Or power down the phone altogether.
With very large SSD systems, these high throughputs mostly come from parallel chip accesses and transfers. Very low latency is more interesting. I’d like to see the numbers at queue depth 1 instead of 512.
The forums I’ve enjoyed the most didn’t have voting and I’d rather that Lemmy just shut it off. VBB has a “thank” button you can click on posts, but they still show up in chronological order. That’s less gameable and less subject to outrage amplification and similar social media hazards. This isn’t Facebook and we don’t need to reproduce Facebook’s evil.