I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I’m using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can’t get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don’t load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn’t helped. Can’t even go above 60Hz refresh rate.

I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it’s basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.

I don’t have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.

I write notes in markdown (I’m not attached to any particular editor) and push them to a self hosted git server. Git therefore also helps handle any merge conflicts between devices.

The “maintaining privacy” is just a bit. It’s about gaining complete access to everyone’s private communications for whatever rhyme or reason the ruling class wants

Yes, as the Trump admin clearly proves, they follow the law to the letter.

/s

The Android private DNS setting is just for a DNS-over-TLS resolver. The only thing about it that’s private is your queries are encrypted en route to the server (traditonal DNS is cleartext). There’s no filtering or blocking.

Some Android versions also have a hard coded DNS server set to Google, which based on my tinkering uses DNS-over-HTTPS. Not only is it annoying but I find it awfully insecure - even if you think you have stuff locked down it might just not be. I fixed that issue by blocking all DNS-over-HTTPS servers in my router, and also have all outgoing requests to port 53 redirected to my local resolvers (Pihole + Unbound).

secure anonymous access

A VPN doesn’t provide this on its own. Nothing does.

“Better than a VPN” but it looks more like some decentralised social and content network. So not a replacement or alternative to a VPN in any way. It just preys on the people who already bought the “VPNs make you private online” marketing.

Looks like a silicon valley VC cash grab.

I use whichever editor is convienient at the moment and which I lile the UX of (Micro on a terminal, Pulsar on desktop, Markor on mobile), and commit the markdown files to a privately hosted git server (Forgejo). The git server is backed up regularly.

The editor doesn’t matter too much as long as it doesn’t have spyware and/or AI “features” like vscode.

When I’m on the go and need to read or write notes I have a clone of the repo on my phone, and if I absolutely need to pull/push to origin I connect via VPN.

I’m not sure how syncthing or similar work with merging different versions of files from different devices, so I’ve just stuck with git for that reason as well as version control (I make notes about homelab configs and issues so being able to go back is handy).

In what way? For which use case? What threat models would exclude TP Link products?

Good that those things are taught in some places. I can only speak from my own experience in high school - we were required to have laptops for school but were never taught how to be safe online.

Some people put their whole lives on the internet and never once stop to think if it’s a good idea. Then again, online safety and security are never taught or communicated, at least in the west, maybe by design.

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

Still no worse than the worst of the male grifters.

Between basically every process being done on paper, and most of the civil servants having no idea what an operating system is, I’m sure this will go great.

It’s kinda standard but Pihole is how I got into the general realm of home labbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByzcL3jhb5Y

Political means more than just parties and institutions of government. Society and economy is inherently political. Who owns what is produced and the tools used to produce it is inherently political. Therefore software development, just like any other type or work or other economic interaction, is political.

Because universal surveillance is more profitable than consumer privacy, and surveilling consumers aligns really well with the interests of the billionaires that control telecommunications.

I like btop. It’s pretty. I just use it for checking resource usage, I rarely have the need to kill a process or anything else one may do with a system monitor.

Hugo with a simple theme like book or paper should do it. Alternatively Jekyll or Docusaurus, in principle they’re all the same in that they process markdown files and dump out a static site.

Astro for a more feature rich “development” experience.