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Off to a non-US instance. Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish.

  • No dip stick? (xrs900)

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  • My 2004 FZ6 has a dip stick.

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    A Coup Is In Progress In America

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  • how Mussolini came to power.

    Or Hitler, Franco, Salazar...Orban, most of the right on the rise in the EU right now...

  • Removed

    A Coup Is In Progress In America

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  • So what is next now?

    Where are all the law-abiding citizens clamoring that their 2A defends them from the government?

  • Resources to learn for my privacy journey

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  • Just keep in mind it's a path, take your time.Also, what may be important to you may not be for someone else and vice-versa, so look up and read up on threat modeling. This should probably be first on your list.

    mini pc before the isp modem to filter dns

    You mean after the modem and before your network? Then that solution is feasible, otherwise it really depends how The Net enters your domicile, odds are coax or fibre...You may be able to flash your modem+router+switch black box the ISP provides, but YMMV on that one.Regardless, you can set-up that mini pc inside your network as the authoritative DNS server to act as a DNS sinkhole — i.e. using a PiHole.

    I have a pc w dual boot

    Suggestion: linux-only with windows inside a virtual machine; other virtual machines can be used for self-hosting also.

    backup data

    Use 3-2-1 and make sure your backups are working.Look into RAID and LVM or, better yet, ZFS.

    dell optiplex

    Lenovo Thinkpads tend to have a following in linuxland, but that's personal preference.

    What am I missing? Where should I look?

    Techlore has a series of videos on the topic and, along with the new oil, they have a weekly video on security and privacy. Non-tech-friendly. There are quite a few podcasts on these topics.

    You can further your privacy by using frontends to common abusive sites (which i link to, sorry), such as invideous for youtube, etc.

    A programming language is always interesting, linux is mostly based on C and it's not a bad start. I'll duck for cover now. Shell scripting — bash in particular — will get you a long way, as well a command-line text editor to change config files.

  • Romance scammers are now in the fediverse

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  • Obviously, most of that money goes to the person operating the scam.

    And the scammers themselves are often forced labor.

  • Romance scammers are now in the fediverse

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  • Yes, its mostly older people that are alone that fall for this type of scam.

    I'd wager that's not the most represented demographic in the fediverse... and neckbeards tend to know better.

  • Goodbye, Musk. The ‘X-odus’ Is Here

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  • Priorities, amirite?

  • MIT names 10 breakthrough technologies to watch in 2025

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  • Specifying file paths

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  • EURKey

    Pressing ó is far less intuitive than ´ + o... hard pass.

  • Specifying file paths

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  • Shift + 7? Or numpad / with my right pinky?

    Yes.

  • Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity

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  • without demanding any of that information as payment?

    Can Putin not read The Intercept?Does Putin even need to?Snowden deleted all traces of that stash once he delivered it to the reporters. He's in Russia 'cos it's a way for Putin to annoy the US.

  • Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity

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  • Intel Insider now that would've made for great whistleblowing headlines.

  • Which distro would you install on a celeron 2gb ram laptop for a lay person to use?

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  • it will be slow

    Then it's a bad recommendation.

  • Which distro would you install on a celeron 2gb ram laptop for a lay person to use?

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  • How is that sad for an old machine?

  • Which distro would you install on a celeron 2gb ram laptop for a lay person to use?

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  • 32 bit version of firefox, because it makes a huge difference in low ram devices.

    How so? What CPU does she have?

  • Which distro would you install on a celeron 2gb ram laptop for a lay person to use?

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  • Last time i searched for "lightweight" linux distros (for an old Thnkpad) the ones i saw recommended the most were: TinyCore, Puppy, Porteus, Absolute, antiX, Q4OS, Slax,, Sparky, MX.I saw Bohdi and other Ubuntu-based distros suggested quite a lot as well but my definition of lightweight means under 1GiB usage.For a DE go with XFCE or some other lightweight DE.

  • What do you use for notes?

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  • I kinda like joplin's groupable notes... then again "flat" is in the name... maybe... interesting...

  • What do you use for notes?

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  • Joplin synched with syncthing (or Synchthing.fork on android).

  • Is using an Matrix account from matrix.org private and secure enough to talk with my family members and people in general?

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  • They succeded in a way, XMPP lost a lot of users back then in the era when communications where migrating from group-focussed IRC to individual-focused Whatsapp (or their respective walled-gardened messengers).Better than matrix in the ways 2poVoq@slrpnk.net listed above.