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Maybe we should start calling it GNU/Linux again, I myself am to blame of starting to call it just Linux in recent years.

So you will if you pay a loan for a new car…

…more, actually.

A Lemmy post about a hackernews about a Lemmy post!

Math, can’t do math to save my life

No decent (local) music player, no DSP, no music streaming with newpipe, decent video player to watch series in bed, screen too small to read books, no e2ee messaging, no web browser, useless camera, operating system without security updates.

I honestly couldn’t care less about calls and SMS, I only use that like few times a year.

That’s probably enough to stop your online mates from doxing you, but a powerful enough adversary can trace the little unique nuanced fingerprints that a camara lens introduces to the picture, and compare it with images from other sources like social media.

There are are many steps that can introduce patterns, like the way the lens blurs as explained in the article, sensor readout noise patterns, a speckle of dust, scratches, I bet chromatic aberrations are probably also different between multiple copies of the lens.

It’s old news that you should never use the same camera for two images that need separate identities.

The same applies to, radio transmitters and every analogue medium like probably microphone or preamp or ADC.

Anything that doesn’t work on purely digital domain is most likely traceable and I wouldn’t be surprised if proprietary software like Adobe started embedding hidden fingerprints into their files to “enforce their copyright” or “better collaborate with law enforcement”

I tend to complain that ROMs like Graphene OS don’t allow spoofing IMEI which should be basic functionally of every privacy-enabled phone. Yet if you require real privacy the electronic “fingerprint” of the radio itself is probably enough to track someone if they really want to.

There’s also a thing where they can track someone’s time and location just from listening to oscillations on the utility power’s frequency

That’s not it their dumb expression, that’s their dumb faces.

While not full proof, but you can always sandbox it with firejail or bubblewrap.

But make sure to read the documentation thoroughly.

I used to be very against Chinese infrastructure, but after all, why is European/American spyware better again?

Literally no one uses TMP, serves no purpose for 99.9% of people.

Yeah, they say that every time a new windows comes out, and people always endup “upgrading” sooner or later, rather than switching to GNU/Linux.

The sad thing this time is that many still fairly new and perfectly usable computers “aren’t supported” by windows 11 (not without a registry hack).

Which means that tons and tons of computers are going to turn into e-waste just because Microsoft refuses to acknowledge and support hardware that otherwise functions perfectly fine.

I don’t know, never tried anything like that, I just plug the fans to the 12v voltage rail and leave them full power all the time.

The fuss is that every time you transcode to a new format you accumulatively lose quality.

So for example if you have an 320kbps mp3, but then that takes too much space so you transcode it to 192 mp3, but then you discover the opus codec is more efficient so you transcode it again, but then you want to make a fan video of the same song, so your video player transcoded it again into video friendly aac.

The quality on your final video is going contain the faults of all the files upstream.

Meanwhile if you edit the video from a lossless source, it will only get encoded once.

So it doesn’t matter for streaming, but it matters if you want to download and convert to other formats.

Maybe you can use the raspberry pi gpio to control the fan and get drive temperature via smart to control the fan speed.

I used to run my nas from a raspberry pi with an USB to Sata bridge, but I found that USB cables are as always super unreliable and keep disconnecting and eventually I get filesystem errors, had to format and restore from backup.

I ended up repurposing an old i3 computer as nas. Which worked well for few years until I was scrubbing the harddrives this summer and one of the harddrives died, when I took it off it was super hot. So I learned that having front fans blowing air directly to the hardrives is important so they don’t overheat. I’m not sure if external cases have enough air circulation.

So maybe you could consider the overall reliability of the system and temperature of the harddrive, electricity can be expensive but an 8TB harddrive surely is more. Also you say you want no fan, so that makes things harder, maybe you can use the raspberry pi just as a client and have a big noisy NAS made from some old computer somewhere else in the house? And maybe have it so it wakes up on LAN when it’s being used and powered down when it’s not to safe power?

This, but synthesiser, while also play piano sounds on my midi keyboard, I find that synth sound is the most etheric, specially if I dial it myself or edit the presets.

Completely unrelated, but I just remembered that I have a server too. It’s funny how often I forget this.

It doesn’t run apache but I haven’t updated nginx in months…

As with all google products, youtube also went from bad to worse, but it’s still enough of a giant monopoly so that they can keep making decisions that fucks both the user and the content creators without real consequences.