As always, I got the username wrong…
Anime, series, internet, comics, manga, and ofc music. Some casual games and literature, sometimes.
Also helps having a hobby like music production or 3D modeling, this is, all done on the computer ofc, outside of the computer there’s no world, just a neverending roads and buildings and cars and stores and more of the same.
Angle grinder goes brrr
And I would be one of the few people who wouldn’t go on vacation and would have to refuse must jobs because of some absurd believe that even if a copy of me is made after I’m dead, that’s irrelevant for me since that’s still not me and I don’t want to die.
Or maybe I would take the teleporter as an alternative to suicide, and whoever would take on my life wasn’t me, so my problems where their now.
If music is boring then it’s the DJ’s job to make it interesting
The number of keystrokes needed to type an underscore is the same that you need to type backslash space, so I don’t see how underscores are in improvement
For now, everything is speculation and there’s no way to know how google will implement the new restrictions, for example, google could disable installing apk from the OS, but still allow sideloading from adb, and then f-droid and helper apps could somehow use adb to go around it. It’s still too early to tell.
One thing I can be somewhat certain is that custom roms won’t have this restriction so if you get a phone that supports graphene OS, lineageOS, /e/is, etc, you shouldn’t have to worry with it.
Which leads to another question, do you need google services? I personally don’t but some people are tied to it for some reason, banking apps? Gladly my bank works on the web browser, or else I would just switch banks.
Alternatively you can keep your iphone as a banking/government machine on your other pocket.
As for what phone to get, if you can afford an iphone, you can afford the latest pixel and install graphene OS on it, graphene OS offers the most privacy and security, in certain cases a slightly older device can be cheaper, but note that newer devices offer 7 years support, rather 5, so you have to calculate the cost by dividing the price by the remaining years of support.
Alternatively if you can’t afford a pixel the cheapest (but not so good) solution I think it’s a nothing CMF phone one with /e/OS, but do your own research.
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
The overall lore is that humans in the future build empires and enslave several species like the ood.
Humans conquer planets and dry all it’s resources with no regards for native life, they drain the swap and enslave the swamp people to mine toxic minerals.
Companies are all powerful, and the government extremely corrupt.
There are many ways they could make it match, they could pass it as a parallel universe somehow, or maybe make some god from the pantheon of discord together with some Q bridge the worlds.
I always found quite funny how Doctor Who’s universe is much darker than Star Trek. Doctor Who’s universe is more akin to Star Trek’s mirror universe where are human empires that enslave smaller planets, while on Star Trek there’s the federation and all.
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…
Last time I did a simulation few months ago, DDR4 motherboards (and memory if I recal) were still considerably cheaper than DDR5.
Discovery is my least preferred star trek I’ve watched so far, I mean, it’s not “bad” per se, it’s just different from the rest of star trek and has a different formula.
The thing with discovery is that everything happens really fast, there’s always a sense of urgency and hurry, but actual plot development happens really slowly.
Conflict takes a whole season to resolve, instead of standard one episode which you expect from a star trek show.
Also, I hate how the actors mumble instead of talking.
It’s not bad, it’s just not my favourite format.