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utopiah

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  • Gift Ideas for Privacy People

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  • Pretty much all open hardware devices should be on such a list, e.g.

    • NitroKey for both authentication tokens and storage (of e.g ssh keys)
    • PGB-1 (based on RP2040) or Haxophone (based on RPi Zero) for music
    • Precursor for token and dev (via its own FPGA)

    so check CrowdSupply for more of such things.

    I'd also add reMarkable. Sure you can use their cloud but you do NOT have to. It means you have your own Linux e-reader but also sketchpad entirely offline. You can work and sync with ssh or rsync and even setup your own cloud, cf https://github.com/ddvk/rmfakecloud . If you want something more open from the start check the PineNote but it's harder to get and you have to tinker a bit more.

  • Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?

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  • No doubt NVIDIA is peddling AI as they are financially depending on it now.

    Now from claiming something is powerful and even used to actually shipping code on something low level and benchmarkable like (GPU) drivers I have doubt. I imagine they can say they use AI there to rephrase comment and it would "technically correct" but beyond that I'm still skeptical.

    Regarding chip design, AI has been used for decades ... if you consider routing to be AI. It's not generative in the modern sense, it's not using LLM, but it's automated a process.

    To me it's the typical Harvard Business School playbook. C-suite repeat keywords they read in their peer most popular magazine, they aggregate in a document they call "strategy" they lower down the chain of commands people "execute" that because they must, thanks to KPIs.

    I'd love to hear it from an actual engineer working on drivers but I imagine it'd be hard to get a honest opinion with NDAs and all.

    Thanks for providing all the sources!

  • Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?

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  • Source please

  • Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?

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  • Sure, but FWIW I play from AAA to indies and it "works" as in no bug, no noticeable visual glitch.

    I don't benchmark from my driver version to the previous one on Windows or Linux or a price point equivalent with AMD hardware, I just play. I don't think anybody gain much from checking performance benchmarks before playing a game, at least I can say for sure to me that's not part of the fun.

    I would notice if something was blatantly wrong e.g 50% performance hit, but I wouldn't if it's 5% hit. I don't really care for it as it doesn't affect my gameplay. Like I said, it's from a casual player, not a pro player nor a game tinkerer.

    Working "better" on Windows means nothing to me. Either I can play and I'm happy or I can't (which never happened) then I'd be disappointed and potentially check why.

    PS: I'm also a developer of XR content so I'm relatively confident I'd spot any significant problem.

  • Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?

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  • No idea, I've been playing "normal" games and VR games with my NVIDIA card for years now on Debian and... it just works. It just keeps on working. Maybe people are hardcore tinkerers that mess with specific options but me, I just play and I'm happy with it.

  • Could VPNs Be 'Banned'?

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  • However we need to educate the masses.

    Well that's kind of the earlier point, the working masses already know. What they might not understand is that they can use a VPN outside of the office and how it benefits them.

  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • credit cards, debit cards, and now cashless vendors

    FWIW in Belgium you can get prepaid nameless cards. The post and their bank partner know it's yours (due to KYC) but not the shops and for online shops you can use drop boxes.

    For membership cards I specifically reject because of that. It's optional though so IMHO it's precisely the easiest thing to escape, just say no.

  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • (double post, might want to delete this one and keep the other one, I replied there)

  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • Makes me curious if there is a per country list of banks that provide an option NOT to have that. I know that if my bank were to do force such limitations I'd consider moving to another one.

  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • FWIW in Brussels there are anonymous public transport cards. You can top up your card but it's not attached to your name or ID. If you lose it though, it's like cash, you can safely assume nobody will give it back because they can't. Most people I know do not use them but maybe they do not even know it's an option.

  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • Sidetracked a bit but last week I was in the UK. I tried to visit a website (not porn actually, just private messaging on BlueSky) and it asked to verify my age. Initially I thought "Meh... OK... let's see the process" which then lead to installing an app maybe (I'm not sure tbh as I was in rush). Clearly I didn't want to do it because the DM was potentially urgent (scheduling to meet someone ASAP) ... so what did I do? I switched from my browser to my VPN, connected from Austria, refreshed... no age verification. It took me a grand total of 5s to bypass the system.

    TL;DR: maybe you can actually escape even though you are convinced you can't.

  • iDescriptor Brings iPhone Management to Linux

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  • Of course, in fact you do not have to change right now, or even next month. Instead you are in a great position when you already have a device because it means you can take the time you need to prepare for a transition without any rush. The problem IMHO is ... if you repeat the cycle. If in few years, or whenever you do change phones you say, again "Switching isn’t necessarily easy or doable for everyone" while having done nothing to change your situation.

    Please, don't rush a change and make it painful. Take the time and use the resources you have... but do something, even if a small thing, to go where you want to be. Do not stay stuck in a place you do not even enjoy.

  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • No worries!

  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • Graph~i~neOS

    GrapheneOS

  • iDescriptor Brings iPhone Management to Linux

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  • Honestly... I come from iOS, using for nearly a decade. Yes that stuff is secure, yes that stuff is (or at least was) stable, yes that stuff is slick to the point of being a status symbol... but DAMN does it suck for interoperability!

    Every success of bringing the Apple ecosystem to interact with anything is just so ridiculously hard... for in the end bringing very little.

    Do yourself a favor, switch to (deGoogled) Android to enjoy KDE Connect, adb, scrcpy, etc just working out of the box, copying normal files the normal way, however you want. Try "just" Linux if you can't but on mobile that's not for everyone.

    Again, I celebrate this success and all ways, e.g. iSH or Homebrew, that help to tinker, manage, work with Apple hardware but honestly I suggest ignoring it entirely. Just rely on software and hardware that actually provides the bare minimum to be interoperable. Not this.

    Instead use this, and iSH, Homebrew, libimobiledevice, and the rest to transition AWAY from that locked ecosystem.

  • Syncing notes across computers from central server?

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  • FWIW rsync also works on mobile phones and VR standalone HMDs, via e.g. termux or ish ... so it's really on working fine on... pretty much anything with a terminal and a connection really.

    Warmly recommended.

    Also if you need more than solely the last version, check rdiff-backup.

  • Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'

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  • It's a small thing but between that and recent CloudFlare/AWS/Azure outages self-hosting feels a lot more like a necessity than something nice to have.

  • Custom Domains Questions

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    1. you owning a domain, e.g. familyname.potato , does not prevent you from owning 10 other domains. How you chose to use each is up to you. With whom you share each also.
    2. which services? I don't understand. I typically use e.g. ProtonMail on my domain but I can have for each a different mail provider. I don't see what somebody knowing which service uses is a problem as long as that service is secure.
    3. I've been using my own domain for years, maybe a decade now (can't recall tbh) and had 0 problems, including with banking and public administration. Nobody knows even what it is or who owns what, just that it works.
    4. no idea, I know I'd use a free ProtonMail account if I needed sth disconnected from everything else
    5. your CV should be something public anyway, you're trying to prove your are somebody with skills they can trust. If you have problems linking your skills with your identity something feels off. I have 0 problem saying I can do some locking picking publicly. Anyway your CV is also a temporary document. If somebody doesn't visit your domain the moment they open your CV, chances are that years later it's entirely irrelevant.
    6. yes, I have multiple domains because I don't have to have 1 identity. I can share only professional things with you and personal things with others, or vice versa. Having different domains, and subdomains, for that help me doing so.

  • Switch to a Fully free Operating System

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