To give you some idea how little impact buying or not buying a pixel has: if you were comparing it to buying new, keeping it for six years and every dollar of your purchase went directly to google as profit, the $800 phone would be 1/322million-th of the revenue generated by that segment of the company during the time you use the phone. You’d be granting google 0.0000003% of their revenue in that segment over that period.

Because the phone isn’t actually all profit, and has to be designed, manufactured, marketed, warehoused, transported to market etc. the actual impact of buying or not buying a pixel phone on googles bottom line is even lower.

There’s a really good chance that a person running this would incorrectly assume they have some level of security and safety approaching graphene.

It uses vendor kernels and relies on the user to monitor update channels and perform patches.

If you need security and will not buy a pixel, you are most likely best served by switching to ios.

That’s not because I feel that a person who will not buy a pixel is somehow less-than or stupid, but because ios is very secure when hardened and kept up to date.

I saw you asking about backup cameras. The way to go with those is to spend 1-200$ on a dashcam system that has a rear camera and permanently wire it in such that it kicks into “backup camera mode” when you put the car in reverse.

You have a screen, yes, but it’s not tied to anything and it’s not infotainment. All of em do gps tracking and speed monitoring now too so when you get pulled over you have the docs for court.

Permanent installation also lets the dashcam work as an always on anti theft system. This may require some consideration to avoid running down your battery over two months of letting the car set. Most people use a battery tender when they’re not driving a car for a long time though.

Unfortunately, no.

Due to the year of the linux desktop, new user applications have been closed. The overwhelming positive response has just completely bypassed the available seats.

I’m sorry, but we’re full.

Op pls delete this post

Xv 20,30, and the first half of 40 Camrys were made in a plant in Alabama instead of Japan and have factory body coating that helps them resist the salt.

The corollas are good too, but you lose headroom and a lot of other comfort features.

The domestic production is a huge plus because jdm vehicles are basically all built for the big ten year inspection that country requires by law; which is designed to fail cars and get them off the road to juice consumption. Export vehicles built in the same places as jdm tend to have “it wasn’t meant to be around that long” problems. Nissans are famous for this. Perfect beautiful car for exactly 12 years.

You probably don’t need a 4wd/awd. If you live down a dirt road (below the highway, as in you travel downhill on a dirt road to get home) or literally don’t know how to drive then you may need that feature.

Another fantastic option, classic car guy recommendation, first or second gen Honda fit. Roomy, reliable, performant. More spartan than a Camry, but they’re all hatchbacks. They’re getting expensiver now that people have caught on.

Small trucks: mid 90s to about 2012 tacomas and manual transmission 4cyl rangers unless you’re willing to put the work in to really know exactly which v6 you have because ford sold one that was basically perfect alongside one from the 70s that had three timing chains.

Full size pickups or suvs: gmt-800 up through the cateyes. The dodges are all falling apart from abuse and that time period was fords wandering in the wilderness years when it comes to the f150. You can’t afford the Toyotas.

Since you don’t drive much, make sure to tell your mechanic and actually get your oil changed at that 6 month mark instead of waiting the whole year.

E: Camrys come out of Kentucky, not Alabama.

I have disabled all kinds of telemetry and radio on many different kinds of cars.

You cannot buy a new car without it.

Your best bet if you’re concerned is to buy an 0s model. Contrary to popular belief, this all became inescapable a little over ten years ago. 0s models with systems like onstar are still acceptable because the 2g cell networks they use to operate simply don’t exist and the system itself was relatively easy to disable and we’ll documented in cases where it’s not easy.

Reply with your needs and habits and I’ll point you at the right model.

I am not going to fight you and the decisions you make are not my business.

If anyone reading this isn’t aware, pia is owned by kape technologies, a company that owns several vpn providers and was founded by members of the Israeli intelligence apparatus. That may make it more or less of a good choice depending on your goals.

Service or protocol?

You can probably use any protocol although I would caution against openvpn.

Idk of any service that doesn’t generate configs or whatever that you can easily use in arch.

There are many different reasons to use a vpn and they will all recommend different systems. Piracy benefits from port forwarding. Dodging the school/work porno filter requires many rotating endpoints. Pretending to be important enough for state level surveillance requires trust and understanding.

You can’t get everything in one service because they’re mutually exclusive. Port forwarding services roll over for cops, cheap content enabling VPNs are all owned by Israeli intelligence cutout kape technologies, schizo privacy/anonymity ones don’t do port forwarding.

The question you need to answer to get a useful response is: what are you planning on doing?

Everybody is saying “raise them to a power” or “add to them”.

No one realizes you can just push “c” twice and type different numbers that are as big as you like!

Yeah, you and all the people you’re responding to are talking about different things.

They’re talking about touch typing, a noun with a specific definition and meaning referring to a technique, instructional method and practice and you’re talking about what you think words should mean.

What is this, a portable workstation for ants?

I use low memory vps systems from lists maintained by the lowendbox website but these are even smaller! What providers do you use that accommodate such tiny systems? I never really run up against the 1/2 to 1gb barrier on sub $10/y vpses so maybe I could switch to your providers and save some cash!

Same.

Bless Bruce but if I were able to write one sentence and call it a blog entry some things would be different around here!

You’re talking about the French kid. As it turns out, operating an email service requires knowing a users ip and the government can implement ip monitoring if they want to. Protons response was to use tor or a vpn like theirs which everyone got mad at them about but was later upheld in court as the correct solution (email provider isn’t a telecommunications provider judgement).

How to be paranoid but not schizophrenic guide. Avoiding mental illness in the modern age %100 no cap real strats the pros use now you’re playing with power!

Gotta excercise the ol creative muscles somehow. Thanks for putting up with it!

I think what you just said is our breakdown. Neither cryptocurrency, cryptography (in its d-h or one time code permutation) or any other technology removes the requirement that you trust the other party both to perform their side of the process and to not betray you.

It’s important to not go down that route because if you can’t ever trust then you can’t believe you can ever have privacy or anonymity except when you completely retreat from all communication or interaction both electronically and physically.

Remember that the problem cryptocurrency solves is the credit card clearing problem, not the problem of trusting your counterpart.

Also your proton example might be the one where some ding dong used their out of the box (no adp) icloud email as the recovery for proton and the cops got the icloud through a logged in device and recovered the proton account using it as opposed to forced ip logging but I might be mistaken.

I still dont think you’re comparing apples to apples here.

A physical payment for the thing you linked (I dont use posteo but they seem to use the same cash+nonce system everyone else does) consists of a sealed addressed envelope with the bills and a number used once (nonce) at the recipient in order to associate receipt with account. The nonce is not saved or recorded.

So a surveilling party could possibly perform in depth inspection of every letter going to the service they’re trying to surveil, record all the payments and nonces, cross reference the mailing location of the individual letters (idk of any post service that bins them according to location of origin but I’ll go with your description!) with public camera footage and make a positive id for all the people who mailed the letters and they still don’t have the ability to associate payment/person/letter/nonce with a particular account because the nonce isn’t retained.

They’d just know you sent a letter containing money and a code to a service.

Again, what I described is a type of investigation that is extremely expensive and requires exacting precision at every step in order to not make an error that would make the evidence inadmissible.

They’d have to have infiltrated the recipient at the time and place of associating account with nonce and if that’s the case it doesn’t matter if you’re using the monero jetpack/ninja climb or the physical letter walk across the gymnastics mat t-posing method because the other end of the mat is jail.

But let’s look at it from the other direction, they’re not trying to remove privacy and anonymity in general, they’re specifically trying to get you:

You are observed through your open window from the cleaning service van across the street. When you leave to mail your letter, which contains unique microscopic markings and fiber identifiers cross referenced to the s/n of envelope boxes you were recorded on cctv purchasing at the drug store last week, the van radios a follow car around the corner that appears to be a bunch of hoodlums who slow to a crawl and yell out their car window, berating and denigrating you. You don’t respond, though their yelling distracts you from the pebble in your shoe and the traffic cameras get a good id on you through gait recognition.

The follow car bumps into a fire hydrant and you round the corner and enter the restaurant, where the server seems to be looking at you and texting constantly. Your grilled cheese has melted chocolate in it with the unique mushroomy taste of senna. You catch the host and bartender running your change back to the office and hear the sound of a scanner and notice the shifting white light coming from behind the open door.

You put part of your change in the envelope with the nonce you wrote using your non dominant hand and lick it to seal the flap, activating dozens of moisture sensitive polymer capsules to absorb and preserve the trace genetic material left behind for later analysis. Outside the restaurant, you drop the letter in the mailbox and head home. The restaurants host radios when you round the corner and a flower seller with dark sunglasses, an earpiece and a conservative suit on under their apron rolls their cart down to the mailbox, unlocks it and picks out your letter.

They know that you sent a letter with money and a code to some address. If they allow it to continue on its way then they can’t associate it with a particular account because the code isn’t retained after use.

Good and ethical depends on what you want. You should probably abandon both of those qualifiers though.

There was a good article in one of those counter culture handbills in the 90s equating the peripheral or colonial labor required to get expensive raw materials & the core labor required to turn them into carbide blades or microchips or whatever and production & djing.

It was pretty stupid though because once a dj gets a little success or time they start to make their own songs to play out (often before they start to get some success). So it’s not like one type of labor has less value and is engaged in a race to the bottom or pushed to the colonial areas while another type of labor has more value and exists under different conditions in the core.

Their inverse is also true. Electronic musicians who produce music often get invited to dj at venues. How could someone make a song that fits well in a djs set if they themselves didn’t get some hands on time behind decks? It’s like expecting a person to be able to design a car but never drive one.

They’re the same labor. They’re making the same thing.

It’s maybe worth investigating what you mean when you say “having value”.

I agree about the devil you know vs the infinite possible future ones you don’t.

I think you’re making way too many assumptions about physical surveillance (“they know you care about privacy” as opposed to the actual thing they know, which is simply that you mailed a letter, being able to narrow your suspect list down based on the fact that they care about privacy, etc) but even if I were to take every single one of them at face value then the authorities have less information than is public on a bitcoin transaction (I know you’re a fan of monero, I’m using the amount of information in a bitcoin transaction here to make my point clear in the language of crypto). And they had to be looking when you did it.

I’m of the opposite opinion: digital surveillance is game over. The opponent still has orders of magnitude more resources than you, but they also have access to your entire communications chain via well documented backdoors, can apply millions of exploits on each piece of software or hardware involved in that chain, can literally directly translate those resources to faster and higher quality exploits and with hndl they don’t even have to be there when it happens. I think the best thing you can do is avoid the digital as much as possible.

I always used to laugh at my professors, friends and coworkers who were “revolver next to the fax machine in case it gets any funny ideas” types but a few decades around computer security done made me into a stereotype.

What kind of model and space limitations are you under with v100s?

Some of the most interesting computer music I’ve heard in years was composed on them but idk if it’s worth getting into a whole new generation of hardware if it can only really do that.