That’s not a slow laptop. I’ve been daily driving worse for years.

To protect the data from random thief just browsing through the files I still use ecryptfs. It only encrypts the home directory, and the keys are derived from my accounts password, so no extra hassle.

The encryption is weak by the current standards, and wouldn’t stop a determined attacker, but it’s 100% better than nothing, and I’ve never noticed any performance problems.

Sure. Let’s protect the proper culture. Like Fast and Furious 10, or the 60th marvel superhero movie rehash :P

Gmail offers imap amd smtp access. You have to enable 2FA, and then it will allow you to create account for so called “less secure apps”.

In your place, I’d either continue using gmail directly, or finish the configuration of the self hosted mail server and just use that with any smtp/imap client. I suggest getting a separate domain for testing first, before moving your primary inbox there.

if you don’t need to resize it once it’s created

xfs_growfs is a thing. I know nothing about xfs. Is this something I should avoid for some reason?

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/storage_administration_guide/xfsgrow

You, and 62 other people did not read the article.

stupidity is a once-off

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What is it with the silent T?

Sounds like fun, but I wish we had a real multiplatform GUI framework that does not look like ass and does not perform like ass, so we can put the whole shameful electron era behind us.

snob librarian’s thing

And I couldn’t figure out why a certain pirate streaming platform does this. I choose scifi category, and it’s filled with fantasy and anime… Your comment might be a clue as to who’s behind the platform. A ring of radical outlaw librarians!

uname -a

Updates depend on the specific distro. Some, like debian, keep the major version the same throughout the entire lifetime, just backporting the security fixes, others, like arch, follows the official major releases more closely.

TIL: Some people actually like their laptop to wake up after openning the lid!

I’ve used Elitebooks with elementary for years and found the wakup after pressing a button logical.

What pissed me off about probooks/elitebooks was that they woke up to inform me about the low battery, then went back to sleep due to low battery, then wake up, sleep, wake up, sleep, wake up… and the agony went on until the sweet death. I’ve never felt so sorry for a non living object before or after.

Oh, and also elementary can’t go to sleep from the lockscreen, on any hardware. One of those those bugs that I’m always sure will be taken care of in the next release, but it never is.

you still need good security configuration of the exposed service.

In a sense that security comes in layers, yes. But in practice, this setup will prevent 100% of bots scanning the internet for exposed services, and absolute majority of possible targeted attacks as well. It’s like using any other 3rd party VPN, except there’s not a central point for the traffic to flow through.

From the attackers point of view, nothing is listening there.

I’ve used a similar setup in the past to access a device behind a NAT (possibly multiple NATs) and a dynamic IPv4. Looking back, that ISP was a pure nightmare.

This is not a guide to hide from the government or ISP. Just a way to tunnel to your home server without publishing the sshd for random strangers. Personally, I’d just publish the ssh and be done with it.

I would rather live without the correlation attacks

The more people using Tor, the less useful targeted disconnects become.

Which is still just as open, but also a massive calling card for anyone trolling around the TOR network

Luckily, it is no longer possible to easily sniff the new v3 addresses by deploying a malicious relay. Any attack to even reveal the existence of a hidden service would require a very specialized setup. And we’re just talking discovery, not the ability to connect and attack the actual service running there.

just connecting to Tor is very much a huge exposure imho

Exposure of what, to whom?

this usually errors out on some missing dependencies.

apt-get -f install

should get them and continue with the installation.

However, as other have said, get an app like gdebi or eddy, and install the .deb throug that.

"GhostWrite is the result of an architectural flaw, a hardware bug in the XuanTie C910 and C920 CPU. These are only two of many RISC-V CPUs, but they are widely used for a variety of applications. According to the research team, vulnerable devices include:

Scaleway Elastic Metal RV1, bare-metal C910 cloud instances

• Milk-V Pioneer, 64-core desktop/server
• Lichee Cluster 4A, compute cluster
• Lichee Book 4A, laptop
• Lichee Console 4A, tiny laptop
• Lichee Pocket 4A, gaming console
• Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A, single-board computer (SBC)
• Milk-V Meles, SBC
• BeagleV-Ahead, SBC"

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/ghostwrite-vulnerability-exploits-architectural-bug-in-risc-v-cpu-to-gain-root-access

It’s not an investment. There is no lending or business plan involved. Speculation would be more appropriate term.

People should be able to have long term savings without playing the wallstreet casino. Gold and real estate has been used for cross generational wealth transfer in the past, but using houses to store wealth brings it’s own set of problems.

Unfortunately, the way institutional investors has been trading bitcoin lately made its price copy the traditional high risk stocks, which is the reason I’ve been so pissed about regulators allowing large institutions to touch it. While I believe this will be of no consequence in long term, in short term it’s pretty annoying.

Let me know how can I start saving without 2.5% yearly loss using EUR.

Good riddance. Long live Bitcoin.